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"Canice Leung"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:39 | null | 2016-08-24T03:00:01 | Students participate in celebrations ahead of the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna in Mumbai, India, August 23, 2016. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fnews%2Fpicture%2Feditors-choice%3FarticleId%3DUSRTX2MO68.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160824&t=2&i=1150804657&w=&fh=545&fw=810&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=2016-08-24T030001Z_23869_S1BETXCDSDAB_RTRMADP_0_INDIA-RELIGION | en | null | Editor's choice | null | null | www.reuters.com | One of the eight Turkish soldiers, who fled to Greece in a helicopter and requested political asylum after a failed military coup against the government, is seen in a police car with his face covered, after his interview for asylum request at the Asylum Service in Athens, Greece. REUTERS/Michalis Karagiannis | http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/editors-choice?articleId=USRTX2MO68 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/aaefb4988ffc76c3e2d88c9aaedb2d4ce5c7721ce8e5adabb75acfdb679a9776.json |
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"Reuters Editorial"
] | 2016-08-30T14:52:14 | null | 2016-08-30T14:16:02 | Aug 30 (Reuters) -* Potash Corp, Agrium Inc planning to merge; combinationcould be announced as soon as next week - Bloomberg, citingsourcesSourc | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FidUSFWN1BB0FN%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | BRIEF-Potash Corp, Agrium planning to merge - Bloomberg | null | null | www.reuters.com | UPDATE 4-EU hits Apple with 13 billion euro Irish tax demand
BRUSSELS/DUBLIN, Aug 30 The European Commission ordered Apple Inc. to pay Ireland unpaid taxes of up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) on Tuesday as it ruled the firm had received illegal state aid. | http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSFWN1BB0FN?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/50ab8f0ae05a1d4ff9fead23ef3f9ee44643277ab4ab6c751179718082bddddf.json |
[
"Marta Nogueira"
] | 2016-08-30T22:52:52 | null | 2016-08-30T21:45:22 | Federal prosecutors investigating the deadly dam spill in November at the Samarco iron ore mine, owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton, will decide in coming weeks whether to charge the company and executives, a prosecutor in the case said on Tuesday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-brazil-mining-samarco-idUSKCN1152RF%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DenvironmentNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252Fenvironment%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BEnvironment%2529.json | http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160830&t=2&i=1151642879&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7T1L0 | en | null | Prosecutors to decide in September on Samarco dam spill charges | null | null | www.reuters.com | A helicopter flies over the Bento Rodrigues district, covered with mud after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst in Mariana, Brazil, November 6, 2015. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil Federal prosecutors investigating the deadly dam spill in November at the Samarco iron ore mine, owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton, will decide in coming weeks whether to charge the company and executives, a prosecutor in the case said on Tuesday.
A police investigation accused Samarco in June of willful misconduct, saying the company ignored clear signs the dam was at risk of collapsing. The investigation is now with prosecutors, who are deciding whether to file charges.
Samarco denies any wrongdoing.
"The task force is at this moment concluding the analysis of the documents from the investigation," prosecutor Eduardo Santos de Oliveira said in an interview, declining to comment further on what charges might be brought or whether the case might be dismissed.
He said a decision was expected in September.
De Oliveira's comments come the day after Samarco, Vale and BHP published a report into the cause of the dam collapse, which killed 19 people and resulted in Brazil's worst environmental disaster.
The report found the spill was caused by drainage and design flaws but stopped short of assigning blame, saying such a verdict was outside its scope.
De Oliveira said the report, which was commissioned by the mining companies and carried out by law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, would be considered in any decision to bring charges but that at first glance the report appeared to have little new information.
