Exxon Mobil will retain about a 20 percent stake in TonenGeneral but the deal will mark a de facto retreat from the world’s third-largest economy by the U.S. oil giant, which is focusing its resources on emerging markets and development of natural resources.The move could also spark realignment among Japan’s oil refiners, which have been cutting capacity to cope with falling demand caused by a weak economy and a shift to more efficient and environmentally friendly forms of energy, analysts have said.Reuters reported earlier this month that Exxon was in talks to sell part of the stake back to TonenGeneral.TonenGeneral, which imports and distributes Exxon oil in Japan, ranks as the country’s No. 2 refiner behind JX Holdings (symbol_5020.T_25020.T). Smaller rivals include Idemitsu Kosan Co (symbol_5019.T_35019.T), Cosmo Oil (symbol_5007.T_45007.T) and Showa Shell (symbol_5002.T_55002.T).Exxon and TonenGeneral aim to complete the deal around summer, the sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity.TonenGeneral will seek funds from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, Sumitomo Trust Banking, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ and Mitsubishi Trust Bank to buy back the stake, the sources said.
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The probe is linked to a continuing investigation into phone hacking at the now-closed News of the World tabloid, published by News International, the British arm of Murdoch’s News Corp media empire.Saturday’s operation was the result of information passed to police by News Corp’s Management and Standards Committee, set up in the wake of the phone hacking scandal, London’s Metropolitan Police said.One of those being questioned on suspicion of corruption was a 29-year-old police officer serving with the Met Police’s Territorial Policing Command, who was arrested at the central London police station where he worked.The others, all arrested at their homes, were a 48-year-old man from north London and two men from Essex, east of the capital, aged 48 and 56.Searches at News International’s offices in Wapping, east London, and at the arrested men’s homes, were expected to continue until the afternoon, police said.The operation takes to 12 the number of arrests in a probe into allegations journalists paid police in return for information, known as Operation Elveden, one of three criminal investigations into the news-gathering practices of the News of the World.Last week, News International settled a string of legal claims after it admitted that people working for the tabloid had hacked in to the private phones of celebrities and others to generate stories.The phone hacking scandal drew attention to the level of political influence held by editors and executives at News International, and other newspapers in Britain.It embarrassed British politicians for their close ties with newspaper executives and also the police, who repeatedly failed to investigate allegations of illegal phone hacking. News International had no immediate comment on Saturday’s police operation, a spokeswoman for the media group said.
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The American, who won Friday’s super-combined in the Swiss resort, triumphed again with a time of one minute 43. 5 seconds and will go for the hat-trick on Sunday, when another super-combined is scheduled.For her eighth top spot of the season, Vonn beat closest rival Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany by an impressive 1. 2 seconds at the finish.Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather was third, 0. 5 behind Hoefl-Riesch, last season’s overall World Cup winner.Vonn has now won 49 World Cup races, half of them downhills, and is the second most successful female downhill skier of all time, level with retired Austrian Renate Goetschl.In the World Cup standings, she leads Slovenia’s Tina Maze, who finished fourth, by 352 points.
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President Bashir is ready to make this gesture. Sudan is going to release the vessels detained in Port Sudan, he told a media conference in the Ethiopian capital.South Sudan said on Monday it started shutting down oil production and accused Sudan of seizing $815 million worth of crude, escalating an increasingly bitter row over oil revenues between the former civil war foes.
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The probe is linked to a continuing investigation into phone hacking at the now-closed News of the World tabloid, published by News International, the British arm of Murdoch’s News Corp media empire.Saturday’s operation was the result of information passed to police by News Corp’s Management and Standards Committee, set up in the wake of the phone hacking scandal, London’s Metropolitan Police said.One of those being questioned on suspicion of corruption was a 29-year-old police officer serving with the Met Police’s Territorial Policing Command, who was arrested at the central London police station where he worked.The others, all arrested at their homes, were a 48-year-old man from north London and two men from Essex, east of the capital, aged 48 and 56.Searches at News International’s offices in Wapping, east London, and at the arrested men’s homes, were expected to continue until the afternoon, police said.The operation takes to 12 the number of arrests in a probe into allegations journalists paid police in return for information, known as Operation Elveden, one of three criminal investigations into the news-gathering practices of the News of the World.Last week, News International settled a string of legal claims after it admitted that people working for the tabloid had hacked in to the private phones of celebrities and others to generate stories.The phone hacking scandal drew attention to the level of political influence held by editors and executives at News International, and other newspapers in Britain.It embarrassed British politicians for their close ties with newspaper executives and also the police, who repeatedly failed to investigate allegations of illegal phone hacking. News International had no immediate comment on Saturday’s police operation, a spokeswoman for the media group said.
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Among those who died were a woman, a security guard and three election duty staff, when suspected tribal rebels attacked a polling booth in the state’s Chandel district.The militants are suspected to be from the National Socialist Council of Nagaland faction, a police officer said.No group, however, has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.Strife-ridden Manipur, bordering Myanmar, is the first of five Indian states to go to polls in early 2012 to elect a state legislature.The Congress party, which leads the federal coalition government, is expected to retain office.CorCom, an alliance of seven separatist Manipuri groups who view India as a colonial power, blamed the Congress government for degeneration of the Manipuri society … to the present state of social, moral, economic and political bankruptcy (http://bankruptcy.ieurope.net).We are fighting against the Indian occupation of Manipur. So as a part of fighting Indian occupation we ban the Congress and their agents in Manipur, the alliance said in an e-mail received by Reuters late on Friday.The group claimed responsibility for a grenade attack on a Congress candidate’s home last week.
