Swiss, eBay stop sale of Iraqi treasure
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A 4,000-year-old clay tablet authorities suspect was smuggled illegally from Iraq was pulled from eBay just minutes before the close of the online auction, authorities said Tuesday.
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A month after its unpopular price hikes, the auction site seeks to smooth some ruffled business feathers. Also: Kuwait blocks radical websites to combat terrorism.... Google loses a legal round in France.... and more.
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A gang that had intended to smuggle weapons to Iraq has been broken up, Italian police say.
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ANKARA, Turkey A Turkish construction company is halting operations in Iraq in a bid to save the lives of ten employees kidnapped by militants.
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Microsoft&#39;s attempts to corner another part of the cybercommerce world has taken a severe blow after eBay, the online auction house, announced that it is tio drop the MSN Passport payment system from next month.
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Italy and the Princeton University Art Museum have reached a deal to return some artifacts Rome says were smuggled out of the country, the latest chapter in Italy's campaign to crack down on the illegal antiquities market.
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The auction site eBay canceled bids for half of a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich whose owner claims it bears the image of the Virgin Mary.
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Documents dating from the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen documents sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York's archives, a state official said Saturday.
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Internet auction website eBay on Monday withdrew an unusual second-hand sale item, the country of Belgium, which had attracted an offer of 10 million euros (13.9 million dollars).
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Although it stops short of an all-out ban like some wildlife activists are looking for, eBay said Tuesday it will no longer allow cross-border sales of ivory.
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German police have shut down an international phishing scam that may have cost victims hundreds of thousands of euros.
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Turkish construction company Vinsan said last night that it was halting operations in Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants.
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GENEVA: A team of Iraqi businessmen is visiting Switzerland and Austria to encourage companies such as Nestle to invest in Iraq, insisting that the violence there will stop after elections at the end of ...
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Online auction giant eBay is set to ban ivory trade from its websites, as pressure mounts to eradicate illegal traffic in endangered species from the Internet, participants at the world forum regulating wildlife commerce said Tuesday.
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The Bush administration moved Tuesday to block the assets of two Saudi men accused of providing support to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, Adel Batterjee and Saad al-Faqih.
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Switzerland GENEVA -- Swiss justice authorities have blocked bank accounts containing $100 million in an investigation of an alleged bribery scandal tied to a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. , the oil services company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. Geneva investigator Daniel Dumartheray confirmed a report in the daily Tribune de Geneve that the freeze was imposed after France ...
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The Paris Club of international creditors has agreed to cancel 80 percent of the debt Iraq owes member countries. Officials say the deal, brokered in Berlin, is worth about $33 billion.