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Centro in $690 million shopping deal with Stan Perron

2, | Staff | May 17, 2012

SHOPPING centre owner Centro Retail Australia has offloaded 50 per cent shares in three of its top-line shopping centres to Perth-based billionaire Stan Perron for $...

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European crisis will force more RBA rate cuts, says McKibbin

2, | Staff | May 17, 2012

EUROPE'S worsening debt crisis will force Australia's government to scrap plans to reverse on a budget deficit and deliver a surplus, an influential former board mem...

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Signs of progress in blind Chinese activist’s bid to study abroad

2, | Staff | May 17, 2012

A blind Chinese activist who sparked a diplomatic crisis by fleeing into the U.S. Embassy last month filled out a Chinese passport application and posed for a photo ...

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George W. Bush unlikely to have role in Romney campaign

3, , | Editor | May 17, 2012

George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race — with four short words. “I’m for Mitt Romney,” the former president said Tuesday as the doors of his elev...

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Daughter of Cuban leader Raul Castro to visit U.S.

3, , | Editor | May 17, 2012

Cuban President Raul Castro’s daughter is scheduled to visit California next week to speak at a conference of experts on Latin America during a rare U.S. trip by a m...

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Russian textbooks to expose ‘falsifications of history’

2, | Editor | May 17, 2012

Russia has commissioned new school textbooks that condemn "falsifications of history" and paint the Soviet Union in a more positive light in a bid to boost patriotis...

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Junior Seau’s San Diego restaurant closes after his death

1 | Editor | May 17, 2012

A San Diego restaurant owned by Junior Seau closed its doors for good on Wednesday, two weeks after the former football star shot himself to death at his beachfront ...

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Ratko Mladic masterminded ethnic cleansing, court told

1 | Editor | May 17, 2012

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe’s worst massacre sin...

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Judge to lead Greece to fateful June 17 election

2, | Editor | May 17, 2012

Greece put a senior judge in charge of an emergency government on Wednesday to lead it to new elections on June 17 and bankers sought to calm public fears after the ...

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Jerry Sandusky seeks to have charges tossed in Penn State abuse case

2, | Editor | May 17, 2012

Jerry Sandusky is again asking a judge to throw out the child sexual abuse charges against him, arguing that some counts are too vague to defend and others involve a...