BENTIU, South Sudan (AFP) ― South Sudan’s army said on Sunday it had completed its pullout from an oil field seized from Sudan, ending a deadly standoff which forced thousands of civilians to flee.South Sudanese officials said the withdrawal from Heglig had been ordered to avert a return to all-out war, but they accused Khartoum of air strikes against the departing troops.The South seized Sudan’s most important oil field Heglig on April 10, claiming Khartoum was using it as a base to attack the

China’s decision to widen the yuan’s trading band against the dollar means investors can play a bigger role in determining the value of the currency, People’s Bank of China deputy Governor Yi Gang said. “It’s time to let the market more or less decide the exchange rate while reducing the intervention on the market,” Yi said Saturday at an event in Washington, where he’s attending the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund. He said market forces have already played an “important role”

JUBA (AFP) ― South Sudanese forces were pulling out from Sudan’s main Heglig oil field on Saturday, an official said, as U.S. President Barack Obama called on both states to resume talks.“Our troops are still withdrawing; it will take three days,” Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin told AFP.“We are responding to the request of the U.N. Security Council and others, as a member of the U.N. and the African Union.”Sudanese army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad told AFP on Saturday afternoon:

MANAMA (AFP) ― Bahrain’s opposition reported the first death in protests timed for Sunday’s controversial Grand Prix as a security lockdown was imposed around the Sakhir Formula One circuit and the king said he is committed to reform.The body of Salah Abbas Habib, 36, was found in Shakhura village, where security forces had “attacked peaceful protesters, brutally beating some of them with various tools and weapons,” said Al-Wefaq, the Gulf state’s largest Shiite opposition bloc.It charged that “