Tunisia reacts with anger that Libya border conflict spills - RTT News

(RTTNews) - the Tunisia Government reacted with anger Thursday after the current conflict in Libya between Government forces and rebels in the fight against the regime of colonel Qadhafi spilled across the border in its territory.

Tunisian reaction came after the pro-Qadhafi forces fight against rebels to regain control of a border post between Dahiba and Wazzan came on Tunisian territory briefly while chasing the rebels. Some Libyan troops also fired rockets next to the Tunisia of the border while attempting to return to the border post which was seized by the rebels last week.

Although the Libyan Government reportedly has apologized for the brief incursion by its soldiers so that cross-border rocket fire, the Tunisian Government said the Libyan actions had violated its border and warned against a "dangerous military escalation" in the region.

"Shots fired in an area populated the Tunisian territory (are) a violation of the territorial integrity of the Tunisia and a violation of the security of the inhabitants of this region", the Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

"Considering the gravity of what is arrived... the Tunisian authorities have informed the Libyans in their outrage and demand for extreme measures to put an end immediately to these violations.", added the statement.

Fighting near the border of the Libya-Tunisia between pro-Qadhafi forces and the rebels has been intense since the rebels captured the border last week. Thousands of Libyan civilians have fled the border in Tunisia since the conflict began in February.

There is that Libyan Government troops are recaptured the town of Kufra unconfirmed South. Although the rebels have not confirmed these reports, they said the pro-Qadhafi forces continue to bombard the Western City of Misrata. The city was besieged by forces loyal to Qadhafi for several weeks.

Separately, it was reported that a coalition led by NATO airstrike killed at least 11 rebels in Misrata on Wednesday. The Western alliance later confirmed that its aircraft had attacked "a number of combat vehicles 10 miles" South-East of port Misrata, but added that he could not "to verify the reports that these vehicles have been exploited by the opposition forces".

The latest developments come amid a NATO international military operations referred to enforce a no-fly zone mandated on the Libya and to protect civilians from attacks by forces loyal to Qadhafi.

The operation was initially led by the United States. But given that his command was handed over to NATO, countries such as Britain, France, Canada, Denmark and the Qatar have been launching air strikes against the military infrastructure of the Gaddafi regime.

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Bahrain sentences 4 protesters to death - New York Times

Three other activists who were also the trial in the same case received sentences of life in prison.

The of Bahrain human rights activists expressed fears that the verdicts could generate a new wave of protests in the small Kingdom of the Persian Gulf. They also argued that the trial was rendered unfair by a series of legal abuse, including the arrest of one of the lawyers, defendants, Mohammed al-Tajer, one of the most prominent lawyers of the Bahrain. The suspects were also prohibited from meeting with their families, and the media were not allowed to cover the trial.

"These verdicts will have a considerable negative impact on the Bahraini society," said Mohamed Maskati, who leads a group of human rights in the Kingdom. "We fear brutal violence in the coming days." I am not optimistic at all - especially that might be more similar verdicts in the near future. ?

Other activists refused to talk, citing the wave of arrests that swept the country over the past two months.

Amnesty International urged the Bahrain to not make the verdict.

"They must respect the right to a fair trial and that they must step use the death penalty in all circumstances," he said in a statement published Thursday.

The defendants said Bahraini authorities had the right of appeal, although Amnesty International and local human rights groups said that the appeal would be negligible at this stage.

"The defendants received all legal rights under the international laws of human rights", the Bahraini Government said in a statement released Thursday. "The verdict is a clear indication of the absolute condemnation of the barbaric crimes and a deep commitment to the protection of life valuable community."

The Shiite majority of the Bahrain, which has long complained of marginalization by the ruling Sunni elite, the streets the month last in mass demonstrations and sit-ins demanding of reform, equal rights and freedoms. The King declares martial law and requested the assistance of the Saudi troops crackdown on protests and to crush the dissent.

At least 30 people were reported killed since the demonstrations began in March, among them four in custody. Activists of the human rights said that they are dead after that they were brutally tortured. The Bahraini authorities have recognized the death but no have not explained them.

Bahrain events have been inspired by the Tunisian and Egyptian, uprisings in which the Presidents of both countries intervened under popular pressure after only a few weeks.

Seven leaders of the opposition in the Bahrain were accused of the premeditated murder of the employees of the Government. Military prosecutors introduced a video that has been suggested that the demonstrators had crushed the police with a car. Counsel for the accused denied the charges.

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Layton draws heat from the last days of the campaign

West new leaders Jack Layton, leader of the Democrat party drum up support in British Columbia Colombia Friday, while Conservative leader Stephen Harper and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff move to ensure support in Ontario and Quebec.

Layton attend a campaign in Kamloops, followed by a rally event in Courtenay, on Vancouver Island, in the evening.

Harper will attend a campaign event in Montreal, followed by the judgments of the Ontario in Kingston and Ajax and a rally in Brampton.

Ignatieff issue: a hotel in city of Val-d'or, Que., Friday morning, followed by an announcement and visit with local businesses in London, Ontario and a rally in Kitchener.

Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, will deliver a speech in Gatineau, Quebec, followed by a meeting with supporters of Shefford and a visit to local companies in Magog. It encapsulates the day by meeting with supporters of Brome-Missisquoi.

Green party leader Elizabeth may attends to the candidates met in Victoria, followed by for a lunch of royal wedding and the press conference in Sidney, British Columbia Colombia.

Faced with polls suggesting Democrats have emerged in second place and are closing on the Conservatives, the Liberals have continued their attack on the NDP Thursday.

Ignatieff told an election rally in Quebec, where the NDP has gained ground - that the policies of Layton pass muster, saying that the Chief has a beautiful smile, but has not been placed "under a microscope" insofar as that other federal party leaders have.

Harper, promised during this time, conservative vigilance to ensure the Loon mounted the Canada translates into more competitive consumer prices soaring.

The talking about conservative leader of the trade and security on the border issues as he made a final assault through the Golden Horseshoe of Ontario in the empty goal until enough swing of seats to give him a majority government Monday.

Layton is faced with more difficult questions on the holiday of candidates and the potential impact of the policies of his party on jobs and the economy.

He dismissed the report of the critic, which proposed a CAP and the NDP for carbon trade system would add 10 cents per litre for the price of gasoline, as collusion between the large polluters.

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China Stocks rise on growth, reduce the loss of manufacturing weekly

April 29, 2011, 3: 43 pm EDT by Bloomberg News

April 29 (Bloomberg) - increased China, largest shrinkage stocks weekly loss of benchmark since November, as a manufacture of showing simplified extended report concerns measures tightening of policy of the nation have slowed the economy.

Anhui conch Cement Co., China cement producer, rose to 2.1% as the gauge factory suspended above the threshold of the expansion. China Southern Airlines Co. has won more than two weeks as a yuan establish can reduce its debt the dollar-based. Datang International Power Generation Co. has led to a rally for producers of electricity on speculation, the Government may allow them to raise prices. Industrial Bank Co. dragged 3.3% after East Securities Co., said the banks of the net interest margin growth will slow. "" The economy is still strong and I do not see a slowdown in the growth big after all these measures, tightening "said Wang Weijun, a strategist at Zheshang Securities Co. in Shanghai. Shanghai. "The broader market is now very close to his background of assessment so a larger decline is not likely."Of Shanghai Composite index, which follows the largest stock market in China, rose 24.47 or 0.9%, to 2,911.51 at the 3 p.m. to close. He fell to 3.3% this week, the most since five days ended November 12 and lost 0.6% this month. CSI 300 index won 1% 3,192.72. China's markets will be closed on May 2 for a holiday.Shanghai's Composite Index fell 4.8% to a maximum of five months on 18 April in concern that the Government will add to 10 lenders reserve requirements increase and four higher rates of interest to cool inflation. A pared down advance gauge stocks this year at 3.7%.Manufacturing GrowthChina manufacturing suffered its expansion this month even though the Government has raised interest rates and allow that the yuan strengthen at a pace more fast, index of managers purchase showed.The index was 51.8 in April, unchanged since March, said today HSBC Holdings Plc. and Markit Economics. A reading above 50 indicates expansion. The Federation of China logistics and purchase should report, on 1 may, PMI index increased to a maximum of one year of 53.9 in April, according to the median of forecasts in a survey of 20 economists Bloomberg. The measure is an indicator for the economy.Anhui conch, large manufacturer of cement in China, gained 2.1% to 37.78 yuan, stimulation of an advance for industrial enterprises. SAIC Motor Corp., the world's largest automaker, has added 2.7 per cent to 18.22 yuan. Wuhan Iron & Steel Co. rose by 2.7 per cent to 4.62 yuan.A gauge of public service in the CSI 300 companies soared 4.1%, the most among the 10 industry groups. Datang Power, a unit of the largest second electricity producer of China, reached 9.5% 7.01 yuan. Huaneng Power International Inc., the listed unit of the largest group of Chinese advanced power 6.3% to 6.09 yuan.Shortages of power "If the shortage will last more than a year, China may have to approve more projects of coal-fired power plants, but before it, they need to increase the rates more so that independent power producers are willing to spend for additional capital investments" Dave Daisecurities capital markets analyst, said in e-response to questions by mail. "It will still depend on where inflation is going in the coming months."China Southern, the largest carrier by fleet size, reached 4.2% 8.69 yuan. China Eastern Airlines Corp., the second most high, added 2.4% to 6.32 yuan. Air China Ltd., the largest international carrier, gained 1.4 per cent at 11,10 yuan.The yuan appreciated as much as 0.2% to 6.4898 per dollar in Shanghai today, the strongest level since the unified country of the official exchange rate and the market in late 1993, according to the system of exchange of China changes. The Chinese currency has strengthened on speculation that the Central Bank will allow recognition awards to slow consumption, which rose at the fastest pace since 2008 last month.An appreciation of the yuan Yuan GainsEvery 1% will be added 600 million Yuan ($92 million) to pay China Air, according to Rao Xinyu, head of investor relations, while southern China, said March 29 each 1 percent gain in the yuan will boost profit by 400 million yuan.Financial corporations in the CSI 300 gauge slipped 0.5%, the sole decliner among the 10 industry groups. Industrial Bank, owned in part by a unit of HSBC Holdings Plc, have slipped 3.3% to 29,20 yuan, the most since February 22 and trim its gain of 21 percent this year. Bank Huaxia, owned in part by Deutsche Bank AG, collapsed 5.3% to yuan 12.52.Marge of net interest for Industrial Bank past 23 basis points to 2.11% in the first quarter of the previous three months while that for the Huaxia Bank fell to 3 points based 2.47%Mao Junhua and Luo Jing, analysts at China International Capital Corp., wrote in a report today. A basis point is the point of percentage 0. 01. interest margins "net interest margin growth may slow in the second quarter increased by the cost of deposits would undermine returns on loans to the", Jin Lin, a banking analyst at securities from the East to Shanghaisaid by telephone. "Banks are under pressure to attract deposits to meet daily loan-to-deposit ratios."Chinese banks require Records interest rates to lend to one another for six months or more, anticipating the decision makers will raise borrowing costs, and order of the additional funds set aside as reserves to curb inflation.The interbank rate offered to Shanghai or Shibor, yuan loans six months passed 111 basis points this year to 4.67% yesterday, the level the highest since the daily fixing was presented in October 2006.

