American film to take center stage at Cannes
KATC 3 Lafayette Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:13 AM PDT
PARIS (AP) - American movies are taking center stage at the Cannes Film Festival, with a fistful of U.S. films and stars including Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain in the 2012 line up announced Thursday. Among some of the most anticipated titles of the year is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's Beat classic "On the Road." It's one of 20 films battling for the May 16-27 festival's coveted top prize ... |
Schlumberger Declares Quarterly Dividend
Business Wire Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:08 AM PDT
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors of Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.275 per share of outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on July 13, 2012 to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 1, 2012. About Schlumberger Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and ... |
UN: Syria failing to meet cease-fire conditions
Associated Press via Yahoo! News Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:03 AM PDT
Syria's government is failing to honor a cease-fire aimed at ending more than a year of bloodshed, and violence there has escalated since a truce took effect a week ago, the U.N. chief told the Security Council before a meeting Thursday in Paris on the situation in the Arab state. |
LEAD: Assad accused of "trying to wipe out Homs" as ministers meet Eds: Recasts with details from Paris meeting
Europe Online Magazine Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:58 AM PDT
Paris (dpa) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of trying to obliterate the opposition stronghold of Homs as foreign ministers from the Friends of Syria group met in Paris on Thursday to discuss the crisis.Speaking to Europe 1 radio, Sarkozy compared Homs with the Libyan city of Benghazi, which world powers intervened to protect last year from a threatened ... |
"Friends of Syria" say Annan plan last hope-draft
Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:44 AM PDT
PARIS (Reuters) - Major international powers meeting in Paris on Thursday called a U.N.-backed peace plan the "last hope" to resolve the Syrian crisis and said they would do all they could to help it succeed, according to draft conclusions obtained by Reuters. "Every day that passes means tens of new Syrian civilian deaths," the statement said. "It is not time to prevaricate. It is time to act ... |
Report: 'Pines' will not screen at Cannes Film Festival
Albany Times Union Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:44 AM PDT
Report: 'Pines' will not screen at Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival is set to feature one of the richest North American slates in years, but Derek Cianfrance's crime drama "The Place Beyond the Pines" is not among them, the Los Angeles Times reports. The announcement of the Cannes lineup, made by festival general delegate and artistic director Thierry Fremaux at a Paris news ... |
Syria, UN sign observer deal on shaky truce
AFP via Yahoo! Canada News Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:43 AM PDT
Syria and the United Nations signed a deal Thursday on the framework for observers monitoring a shaky ceasefire, as Arab and Western ministers gathered in Paris to pile pressure on Damascus. |
French fear of markets stirs presidential campaign
San Francisco Chronicle Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:42 AM PDT
(04-19) 08:59 PDT PARIS, France (AP) -- News that foreign investors would be allowed to take bets on French debt has been greeted with cries from the country's politicians and media that a "weapon of mass destruction... |
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