Saturday, August 31, 2013

Daily News: Politics - Mandela still in hospital, not discharged - S. Africa government

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Mandela still in hospital, not discharged - S. Africa government 
Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 12:41 AM PDT
(Blank Headline Received)JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who has been receiving medical treatment for three months for a lung ailment, is still in hospital in Pretoria in a critical but stable condition, the government said on Saturday. The presidency said reports by some international media that the revered anti-apartheid leader, who is 95, had been discharged and returned to his home were "incorrect". ...
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Mandela still in hospital, not discharged: South Africa government 
Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 12:35 AM PDT
Former president of South Africa Mandela chats with Britain's Prime Minister Brown in LondonJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who has been receiving medical treatment for three months for a lung ailment, is still in hospital in Pretoria in a critical but stable condition, the government said on Saturday. The presidency said reports by some international media that the revered anti-apartheid leader, who is 95, had been discharged and returned to his home were "incorrect". ...
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Top Indonesian energy official barred from travel in latest government scandal: media 
Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 12:32 AM PDT
Indonesia's President Yudhoyono talks at a Reuters Newsmaker event in SingaporeBy Jonathan Thatcher JAKARTA (Reuters) - A top Indonesian energy official has been banned from overseas travel, media reported on Saturday, in the latest graft case this month which threatens to further tarnish President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's final year in office. The reported travel ban on Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry Secretary General, Waryono Karno, follows the arrest earlier this month of the head of the energy regulator SKKMigas, Rudi Rubiandini, on bribery charges after large amounts of cash were found in his Jakarta home. ...
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Ammonia leak at Shanghai refrigeration plant kills 15, injures 26 
Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 12:23 AM PDT
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A liquid ammonia leak from a refrigeration unit at a cold storage facility in Shanghai on Saturday has killed 15 people and injured 26 others, local authorities said. The leak occurred at 10:50 am local time (0250 GMT / 10:50 p.m. EDT) at Shanghai Weng's Cold Storage Industrial Co. Ltd., located in the Baoshan district of eastern Shanghai, the Shanghai municipal government said on its official Sina Weibo account. Six of those injured were in a critical condition, the government said. China, the world's second-largest economy, has a poor record on workplace safety. ...
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U.N. inspectors arrive at Beirut international airport - witness 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 11:25 PM PDT
United Nations peacekeeping soldiers leave the Quneitra border crossing between Israel and Syria, in the Israeli-occupied Golan HeightsBEIRUT (Reuters) - The team of United Nations inspectors that was investigating the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria arrived at Beirut International Airport on Saturday, a Reuters witness said. The team had crossed the land border from Syria into Lebanon earlier in the day after completing its four-day investigation. (Reporting by Issam Abdullah; Editing by Pravin Char)
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Wall Street Week Ahead: Jobs data could spur Fed action on stimulus 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 10:17 PM PDT
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock ExchangeBy Richard Leong NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street is bracing for a wave of economic reports next week, including the August jobs report, which might prove decisive in determining whether the economy is strong enough for the Federal Reserve to dial back its bond purchases in mid-September. Anxiety about the Fed possibly reducing its $85 billion monthly stimulus, also known as QE3, has hurt the stock market, which recorded its steepest monthly fall since May 2012. ...
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U.S. says world cannot let Assad get away with chemical attack 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 10:02 PM PDT
U.S. Secretary of State Kerry speaks about the situation in Syria at the State Department in WashingtonBy Steve Holland and Catherine Bremer WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - The United States made clear on Friday that it would punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the "brutal and flagrant" chemical weapons attack that it says killed more than 1,400 people in Damascus last week. "We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale," President Barack Obama told reporters at the White House. ...
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U.N. chemical weapons inspectors arrive in Lebanon: witness 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 09:59 PM PDT
United Nations peacekeeping soldiers leave the Quneitra border crossing between Israel and Syria, in the Israeli-occupied Golan HeightsBEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations team tasked with investigating alleged chemical weapons strikes in Syria arrived in Lebanon on Saturday, a Reuters witness said. The team crossed the land border into neighboring Lebanon after leaving their Damascus hotel earlier in the morning. (Reporting by Erika Solomon; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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San Diego mayor accused of sexual harassment leaves office quietly 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 08:47 PM PDT
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner steps away from the podium after addressing a special meeting of the San Diego city council following his resignation as the city's mayor, in San DiegoBy Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Bob Filner's term as San Diego mayor came to a quiet end on Friday as the veteran politician who resigned in the face of a sexual harassment lawsuit stayed out of the public eye on his last day in office. Filner, a former Democratic congressman elected to lead California's second-largest city last year, announced his resignation last week as part of a settlement with the city over how to handle a lawsuit filed by his former press secretary. ...