(writing by Stephen Eisenhammer; Editing by Cynthia Osterman) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-mining-samarco-idUSKCN1152RF?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/97f28bddc4260e92268570b55327cb74c15558b713dc2361d7ff20ce320ad4fb.json |
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"Ingrid Melander",
"Chine Labbé"
] | 2016-08-26T14:53:09 | null | 2016-08-26T14:35:40 | A top French court on Friday suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has angered Muslims, feminists and civil liberties campaigners. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-religion-burqa-france-idUSKCN1111J5%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DlifestyleMolt.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160826&t=2&i=1151182032&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7P11K | en | null | Top French court suspends burkini ban | null | null | www.reuters.com | Aheda Zanetti (L), designer of the Burkini swimsuit, adjusts one of the swimsuits on model Salwa Elrashid at her fashion store in Sydney, August 23, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Reed
Australian muslim swimming instructor Fadila Chafic wears her full-length 'burkini' swimsuit during a swimming lesson with her children Taaleen (L) and Ibrahim at swimming pool in Sydney, August 23, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Reed
Protesters demonstrate against France's ban of the burkini, outside the French Embassy in London, Britain August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall
A Muslim woman wears a burkini, a swimsuit that leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, on a beach in Marseille, France, August 17, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
French lawyer Patrice Spinosi speaks to journalists outside the Conseil d'Etat after France's highest administrative court suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has outraged Muslims and opened divisions within the government, pending a definitive ruling, in Paris, France, August 26, 2016. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
Journalists work outside the Conseil d'Etat after France's highest administrative court suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has outraged Muslims and opened divisions within the government, pending a definitive ruling, in Paris, France, August 26, 2016. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
A man wears a placard with the message, 'Burkini = Liberty' outside the Conseil d'Etat after France's highest administrative court suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has outraged Muslims and opened divisions within the government, pending a definitive ruling, in Paris, France, August 26, 2016. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
PARIS A top French court on Friday suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has angered Muslims, feminists and civil liberties campaigners.
The ruling by the Council of State relates to the Mediterranean resort of Villeneuve-Loubet, one of more than a dozen French towns that have imposed such bans.
The burkini ban has shone a light on secular France's long-standing difficulties integrating its Muslim population and dealing with the aftermath of a series of Islamist attacks.
The court said in a statement the decree to ban burkinis in Villeneuve-Loubet "seriously, and clearly illegally, breached the fundamental freedoms to come and go, the freedom of beliefs and individual freedom."
The lawyer representing the League of Human Rights campaign group which had challenged the ban in Villeneuve-Loubet told reporters the ruling meant all town halls would need to reverse their bans. The group argued the bans contravened civil liberties.
But one mayor in Corsica said he would not suspend his own ban, showing that the ruling will not put a quick end to the heated controversy that has already filtered into early campaigning for the 2017 presidential election.
"There's a lot of tension here and I won't withdraw my decree," Sisco mayor Ange-Pierre Vivoni told BFM TV.
The issue has also made French cultural identity a hot-button issue along with security in political debates ahead of next April's presidential election.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls robustly defended the burkini ban on Thursday while some ministers criticized it, exposing divisions within the government as campaigning begins.
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he would impose a nationwide ban on burkinis if elected as he seeks to position himself as a strong defender of French values and tough on immigration.
"This is a slap for the prime minister and a kick up the backside for Sarkozy," Abdallah Zekri, secretary general of the French Muslim Council (CFCM) said of the ruling. "We're satisfied with this."
Socialist Party spokesman Razzy Hammadi told BFM TV he hoped the ruling "will put an end to this nasty controversy".
(Additional reporting by Gerard Bon and Bate Felix; Writing by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Richard Lough and Giles Elgood) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-religion-burqa-france-idUSKCN1111J5?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/d19933d0ab9fd406127913fe34ef07dd240005fa8152ad13b8d3269cb608d2f1.json |
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"Reuters Editorial"
] | 2016-08-30T12:52:24 | null | 2016-08-30T12:29:21 | South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has confidence in Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, the party's Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-safrica-politics-idUSKCN1151HA.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160830&t=2&i=1151574715&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7T0RR | en | null | South Africa's ruling party says has confidence in finance minister Gordhan | null | null | www.reuters.com | South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan reacts during a media briefing in Sandton near Johannesburg March 14, 2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo
JOHANNESBURG South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has confidence in Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, the party's Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday.
Gordhan is facing a police investigation over a suspected surveillance unit set up years ago when he was in charge of the tax service.
The rand gained slightly after the ANC reaffirmed its confidence in the minister.
(Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Writing by James Macharia; editing by John Stonestreet) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-politics-idUSKCN1151HA | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/fd80a8ed0d7ecc8028783f8a19136c18b66839978b0f85dcc1a316e0332ce534.json |
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"Kathryn Doyle"
] | 2016-08-29T16:52:46 | null | 2016-08-29T16:33:04 | By Kathryn Doyle(Reuters Health) – For recipients of an organ transplant, smoking is even more dangerous than for the rest of the population, a recen | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-health-transplantation-smoking-idUSKCN1141UA%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DhealthNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FhealthNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BHealth%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Transplant recipients who resume smoking have shorter survival | null | null | www.reuters.com | (Reuters Health) – For recipients of an organ transplant, smoking is even more dangerous than for the rest of the population, a recent analysis shows.
The review of studies on solid organ transplant patients found that more than 10 percent resume smoking after the operation. These smokers have more than 2.5 times the risk of nonskin cancers compared to transplant recipients who don’t smoke, and elevated risks of new heart disease as well as death.
Transplant patients must remain on immunosuppressive medication for life to keep their bodies from rejecting the organ, which is why they already have an increased risk of cancer, infections and heart disease, researchers write in the journal Transplantation.
“In transplantation, smoking clearly has a negative impact, an even bigger impact than if you are a nontransplant person,” said coauthor Sabina De Geest of the University of Basel in Switzerland.
The researchers reviewed 73 studies of transplantation, most focusing on kidney, heart or lung transplants, and they analyzed data on six potential risk factors before surgery and four outcomes after surgery.
Men were 30 percent more likely to smoke after a transplant than women, and younger, thinner people were also more likely to smoke than others.
Those who continued or resumed smoking after a transplant were 40 percent more likely than others to develop new heart disease, 2.58 times more likely to develop a malignancy other than skin cancer and 1.74 times more likely to die during the follow-up period.
International consensus guidelines say that active tobacco smoking or smoking within the previous six months should be a disqualifying factor for a patient who needs a heart or lung transplant, and strongly recommend quitting before a kidney or liver transplant.
“Most transplant programs are really targeted to providing patients this information, before you have a transplant you go through an evaluation program,” De Geest told Reuters Health.
But assessing smoking status and other health risk factors should be an ongoing process, she said, before, during and after transplantation, as long as 10 to 15 years after the transplant happens. Staying active and eating healthy are also important after a transplant, she said.
“It’s a non-sexy part of transplantation, but it should be integrated throughout the transplantation continuum,” De Geest said.
“Smoking is clearly a modifiable risk factor that has a negative impact on transplant outcome,” said Dr. Chris Dudley of Southmead Hospital in Bristol, UK, who was not part of the new review.
Smoking may also be a surrogate for socioeconomic status: poorer, less educated people are more likely to smoke and also tend to have worse health outcomes, he told Reuters Health.
“One of the questions is, should we ration transplantation to nonsmokers only, but I don’t think that’s feasible,” Dudley said. “We live in a liberal democracy, for the most part, and that would be thought of as too draconian.”
Some patient will quit, or claim to quit, before a transplant and resume smoking after, he said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/2c0alse Transplantation, online July 29, 2016. | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-transplantation-smoking-idUSKCN1141UA?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FhealthNews+%28Reuters+Health+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/2381153fbcd1d8ea2abaa29959260eefb56333cea119ffe81e4255297f0a744a.json |
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"Reuters Editorial"
] | 2016-08-27T16:50:53 | null | 2016-08-27T16:28:11 | Exxon Mobil Corp has decided to scrapfurther investment in a proposed natural gas export terminal inAlaska and will work with its partners to sell its interest inthe project to the state government, the Wall Street Journalreported late Friday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FidUSL1N1B80B5%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | MEDIA LINK-Exxon Mobil Backs Out of Proposed Alaska LNG Project -WSJ | null | null | www.reuters.com | Aug 27 Exxon Mobil Corp has decided to scrap further investment in a proposed natural gas export terminal in Alaska and will work with its partners to sell its interest in the project to the state government, the Wall Street Journal reported late Friday.
Link: here
Note: Reuters has not verified this story and does not vouch for its accuracy (Editing by Alden Bentley) | http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N1B80B5?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/61ff6a78bb7bfb74172e12d32ef89780fd7fa921a021ec88aa2cc81a7b1fa3bd.json |
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"Reuters Editorial"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:10 | null | 2015-01-08T17:20:23 | Activist-investor Starboard Value LP has reiterated that Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) should consider a merger with AOL Inc AOL.N and cut costs to improve profits, spurred by media reports that Yahoo is exploring other large-scale acquisitions. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-yahoo-aol-starboard-idUSKBN0KH1FR20150108%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DvcMedia.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20150108&t=2&i=1014758442&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXMPEB070NM | en | null | Starboard reiterates Yahoo should combine with AOL | null | null | www.reuters.com | Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during her keynote address at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 7, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
Activist-investor Starboard Value LP has reiterated that Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) should consider a merger with AOL Inc AOL.N and cut costs to improve profits, spurred by media reports that Yahoo is exploring other large-scale acquisitions.
