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  ING Wins Partial Victory in Court Challenge to European Commission Ruling

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  ING Groep NV won a court ruling forcing European Union regulators to re-examine the conditions they imposed on the Dutch lender’s government rescue in the wake of the financial crisis.

• Shell Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Bar Human-Rights Suit

  Royal Dutch Shell Plc asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the company can’t be sued by Nigerians seeking damages for torture and murders committed by their government in the early 1990s.

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  Shell’s Cove Bid Starts Race for East African Gas Fields: Energy

  Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s $1.6 billion bid for Cove Energy Plc starts a race to develop natural-gas fields off Mozambique’s Indian Ocean coast that may hold more than Norway’s entire reserves.

• Shell’s Director Brinded Steps Down to Be Replaced by Brown

  Royal Dutch Shell Plc said Malcolm Brinded, a 37-year veteran at the company, will step down as exploration and production director and be replaced by Andrew Brown, currently Shell’s Qatar chairman.

• Dutch Prince Friso’s Condition Remains Critical; No Prognosis

  Friso van Oranje, the second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, remains in stable but critical condition after a Feb. 17 skiing accident, the Dutch Government Information Service said.

• Dutch Prince’s Life Still in Danger After Skiing Accident

  Friso van Oranje, the second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, remains in critical condition in an Austrian hospital after a skiing accident yesterday, the Dutch Government Information Service said.

• Dutch Prince Friso Is in Critical Condition After Avalanche While Skiing

  Friso van Oranje, the second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, is in critical condition in an Austrian hospital after being buried in an avalanche while skiing, the Dutch Government Information Service said.

• Germany Must Decide What the European Union Is For: Clive Crook

  For the past several decades Germany’s aim for Europe has been to create a wider and deeper union. In this way it sought to advance its economic and national-security interests, to bind itself to ever closer co- operation with its neighbors, and to atone for its history. Today, the system that it designed is in danger of coming apart, and newspapers in Italy and Greece carry digitally altered pictures of Angela Merkel in Nazi uniform.

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  Europe Said to Weigh ECB Role to Narrow Gap in Financing for Greek Bailout

  European governments are considering cutting interest rates on emergency loans to Greece and using contributions from the European Central Bank to plug a new financing gap in the second bailout program for Athens, two people familiar with the discussions said.

• Mechel Discount Deepens as Metals Drop on U.S.: Russia Overnight

  Russian stock futures fell and OAO Mechel slipped in New York, widening its discount to Moscow to the most in more than two weeks, as worse-than-expected U.S. retail sales damped the outlook for global commodity demand.

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