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By Ben Berkowitz and Gilbert Kreijger The credit crisis has taken the traditional drivers of consolidation in the Dutch insurance industry out of the game, but new players are expected to step

. I am forced to say that in many contacts I have made in the past few weeks I have heard little else but grumbles about the absence of customers and the

Legend died at age of 77 The death of Senator Edward Kennedy leaves vacant the U.S. Senate seat he held for nearly five decades and one that Democrats will be anxious to

By Ellen Wulfhorst With the U.S. economy mired in recession, workers are finding themselves stuck in bad jobs with such annoyances as managers who berate employees and bosses who hold meetings in

. Fast Forward at “Cyprus Gourmet” Welcome Matthew! COMMENT Matthew Stowell has joined Cyprus Gourmet as Associate Publisher and will work with us to develop a wide range of features, profiles and

By Louis Charbonneau The United States is ready to hand over more than $2 billion in new and old contributions it owes the U.N. peacekeeping department, Washington's U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, said

By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent Markets might have moved on after their initial shocked reaction to last year's Georgia war, but the legacy of the brief conflict remains that war in

By Daisy Ku  British interdealer broker Tullett Prebon said continued market turbulence would lead to "a good outcome" for the year after it reported a better than expected 26 percent rise in

. (1) The Crisis Traders small and large are reporting that the present economic problems are more complex than simply a downturn in business. One named half a dozen well known restaurants

. BY NEOCLIS SYLIKIOTIS Minister of the Interior For some time now, there has been an attempt, driven mainly from foreign media, to present the Republic of Cyprus as an unreliable place