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Ex-Ukraine PM Tymoshenko's U.S. racketeering lawsuit dismissed

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Manhattan federal judge on Friday dismissed former Ukrainian prime minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko’s civil lawsuit accusing her political opponents of running a U.S.-based racketeering enterprise that led to her imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood said Tymoshenko failed to show that the industrialist Dmytro Firtash and other defendants laundered money in the United States to help pay Ukraine prosecutors and

Silver Wheaton Receives TSX Approval for a Normal Course Issuer Bid

[PR Newswire] – VANCOUVER, Sept. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Silver Wheaton Corp. (“Silver Wheaton” or the “Company”) (SLW) (SLW) announces that the Toronto Stock Exchange (the “TSX”) has accepted the notice of Silver Wheaton’s intention to commence a normal course issuer bid (the “NCIB”). On September 14, 2015, Silver Wheaton announced its intention to seek TSX approval for an NCIB. This approval allows the Company to purchase up to 20,229,671

Banro Reports High Grade Drill Results at Namoya and Provides Corporate Update

[Marketwired] – Banro Corporation (“Banro” or the “Company”) (NYSE MKT:BAA)(BAA.TO) is pleased to announce the intersection of significant mineralization from on-going near mine exploration activities at its wholly-owned Namoya project, located on the Twangiza-Namoya gold belt in the Maniema Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the “DRC”). The near mine exploration at Namoya encompasses follow-up work in the Namoya Summit-Filon B area, the hanging-wall zone at Namoya Summit