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Deals of the Hour / October 26, 2010, 7:39 am

Singapore Moves to Restructure Asia's Stock Exchange Model With Australia Merger

Singapore Exchange Ltd. ( SPXCF.PK ) announced Monday it agreed to buy Australia's main stock exchange, ASX Ltd. ( ASXFF.PK ), for $8.3 billion. The deal came about because both countries seek strength against growing Asian market competition, and ... (Source: Seekingalpha.com 2010-10-26T14:06:35Z)

South Korea shipping food aid to the North

SEOUL, South Korea — Freighters carrying aid shipments of rice and instant noodles left for North Korea on Monday, the first food aid the South Korean government has sent to the North since conservative President Lee Myung-bak was elected in early 2008 ... (Source: Bend Bulletin 2010-10-26T11:14:47Z)

Pakistan to U.S.: We have own agenda

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's foreign minister said yesterday that his country will deal with a key Taliban sanctuary along the Afghan border on its own timeline despite increasing U.S. pressure to move swiftly to help turn around the war in Afghanistan. Foreign ... (Source: Philadelphia Daily News 2010-10-25T06:58:16Z)

Canadian pleads guilty in Guantanamo trial

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Canadian captive Omar Khadr pleaded guilty on Monday to all five terrorism charges against him in the U.S. war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay naval base as part of a deal that could send him home to ... (Source: Reuters 2010-10-25T15:55:09Z)

CommScope in talks with Carlyle on $2.98B buyout

CommScope Inc. is talking to asset management firm Carlyle Group about being taken private in a deal valued at about $2.98 billion. The network infrastructure company said Monday that Carlyle Group would pay $31.50 per share in cash, a 36 percent premium ... (Source: Forbes 2010-10-26T01:13:29Z)

Governors' races offer some heated skirmishes

WASHINGTON (AP) – Some of the sharpest bare-knuckle skirmishes this election season are the races for governor, especially in states shouldering the highest unemployment rates and largest tax increases. Many also are important in presidential elections ... (Source: Sauk Valley Daily Gazette 2010-10-25T06:08:10Z)

SGX Takeover Of ASX Faces Political Hurdles

Singapore Exchange 's agreed $7.9 billion takeover of Australia's ASX faced a new hurdle after key political leaders voiced concern over the deal, sending ASX shares down 5.5 percent, Reuters reported. Australia's Greens Party, an influential bloc in ... (Source: New York Times Blogs 2010-10-26T08:37:18Z)

Secret Iraq war files from WikiLeaks document thousands more civilian deaths than US count

WASHINGTON (AP) — Military documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian bloodletting and criminal violence unleashed by the ... (Source: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel 2010-10-23T14:38:46Z)

Seoul names former beef talks negotiator as vice foreign minister

Seoul, Oct 26, 2010 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- Min Dong-seok, who led South Korea's negotiations that resulted in the resumption of American beef imports in 2008, has been named vice foreign minister, the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae announced ... (Source: Investors Business Daily 2010-10-26T05:24:02Z)

Paul The Octopus, World Cup Oracle, Dies

Paul the Octopus, the tentacled tipster who fascinated football fans by correctly predicting results at this year's World Cup, died Tuesday. Paul had reached the octopus old age of 2½ years and died in his tank on Tuesday morning in an aquarium in the ... (Source: NPR News 2010-10-26T14:13:44Z)

Australian lawmakers attack Singapore ASX takeover

CANBERRA, Australia -- Key lawmakers on Tuesday signaled they might scuttle the Singapore Exchange's $8.3 billion cash and shares takeover offer for the operator of the Australian bourse. Opposition Liberal Party treasury spokesman Joe Hockey raised ... (Source: Forbes 2010-10-26T09:27:25Z)

WikiLeaks documents show Iraq torture continued after Obama order to stop

Documents also show that U.S. interrogators continued to question Iraqi detainees, some of whom were still recovering from injuries or whose wounds were still visible after being held by Iraqi security forces. "We have not turned a blind eye," U.S. State ... (Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer 2010-10-26T13:59:25Z)

World Cup soccer's psychic octopus Paul dies in Germany

BERLIN (Reuters Life!) – Paul, the oracle octopus who shot to fame in the World Cup this summer for his uncanny ability to predict the results of Germany's soccer matches, has died at his home in Oberhausen at the age of two. English-born Paul made ... (Source: YAHOO! 2010-10-26T14:20:54Z)

MN man reaches plea deal in North Dakota stabbing

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- A Minnesota man charged with attempted murder in a North Dakota stabbing has reached an agreement with prosecutors. If a judge accepts the deal on Dec. 8, 20-year-old Trevor Zahradka of East Grand Forks, Minn., would serve 2 1/2 years ... (Source: msnbc.com 2010-10-23T02:21:28Z)

WikiLeaks documents offer vivid insights into Iraq war

A huge trove of secret field reports from the battlegrounds of Iraq sheds new light on the war, including such fraught subjects as civilian deaths, detainee abuse and the involvement of Iran. The secret archive is the second cache obtained by the ... (Source: Detroit News 2010-10-23T04:58:57Z)

