Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Radko Mladic's genocide trial begins in the Hague - Christian Science Monitor


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Radko Mladic's genocide trial begins in the Hague
Christian Science Monitor
The Bosnian Serb general is accused of war crimes stemming from the Bosnian civil war in the early 1990s. By Mike Corder, The Associated Press / May 16, 2012 Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic attends his trial at the International ...
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Softening, Merkel Says She Is Open to Stimulus for Greece - New York Times


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Softening, Merkel Says She Is Open to Stimulus for Greece
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BERLIN â€" Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said Wednesday that she was ready to discuss stimulus programs to get the Greek economy growing again and that she was committed to keeping Greece in the euro zone, signaling a softer approach toward the ...
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ECB move on Greek banks hits euro confidence - Reuters


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ECB move on Greek banks hits euro confidence
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By Andreas Framke and Harry Papachristou | FRANKFURT/ATHENS (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has stopped offering liquidity to some Greek banks it does not consider solvent, and international concern about the euro zone rose as Athens called new ...
Euro crisis hands G8 another chance to save the worldGlobe and Mail
Greece forms emergency government amid banking fearsWashington Post
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Greece forms emergency government amid banking fears - Washington Post


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Greece forms emergency government amid banking fears
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ATHENS â€" With Greece's future in the euro increasingly in doubt, this troubled nation cobbled together an emergency government Wednesday and set a date for new elections amid fears that accelerated withdrawals by spooked depositors could escalate into ...
FOREX-Euro off 4-month low, but Greek exit fears sour moodReuters
Greek Turmoil Spreads PessimismABC News
Experts Try to Chart Path for Exit From CurrencyWall Street Journal
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Experts Try to Chart Path for Exit From Currency - Wall Street Journal


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Experts Try to Chart Path for Exit From Currency
Wall Street Journal
By GABRIELE STEINHAUSER BRUSSELSâ€"Returning to a national currency after more than a decade of using the euro and having its money managed by the European Central Bank would catapult Greece into a financial, legal and political no-man's-land.
Greek banks, the euro and the ECBBBC News
FOREX-Euro zeros in on 2012 low as Greek exit fears grip marketsReuters
Asian Stocks, Oil, Yen Fall on Greek Talks, Japan OrdersBloomberg
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Obama administration denies role in arming Syrian rebels - ABC News


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Obama administration denies role in arming Syrian rebels
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President Barack Obama's administration has repeatedly said over the past few months that it won't ship arms to Syria's outgunned opposition, warning that doing so will only escalate the bloody conflict there. But the Washington Post reported Wednesday ...
Syria's Assad says he will show foreign 'mercenaries' being held captiveIrish Times
Syria's Assad: Nations that sow chaos will sufferReuters
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Greece gets caretaker PM until new vote in June - Atlanta Journal Constitution


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Greece gets caretaker PM until new vote in June
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By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS AP ATHENS, Greece â€" A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.
Greece gets caretaker PM until next vote in JuneThe Associated Press
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Assad says poll proves Syrians back regime - ABC Online


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Assad says poll proves Syrians back regime
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By Middle East correspondent Anne Barker, wires Syrian president Bashar al-Assad says the results of a recent election vindicate his government's reform policies. Just over 51 per cent of Syrian voters were said to turn out in elections for the Syrian ...
Assad says Syria is fighting foreign mercenariesSalt Lake Tribune
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US helping get arms to Syria rebels: ReportTimes of India
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Carlos Fuentes: Tribute to a Mexican literary and political icon - Christian Science Monitor


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Carlos Fuentes: Tribute to a Mexican literary and political icon
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Carlos Fuentes belonged to a generation of Latin American writers who were both literary and political, author and social commentator. Fuentes was a public intellectual. By Marjorie Miller, Associated Press / May 16, 2012 In this 1995 photo, ...
In tribute, Mexico fondly remembers writer Carlos FuentesLos Angeles Times
Mexicans pay tribute to novelist Carlos FuentesAFP
Carlos Fuentes dies; 'Outsiders' e-booksUSA TODAY
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Defiant Mladic before war crimes court - BBC News


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Defiant Mladic before war crimes court
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By Allan Little BBC News, The Hague General Mladic gestured to the public gallery as the prosecution opened its case against him - a slow sarcastic handclap and a thumbs up toward the benches where victims of Bosnia's war had gathered to watch the ...
With a clap and a cut-throat gesture, the 'Butcher of Bosnia' faces justiceSydney Morning Herald
Ratko Mladic led ethnic cleansing, war crimes trial toldPakistan Daily Times
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Greek Crisis Aggravated by Flight From Banks - New York Times


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Greek Crisis Aggravated by Flight From Banks
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ATHENS â€" As Greek political leaders announced a caretaker government Wednesday that would usher in new elections next month, bankers across Athens were glued to their computer screens to monitor a worrisome development: the continued flight of billions ...
FOREX-Euro slides to 4-month low as Greek fears persistReuters
Business leaders prepare for 'Grexit' as elected leaders avoid the subjectCNN International
What on earth is Britain doing trying to save the euro?Telegraph.co.uk
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Greek euro exit looms closer as banks crumble - Telegraph.co.uk


