News http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en ~ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:02:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Obama: Israel has not made decision on Iran attack http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/obama-israel-has-not-made-decision-on-iran-attack-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/obama-israel-has-not-made-decision-on-iran-attack-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:02:27 +0000 admin Asked in an NBC interview whether Israel was set to attack Iran, Obama said: I don’t think that Israel has made a decision on what they need to do. I think they, like us, believe that Iran has to stand down on its nuclear weapons program, adding Israel and the United States would work in lockstep on Iran.Obama, who is up for re-election in November, has ended the U.S. war in Iraq and is seeking to wind down combat in Afghanistan amid growing public discontent about American war spending at a time when the economy remains weak.The Democrat made clear on Sunday that he would not like to see more fighting in the oil-producing Persian Gulf region.Any kind of additional military activity inside the Gulf is disruptive and has a big effect on us. It could have a big effect on oil prices, we’ve still got troops in Afghanistan, which borders Iran, and so our preferred solution here is diplomatic, he said.Republican Mitt Romney, the top contender to oppose Obama in the November 6 presidential election, said he would start his presidency by imposing far tougher sanctions on Iran and back up American diplomacy with a very credible military option.Tehran says its nuclear program is meant to produce energy, not weapons, but has not responded to the latest Western overtures for talks and has threatened to retaliate against U.S. and European sanctions affecting its finances and oil sales.In the NBC interview, Obama stressed he was not taking any options off the table to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We’re going to do everything we can to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and creating an arms race – a nuclear arms race – in a volatile region, he said.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/obama-israel-has-not-made-decision-on-iran-attack-050202201205/feed 0 Chronicle wins tight box office race http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/chronicle-wins-tight-box-office-race-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/chronicle-wins-tight-box-office-race-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:02:43 +0000 admin Chronicle brought in an estimated $22. million from U.S. and Canadian theaters, studio estimates released on Sunday showed. The movie with largely unknown actors finished just ahead of Radcliffe’s Woman in Black, which took in an estimated $21. million.Both performances surpassed projections from studio executives, who had expected weaker sales against competition from Sunday’s Super Bowl football championship. The tallies include actual ticket receipts for Friday and Saturday plus estimates for Sunday at North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters.The appearance of young moviegoers, who had shunned some recent films targeted to them, boosted the top two films.The teen audience seems to be coming back to movies again. There was serious worry they were fading, said John Davis, who produced Chronicle.The movie tells the story of three teenage boys who develop superpowers and find they have a dark side. People under age 25 made up 61 percent of the movie’s audience, distributor 20th Century Fox said. Fifty-five percent was males.The studio produced Chronicle for about $12 million and had forecast debut weekend sales below $10 million.Young moviegoers also propelled Woman in Black well past studio expectations of around $10 million. Fifty-seven percent of filmgoers were under age 25, and 59 percent were females.The movie was Radcliffe’s first since the blockbuster Harry Potter franchise ended last summer. The film attracted Radcliffe’s young female fans plus an audience that likes to be scared but not grossed out, said Steven Friedlander, executive vice president of theatrical distribution for CBS Films, the unit of CBS Corp that released the movie.Woman in Black scored as the biggest debut weekend ever for CBS Films, which has struggled with its five earlier movies. The studio’s biggest previous opening was a $12. million debut for The Back-up Plan. With Woman in Black, the studio acquired domestic distribution rights for $3 million and spent about $15 million on marketing. Elsewhere this weekend, Liam Neeson thriller The Grey, dropped to third place with $9. million. The movie ranked No. 1 last weekend and has brought in $34. million domestically after two weekends in theaters. SUPER BOWL ALTERNATIVES3Total ticket sales outpaced the same weekend last year by nearly 37 percent despite competition from the Super Bowl, according to the box office division of Hollywood.com. Sales for all films reached $119 million. Big Miracle, a drama based on the true story of a whale rescue, aimed to offer a non-football alternative to young women and girls. The movie finished the weekend in fourth place with $8. million domestically, in line with studio forecasts. The movie starring Drew Barrymore and The Office actor John Krasinski cost less than $40 million to produce.In fifth place, vampire and werewolf sequel Underworld: Awakening starring Kate Beckinsale took in $5. million at domestic theaters. To date, the movie’s worldwide sales stand at $108. million.News Corp unit 20th Century Fox distributed Chronicle. Big Miracle was released by Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast Corp. Open Road Films, a joint venture between theater owners Regal Entertainment Group and AMC Entertainment Inc, distributed The Grey. The film studio of Sony Corp released Underworld: Awakening.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/chronicle-wins-tight-box-office-race-050202201205/feed 0 Small Super Bowl protest staged over Indiana anti-union law http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/small-super-bowl-protest-staged-over-indiana-anti-union-law-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/small-super-bowl-protest-staged-over-indiana-anti-union-law-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:02:23 +0000 admin Indiana on Wednesday became the 23rd state in the nation and the first in the U.S. industrial heartland to adopt a law allowing workers to avoid paying union dues at unionized businesses.Supporters led by Indiana’s Republican Governor Mitch Daniels have said it was necessary to attract jobs to the state. Critics including Democrats and unions called it union busting and have said it would lead to lower wages.The small group of protesters walked peacefully the five blocks from downtown Indianapolis to the stadium, although the demonstrators were heckled along the route by some of the people they passed.I think they need to get jobs, said Jess Eichler, who was visiting Indianapolis from Baltimore, Maryland.By mid-afternoon, the protest had reached the stadium, where security is tight ahead of Sunday’s National Football League championship game between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. They dispersed into the growing crowds of football fans without incident.The AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. labor federation, released a statement last week saying it did not plan nor condone any attempts to disrupt the Super Bowl.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/small-super-bowl-protest-staged-over-indiana-anti-union-law-050202201205/feed 0 LeBron rescues Heat from near collapse to Raptors http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/lebron-rescues-heat-from-near-collapse-to-raptors-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/lebron-rescues-heat-from-near-collapse-to-raptors-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:02:29 +0000 admin James, who has endured struggles in the deciding moments of games dating back to the NBA Finals, scored a game-high 30 points including four straight in the final two minutes when his team needed him most.Toronto launched a 12-0 run in the fourth to trim a 15-point deficit to just 85-82 with three and a half minutes remaining, but James answered the call with two free throws and a dunk to put the Heat in comfortable position.Dwyane Wade added 25 points in the win, Miami’s (18-6) seventh in eight games.DeMar DeRozan led the Raptors with 25 points while Jerryd Bayless and Linas Kleiza each added 17 for the visitors.Toronto (8-17) appeared buried for good when they fell behind by 16 in the third but they made it interesting before slipping to their third loss in four games.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/lebron-rescues-heat-from-near-collapse-to-raptors-050202201205/feed 0 U.S. says deeply concerned about NGO cases sent to Egypt court http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/u-s-says-deeply-concerned-about-ngo-cases-sent-to-egypt-court-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/u-s-says-deeply-concerned-about-ngo-cases-sent-to-egypt-court-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:02:46 +0000 admin We have seen media reports that judicial officials intend to forward a number of cases involving U.S.