-Zhang Shidong. With the help of Jiang Jianguo and Winnie Zhu in Shanghai. Publisher: Allen Wan

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Opposition to the Yemen: violence can derail deal - Aljazeera.net

The opposition has planned a rally Friday to honour Martyrs", then a pro-Government rally is also expected (AFP)

Yemeni opposition warned the Government that could derail the violence against pro-democracy demonstrators an agreement to end the political crisis.

A block of opposition Thursday accused embattled regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh of the "massacre" of peaceful demonstrators in a bid to derail a transition plan led by the Gulf.

Armed plainclothes men killed 12 people and injured dozens of others in the capital of the Yemen on Wednesday, when they opened fire on a few days the Spacewalkers anti-Government before a deal mediated by Gulf put end to the crisis was due to be sealed.

"In the event of your failure to protect demonstrators, we find unable to find an agreement that the scheme aims to use to shed more blood,"a coalition of opposition."said in a statement"

Tens of thousands of people rallied in Yemen Thursday, denouncing the death.

Friday protests

During this time, rival rallies have been planned for Friday in Sana'a, the capital. The Government is considering a "constitutional legitimacy Friday", while the opposition planned a "Martyrs honoring Friday."

An agreement to end the crisis by easing Saleh within a month was to be signed in Riyadh Sunday, three months after that Yemenis took to the streets, inspired by the revolts that toppled the autocratic leaders in Egypt and Tunisia.

But on Thursday, Saleh appeared to raise a potential issue when he said the Russia Arabic TV that it objected to the presence of representatives Qatari.

"We have reservations about signing if representatives of the Qatar are present among the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Gulf," said Saleh Russia Today. "(Qatar) is involved in a conspiracy against the Yemen not only, but against all the Arab countries".

He pointed the finger on the Qatar Al Jazeera channel, which Saleh has accused in the past of provoking demonstrations.

The balance of power has tipped against Saleh, long a key Western ally against al-Qaeda, after weeks of violence, military defections and political reversals.

In an incident related Friday, the Yemeni President made Attorney of the country.

Saleh to sign the agreement

Washington and neighbours producer of oil in Saudi Arabia want the impasse resolved to prevent a descent more bloodshed in the State of the Arabian Peninsula to provide more room for a wing of al-Qaeda in Yemen-based to operate.

The agreement, negotiated by the six-Member Gulf Cooperation Council, would give Saleh and his family and his aides immunity from prosecution.

It provides for Saleh to appoint a Prime Minister of the opposition, which would then form a Government of transition before the presidential election two months after his resignation.

A significant section of demonstrators are against giving Saleh a month time to quit fearing may offer potential sabotage times.

One who leads the Yemen transitional Government will not only struggle to set aside a branch aggressive al-Qaeda, who tried to hit us and Saudi target, but also inherit from the rebellions which convent since in the North and the South of the country.

"Disturbing violence."

The Embassy of the United States in Sanaa said the upsurge in violence on the eve of a transfer of power agreement was "particularly disturbing" and invites urges all parties to show restraint.

At the same time, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, said he was concerned by deadly violence, reiterating an appeal to the authorities to protect civilians and welcoming efforts for a peaceful transition, its spokesman.

Ban appealed "to all concerned to the Yemen to exercise the utmost restraint and to refrain from provocative acts."

Amnesty International has called an urgent and independent investigation into the killings on Wednesday demonstrators marched past a stage of the human rights group.

"Men who are supposed to have been members of the security forces or of the militant Government supporters reportedly fired from rooftops and inside the stadium,"he said."".

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Journalist CBS Logan speaks of brutal assault

Correspondent of CBS that Lara Logan, said she believed that she was going to die while she was being Tahrir Square, sexually assaulted and beaten in Egypt.

Logan spoke out Sunday on 60 Minutes CBS of the assault, which happened while it was reported the political upheaval in that country. It developed on a crowd of several hundred men.

She stated in an interview with Scott Pelley that "there was no doubt in my mind that I was dying." I think not only I will die, but it will be just a torture death that will last forever. ?

After being rescued, she returned to the United States and was treated in a hospital for four days.

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Syria tells public to stay home as the Opposition called for rallies

April 29, 2011, 3: 34 pm EDT by Massoud a. Derhally

April 29 (Bloomberg)--the Ministry of the Interior the Syria warned its citizens not step to organize demonstrations and "contribute to the stability and security" of the country as pledged to defy a deadly repression and continue protests by activists.

The Syrians said Ministry should "refrain from exercising rallies or demonstrations and sit-ins, under a title pending approval of" of the authorities, according to a statement carried by managed by the Government of Syria Arab News Agency. "The laws will be applied to serve the security of citizens and the stability of the homeland", the Ministry said.Demonstrators will likely challenge the ban because "nothing important was held to appease the anger of the people", Abdul - Karim Rihawi, head of the Syrian human rights League, said in a telephone interview from Damascus late yesterday. The opposition that Muslim Brotherhood called on people to demonstrate today, Al-Arabiya television reported. Anti-Government protests have intensified after the Friday prayer since the beginning of the agitation in the workplace March.The last exercised repression since last Friday prayers, especially in the southern region of Dara, pushed the number of deaths throughout the country since the middle of March to more than 450, says organization the national Syria for human rights. The demonstrations are part of a wave of popular movements who unseated leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, violent reactions pricked in Libya and Bahrain and oil prices have helped grow more than 20 per cent this year.More than 1,000 people were arrested across the country since the latest demonstrations began on April 22, with the total number of detentions since unrest began at least 2,000 according to Mahmoud Merhiwho heads the Arab Organization for Human Rights.European PressureEuropean nations have intensified pressure on the Syria, summoning the ambassadors and pushing for an organization of the United Nations vote to protest against violence. In New York, China and the directed Russia opposition blocked an initiative on 27 April by the United States and its European allies to the Security Council of the United Nations to condemn the attacks of the Syrian Government on peaceful demonstrators.United Kingdom Foreign Secretary William Hague also removed invitation of Syrian Ambassador to marriage of today of Prince William and Kate Middleton of the London.European Union officials will meet in Brussels today to discuss the Syria. Germany supports sanctions on the direction of the Syria, including restrictions on travel and financial freezes, German Government spokesman Steffen Seibert told journalists in Berlin yesterday.

-Editors: Ben Holland, Karl Maier.

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Syrian activists vow more protests against the regime - Associated Press

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Syrian activists vow more protests against regimen (PA) – 23 minutes ago

BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian activists have vowed more demonstrations against President Bashar Assad's regime as the government crackdown on opponents intensifies.

Activists have called for a "Friday of rage" following Muslim prayers, to commemorate the slayings exactly a week ago that saw 112 killed in just one day.

