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| U.S. says HP Russia unit pleads guilty in bribery probe |
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| SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard's Russia unit pleaded guilty on Thursday to felony violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and will pay about $108 million in penalties, the U.S. Justice Department said. HP Russia admitted to creating a secret slush fund and bribing Russian officials to secure a large technology contract worth more than 35 million Euros, the Justice Department said. HP had no immediate comment. (Reporting by Dan Levine; Editing by David Gregorio) |
| Mexican companies sue Yahoo, law firm charge conspiracy to avoid $2.7 bln judgment |
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 By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two Mexican companies have sued Yahoo! Inc and law firm Baker & McKenzie in New York federal court, accusing them of engineering a conspiracy to avoid a $2.7 billion judgment issued by a Mexico court in 2012. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, Worldwide Directories S.A. de C.V. and Ideas Interactivas S.A. de C.V. said Yahoo and Baker & McKenzie enlisted the help of a senior Mexican judge and other court personnel to "corrupt the appeals process and overturn the judgment." A spokeswoman for Yahoo declined to comment. ...
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| Lawmakers support Obama's expanded plan to fight Islamic State |
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 By Patricia Zengerle and Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives voiced support on Thursday for President Barack Obama's expanded campaign against Islamic State militants, but members of his party questioned whether the plan to rely mainly on air strikes and arming Syrian rebels was forceful enough. Obama sent a panel of top administration officials to the Capitol to make the case to the U.S. Congress for broadening operations against the Sunni militants, including U.S. ...
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| U.S. wins Arab support for Syria/Iraq military campaign |
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 By Jason Szep JEDDAH (Reuters) - The United States signed up Arab allies on Thursday to a "coordinated military campaign" against Islamic State fighters, a major step in building regional support for President Barack Obama's plan to strike both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi frontier. After talks in Saudi Arabia's summer capital Jeddah, Secretary of State John Kerry won backing from 10 Arab countries - Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and six Gulf states including rich rivals Saudi Arabia and Qatar - for a coalition to fight the Sunni militants that have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria. ...
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| China anti-trust regulator fines Volkswagen JV and Chrysler unit |
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 SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's anti-monopoly regulator on Thursday announced its first-ever punishment of foreign carmakers for price-fixing, fining a Chinese venture of Volkswagen AG and the China sales unit of Fiat's Chrysler a combined $46 million. The penalties raised the possibility of similar fines being levied against other global players such as Daimler's Mercedes-Benz and Tata Motor Ltd's Jaguar Land Rover, which are being probed for possible anti-competitive behaviour. ...
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| Heiress might sell Klimt painting in looted art dispute |
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| By Shadia Nasralla VIENNA (Reuters) - A portrait by Gustav Klimt could be put up for sale, potentially fetching over $30 million, to resolve a dispute between a Viennese art foundation and the granddaughter of the woman in the painting, a lawyer for the granddaughter said on Thursday. Klimt, an Austrian symbolist, painted the portrait of Gertrud Loew in 1902 and it belonged to her at least until 1938, a year before she fled Austria to escape the Nazis. Her U.S. ... |
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