HSBC 'to cut 2,000 staff in UK'

HSBC 'to cut 2,000 staff in UK'


HSBC 'to cut 2,000 staff in UK'

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 09:39 AM PDT

Banking giant HSBC is set to announce 2,000 job losses in the UK on Thursday as part of its global cost-cutting plans, reports say.


Japanese Firms Rush To Catch Up in Myanmar

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:35 PM PDT

Japanese companies, which had lagged behind Asian peers, are jostling to line up business in Myanmar, as the country opens its markets to the outside world.


Egypt NGO law could undermine freedoms: U.N. rights chief

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:52 PM PDT

GENEVA (Reuters) - An Egyptian bill that would tighten control over non-governmental organizations could deal a serious blow to human rights and freedoms in the country, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday.


U.K. Slips Into Double-Dip Recession

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Figures released Wednesday provoked an outcry on the day that Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, shifted his rhetoric on the debt crisis.


Behind Spain's adoption scandal

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:29 PM PDT

CNN's Atika Shubert and Laura Perez Maestro explain their experiences covering the Spanish baby adoption scandal.


No dismissal of charges in Manning WikiLeaks case

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:15 PM PDT

A military judge denied a request Wednesday to dismiss all the charges against the Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and State Department documents while serving in Iraq.


Manning charges won't be dismissed

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:27 PM PDT

A Marine who used his Facebook page to criticize President Barack Obama has been discharged, a Marine spokesman said Wednesday.


Syrian shelling targets Damascus suburb despite U.N. monitors’ visit

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:05 PM PDT

BEIRUT — Heavy artillery and shells continued to target Douma, a suburban area east of Damascus, on Wednesday, despite the presence of U.N. observers charged with monitoring a cease-fire in Syria, residents said.

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Brother of Bo Xilai, Fallen Chinese Politician, Resigns Lucrative Business Role

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:05 PM PDT

The brother of Bo Xilai, the Politburo member at the center of a burgeoning political scandal, resigned as a well-paid business executive.


Egypt's Salafist party may support moderate

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:21 PM PDT

With field of presidential hopefuls now whittled down, support from al-Nour party could make, or break, a candidate.


Marine discharged over Obama slur

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:02 PM PDT

A US Marine sergeant who criticised President Barack Obama as an enemy on Facebook is to face an other-than-honourable discharge.


Legal aid bill heading for assent

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:22 AM PDT

Peers fail in a last-ditch attempt to amend those parts of the controversial bill cutting legal aid in England and Wales that apply to victims of domestic violence.


Bo's Brother Resigns From Everbright Board

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:40 PM PDT

The elder brother of sacked Chinese Communist Party leader Bo Xilai resigned as deputy chairman at China Everbright International "for the best interest of the company."


Egypt Comedian Found Guilty of Offending Islam

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 09:04 AM PDT

An Egyptian court upheld a conviction against one of the Arab world's most famous comedians, sentencing him to jail for offending Islam in some of his most popular films.


ICC Rejects Libya Bid to Try Gadhafi Son

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 11:28 AM PDT

The International Criminal Court again rejected attempts by Libya to delay handing over one of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi's sons, who is wanted for trial.


Next Step for Syria Should Be Military, France Says

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:48 PM PDT

France wants the U.N. Security Council to consider allowing military action in Syria if an international peace plan fails to stop the violence, the French foreign minister said.


South Sudan Expels Sudan Oil Workers

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 08:26 AM PDT

Sudan said South Sudan had expelled more than 100 of its nationals who were working for oil companies, as a dispute over the two nations' poorly defined oil-rich border deepens.


Italy's Eni Signs Russian Pact

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:54 PM PDT

Russian state oil company Rosneft signed a major offshore exploration deal with Italy's Eni in the latest sign the Kremlin's efforts to woo foreign companies to its next-generation oil fields, mostly in the Arctic, are paying off.


China Reaches Out on Rare Earth

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 07:21 AM PDT

China extended what it may have intended as an olive branch to the U.S., Japan and Europe in their dispute over rare earths even as it defended its export controls.


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