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Thousands of people have rioted in Wengan county in southwest China’s Guizhou province, accusing the police of a cover-up after the death of a local girl.
More than 10,000 people ransacked and torched government office buildings on Saturday, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said.
At least one person died and up to [...]

Iraq is set to award oil contracts to dozens of foreign companies in a bid to boost production that could also give multinationals a foothold in the country’s large but underdeveloped oil fields.
The Iraqi oil ministry is expected to announce on Monday the deals with companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Total and BHP [...]

PARIS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - France Telecom (FTE.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) withdrew a $40 billion offer for TeliaSonera (TLSN.ST: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) on Monday, sending the Nordic telecom operator’s shares sharply lower but offering relief to investors in the French firm.
This tie-up always faced long odds: the French suitor was restricted by its [...]

Serbs in Kosovo have inaugurated their own assembly set up in defiance of the majority ethnic Albanian government and the United Nations.
The gathering was held in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica.
Forty-five members were elected in May during Serbia’s general and municipal elections - a ballot which the UN and Kosovo’s government said was illegal.
Kosovo’s [...]

HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe invited opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to his inauguration on Sunday after a widely condemned election which African observers said was unfair and scarred by violence and intimidation.
Tsvangirai immediately rejected the invitation, saying the inauguration was meaningless after an illegitimate poll. He said he would ask the African Union not [...]

Counting is under way in Zimbabwe after a one-man election branded a sham by the opposition and the West.
With President Robert Mugabe certain of victory, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change said on Saturday he was only being kept in power by force and with help from South African President Thabo Mbeki.
The MDC, whose [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc’s (BUD.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) board is in the hot seat after spurning a $46.3 billion takeover bid, facing questions over whether it is fulfilling its obligations to shareholders and not just the wishes of the brewer’s founding family.
The company’s suitor, InBev NV (INTB.BR: Quote, Profile, Research, [...]

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev and top EU officials have announced the start of talks on a new strategic partnership agreement.
The start of negotiations has been long delayed, amid strained ties under Mr Medvedev’s predecessor, Vladimir Putin.
But, at a meeting with EU officials in the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, Mr Medvedev said he was looking for [...]

The US Supreme Court has overturned a Washington DC ban on private handguns, ruling that Americans have the right to bear arms.
The ruling, by five votes to four, found that the Washington ban violated Americans’ right to bear arms as guaranteed by the US constitution’s second amendment.
Thursday’s ruling, by the highest court in the US, [...]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - InBev NV was weighing its next steps on Friday after Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc dismissed its proposed $46.3 billion takeover bid as inadequate, although left the door open for an improvement.
“We will carefully study the letter and will respond in due course,” an InBev spokeswoman said.
The St Louis-based brewer’s board unanimously rejected the [...]