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A man walks past a Credit Agricole bank in Paris, Thursday May, 15, 2008.

French Bank to Sell Billions in Assets to Deal With Subprime Losses
Voa News

French banking giant Credit Agricole says it will sell billions of dollars in assets to deal with subprime losses by its investment arm. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports the new financial blow adds to the economic worries in France, where the center-right government hopes to push through tough reforms. France's Credit Agricole bank...
photo: AP / Jacques Brinon

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Leading article: How to weather the financial storms
The Independent

The economic news around much of the rich world is causing policymakers sleepless nights, but...

Tripoli clashes open old sectarian wounds
Daily Star Lebanon

Political crisis again divides sunnis, alawites By Agence France Presse (AFP)...

Israeli general says Hizbullah proved strength
Daily Star Lebanon

By Agence France Presse (AFP) Friday, May 16, 2008...

Researchers warn of nitrogen hazard to environment

Syracuse

WASHINGTON (AP) - While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn. "The public does not yet know much about nitrogen, but in many ways it...
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal

'We have to kill Tutsis wherever they are'

Apollan Odetta, a survivor from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide light candles at a mass grave in Nyamata, Rwanda Tuesday April 6, 2004.

The Guardian

Hundreds of thousands of people were massacred during the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda. Now, in the crucible of the ensuing war in neighbouring Congo, the fugitive killers are training their children to carry on the Hutu mission of extermination, and...
photo: AP / Sayyid Azim

McCain says Iraq war won by 2013

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., greets supporters following primaries in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008, in Alexandria (tmg1)

NZ Herald

US Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. Photo / Reuters COLUMBUS - Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a...
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite

Afghan death squads 'acting on foreign orders'

Afghan soldiers stand behind the wreckage of a suicide bomber´s vehicle after a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, Oct. 16, 2006. The suicide car bomber blew himself up in the Afghan capital on Monday slightly wounding one child, police and wit

The Independent

Secret Afghan death squads are acting on the orders of foreign spies and killing civilians inside Afghanistan with impunity, a senior UN envoy has claimed. Professor Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on illegal killings, said "foreign...
photo: AP /Musadeq Sadeq

Paranoid Burmese junta steps up security around Suu Kyi

Myanmar protesters hold posters of Myanmar´s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration in support of the pro-democracy protests in Myanmar outside the Myanmar´s embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007. (AP Ph

The Independent

It used to be you could ask any taxi driver and they would show you her house. There could be no stopping and no taking photographs, but they would drive you along Rangoon's University Avenue and you could glimpse the property where Aung San Suu Kyi...
photo: AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin

California overturns gay marriage ban

Gay rights supporters wear a California state flag,left, and a gay pride flag outside of the California State Supreme Court building in San Francisco, Thursday, May 15, 2008, after the Court ruled in favor of the right of same sex couples to wed

Sydney Morning Herald

America's gay lobby has won a historic victory with the California Supreme Court ruling that the state's ban on same sex marriages was unconstitutional. In a decision hailed by gay activists, and likely to be condemned by religious and family...
photo: AP / Paul Sakuma