Firm quits Sicily to spurn Mafia
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An Italian cement firm says it is pulling out of Sicily as a sign of its refusal to submit to Mafia extortion.
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NEW YORK - Former police commissioner and one-time Cabinet nominee Bernard Kerik said Wednesday he would resign as an executive at Giuliani Partners, former Mayor Rudolph Giulianiâs consulting firm.
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Alitalia employees leave the company&#39;s Rome headquarters yesterday. The Italian carrier plans to slash thousands of jobs to get back on track.
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Aventis' exit leaves the pharmaceutical company in dire straits.
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Internet gaming group BETonSPORTS  , which removed its chief executive from his job  following his detention in Texas last month on racketeering  charges, said on Friday it was closing down the U.S. business,  which drives the vast majority of the company's profits.
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The head of Cisco's service provider business, who was once seen as a possible successor to the CEO, is leaving the company.
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The chairman of UK-listed online gambling company World Gaming, James Grossman, quits the business.
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Online gaming group 888 Plc (888.L) said  on Monday it would stop doing business with U.S. customers  after legislation was passed there aimed at preventing gambling  over the Internet.
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Sicilian businesses joining forces on a website are refusing to submit to demands from the Mafia for protection money. Recent crackdowns by authorities and this rebellion by business owners are beginning to chip away at the Cosa Nostra's psychological hold on Sicilians.
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The chairman of Spain's leading energy group Repsol YPF, Alfonso Cortina, has stepped down, the company confirmed.
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The Sicilian Mafia faces a revolt by local businessmen who refuse to pay the protection money.
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Telecom Italia's TLIT.MI controlling   shareholder, Marco Tronchetti Provera, resigned as chairman on   Friday after a bitter row with the government over the future   of Europe's fifth-biggest telecoms group.
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The CEO of Bacardi has resigned. The company announced today (22 November) that Javier Ferran has stepped down and that the search for a successor was underway.
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Online gaming group 888 Plc said on Monday it would stop doing business with U.S. customers after legislation was passed there aimed at preventing gambling over the Internet.
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The company will abandon the Matsushita name and just go with its street name.
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Lech Walesa said Tuesday he has quit the Solidarity trade union that he founded and which helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe. "I have given up my membership last year because Solidarity and I have gone separate ways," he told The Associated Press.
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The company said it will close its business in Britain that issues home loans and significantly scale back its mortgage business in the United States.