Whereas Citic is the biggest brokerage firm in China, Crédit Agricole is battling mounting losses in Greece, the epicenter of the euro zone crisis, where it owns one of the country's largest banks, Emporiki.
(The report was confusing at first, and then more so: the Reuters piece said that he "died after an apparent suicide attempt" — what exactly does that mean?) This was not the first brush with suicide for Chesnutt, who was paralyzed in his teens in an automobile accident and battled depression throughout his life; this past year, he was battling mounting medical bills.
A15 New Front Opens in Iraq Battle Rebels mounted counterattacks against rapid advances by American troops into southern Falluja, while insurgents elsewhere appear to have opened up a second front by overrunning police stations.
The generals said the buildup of Iraqi forces has been more disappointing than previously acknowledged, contributing to the absence of any Iraqi forces when a 1,000-member 1,000-membere group Marined an offensive last week against insurgent strongholds in the northwestern desert, along the battle with Syria.
He will also be remembered for the protracted legal battle he mounted in a last ditch effort to pull out a win, and lastly (but certainly not least) for having a security team that bizarrely handcuffed a member of the media.
Over the last 10 days, Ukraine's forces have lost nearly an entire summer of gains as the pro-Russia forces have pushed a new front in the country's southeast and won a number of decisive battles amid mounting evidence of significant on-the-ground support from Russian soldiers.
There is a touch of draft horse about her battle-mount, which seems almost to be treading the observer underfoot.
Atrocities have mounted, battles have taken a greater civilian toll, and logic can't explain away the horror.
Russia is also battling a mounting banking crisis; any extreme action against Yukos could further rattle the financial markets here.
