Posts Tagged ‘ Told Reuters ’

TPG willing to invest $1 billion in Olympus 

January 14, 2012
TPG willing to invest $1 billion in Olympus 

A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]

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French breast implant fears spread around world 

December 23, 2011
French breast implant fears spread around world 

Alexandra Blachere, who heads an association of women with faulty breast implants, displays silicone gel breast implants during an interview in Paris December 20, 2011. Fears over the safety of silicone breast implants made by a now defunct French firm spread to Australia, South America and across Europe on Thursday as French officials prepared to [...]

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Mars crew ‘lands’ after 520 days in isolation 

November 6, 2011
Mars crew ‘lands’ after 520 days in isolation 

  In this May 24, 2010 file photo released by Moscow’s Institute for Medical and Biological Problems and made available Wednesday, June 2, 2010, researchers test spacesuits on a simulated Mars surface during a training session at Moscow’s Institute for Medical and Biological Problems. Pale-faced but smiling, the crew of a long-duration isolation study emerged [...]

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Law firm documents add to heat on James Murdoch 

November 2, 2011
Law firm documents add to heat on James Murdoch 

  A law firm which represented Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloids has turned over to the British parliament documents which could embarrass his son James when he returns to testify before a committee investigating a phone-hacking scandal. Parliamentary and company sources told Reuters that Farrer & Co, a London law firm which until recently represented Murdoch’s [...]

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Hague court says in talks on Gaddafi son surrender 

October 28, 2011
Hague court says in talks on Gaddafi son surrender 

Saif Al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he talks to reporters in Tripoli August 23, 2011. International war crimes prosecutors are in touch with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, urging him to give himself up and warning him Friday he risks a mid-air interception if he tries to flee by plane to an African [...]

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Woman rescued three days after Turkey quake 

October 26, 2011
Woman rescued three days after Turkey quake 

Rescue workers carry a baby from a collapsed building in Ercis, near the eastern Turkish city of Van, October 25, 2011. Emergency workers rescued a 27-year-old woman alive from a collapsed building on Wednesday, three days after an earthquake killed more than 400 people in eastern Turkey, but hopes of finding more survivors faded and [...]

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Shortages ‘killing patients’ in Libya siege hospital 

October 3, 2011
Shortages ‘killing patients’ in Libya siege hospital 

Anti-Gaddafi fighters flash the victory sign in the front line north of the besieged city of Bani Walid October 2, 2011. People wounded in fighting in Libya’s besieged city of Sirte are dying on the operating table because fuel for the hospital generator has run out, medical workers fleeing the city said Sunday. The birthplace [...]

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Democrats push tax hikes first in deficit talks 

October 1, 2011
Democrats push tax hikes first in deficit talks 

The twelve members of the Congressional Super Committee, six Democrats and six Republicans, gather for opening remarks. Democrats want tax hikes to be the first item negotiated in "super committee" deficit-reduction talks, trying to force Republicans to confront an issue at the heart of this year’s budget fights, sources told Reuters. The tough stance by [...]

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Gaddafi forces fire Scud missile: US official 

August 16, 2011
Gaddafi forces fire Scud missile: US official 

A woman gestures as she listens to a pro-Gaddafi rally in Green Square, Tripoli, August 15, 2011. Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fired a Scud missile for the first time in the country’s civil war, a US defense official said, after rebel advances left the Libyan leader isolated in his capital. Rebels fighting to end [...]

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Libyan rebels say military chief killed 

July 29, 2011
Libyan rebels say military chief killed 

Mustafa Abdel Jalil, top rebel leader and chairman of the Libyan National Transitional Council, makes a statement on the death of Abdel Fattah Younes in Benghazi July 28, 2011. Libya’s rebels said their military commander was shot dead in an incident that remained shrouded in mystery, pointing either to divisions within the movement trying to [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...