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Blackstone gets Hilton hotels ready for billion-dollar float - Independent
A source close to the two groups said: "This is a long process of preparation. The focus is getting the timing right, so that if you wake up one morning and decide to go for it you can." Blackstone appears to have settled on listing the whole business ...
Aborigine race row deepens as more officers are exonerated - Independent
... were sent to investigate, then had a barby with him and a few beers at hurley's house they spoke off the record to witnesses before taking formal statements one witness was pressured to give evidence he later recanted and in the latest episode, ...
No hysterical outbursts, just an endless stream of quiet grief - Independent
That official, who declined to give his name, played a gently dignified role, welcoming the people as they arrived in these most awful of circumstances and bowing in apology when they learned they would have to make yet another journey to find out what ...
Bravado fades away as rebels prepare for last stand in Benghazi - Independent
Yesterday the same officer, who refused to give his name, was at the main gate of Azdabia, loudly claiming that Gaddafi forces were fighting among themselves in Misrata and some had switched sides to the rebels. These tales have been coming since the ...
Clegg comes home to face a fiery reception from his party - Independent
"Sheffield is totally reliant on higher education, schools, the local council and the NHS for jobs," said one government worker who lives in Sheffield and asked not to be named. "The only other thing we've got are shops and the service sector – but ...
The £6bn trade in animal smuggling - Independent
A wildlife expert with more than two decades' experience examining the illegal wildlife trade in Africa, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "There is credible evidence they [Al-Shabaab, the Somali affiliate of al-Qa'ida] are involved in ivory ...
A boy named Abdul: Sierra Leone's child inmates - Independent
She did not wish to be identified but she helped explain quite a lot. "If you don't have money, you can't get justice in Sierra Leone," she said. She also noted that if you do have some money you can get people into jail who you want to believe have ...
In Libya, a despot's defiance - Independent
The witness, who refused to be identified for fear of retribution, said he came upon a group of militiamen as he tried to escape the violence. "The Libyans among them warned me to leave and showed me bodies of the dead," he said. ...
Police rule out suspect in Moscow airport bombing - Independent
... could have been the suicide bomber at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport has been cleared by DNA analysis, according to sources close to the investigation. ...
China plans $1.3bn 'seven-star hotel' - Independent
A district official, who declined to give his name, confirmed the project and its price tag in comments to AFP on Friday. He said that the Saudi side was ...
Liberals under siege as fundamentalists rally to back blasphemy law - Independent
"We have said we will not be touching this law," a senior government official said. "We don't have the resolve to do it now in this charged atmosphere, ...
'Salmaan Taseer came here and he sacrificed his life for me' - Independent
One senior pastor who asked not to be named and who welcomes several hundred worshippers to his partially-completed church every Sunday, said members of the ...
Clegg braves chill on campaign trail – but gets the cold shoulder - Independent
One of the voters Mr Clegg encountered as he went door to door in the village of Diggle, north of Oldham, was an elderly lady – who asked not to be named ...
From pillar of the community to suspect in a murder inquiry - Independent
Another neighbour, who asked not to be identified, said: "Chris knew that Greg was going to be away for the weekend, because he helped him start his car. ...
Look behind the clichés: all-star panto is raking in the millions - Independent
However, one London theatre agent, who asked to remain anonymous, said part of the reason we are seeing more household names in pantomime is because of a ...
Germany admits enslaving and abusing a generation of children - Independent
One victim, who refused to be named, recalled in a radio interview this week that a standard foster home punishment for talking at night was being made to ...
'Violence is OK, if that's what it takes to make our mark' - Independent
My heart was pounding when the horses came towards me," said one student who refused to be named. Julyan Phillips, 23, whose face was covered with blood as ...
Could US military take Wikileaks offline? - Independent
“It could all be a very elaborate double bluff,” says one cyber-warfare specialist who asked to remain anonymous. “But knowing how deeply anti-American ...
Le Pen's legacy: bitter battle for future of the French far right - Independent
A young man with razor-short hair, who declined to give his name, said: "What we need is a man. Un homme de poigne." (Literally a man with a firm grip. ...
The best age to marry – according to Ahmadinejad - Independent
... in 2012 and hardliners want to win young people's votes in order to win the assembly vote," said an Iranian political analyst who asked not to be named. ...
The best age to marry – according to Ahmadinejad tells policy - Independent
... in 2012 and hardliners want to win young people's votes in order to win the assembly vote," said an Iranian political analyst who asked not to be named. ...
Scandal of the Spanish Civil War mass graves - Independent
She has requested anonymity for herself and her grandfather because "that's what my late father would have wanted". But, in any case, remaining nameless is ...
Georgia arrests 20 suspected Russian spies - Independent
Citing an anonymous source in the security services, Reuters said that the detainees, all of whom are Georgian citizens, are suspected of being part of a ...
Hunter becomes the hunted: who shot the Emperor? - Independent
"He went out of those woods and into someone else's land," said a local source, who would only speak on condition of anonymity. ...
Gunmen kill 13 youths at Mexico party - Independent
All asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals. "Why, my God, why," shouted the mother of Daniel Figueroa, 16, after she identified her son's body. ...