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UK says Snowden leaks hurt its national security, could expose spies 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 08:05 PM PDT
File photo of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, an analyst with a U.S. defence contractor, being interviewed by The Guardian in his hotel room in Hong KongBy Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Leaks by a fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor have damaged Britain's national security, and the data he gave journalists includes information that might expose the identities of British spies, a government official told the High Court in London. The official said Brazilian David Miranda, the partner of a Guardian newspaper journalist, was carrying a computer hard-drive containing 58,000 highly classified intelligence documents when he was detained at Heathrow airport earlier this month. ...
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Sixth U.S. ship now in eastern Mediterranean 'as precaution' 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 07:57 PM PDT
Handout of USS San Antonio departing Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, VirginiaBy Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sixth U.S. warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five U.S. destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be directed against Syria as part of a "limited, precise" strike, defense officials said late on Friday. They stressed that the USS San Antonio, an amphibious ship with several hundred U.S. Marines on board, was in the region for a different reason and there were no plans to put Marines on the ground as part of any military action against Syria. ...
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Yosemite wildfire still raging, keeps tourists away 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 07:12 PM PDT
U.S. Forest Service handout photo shows a firefighter using a headlamp at the Rim Fire at night near Yosemite National Park in CaliforniaBy Laila Kearney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Fire crews battling to outflank a monster wildfire inside Yosemite National Park made headway on Friday in confining flames to wilderness areas but were powerless to salvage the region's sputtering tourist economy at the end of its peak summer tourist season. By morning, the tally of charred landscape from the so-called Rim Fire surpassed 200,000 acres, or nearly 315 square miles, three-quarters of that in the Stanislaus National Forest west of the park, fire officials said. ...
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Sports drink helps California inmates on hunger strike stave off starvation 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:59 PM PDT
A woman holds up a sign during a protest against indefinite solitary confinement in California prisons, in SacramentoBy Sharon Bernstein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Inmates on a hunger strike to protest California's solitary confinement policies are staving off starvation by drinking Gatorade, but medical troubles are setting in nonetheless, a spokeswoman for the office in charge of prisoner healthcare said on Friday. Of 123 inmates who are refusing food, 15 have lost potentially dangerous amounts of weight, and most report feeling weak and cold, said Liz Gransee, a spokeswoman for the official who oversees healthcare in the 34-prison system. "Some of them aren't handling this as well as others," Gransee said. ...
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Spain seeking lift with Madrid's 2020 'austerity bid' 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:29 PM PDT
By Iain Rogers MADRID (Reuters) - For a sports-obsessed country in the grip of a debilitating recession and stained by allegations of political corruption, winning the right to host the 2020 Olympic Games in Madrid is exactly the tonic Spain needs. At least that is what government and bid officials are arguing as they attempt to convince International Olympic Committee (IOC) members the capital deserves to stage the world's biggest and most expensive sporting event instead of Istanbul or Tokyo. ...
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Detroit pension trustee loses seat, city job: report 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:21 PM PDT
DETROIT (Reuters) - A trustee for one of Detroit's two pension funds lost his city job and position on the retirement board months after he was criticized for attending a conference in Hawaii, the Detroit News reported on Friday. The trustee, Cedric Cook, was a senior data processing program analyst for the city and chairman of Detroit's General Retirement System. The newspaper said Cook "has been off work for more than a month on an unpaid suspension," but it did not specify when he lost his job. Cook went to the conference in May with three other pension trustees. ...
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Judge plans to appoint monitor for controversial Arizona sheriff 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:20 PM PDT
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announces newly launched program aimed at providing security around schools in Anthem ArizonaBy David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - A federal judge plans to appoint a monitor to watch over the operations of hardline Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose office had been found by the judge to have racially profiled Latino drivers during the lawman's crackdown on illegal immigration. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow said in a court hearing on Friday that the Maricopa County lawman, who styles himself as "America's toughest sheriff," needed an independent check on his actions to prevent such profiling from continuing in the future. ...
