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  • Wal-Mart Keeps Coy Over Entry Into Russia

    06/28/2005 2:55:00 AM PDT · by familyop · 16 replies · 556+ views
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | 28JUN05 | Maria Levitov
    MOSCOW — Wal-Mart, the world’s largest company, wants to expand into Russia, but the retail behemoth is being coy about revealing the timeframe for its arrival. The retailer is looking at Russia, Poland and Hungary as it continues its expansion in Europe, Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott told The Financial Times in an interview published Saturday. “It doesn’t matter to us which of these will be first, we want all of them at some point,” Scott said. “Something could happen next month [or] in six months.” Wal-Mart’s spokeswoman Amy Wyatt, however, downplayed Scott’s comments. Neither the site of the first Wal-Mart...
  • Muslim rioters burn 13 churches in north Nigeria

    11/20/2003 7:27:27 AM PST · by Alouette · 196 replies · 814+ views
    Reuters ^ | Nov. 20, 2003
    LAGOS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Islamic militants burned to the ground thirteen churches and several houses in a remote northern Nigerian town after a Christian student was accused of blasphemy, police said on Thursday. Irate youths torched churches, houses and shops late on Tuesday in Kazaure, some 80 km (50 miles) north of Kano, a northern provincial capital where hundreds have died in religious clashes in the past three years. The dispute began when a Christian student was accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammad and a group of Muslims were not satisfied with the response of school authorities. Abubakar Sale,...