Starboard, in September, urged Yahoo to consider merging with AOL on the grounds that a deal could create up to $1 billion in "synergies" by reducing overlaps in online display advertising and other overhead costs.
The activist-investor holds stake in both companies.
Starboard said in a letter on Thursday that it was "increasingly concerned" by media reports of Yahoo planning acquisitions as it believed the company should first focus on monetizing its investments in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) and Yahoo Japan Corp (4689.T).
Yahoo holds an approximately 15 percent stake in Alibaba (BABA.N) valued at about $39.17 billion as of Wednesday's close and about an $8 billion stake in Yahoo Japan, as of Sept. 30, 2014. (bit.ly/1DC3JX8)
"A combination with AOL does make sense. They are two laggards who can combine forces and better compete with companies such as Google Inc," B. Riley & Co analyst Sameet Sinha said.
The Starboard letter highlighted reports speculating that Yahoo was considering buying cable assets, including Scripps Networks Interactive Inc SNI.N and Time Warner's (TWX.N) CNN.
Some large shareholders have also reached out directly to Starboard expressing their concern over the media reports, the activist-investor said.
Starboard disclosed a 7.7 million share stake in Yahoo and a 1.9 million share stake in AOL in November.
Yahoo's shares were up 2.4 percent at $49.75, while AOL was up 4.6 percent at $48.27 in afternoon trading on Thursday.
(Reporting by Abhirup Roy and Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza and Simon Jennings) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-aol-starboard-idUSKBN0KH1FR20150108?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcMedia | en | 2015-01-08T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/6becf83bdc0348b5b4d156e382a615c55fc31f7a76b8152e7080dab735917532.json |
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"Reuters Editorial"
] | 2016-08-30T04:51:59 | null | 2016-08-30T04:31:18 | The following are the top stories in theWall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories anddoes not vouch for their accuracy. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fpress-digest-wsj-idUSL3N1BB1T9%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Aug 30 | null | null | www.reuters.com | Aug 30 The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Oreo cookie maker Mondelez International Inc ended its pursuit of Hershey Co after the famed chocolatier rebuffed its latest acquisition offer, putting an end to a months-long takeover campaign that would have created the world's largest candy company. on.wsj.com/2bMOS4d
- Gene Wilder, who blended manic energy, quiet irony and quirky humanity in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" and other classic comedies of the 20th century, has died at the age of 83, according to his agent. on.wsj.com/2caBquS
- Republican Donald Trump has said he isn't interested in running a traditional presidential campaign. Campaign-finance records show he's not. Half of the campaign's 10 highest-paid consultants over the course of the election had never previously worked for a presidential campaign. on.wsj.com/2caCWNo
- When Turkish ground forces delivered a lightning strike on Islamic State fighters in Syria last week, the Pentagon hailed what it described as close U.S.-Turkish coordination. But behind the scenes, cooperation between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization partners broke down at senior levels, according to officials on both sides. on.wsj.com/2bNgc2j
- Mylan NV, whose price hike on its life-saving EpiPen drug drew broad criticism this month, said it would launch a half-priced generic version of the medicine-in effect, competing against itself. on.wsj.com/2buEXT3
- The European Union's antitrust regulator is poised to rule as soon as Tuesday that Apple Inc tax arrangements with Ireland have breached the bloc's state-aid rules. The EU's decision is likely to aggravate trans-Atlantic tensions over the investigations into tax deals brokered between U.S. multinational corporations and individual European countries. on.wsj.com/2bRdRp7
- Uber Technologies Inc said a longtime Alphabet Inc executive has left its board as the two tech companies increasingly clash over the future of transportation and logistics. on.wsj.com/2bwEFes
- Fox News Channel called claims by former on-air personality Andrea Tantaros that she was sexually harassed by former network chief Roger Ailes a "smokescreen to obscure her violation of her employment contract." on.wsj.com/2bw1OR6 (Compiled by Shivam Srivastava in Bengaluru) | http://www.reuters.com/article/press-digest-wsj-idUSL3N1BB1T9?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/f81bd80df604cc4ab4e7c8a1a9f279f43beeffd03dc423555d057332864faf08.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T20:52:12 | null | 2016-08-30T20:40:58 | H & R Block Inc | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FidUSASC094X0%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | BRIEF-H&R Block announces fiscal 2017 Q1 results | null | null | www.reuters.com | Aug 30 H & R Block Inc