-funded NGOs to the Cairo criminal court, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters in Shannon, Ireland.We are deeply concerned by these reports and are seeking clarification from the Egypt, she said. Nuland is travelling with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.The cases of 40 people – including U.S. citizens, other foreigners and Egyptians embroiled in a dispute over the activities and funding of pro-democracy groups – have been referred to court, Egyptian judicial sources said Sunday.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/u-s-says-deeply-concerned-about-ngo-cases-sent-to-egypt-court-050202201205/feed 0 Pro-EU Niinisto wins Finnish presidency: early results http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/pro-eu-niinisto-wins-finnish-presidency-early-results-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/pro-eu-niinisto-wins-finnish-presidency-early-results-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:02:39 +0000 admin The former finance minister won the symbolic leadership post with 63 percent support with 98 percent of the vote counted, defeating pro-euro Greens Party candidate Pekka Haavisto.The two had beaten anti-euro candidates, Paavo Vayrynen of the Center party and Timo Soini of the Finns Party, in an earlier round last month.The weak showing by the euro skeptics was a relief for Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen, who like Niinisto is a member of the National Coalition party which supports conservative economic policy and liberal social values.As president, Niinisto will have little executive power beyond military and foreign affairs and must suspend his party affiliation, but his role is high-profile and he has potential influence over public opinion.An anti-EU president may have put pressure on Katainen to take a harder line on the bloc’s bailout of member states.Niinisto is also supportive of tough fiscal reforms that Katainen is pushing in order to plug its deficit and make sure it retains its triple-A debt rating.Niinisto – a former lawyer and banker – is credited with leading the small Nordic economy toward growth following the collapse of the Soviet Union during his tenure as finance minister from 1996 to 2001.Some analysts had expected a stronger showing by anti-euro candidates after Soini’s Finns Party made strong gains in parliamentary elections last April. The party is now the biggest opposition group.Analysts said economic concerns may have persuaded voters to choose a steady and pragmatic pair of hands.In tough times people want to believe that somebody is in control of the economy, said University of Helsinki professor Tuomo Martikainen. Niinisto may have also benefited from a backlash against euro skeptic politicians after some Finns Party candidates made highly publicized racist and homophobic remarks. While Haavisto, the first openly gay presidential candidate, conceded with 37 percent, his success in the first round was a triumph for his party, a minor member of government with only 10 out of 200 seats in parliament. President Tarja Halonen was elected as the country’s first female president in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. She steps down having served the maximum 12 years in office.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/pro-eu-niinisto-wins-finnish-presidency-early-results-050202201205/feed 0 Pro-EU Niinisto wins Finnish presidency http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/pro-eu-niinisto-wins-finnish-presidency-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/pro-eu-niinisto-wins-finnish-presidency-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:02:24 +0000 admin The former finance minister won with 63 percent support, defeating pro-euro Greens Party candidate Pekka Haavisto.The two had beaten anti-euro candidates, Paavo Vayrynen of the Centre party and Timo Soini of the Finns Party, in an earlier round last month.The weak showing by the eurosceptics was a relief for Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen, who like Niinisto is a member of the National Coalition party which supports conservative economic policy.Analysts said worries about Europe’s debt crisis could drag Finland’s export-dependent economy into recession may have persuaded voters to choose a steady and pragmatic pair of hands.In tough times people want to believe that somebody is in control of the economy, said University of Helsinki professor Tuomo Martikainen.Niinisto said Finland was and would remain supportive of European monetary union but that he understood Finnish voters’ frustration over the debt crisis.The Finnish people have full right to be critical, but at the same time I would like to say that Finland has shown more solidarity than anybody else, he told Reuters.Niinisto is credited with leading the small Nordic economy towards growth following the collapse of the Soviet Union during his tenure as finance minister from 1996 to 2001.He is also supportive of tough fiscal reforms that Katainen is pushing in order to plug its deficit and make sure it retains its triple-A debt rating. I voted for Niinisto because I think in the current economic situation we need a president who has that kind of expertise, said Katri, a 23-year-old student. Some analysts had expected a stronger showing by anti-euro candidates, particularly Soini, whose Finns Party made strong gains in parliamentary elections last April and is now the biggest opposition group. Niinisto and Haavisto may have also benefited from a backlash against eurosceptic politicians after some Finns Party candidates made highly publicised racist and homophobic remarks. While Haavisto, the first openly gay presidential candidate, conceded with 37 percent, his success in the first round was a triumph for his party – a minor member of government with only 10 out of 200 seats in parliament. Incumbent President Tarja Halonen was elected as the country’s first female president in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. She steps down on March 1 having served the maximum 12 years.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/pro-eu-niinisto-wins-finnish-presidency-050202201205/feed 0 Greek parties handed Monday EU bailout deadline http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/greek-parties-handed-monday-eu-bailout-deadline-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/greek-parties-handed-monday-eu-bailout-deadline-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:02:41 +0000 admin Technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos put on a brave face on Sunday as he tried to get leaders of the three parties in his government to sign off on terms of a 130 billion euro rescue, which Greece needs soon to avoid a chaotic debt default.Papademos said in a statement the party chiefs – who may face angry voters in parliamentary polls as soon as April – had agreed measures including wage cuts and other reforms as part of spending cuts worth 1. percent of gross domestic product.But a spokesman for the PASOK socialist party said a number of major issues demanded by the Troika, representing Greece’s EU, European Central Bank and IMF lenders, remained unresolved late on Sunday.Talks on the new bailout, which would be Greece’s second since 2010, and an accompanying deal to ease the country’s huge debt burden via its private creditors accepting deep losses on the bonds they hold, have dragged on for weeks, stretching the EU’s patience to breaking point.Now the parties – PASOK, the conservative New Democracy and far-right LAOS – must respond to a working group of senior euro zone finance ministry officials who are preparing for a meeting of their ministers later in the week.The political leaders must give their response in principle by noon tomorrow, so that it can be taken to the Euro Working Group in Brussels, said PASOK spokesman Panos Beglitis.BIG ISSUESBeglitis made clear the leaders of the three parties still had much to negotiate as the noon (1000 GMT) deadline for a response nears, most notably on labor reforms demanded by Greece’s lenders and on how to shore up domestic banks, which are up to their necks in Greek government bonds now worth a fraction of their face value.There are two big issues left – labor and banks … those have been left for tomorrow, he said. No meeting of the Euro Working Group has been formally scheduled for Monday but it could confer either by conference call or schedule a face-to-face meeting at short notice, depending on the outcome of talks in Athens. PASOK and LAOS officials were meeting among themselves late on Sunday night and Papademos was also due to meet troika representatives again during the evening. With Greece facing 14. billion euros of debt repayments in March, a bill it cannot meet without further bailout funds, the stakes could not be higher. Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said earlier in the weekend that Athens had only until Sunday night to clinch a second financing package from the lenders. We are on a knife edge, he said on Saturday after what he called a very difficult conference call with his euro zone counterparts. The moment is very crucial. Greek officials have emerged increasingly despondent after each round of talks, complaining that the European Central Bank, European Commission and International Monetary Fund troika was stubbornly refusing to yield on demands to cut the minimum wage level, axe holiday bonuses and fire public sector workers. New Democracy and the far-right LAOS party in particular have staunchly opposed further wage and spending cuts, arguing they risk pushing Greece into an even deeper recession and imposing more pain on struggling Greeks.Papademos, a former central banker, said progress had been made during Sunday’s five hours of negotiations with New Democracy chief Antonis Samaras, PASOK head George Papandreou and LAOS leader George Karatzaferis.The budget cuts worth 1. percent of GDP this year appeared to be more than the troika wanted initially although with the Greek economy on a downward trajectory that is a moving target.Greece’s lenders, initially demanded spending cuts worth about 1 percent of GDP — or just above 2 billion euros — this year, and insist all political leaders endorse the cuts irrespective of the outcome of the elections.Papademos said the measures to cut wages and non-labor costs aimed to make the Greek economy more competitive, but he gave few details.LIMITED PROGRESSAthens has wrangled without luck for weeks on the bailout package and a debt restructuring plan, putting itself dangerously close to bankruptcy (http://bankruptcy.ieurope.net).The lack of agreement has kept financial markets on tenterhooks as investors fret a chaotic default could cause shockwaves across the financial system in Europe and beyond.The slow progress has angered Greece’s European partners. Euro zone officials say finance ministers told Greece on Saturday it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately held debt until it guaranteed it would implement reforms.There is a great sense of frustration that they are dragging their feet, one euro zone official said.The troika wants agreement on all parts of the complex Greek rescue deal, including any contribution by public creditors like the ECB, before approving the bailout, a source close to the talks said. The rescue package, drawn up in October, also includes a bond swap under which banks and insurers will take real losses of about 70 percent on the Greek debt they hold in a bid to ease Greece’s debt burden by 100 billion euros. Representatives for the private creditors held talks with Papademos on Sunday on the bond swap, which Venizelos has said is now the easier part of the overall package to resolve. The debt swap and bailout was designed to bring Greece’s debt down to 120 percent of GDP by 2020, but EU sources say euro zone governments may now have to cough up an extra 15 billion euros on top of the agreed 130 billion for that to happen. In a sign of how politically difficult any further aid to Greece will be, a poll in German newspaper Bild am Sonntag showed a majority of Germans feel the single currency bloc would be better off if Greece left. Within Greece, pressure is building to oppose further cuts which many economists say will drive the country into a downward spiral of recession and rising debt. Greece’s two major labor unions plan a 24-hour strike on Tuesday in protest at the demands made of it.Despite our sacrifices and despite admitting that the policy mix is wrong, they still ask for more austerity, Ilias Iliopoulos, secretary general of public sector union ADEDY, told Reuters.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/greek-parties-handed-monday-eu-bailout-deadline-050202201205/feed 0 Ex-Panama strongman Noriega hospitalized http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/ex-panama-strongman-noriega-hospitalized-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/ex-panama-strongman-noriega-hospitalized-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:02:05 +0000 admin Noriega, 77, was moved from the El Renacer prison to the Hospital Santo Tomas because of high blood pressure and a possible stroke, police said in a statement.Noriega was extradited back to Panama in December and he is serving a 20-year sentence for the murders of opponents during his rule.He has spent the past two decades in prison – first in the United States and then France – for drug trafficking and money laundering. Noriega was ousted from power in 1989 by an invading U.S. force.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/ex-panama-strongman-noriega-hospitalized-050202201205/feed 0 Rangers knock out Flyers in third to extend domination http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/rangers-knock-out-flyers-in-third-to-extend-domination-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/rangers-knock-out-flyers-in-third-to-extend-domination-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:02:45 +0000 admin Scoring three straight goals in the third to put a 2-2 tie behind them, the Rangers (33-12-5) beat the Flyers (30-16-6) for the fourth time this season to keep their lead in the East at three points.Michael Del Zotto, Brandon Dubinsky and Ruslan Fedotenko were the goal-scorers who put the game away in the third after Philadelphia had hung close through the first two periods.New York’s Artem Anisimov made a tip-in in the first minute to put the home Rangers ahead. Brayden Schenn scored for the Flyers midway through second before Marian Gaborik reestablished a 2-1 lead for New York in the second with his 26th goal of the season.Wayne Simmonds again tied the score for Philadelphia a minute into the third before things went south for the Flyers.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/rangers-knock-out-flyers-in-third-to-extend-domination-050202201205/feed 0 Carnival cruise ship passengers struck with virus http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/carnival-cruise-ship-passengers-struck-with-virus-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/carnival-cruise-ship-passengers-struck-with-virus-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:02:38 +0000 admin Ninety passengers and 13 crew members on the Ruby Princess cruise ship contracted the Norovirus, a contagious gastrointestinal illness that causes vomiting and diarrhea for one to three days, Julie Benson, a spokeswoman for Princess Cruises, a unit of Carnival, said in a statement.The Ruby Princess set sail from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on January 29 to the Caribbean and returned to Florida on Sunday, as scheduled. Another Carnival ship, the Crown Princess, was affected by the same virus last week, but it has been sanitized and has already embarked on its next cruise, Benson said.Carnival is dealing with the financial impact of the Costa Concordia shipwreck, which tarnished its image and raised questions about the safety of the entire luxury cruise ship industry. The Costa Concordia capsized off the coast of Italy, killing 17 people. Fifteen people are still missing.Carnival said on January 30 it would take a profit hit ranging from $155 million to $175 million this year because of costs related to the wreck. The company has said it will release a revised full-year earnings forecast in March.Royal Caribbean Cruise Ltd, the second-largest cruise operator and one of Carnival’s rivals, warned on February 2 that it would face a sharp drop-off in new cruise bookings because of the wreck, which could cut its earnings in half during the current quarter.Shares of Carnival closed at $32. 0 per share on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday while shares of Royal Caribbean closed at $30. 9.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/carnival-cruise-ship-passengers-struck-with-virus-050202201205/feed 0 TiVo shares appear to be discounted: report http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/tivo-shares-appear-to-be-discounted-report-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/tivo-shares-appear-to-be-discounted-report-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:02:19 +0000 admin TiVo, whose brand is synonymous with digital video recorders, has turned to litigation to generate revenue from licensing fees as the industry pioneer has struggled to fight competition from low-cost rivals in recent years.In January, it pocketed $215 million from AT-T to settle a patent infringement dispute. The settlement could bode well for TiVo’s lawsuit with Verizon, which is centered around the same patents.Barron’s said the company may one day sue Time Warner Cable, which has more subscribers than AT-T and Verizon.TiVo added subscribers in the third quarter for the first time in four years, Barron’s said. It has signed distribution deals with Virgin Media, a cable company based in Britain, and other operators such as Spain’s ONO and DirecTV in the United States.TiVo’s shares closed at $11. 3 on Friday. Barron’s said the stock is trading significantly below some analysts’ price targets of $17 and $18 per share.The company could fetch a takeover price in the mid-$20s if it was acquired by Microsoft or Google, according to Barron’s.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/tivo-shares-appear-to-be-discounted-report-050202201205/feed 0 Mushroom pickers found in Oregon after six days lost http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/mushroom-pickers-found-in-oregon-after-six-days-lost-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/mushroom-pickers-found-in-oregon-after-six-days-lost-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:02:56 +0000 admin Belinda and Daniel Conne, 47, and their 25-year-old son Michael were found by a helicopter in a ravine in dense forest near the coastal town of Gold Beach, Oregon. The area is about 300 miles southwest of Portland.Over 100 ground searchers and aircraft, fanned out over the area Saturday and the family were found late morning on Saturday. A Coast Guard Helicopter airlifted them out and they were taken to Curry General Hospital.The hospital declined to comment Sunday on their condition.Their injuries appear to be minor compared to the time spent in the brush and the cold temperatures, the Curry County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. The three had taken shelter in a hollow tree.Daniel and Belinda Conne, were somewhat dehydrated, and hungry but otherwise okay. Michael Conne had a sprained ankle and frostbite to his feet, and was also somewhat dehydrated and hungry, the statement said.Mushroom hunters pick matsutake, hedgehog, morels, chanterelles and other types of mushrooms in Oregon forests for their own use including for food, and to sell to brokers for commercial use.