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Greek euro exit looms closer as banks crumble
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A tsunami of capital flight from Greece threatens to overwhelm the authorities, forcing the country out of the euro before fresh elections in June. A pedestrian passes a kiosk selling newspapers. The growing alarm comes as judge Panagiotis Pikrammenos ...
Euro's last turn before the GrexitFinancial Times
Run on Greek banks as euro turmoil goes onHindustan Times
'Grexit': Are Greece's euro fears causing a $1-billion bank run?Los Angeles Times
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Ratko Mladic, accused of Srebrenica massacre, Yugoslav war crimes, gestures ... - CBS News


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Ratko Mladic, accused of Srebrenica massacre, Yugoslav war crimes, gestures ...
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Updated at 1:18 pm ET (AP) THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once "held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened Wednesday.
Bosnia's Butcher in Court: Ratko Mladic Stands Trial for War CrimesTIME
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Merkel fires minister after election defeat - Fox News


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Merkel fires minister after election defeat
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BERLIN â€" German Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday after he led her conservative party to an embarrassingly heavy state election defeat. Merkel said she had asked Germany's president to dismiss Norbert Roettgen and ...
Germany's Angela Merkel sacks minister after Westphalia defeatBBC News
US STOCKS-Wall St pares gains on new questions over GreeceReuters
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Euro hits four-month low on heightened Greece fears - BBC News


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Euro hits four-month low on heightened Greece fears
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The euro has hit a fresh four-month low against the dollar as political uncertainty in Greece fuels speculation it could be forced to leave the euro. The euro fell as much as 0.7% to $1.2681 early on Wednesday, but had recovered some ground by ...
UK banks readying for Greek euro exitThe Guardian
Businesses brace for Greek exitFinancial Times
Euro Fluctuates Versus Dollar as Greek Leaders Face ElectionsBloomberg
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Applauded by Serbs, Mladic still divides Bosnia - Reuters


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Applauded by Serbs, Mladic still divides Bosnia
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By Daria Sito-Sucic | SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Twenty years after Ratko Mladic's forces began raining artillery fire on Sarajevo, the former Serb general looked down again on the Bosnian capital's main square from a giant screen showing the start of his ...
Ratko Mladic's Bosnian genocide trial begins (+video)Christian Science Monitor
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Greeks set election date amid possibility of bank panic - CNN International


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Greeks set election date amid possibility of bank panic
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Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Greece will hold new elections on June 17, state media reported Wednesday, after Greeks pulled hundreds of millions of euros out the banking system amid fears that the country will not be able to stay in the European Union's ...
Bank Runs Looming, Greece Sets Date for New VoteNew York Times
German, French bonds grabbed on Greek fearsReuters
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Ratko Mladic's Bosnian genocide trial begins - Christian Science Monitor


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Ratko Mladic's Bosnian genocide trial begins
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Former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. He is the last suspect from the 1992-95 Bosnian war to go on trial in The Hague. By Mike Corder, Associated Press / May 16, ...
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Ratko Mladic's Genocide Trial Gets Under Way - ABC News


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Ratko Mladic's Genocide Trial Gets Under Way
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Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war ...
Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trialReuters
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Lightning jump-starts Franco-German motor - BBC News


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Lightning jump-starts Franco-German motor
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By Stephen Evans BBC News, Berlin What exactly did the Greek gods mean when they hurled a bolt of lightning at the plane conveying the President of France to his rendezvous with German destiny? It now seems obvious. The fates wanted to shake Francois ...
Hollande to unveil cabinet after gender-equal pledgeTelegraph.co.uk
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Mladic goes on trial for atrocities in Bosnia - Reuters


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Mladic goes on trial for atrocities in Bosnia
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By Thomas Escritt and Ivana Sekularac | AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic went on trial for genocide on Wednesday, accused of leading the slaughter of 8000 unarmed Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica in 1995, Europe's worst atrocity ...
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Live: Ratko Mladic trial begins 20 years after atrocities - Telegraph.co.uk


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Live: Ratko Mladic trial begins 20 years after atrocities
Telegraph.co.uk
Ratko Mladic is appearing on trial in The Hague for the massacre of 8000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the first act of genocide on European soil since the Nazi Holocaust. Ratko Mladic is removed from the UN courtroom at The Hague during the latest hearing in ...
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Bosnian Serb Leader Faces War Crimes Charges - New York Times


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Bosnian Serb Leader Faces War Crimes Charges
New York Times
THE HAGUE â€" Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander, went on trial here on Wednesday for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity stemming from some of the bloodiest events of the Bosnian war in the 1990s, including the ...
Ratko Mladic's genocide trial gets under wayUSA TODAY
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Merkel, Hollande hold talks on European recovery, wish to keep Greece in eurozone - Xinhua


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Merkel, Hollande hold talks on European recovery, wish to keep Greece in eurozone
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BERLIN, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Leaders of Germany and France Tuesday held talks on boosting economic growth amid the ongoing European debt crisis and keeping Greece within the eurozone. "We share the responsibility for a good development in Europe and I ...
France, Germany together for debt-stricken GreeceHindustan Times
New French president meets his German allyABC Online
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