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Facebook prices its shares at $38 each ahead of one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.
17 May 2012 at 4:35pm
Ratings agency Moody's cuts the credit ratings of 16 Spanish banks, as shares in struggling lender Bankia fell another 14%.
17 May 2012 at 3:12pm
Months of warnings have failed to stop a major malnutrition crisis in Niger, affecting more than six million people, Save the Children says.
17 May 2012 at 4:00pm
The music industry pays tribute to Donna Summer, famous for disco hits like I Feel Love and Love To Love You Baby, after she dies aged 63.
17 May 2012 at 7:16pm
The US says it has relaxed some sanctions on investments in Burma and named an ambassador to the country following political reforms.
17 May 2012 at 3:30pm
Lai Changxing, extradited from Canada to China to face smuggling and bribery charges, is jailed for life in China, state media says.
17 May 2012 at 7:28pm
France's new government holds its first cabinet meeting, announcing a 30% pay cut for President Hollande and his ministers.
17 May 2012 at 12:40pm
A Florida neighbourhood watch volunteer who shot an unarmed black teenager had a bloody nose and a cut on his head, according to police reports.
17 May 2012 at 7:20pm
Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic's war crimes trial is postponed on its second day because prosecutors failed to disclose evidence to the defence.
17 May 2012 at 7:02am
Children from racial and ethnic minorities now account for more than half the births in the US, estimates from the latest census data say.
17 May 2012 at 1:27pm
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Friends and foes say Gu Kailai, the high-profile suspect in Neil Heywood's death in Chongqing, deserves an open trial that follows the rule of law.
BEIJING — The country's most famous murder suspect may have laid bare divisions in Chinese society, but friends and foes alike are united in their demand that her trial be a test case for justice in a system notorious for secrecy and flouting of the rule of law.
by By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
17 May 2012 at 5:00am
The Bosnian Serb general, charged in the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica and other wartime atrocities, makes mocking gestures in court at The Hague.
LONDON — Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic confronted the accusations against him at the opening of his war crimes trial in The Hague on Wednesday with contemptuous gestures to the court and the victims who had come to see him face justice for atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
by By Janet Stobart and Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
17 May 2012 at 12:00am
After the Occupy Abai encampment is cleared, authorities confront anti-Putin demonstrators in a downtown square.
MOSCOW — Russian riot police cleared a Moscow park early Wednesday of a weeklong encampment considered a local version of the Occupy movement, and hours later clashed with antigovernment protesters outside a Stalinist skyscraper in a different part of downtown.
by By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
16 May 2012 at 7:23pm
Greece's sense of peril has deepened with the reports of money being pulled out of the tottering banking system at an alarming rate.
ATHENS — Fear for the health ofGreece's banks increased Wednesday after a rush of withdrawals as the country braces for fresh elections that could determine whether it remains part of the Eurozone.
by By Anthee Carassava and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
16 May 2012 at 6:50pm
The election of French President Francois Hollande is just one factor in the fraying troop commitments in the unpopular war.
WASHINGTON — Just days before a NATO summit that leaders had hoped would present a carefully scripted display of unity on Afghanistan, the inauguration of a French president committed to an early drawdown has instead intensified a rush for the exits from an unpopular war.
by By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
16 May 2012 at 3:36pm
South Sudan Theatre Company performs 'Cymbeline' in Juba Arabic for the Globe to Globe festival in London to acclaim. The play resonates for them.
LONDON — Posthumus, the protagonist of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline," marched through the Herculean columns of the Globe theater, stopped abruptly at the front of the stage and looked up at an audience of hundreds — most of whom didn't speak a whisper of the language they were about to hear.
by By Ari Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times
16 May 2012 at 1:39pm
Africa's economic boom points up the need for managers
A nonprofit plans to offer training and networking to boost the continent's business development.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Africa's rapid economic growth has helped change the stereotype of a hopeless continent of starving people waiting to be rescued, but it has also created an intense need for strong managers, according to a report released Tuesday.
by By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times
16 May 2012 at 5:01am
The newly inaugurated French president visited the German chancellor. There were no fireworks despite differences over Europe's debt crisis, but there was a lightning strike.
