VIENNA, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Austria said Thursday that it will sue European aerospace giant Airbus over a $2-billion sale of Eurofighter jets that has long been plagued by allegations of kickbacks. “We will file a lawsuit against Airbus,” defence ministry spokesman Michael Bauer told AFP. The findings of the government investigation into the 2003 deal worth […]
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Austria to sue Airbus over Eurofighter deal
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European car market gets off to good start in 2017
PARIS, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – After a very good year in 2016, the European car market got off to a positive start in 2017, with new car sales jumping by more than 10 percent, industry data showed on Thursday. Apparently shrugging off the “dieselgate” scandal that first saw German giant Volkswagen and then other carmakers accused of […]
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Canada’s Trudeau says ‘whole world benefits from strong EU’
STRASBOURG, France, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that the world is better off when the EU is strong, amid anti-Brussels sentiment from Brexit and Donald Trump. “The whole world benefits from a strong EU,” he said in a speech to the European Parliament, a day after MEPs approved a landmark free […]
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Russia says to meet oil output cut deal by April
MOSCOW, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Russia said Thursday it will fully comply with an oil output cut agreement with other oil producing countries by the end of April. Under the deal with OPEC and non-OPEC countries signed last year Russia pledged to reduce its crude output by 300,000 barrels per day as part of a concerted effort […]
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Alpine skiing: Afghan skiers take first step towards Olympics
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Afghans Alishah Farhang and Sajjad Husaini made history at the World Ski Championships on Thursday when they took part in qualification for the men’s giant slalom, the first step towards competing at next year’s Winter Olympics. Farhang, 26, and Husaini, 25, the first Afghans to compete at the world championships, […]
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Golf: World Super 6 Perth first round scores
PERTH, Australia, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Leading first-round scores from the EPGA/Asian Tour’s World Super 6 Perth tournament at Lake Karrinyup in Perth on Thursday (par-72): 66 – Brett Rumford (AUS), Mark Foster (ENG) 67 – Robert Dinwiddie (ENG), Adam Blyth (AUS), Jason Scrivener (AUS), Daniel Fox (AUS), Sebastian Heisele (GER), Hideto Tanihara (JPN), Stephen Dartnall (AUS), […]