Posts Tagged ‘1990s’

Halliburton could face Nigeria charges

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Charges are possible in a Nigerian investigation into whether Halliburton, the American energy services company, paid bribes to secure a lucrative natural gas project in the 1990s, Nigerian investigators said Friday.

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BBC defends Fifa ‘bribes’ probe

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

The BBC says it is in “everyone’s interest” to air a Panorama investigation which alleges three senior Fifa officials took bribes in the 1990s.

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Three top Fifa men ‘took bribes’

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Three senior Fifa officials who will vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids took bribes in the 1990s, the BBC’s Panorama alleges.

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Three top Fifa men ‘took bribes’

Classical composer Gorecki dies

Friday, November 12th, 2010

Polish composer Henryk Gorecki, who sold a million copies of his Symphony No 3 in the 1990s, dies aged 76, the country’s national orchestra announces.

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Classical composer Gorecki dies

Russia details privatisation plan

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Russia announces further details of plans for its biggest privatisation since the 1990s – which could raise about $60bn.

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Karachi’s deadly mayhem steps up

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Ten people die in ongoing political and ethnic violence in Karachi, raising fears of a relapse to the Pakistani city’s deadliest days of the 1990s.

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UN to publish Congo rights report

Friday, October 1st, 2010

The UN prepares to publish a controversial report on human rights violations in the DR Congo in the 1990s which has angered Rwanda and Uganda.

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LFO singer dies after battle with cancer

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Rich Cronin of the 1990s boy band LFO, has died, his band member told CNN on Wednesday night.

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Billionaire sues hi-tech giants

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is suing several high-tech giants for infringing patents held by a Silicon Valley lab he founded in the 1990s.

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Billionaire sues hi-tech giants

Low lake reveals dozens of bodies

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

As many as 50 bodies discovered on the shores of a lake at the border of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina may be those of Bosnian Muslims who disappeared from a nearby village in the 1990s, officials said.

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