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Paris: French fashion designer Pierre Cardin possessed a wildly inventive artistic sensibility tempered by a stiff dose of business sense. He had no problem acknowledging that he earned more from a pair of stockings than from a haute-couture gown with a six-figure price tag. Cardin, who died Tuesday at age 98, was the ultimate entrepreneurial designer. He […]
Read MoreZagreb: A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, destroying buildings and sending panicked people fleeing into rubble-covered streets in a town southeast of the capital. Authorities said two people, including a girl, were killed and at least 20 people were injured. The European Mediterranean Seismological Center said a magnitude 6.3 quake hit 46 kilometers […]
Read MoreAnkara: Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued a detention warrant against Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, a Turkish businessman with links to Utah-based business executives who have pleaded guilty to a USD 511 million tax credit scheme in the United States, Turkeys state-run news agency reported. Anadolu Agency said prosecutors issued the warrant against Korkmaz following a joint probe by Turkeys financial crimes investigation and tax auditing […]
Read MoreVatican City: Pope Francis made a Christmas Day plea for authorities to make COVID-19 vaccines available to all, insisting that the first in line should be the most vulnerable and needy, regardless of who holds the patents for the shots. “Vaccines for everybody, especially for the most vulnerable and needy,” who should be first in line, Francis said in […]
Read MoreLondon: Britain clinched a historic deal with the European Union on Thursday as both sides managed to thrash out a post-Brexit free trade agreement (FTA) just days before the December 31 deadline. Thousands of pages of legal text accompanies the deal, with details of the agreement set to emerge in the course of the next […]
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