opportunistic

move against the main opposition party, the CHP, which was in power at the time of the massacre.

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Germany has struggled to borrow all the money it sought from the financial markets. The government wanted to sell $8bn worth of 10-year bonds, but managed only half that. Here's Andrew Walker.

Sometimes these partial failures, if you like, of government bond sales do occur, but this one is regarded by a lot of people in the financial markets as being particularly unwelcome - partly I think a general spread of the anxiety about the whole euro area, spreading from first the smaller

peripheral

countries to some of the larger ones like Italy, even France. And now it does look like some investors are more reluctant than they were to hold even German government debt.

Brazil is temporarily suspending the American company Chevron from drilling for oil in its territory. The National Petroleum Agency said it would suspend Chevron Brazil's activities until it had established the cause of an oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. Chevron has apologised for the leak.

A court in France has agreed to a request by Panama for the extradition of its former military ruler Manuel Noriega. He's wanted for

embezzlement

and the murder of two opponents during his time in power between 1983 and 1989. He's been serving a prison sentence in France for money laundering.