
Sunday, January 17, 1999
Vodafone wins AirTouch for $60 billion
British mobile phone company Vodafone Group has won the battle to buy US Wireless giant AirTouch Communications Inc in a deal worth roughly $60 billion, creating a global telecom powerhouse.

GCC decides to boycott Saddam

Russia wants UNSCOM out
Russia today proposed lifting the oil embargo against Iraq and establishing a new arms control body that would replace UNSCOM, the UN Special Commission in charge of Iraqi disarmament.

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