The USS Kirk’s rescue of 20,000 to 30,000 Vietnamese refugees in the last days of the Vietnam War is now being heralded as one of the most important humanitarian missions in the history of the U.S. Navy.
The Justice Department accuses Hakimullah Mehsud of planning the December 2009 attack in which a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing a Jordanian intelligence officer and seven CIA employees. It also placed the Pakistani group on its international terrorism blacklist.
AP – A parish official says a Louisiana oil spill command center is shutting down over a dispute with BP over rent and other expenses
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Official: La. oil command center to shut over rent
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Reuters – Global miner BHP Billiton could look to divest the nitrogen and phosphates business of fertilizer maker Potash Corp if its $39 billion bid goes through, the Australian Financial Review reported on Monday.
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Reuters – Global miner BHP Billiton could look to divest the nitrogen and phosphates business of fertilizer maker Potash Corp if its $39 billion bid goes through, the Australian Financial Review reported on Monday.
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BHP could divest some Potash Corp’s assets: report
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In another blow to U.S. efforts to fight corruption in Afghanistan, one of the country’s most senior prosecutors says he was forced into early retirement by President Hamid Karzai. The prosecutor maintains that members of the Karzai government are blocking corruption investigations involving high-ranking officials. Host Liane Hansen talks to NPR’s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson in Kabul.
Reuters – Potash miner K+S is specialized enough to weather any takeover of Canadian rival Potash Corp and survive as a standalone entity, the German firm’s finance director told a newspaper.
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Reuters – American International Group Inc has scrapped plans to sell a strategic stake in its Asian life insurance business, AIA, ahead of its initial public offering, a source familiar with the process said on Friday.
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