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Facebook stock limps into Monday

m_user — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:25:11 +0000

Facebook resumes trading on Wall Street on Monday with shares being closely watched to see how well they stand on their own after stumbling out of the gate in a historic but lackluster debut.

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Apple, Samsung CEOs head to court-ordered play date

xb_user — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:00:07 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The chiefs of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience when they arrive at a San Francisco federal courthouse on Monday. Apple’s Tim Cook and Samsung’s Choi Gee-sung, whose companies are embroiled in bitter patent litigation, have been instructed by a federal judge to appear for court-supervised mediation. A joint court filing in April said that “as directed by the Court, Apple and Samsung are both willing to participate” in the discussions. …

Tropical storm Alberto forms off Carolinas’ coast

m_user — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:54:10 +0000

Tropical Storm Alberto emerged off South Carolina’s coastline Sunday, the first storm of its kind to form in a hurricane season that doesn’t officially begin until June 1.

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Tropical storm Alberto forms off Carolinas’ coast

UAE ruler cancels debts of defaulting borrowers

xb_user — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:36:40 +0000

Citizens of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates who defaulted on hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans could soon see their debts wiped away.

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Son: Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing is dead

xb_user — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:14:39 +0000

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack’s 270 victims. He was 60.

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Son says Libyan who was convicted in 1988 Lockerbie bombing but later released has died

xb_user — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:58:04 +0000

BENGHAZI, Libya – A son says the former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has died in Tripoli.

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Lawyers for fugitive Iraqi VP quit case in protest

ama_user — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:56:05 +0000

Lawyers for Iraq’s fugitive Sunni vice president charged with running death squads that targeted Shiite officials and pilgrims quit the case on Sunday in protest after judges would not let them present evidence at the trial.

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Sri Lanka orders ex-army chief freed

m_user — Sun, 20 May 2012 11:39:29 +0000

Sri Lanka’s president has ordered the release of his jailed electoral foe, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, bowing to US-led pressure three years after the end of the island’s long ethnic war.

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Nurses’ pre-NATO rally expected to draw thousands

ama_user — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:26:02 +0000

Thousands of anti-NATO demonstrators are expected to converge at a downtown plaza Friday for a rally that promises to be a prelude to a much larger march Sunday, when world leaders begin two days of talks. Meanwhile, many office buildings will be shuttered after workers were told to stay home amid warnings about heightened security, snarled transportation and the possibility of unruly protests.

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Mental health an issue near end of stabbings trial

ama_user — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:09:51 +0000

Experts are clashing over the mental health of a man blamed in a series of deadly stabbings in Michigan in 2010.

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