Oil prices slide
Oil prices slid in Asian trade yesterday,
underpinned by weaker-than-expected unemployment data from the
United States, the world’s largest economy, analysts said. New
York’s main contract, West Texas Intermediate crude for delivery in
May, shed $1.11 to $102.20 per barrel. Brent North Sea crude for May
settlement was down $1.00 at $122.43 in the afternoon.
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Syria scuttles truce plan with new demands
Regime needs written guarantee that fighters will
lay down their weapons:
A U.N.-brokered plan to stop the bloodshed in
Syria effectively collapsed Sunday after President Bashar Assad's
government raised new, last-minute demands that the country's
largest rebel group swiftly rejected. The truce plan, devised by
U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, was supposed to go into effect on
Tuesday, with a withdrawal of Syrian forces from population centers,
followed within 48 hours by a cease-fire by both sides in the
uprising against four decades of repressive rule by the Assad
family.
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Suu Kyi to take seat in Myanmar parliament on April 23
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will
take her seat in parliament for the first time on April 23, her
party said on Monday, following her milestone election to political
office. The veteran dissident's National League for Democracy (NLD),
which won 43 seats in April 1 by-elections, will be the main
opposition force in a national parliament dominated by the military
and its political allies.
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Abbas to send Netanyahu letter on peace talks
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will send a
letter to Israel's premier on the state of stalled peace talks on
April 17, a Palestinian official told AFP on Sunday. The letter is
expected to lay out Palestinian conditions for returning to direct
negotiations that have been on hold since late September 2010.
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S Korea police chief quits over bungled murder case
South Korea's police chief resigned yesterday
following public fury at a bungled case in which a woman was raped
and murdered after frantically calling police for help. National
Police Agency chief Cho Hyun-Oh said he would step down to "take all
responsibility... for unpardonable carelessness" by the police and
asked the victim's family for forgiveness.
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