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Sri Lanka mulls freeing Fonseka - Oman Daily Observer
President Mahinda Rajapakse was likely to consider freeing Fonseka who is serving two jail terms over two separate cases — one ordered by a military court martial and one by a civilian court, an official close to the president said.
Poverty eradication plans - Oman Daily Observer
... Jaime Acosta - Colombia will ask private companies to help battle poverty as it seeks to eliminate one of the primary factors that has stoked a half century of guerrilla and paramilitary violence in the Andean nation, a government official said.
Fears for safety - Oman Daily Observer
The man did not want to be identified for fear of losing the 8000 yen ($100) daily paycheck he receives. “There are many spots where radiation levels are extremely high,” said. In the height of summer with the mercury rising to 38 degrees Celsius, ...
Yemen troops capture 10 fighters after attack - Oman Daily Observer
Pipeline workers, who are employees of state-owned oil firm PetroMasila, returned to work yesterday, ending their strike, a government official said. A union official said: “The purpose of the action was to bring the workers' grievances to the ...
1243 illegal workers held - Oman Daily Observer
Those, the source said, pose a real threat to the safety and security of the country. Those arrested are kept under detention for further investigation and will be referred to the prosecution authorities. The source urged citizens to comply with the ...
Petroplus refinery to shut as funding talks advance - Oman Daily Observer
“A provisional financing agreement has been found to keep the talks going,” the source said in Paris after days of French and Swiss government pressure for a solution to keep the business running and avoid job cuts. The source was unable to offer ...
New US tactic for suspected Swiss bank tax cheats - Oman Daily Observer
“The number one thing is the customer data — it is at the heart of the issue,” said a US government official briefed on the matter and on the subpoenas. Earlier this month, the upper house of the Swiss parliament backed an amendment that would allow ...
'No German permit for missile shipment' - Oman Daily Observer
HELSINKI — Finland did not receive the paperwork required from Germany to allow the transit of 69 Patriot missiles through its territory, despite Berlin's claims it had sent the documents, a government official said yesterday. ...
MF Global bust erodes trust in brokerages - Oman Daily Observer
... to know if this could happen again, if I can give them proof that the banks I'm dealing with are okay and that their money is safe," said one broker on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) on Thursday, who asked not to be identified. ...
Regulators dig in at MF Global in money pursuit - Oman Daily Observer
Corzine had hired leading white-collar defense lawyer Andrew Levander of Dechert LLP to represent him in cases that might stem from the bankruptcy filing, a legal source briefed on the matter said. Levander has represented outside directors of Lehman ...
Crisis and middle-class homeless - Oman Daily Observer
After losing his wife to cancer, Lambros, who asked not to be identified by his last name, believed he had experienced the worst. Then the economic crisis struck, and the interior designer lost his job in 2010 when the economy-driving construction ...
Spanish Santander bank to shelve UK listing until 2013 - Oman Daily Observer
LONDON — Spanish bank Santander's planned London listing of its British operations is unlikely before 2013, a person familiar with the matter said yesterday. Santander had already delayed its plan for a 2011 flotation of 20-25 per cent of the British ...
On His Majesty's orders - Humanitarian aid for Yemen - Oman Daily Observer
There were elements who opposed the plan,” said a party member present at the conference who declined to give his name. Amendments approved by Saleh's party would have him transfer his powers to his vice-president, Abbd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, ...
Gaddafi's daughter to leave hospital after giving birth - Oman Daily Observer
“Both (mother and daughter) are in very good health,” said the source who requested anonymity. The government said on Tuesday that Aisha Gaddafi gave birth to a baby girl in the small southern town of Djanet, 2300 kilometres south of Algiers, ...
Japan's extra budget likely in Oct - Oman Daily Observer
It is also possible that the size of the third extra budget could change depending on talks with opposition parties, the source said. Compiling the third extra budget will be a major test of Noda's credentials as a fiscal conservative. ...
Libyan opposition fighters face tough battle for Brega - Oman Daily Observer
AJDABIYAH, Libya — Opposition fighters on the eastern front of Libya's civil unrest lost 11 men in the past 24 hours in their bid to capture the strategic oil terminal and refinery at Brega on the Mediterranean coast, hospital sources said. ...
ECB said to accept temporary Greek default in rescue - Oman Daily Observer
BERLIN/BRUSSELS — The European Central Bank is willing to let Greece slip into temporary default as part of a crisis response that would involve a bond buyback but no new tax on banks, EU sources said yesterday. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and ...
US weighs Credit Suisse tax evasion charges - Oman Daily Observer
... considering indicting Swiss bank Credit Suisse over its role in providing offshore private banking services that enabled scores of wealthy Americans to evade taxes, according to current and former senior government sources briefed on the matter. ...
Opposition hails Bahrain F1 'coup' - Oman Daily Observer
Despite calls by some groups against reinstating the race, a source said that the vote for Bahrain had been unanimous. The race is now scheduled for October 30. This week the government ended over two months of emergency law imposed to help break up ...