Syria's uprising, inspired by revolts in the Arab world, has claimed more than 450 lives since its outbreak in mid March.

Friday's demonstrations have the backing of the outlawed Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, which was crushed by the regime in 1982.

Assad has tried to quell the protests, which are the gravest challenge to his family's 40-year ruling dynasty.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian army units have clashed with each other over following President Bashar Assad's orders to crack down on protesters in Daraa, a besieged city at the heart of the uprising, witnesses and human rights groups said Thursday.

More than 450 people have been killed across Syria - about 100 in Daraa alone - and hundreds detained since the popular revolt against Assad began in mid-March, according to human rights groups.

While the troops' infighting in Daraa does not indicate any decisive splits in the military, it is significant because Assad's army has always been the regime's fiercest defender.

It is the latest sign that cracks - however small - are developing in Assad's base of support that would have been unimaginable just weeks ago. About 200 mostly low-level members of Syria's ruling Baath Party have resigned over Assad's brutal crackdown.

Ausama Monajed, a spokesman for a group of opposition figures in Syria and abroad, said the clashes among the soldiers have been happening since Monday.

"There are some battalions that refused to open fire on the people," Monajed told The Associated Press, citing witnesses on the ground in Daraa, a city of 75,000 near the Jordanian border. "battalions of the 5th Division were protecting people, and returned fire when they were subjected to attacks by the 4th Division."

The 4th Division is run by the president's brother, Maher.

The reports were corroborated by three witnesses in Daraa and an activist contacted by the AP. All four asked that their names not be used for fear of reprisals.

One of the witnesses said soldiers fired at each other Thursday around the Omari mosque in central Daraa. He said the soldiers from the 5th division, composed mostly of conscripts known to be sympathetic to residents, were battling soldiers of the 4th Division.

"they are defending the people against the forces of Maher Assad," said the resident, who said he lived next to the mosque and witnessed the battles.

"Assad's forces have it in their heads that we are terrorists and extremist Muslims and they are out to get us," he said. "But the 5th Division are made up of people like us. we are speaking to them."

Another witness in Daraa told the AP that he saw soldiers from different army units clashing Monday in front of the Bilal mosque, when Syrian forces rolled into town. He said the battle between the forces lasted for several hours.

"we saw ordinary soldiers fall," the resident said. "And then I heard people shout ' God is great!" "They are martyrs of freedom!'"

The military released a statement Wednesday denying there were any splits.

The government has blamed armed thugs and a foreign conspiracy for the unrest, rather than true reform seekers. State-run Syrian TV has been running lingering, gruesome close-ups of dead soldiers to back up their claims that they were under attack.

On the diplomatic front, Turkey held out the prospect of closer economic ties if Assad meets demands for reform, even as Western powers warned of sanctions if the crackdown doesn't end. Assad met a delegation led by the chief of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency and the head of the agency that oversees infrastructure projects, Turkey's Anatolia news agency reported.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has talked to Assad at least three times since protests began in Syria, said Turkey does not want to see an "an authoritarian, totalitarian, imposing structure" there. But he has not called for Assad's ouster.

Syria is a highly unpredictable country, in part because of its make minority population and the regime's web of allegiances to powerful forces including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Shiite powerhouse Iran. Serious and prolonged unrest are likely to hurt the regime's proxy in Lebanon, the militant group Hezbollah, and weaken Iran's influence in the Arab world.

Goal within Syria, there are very real fears of sectarian bloodshed should a power vacuum emerge. Syria has multiple sectarian divisions, largely kept in check under Assad's heavy hand and his regime's secular ideology. The majority of the population is Sunni Muslim, but Assad and the ruling elite belong to the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

There are fears that if the regime falls, there could be revenge attacks and persecution as rival groups jockey for power.

For now, Assad is facing the gravest challenge to his family's four decades of rule. He unleashed the military, backed by snipers and tanks, in Daraa and several other areas Monday.

Daraa was the hardest-hit: On Thursday, more soldiers in armored personnel carriers rolled into Daraa, where residents huddled inside homes to avoid blasts of mortars and heavy gunfire. Hiding from snipers perched on rooftops, desperate Syrians pleaded for international help Thursday as a military siege paralyzed the city.

The protest movement insisted it will not be intimidated and used the crackdown in Daraa as a rallying cry to encourage fresh demonstrations across the country Friday.

Syria has banned nearly all foreign media and restricted access to trouble spots since the uprising began, making it almost impossible to verify the dramatic events shaking one of the most authoritarian, anti-Western regimes in the Arab world.

Daraa resident Abdullah Abazeid said the death toll in Daraa includes a 6-year-old girl, hit by a sniper Wednesday on the roof of her parents' apartment. He added that pro-government gunmen known as "shabiha" damaged a large numbers of shops in the city.

Abazeid said they were still hiding the bodies of the dead because the cemetery was occupied by Syrian forces.

The city was still without telephones, electricity and water and lacked food and infant formula, he said, adding that some parents were giving their children and sugar water for lack of powder milk.

Later in the evening, there were reports that power had been restored.

Perú, Syrians were pouring into the neighboring countries of Lebanon and Jordan seeking refuge from the violence. A woman in Jordan whose family lives in Daraa said she heard her two brothers had been killed.

She said she came to the border to tell her story to the media, but her husband and female members of his family dragged her away, screaming.

Elsewhere in Syria, security was tightened in the Damascus suburb of State Duma and the coastal city of Latakia, the heartland of Syria's ruling elite.

"Security is so tight around Duma that even birds can't go in," he said, adding that security forces with lists of wanted people continued to detain residents in the area.

Hadid reported from Cairo. Associated Press writers Jamal Halaby at the Jordanian-Syrian border, and Christopher Torchia in Istanbul contributed to this story.

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WikiLeaks cable notes Senate "Harper flip-flops."

WikiLeaks has published hundreds of documents U.S. Thursday, including those with comments about the "reversal" of the Harper Government on appointments to the Senate, remarks on Liberals "developed muted" response to the crisis of the extension and the criticism of the failure of the Canada to adopt the reform of copyright law.

A flight of December 2008 cable suggests that officials of the Embassy of the United States in Ottawa saw appointment of Stephen Harper of senators as "a volte-face for a PM and a party that has long campaigned for a Chamber high elected." The cost of the new eighteen Senators also conflict with political messaging on the need for a belt tightening official. ?

The cable goes on to say, however, that "Harper will not pay a political price." "The most ardent advocates of the reform of the Senate are conservative in Western Canada."

Another cable from January 2009 suggested that representatives of the Embassy of the United States in Ottawa had been keeping a close eye on the events of December 2008 in the House of Commons and the request of the Prime Minister to have Governor General Mich?elle Jean prorogue Parliament.

"Ms. Jean and Prime Minister Harper to have a cordial but cool, relationship" said the cable leak.

He goes on to say that "some conservatives have been suspect his sympathies private lean to the centre-left of the spectrum policy and suggested her husband alleged separatist sentiments can influence his own political views" in dealing with the political stalemate.

Another flight of January 2010 document refers to the question of the extension, this time with the criticism of the handling of the Federal Liberal Party of the crisis, suggesting the party at the time was experiencing "a lack of energy and leadership practice".

"The Liberals face a difficult route to come if they hope to beat the Conservatives at the next federal election - that either in 2010 or 2011.".

Output cables also contains one of January, 2010, in which the Ambassador of the United States to the Canada has been cited as being critical of the "tough on crime" position of the Harper Government.

"The Conservatives have used the order of the day of the crime to great effect, making it an essential element of their"mark,"despite the fact that they were not successful in reality most of their proposed crime and safety legislation""," said the cable.

In 2009, a leakage cable discusses how "the Canada traditionally liberal universities have often displayed some anti-American prejudice" and goes on to say that "perennial to differentiate his desire neighbour great some anti-Americanism will inevitably creep back in public and academic discourse for the Canada".

Another cable also makes reference to Canadian support for United States, this time in a document leak of 26 March 2003, relating to a meeting where the war in Iraq has been discussed.

The meeting - between the coast guard of Halifax and Rear Admiral Glenn Davidson - included commentary from Davidson that "he is strong enough for the war in the military services." Many of its Navy officers and staff registered feel that they should be part of the war effort. ?

The cable leak says Davidson raised concerns that the decision of Ottawa do not go to the Iraq can damage the close relationship with the US Army.

A cable of February 29, 2008, suggests that the Embassy of the United States in Ottawa was unhappy with the progress made by the Federal Government on the law of copyright.

"Embassy Ottawa remains frustrated by default continuous of the Government of the Canada introduce - let alone pass - great laws of reform of copyright law that would, among other things, to implement and ratify the world Organization intellectual property treated Internet (WIPO)""," explains the cable.

A document from November 2008 deals with the appointment of Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

An official of the Embassy of the United States in Ottawa described Cannon as "an experienced and competent administrator who is likely to provide stability to a Department which has had four Ministers since the Conservatives took office in 2006".

Cable calls the new Minister "one of the few in the conservative national caucus with experience in Government" and said "he won high marks as a competent administrator and an advisor to confidence to PM Harper.".

