International Headlines

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:02:07 -0400
>TOP STORIES as of 0800 HKT -- 24 April, 2010

> 6 POLICE, 1 CIVILIAN KILLED IN JUAREZ SHOOTOUT
A noon shootout left six police officers and a civilian dead on
the streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday, city officials
said.

> DOZENS DIE IN IRAQ BOMBING WAVE
A wave of bombings in Baghdad and Anbar province killed at least
43 people and wounded 96 others, Iraqi police say.

> THAI PROTESTERS SET TERMS FOR TALKS
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva met military chiefs Friday
as tensions rose between anti-government protesters and security
forces after a series of grenade attacks.

> GREECE TO SEEK €30BN RESCUE PACKAGE
Greece will ask its eurozone partners to activate a €30bn
rescue package following a week of intense pressure on financial
markets, the country's prime minister has said.

> U.S. OFFICIALS EYED PORN DURING CRISIS
As the country was sinking into its worst financial crisis in
more than 70 years, Security and Exchange Commission employees
and contractors cruised porn sites and viewed sexually explicit
pictures using government computers, an SEC investigation
obtained by CNN showed.

> VATICAN SAYS SEX ABUSE SUIT LACKS MERIT
The Vatican said a lawsuit accusing it and Pope Benedict XVI of
covering up sexual abuse by a priest at a Catholic school in the
United States has no merit.

> REPRIEVE HOPE FOR DEATH ROW 'SORCERER'
A Lebanese man sentenced to die for "sorcery" in Saudi Arabia
remains on death row but may not be executed -- at least not
yet, the man's lawyer said.

> BELGIAN BISHOP QUITS OVER CHILD ABUSE
Belgian bishop Roger Joseph Vangheluwe has resigned after
admitting to sexually abusing a child, a spokesman for the
Brussels bishop said Friday.

BUSINESS
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> RICH LIST TYCOON ON TRIAL IN CHINA
One of China's richest tycoons went on trial in Beijing Thursday
accused of stock-market manipulation, insider trading and
bribery.

> OBAMA: WALL ST, WASHINGTON SHARE BLAME
U.S. President Barack Obama tells bankers in New York the goal
of Wall Street reform is to ensure taxpayers never have to pay
for bailing out a firm considered "too big to fail."

> RESCUE LOOMS AFTER GREECE DOWNGRADE
A €40bn rescue of Greece loomed closer after another debt
downgrade and news that the country's finances were worse than
thought drove its borrowing costs even higher.