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 Chicago police get high marks for NATO protests  The sight of Chicago police raising billy clubs against demonstrators Sunday was the kind of image that has dogged the city's police force longer than most of those who clashed with protesters have been alive.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:41:25Z Egypt: 5 police sentenced for killing protesters An Egyptian court sentenced five policemen to 10 years in prison in absentia on Tuesday for killing protesters, in a rare conviction of security officials accused of using deadly force against the demonstrations that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:50:09Z Italy frees up to $38BN 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 : 2012-05-22T12:30:46Z Japan opposition hints at tax deal if spending plans cut TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's main opposition party appeared to offer a compromise after months of stalemate over a proposed sales tax hike, with a senior official saying it could cooperate with the government on the tax plan if it dropped its costly welfare spending pledges. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda needs the support of the opposition, which controls the upper house of parliament, to push through his plan to double the 5 percent sales tax by 2015, seen as a first step in efforts to curb Japan's snowballing public debt. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:33:40Z IMF calls on UK to do more to boost economy  The International Monetary Fund has issued a tough assessment of U.K. economic policy, urging the coalition government and Bank of England to do more to boost demand in the economy.Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:43:37Z South Africa protesters deface Zuma penis portrait JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two men vandalised a portrait of South African President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed on Tuesday, intensifying a heated debate about the picture that has enraged the ruling African National Congress. Television footage showed a white middle-aged man in a suit walking up to the portrait at a Johannesburg gallery and painting a red cross on president's face and private parts. A younger black man then smeared black paint over the picture while the first man was being taken into custody by security guards. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T12:35:00Z |