A spokesman for the Embassy of the United States in Ottawa was not immediately available for comment, reports the Canadian Press.

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Shutte Endeavour Prepares for the last flight

Space shuttle Endeavour is prepared for launch, as the rotating service Structure is restored to the launch pad, at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday. Molly Riley/Reuters.

Six astronauts have said farewell to their families and are ready to take the space shuttle Endeavour on its last flight Friday as hundreds of thousands gather along the Space Coast in applauding the show.

Take-off has been set for almost 10 hours after a another show began in Great Britain - the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Huge shuttle fuel tank was scheduled for a fill at about the same time that they were exchanging de jure.

Endeavour resisted a storm strong Thursday night that dropped hail on a nearby town, and delayed the end launch preparations. But that should not interfere with the entire launch of Friday for 15: 47 p.m. et. Meteorologists predicted a chance of 70 per cent of relatively good weather conditions at take-off.

VIPs watching Endeavour include President Barack Obama and his family - only the third time, attended a President, a space launch and the first time a first family attended one - and as many members of Congress that it is virtually a quorum.

But the invisible star is a member of the Congress: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the wife of the Commander of the space shuttle Endeavour, Mark Kelly. Giffords was shot in the head of three months ago in an assassination attempt in his hometown of Tucson. A 22 year old suspect is in custody.

State of the Giffords has improved enough that she was able to leave his rehabilitation centre of Houston to attend the launch of her husband - the fourth time it is traveled to the Kennedy Space Center to watch a Shuttle flight.

The crowds should start to hit roads shortly after the fuel meets in the tank of the space shuttle Endeavour. Officials expect between 500,000 and 750,000 people crowd around the coastal communities. Delays of several hours are expected on the roads.

It is the last flight of Endeavour and next to the last flight for the fleet of the space shuttle for 30 years, after more than 852 million kilometres from Earth of the circles. NASA has begun the long retirement for the fleet of shuttle in 2004 spending reduction to spend money on vessels and new space missions.

Launch of the shuttle Endeavour has a thing with no William and Kate: an international scientific project of $ 2 billion. Somewhat overlooked in the attention the Giffords and Kelly and the visit of the President is the main mission of the space shuttle Endeavour: it will place a detector of particle physics of 6 800 kilos on the International Space Station. Experience, who will seek elusive antimatter and the origins of the mysterious dark matter, could change the understanding of man in the cosmos.

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Buffett questions from face to Sokol

April 29, 2011, 12: 09 pm EDT by Andrew Frye

April 29 (Bloomberg)--Warren Buffett asked difficult questions at the annual meetings of its Inc. Berkshire Hathaway he can get his wish after the Executive praised outgoing which was then charged by a Committee of the Council to induce the company trade shares.

Buffett uses his meeting and annual Omaha, Nebraska, press conference to promote the growth of Berkshire, planting the society as a purchaser of potential targets for recovery and his emphasis on ethics. Chief executive officer of 80 years has started to have investigations of journalists screen shareholder in 2009 and encouraged to choose the most difficult to replace requests for years about baseball and religion.The departure of David Sokol, 54, in March, after he has invested in a company that he launched as a candidate of redemption, raised questions about the monitoring of the Buffett and succession planning. Sokol, once considered a possible replacement for Buffett as CEO, ethics of violated Berkshire Audit Committee said on 26 April, weeks after Buffett has praised its "extraordinary" contributions when he announced his resignation.Buffett is going to get questions about his own behaviour "meeting tomorrow said Lyman Johnson, Professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law." "I do not think that Buffett has erred in its initial announcement."Buffett oversees Berkshire heads more than 70 subsidiaries with the help of Vice President Charles Munger, 87 and a staff of about 20 at the headquarters of the company. Berkshire employs more than 250 000 people across industries spanning insurance, energy and consumer goods, and Buffett says the operational authority for the President and CEO of the individual units.Governance, CreditBerkshire a challenges "governance", which can hurt credit quality of the company, Investors Service Moody said on 1 April, citing trade actions and the resignation of the Sokol. The Securities and Exchange Commission is pushed if Sokol bought shares of Lubrizol Corp. on the inside of the information, a person who refused to be identified, said on March 31.Buffett, who revealed the trades in a statement March 30, announcing the departure of the Sokol, congratulated the Manager for his work leading Weather energy Holdings of Berkshire, its roof unit Johns Manville and luxury-flight NetJets unit. "Dave or I myself that its purchases of Lubrizol were in any illegal manner," Buffett said. "The concept of Berkshire Hathaway, operating on a higher plane was based on the idea that they did not only do what was legal, they have done what was ethical,"said Cornelius Hurley, Professor at the Faculty of law at the University of Boston and General Counsel, Assistant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. "When one of your senior management is taken with his hand in the jar and you say,"Oh this is legal", you type blown this principle of higher standards."Purchase of SurgeSokol on the part of about $ 10 million in stock Lubrizol while representing Berkshire in discussions about the purchase of the lubricant manufacturer has violated the policies of the company to insiders, the Committee concluded. Prior to its agreement to buy Lubrizol, Buffett did not know the time of the Sokol trades worked with banks Citigroup Inc. to care for society based in Wickliffe, Ohio, the report. Lubrizol jumped 28 percent on 14 March, where Buffett announced the $ 9 billion deal.The Sokol "misleadingly incomplete disclosures to senior management of Berkshire Hathaway on these purchases violated the duty of candour to the company", said the .sokol Committee "would not and did not trade improperly, nor it does any reading Berkshire Hathaway policy objective""," according to a statement by William Levine, a lawyer for Sokol Dickstein Shapiro LLP in Washington. "The grand Inquisition'Buffett, who built the personal fortune of third largest in the world by boosting the price of the shares of Berkshire in four decades as CEO, said executives in a memo of the 2010 whereas society can withstand financial losses, "we cannot afford to lose reputation - even the slightest reputation."Andrew Ross Sorkin, the writer of the New York Times, which is scheduled to be on the Panel to ask questions, said in a column 5 April this year's meeting could be called "the great Inquisition" because of questions about Sokol instead of the "Woodstock" capitalismas it was called Buffett.Buffett requested at the meeting of the year last on the investment of $ 5 billion of Berkshire Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which was sued by the SEC early in 2010 over its disclosures related to back-to-back obligations. Buffett has praised, Goldman Sachs, which settled the suit in July by agreeing to pay $ 550 million and said that he has committed an error by omitting certain information to investors.PetroChina StakeShareholders the meeting of 2007 has called Buffett to yield a $ 3.3 billion interest in PetroChina Co. because its parent company oil reserves in pipelines in Sudan where the Government has accused of supporting genocide. Buffett said at the meeting that he had no disagreement with shares of PetroChina. He sold the game later this year.In 2009, when Buffett has established the new format, Berkshire is handed a year where its shares fell by 32%. The shares of class a company advanced 21% in 2010 and 3.6% this year through yesterday. Buffett's annual letter asked shareholder questions and said that he and Munger "know journalists will choose some difficult establishments, and so we wanted to."More than 30,000 people travel from around the world in Omaha, for the annual meeting in the Qwest Center, where Buffett and Munger took questions for about five hours. Buffett's annual press conference is scheduled for May 1.

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Royal wedding guests arrive

Guests began arriving at the historic Westminster Abbey for the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton.

The first friends, celebrities and dignitaries 1,900 arrived early Friday dressed in colourful hats and formal morning coats. Girlfriend break, over a period of Prince Harry, Chelsy Davy, is among the crowd, with David Beckham, the football star and his wife, pop star Victoria Beckham.

Between 600,000 and 1 million people are expected to line the streets of London to get an overview of the royal couple and a television audience in the world of up to 2 billion persons is expected for the ceremonywhich begins within two hours.

Of the thousands of people started camping there day to secure their places along the way, that the couple will visit. Adrienne Arsenault CBC said that large crowds on the street near the ceremony can hear the event but not see anything because of the "royal neck" people.

A few hours before the ceremony, Buckingham Palace revealed that the couple receives the title of Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge.

William, 28, is due to arrive at 5: 40 pm EST, wearing the Red uniform of the colonel of the Irish guards. Its characteristics include a chassis of gold and purple.

The bride, a closely guarded secret wedding dress will be revealed when she arrives at the Abbey in a Rolls-Royce Phantom VI at approximately 6 p.m. et.

Middleton, 29, will walk up the aisle to Westminster Abbey to the sounds of I was happy, which was composed by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry for the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. The anthem has also sung in the marriage of parents of William, Prince Charles and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.

Middleton will not offer promise to obey "" her new husband in his vows, but rather "love, comfort, honor and keep" William.

Once married, the couple travels to Buckingham Palace in a carriage procession.

The newlyweds are due to appear on the balcony of the Palace at 8: 25 pm EST, where many people expect to see a long-awaited public kiss.

Prince William pleased already hundreds of supporters close to Buckingham Palace Thursday when he allowed during a bath of surprise Thursday crowd. He told them everything that he had to do was "get the right lines."