* h&r block announces fiscal 2017 first quarter results
* Q1 loss per share $0.55 from continuing operations
* Q1 revenue $125.2 million versus i/b/e/s view $132.9 million
* Q1 earnings per share view $-0.53 -- Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S
* H & r block inc says q1 revenues and net loss were impacted by divestiture of h&r block bank and changes to capital structure in fiscal 2016
* H & r block inc says "we are on target to execute our cost reduction plans"
* H & r block inc says "while expenses are down slightly this quarter, majority of our planned reductions will occur after q1"
* H & r block inc qtrly services revenues $112.4 million versus $118.4 million Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: | http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSASC094X0?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/d952e5afd024a620871968ef113f08cbce5768704862a96e0605326c6d74e041.json |
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"Reuters Editorial"
] | 2016-08-28T09:02:38 | null | 2016-08-28T08:12:27 | German Chancellor Angela Merkel's domestic popularity has declined, a poll showed on Sunday, with 50 percent of Germans against her serving a fourth term in office after a federal election next year. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-germany-merkel-idUSKCN11306L%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160828&t=2&i=1151332601&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7R02H | en | null | Half of Germans against Merkel serving fourth term: poll | null | null | www.reuters.com | BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel's domestic popularity has declined, a poll showed on Sunday, with 50 percent of Germans against her serving a fourth term in office after a federal election next year.
A series of violent attacks on civilians in July, two of which were claimed by Islamic State, have focused attention on Merkel's open-door migrant policy, which allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere into Germany last year.
Half of the 501 people questioned in the Emnid poll for the Bild am Sonntag newspaper were against Merkel staying in office beyond after the 2017 election, with 42 percent wanting her to remain.
In November, the last time Bild am Sonntag commissioned a survey on the issue, 45 percent had been in favor of Merkel serving a fourth term, with 48 percent against.
The head of Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Frank-Juergen Weise, told the newspaper that he expects a maximum of 300,000 refugees to arrive in Germany this year.
Merkel, asked about her plans for the 2017 election in an interview with regional newspapers published on Tuesday, said: "I will comment on that at the appropriate time. I'm sticking to that."
(Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by David Goodman) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-merkel-idUSKCN11306L?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/1c2fa5b046e4811ee3c45c4ea2228aaff7cee560d1c4e34c5c83cef1cfb91760.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:21:10 | null | 2016-08-26T13:13:24 | U.S. economic growth was a bit more sluggish than initially thought in the second quarter as businesses aggressively ran down stocks of unsold goods, offsetting a spurt in consumer spending. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-economy-idUSKCN1111FM%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160826&t=2&i=1151167976&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7P0TI | en | null | U.S. second-quarter growth trimmed to 1.1 percent; consumer spending raised | null | null | www.reuters.com | A man pushes his shopping cart down an aisle at a Home Depot store in New York, July 29, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
WASHINGTON, U.S. economic growth was a bit more sluggish than initially thought in the second quarter as businesses aggressively ran down stocks of unsold goods, offsetting a spurt in consumer spending.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.1 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said on Friday in its second estimate of GDP. That was slightly down from the 1.2 percent rate reported last month.
The revision also reflected more imports than previously estimated as well as weak spending by state and local governments. The economy grew at a 0.8 percent pace in the first quarter. It grew 1.0 percent in the first half of 2016.
The revision to second-quarter GDP growth was in line with economists' expectations. The economy has struggled to regain momentum since output started slowing in the last six months of 2015, which puts it in danger of stalling.
While data so far for the third quarter has been mixed, a strong labor market should continue to support consumer spending and underpin growth in the coming quarters. Output will also likely get a boost as businesses restock warehouses after liquidating inventories in the second quarter.
