填空题 A. Philippine Capital Paralysed/Hit by Floods
B. BP Posts Unexpectedly Large Loss
C. A Former Worker Admits 2.4m Fraud
D. Russian Prosecutors Charge Protest Movement Leader
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LONDON: Britain Petroleum, Europe"s second-largest oil company, reported a $1.4 billion loss Tuesday for the three-month period ended June 30. The main reason for the loss was $4.8 billion in write-downs on refineries, shale gas assets in the United States and a long-delayed project in Alaska.
The earnings will do nothing to assuage the concerns of investors, who are already discontented with the performance of the company and its chief executive, Bob Dudley. BP"s share price was down 4 percent in afternoon trading in London.
"This is a very, very disappointing set of results; they missed across all fronts by a wide margin," said Peter Hutton, an oil analyst at RBC Capital Markets in London. Stripping out the $4.8 billion in write-downs, BP"s results were still 17 percent below the consensus estimates of analysts, Mr. Hutton Said.
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MOSCOW: Russian prosecutors charged the blogger and anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny on Tuesday with embezzlement, a statute that carries a sentence of 5 to 10 years in prison, the Kremlin"s most direct measure to date against a leader of the protest movement that erupted here in December.
The State Investigative Committee accused Mr. Navalny of organizing a scheme to steal timber from a state-owned company called KirovLes when he was acting as an unpaid adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, resulting in losses of just under $500,000 to the regional budget. Mr. Navalny was released on his own recognizance but signed a promise not to leave Moscow while the charges are pending.
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London: A former head of security at Lloyds Bank has been charged in connection with an alleged 2.5m fraud.
Jessica Harper, 50, of Croydon, south London, is accused of submitting false invoices to claim payments, between September 2008 and December 2011. At the time she was working as head of fraud and security for digital banking and allegedly made false claims totaling 2,463, 750.
Ms Harper will appear at Westminster Magistrates" Court on 31 May. She has been charged with one count of fraud by abuse of position.
The bank, which is now 39.7% state-owned after being bailed out by the government during the financial crisis, refused to comment on the charging of Ms Harper.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said she was arrested on 21 December 2011 by officers from its fraud squad.
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Manila. Flooding caused by torrential rain has paralysed parts of Manila, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes and closing schools, offices and the stock exchange.
Officials said that water was up to waist and neck levels in some areas. More than 50 people died when Typhoon Saola struck more than a week ago.
Widespread flooding has been reported in the capital and the surrounding provinces, according to a statement from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
The severity of the rain since Monday afternoon has led officials to issue the highest level of alert. For many Manila residents, these rains will be a reminder of the deadly floods caused by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, which killed more than 400 people, our correspondent adds.