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...plan faltered at the first hurdle, when the Yemeni security guards refused the vehicle entry through the checkpoint. The militants then opened fire and detonated the bomb, which killed several guards and militants, eyewitnesses told journalists. The explosion set off a huge plume of black smoke over Sana'a as nervous U.S. diplomats, according to the source, headed for a specially designed secure room in the basement of the embassy building. One of the suicide bombers' arms was found later on a nearby street...
...bankruptcy seem to lie not with its core insurance businesses but with its derivatives-trading subsidiary AIG Financial Products. AIG FP, as it's called, merits a mere paragraph in the nine-page description of the company's businesses in its most recent annual report. But it's a huge player in the new and mysterious business of credit-default swaps: derivative securities that allow banks, hedge funds and other financial players to insure against loans gone...
...Obviously, Professor Matory will be a huge loss to our department,” she wrote in an e-mailed statement. “His research and teaching cover Africa and the Americas. This level of breadth will be hard to duplicate, if not impossible...
...unlikely that the whole thing consists of an independent crime committed by the dairy farmers", says Li Fangping, one of the Beijing-based lawyers who will be representing the parent group. "The poisonous milk powder was allowed in the market for so long and the scale of consequences is huge...
...clearly, the financial sector in the U.S. is facing a huge crisis. When you have two big companies like Bear Stearns and Lehman vanish, and Merrill Lynch being absorbed, that tells you a lot about the difficulties being faced by the financial sector...