Myanmar’s Suu Kyi says reforms could be reversed | Reuters
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Suu Kyi says some are “too optimistic” about situation
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi says reforms could be reversed | Reuters
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Suu Kyi says some are “too optimistic” about situation
Dow Chemical’s Olympic PR push dogged by Bhopal | Reuters
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Dow Chemical Co hoped an Olympic sponsorship would boost its global cache, but the company’s link to a gas leak tragedy 28 years ago threatens to curb some of the benefits from the $100 million advertising deal.
As many as 25,000 residents of Bhopal, India, died in the aftermath of a 1984 gas leak at a pesticide factory that was owned by a subsidiary of Union Carbide, which sold the facility in 1994. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001.
Since then, India, Amnesty International, Greenpeace and some members of the British Parliament have demanded Dow increase a $470-million compensation package that Union Carbide paid victims in 1989.
The Indian government wants Dow to pay an additional $1.7 billion, but Dow has refused, saying it has no responsibility for Bhopal and that Union Carbide settled liabilities.
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Dow justified the sponsorship by forecasting an Olympic-related sales boost of $1 billion by 2020.
Syria forces bombard Homs, U.N. condemns appalling brutality | Reuters
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The United Nations chief condemned the ferocity of the government assault on the heart of a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad that broke out nearly a year ago and is getting bloodier by the day.
Bienfaits de l’intervention occidentale en faveur de la démocratie : les #milices.
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Rival militias fought a two-hour gunbattle over a luxury beach house being used as a barracks in the Libyan capital Wednesday, underscoring how volatile the country is following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
A Reuters reporter heard exchanges of both heavy and light weapons coming from the Tripoli district of El-Saadi beach, a stretch of Mediterranean coast overlooked by office skyscrapers and the Marriott Hotel.
Militias have carved up Tripoli and the rest of Libya into competing fiefdoms, each holding out for the share of power they say they are owed.
A witness, who had been relaxing on the beach with his family, told a local television channel fighters armed with anti-aircraft guns screeched along the coastal highway and stormed a walled residence.
“It was chaos, the fighters suddenly arrived in cars and started shooting at the house. Families fled from the beach,” Abdul Musharim told the Libyan news channel ’Libya’.