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Divers found the body on the submerged part of the vessel’s sixth deck, emergency service officials said.
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Turkey was due to meet Gulf Arab states later in the day to reinforce support for an Arab call for Assad to quit. The Arab League and Western countries are pushing for a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria, resisted by Assad’s ally Russia.Elsewhere in Syria, security forces firing mortars at the northeastern town of Quwaira killed an infant, activists said.An oil pipeline was also set ablaze in the town at dawn, although it was not immediately clear if this was the work of saboteurs or the result of firing by security forces. The pipeline supplies crude oil to the Banias refinery.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops were battling rebels in the central town of Rastan and that security forces had killed a man in the southern province of Deraa and another at a checkpoint in Harasta, near Damascus.Activists also reporting fighting between armored forces and rebels at the edges of the Damascus suburb of Irbin.The reported killings in Hama occurred during a military offensive this week that intensified a five-month-old crackdown on the conservative Sunni Muslim city, where Assad’s father crushed an armed Islamist revolt in 1982 and killed thousands.They were killed execution-style, mostly with one bullet to the head. Iron chains that had tied them were left on their legs as a message to the people to stop resisting, Abu al-Walid, an activist in the city, told Reuters by telephone.Another activist said the bodies, their hands tied with plastic wire and some with their legs chained, were dumped in the streets of five Hama neighborhoods on Thursday evening.Turkey, hosting a meeting with Gulf Arab foreign ministers later in the day, urged Syria’s leadership to comply with an Arab League transition plan that calls on Assad to step down. We are siding with the Syrian people and their legitimate demands, Turkish President Abdullah Gul was also quoted as saying by the United Arab Emirates newspaper al-Bayan. MORE SYRIANS FLEE CONFLICT2Turkish officials say the number of Syrians seeking sanctuary in Turkey has risen in the past six weeks, with 50 to 60 arriving daily, taking the total living in refugee camps to nearly 9,600 from about 7,000 previously. More than 6,000 Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon. Turkey, which spent years rebuilding relations with Syria, turned against Assad after he ignored its advice to enact reforms to calm what began in March as a peaceful uprising against his rule, inspired by Arab revolts elsewhere. Diplomatic pressure has failed so far to persuade Damascus to halt a violent crackdown on what the government says are armed terrorists implementing a foreign-inspired conspiracy.The United Nations, which estimated in mid-December that more than 5,000 people had been killed, says it can no longer keep track of the death toll. The government says insurgents have killed more than 2,000 soldiers and policemen.The U.N. Security Council discussed a new European-Arab draft resolution on Friday aimed at halting the bloodshed.Russia, which joined China in vetoing a previous Western draft resolution in October and which has since promoted its own draft, said the European-Arab version was unacceptable in its present form but added that it was willing to engage on it.Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin criticized the draft, which endorses the Arab transition plan.Moscow, he said, wants a Syrian-led political process, not an Arab League-imposed outcome of a political process that has not yet taken place or Libyan-style regime change.Britain and France said they hope to put the draft to a vote next week after Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby and the Qatari prime minister brief the council on Syria on Tuesday.The draft, obtained by Reuters, calls for a political transition in Syria. While not calling for U.N. sanctions against Damascus, it says the council could adopt further measures if Syria does not comply with the resolution.Russia and Iran are among Syria’s few remaining allies.With Prime Minister Vladimir Putin facing the biggest protests of his 12-year rule and planning to return to the Kremlin in a March presidential vote, Russia wants to avoid approval of any regime change engineered from outside.
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The 22-year-old’s first grand slam title also means that she will become the new world number one when the WTA rankings are released on Monday.While virtually carbon copies of each other in terms of height and playing style, Azarenka had won the two previous finals between the pair, both on hardcourts, and the players’ entrances could not have been more prophetic.Carrying a designer handbag Sharapova was stalked down the tunnel by the hooded Azarenka, exuding a sense of menace as she stayed in the shadows.The mugging by the first timer, when it did come, was brutally efficient. It took until the third game of the match, but by then the visible signs of anxiety(anxiety) were gone.Azarenka had dropped her opening service game, was trailing 2-0 and 0-30 down in her second when she finally realized she had Sharapova’s match.Attacking at every opportunity, Azarenka used her better speed and footwork to absorb and negate the Russian’s power game and bashed her about the baseline at will.The Belarusian overcame the early deficit and broke Sharapova twice on the way to taking the first set in 46 minutes.With the Russian down to one knee, Azarenka did not let up her attack, breaking Sharapova’s serve in the first game of the second set and then holding off a break point in the next game.She soon ran away with the set and the match, claiming the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup when Sharapova blasted a backhand into the net, sending Azarenka sinking to her knees proclaiming I can’t believe it before rushing over to embrace those sitting in her support box. Azarenka became the third woman, after Evonne Goolagong-Cawley and Chris O’Neil, to win the junior and senior singles title at Melbourne Park. She won the junior title in 2005.
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Exxon Mobil will retain about a 20 percent stake in TonenGeneral but the deal will mark a de facto retreat from the world’s third-largest economy by the U.S. oil giant, which is focusing its resources on emerging markets and development of natural resources.
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