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Boehner pledges support for Dalai Lama
WASHINGTON — US House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday pledged support for the Dalai Lama during a meeting at the Capitol, hailing the exiled monk as an example to the United States and the world. The head of the House of Representatives said that US lawmakers spoke with the Dalai…
J.P. Morgan to pay $228 million for bond bid-rigging scheme
NEW YORK — US bank JP Morgan Chase was slapped with fines and repayment penalties of $228 million for a bid-rigging scheme that shortchanged issuers of municipal bonds, US authorities announced Thursday. In a case that has also seen Swiss bank UBS and Bank of America heavily fined, JP Morgan…
House votes to forbid military aid to Libyan rebels
WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to forbid the Pentagon from providing military equipment, training, advice or support to Libya’s rebels. By a 225-201 margin, lawmakers debating an annual Pentagon spending bill adopted an amendment restricting Washington’s ability to help fighters looking to overthrow longtime Libyan strongman…
Smoking bans on the rise but more needed: WHO
Anti-smoking measures have become so widespread that they now affect some 3.8 billion people — just over half the world’s population, the World Health Organization said Thursday. But the WHO called for more action, warning that tobacco use could kill a billion people or more over the course of the…
China dismisses reports Jiang has died
China’s official media said Thursday that reports claiming former president Jiang Zemin had died were “pure rumour”, after days of intense speculation about his health. The state-run Xinhua news agency quoted “authoritative sources” in its report denying the rumour, which emerged last Friday after the 84-year-old failed to appear at…
Credit card donations to WikiLeaks possible again: DataCell
REYKJAVIK — Seven months after Visa and MasterCard blocked credit card payments to WikiLeaks, donating to the whistleblower website using plastic became possible again on Thursday, its data hosting service provider said. “Today (Thursday) we have observed that an alternative payment processor that we have contracted with, has in fact…
U.S. lawmakers vote to kill Hubble successor
WASHINGTON — In a fresh blow to NASA’s post-shuttle aspirations, key US lawmakers voted Thursday to kill off funding for the successor to the vastly successful space-gazing Hubble telescope. The US House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science approved by voice vote a yearly spending bill that…
U.N. report: Renewable energy investment soars 540% since 2004
Investment in renewable energy last year amounted to a record 211 billion dollars, a rise of 32 percent over 2009 and 540 percent over 2004, a UN-backed report said on Thursday. China, investing 48.9 billion dollars, up 28 percent, accounted for more than a fifth of the total, marking a…
World food prices rise as cost of sugar soars
World food prices rose by one percent in June, the UN’s food agency said on Thursday. “A strong rise in international sugar prices” was behind much of the increase, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a statement. The agency said that its index of food prices rose to…
‘All-out war’ erupts between DSK accuser and DA’s office
The case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been thrown into further disarray as an all-out war has erupted between the district attorney’s office and the former IMF chief’s accuser. Lawyers for the maid who says Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in a Manhattan hotel room demanded a new prosecutor Wednesday, accusing…
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