Kate and William met in 2001 in a class in the history of art at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland.

Weekend freshman Kate was voted the prettiest girl at St. Salvator, the residence hall where Kate and William had rooms. They would soon be eating a breakfast of muesli and fruit at the same table to eat.

In March 2002, Kate stepped forward as a model at a charity fashion show. She wore a black dress and transparency that attracts the attention of a student sitting in the front row: Prince William. William made his move to the after.

In the second year, Kate, William and two other students shared a townhouse in Fife. Kate and William had rooms on separate landings, a pretext so that they could keep their fledgling romance quiet.

The novel hit the tabloids in 2004.

The couple broke briefly this year and again in 2007, but them two times were brought together.

"At the moment where I was not very happy about it, but it does have me a stronger person," Kate said in this first interview after the announcement of the engagement. On their time apart, she added: "I really enjoyed that time for me, although I thought it at the time.".

They announced their engagement in November 2010.

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Wife of the victim was a witness of murder of Surrey: police

Police said they plan to talk again about a woman who watched with horror that her old husband of 30 years was shot and killed Wednesday night in Surrey.

Homicide investigators say that the woman told police a white SUV that collided with the Lexus couple as she changed lanes on the 128 Street near Avenue 68.

The husband is out of the car and was shot as he approached the SUV. He was hit by at least a ball, ran on the sidewalk and collapsed, police said.

When the police arrived, they found the man in serious medical distress. Despite attempts to save him, he was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital.

Name of the victim was not released, but wife of the victim, who was on board the vehicle in the incident, was questioned by the police.

Police are now seeking to a South Asian man who was seen leaving the area in the white SUV.

"Driver of SUV, regarded as a man of South Asia, was seen leaving the South of the zone on 128 Street by 64 Avenue", corporal Dale Carr of the integrated Homicide investigation team said in a statement issued Thursday morning.

"The suspect vehicle is described as a white vehicle, SUV Ford Explorer-type with trim on the bottom of the vehicle in money" he said.

Police are still investigating if the murder was the result of the road-rage, but Carr said that it does not appear the victim and the gunman knew each other, and police have found no link with drugs or gangs so far.

"We want to establish what had happened before the collision," he said.

"Police is seeking to speak to someone who may have seen an erratic driver in a white SUV between 11 p.m. and midnight in the area of Newton from Surrey," said Carr.

Carr, said the woman remains traumatized and investigators are also sensitive to what they may be when dealing with someone who has witnessed the death of a loved one.

Manbir Kajla, right, was shot dead after a traffic accident minor while in a car with his wife, Pavan Sanghera Kajla, on the left. (Facebook) "treat us very, very carefully." We succeed in services to victims, we manage all services to the victims that they need, and we ensure that they are care, and then we're going to spend a visit later in the day or even the next day to sit down with them.

"It is important, they get the care, but it is also important that get us the information we need to go to the bottom of this."

Investigators will spend the day proceed to an examination of crime scene and carry out door-to-door investigations.

Vehicles and pedestrians will be affected by North and road closures South Avenue between 68 and 70 Avenue on 128 Street.

The shooting occurred in front of the House of Bobby Sangha, just metres away from the nursery where his 11-month-old twin children were sleeping.

"It's a bit of anger, why in this street". A little frustration too. And a little of what is happening in this country. Why are we just shooting the other in the middle of the street? It is the Canada by the love of God, "he says.

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China says Won Population war, in turn to aging

April 29, 2011, 4: 26 pm EDT by Bloomberg News

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April 29 (Bloomberg) - China declared victory on the rapid growth of the population such as the release of its decennial census reported that the focus will turn to the management of the impact of a faster than expected in the number of elderly people.China had 1.34 billion people to 1 November, Beijing - based National Bureau of Statistics, said yesterday. Although still the most populous country, the birth rate higher than the India 1.2 billion people it puts to the title when the South Asian nation holds its next census in 2021.Success by limiting the growth of the population through the policy of the child a three decades-old presents the Chinese leadership with another problem as the swelling ranks of retirees create pressure to strengthen social security and programs pose a risk to the economic growth required to finance. The over-60-s make up 13.3% of the population, 1 percentage point higher than forecast and the other half as much as in India, the United Nations data show yet. "The population of working age is scheduled to begin within the next three or four years, said Jim Walker, Director General of base of Hong Kong Asianomics Ltd. and former Chief Economist at CLSA Asia-Pacific markets. "These 9, 10 percent people are accustomed to rates of growth are not sustainable for very long."Investors should put their money in countries where the prospects for return on equity are highest, such as the India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, said.Trends ContinueEconomic growth will slow "as demographic trends continue, stressing the need to rebalance the economy over the next decade to prepare for such a transition," analysts RBC Capital, including Hong Kong Brian Jackson-based marketswrote in a report released today. Growth likely slowed to 8-10% over the next 5 to 10 years, average 11.2% over the past five years, they said, citing Government officials.India exceed China economy to the faster growth in 2013 it adds six times more workers to its pool of hand work, Morgan Stanley said in a report last year. Persons aged 14 and less make up 16.6% of the population of China, a decline of 6.3 percentage points since the 2000 census. Almost one in three Indians are in this group, Bloomberg data show.China risks with support retirees to levels of per capita wealth which are only a fraction of the ageing of developed countries and needs a better system of pension to avoid what Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said the more danger in older "before becoming rich."Tax pressure "the ageing of the population is set to add the tax pressure on the Government, in the medium and long term which makes it imperative to put in place a well-functioning pension and health care system as soon as possible""," said Chang Jian, an economist Hong Kong-base of Barclays Capital, who has previously worked at the World Bank and the Monetary Authority.With of Hong Kong, more than 3 billion in currency reserves, the Government "a deep pockets now" and should be able to manage the ageing of the country as the rate of economic growth remain élevésChang said.China slowdown in growth of the population is a product of its system of family planning and the control policy of city dwellers to one child per woman, Ma Jiantang, head of the National Bureau of statistics, told journalists in Beijing yesterday. "The annual population growth was 0.57% between 2000 and 2010, the half of a percentage point less than the annual growth of 1.07% between 1990 and 2000, according to census figures."Our national policy of family planning database has been well developed too fast population growth dynamics and implementation is indeed under control, Ma said. However, the proportion of people over 60 years was 2.9 percentage more than 2000 points, and this trend is "gradually accelerates," according to the bureau of statistics.UBS, BlackrockThe hundreds of millions of workers China trillion will need in retirement can be a boon for global lenders and asset managers.UBS AG, Blackrock Inc. and State Street Corp. help the China to invest social security National Fund assets abroad, according to the Monetary Fund International. Pension fund national 856.8 billion yuan ($131.8 billion) of China might increase its global investment and has 18 billion yuan invested private equity funds, Wang Zhongmin, vice President of the National Council of social securitysaid March slows the growth of the population of the 30. like China, it becomes also more urban. City dwellers grow 665.6 million last year, more than twice the population of China to the United States is close with the most people in the cities than in villages for the first time in its history. The urban population represents 49.7% of the total, 13.5 percentage points higher than ten years, the NBS said.Contradictions, child policy a ChallengesThe, which resulted in millions of female fetuses aborted, led the men that make up 51.3% of the population, with 34 million more men than women. Most countries have more women than men, including the United States, where 50.3% of the population was a woman in 2010, according to U.S. Census data.Census figures show that "we still face some contradictions and challenges in population, economic and social development," including an aging population and a "report of imbalance between the sexes", said Ma.Chine is possibly move to a policy of two childrenthe China Business News reported yesterday, citing a person not identified close to decision makers. Farmers and national minorities can often have a child, and rich people can pay fines for a second or third child.Investors have overlooked the implications of the changes in the profile of the Chinese population "because of the extreme emphasis on growth" said Kirby Daley, Senior Strategist with brokerage first the Newedge group company based in Hong Kong. "Population issues can avoid at this stage." They are not reversible. ?

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Silicon Valley cash by selling private actions

By Brad Stone

Vince Thompson does not appear in the Facebook accounts early. Few more 2 000 employees of the company even know his name. Brief passage of the veteran AOL (AOL) as first official ad-sales leader Facebook lasted less than six months. Despite this, when Thompson left the company in early 2006, it has exercised its options to buy shares of Facebook, as is the custom in Silicon Valley and has taken a significant share of the shares with him. About 18 months later, he moved to Los Angeles and began to consult for clients of media, such as the TVGuide.com on how to exploit new sources of income, and he began to think about how to create one for himself. He embarks on a quest, talk to friends in New York investment banking world, an unorthodox idea: sell part of its shares in Facebook, packaged with a colleague who had left Facebook, shortly after he did. (Thompson declined to comment for this story).

The idea seems very little practice because Facebook was not - and still is not - a public company. Who could buy shares? How could any outsider value a small business, with virtually no income?

A banker introduced Thompson in a New York firm called Restricted Stock partners, who, in mid-2007, had a small office park in the farm with two Windows that appeared on a brick wall. The firm specialized in facilitating trades in illiquid securities, such as the assets of bankrupt companies and preferred shares in public companies whose owners have special rights. Mobile Facebook stock would be any other type of transaction, but the tiny firm was looking for a chance to break into the market for private company stock.

