Thursday, June 24, 2010
International Headlines
>TOP STORIES as of 0800 HKT -- 25 June, 2010
> PETRAEUS SUPPORTS 2011 TARGET FOR AFGHAN DRAWDOWN
Gen. David Petraeus says he supports President Obama's July 2011
deadline to start pulling troops from Afghanistan, a key point
of contention with GOP lawmakers.
> IRAN WILL NOT SEND AID SHIP TO GAZA
Iran will not send a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza as
it had planned to do on Thursday, according to a report from the
official news agency of Iran.
> U.S., RUSSIA IN ECONOMIC PLEDGE
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev will meet U.S. President
Barack Obama for talks at the White House on Thursday after
taking a technology tour of California a day earlier.
> ARMED MAN ARRESTED NEAR G-20 SITE
A man with five cans of gas and an array of weapons in his car
was arrested Thursday near the G-20 site in Toronto, Canada,
security officials said.
> JAMAICAN 'DRUG LORD' EXTRADITED TO U.S.
Christopher "Dudus" Coke, the alleged Jamaican drug kingpin,
will be extradited to the United States, a quiet formality that
followed a dramatic eruption of street violence in the capital
of Kingston.
> CHAMPIONS ITALY CRASH OUT OF WORLD CUP
Italy's World Cup title defense comes to an embarrassing end
after a dramatic 3-2 defeat by European footballing minnows
Slovakia leaves them bottom of their group.
> JAPAN OUTCLASS DENMARK TO ADVANCE
Japan have comfortably beaten Denmark 3-1 at the Royal Bafokeng
Stadium in Rustenburg to book their place in the last 16 of the
World Cup.
> PARCEL BOMB BLAST AT GREEK MINISTRY
One person was killed in an explosion at the Ministry of Citizen
Protection in Athens, Greece, on Thursday, a ministry official
told said.
BUSINESS
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> 4-YEAR JAIL TERM URGED FOR 'ROGUE TRADER'
French prosecutors demanded Thursday that trader Jerome Kerviel
serve four years in jail for allegedly betting €50 billion
($61 billion) of his employer's money without its knowledge.
> RUSSIA PAYS BELARUS FOR GAS TRANSIT
Russian energy giant Gazprom has paid Belarus $228 million for
delivering natural gas to Europe, the Russian state news agency
RIA-Novosti said Thursday.
> UK AUCTION RAKES IN RECORD $226.7M
An auction that included works by Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet
raked in 152.6 million pounds (US$226.5 million) Wednesday
night, setting a record for highest total ever realized in an
British art auction, according to Christie's
