International Headline News

Date: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:02 PM
TOP STORIES as of 0900 HKT -- 02 March, 2010

> CLINTON PLANS CHILE VISIT TUESDAY
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton landed Monday in
Montevideo, Uruguay, the first stop in a six-nation Latin
American tour that will take her to quake-ravaged Chile on
Tuesday.

> 27TH DUBAI KILLING SUSPECT IDENTIFIED
Another person has been added to the list of suspects in the
January killing of a Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel, allegedly by
an Israeli hit squad, bringing the number of identified suspects
to 27, two sources told CNN on Monday.

> MEXICO DETAILS JOURNALIST'S DEATH
A Mexican journalist kidnapped in 2007 was cut into pieces and
burned in a barrel, the Tabasco state attorney general's office
said.

> KARADZIC GENOCIDE TRIAL RESUMES
The genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic resumed Monday after a
four-month postponement, with the former Bosnian Serb leader
presenting his opening statements.

> JUSTICES DISMISS GITMO UYGHURS' APPEAL
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by native Chinese
Muslims who had asked to be released into the U.S. from American
military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

> DOZENS KILLED AS STORM BATTERS EUROPE
Western Europe went into recovery mode Monday after winter storm
Xynthia battered at least six countries, knocking out power,
disrupting transportation and leaving at least 58 people dead,
authorities said.

> RUSSIAN PRES. ANGRY AT OLYMPIC FLOPS
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for the resignation of
the nation's top Olympic officials Monday after the country's
worst performance in a Winter Olympics in nearly a hundred
years.

BUSINESS
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> AIG, PRUDENTIAL NEAR $35B ASIA DEAL
American International Group Inc., majority owned by the U.S.
government after a massive bailout, is reported to be close to a
$35.5 billion deal to sell its Asian life insurance operations
to Britain's Prudential PLC.
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> HSBC PROFITS FALL 24 PERCENT
HSBC, Britain's biggest bank, on Monday reported a 24 per cent
fall in pre-tax profit to $7.1bn for last year, as higher loan
impairment charges took the shine off a strong performance by
its investment banking arm and a narrowing of losses from its US
business.
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> HEDGE FUNDS PROSPER FROM GREEK DEBT
Hedge funds have made large profits from Greek debt and
providing insurance to overexposed European banks, it emerged on
Sunday.