Experience resulting stretching for several months, mainly because potential buyers could not deal with Thompson on a price. Finally, using Microsoft (MSFT) investment of 240 million in Facebook in October 2007 in a tag, a hedge fund purchased the shares at a price that assessed the social network accruing $ 7.5 billion. Net trade in Thompson and his partner million.

This sale - among the first of its kind - sends shock waves around the insular world of employees of Facebook and investors. Facebook shareholders could become rich regardless of the plans of the company for an initial public offering. Soon other former Facebookers were buzzing on the opportunity and investors and other companies in pre - IPO employees began to think about the receipt of their assets as well.

Partners of restricted Stock that, in the following year, executed several similar Thompson trades and a few other former employees of private, conducted business that he had found the opening that he sought. "The speed with which we have acquired private-company inventory after the initial trade was shocking," says Mr. Adam Oliveri, Director General of the Cabinet. It was"a smack in the face that there's something in this market, and we started turning our attention to it." In 2008, the company changed its name to SecondMarket.

Trade Facebook of Thompson and the other alleged secondary market operations which followed, the dynamics of creation of wealth in Silicon Valley have fundamentally changed. Transform the private company stock in cash, generating potentially massive wealth - even if you have worked briefly at a startup which is currently little money - is a click on sites like SecondMarket and its rival on the West Coast SharesPost, as well as via a network organized buyers and sellers that sprouted up to almost from one day to the next day.

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Conrad Black sells Palm Beach home: report

Former media Tycoon Conrad Black sees in this photo of January 13, 2011, arriving to the Federal Court in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arobasgt) Charles Rex Arobasgt/Associated Press

There is a report that the fallen media magnate Conrad Black has sold his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida.

The Palm Beach Daily News reported that the manor was purchased by a family of California 23.1 million US dollars, or $21.97 CDN.

The newspaper attributed information to a deed of guarantee of the Palm Beach County Clerk's Office.

Black was released last summer, while the courts deal with the appeals of his fraud and convictions for obstruction of justice that landed him a prison sentence of 6 1/2 years in the United States.

The manor house built in 1973 allegedly has five bedrooms, six bathrooms and a guest house.

Municipal archives indicate that the property is a "total" square feet of 21,672 which includes a tunnel under the street which allows the main property to be connected to the beach.

Real estate broker that Moens Lawrence told the newspaper that he has received two written offers other potential buyers interested in the House.

"I had buyers and sellers of great," Moens said Thursday, describing black and his wife, Barbara Amiel Black, "gracious people.".

Two of the three Black fraud convictions were quashed in October by a U.S. Court of appeals. He confirmed the conviction of fraud and the other for obstruction of justice.

His lawyers have formally requested at the top of the Court to consider the two convictions against him.

The black last year has tried in vain to convince a Chicago judge to enable him to return to the Canada while out on bail. He cited health problems not disclosed his wife.

Amiel would have lived in the Manor of Palm Beach couple most of imprisonment of 28 months of her husband, in a federal prison in Coleman Fla.

His lawyer told the Court last year that the home of Palm Beach was not "a suitable residence in his State" in the heat of flames of a Florida summer.

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Trump singed on birther gambit Obama

A full-throttle reaction against Donald Trump grabbed the United States on Thursday, with everyone from activists of the civil rights respected journalists and a favoured son Tea Party piles.

Even the usually unflappable Trump see accusations, that it was racist to raise questions about diplomas and Barack Obama on the heels of suggest that the President was not born in the United States.

Used to be the subject of ridicule, widespread in the 1980s, when Canadian Graydon Carter spy magazine he skewered happily as a "vulgarian rights court", Trump has since created a large fan and a grudging respect for his keen sense of business because of his TV réalitéL show ' apprentice.

But there is little love for Trump Thursday, the day after the White House pulled birth certificate for the long-form of the President after that billionaire revitalized the debate of what is called birther. The standard form of the document was released three years ago.

Trump took credit for the move of the White House, and then proceeded to his line of attack by suggesting Obama was academic fraud who did not have the qualifications to Harvard. He seemed to be a reference to the policies of affirmative action in the country, hated by many Republicans.

This new front in battle prompted a scathing rebuke of Bob Schieffer, a journalistic respected veteran of the United States which has covered national politics for decades.

"It is a code just to say: it is mounted in the school of law, because he is black," Schieffer said on the CBS Evening News. "This is a ugly racism strain that runs through this thing."

Jesse Jackson and other civil rights activists also have positions of the Trump suggested on the issue of the birther smack of academic authenticity of the Obama of racism. A white President, they point out, has never been hunted by questions about his hometown.

A day after the remarks of Schieffer, Trump appeared taken interloqué.

"This is a terrible statement to a news anchor to do", Trump said when reached by TMZ gossip Web site. "I am the last person who should say such a thing on."

But for the first time since the beginning of the Trump take ostensibly for a race for the Republican presidential nomination, it seemed that he blushes first. The man known as "the Donald" walked back his latest attack of Obama.

"Grades are the least important aspect of someone being President", he told TMZ. "It is not something big for me."

The reaction has been brewing even before a frustrated Obama, denouncing the "Carnival Barker" who wrongly insist he was not born in the United States, appeared in the briefing room of the White House to express its dismay that questions on place of birth has continued to dog.

Liberal of Celebrity Apprentice fans stopped would have been watching since Trump began flying the flag birther and therefore to obtain ratings of the show, the Atlantic reported Thursday, citing demographic research provided by the National Media Inc..

Expert curators such as Karl Rove and Charles Krauthammer were contemptuous of the potential of the Trump run for President for weeks. And in private, Republicans have been appalled by how much attention, it was diverting to other, more legitimate, potential candidates who may chance to beat Obama in 2012.

Trump has been at the top of opinion polls, leading other potential Republican candidates.

But Paul Rand, a beloved child of Tea Party movement - whose adherents believe much Obama was not born in the United States - said number of Trump will fall when Republicans learn that he has donated more money for the Democrats that the GOPincluding Harry Reid, the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate.

Paul has launched a challenge to Trump Thursday in the comments of the public who are among the first to spring to the mouth of a large Republican publicly.

Kentucky Senator opened a breakfast speech to New risk to require the Trump Republican titles.

"I want to see the original long-form certificate of Republican nomination of Donald Trump," he said to laughter from the crowd. "To seriously...". I want to see the original of the long-form certificate, with the seal in relief, of the Republican registration of Donald Trump. ?

He has even a jab to Trump on Obama attacks while ridiculing his simplistic ideas on how to deal with the soaring price of gasoline.

"He always complained on the education of the President", Paul said to journalists covering the event in Concord, N.H.

"What economic school teaches you that you may have a bully for a President who sets the price by saying simply the country what is the price that they should require." That shows me an economic simplicity that can really not be equivalent to the stature to be President. ?

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Schroeder: Fans want "Oracle" to come clean

April 28, 2011, 10: 03 pm EDT by Alice Schroeder

April 28 (Bloomberg) - last month, the news breaks that David Sokol, who was the heir suspected of Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway Inc., made $ 3 million of Lubrizol Corp. stock purchases while he was pushing Buffett to buy the company.

