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HONG KONG, (Reuters) – A Chinese state-security official arrested this year on allegations of spying for Washington is suspected to have compromised some of China’s U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Rajat Gupta, a consummate business insider who once sat on the board of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, was convicted yesterday of leaking secrets about the investment bank at the height of the financial crisis, a major victory for prosecutors seeking to root out illicit trading on Wall Street.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on her first visit to Europe in nearly a quarter of a century, warned that her country’s political transformation was not irreversible and the military had to give up its excessive powers.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, some eastern Germans are once again carrying round images of Karl Marx – if only in their pockets.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s supreme court ruled yesterday to dissolve the Islamist-led parliament, plunging a troubled transition to democracy into turmoil just two days before an election to replace ousted leader Hosni Mubarak.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron warned Argentina yesterday that London stood “ready and willing” to defend the Falkland Islands, 30 years after Britain recaptured the South Atlantic archipelago whose sovereignty remains a hotly contested issue.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Former billionaire Allen Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in prison yesterday for running a $7 billion scheme in which he stole money from his investors to finance an extravagant lifestyle in the Caribbean.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. telecommunications equipment company yesterday charged that its Chinese rivals Huawei and ZTE Corp receive unfair government support and called for a tough U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper chief told David Cameron the night before a crucial political speech in 2009 that they were “professionally in this together”, an inquiry revealed yesterday, embarrassing the man who now governs Britain.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The French government has put on hold plans by Royal Dutch Shell to drill for oil in four sites off the coast of French Guiana while it carries out a review of how permits are awarded with an eye on the environment, the energy minister said.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Plain-clothed police stationed near the presidential palace, a grey marble Soviet style compound towering over Damascus, fire automatic rifles into the night as rebels encroach towards the seat of Bashar al-Assad’s power.

TUNIS,  (Reuters) – A Tunisian court sentenced ousted leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali’s interior minister and seven of his security chiefs to up to 15 years in jail yesterday over the killing of hundreds of protesters in the central towns where the Arab Spring began.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Bombers struck at Shi’ite pilgrims celebrating a religious festival in Baghdad and across Iraq yesterday, killing more than 70 people in one of the bloodiest days since the last U.S.

MCALLEN, Texas, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities said they arrested seven members of one of Mexico’s largest drug cartels on Tuesday and accused them of laundering money in the United States by buying, breeding and racing American racehorses.

PARIS, (Reuters) – A tweet by France’s first lady in support of an election rival of President Francois Hollande’s ex-partner has triggered a politically damaging media firestorm just days from a decisive round of parliamentary elections.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistani real estate tycoon yesterday accused the chief justice of turning a blind eye to his son’s alleged corrupt financial practices, in a scandal that could damage one of the few public figures willing to take on the powerful military.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – At least 11 people drowned and up to 10 others, including five children, were unaccounted for after a small boat packed with Haitian migrants seeking to enter the United States illegally capsized off the Bahamas, authorities said yesterday.

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LONDON, (Reuters) – The tiny Falklands Islands will ask 3,000 inhabitants whether they want to stay part of Britain’s self-governing overseas territories in a referendum designed to outflank Argentina’s sovereignty claims to the South Atlantic archipelago.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – ING Bank NV agreed to pay $619 million to settle U.S.