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A suicide bomber killed four people on Tuesday in a residential district of southern Beirut known for its support of the powerful Shi'ite Muslim military and political movement Hezbollah, security sources said. Tensions from Syria's conflict have increasingly infected neighboring...

The Thai government on Tuesday declared a 60-day state of emergency to start on Wednesday, saying it wanted to prevent any escalation in more than two months of protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from power. The decree,...

A Syrian military police photographer has supplied "clear evidence" showing the systematic torture and killing of about 11,000 detainees in circumstances that evoked Nazi death camps, former war crimes prosecutors said. Syrian officials could face war crimes charges as a...

Consumer goods maker Unilever (ULVR.L) (UNc.AS) reported better-than-expected 2013 results on Tuesday, with an improved performance in emerging markets after currency devaluations earlier last year hurt demand. The Anglo-Dutch maker of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Lipton tea and Dove...

China's Lenovo Group Ltd has resumed talks to buy International Business Machines Corp's (IBM) low-end server unit, a source familiar with the matter said, a purchase that would bolster its efforts to diversify beyond a shrinking PC market. A deal...

JPMorgan Chase & Co has stopped working on a Chinese firm's initial public offering amid an investigation by U.S. authorities into its hiring practices in China, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. It is the...

UniCredit (CRDI.MI) has sold some of the risk on a 910 million euro ($1.2 billion) portfolio of Italian project finance loans, freeing up capital for new lending and benefiting from growing appetite for such deals from specialist investors. The deal...

British engineering company Rolls-Royce (RR.L) is expected to make a public offer on the Finnish ship and power plant engine maker Wartsila (WRT1V.HE), a newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed investors. Rolls-Royce could offer at least 50 euros per Wartsila...

About five years ago, in a promo tagged 9jillion, Etisalat gave out one million dollars ($1,000,000) which some persons initially considered unrealistic. Even though I’d never won anything all my life (except for free drinks), I still believed promos...

Within the past week, we read in the papers that the self appointed and self styled Northern Elders Forum (NEF) met with their other arm, Jamatul Nasir Islam (JNI) in Kaduna. As is always expected after their meetings, they...