International Headline News

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:02:03 -0400

>TOP STORIES as of 0800 HKT -- 02 July, 2010

> DOZENS DIE IN BLASTS AT PAKISTAN SHRINE
Three explosions erupted Thursday in Lahore, Pakistan, killing
35 people and wounding 175, the commissioner of Lahore told siad.

> TURKEY MEETING ANGERS ISRAELI MINISTER
Israel's foreign minister lashes out at the country's PM for
failing to inform him of the first ministerial talks between
Israel and Turkey since the Gaza flotilla incident.

> U.S.: ALLEGED RUSSIAN SPY CONFESSES
The court hearings of two alleged Russian spies have been
delayed until July 16, the Department of Justice announced
Thursday, the day they were earlier scheduled to take place in
Boston federal court.

> N. KOREANS JAILED IN ASSASSINATION PLOT
A South Korean court sentenced two North Korean military
officers Thursday to 10 years in jail for plotting to
assassinate a high-profile defector who once worked for dictator
Kim Jong-il, South Korea's news agency said.

> FINLAND MAKES BROADBAND A LEGAL RIGHT
Finland has become the first country in the world to make
broadband internet access a legal right for all citizens.

> WAR CRIMES COURT SUBPOENAS CAMPBELL
A war crimes tribunal served a subpoena on supermodel Naomi
Campbell, ordering her to testify in the trial of former
Liberian President Charles Taylor.

> L'OREAL HEIRESS AT CENTER OF PARIS TRIAL
The 87-year-old heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune was at
the center of a trial starting Thursday in Paris, a case that
has come to involve secret recordings, butlers, bank accounts,
and billions of dollars in assets.

BUSINESS
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> WAITING GAME IN GOOGLE-CHINA SAGA
The saga for Google's operations in China continues as the
search giant awaits a decision from Beijing on whether its
operating license will be renewed.

> EU ROAMING CAP COMES INTO FORCE
European travellers using mobile devices while away from home
will have to explicitly agree to charges beyond €50 ($62) a
month for downloading data, under European Union rules that will
come into force on Thursday.

> EU AGREES TOUGH BANKER BONUS GUIDELINES
European Union lawmakers and member states backed the
toughestrestrictions on bankers bonuses seen so far on Wednesday,
sowing confusion across an already jittery financial services sector.