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European stocks fall on Greek crisis
European equities and the euro fell on Wednesday on fresh concerns over banks’ exposure to indebted Greece, but losses were capped by expectations of more stimulus measures from the US Federal Reserve. London’s FTSE 100 index of leading shares slid 0.34 percent to 5,345.76 points in morning deals, Frankfurt’s DAX…
Asian markets mostly up ahead of Fed decision
Asian stocks mostly rose in edgy trade on Wednesday, helped by bargain buying as dealers await the end of a US Fed meeting, expecting fresh monetary easing measures to jumpstart the economy. The anticipated announcement comes amid nervousness about Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and concerns over a possible Greek default.…
Police drop bid to reveal Guardian’s hacking sources
LONDON — London’s Metropolitan Police Service on Tuesday said it had dropped an application to force the Guardian newspaper to disclose the sources for its reports on the News International phone-hacking affair. Scotland Yard announced Friday it had tried to obtain a court order under the Official Secrets Act to…
Lucian Freud’s final painting to go on show in London
LONDON — The final painting completed by Lucian Freud before his death in July will go on show for the first time at London’s National Portrait Gallery in February 2012, the showroom said Tuesday. The unfinished “Portrait of the Hound 2011″ depicts Freud’s assistant David Dawson posing nude with his…
Explosion at Iraq oil field partially halts output
BASRA, Iraq — An explosion at Iraq’s biggest oil field on Tuesday sparked a massive fire that partially halted crude production, the state-owned South Oil Co and Britain’s BP said. The blast, which left at least 15 people injured, occurred at a gas compressor at the Rumaila oil field, which…
Japan warns one million to evacuate as typhoon nears
More than a million people in Japan were warned to leave their homes on Tuesday as an approaching typhoon brought heavy rain and floods which left three dead or missing. Typhoon Roke, packing winds of up to 144 kilometres (89 miles) an hour near its centre, could land in central…
Sudan army attacks rebels’ on Darfur-Libya border
The Sudanese army have attacked a heavily armed convoy of Darfur rebels near the war-torn region’s border with Libya, killing one and seizing a truck load of weapons, the army spokesman said on Tuesday. “Yesterday (Monday), when the Sudanese armed forces tried to close the border, where Sudan, Libya and…
Death toll hits 60 as violence rocks Yemen capital
Gunfire and shelling rocked Sanaa for the third straight day on Tuesday as the toll from the worst outbreak of violence in Yemen’s capital in months spiralled to 60 dead with hundreds wounded. The violence has hampered attempts by regional and international mediators to clinch a power transfer deal between…
Afghan ex-president Rabbani killed
KABUL — Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghanistan’s former president tasked with finding a peace deal with the Taliban was assassinated Tuesday in a suicide attack at his Kabul home, according to police. Rabbani, who was president during the chaotic 1992-96 Afghan civil war, was last year appointed chief of the High Council…
World leaders counter climate change denialism at Clinton Global Initiative
Former president Bill Clinton took the stage at his eponymous conference and apologized for the continued climate change denialism in Congress: “The Senate voted [the Kyoto Protocol] down 95-0. We’re down to 50-50 denialists now.” Clinton was joined on stage by Mexican president Felipe Calderón, who highlighted his own nation’s…
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