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/mushroom-pickers-found-in-oregon-after-six-days-lost-050202201205/feed 0 Libya court postpones trial of Gaddafi loyalists http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/libya-court-postpones-trial-of-gaddafi-loyalists-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/libya-court-postpones-trial-of-gaddafi-loyalists-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:02:04 +0000 admin The decision (to postpone) was made in the wake of listening to the pleadings of the defense panel that argued that this military court is not a competent entity and called for referring the case to the civil judiciary, LANA said on its website.The prosecutors at the trial, which is being held at a military base in the eastern city of Benghazi, have accused the 41 men of murder and aiding prisoners to escape.Intisar al-Agili, a Benghazi representative of the ruling National Transitional Council, told Reuters the trial had been postponed to February 15.The delay is based on the requests of the 15-lawyer defense team to review the evidence … and on the requests of some detainees who want to hire their own lawyers, she said.Libya is currently at loggerheads with the International Criminal Court (ICC), after militia fighters captured Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi’s most prominent son, in November.Libya says it will try Saif al-Islam at home, where he could face the death penalty. But the global court based in The Hague has said Libya will first have to answer concerns, raised by activists, that Saif al-Islam was being held incommunicado, without access to lawyers, and to provide information about his mental and physical health.If the war crimes court rules Libya is unwilling or unable to try Saif al-Islam, who is accused of crimes against humanity over the killing of civilian protesters, it says it will take jurisdiction.Saif al-Islam would rank among the biggest names to go before the ICC if he were transferred to The Hague for trial.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/libya-court-postpones-trial-of-gaddafi-loyalists-050202201205/feed 0 Fire at Moscow nuclear institute, Russia says no risk http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/fire-at-moscow-nuclear-institute-russia-says-no-risk-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/fire-at-moscow-nuclear-institute-russia-says-no-risk-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:02:33 +0000 admin The fire broke out early Sunday in a part of the Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in southwestern Moscow that contains a research collider, institute officials said in a statement on its website.There were no radiation sources in the area of the collider, which had been shut off on December 25, and no danger of a radiation leak, the statement said. It said personnel were evacuated and nobody was hurt.Grey smoke rose above the institute, which is encircled by a wall, and an acrid smell filled the air. Some 30 emergency vehicles, including fire trucks and ambulances, stood inside and outside the main gate, witnesses said.Several phone calls to the institute went unanswered.The fire was in a basement area, said Sergei Vlasov, spokesman for the Moscow branch of the Emergencies Ministry.Sergei Novikov, spokesman for Russia’s state nuclear agency Rosatom, said there were no open flames, only smoke that came from an area housing power cables and could not affect any nuclear materials at the institute.This case poses no threat to fissile materials, said Novikov, adding firefighters were pumping foam into the affected area. He said the institute’s heavy-water research reactor was no longer operational.SAFETY CONCERNSA Greenpeace Russia official said the incident was potentially very dangerous. This is extremely dangerous … this should not have happened at all, but as long as it did, it shows there has been a major failure in their operations, said Ivan Blokov, campaign director at Greenpeace Russia. What we have here is a large amount of radioactive substance right in the center of Moscow and even if a minor quantity leaks, it would pose a serious problem. Russian news agencies issued conflicting reports. Interfax cited a police source as saying fire brigades were denied access to the facility for a long time before being allowed in, but the institute said that was not the case. It said the fire had not been extinguished as of 4:20 p.m. (1320 GMT). State-run RIA reported earlier the fire had already been put out. Safety at Russia’s nuclear facilities has been a concern since the deadly 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then a Soviet republic. The Soviet authorities did not announce that disaster for two days.A fire aboard a nuclear submarine in the north Russian port of Murmansk in December severely damaged the vessel, but authorities said radiation levels remained normal.Russia has suffered several accidents which observers say were the result of negligence and corruption, problems that have hindered modernization of the civilian and military infrastructure.The Moscow institute is named after its founder, Abram Alikhanov, one of the designers of the Soviet atom bomb, and houses the Soviet Union’s first heavy water reactor, designed in the late 1940s as part of dictator Josef Stalin’s program to develop nuclear arms, according to its website.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/fire-at-moscow-nuclear-institute-russia-says-no-risk-050202201205/feed 0 Belichick says Gronkowski will play: report http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/belichick-says-gronkowski-will-play-report-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/belichick-says-gronkowski-will-play-report-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:02:21 +0000 admin The 22-year-old set National Football League records for a tight end with 1,327 yards receiving and 17 touchdowns this season and is central to the Patriots’ offense.But Gronkowski picked up an injury to his left ankle in the January 22 AFC championship game win over the Baltimore Ravens and only returned to practice Thursday.The NBC report said Belichick had said he would only decide how much play to give Gronkowski after seeing how he coped with playing at full speed, which has not been able to do in his brief appearances in practice.The tight-end arrived in Indianapolis a week ago wearing a supportive ankle boot, prompting fears that he could miss the game.New England have made a two tight-ends offensive package a key feature of their game this season with Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez proving to be difficult for defenses to handle.The Patriots surprisingly announced Saturday they were taking receiver Tiquan Underwood off their 53-man roster and activating defensive end Alex Silvestro from their practice squad.The move will give Belichick greater depth in defense and may increase the chances of Chad Ochocinco being activated as the fifth wide receiver.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/belichick-says-gronkowski-will-play-report-050202201205/feed 0 UN envoy says Myanmar should admit to rights violations http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/un-envoy-says-myanmar-should-admit-to-rights-violations-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/un-envoy-says-myanmar-should-admit-to-rights-violations-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:02:16 +0000 admin Argentine Tomas Ojea Quintana, on his fifth visit to the country as a special expert on human rights, said he had seen signs of positive developments in the former Burma but more needed to be done before it could be regarded as concrete progress.Serious challenges remain and must be addressed. There is also a risk of backtracking on the progress achieved thus far, Quintana said in a statement issued at the end of his fact-finding visit to Myanmar, which began on January 31.At this crucial moment in the country’s history, further and sustained action should be taken to bring about further change.Myanmar’s new government is comprised mostly of retired generals from the same regime that was accused of overseeing a catalog of human rights abuses, from brutally crushing protests and jailing politicians to muzzling the media and forced labor, murder and rape by its military.But a few months into his five-year term, President Thein Sein introduced a wave of reforms from mid 2011 that have not been seen in decades. The pace of change has stunned many observers and foreign governments, and sharpened the debate on if and when Western sanctions would be lifted.TAINTEDQuintana said the reforms did not mean the new rulers’ tainted record would be expunged and acceptance by the government serious rights violations had taken place would help toward long-term stability in the nation of 60 million people.I must stress that moving forward cannot ignore or whitewash what happened in the past, he told reporters.Thus, facing Myanmar’s own recent history and acknowledging the violations that people have suffered, will be necessary to ensure national reconciliation and to prevent future violations from occurring.Quintana met the ministers of border affairs, interior and defense, as well as the chief justice, the election commission and opposition leaders, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who will run in her first-ever election in April when she contests one of 48 by-elections for legislative seats.