Germany to Send Troops to Somalia

BONN In a historic reversal of policy, German Chancellor HelmutKohl announced today that he plans to order 1,500 armed troops toSomalia to help with the United Nations-sponsored relief operation.

Germany has previously chosen to stay out of internationalmilitary missions. The explanation has been that its constitutionprevents its armed forces from deploying on non-North Atlantic TreatyOrganization turf.

Friedrich Bohl, Kohl's top aide, said the U.S.-led humanitarianmission in Somalia is not covered by the constitution as long asthere is no actual fighting going on. Germany's troops are to helpdistribute food.

The United States last week sent in the first …

Turkey puts repaired Hercules statue on display

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is displaying a full statue of Hercules for the first time since a U.S. museum returned the top half after two decades of negotiations.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts last month returned the top half of Weary Heracles, Greek for Hercules. Turkey says the top piece was stolen from an archaeological site in Turkey in 1980 and smuggled to the …

US: Attack on Afghan town Marjah launched

Helicopter-borne U.S. Marines and Afghan troops swooped down on the Taliban-held town of Marjah before dawn on Saturday, launching a long-expected attack to re-establish government control and undermine support for the militants in their southern heartland.

The attack on Marjah climaxed the biggest joint Afghan-international offensive of the war and is the largest combat operation since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 U.S. reinforcements here last December to turn the tide of the war.

Marine commanders say they expect between 400 to 1,000 insurgents to be holed up inside this southern Afghan town of 80,000 people in Helmand province, including more …

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Current maximum suburban compensation: $6.65 an hour, no healthinsurance, no pension benefits.

Management proposal: an hourly wage increase of 30 cents the firstyear, 30 cents the second year and 35 cents the third year, takingwages to $7.60 an hour. The fourth year workers would receive healthcare benefits, but it wouldn't include their families, and therewould be no wage increase that year.

Downtown workers' new contract: …

LPS 1999--Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Loss Prevention Symposium

Prepared by the Loss Prevention Committee of AIChE's Safety and Health Division M.L. Griffin, Procter & Gamble Co., Symposium Chair; E. Scheier, Occidental Chemical Company, Symposium Vice Chair

Since 1967, AIChE's Loss Prevention Proceedings series has been one of the most reliable sources of practical information on reducing accidents in the chemical process and allied industries. The symposia provide a forum for practitioners from industry, academia, and government to share experiences, technological advances, and new ideas. The proceedings book presents a variety of "plant-proven" strategies for safer process operations and maintenance-from estimating and evaluating common …

Evacuations called off in Florida Keys

Officials in the Florida Keys are canceling an evacuation order because new forecasts show Hurricane Ike veering south and west.

Many tourists fled the Keys this weekend as the storm closed in on the low-lying island chain. But as of 11 a.m. EDT Monday, the storm's track was taking it away from the Keys.

The evacuation orders will expire at noon Monday, and officials would like tourists to wait until Wednesday to come back. A tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch remain in effect for the island chain.

Gulf Coast residents from Florida to Texas are keeping an eye on Ike's unpredictable path. The Category 2 storm has killed at least 58 people in …

Banking in the backwaters ; TCS finds a viable route to the unbanked Indian in the country's villages with the help of cloud computing.

For Tata Research Development and Design Centre, also known asTata Innovation Labs, a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services(TCS), innovation entails meeting a critical need. It sometimes alsomeans adapting a project for a totally different market than it wasoriginally blueprinted for. For instance, how to adapt TCS' corebanking solution and banking software, branded BaNCS, with customersacross 80 countries, and take this solution directly to millions ofunbanked Indians upcountry.

To take on the particularly hairy problem of rural banking, TCSused its robust innovation infrastructure- a combination of internalresources and strategic partners including Tata Group companies …