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Istanbul clings to bid hopes as blows rain down 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:10 PM PDT
By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Along the picturesque Bosphorus Straits dividing Europe and Asia, Istanbul is undergoing a transformation which should fill Turkey with confidence in its bid to become the first Muslim country to stage the Olympics in 2020. Overlooking the waterway, mechanical diggers are tearing down Besiktas' Inonu Stadium to make way for a state-of-the-art facility earmarked to stage rugby in 2020, and to the north construction of the city's third suspension bridge is underway. ...
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2020 Games bidders locked in tight race ahead of vote 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:05 PM PDT
By Karolos Grohmann (Reuters) - The race for three cities hoping to land the 2020 summer Olympics will go down to the wire after two years of campaigning as Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo grapple with their own problems ahead of the September 7 vote. The International Olympic Committee will elect the winning bid at their session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, next month with no clear front runner in the campaign to host the world's biggest and most expensive multi-sport event. ...
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Olympics-Istanbul clings to bid hopes as blows rain down 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:00 PM PDT
* Massive infrastructure investment underpins Istanbul's bid * Anti-government protests, doping shake confidence * Middle East turmoil overshadows mood By Daren Butler ISTANBUL, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Along the picturesque Bosphorus Straits dividing Europe and Asia, Istanbul is undergoing a transformation which should fill Turkey with confidence in its bid to become the first Muslim country to stage the Olympics in 2020. ...
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Olympics-Spain seeking lift with Madrid's 2020 'austerity bid' 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:00 PM PDT
By Iain Rogers MADRID, Aug 31 (Reuters) - For a sports-obsessed country in the grip of a debilitating recession and stained by allegations of political corruption, winning the right to host the 2020 Olympic Games in Madrid is exactly the tonic Spain needs. At least that is what government and bid officials are arguing as they attempt to convince International Olympic Committee (IOC) members the capital deserves to stage the world's biggest and most expensive sporting event instead of Istanbul or Tokyo. ...
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Olympics-2020 Games bidders locked in tight race ahead of vote 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:00 PM PDT
By Karolos Grohmann Aug 31 (Reuters) - The race for three cities hoping to land the 2020 summer Olympics will go down to the wire after two years of campaigning as Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo grapple with their own problems ahead of the Sept. 7 vote. The International Olympic Committee will elect the winning bid at their session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, next month with no clear front runner in the campaign to host the world's biggest and most expensive multi-sport event. ...
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Endurance swimmer Nyad to attempt Cuba-Florida crossing again 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:49 PM PDT
U.S. long-distance swimmer Nyad adjusts her swimwear before attempting to swim to Florida from HavanaBy Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. endurance swimmer Diana Nyad will attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida this weekend, better prepared for the sharks, venomous jellyfish and powerful Gulf Stream currents that foiled her four previous attempts at the 103-mile (166-km) crossing. If she succeeds, Nyad, 64, would become the world record holder for the longest unassisted open ocean swim, meaning no shark cage protected her during the swim, which is expected to take more than 60 hours. Equipment emitting a mild electric current in the water should keep sharks at bay. ...
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Iowa board votes to end 'tele-med' abortions used by rural women 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:45 PM PDT
By Kay Henderson DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - The Iowa Board of Medicine took a final step on Friday to stop Planned Parenthood of the Heartland from providing abortion-inducing drugs to women via a video-conferencing system, a practice used to serve women in rural areas without doctors. The board voted 8-2 to ban the practice, with most members arguing the best standard of care for a woman seeking an abortion is to have a doctor perform a physical exam and talk face-to-face with the patient. ...
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg to preside over gay wedding 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:20 PM PDT
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is to officiate at a wedding ceremony between two men this weekend, just two months after the court issued high-profile rulings on the highly divisive issue. A court spokesman said on Friday that Ginsburg would be officiating at the ceremony on Saturday at the Kennedy Center. Ginsburg is the first justice to preside over a wedding ceremony involving a same-sex couple. As reported by the Washington Post, Ginsburg will preside over the wedding of Michael Kaiser, the president of the John F. ...
