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Putin says Russia may forgive Soviet-era Iraq debt

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Moscow was ready to consider Washington's call for it to forgive Baghdad some $8 billion in Soviet era debt more »

The growing hopes

Analysts rate Budimex's chance in winning Iraqi contracts more »

Euronet subsidiary in top-up deal with UK Safeway stores

Euronet Worldwide's subsidiary e-pay has launched electronic top-up services more »

Europe's youngest prime minister

Estonia's pro-business, center-right Cabinet—headed by what is now Europe's youngest prime minister—was sworn in before parliament on Thursday more »

China raises death toll from illness

Officials say 53 now have died; WHO experts study possible animal link to mystery disease more »

IBM Plans Sneak Attack On Microsoft Office

There will soon be another entrant in the lopsided Office wars more »

U.S. Marines on Edge in Baghdad

The U.S. military is not a police force, say military officials more »

Jubilee ALT auto show boasts record number of displays

The 10th auto, logistics and transport exhibition ALT'2003 opened to enthusiastic public in Vilnius on Friday. more »

World Bank, IMF Ready to Help Rebuild Iraq

The heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund say they are ready to respond to requests for help in the rebuilding of Iraq more »

What Windows Server 2003 Will Mean for IT

There will be performance improvements and cool features in Microsoft's new server, but if an enterprise is a volume licensing customer or an NT 4.0 shop, the choice to upgrade may be no choice at all more »

Russia submits bid to build nuclear plant in Finland

Atomstroyeksport, Russia's state-controlled overseas construction company for the nuclear power industry, has submitted a bid in a tender to construct a nuclear power plant in Finland more »

New Space Station

The construction of the Yuri Gagarin Space Station would require 3-3.5 years more »

Iraq, its domain and the 'terrorist-funding' owner

The war against Iraq may be drawing to a close but the war over its Internet future is just beginning more »

Taiwan experts on visit to SARS-affected mainland areas: DOH

Three Taiwan public health experts have traveled to mainland China to join their counterparts from other countries in surveying the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) there more »

Global giants battle for Slovak mobile market

Slovaks' appetite for mobile phones has attracted two of the world's biggest players more »

Windows CE to outship PCs in five years - researcher

In five years' time, more Windows CE devices will be shipping than Windows PCs more »

COREPER rejected the Russian proposals

EU BACKS LITHUANIA'S SUGGESTIONS FOR KALININGRAD TRANSIT RULES more »

New bank to bring back old ATM character

The new Connecticut Bank and Trust Co. is bringing back a character called Barney that was used to popularize ATMs in the 1970s more »

Government surveillance of online phone calls sparks controversy

Wiretapping takes on a whole new meaning now that phone calls are being made over the Internet, posing legal and technical hurdles for the FBI more »

The forecasts

EU says Germany unlikely balance budget by 2006 without more reforms more »