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France Telecom SA, the biggest French phone company, seeks to bolster cooperation between units in Africa and the Middle East to improve networks and promote its Orange brand following acquisitions in Morocco, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Syria’s government said its citizens approved a new constitution supporting President Bashar al- Assad’s bid to introduce political pluralism after almost a year of violence as the European Union tightened sanctions.
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Phone-company executives gathering at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week will be looking for network-sharing deals to divvy up the costs of high- speed systems for bandwidth-hogging video and gaming services.
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An Egyptian court adjourned for two months the trial of 43 workers for pro-democracy organizations, including 16 Americans, in a case that has dragged U.S.-Egyptian relations to their lowest level in years.
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Syria holds a referendum today on a new constitution after almost a year of violence against protesters by President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged patience with the pace of change in Tunisia and warned that the needs of young people in North Africa and the Middle East must be met by providing economic opportunity.
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Saudi Arabia and Qatar want to arm the Syrian opposition, raising the prospect of a widening conflict after the “Friends of Syria” group met in Tunis yesterday to pressure President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
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Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi invited Moroccan Foreign Minister Saad-Eddine El Othmani to visit Italy in the “coming months” to tackle the most pressing bilateral issues and to promote the strengthening of economic and trade relations between the two countries through the organization of “road shows” in both nations, the Italian foreign ministry said in an e-mailed statement today.
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U.S. exporters sold 132,000 metric tons of corn to South Korea for delivery in the 2011-2012 marketing year that ends Aug. 31, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in an e-mailed statement.
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Grain exports from France’s Rouen port, Europe’s biggest cereal-shipping hub, fell 46 percent in the week through yesterday to the lowest in five weeks on a lack of cargoes for Algeria and West Africa.
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