WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Canada’s biggest hog producer, privately held HyLife, is weathering the industry’s severe losses inflicted by the U.S. drought, but fears losing part of its pig supply as buyers line up for other distressed farms, the company’s chief operating officer said on Thursday. While rival Canadian hog producers Big Sky Farms and Puratone Corporation entered receivership and creditor protection respectively this autumn, HyLife has maintained its hog production and kept its Neepawa, Manitoba processing plant running at expanded capacity, said HyLife COO Claude Vielfaure. …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani couple killed their teenage daughter by pouring acid on her face and body after they caught her talking to a boy, police and a doctor said on Thursday. The parents of the 16-year-old confessed to police in Kotli, a town in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, that they attacked their daughter after she had spoke to the boy outside their house, said Mohammad Jahangir, a local doctor at the hospital where she was brought. “There were third-degree burns on her scalp, face, eyes, nostrils, both arms, chest foot and lower part of legs. …
Canada will push G20 for timely Basel III rules implementation
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will press for timely implementation of the Basel III rules on bank capital at a November 4-5 meeting of finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations, a senior finance ministry official said on Thursday. The official said it was imperative the rules on tighter global capital and liquidity be adopted according to the timeline that has already been agreed. The Basel III rules are supposed to start coming into force worldwide at the start of 2013, but late agreement on many details means many banks are unprepared. …
Syrian rebels kill 28 soldiers, several executed
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Anti-government rebels killed 28 soldiers on Thursday in attacks on three army checkpoints around Saraqeb, a town on Syria's main north-south highway, a monitoring group said. Some of the dead were shot after they had surrendered, according to video footage. Rebels berated them, calling them "Assad's Dogs", before firing round after round into their bodies as they lay on the ground. The highway linking the capital Damascus to the contested city of Aleppo, Syria's commercial center, has been the scene of heavy fighting since rebels cut the road last month. … Greek publisher tried over alleged Swiss bank list
A magazine publisher went on trial Thursday for printing a list allegedly naming Greeks with bank accounts in Switzerland. The list has touched off a fierce debate in nearly bankrupt Greece about whether governments used it to check for possible tax evasion.
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