In the statement announcing the resignation of the Sokol, Buffett has minimized the importance of the stock of Lubrizol imposed, excuse Sokol, on the grounds that it is nothing "illegal". That, writes Buffett, was all he planned to say on the subject - until yesterday.This is that Berkshire has published a report of Audit Committee condemning Sokol for having misled Buffett and society. He also said that Berkshire could sue Sokol. The report responds to the weeks of criticism about the ethical standards indifference apparent of Berkshire and comes just before that some 40,000 people descended in Omaha, Nebraska, for the annual meeting of shareholders.Buffett, sometimes nicknamed the Oracle for her acute sense of investors, the meeting is a double-edged sword. The event in which he and his Vice President, Charles t. Munger, spend about six hours, answer the questions puts considerable pressure on him to be more to come. However, Buffett will speak with a home-field advantage to a receptive audience who wants to think well of him.EnemiesHe Buffett's will need goodwill. The report of the audit committee meets a few questions about what happened with Sokol, but not those most important: why fail Berkshire to condemn his behaviour at the outset and instead praised his "extraordinary" in Berkshire contributions? And what will make Berkshire to improve its corporate governance?The company establishes a history in which Sokol misled Buffett and the financial director Berkshire, Marc Hamburg. These revelations are overwhelming, and the audit Committee concluded in severe terms that Sokol violated the code of conduct Berkshire, its Insider-trade policy and has no duties as a Manager. But, according to the report, the essential elements were known by the Board of Berkshire before March 30. When Buffett rented Sokol in a press release and said the actions of the Sokol kosher because they were "not illegal"."According to a statement made by the Attorney of Sokol, Barry Levine, Buffett" said twice, not once, "on the property of the Sokol of Lubrizol actions before Buffett began taken talks with society."It is understandable that to justify an ongoing survey taking a harsher view of the facts, but opinions of Berkshire has not evolved just. He took a turn 180 degrees. Behaviour has been explained below just a month ago is now be sentenced. Obviously, Buffett had to change his mind and understand the reasons.Missing ExplanationThe problem is not the about-face. This is why Berkshire has so easy Sokol in the first place the missing explanation. Regardless of the detailed reasons, ultimately it summarizes Berkshire dependence Buffett's personal judgment on its managers and its ability to delegate to them at the abdication. When this individual infrastructure, an error, it is difficult to accept that Buffett is at fault. Changes in the way society is managed are personal, corporate step. In the circumstances, the temptation is high to blame everything on a single employee ROE. That does not excuse the behavior of the Sokol, but the failure of surveillance must be recognized and corrected.Instead, Berkshire is struggling with how to handle this situation. For years, management quirky style of Buffet was hailed as a force, and he escaped in this type of review. His status as former Teflon makes the elusive backlash.Fat CatsBuffett has many enemies, but they have stayed underground until recently. They include fat cats who do not want to pay more taxes Buffett defenders, chief executive officers tired of being called greedy parasites by one of the richest men in the world, and of all stripes wall passers-by who think rantings of Hellfire and damnation of Buffett's in their occupations are hypocritical.Now, taken the step of the painful fall of the American narrative very known as the rise, fall and redemption, it is difficult to see how the Buffett can change the overall course of the narrative through public relations. But it can avoid making worse for himself by taking responsibility.More explicitly Buffett shoulders officials have waffled on ethics, redemption points more future he will obtain. If it pours on Sokol while trying to avoid all the entanglement in the situation or credit for having turned tough, it is convincing. Based on the report of the Audit Committee, it looks as if this is where things are directed, but it is not too late for Buffett change direction. $200 BillionGovernance, legitimately, will be high in the minds of the audience at the meeting, as Sokol is only a symptom of an underlying cause. The world recognizes that a $ 200 billion business employing approximately 260 000 people may be executed by a single man. Buffett should intensify these issues now, before an outcry he puts in conflict with its own Board of Directors.The thing of no. 1, that everyone wants to know is who would be Berkshire if Buffett disappeared today. Why not simply tell them? If it is Ajit Jain, who directs the operation of reinsurance of Berkshire, Buffett must say. It can always cover and said his choice does not bind the Commission and the subsequent events could change things.The incident of Sokol has boomeranged to become a referendum on the judgment of the buffet of people and management style, Berkshire corporate governance, institutional infrastructure, internal controls and risk management and the process of succession to a new CEO. He also raised questions about the structure of the committees of the Council, of pay and responsibilities.These issues were not addressed in the report of the audit committee, and it is a command to do so. This is probably too expect Buffett in a single weekend. But the most simple Buffett is at this meeting, the better the shareholders of Berkshire will be - and so is he.(Alice Schroeder, author of "the snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life" and a former Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, is a Bloomberg News columnist.) (The views expressed are his own.)

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Exec KEPCO sees nuclear setbacks after the crisis of the Japan - Reuters

By Cho Mee-young.

SEOUL. Friday, April 29, 2011 3 pm EDT

Seoul (Reuters) - the Japan nuclear crisis could lead to a decline of two or three years on the market of nuclear reactor, but demand will increase in the long term, a senior at the Korea Electric Power Corp. said Friday.

Worse-on-record of the quake and tsunami March 11 Japan paralysed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, 240 km (150 miles) North of Tokyo. Japanese engineers have difficulty finishing the worst nuclear crisis in the world since the 1986 Chernobyl accident.

"The Japan crisis may affect the market in the next two or three years, but in a few decades nuclear demand will increase due to a lack of alternative energy," Byun Jun-yeon, executive vice president and officer of the State utility KEPCO nuclear project leadersaid in an interview to Reuters.

He said renewable energy would continue to play only a supplementary role because of its poor economy.

China currently appears to be scaling back its plans of nuclear power plants, but cannot stop, because it is difficult to meet their demand for huge power without nuclear reactors, and emits thermal coal electricity production also of carbon, "byun." added

China last month froze nuclear approvals for new and proposed nuclear power plants in the wake of the crisis of the Japan.

TAKING THE GOAL IN UPCOMING TENDERS

Byun, who majored in electrical engineering at the University of Korea and KEPCO added in 1977, stated that the Brazil, in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Argentina and South Africa are preparing tenders for nuclear reactors which could come later this year.

He declined to discuss specific transactions, but said KEPCO had intended to win tenders and Saudi Arabia have evaluated technologies for operation of the KEPCO reactor high compared with other countries.

"Importers of reactor want models that guarantee the security, the economy and energy efficiency... they also want builders who can help them run reactors at least 20 to 30 years later," said Byun.

"South Korea has no mention of the accident in its history of operation of the reactor nearly 40 years", he said.

KEPCO has been aimed at winning orders overseas for a total of 10 nuclear reactors by 2020. The United Arab Emirates United in December 2009 awarded a contract for $ 20 billion to build four 1,400 MW reactors, the largest energy deal in the Middle East, to a Korean consortium led the KEPCO. (Won Korean $1 = 1073.400)

(Edited by Jonathan Hopfner and Michael Urquhart)

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After the Tsunami: Nothing to do than start over

Kenji Sano, 80, in his shop in Kamaishi, the Japan, on March 30, Giulio Di Sturco

By Charles Graeber

(Corrects the measurement of annual earthquake in Kamaishi at paragraph 15).

Kenji Sano was two years old the first time his house was destroyed. His family had a small house of wood and rice paper of Kamaishi, right on the main street of the city, parallel port and the ancient furnace which produced iron used in all, swords of samurai of rails for high-speed bullet trains. Sano hidden in the Middle tombstones, Buddhist Hill clutches her mother as the tsunami of March 3, 1933, swept his town. Later, on the place where his mother helped help burn the bodies recovered from the wreck, the survivors placed two steel Bodhisattvas, commemorates the high water line. Kenji-san just sitting in front of the Arch of the door of the temple, look at the smoke.

It was different from the next time. The difference of the tsunami, who unpacked wooden houses, leaving scattered - all - things, clean burned American bombing, leaving only ash. Three weeks after the home teen Sano had been cremated, August 8, 1945, bombing began again. An atomic bomb fell on the South of the city of Nagasaki the following day. No there is no bombs after that. Kenji has contributed to his father and his brother rebuild. Their was a small place, any more than a shack, but enough. There was nothing to do than start over.

After the war, Kamaishi flourished. Furniture factories and mills processing of seafood, a granary and farm fish, rows of restaurants and a maze of a tavern room, all giving an international port occupied and protected by a massive breakwater. Tsunami experts from around the world have estimated Kamaishi to have the best harbor protection anywhere; According to the Guinness Book of Records world, 207-foot-deep, breakwater inhabitants feet in length is also the largest in the world. Built at a cost of 165 billion yen ($2 billion), it took 30 years to build and was completed in March 2009.

For decades, Kenji Sano could see the breakwater takes form on his daily in the morning go hiking in the mountains of Rikuchi, which sandwich Kamaishi (of 40 000 inhabitants) against Pacific. Even at 80, Sano took to the foothills in the early hours, sometimes with his wife, often only the point of view of his native city below. If he travelled far enough, he could visit with a God.

The Kannon deity, more than 100 feet high and cradling a fish, was on the ridge overlooking the sea - s Kamaishi unofficial patron saint and a tourist attraction in 41 years. The Bodhisattva of compassion was built on the mountain which overlooks the Bay of Kamaishi, a prayer in reinforced concrete. "Be calm," Kannon implored the Pacific. "Don ' t rage".

March 11, Sano began early as usual, leaving a house occupied with three generations of its manufacture. He slipped past his teenage, Ayumu grandson, who was running a finger in a book for the next University entrance examination; past where the wife of his son, Hiromi, kneeling on the ring of cooking a meal School of rice for his boy, Hiroyuki; and in the stairwell of his shop, where his son aged 44 years, Shigeru, was sweeping the stoop.

For 60 years, Kenji had executed Sano liqueur, a wholesaler, a package store and a bar on the corner of streets Oodori and Aoba, main intersection of Kamaishi, on the ground floor of the House. Sano alcohol was the kind of place of daily meeting vital for any city. He was known to sailors from around the world, too. Kenji shot his surgical mask and exchanged a few quick nods with Shigera and led to Oodori Street and in the light of the morning.

Walking stick carved of Sano clicked on the sidewalk as he signalled his traders neighbours - the mother and the daughter of the bakery nearby; his friend the dentist, whose wife had Parkinson's disease; the old pharmacist, walk quickly in his denim floppy Hat; Yuko Kariya, the woman who owned the café Jazz tidy by Aoba Park. Kamaishi, everyone knew Sano.

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Lieberman: Treating unit national partners Abbas with terror - Jerusalem Post

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29/04/2011 10: 47 Partnership with Hamas Palestinian Authority means that the PA has established a partnership with terrorists, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in reaction to the agreement of the unity of the Fatah-Hamas Friday morning that he had met the President of Cyprus Dimitris Christofias.