PARIS — France's new president, Francois Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have opposing ideas of how to solve Europe's crippling public debt crisis — she austerity, he spending and growth — so a clash was in the cards Tuesday.
by By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
15 May 2012 at 5:09pm
Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch's News International, was charged with three counts of trying to obstruct justice in Britain's phone-hacking and media corruption scandal.
LONDON — She once had the ear of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Prime Minister David Cameron. Through newspapers such as the Times of London and the Sun, she exerted a powerful influence on British society.
by By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
15 May 2012 at 3:23pm
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the man who might well have become president of France, is suing the woman whose allegations of sexual assault cost him his reputation as a global financier and his roles as diplomat and political figure.
by By Michael Muskal
15 May 2012 at 9:23am
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US eases sanctions on Myanmar as reward for democratic reforms - Globe and Mail
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WASHINGTON? AP President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a new chapter in US relations with Myanmar, easing an investment ban and naming the first US ambassador to the former pariah state in 22 years to reward it for democratic reforms.
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17 May 2012 at 5:56pm
Syrian Split Sets Back Bid to Unseat Assad - Wall Street Journal
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By NOUR MALAS BEIRUT?The head of Syria's main opposition coalition offered to resign, two days after his re-election sparked broad discontent among antigovernment activists, as hundreds of students clashed with pro-government forces.
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17 May 2012 at 7:28pm
Mladic war crimes trial halted over legal glitch - Times of India
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THE HAGUE: The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was abruptly halted on Thursday, just a day after it opened, because of prosecution "irregularities" in the high-profile case. The decision was announced by the presiding ...
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17 May 2012 at 5:49pm
US Redefines Afghan Success Before Conference - New York Times
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WASHINGTON ? Leaders of the NATO nations will meet in Chicago on Sunday to set in motion the massive machinery necessary to wind down the war in Afghanistan. But even as American officials prepare a list of benchmarks they can cite as achieved in the ...
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17 May 2012 at 5:01pm
US envoy to Israel: US ready to strike Iran - Lompoc Record
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AP | Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:06 pm | (0) Comments FILE- In this Monday, April, 9, 2007 file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 Kilometers (186 miles) south of ...
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17 May 2012 at 7:19pm
Philippines seeks new markets amid sea dispute with China - Reuters
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| MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines needs to develop new overseas markets so that a maritime standoff with China, which has thrown relations into turmoil, does not take a toll on tourism and fruit exports, a senior official said on Thursday.
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17 May 2012 at 4:01am
Defiant Message From Greece - Wall Street Journal
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By JAMES ANGELOS And ALKMAN GRANITSAS Alexis Tsipras, party leader of Syriza, at a swearing-in at Parliament Thursday, which followed a ceremony installing the cabinet earlier in the day. ATHENS?The head of Greece's radical left party says there is ...
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17 May 2012 at 10:58am
UN council calls for Sudan agreement - The Associated Press
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By RON DePASQUALE, AP ? 1 minute ago UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? The Security Council called for an agreement between Sudan and South Sudan on the status of the disputed, oil-rich border region of Abyei and extended the UN security force's mission there by ...
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17 May 2012 at 4:22pm
Iran summons Bahraini diplomat, denies meddling - Reuters
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| DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran on Thursday summoned Bahrain's charge d'affaires to complain about a statement from the Gulf country which accused Tehran of violating its sovereignty, state television reported. The diplomatic row started after Tehran ...
Saudi Arabia Seeks Union of Monarchies in RegionNew York Times
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17 May 2012 at 12:01pm
Obama hopes summit meetings can quiet overseas questions - Washington Post
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Eager to avoid any setbacks that would distract the president's attention from the US economy in an election year, the Obama administration hopes to use a pair of summits with foreign leaders this weekend to develop some consensus around an ...
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17 May 2012 at 6:45pm