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Rio Tinto Trial Highlights Communist Party Role in China's `Scary' Courts Foreign companies that do business in China will be tracking the criminal trial next week of Rio Tinto Group iron-ore chief Stern Hu and three colleagues to see if politics plays as big a role in any conviction as the evidence, lawyers said.

Bharti Said to Seek Legal Protection From Zain on $9 Billion Nigeria Deal Bharti Airtel Ltd, the Indian phone company planning a $9 billion purchase of Zain’s African assets, may ask Zain for legal protection from a dispute in Nigeria, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

Banks Win Court Bar to Instant Theflyonthewall.com Stock Analysis Reports Theflyonthewall.com, an online financial news service, was barred from issuing immediate online reports about stock upgrades and downgrades of Barclays Plc, Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley.

General Growth's New Offer Would Give It $6 Billion in Cash, Lawyer Says General Growth Properties Inc. will submit by next week a new proposal to reorganize its holding company that would give it more than $6 billion in cash and another $250 million to back a rights offering. It also won permission to reorganize five property-owning units.

Astrazeneca Wins Trial on Claim Antipsychotic Seroquel Caused Diabetes AstraZeneca Plc officials properly warned a Vietnam veteran’s doctors about the diabetes risk posed by its Seroquel antipsychotic drug, a jury ruled in the first case over the medicine to go to trial.

Lehman to Seek $11 Billion From Barclays, Including $5 Billion `Windfall' Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the investment bank liquidating in bankruptcy, said it was seeking a total of $11 billion from Barclays Plc, including a $5 billion “windfall” allegedly gained by the U.K. bank when it bought Lehman’s North American brokerage.

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