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 Ghosts of ethnic strife haunt Ghana vote ACCRA (Reuters) - When Ghanaian parliamentary hopeful Ursula Owusu toured the capital Accra to watch voters register for December's elections, events took a turn for the worse at one of the downtown markets she visited. "I heard people saying 'leave this place, leave this place, what are you doing here? ... The next thing I knew was pah, pah - slaps from behind," said Owusu, a candidate for the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). Pointing to a cut on her face, Owusu alleges she and her team were set upon by around 20 "heavily built men" wielding broken bottles and hurling stones. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:03:34Z Brad Pitt brings 'Killing Them Softly' to Cannes  Brad Pitt has arrived in Cannes with a hardboiled crime film featuring heavy doses of President Barack Obama and a backdrop of the economic crisis.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:01:59Z Egypt court convicts police over protest deaths CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced five policemen on Tuesday to 10 years each in prison for their role in killing protesters in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, the first such convictions against a force that was blamed for hundreds of deaths. One of the driving forces behind demonstrations that have erupted since Mubarak was ousted in February last year has been anger that no officials or police have been held accountable for the deaths of more than 850 people during the uprising. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:05:32Z Italy frees up to ?30BN to pay overdue bills The Italian government is to free up to €30 billion ($38.25 billion) to make overdue payments to businesses that have supplied goods or services to state institutions. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:12:30Z Gingrich's private ventures are going bankrupt  (Reuters) - ATLANTA - When he entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in May 2011, Newt Gingrich was the prosperous head of a small empire commonly known as Newt Inc, which included both for-profit consultancies and nonprofit foundations. Altogether, these entwined ventures pulled in more than $110 million over the past decade. Now the vestiges of this empire are mired in debt, as is Gingrich's campaign fund. ...Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:08:48Z |