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Irish Police probe $6.9b Cerberus loans deal
DUBLIN: Police in Northern Ireland opened a criminal probe of claims surrounding Cerberus Capital Management LP’s purchase of 4.5 billion...
China’s auto output falls 0.22%, sales drop 2.31% in June
BEIJING: China's automobile production and sales saw slower growth in the first half of 2015, an industry report showed here...
AMD pulls up optimizations for its PC gaming API Mantle, not release any performance in future
NEW YORK: The US-based graphics card specialist AMD is pulling up optimizations for its PC gaming API Mantle, for current...
US customs confiscates 2.4 pounds of meth at El Paso port of entry
EL PASO: U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the El Paso port of entry seized 2.4 pounds of methamphetamine...
Canada customs seizes firearm at Fort Frances port of entry
OTTAWA: Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) investigators have charged a Missouri man with non-report of goods, wilful evasion, possession of...
Pluto’s geology comes into focuses by new horizon probe
CANADA: The New Horizons probe, hurtling ever closer to Pluto, is beginning to pick up clear signs of surface geology,...
Astronomers found giant black hole massive as 7 billion suns
LONDON: A newfound giant black hole nearly as massive as 7 billion suns is dozens of times larger than astronomers...
Hong Kong Customs seizes 10.6 tons red sandalwood worth $850,000
HONG KONG: The Hong Kong Customs seized about 10.6 tons of smuggled logs of suspected red sandalwood, an endangered species...
Taiwan Customs foils attempt for smuggling firearms
TAIPEI: The Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau (MJIB) announced that they detained a man trying to smuggle three handguns into...
New Pluto images show signs of surface geology
FRANCE: The New Horizons probe, hurtling ever closer to Pluto, is beginning to pick up clear signs of surface geology,...
Dover port authority warns strike against Calais disruption
LONDON: Britain will soon face ‘empty supermarket shelves’ if militant French strikers continue inflicting chaos on Calais, UK port bosses...
Electricity trade rises between US, Canada, boosting reliability
Dive Brief: Electricity trade between the United States and Canada is helping to boost reliability and affordability, according to the...
Malaysia marine police seize contraband goods
TAWAU: A marine police team seized subsidized goods, a motorcycle and a boat, and detained two Indonesian men for trying...
Kuwait Customs seizes 160,000 captagon pills
KUWAIT CITY: Nearly 160,000 captagon pills were busted inside a shipment that arrived from an Arab country through air cargo....
Qatar’s Vodafone campaign raises QR450,000 for charity
DOHA: Vodafone’s hugely successful fundraising challenge, #GivingChallenge has raised a total of QR450,000, the company announced here the other day....
Nigeria convicted Congolese over $511,225.00 money laundering
LAGOS: Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos convicted one Kutumisana Mbuta Blaise, from the Democratic...
Two Chinese firms to invest $100m in Indonesia’s shipping industry
JAKARTA: Two Chinese firms have expressed interest in investing US$100 million in Indonesia’s shipping industry. The interest was revealed to...
HK customs seizes 1.6kg cocaine at airport
HONG KONG: Customs officials seized about 1.6 kilos of suspected cocaine – worth an estimated HKD1.83 million on the streets...
Seabird populations declined 70% since 1950s
MEXICO: The world's monitored seabird populations have dramatically declined by 70 per cent since the 1950s, a stark indication that...
Brazil regulator approves Shell’s $70b BG acquisition
BRASILIA: Royal Dutch Shell Plc obtained regulatory approval from Brazil to buy BG Group Plc, clearing another antitrust hurdle to...
