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...economic crisis. In Mexico, the partner is the billionaire Carlos Slim and his Sears Mexico group. Under a deal signed last year, Benetton aims to open 250 new standalone outlets and boutiques in Sears stores in Mexico. Alessandro is also targeting other Latin American countries as well as Turkey, Russia and China as significant future sources of growth. Conspicuously missing on this list is the U.S.; Benetton recently moved its U.S. headquarters from New York City to Miami, to be closer to the Latin American markets it's targeting. (Read "India: Hey, Big Spenders...
...Chancellor Angela Merkel's negotiations to form a new coalition government from the liberal daily Tagesspiegel, a sprinkling of economic stories from the German business daily Handelsblatt and even incorporate a few pages of international politics from English-language papers like the New York Times and Komsomolskaya Pravda from Russia. If the stories seem repetitive after a few days, the customer can go back online and change their paper design, and a new edition will be delivered to their home...
...French to be in the room. Eventually the talks went ahead with French delegates present, but Iranian officials insisted that they would not accept France as a supplier. The New York Times reported that a face-saving compromise was being developed that would see Iran make a deal with Russia, which could separately subcontract work out to France. (See pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...
...need a lot of fuel, and we do not need the presence of many countries," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said, stressing Tehran's desire to work on the deal with the U.S. and Russia. "There is no need for France to be present," he said, adding that Iran believes that France "is not a trustworthy party to provide fuel for Iran...
...Snubbing France while offering an agreement with the U.S. and Russia is vintage Iranian divide-and-conquer diplomacy - although this time there may be incentives for all sides to play the game. The Vienna talks are on the details of an agreement, announced at the Geneva talks on Oct. 1, under which Iran would ship much of its enriched-uranium stockpile abroad for reprocessing to fuel a medical research reactor in Tehran. Together with Iran's agreement to submit its hitherto secret enrichment site at Qum to inspection, the deal offered an important opportunity to strengthen safeguards against Iran...