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/un-envoy-says-myanmar-should-admit-to-rights-violations-050202201205/feed 0 Chronicle edges Woman in Black at box office http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/chronicle-edges-woman-in-black-at-box-office-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/chronicle-edges-woman-in-black-at-box-office-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:02:34 +0000 admin Chronicle, a story about three teenage boys who develop superpowers and find they have a dark side, brought in an estimated $22. million from U.S. and Canadian theaters.The Woman in Black, the first movie for Daniel Radcliffe since his Harry Potter franchise ended, trailed close behind with an estimated $21. million.The performance of both movies surpassed studio and industry projections despite competition from Sunday’s Super Bowl. The figures include actual sales for Friday and Saturday plus estimates for Sunday.Last week’s winner, the Liam Neeson thriller The Grey, dropped to third place with $9. million.CBS Films, a unit of CBS Corp, released The Woman in Black. News Corp unit 20th Century Fox distributed Chronicle. Big Miracle was released by Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast Corp.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/chronicle-edges-woman-in-black-at-box-office-050202201205/feed 0 Iran says will hit any country used to strike its soil http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/iran-says-will-hit-any-country-used-to-strike-its-soil-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/iran-says-will-hit-any-country-used-to-strike-its-soil-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:02:59 +0000 admin Any spot used by the enemy for hostile operations against Iran will be subjected to retaliatory aggression by our armed forces, Hossein Salami said during military maneuvers.The Revolutionary Guards began the two-day ground exercises on Saturday as a show of military might as tension rises between Tehran and the West over Iran’s disputed nuclear programme. Iranian media called it a small-scale exercise in southern Iran.The United States and Israel, Iran’s arch-enemies, have not ruled out a military strike on Tehran if diplomacy fails to resolve the nuclear standoff. Iran says its nuclear programme is purely peaceful, not aimed at developing weapons.Salami did not identify which countries he meant as possible launching pads for military action against it.The six, U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states in the Gulf Cooperation Council have said they would not allow their territories to be used for attacks on Iran.But analysts say that if Iran retaliated for an attack launched from outside the region by targeting U.S. facilities in Gulf Arab states, Washington might pressure the host nations to permit those bases to hit back, arguing they should have the right to defend themselves. The Gulf states that host U.S. military facilities are Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.Iran has warned that its response to any such strike will be painful, threatening to target Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf, along with closing the vital Gulf oil shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/iran-says-will-hit-any-country-used-to-strike-its-soil-050202201205/feed 0 Cairo protesters demand early vote http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/cairo-protesters-demand-early-vote-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/cairo-protesters-demand-early-vote-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:02:50 +0000 admin It was the fourth day of clashes outside the ministry, in which seven people have died. Protesters accuse the ministry of failing to prevent the deaths last week of 74 people after a soccer match in the Mediterranean city of Port Said. Five more have died in Suez.Some protesters believe that remnants of the government of ousted president Hosni Mubarak were behind violence that caused a stampede at the soccer match last Wednesday, and see it as part of a plot to create chaos to reassert their influence.Political figures and a civilian advisory body to the military have suggested bringing forward a presidential vote to April or May, from the June date foreseen in the transition timetable of the army, which took power after Mubarak quit.Police and protesters, some waving flags of Al Ahli soccer team which played in Wednesday’s match, hurled rocks at each other and police fired round after round of teargas to push the lines of mostly young protesters back from the ministry.The authorities erected fresh barriers of big concrete blocks barring access through streets leading to the ministry. Some earlier barriers had been hauled down.The demand is that the army step down politically and announce the start of nominations for the presidential election immediately, said Waleed Saleh, 30, a lawyer and activist with a mask at the ready, speaking near the ministry.The military council, which took charge when Mubarak was toppled by a popular uprising on February 11 last year, has promised to hand power to civilians by the end of June after an election.But calls for a swifter handover have mounted, and the Muslim Brotherhood which has the biggest bloc in a newly elected parliament, added its voice on Saturday to calls for a faster transition.An army-appointed civilian council set up to advise the military is proposing accepting nominations for the presidency from February 23, nearly two months sooner than the April 15 date previously announced. This could lead to a vote in April or May. DEMAND FOR RETRIBUTION1If the army adopts that proposal, it will reduce the level of tension, said Saleh, though he voiced a view popular among activists that the army might still try to influence policy from behind the scenes even with a president in place. Activists have kept a permanent presence in Tahrir Square since January 25, the anniversary of the eruption of protests against Mubarak. Other protesters also called for the army to quit now and demanded retribution after the soccer deaths and for those killed in protests. There has been intense speculation about the cause of the soccer stadium disaster, Egypt’s worst. The interior minister has blamed provocations by rival fans although he said there were security shortcomings. Protesters blame the police for allowing or even prodding the violence. Those people over there are the reason for the deaths in Port Said, said 25-year-old Mahmoud Gaber, pointing to the police lines moments before a police riot car advanced and fired teargas on youths in the street, briefly pushing them back.Many are angry that there has not been a deep clear-out in the police force and that officers use the same heavy-handed tactics against protests as in Mubarak’s era.Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim defended the actions of police in dealing with protests, saying officers had shown unusual self-restraint. He also urged protesters to stay in Tahrir Square and identify those stirring up trouble.Protesters and police have often negotiated brief truces to cool the situation. But at least on two occasions Reuters journalists saw police re-igniting skirmishes by firing teargas or throwing stones at lines of protesters.Many ordinary Egyptians are increasingly worried by the continued turmoil, and some see the army as the only institution able to guard the nation against a descent into complete chaos.Near one of the streets where the clashes were occurring, one man, Waleed al-Hakim, criticized the demonstration. Those are not protesters, those are thugs, he said.But others snapped back at him including one youth with a scarf around his face who said: We are peaceful protesters and they are firing teargas at us. Why? What did we do to them?Newly elected independent parliamentarian Yasser Qadri, a member of the assembly’s national security committee, said his committee was proposing drawing lines near state buildings.Those who cross the red line would be dealt with according to the law that gives security the right to protect state buildings from attacks, he said.But that could prove a provocation to protesters who have ignored big concrete barriers.Among the hundreds injured in the four days of clashes was Ahmed Maher, a leader of the April 6 movement which helped galvanize the protests against Mubarak. He was in hospital on Sunday with a head injury but was stable, the group said.