The government also reported that after-tax corporate profits fell at a 2.4 percent rate last quarter after increasing at an 8.1 percent pace in the first quarter. Weak profits could limit an anticipated rebound in business spending.
With profits declining, an alternative measure of growth, gross domestic income, or GDI, increased at only a 0.2 percent rate in the second quarter, the weakest since the first quarter of 2013. GDI measures the economy's performance from the income side. It increased at a 0.8 percent pace in the first quarter.
Business inventories fell $12.4 billion in the second quarter, the first drop since the third quarter of 2011, instead
of the $8.1 billion reported last month.
As a result inventories sliced off 1.26 percentage points from GDP growth, the largest drag in more than two years, and up from the 1.16 percentage points subtraction in last month's estimate.
It was the fifth straight quarter that inventories weighed on output. Economists say some of the inventory drawdown could partially be attributed to robust consumption.
Consumer spending, which makes up more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, was revised up to show it increased at a 4.4 percent rate -- the fastest since the fourth quarter of 2014. Consumer spending, which was previously reported to have
advanced at a 4.2 percent rate, accounted for the bulk of the rise in output last quarter.
With consumption accelerating, imports were revised to show them growing at a 0.3 percent rate instead of declining at a 0.4 percent rate. There was also a modest downward revision to export growth. As a result, trade contributed one-tenth of a percentage point to GDP growth in the second quarter instead of 0.23 percentage point as reported last month.
Business spending on equipment fell at a 3.7 percent rate and not the 3.5 percent pace reported last month. Business spending on equipment contracted for a third consecutive quarter, the longest stretch since the 2007-2009 recession, though the pace of decline slowed.
Business spending has been hurt by cheap oil, which has squeezed profits in the energy sector, forcing companies to cut capital spending budgets. There are signs that the worst of the decline is probably over, with a report on Thursday showing demand for manufactured capital goods rising in July for a second straight month.
There were also downward revisions to investment in nonresidential structures, which include oil and gas wells.
Residential construction spending estimates were also trimmed.
(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Andrea Ricci) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-idUSKCN1111FM?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/ef2591b5d08b440c0cd69fd66e4963539cdb5c4c422fdf0044ea504b18629d4c.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T04:52:20 | null | 2016-08-31T03:12:53 | Japan's defense ministry on Wednesday asked for a hike in spending to record levels, as it juggles its responses to a growing ballistic missile threat from North Korea and China's assertive moves in the East China Sea. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-japan-defence-budget-idUSKCN11608Y.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160831&t=2&i=1151667098&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7U04N | en | null | Japan's military seeks record spending to counter North Korea, China moves | null | null | www.reuters.com | A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force AH-1S helicopter fires anti-tank missile during an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji training field in Gotemba, west of Tokyo, August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
TOKYO Japan's defense ministry on Wednesday asked for a hike in spending to record levels, as it juggles its responses to a growing ballistic missile threat from North Korea and China's assertive moves in the East China Sea.
If approved, the hike of 2.3 percent will take the defense budget to 5.17 trillion yen ($51.47 billion) in the year starting April 1, for a fifth consecutive increase as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bolsters Japan's military.
The nation's Self Defense Forces are pivoting away from guarding the north against a diminished Russian threat to reinforce an island chain stretching 1,400 km (870 miles) along the southern edge of the East China Sea.
That means opting for fewer tank divisions as they build a mobile amphibious force from scratch.
The costly rejig comes as Japan is also forced to spend more to guard against ballistic missiles being developed by North Korea capable of striking most areas.
PATRIOT UPGRADE
The single biggest expenditure is 99 billion yen ($970 million) to upgrade Japan's warhead-killing Patriot batteries, a last line of defense against missile strikes.
The improvements will double their range to around 30 km (19 miles) and sharpen targeting to hit arriving ballistic warheads.
They will take five years to complete, with the first four enhanced Patriots expected to be ready for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
In June, North Korea test-fired what appeared to be two mobile Musudan rockets, one of which climbed to 1,000 km (600 miles), or enough to fly more than 3,000 km (1,800 miles) down range.
On Aug. 24, Pyongyang also fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) toward Japan that traveled 500 km (311 miles).
Japan's biggest defense contractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) (7011.T) will upgrade the PAC-3s under license from Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co, sources familiar with the plan told Reuters last month.
