Tuesday, June 22, 2010
International Headlines
>TOP STORIES as of 0800 HKT -- 23 June, 2010
> ANGRY OBAMA RECALLS TOP GENERAL FROM AFGHANISTAN
U.S. President Barack Obama was "angry" after reading Gen.
Stanley McChrystal's remarks about colleagues in a Rolling Stone
article, the White House has said.
> ALLEGED JAMAICA DRUG KINGPIN ARRESTED
Alleged druglord Christopher "Dudus" Coke has been arrested
outside Kingston, Jamaica, police said Tuesday.
> BRAZILIAN FLOODS 'MORE THAN A HORROR FILM'
Flooding in two northeastern Brazil states kill at least 42
people and left more than 115,000 homeless or displaced, civil
defense officials reported.
> BELARUS TO STOP RUSSIAN GAS TO EUROPE
Belarus is threatening to siphon gas bound for Europe if Russia
keeps decreasing its natural gas supply, energy giant Gazprom
said Tuesday.
> FRANCE IN TURMOIL AFTER WORLD CUP EXIT
Beleaguered France, rocked by a spat between coach Raymond
Domenech and his squad, crash out of the World Cup after defeat
against hosts South Africa.
> PAKISTAN TO FREE BIN LADEN HUNTER
An American man detained last week in Pakistan while on a hunt
for Osama bin Laden will be released Tuesday with no charges
filed, a source close to Gary Faulkner's family told CNN.
Faulkner, who suffers from kidney disease, has been given
dialysis in a Pakistani military hospital in Islamabad and is in
good condition, the source said.
> BRITAIN UNVEILS 'UNAVOIDABLE' BUDGET
Britain's budget chief took the wraps off his "unavoidable
budget" Tuesday -- an austere spending plan that raises taxes
and cuts spending as it attempts to help the government slash
its $1.3 trillion debt.
> 5 KILLED IN ISTANBUL 'TERRORIST ATTACK'
A remote-controlled roadside bomb rips through a bus carrying
Turkish military personnel and their families in Istanbul in
what local authorities call "a terrorist attack.
BUSINESS
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> PROTESTERS DISRUPT LONDON OIL CONFERENCE
Protesters on Tuesday briefly disrupted a London oil conference
that BP boss Tony Hayward pulled out of a day earlier.
> BERLIN WARNS OF RISKS FROM DEBT
Germany has warned that a failure to reduce public debts could
trigger another worldwide economic crisis, saying that its
planned cuts in spending will not endanger global growth.
> SKEPTICS AWAIT MORE SHIFTS IN CHINA
For a move that had been so long lobbied for and agonised over,
China's announcement at the weekend that it would allow some
flexibility back into the value of its currency was greeted by
economists with grudging optimism rather than yelps of glee.