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/cairo-protesters-demand-early-vote-050202201205/feed 0 French elections heading for two-horse race: poll http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/french-elections-heading-for-two-horse-race-poll-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/french-elections-heading-for-two-horse-race-poll-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:02:22 +0000 admin The survey by pollsters LH2 showed Hollande extended his lead over Sarkozy for the first electoral round on April 22 to 8. percentage points versus a 4. point gap three weeks ago.Hollande scored 34 percent against the president’s 25. percent, according to the poll carried out for website Yahoo! on February 3 and 4. Far right candidate Marine Le Pen is in third place with 15 percent, down 2 points, and centrist Francois Bayrou, also lost 2 points to 12 percent.Le Pen Sunday accused the big two parties of trying to exclude her from the race.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Presidential poll graphic: http://r.reuters.com/was36sr.reuters.com/was36s^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^The trend toward a two-man contest comes as both leading candidates step up their campaign efforts, even though Sarkozy is still waiting until close to a March 16 deadline before officially declaring his candidacy.The pollsters said the two main contenders had benefited from more exposure during the recent busy political period. While our previous studies had marked a progression of the challengers, they have now lost some momentum, LH2 said in the survey, based on interviews with 955 adults.Hollande looked set to defeat Sarkozy in the second round with 57 percent of the vote, according to the poll.His first big rally last month and the withdrawal of maverick left-wing candidate Jean-Pierre Chevenement from the race have helped him in opinion polls. Sarkozy’s prospects have brightened too after he announced a flurry of measures to boost employment and competitiveness. He was also buoyed this week by securing the active support of German Chancellor and fellow conservative Angela Merkel, who will appear with him at events during his campaign. A separate TNS Sofres poll for Canal+ showed that 40 percent of people had yet to decide who they would vote for.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/french-elections-heading-for-two-horse-race-poll-050202201205/feed 0 Egypt’s Mubarak may move to prison hospital http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/egypts-mubarak-may-move-to-prison-hospital-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/egypts-mubarak-may-move-to-prison-hospital-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:02:21 +0000 admin Protesters, who have clashed with police for four days demanding an end to military rule, have long complained the ruling generals have been sparing their former commander the humiliation of prison by keeping him in a military hospital.Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim is holding a meeting with some parliamentarians … In this meeting, he issued a decision that Torah prison would be prepared as soon as possible for the transfer of the former president, the ministry official told Reuters.The comment followed a report on Al Jazeera television saying the minister had ordered the prison hospital be upgraded to receive Mubarak.Mohamed Naguib, a ministry official in charge of prison affairs, told Egypt’s al-Hayat television that Torah prison hospital would be ready for such a transfer in two months.But he said the court trying Mubarak or the general prosecutor would have to give the order to move the former president to Torah prison, where other detained officials from Mubarak’s era have been held.The interior minister had earlier ordered ex-Mubarak officials and his political allies at Torah be split between five prisons, responding to protesters who accused the authorities of giving them special treatment by keeping them together at Torah.The ministry official said moving those detained or jailed would happen within 48 hours.Mubarak was admitted to hospital when he was first questioned last year. At first he was in a hospital on the Red Sea and was then moved to the military hospital on the outskirts of Cairo. At one stage in the debate over where he would go, officials said Torah prison was not fit to handle his case.Those already detained in Torah prison include Mubarak’s two sons, his former interior minister, several members of the cabinet and other top security officials and political allies. They are expected to be moved under the latest order.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/egypts-mubarak-may-move-to-prison-hospital-050202201205/feed 0 Glencore, Xstrata hammering out final deal details http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/glencore-xstrata-hammering-out-final-deal-details-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/glencore-xstrata-hammering-out-final-deal-details-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:02:41 +0000 admin trader Glencore and miner Xstrata are hammering
out the final details of an $80 billion tie-up to seal the
industry’s largest ever takeover, which could be announced as
early as Tuesday.
Xstrata, in which Glencore already has a 34 percent stake,
announced last week it had been approached by the world’s
largest diversified commodities trader and was in discussions
over an all-share merger of equals, a deal that would be the
largest in the sector since Rio Tinto’s takeover of Alcan in
2007.The agreement is set to be announced this week, potentially
Tuesday, when Xstrata is due to publish 2011 results.One source involved in the proceedings described the mood
behind the scenes over the weekend as constructive, and others
said brushed off concerns the latest round of talks would
collapse over either of the two hurdles that have tripped them
up in the past — governance and price.The two groups, which restarted discussions before Christmas
after years of on-off talks, have reached a preliminary
understanding on the structure of the top management, according
to sources familiar with the deal, with Xstrata expected to take
a majority of seats on the board, to keep its chairman, City
heavyweight John Bond, as well as its chief executive, Mick
Davis, and its chief financial officer, Trevor Reid.Glencore Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg, who will be the
largest single shareholder in the combined mining and trading
entity, is expected to hold a deputy position.Davis, who has been at the helm of Xstrata for a decade, is
expected to receive an up to 10 million pound ($16
million)retention package in the event of change of control,
to stay on as chief executive, the Sunday Times reported.In the past, the issue of price and premium and the
difficult valuation of Glencore’s marketing business has
separated the two companies, but the two are this time
discussing a percentage premium to Xstrata’s share price in the
low single digits — effectively a ratio to balance out the
value of both companies, according to several of the sources.But Xstrata shareholders, who helped block a deal before
Glencore’s record listing last May on the grounds that they
needed a clearer valuation of the trader, could push for more.John Bond is the chairman, so we will be making very sure
that he maximizes value for Xstrata shareholders, which means a
nil premium merger is not a runner, one top-five shareholder
said last week. One source familiar with the negotiations, however, pointed
to the increase in the companies’ valuations — an almost 11
percent uplift for Xstrata shareholders alone since the close on
Wednesday, the day before merger talks were announced: That is
real money, real share value, the source said. The merger is expected to take the form of a scheme of
arrangement, which would leave Glencore out of any vote.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/glencore-xstrata-hammering-out-final-deal-details-050202201205/feed 0 Nigeria ruling party wins vote in violence-hit north http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/nigeria-ruling-party-wins-vote-in-violence-hit-north-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/nigeria-ruling-party-wins-vote-in-violence-hit-north-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:02:29 +0000 admin Incumbent Governor Murtala Nyako won 44 percent of the vote to beat his closest opposition rival, Markus Gundiri, who got 35 percent, the electoral commission said.Gundiri, of the increasingly popular opposition Action Congress Nigeria (ACN) party, had been expected to win, partly because President Goodluck Jonathan’s popularity has sunk as violence in the north mounts.Jonathan was also forced to row back on scrapping motor fuel subsidies last month after massive protests and strikes crippled Africa’s most populous nation.The governors of Nigeria’s 36 states are among the most powerful politicians in the nation, in some cases controlling bigger budgets than whole African countries.The election in the Adamawa state was held after the Supreme Court last month removed Nyako and four other governors from office, because their tenures should have expired last year.The governors of Bayelsa, Cross Rivers and Sokoto, whose seats were also annulled by the court order, are planning to recontest them this year, and remain out of office until they do.The fifth governor to be removed, in the state of Kogi, was reinstated immediately on a technicality.Attacks by Islamist sect Boko Haram have surged in the north this year, including some high profile bomb and gun attacks on churches and security forces.At least 21 people were killed in attacks by gunmen in Adamawa’s town of Mubi last month that targeted its Christian minority at church gatherings. The attacks forced hundreds of Christians from the Igbo ethnic group, the main targets, to flee back to their southeastern ethnic homeland. The Boko Haram sect, loosely modeled on the Taliban, began its uprising in northeastern Borno state in 2009 in what it said was a bid to introduce sharia law across the country of 160 million people, evenly split between Muslims and Christians. It has since spread to several northern states, including Adamawa, which borders Borno.