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Morgan Stanley First-Quarter Income Rises to Chronicle High

Wall Street’s top stock traders got some help from their bond brethren. Morgan Stanley posted a surprise jump in fixed-income trading, which combined with better-than-expected equities results helped push revenue above $11 billion for the first time ever. First-quarter profit, boosted by corporate tax cuts, also rose to an all-time high. Chief Executive Officer James…

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Rohit uses ‘most sharp platform’ to switch Mumbai fortunes

If Rohit Sharma’s decision to bat at No. 4 after Mumbai Indians’ first two games was to play the anchor role in the middle order, it seemed to have flopped as soon as their innings started against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Umesh Yadav’s two swinging deliveries removed Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan for golden ducks, and…

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Pakistan’s ‘disappeared’: The worth of the battle in opposition to Taliban

Rawalpindi/Peshawar, Pakistan – As lightning cuts across the darkened Peshawar sky, Manzoor Pashteen implores thousands of demonstrators to no longer be afraid. The rain lashes down upon them, as they stand in rapt attention, listening to the leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a civil rights movement that has quickly risen to national prominence…

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Iran’s Rouhani: We won’t await approval to fabricate weapons

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has declared that Tehran will not wait for any permission to produce the weapons it needs to defend the country. In a speech marking Iran’s Army Day on Wednesday, Rouhani said a strong military is an effective deterrence against foreign threats.  « If there is any weapon we need, we will develop…

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Britain will be hotter than Malibu, Athens and Rome this week

Britain is set to bask in sizzling temperatures for the next two weeks as the ‘African blowtorch’ brings highs of 80F (26C) across parts of the UK. A 1,500-mile wide front of hot air branded as the ‘blowtorch’ will reportedly see the hottest April day in a decade before heating up later on in the week.   …

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Carl Icahn has taken a ‘medium’-sized stake in VMware, sources explain

Legendary activist investor Carl Icahn has accumulated a medium-sized stake in VMware, according to sources familiar with the matter. Icahn’s stake is below the 5 percent threshold that mandates public disclosure. It’s unclear if Icahn has a particular agenda or is pushing for anything specific from VMware or Dell, which owns about 80 percent of…

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The day outspoken Barbara Bush regretted speaking her thoughts

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara Bush leaned over the seat on Air Force Two and glared at me. It was 1984, and her husband, Vice President George Bush, was running for re-election with President Ronald Reagan. On that day, she was fuming and she didn’t bother hiding it. « It rhymes with rich, » she told me, describing…

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After Eastern Ghouta siege ends, health care is in short present

As the buses with people who were forced from their homes left parts of Eastern Ghouta, government forces and allied militia moved in after five years of siege and bombings.  Pro-Assad government television crews rushed in to show how the enclave had been run by rebel fighters, who they call « terrorists ». Relentless bombardment had forced…

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UAE rights activist Ahmed Mansoor achieve on trial in Abu Dhabi

The trial of an Emirati human rights activist, who was arrested after falling foul of the country’s cybercrime laws, has started in the UAE’s capital, Abu Dhabi.  Ahmed Mansoor was arrested on March 20 last year after authorities accused him of using his social media accounts to publish « false information » and « spread hatred and sectarianism ».…