The lawyer representing Guatemala's former dictator Efrain Rios Montt against genocide charges has been shot to death in the capital, authorities said.
IN EUROPE, CONFLICT OVER BANK CAPITAL Authorities want European banks to tap existing shareholders and reduce employee bonuses to find a combined $147 billion to increase their core Tier 1 ratios to 9 percent by June, Mark Scott reports.
Faced with the worst outbreak of unrest among ethnic Tibetans since the 2008 riots in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, authorities sealed off a number of counties in Sichuan Province and vastly intensified security.
American Life, which is a unit of the American International Group, was granted the license after it deposited 50 million Nepali rupees ($666,500) in a bank in Nepal as its working capital, authorities said.
To modernize management and help raise capital, authorities have been allowing a Who's Who in international banking to buy stakes in the country's banks.
The mortar rounds are fired from rebel positions outside the heavily guarded capital, authorities say.
In the capital, authorities reported that 14 civilians, mostly students, were killed and 86 injured when a pair of mortar shells struck an Islamic school in the Shaghour district in Damascus Old Cityy.
BEIRUT -- A prominent Syrian political analyst known for his staunch support of the government of President Bashar Assad was shot and killed early Wednesday at his home south of the Lebanese capital, authorities said.
Outside its capital, state authority has practically evaporated and remains weak in Bangui.
The Saudi capital markets authority, for example, recently allowed foreign companies to be solely or dually listed on the Saudi stock exchange.
