| * Bob Diamond's Africa fund Atlas Mara raises $325m * China energy corruption probe widens * Business figures questioned in Turkey anti-corruption probe * China accuses US of 'harassing' navy ships * Russia open to new loans for Ukraine * Shift at top of Blackstone in India * Tymoshenko absence looms over protests * Christie's takes maiden art sale to India * Markets: mostly up Bob Diamond's Africa fund Atlas Mara raises $325m
Bob Diamond, the former chief executive of Barclays, has made a dramatic comeback to the banking industry, raising $325m through a London-listed cash shell targeting the booming African financial sector.
http://on.ft.com/1bM2aW1 China energy corruption probe widens
The chief accountant for China National Petroleum Corp has been "taken into custody to assist in an investigation" into high-level corruption, in an apparent widening of a probe into Asia's largest energy company.
http://on.ft.com/1ekmE01 Business figures questioned in Turkey anti-corruption probe
Turkish prosecutors and police have questioned more than 20 people, including leading business figures and the sons of cabinet ministers, in an anti-corruption probe linked by domestic commentators to splits between the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist former allies.
http://on.ft.com/1cOaB7O China accuses US of 'harassing' navy ships
Pentagon says USS Cowpens, a guided-missile destroyer, had been compelled to take evasive manoeuvres to prevent collision with Chinese naval vessel
http://on.ft.com/J1Yzwe Russia open to new loans for Ukraine
Kiev officials also said they hoped to gain a substantial cut in natural gas prices, and to sign a 'road map' on ending disruptions to cross-border trade
http://on.ft.com/JuxQJo Shift at top of Blackstone in India
Akhil Gupta, at the helm since 2005, will take a non-executive role while he will be replaced by two men who will co-head Blackstone's India unit
http://on.ft.com/JuxOB0 Tymoshenko absence looms over protests
Loss of the unified leadership by the Orange heroine is protesters' biggest problem but the opposition is not pressing hard for her release
http://on.ft.com/JuxQZG Christie's takes maiden art sale to India
After years of selling Indian art to the affluent Indian diaspora in London and New York, Christie's hopes to expand its market to wealthy Indians at home
http://on.ft.com/1cLTOm3 Emerging Markets
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