"Abu Mazen [President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas] and the PA must understand that it is not possible to be a partner with terrorists without being a partner of terror," said Lieberman.

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"The international community must not legitimize the Government whose face is the face of Abu Mazen and whose arms are arms of Hamas, which launches missiles at citizens and innocent stains with blood," Lieberman said Christofias.

Lieberman said that "the inability of the international community to make even a declarative decision at the [UN] Security Council condemning the Syria for the violence and the murder of innocent citizens by [President Bashar] Assad regime, raises the question in Israel of".: If and how the international community can be relied on for its balanced and honest considerations with regard to the situation between Israel and the Palestinians. ?

"This feeling is currently strengthened by the conciliatory approach of the Quartet decision, taken by some countries towards Hamas - a terrorist organization whose declared goal, main is the destruction of Israel," said Lieberman.

Lieberman went to Cyprus to discuss bilateral relations, the events in the Middle East and the unity of the Fatah-Hamas agreement and its effect on relations between Israelis and Palestinians.

Friday, President Shimon Peres stated that the unity of the Fatah-Hamas agreement States that the PA will control the West Bank and Hamas controls the Gaza Strip, in contradiction with the previous comments by Abbas that Palestinians will be governed by a single organization.

Peres said that if, for the PA elections, political platforms will include the destruction of Israel and continued subordination to the Iran, it is not relevant, what will be the results of the elections next year.

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Number of deaths in the attack of the Morocco rises to 16 - Atlanta Journal Constitution

By HASSAN ALAOUI
The Associated Press

MARRAKECH, Morocco - the State of the Morocco news agency says the number of people killed in a terrorist attack in a coffee shop for Marrakesh tourism has increased to 16.

A crowd gathers outside a cafe in Marrakech. Morocco. Thursday, April 28, 2011. An explosion hit the cafe popular with foreign tourists in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, leaving several dead Thursday and wounded, said the news agency. (AP Photo/Amaguedes)
A man goes through debris after an explosion ripped through a cafe popular with foreign tourists in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, Thursday, April 28, 2011 who have killed and injured people in what the Government calls an alleged criminal act. If confirmed that terrorism, the explosion in the iconic Djemma el - Fna square would be the deadliest bombing in eight years Morocco. (AP Photo/Tarik Najmaoui)
A crowd gathers outside a cafe in Marrakech. Morocco. Thursday, April 28, 2011. An explosion hit the cafe popular with foreign tourists in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, leaving several dead Thursday and wounded, said the news agency. (AP Photo/Amaguedes)
EDS NOTE graphic content - a victim is located in the debris of an explosion which ripped through a cafe popular with foreign tourists in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, Morocco, Thursday, 28 April 2011 killing and wounding people in what the Government called an alleged criminal act. If confirmed that terrorism, the explosion in the iconic Djemma el - Fna square would be the deadliest bombing in eight years Morocco. (AP Photo/Tarik Najmaoui)

The MAP agency said two people died of injuries, hospital, bringing the number of dead from 14 to 16. At least 20 were wounded.

The head of the hospital emergency room Marrakech main Tofail said Associated Press that one of the wounded died in hospital and another en route in an ambulance.

At least 11 of the victims were foreigners. The Israeli consul in Shanghai, said Friday that two were a couple of Jew who lived in Shanghai.

Blocked police barriers coffee after the Thursday bombing, deadly attack of the Morocco in eight years. He struck one of the main attractions in a country heavily dependent on tourism.

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April 29, 2011 03 h 46 am EDT

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U.S. loses in the largest fighter sale in 15 years in India

April 29, 2011, 3: 21 am EDT by James Rupert

(Updates with the India declined comment to the second paragraph, the sixth paragraph analysts comment).

April 29 (Bloomberg)--the India of the Defence Ministry opted for European in U.S. aviation for the order of the world more large fighter aircraft in 15 years, the lobbying efforts by the President Barack Obama.The U.S. of snubbing is "deeply disappointed" after the India said this week that Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. "does". "were not selected for purchases" for the warplane, the US Embassy in New Delhi said in a statement, quoting Ambassador Timothy Roemer. Ministry of defence the India will not comment on the reports, he screened the aircraft from the France of Dassault Aviation SA and the European Aeronautic, defence & space Co., said the spokesman of the Sitanshu Kar Department by phone today.The contest of the order of the India can be even more so with the approval by the cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh required following the final recommendation of the Ministry of defence. "Obama has sought to strengthen ties with the India, second-fast world economic growth major, to stimulate exports and growth in employment than the United States struggles to bring down high unemployment rates."A remaining uncertainty is the determinative nature of the strategic partnership U.S. - Indian could outweigh the purely technical and operational considerations "which gave an advantage to European companies, said Kapil Kak, Indian air former vice Marshal who is the Director of the Centre for air power studies"a group of New Delhi.AircraftLockheed more aged, based in the suburbs of Washington in Bethesda, Maryland, has offered his F-16 fighter aircraft, while Chicago-based Boeing is intended to sell the F/A-18 Super Hornet. These aircraft were first designed in the years 1970 and the Lockheed F-22 advanced fighter and the most expensive in the U.S. arsenal, was not offered for sale.Preference of the Department for the latest European models "is not a political choice," said V.K. Kapoor, a former lieutenant-general who oversees the India military markets. "It was a technical assessment by the book that the American F - 16 and F/A-18 in spite of their updates are not the future generation aircraft," Kapoor said by telephone. "They can stay current for another 5 or 10 years, but this agreement will determine the operational capability of the air force for the next 30 years."Trade NegotiationsThe Ministry of defence will open discussions with Dassault and EADS "to see how to obtain the best overall agreement of enterprises," Kak said, quoting officials of the air force. "We can expect that will begin in June and take eight or nine months," he said.Lockheed closed a 0.1% to $79.06 in New York yesterday, when the Standard & Poor 500 advanced by 0.4% of Stock index. Boeing acquired 3.2 78.55% $ after Citigroup Inc. raised its estimate of price on society.The United States is "respectful of the procurement process" and will continue to "develop our partnership of defence with the India", Roemer said in the statement.Boeing said in a statement, he was disappointed and will request a debriefing of the Indian air force on the decision.Saab AB the Sweden said that its Gripen fighter was abandoned from consideration to the planned purchase of 126 jets, an agreement that said Kak can extend to 200 or more reason for attrition among the fleet of MiG - 21 Indian air force, which some have been built in the years 1970.Indian spending spokesman for State arms export Russia, Rosoboronexport, Vyacheslav Davidenko, declined in a telephone interview to comment on the exclusion declared of State-controlled OAO United Aircraft Corp.Foreign Governments and businesses in difficulty to recover from the global recession are competing to sell the $120 billion of dollars of weapons that the India can buy of the year next to 2017 according to an estimate of last year by the Confederation of Indian industry and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt.India has tripled its defence budget to 32 billion of this year, the 10th world these past ten years, they are trying to counter a quadrupling of spending in the same period by neighbors China.Obama led a delegation of Heads of business, including Jim McNerney of Boeing, during a visit to India of November, where the President has urged increased trade between the two countries that he said will support tens of thousands of American jobs. French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived a month later with the CEO of Dassault and EADS, and President Dmitri Medvedev the Russia to exert pressure for military sales.The short ListIndia of the Defence Ministry issued letters to EADS and Dassault asking them to extend the validity of their offers for the contract of combat aircraft, the Press Trust of India reported, citing company sourcesthat he did not identify. Site Web military affairs based in New Delhi Stratpost said that the letters were published on April 27, "effectively making up the short list" for the purchase. "" We have seen indications for almost two months now that the Indian air force seems inclined to shortlist the Eurofighter and the Rafale, "respectively built by EADS and Dassault, said Kak. The India air force can operate about 30 of its squadrons of 40 air desired due to the aging of its MiG-21 and Dassault Mirage of the years 2000, he said.Twenty-one air force MiG has crashed between 2007 and 2010, Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Parliament last year.Buy weapons of the India has been slowed by the sensibilities of the officials on the corruption scandals in previous purchases, a who helped defeat in the 1989 election the Party of the Congress of the drive Singh, say analysts as Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, researcher for South Asia at the International Institute for strategic studies in London.Since years 1980aucun Indian Government has made a purchase of arm of the invitation to tender opened a value as much as $ 100 million, or approximately 1% of the size of deal of hunting, Roy-Chaudhury and other analysts say. "I have been personally assured levels highest Indian Government that the acquisition of this machine has been and will be transparent and fair,"said yesterday Roemer. His statement was released by the Embassy of the United States hours after he announced that he has offered his resignation for "personal, professional and family reasons".

-With the help of Gopal Ratnam Washington, Lyubova Pronina in Moscow and Karthikeyan Sundaram in New Delhi. Editors: Mark Williams, Ben Richardson

To contact the reporter on this story: James Rupert in New Delhi to jrupert3@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg in Hong Kong to the phirschberg@bloomberg.net

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