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/nigeria-ruling-party-wins-vote-in-violence-hit-north-050202201205/feed 0 Greece on knife edge in push to agree bailout http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/greece-on-knife-edge-in-push-to-agree-bailout-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/greece-on-knife-edge-in-push-to-agree-bailout-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:02:27 +0000 admin A technocrat appointed in November, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos is fighting to prevent cash-strapped Greece from sinking into a chaotic default when big bond redemptions come due next month.His finance minister said Athens had only until Sunday night to clinch a second financing package from lenders, after euro zone ministers bluntly told him their patience was wearing thin because of Athens’ dithering on painful reforms.We are on a knife edge, Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said Saturday after what he called a very difficult conference call with euro zone counterparts.The moment is very crucial.Papademos’s first mission Sunday was to agree at least a preliminary deal with the troika of foreign lenders on reforms included in the bailout, after several days of talks failed to resolve the thorny issue of cutting wages and spending.Greek officials have emerged increasingly despondent after each round of talks, complaining that the European Central Bank, European Union and International Monetary Fund troika were stubbornly refusing to yield on demands to cut the minimum wage level, axe holiday bonuses and fire public sector workers.A meeting between the two sides ended Sunday afternoon without any immediate indication on whether they had been able to resolve outstanding issues.Papademos now faces an even tougher task convincing party chiefs in his own national unity coalition to back the reforms demanded by the lenders at the risk of ruining their chances at national elections expected in April.Talks with the socialist, conservative and far-right party leaders in his coalition were continuing Sunday. The conservative New Democracy and the far-right LAOS party in particular have staunchly opposed further wage and spending cuts, arguing they risk pushing Greece into an even deeper recession and imposing more pain on struggling Greeks. LAOS leader George Karatzaferis rejected what he called the ultimatum to strike a deal Sunday. Papademos’s government implored them to be more cooperative. We have carried out superhuman negotiations. And so political leaders must help us now, a senior government official said, adding that the party chiefs were free to join the Sunday talks with lenders if they wanted. Greece’s lenders, who want spending cuts worth about 1 percent of GDP — or just above 2 billion euros — this year, have demanded all political leaders endorse the cuts irrespective of the outcome at the polls. LIMITED PROGRESSAthens has wrangled without luck for weeks on the bailout package and a debt restructuring plan, putting itself dangerously close to bankruptcy (http://bankruptcy.ieurope.net) as 14. billion euros of debt falls due in mid-March.The lack of agreement has kept financial markets on tenterhooks as investors fret a messy default could cause shockwaves across the financial system, triggering a credit crunch and sending the global economy back into recession.Athens says it has notched up some progress by agreeing a plan to recapitalize Greek banks and details on privatization, even if bigger issues on reform remain unresolved. A senior banker told Reuters the recapitalization would occur mainly via common shares with restricted voting rights.The lack of progress has angered Greece’s European partners, who first rescued Greece in May 2010. Euro zone officials say finance ministers told Greece Saturday it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately held debt until it guaranteed it would implement reforms.There is a great sense of frustration that they are dragging their feet, one euro zone official said.The talks have moved slowly also because the troika wants agreement on all parts of the complex Greek rescue deal, including any contribution by public creditors like the ECB, before approving the bailout, a source close to the talks said.The rescue package, drawn up in October, also includes a bond swap under which banks and insurers will take real losses of about 70 percent on the Greek debt they hold in a bid to ease Greece’s debt burden by 100 billion euros.But Greece’s deteriorating economic prospects and struggles with reform have fed concern that it will not be enough to get its debt back to a manageable level and Athens wants public creditors like the ECB to also take part in the bond swap.Representatives for the banks and insurers had been expected to continue talks in Athens over the weekend on the bond swap, which Venizelos has said is now the easier part of the overall process to save Greece.The debt swap and bailout was designed to bring Greece’s debt down to 120 percent of GDP by 2020, but EU sources say euro zone governments may now have to cough up an extra 15 billion euros on top of the agreed 130 billion for that to happen. But in a sign of how politically difficult any further aid to Greece will be, a poll in German newspaper Bild am Sonntag showed a majority of Germans feel the single currency bock would be better off if Greece left.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/greece-on-knife-edge-in-push-to-agree-bailout-050202201205/feed 0 Crime erupts as police strike in Brazil’s Bahia: reports http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/crime-erupts-as-police-strike-in-brazils-bahia-reports-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/crime-erupts-as-police-strike-in-brazils-bahia-reports-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:02:56 +0000 admin At least 80 homicides have been registered in the Salvador area since a statewide police strike began on Tuesday, a 129 percent increase from the previous week, local media said.Brazil’s government responded on Friday by dispatching the army to patrol streets, particularly tourist areas, after about one-third of the state’s police officers went on strike demanding better pay, the reports said.Assaults and lootings of stores also reportedly increased and more than 200 cars have been reported stolen since the strike began.The violence comes as Salvador, Brazil’s third-largest city, prepares to host hundreds of thousands of tourists, both for Carnaval celebrations beginning February 18 and for soccer’s World Cup in 2014.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/crime-erupts-as-police-strike-in-brazils-bahia-reports-050202201205/feed 0 Iran threatens to hit any country used to attack its soil http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/iran-threatens-to-hit-any-country-used-to-attack-its-soil-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/iran-threatens-to-hit-any-country-used-to-attack-its-soil-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:02:12 +0000 admin Last week, Iran’s supreme clerical leader threatened reprisals for the West’s new ban on Iranian oil exports and the U.S. defense secretary was quoted as saying Israel was likely to bomb Iran within months to stop it assembling nuclear weapons.Although broadened and sharpened financial sanctions have begun to inflict serious economic pain in Iran, its oil minister asserted on Saturday it would make no nuclear retreat even if its crude oil exports ground to a halt.Iran says its nuclear program is for civilian energy purposes. But its recent shift of uranium enrichment to a mountain bunker possibly impervious to conventional bombing, and refusal to negotiate peaceful guarantees for the program or open up to U.N. nuclear inspectors, have thickened an atmosphere of brewing confrontation, raising fears for Gulf oil supplies.Any spot used by the enemy for hostile operations against Iran will be subjected to retaliatory aggression by our armed forces, Hossein Salami, deputy head of the elite Revolutionary Guards, told the semi-official Fars news agency on Sunday.The Guards began two days of military maneuvers in southern Iran on Saturday in another show of force for Iran’s adversaries associated with tensions over its disputed nuclear program.The United States and Israel, Iran’s arch-enemies, have not ruled out a military strike on Tehran if diplomacy fails to resolve the nuclear stalemate.Salami did not identify which countries he meant as possible hosts for military action against it.The six, U.S.