Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

World

China targets bird flu rumours as cases rise

SHANGHAI (AFP) - China has detained at least a dozen people for spreading false rumours about bird flu, police statements showed Wednesday, with authorities seeking to control "panic" as the number of cases rose to 33.
April 11, 2013, 3:11 am
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Exclusive - Carlyle taps UBS banker to launch its first Indonesia office

By Janeman Latul, Stephen Aldred and Michael Flaherty
JAKARTA/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Carlyle Group LP has hired a former UBS banker to launch an Indonesia office, people with direct know...
April 11, 2013, 3:05 am

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GSK plans $1 million prize to jump-start "electroceuticals"

By Ben Hirschler
LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline , Britain's biggest drugmaker, is placing a small but important bet on a new way of treating diseases by targeting elect...
April 11, 2013, 3:03 am

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Parliamentary panel urges for tougher sanctions on failed bankers

By Matt Scuffham
LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) must impose tougher sanctions on people who have run failed banks, making them personally responsible for their...
April 11, 2013, 2:28 am

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30 missing as bus plunges into Bangladesh river

DHAKA (AFP) - About 30 people were feared drowned after an overcrowded bus plunged into a deep river in southern Bangladesh Wednesday, police said.
April 11, 2013, 1:35 am

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Divided Fed edges closer to consensus on ending bond buying

By Jonathan Spicer
(Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve officials appeared on course to end their extraordinary bond buying stimulus by year end at a meeting last month, suggesting a weak M...
April 11, 2013, 1:31 am

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Deposits keep trickling back to Greece amid Cyprus woes

By George Georgiopoulos
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece saw deposit inflows of more than 1.5 billion euros (1.28 billion pounds) in March, despite fears the Cypriot banking crisis would spark...
April 11, 2013, 1:26 am

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French court acquits mother over son's 'Jihad' T-shirt

AVIGNON, France (AFP) - A court in southern France on Wednesday acquitted a mother on trial for dressing her three-year-old son in a T-shirt reading "I am a bomb" and "Jihad, Born on September 11."
April 11, 2013, 1:23 am

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WTO cuts 2013 trade forecast, sees protectionist threat

By Tom Miles
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization slashed its forecast for trade growth in 2013 on Wednesday, saying it feared protectionism was on the increase.
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April 11, 2013, 1:15 am

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Debt deal gives Ireland breathing space on deficit - watchdog

By Conor Humphries
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Savings from a debt deal linked to a bank rescue should give Ireland breathing space to comfortably beat a 2015 European Union deficit deadline, th...
April 11, 2013, 1:11 am
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Raiffeisen bets on recovery in emerging Europe

By Michael Shields
VIENNA (Reuters) - Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) plans to expand further in central and eastern Europe and is optimistic the region's fragile ec...
April 11, 2013, 1:02 am

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Gold losses seen limited on Cyprus bullion sale plan

By Frank Tang and Jan Harvey
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Gold posted its biggest one-day drop in nearly 2 months on Wednesday after Cyprus was forced to sell most of its gold reserves, ...
April 11, 2013, 12:51 am

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EU mulls bank law to impose losses on depositors

By John O'Donnell
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ministers will consider a proposal this week to impose losses on interbank deposits of lenders in dire financial trouble as they sh...
April 11, 2013, 12:48 am

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Analysis - For utilities, selling grids is like selling their soul

By Anjuli Davies, Christoph Steitz and Geert De Clercq
LONDON/FRANKFURT/PARIS (Reuters) - For decades, Europe's utilities were vertically integrated behemoths that had a monopoly on the...
April 11, 2013, 12:30 am

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Iran ups aid effort after deadly quake near nuclear plant

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran stepped up relief efforts on Wednesday for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed 37 people and damaged dozens of villages but left its sole nuclear power station unscathed.
April 11, 2013, 12:28 am

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Venezuelan support for Maduro is conditional

CARACAS (AFP) - A truck barreled through a Caracas market with loudspeakers playing a campaign song of acting President Nicolas Maduro, with a Caribbean beat and the chorus "Chavez I swear, my vote is for Maduro."
April 11, 2013, 12:26 am

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EU raises flag over French, Italian, Spanish economies

By Jan Strupczewski and Martin Santa
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission warned of deepening economic problems in France, Italy and Spain on Wednesday, and said Slovenia must t...
April 11, 2013, 12:21 am

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Nissan to make new van at Renault French site - sources

By Laurence Frost and Gilles Guillaume
PARIS (Reuters) - Nissan <7201.T> plans to move production of a mid-sized van from Spain to Renault's Sandouville plant in F...
April 11, 2013, 12:13 am

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Rift grows within French government over pace of cuts

By Catherine Bremer
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande promised on Wednesday to stick with deficit-reduction plans, despite stirrings of a revolt within his Socialist ...
April 10, 2013, 11:59 pm

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Mladic ejected from court for challenging massacre witness

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Wartime Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was removed from a UN war crimes court Wednesday for challenging harrowing testimony from a survivor of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
April 10, 2013, 11:57 pm

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