CommScope in talks with Carlyle about being taken private for about $3 billion, shares soar

NEW YORK (AP) — CommScope Inc. is talking to asset management firm Carlyle Group about being taken private in a deal valued at about $2.98 billion. The network infrastructure company said Monday that Carlyle Group would pay $31.50 per share in cash, a 36 ... (Source: Chicago Tribune 2010-10-25T13:31:59Z)

Governors' races offer some of the sharpest skirmishes

WASHINGTON -- Some of the sharpest bare-knuckle skirmishes this election season are the races for governor, especially in states shouldering the highest unemployment rates and largest tax increases. Many also are important in presidential elections, and ... (Source: Newark Advocate 2010-10-25T11:01:39Z)

Paul, the Octopus Who Predicted World Cup Matches, Dies

Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters Paul the octopus predicted Spain's 2010 World Cup final victory over the Netherlands in July by choosing a mussel from a glass box decorated with the Spanish flag instead of the Dutch flag. Sad news from Germany: Paul the octopus ... (Source: New York Times Blogs 2010-10-26T14:13:44Z)

CommScope Shares Pop Amid Carlyle Deal Talks

Shares in CommScope , the telecommunications equipment maker, jumped about 30 percent on Monday after the company confirmed a DealBook report that it was in talks to sell itself to the Carlyle Group . CommScope's shares hovered at about $30 as of ... (Source: New York Times Blogs 2010-10-25T15:55:09Z)

U.S. signals urgency of U.S.-South Korea free trade deal

WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. official said Monday that the United States and South Korea "cannot afford to fail" in talks meant to settle differences on a long-stalled free trade deal. The comments by Kurt Campbell, the top U.S. diplomat for Asia, come ... (Source: Register Citizen 2010-10-26T06:14:08Z)

Pakistan rebuffs U.S. pressure

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's foreign minister said Sunday that his country will deal with a key Taliban sanctuary along the Afghan border on its own timeline despite increasing U.S. pressure to move swiftly to help turn around the war in Afghanistan. Foreign ... (Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune 2010-10-25T01:50:28Z)

Sioux women hold off South Dakota for second straight day

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - The University of North Dakota women's swimming and diving team registered win No. 3 on Saturday afternoon at the Hyslop Pool with a 188-104 victory over South Dakota. Fisher captured her second individual event title of the weekend ... (Source: UND Fighting Sioux 2010-10-24T19:52:33Z)

Governors' races offer some of sharpest skirmishes

Some of the sharpest bare-knuckle skirmishes this election season are the races for governor, especially in states shouldering the highest unemployment rates and largest tax increases. Many also are important in presidential elections, and both parties are ... (Source: AP - msnbc.com 2010-10-25T12:41:52Z)

USD falls short against Utah Valley

The University of South Dakota women's soccer team was within 1-0 at halftime but Utah Valley added two more goals in the second half to record a 3-0 win over the Coyotes in Great West Conference action Sunday in Vermillion, S.D. USD (4-10-2, 1-4-0 GWC ... (Source: KSFY.com 2010-10-24T23:27:18Z)

Pakistan resists U.S. push on terror fight

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said Sunday his country would deal with a key Taliban sanctuary along the Afghan border on its own timeline despite increasing U.S. pressure to move swiftly to help turn around the war in ... (Source: Philadelphia Daily News 2010-10-26T07:04:15Z)

Monticello woman reaches deal in suit over drug-overdose death of her son

A lawsuit in North Dakota involving the parents of a South Dakota bodybuilder who died of a drug overdose has been settled out of court. Authorities say 34-year-old Clinton Bitz of Sioux Falls, S.D., died in April 2007 from an acute Fentanyl overdose ... (Source: St. Cloud Times 2010-10-25T05:32:22Z)

Deal or no deal: Last-minute plea deal could halt trial of Canadian held at Guantanamo

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A Canadian who has been in U.S. custody since he was a teenager could see an end to eight years of legal limbo on Monday as his war crimes trial resumes amid talk of a possible last-minute plea deal to spare him a life ... (Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune 2010-10-25T07:55:32Z)

Maine blitzes UND 7-3

ORONO, Maine — Brian Flynn had two of Maine's five first-period goals as the Black Bears cruised to a 7-3 win over second-ranked UND on Friday in men's college hockey. Gustav Nyquist had a goal and two assists and Robby Dee and Tanner House added a ... (Source: Grand Forks Herald 2010-10-23T04:01:41Z)

Task force to examine UND presence downtown

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- It's working well in Fargo, and now Grand Forks city leaders are setting up a task force to look at extending the University of North Dakota's presence downtown. UND President Robert Kelley has spoken repeatedly of his desire to ... (Source: msnbc.com 2010-10-25T17:13:53Z)

Canadian pleads guilty to murder

GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – A Canadian accused of killing an American soldier as a teenage al-Qaeda militant pleaded guilty Monday as part of a deal that avoids a war crimes trial for someone labeled a "child soldier" by his defenders. Omar Khadr ... (Source: Dallas Morning News 2010-10-26T13:16:29Z)

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