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Montana prosecutor to appeal ex-teacher's month-long sentence for rape 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:19 PM PDT
By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) - A Montana prosecutor said on Friday he intended to appeal as too lenient a 31-day sentence for a former teacher who raped a teenage student who later committed suicide. District Judge G. Todd Baugh has come under harsh criticism since sentencing former Billings high school teacher Stacey Rambold on Monday to 15 years in prison, then suspending all but 31 days of that term, for the 2007 rape of 14-year-old Cherice Moralez. ...
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Michigan governor seeks to dodge deposition in Detroit bankruptcy case 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:15 PM PDT
A 'Welcome to Detroit' border sign is seen as traffic enters DetroitBy Joseph Lichterman and Bernie Woodall DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and other state officials are seeking to avoid being questioned by Detroit worker and retiree unions in the city's bankruptcy case, according to a motion filed on Friday. Attorneys for the state, in a motion to quash depositions of Snyder, Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon and others, said they would not be able to offer testimony relevant to the issue of whether Detroit is eligible to enter Chapter 9 protection. ...
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In shadow of Iraq, U.S. has 'high confidence' Syria carried out chemical attack 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:08 PM PDT
Men walk past damaged buildings at a site hit by what activists say was a car bomb in Raqqa provinceBy Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies publicly disclosed on Friday some of the information that led to a "high-confidence" assessment that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical weapons attack on neighborhoods outside Damascus. But the declassified intelligence report also showed what the U.S. government does not have: clear evidence that Assad personally ordered the attack, and physiological evidence confirming what caused the deaths of an estimated 1,429 Syrians on August 21. U.S. ...
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Fired Paraguayan bus drivers have themselves nailed to crosses 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 04:02 PM PDT
Route 30 public bus drivers Romero, Rojas, Peralta and Silva take part in a hunger strike in protest over their dismissal in Luque, on the outskirts of AsuncionASUNCION (Reuters) - Eight Paraguayan bus drivers have had themselves nailed to crosses to protest being fired by a transportation company after it rejected their plea for higher pay, a lawmaker said on Friday. The drivers, from the northern town of Luque, are on their backs, nailed to wooden crosses laid out on the ground. Large nails pierce their hands at the base of the fingers. They said they took the action in a desperate bid to be heard. They have been nailed down for 15 days, according to Olga Ferreira de Lopez, a member of Paraguay's House of Congress who is monitoring the situation. ...
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Michigan court clears way to certify Detroit mayoral primary 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 03:59 PM PDT
DETROIT (Reuters) - The Michigan Court of Appeals on Friday cleared the way for the state's election board to declare a winner of Detroit's disputed August mayoral primary next week, in a ruling that would pave the way to a victory for a former hospital executive who waged a write-in campaign. Results of the August 6 mayoral primary have been held up for weeks over the counting of thousands of write-in votes for Mike Duggan, the former hospital executive. A city tally of the results of the primary gave the victory to Duggan by a wide margin over Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon. ...
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U.S. nuclear agency seeks input to resume Yucca Mountain review 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 03:35 PM PDT
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday said it will seek comments on how to restart the licensing process for the long-stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project. The request is the agency's first response to a federal appeals court order issued August 13 that said the NRC can no longer delay a decision on whether to issue a permit for the project that would bury nuclear waste inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. A three-judge panel of the U.S. ...
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U.N. investigators to exit Syria, chemical probe may take weeks 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 03:31 PM PDT
Sellstrom, head of U.N. chemical weapons investigation team, stands outside Yousef al-Azma military hospital in DamascusBy Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A team of U.N. experts finished gathering evidence of a suspected chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in suburbs near Damascus last week, the United Nations announced on Friday, though envoys said analyzing the samples may take weeks. The announcement the U.N. inspectors will not be releasing their findings immediately came as Washington suggested the U.N. investigation would have no bearing on its decision about whether to attack Syria in retaliation for the alleged poison gas attack on civilians. ...
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Justice Department talks with Microsoft and Google stall 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 03:29 PM PDT
Google signage seen at the company's headquarters in New YorkBy Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice's talks with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc have hit a wall as the government pushes back at the tech companies' demand for the ability to disclose the now-secret data requests they receive. Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith, on Friday described as a failure the outcome of the companies' recent negotiations with the government over the disclosure of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders the companies receive. ...