-allied Arab states in the Gulf Cooperation Council, situated on the other side of the vital oil exporting waterway from Iran, have said they would not allow their territories to be used for attacks on the Islamic Republic.But analysts say that if Iran retaliated for an attack launched from outside the region by targeting U.S. facilities in Gulf Arab states, Washington might pressure the host nations to permit those bases to hit back, arguing they should have the right to defend themselves. The Gulf states that host U.S. military facilities are Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait. THREAT TO SHUT VITAL OIL CHANNEL2Iran has warned its response to any such strike will be painful, threatening to target Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf, along with closing the Strait of Hormuz used by one third of the world’s seaborne oil traffic. Betraying nervousness about possible blowback from any military strike on Iran, two of its neighbors – Qatar and Turkey – urged the West on Sunday to make greater efforts to negotiate a solution to the nuclear row. Speaking at the annual Munich Security Conference attended by top world policymakers, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said an attack would be a disaster and the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program could be ended very rapidly. If there is strong political will and mutual confidence being established, this issue could be resolved in a few days, he said. The technical disputes are not so big. The problem is mutual confidence and strong political will.He added: A military option will create a disaster in our region. So before that disaster, everybody must be serious in negotiations. We hope soon both sides will meet again but this time there will be a complete result.Turkey was the venue of the last talks between Western powers and Iran a year ago which ended in stalemate because participants could not even agree on an agenda.Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid Mohamed al-Attiyah said an attack is not a solution, and tightening the embargo on Iran will make the scenario worse.I believe that with our allies and friends in the West we should open a serious dialogue with the Iranians to get out of this dilemma. This is what we feel in our region.Tehran has warned several times it may seal off the Strait of Hormuz, throttling the supply of Gulf crude and gas, if attacked or if sanctions mean it cannot export its oil.A military strike on Iran and Iran’s response, which might include an attack on the oilfields of No. 1 exporter Saudi Arabia, would send oil prices soaring, which could seriously harm the global economy.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/iran-threatens-to-hit-any-country-used-to-attack-its-soil-050202201205/feed 0 Gingrich vows to take fight to timid Romney http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/gingrich-vows-to-take-fight-to-timid-romney-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/gingrich-vows-to-take-fight-to-timid-romney-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:02:47 +0000 admin Romney, the Republican front-runner, easily thumped Gingrich in Nevada on Saturday for his second consecutive win and third in the first five contests in the state-by-state battle to pick a challenger to face Democratic President Barack Obama in the November election.The win gave Romney a growing wave of momentum as the race turns to the next round of three contests on Tuesday – in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri – and Maine’s weeklong caucuses that conclude next Saturday.It also raised questions about Gingrich’s future, but the former U.S. House of Representatives speaker appeared on two national morning talk shows to repeat his vow to stay in the race despite losses in Nevada and last week in Florida.Gingrich, a former Georgia congressman, hopes his campaign can last until 10 Super Tuesday contests on March 6 and several later contests in March, when votes will be taken in southern states where he expects to do well.My goal over the next few weeks is to draw a very sharp distinction between Romney’s positions, which are very – the Wall Street Journal described them as timid, and in terms of tax policies, being like Obama, he said on NBC’s Meet the Press.I hope by the time we get to Super Tuesday that I will have made the case that a genuine conservative is a dramatically better choice to defeat Barack Obama, he said on CBS’s Face the Nation.Gingrich said he hoped to pull close to even with Romney in delegates for the nomination after the Texas primary in early April.First he will have to survive February, however, and new polls on Sunday showed Gingrich could face a challenge from Rick Santorum, who has been vying with Gingrich to be the conservative alternative to the more moderate Romney.A Public Policy Polling survey showed Romney with a comfortable 14-point lead in Colorado over Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, with Gingrich in third. In Minnesota, Santorum had a slight two-point edge on Romney with Gingrich in third. In Missouri, which is a non-binding primary that does not award delegates, Gingrich is not even on the ballot. ‘BIG DAY FOR SANTORUM’2Tuesday has the potential to be a big day for Rick Santorum, the Public Policy Polling memo said. Santorum said he believed he would pick up steam in the race as it moves beyond the first five contests and broadened to states where Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, has not spent as much time organizing and campaigning. I think we’re going to show improvement. This race is a long, long way from being over, he said on Fox News Sunday. We believe that if you look at the national polls, our numbers are moving up. Santorum finished a distant fourth in Nevada, behind Romney, Gingrich and U.S. Representative Ron Paul, whose third-place showing was a disappointment after spending time and building a campaign organization in the state.Paul said on ABC’s This Week he was not sure where he might score a victory in the race. Santorum and Gingrich have each won one state, Iowa and South Carolina respectively, while Romney has won New Hampshire, Florida and Nevada.It’s hard to say exactly when, but we have three or four caucus states that we believe our numbers are doing pretty good, so we have to just wait and see and continue to do exactly what we’re doing, Paul said.Romney took command of the Republican race with his victory in Nevada, where he won a broad cross-section of Republican voters including conservatives, moderates and Tea Party movement supporters.But while vote totals were not complete on Sunday morning, his nearly 48 percent showing was slightly short of the 51 percent he received when he won Nevada during his failed 2008 presidential campaign.Gingrich and Santorum said Romney had failed to seal the deal with Republican voters and there was still room for another candidate to confront him.The challenge is to say, do you really want to go into a fall election with a moderate candidate? Gingrich said. The difference between timidly trying to manage at the margins a system that has to be profoundly changed and boldy taking it on, is a very, very big difference.Gingrich and Romney both planned to take a day off the campaign trail on Sunday, when many Americans will be focused more on the Super Bowl football championship than on politics.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/gingrich-vows-to-take-fight-to-timid-romney-050202201205/feed 0 Iran says will attack any country used to strike its soil http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/iran-says-will-attack-any-country-used-to-strike-its-soil-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/iran-says-will-attack-any-country-used-to-strike-its-soil-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:02:43 +0000 admin Any spot used by the enemy for hostile operations against Iran, will be subjected to retaliatory aggression by our armed forces, Hossein Salami said, during military maneuvers.The Revolutionary Guards began the two-day ground exercises on Saturday as a show of military might as tension rises between Tehran and the West over Iran’s disputed nuclear program.Iranian media said it was a small-scale exercise in southern Iran.The United States and Israel, Iran’s arch enemies, have not ruled out a military strike against the country if diplomacy fails to resolve the standoff. Iran says its nuclear program is purely peaceful, rather than aimed at developing weapons.Iran has warned that its response to any such strike will be painful, threatening to target Israel, and U.S. bases in the Gulf, along with closing the vital oil shipping route of the Strait of Hormuz.
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]]> http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/iran-says-will-attack-any-country-used-to-strike-its-soil-050202201205/feed 0 Car bomb kills nine in Afghan city Kandahar http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/car-bomb-kills-nine-in-afghan-city-kandahar-050202201205 http://Timisoara.cielo.us/en/car-bomb-kills-nine-in-afghan-city-kandahar-050202201205#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:02:10 +0000 admin The Kandahar province’s media office said five police officers and two civilians were among the dead.(The) explosion took place near a busy shopping area of (the) city, it said on its official Twitter feed.Last year, fighting in Afghanistan killed more than 3,000 civilians, the United Nations said on Saturday, the fifth year in a row that the number of civilian deaths has risen.Suicide attacks carried out by insurgents and roadside mines were the biggest killers of non-combatants, the U.N. report said.Once more, enemies of the people of Afghanistan showed, by launching such a terrorist attack in a crowded place in Kandahar city, their enmity toward the innocent people of Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said in the palace’s statement.
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