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Spain moves to get first bank bailout
08-17 19:35 (Business)
Spain's government said it will shortly request a first payment for its deeply troubled banks from a euro zone rescue line. ``The request will be sent shortl...

Russian punk band convicted
08-17 19:33 (World)
A Russian judge found three women from the punk band Pussy Riot guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for staging an anti-Kremlin protest on the ...

Bodies in Thai disco fire burnt beyond recognition
08-17 18:57 (World)
Thai authorities are yet to identify the four people who died in a disco fire on the island of Phuket. Foreigners were among the injured in the blaze at the ...

Lending to trusts may be banned
08-17 18:46 (China)
China is readying twin initiatives to curb opaque financing practices that threaten the stability of the country's US$864 billion investment trust industry and b...

Bangladesh saves 60 fishermen from pirates
08-17 18:44 (World)
Bangladesh authorities said today they had rescued at least 60 fishermen abducted last week by pirates in the Bay of Bengal, as naval and air forces crack down o...

Xiamen Airlines in talks to buy 30 Boeing 737 MAXs
08-17 18:29 (Business)
Xiamen Airlines is in talks with US planemaker Boeing to purchase 30 737 MAXs, a company official said on Friday -- an order worth up to $3.2 billion at l...

Sri Lanka securities regulator quits
08-17 18:15 (Business)
The head of Sri Lanka's Securities and Exchange Commission said he tendered his resignation under pressure today after investors under investigation for mark...

Merkel hosts Hollande next week
08-17 18:00 (Business)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks on the euro zone crisis and Syria with French President Francois Hollande in Berlin next week, her spoke...

India growth set to slow further
08-17 17:55 (World)
India's economy will grow 6.7 percent in the current fiscal year, an advisory panel to the prime minister forecast, saying that an ongoing slowdown was of “great...

(Diaoyu update) Japanese nationalists ready for island trip
08-17 17:48 (World)
Japanese nationalists said today they are preparign to sail to the disputed Diaoyu Islands immediately after activists from Hong Kong headed for home from Nah...

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