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White House budget talks with Senate Republicans break off 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 03:26 PM PDT
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Budget talks between the White House and a small group of U.S. Republican senators have reached an impasse, eliminating Washington's only active channel for resolving deep fiscal differences as key deadlines loom, senators and aides said on Friday. A meeting on Thursday between the eight senators and White House chief of staff Denis McDonough failed to produce any movement toward a deal to reduce "unsustainable debt and deficits," said Senator Dan Coats, a Republican from Indiana. ...
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Countdown begins to U.S. airline merger trial in November 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 03:03 PM PDT
An American Airlines jet takes off while U.S. Airways jets are lined up at Reagan National Airport in WashingtonBy David Ingram and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American Airlines and US Airways voiced a fresh sense of optimism on Friday after a U.S. judge granted their request for a speedy trial to determine whether the two carriers are allowed to form the world's largest airline. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said a trial pitting the airlines against the U.S. Justice Department and several states would begin on Monday, November 25. ...
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Exclusive: U.S. pension funds press Caesars' private equity owners 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 02:58 PM PDT
File photo of Loveman, chairman, president and chief executive of Caesars Entertainment Corp., speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly HillsBy Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some U.S. public pension funds are pressuring TPG Capital LP and Apollo Global Management LLC to share more of the fees they withdraw from loss-making casino operator Caesars Entertainment Corp, in a rare display of activism against private equity firms. The two buyout firms charged Caesars a $200 million "transaction fee" when they took it private in a $30.7 billion deal in 2008, and have since been taking around $30 million a year as "monitoring fees" for their services to the casino company. ...
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Suriname president's son arrested on U.S. drug smuggling charges 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 02:57 PM PDT
By Lomi Kriel PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - A son of Suriname's president has been arrested in Panama and sent to New York to face charges of smuggling cocaine into the United States, U.S. authorities said on Friday. An indictment against Dino Bouterse filed in a federal court in the Southern District of New York, alleges the 40-year-old imported more than five kilograms of cocaine into the United States between December 2011 and August 2013. Bouterse was arrested at Panama's Tocumen International Airport on Thursday, authorities said. ...
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U.N. analysis of Syria samples could take up to two weeks: envoy 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 02:54 PM PDT
Sellstrom, head of U.N. chemical weapons investigation team, stands outside Yousef al-Azma military hospital in DamascusUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the five permanent Security Council members that it may be two weeks before for final results are ready of an analysis of samples experts collected at the site of a chemical weapons attack last week in Syria are ready, diplomats said on Friday. Ban said this to delegates from Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States during a meeting in New York, the diplomats told Reuters on condition of anonymity. (Reporting by Louis Charbonneau; editing by Christopher Wilson)
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Credit union regulator sues Morgan Stanley over mortgage losses 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 02:48 PM PDT
The headquarters of Morgan Stanley is pictured in New YorkBy Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley is being sued by a U.S. credit union regulator to recover losses on more than $566 million of residential mortgage-backed securities sold to two corporate credit unions that later failed. The National Credit Union Administration said on Friday that Morgan Stanley made misrepresentations in offering documents for securities sold between 2004 and 2007 to the U.S. Central Federal Credit Union, once the largest federally chartered corporate credit union, and the Western Corporate Federal Credit Union. ...
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Mexico leftist vows to block reforms, warns oil firms 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 02:44 PM PDT
File photo of Lopez Obrador showing his registration form in Mexico CityBy Simon Gardner CATEMACO, Mexico (Reuters) - Fiery Mexican leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has vowed to stop the government's energy and tax reforms and hopes to lead even bigger protests than when he brought central Mexico City to a standstill after narrowly losing the 2006 presidential election. A colorful renegade and a former Mexico City mayor, Lopez Obrador accuses President Enrique Pena Nieto of trying to sell off Mexico's assets by seeking to lure foreign capital into the state-controlled energy sector. ...
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Venezuela sentences man who shot U.S. attaches at strip club 
Friday, Aug 30, 2013 02:26 PM PDT
By Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison for shooting and wounding two U.S. military attaches at a strip club in the capital, the attorney general's office said on Friday. Carlos Mejias, 32, admitted he shot the U.S. Embassy employees in the early hours of May 28, the office said. It said Mejias got into an argument with them at the Antonella 2012 club, better known as "Angelus," in the city's upscale Chacao district. ...
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