The budget request also includes funding to improve Aegis destroyers that are Japan's first line of defense against ballistic missiles.
Japan and the United States are developing a new warhead killer, the Standard Missile 3 (SM-3), to destroy targets in space, but no decision on a full rollout has yet been made.
SOUTHWEST SHIFT
Other proposed defense buys will reinforce the East China Sea, where Japan and China are locked in a territorial dispute over a group of islets 220 km (140 miles) northeast of Taiwan known as the Senkakus in Tokyo and the Diaoyus in Beijing.
Japanese air scrambles against Chinese aircraft are running at a record high, with Beijing's navy probing deeper and more frequently into the Western Pacific beyond Japan's island chain.
Chinese military activity in the region was "escalating," Japan's Self-Defence Forces chief Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano said in June.
Defence officials want 95 billion yen next year to buy six Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters, and a combined 92 billion for four Boeing Co (BA.N) and Bell Helicopter (TXT.N) V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and six Boeing Chinook twin-rotor helicopters.
The SDF also wants 11 BAE Systems (BAES.L) AAV7 amphibious assault craft, and two long-range Kawasaki Heavy Industries (7012.T) C-2 military cargo jets.
Other buys will include a Northrop Grumman (NOC.N) unmanned Global Hawk surveillance drone and a new larger-class diesel-electric submarine designed by Mitsubishi Heavy and Kawasaki Heavy.
($1=102.0900 yen)
(Reporting by Tim Kelly; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-defence-budget-idUSKCN11608Y | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/0b96c955fec5e7e7d257d30513074c15933386a776e1624ebc8680b5afc7c5b5.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T01:02:57 | null | 2016-08-29T23:00:32 | The United States scrambled on Monday to get its feuding allies, Turkey and Kurdish YPG militia, to focus their firepower on Islamic State instead of each other after clashes that have threatened to unravel America's war strategy in Syria. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-idUSKCN1142FR%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151504618&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S1D9 | en | null | U.S. tries to stop feuding allies from unraveling Syria strategy | null | null | www.reuters.com | WASHINGTON The United States scrambled on Monday to get its feuding allies, Turkey and Kurdish YPG militia, to focus their firepower on Islamic State instead of each other after clashes that have threatened to unravel America's war strategy in Syria.
Turkey, which has long viewed Kurdish militants as its top security threat, upended U.S. assumptions about the conflict by launching a major push last week into northern Syria that has included areas controlled by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes experienced Kurdish YPG fighters.
In turn, Turkey has blamed a rocket attack from a YPG-controlled area for the death of one of its soldiers on Saturday. Turkey said it killed 25 Kurdish militants on Sunday.
"We've called on both sides to not fight with one another, to continue to focus the fight on ISIL," U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a Pentagon news conference, using an acronym for Islamic State.
White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said further Turkish targeting of the SDF, which also includes Arab fighters, would undermine efforts to forge a "united front" against Islamic State.
But experts say the Turkish offensive has again exposed the vastly different, often competing objectives of America's allies in the five-year-old conflict in Syria, where the Islamic State is only one of many actors.
It has also raised questions over whether Turkey will attempt to thwart any more major advances by the SDF, just weeks after the Pentagon hailed the group's victory against Islamic State in the town of Manbij, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Turkey's border.
Carter signaled no change in U.S. strategy on Monday, stressing that both the SDF and Turkey were critical allies in Syria. The Pentagon hopes U.S.-backed forces can eventually retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State.
"We do understand that they (Turkey and Kurdish fighters) have historical differences with one another but American interests are quite clear," Carter said. "We, like they, want to combat ISIL and we are calling on them now: 'Let’s keep our priorities clear here.'"
TENSIONS WITH TURKEY
Experts say the best-case scenario for defusing tensions would be for Turkey to accept U.S. assurances that the YPG is withdrawing east of the Euphrates river. Turkey, which wants to stop Kurdish forces from further extending their control near its border, has demanded such a withdrawal.
Carter on Monday described the river as a natural barrier that would separate Turkey and the YPG.
"What we can do and are doing with them is to clarify where the YPG elements of the SDF are and are not," he said, adding YPG fighters were indeed withdrawing.
In a nod to Turkey, Carter also praised Turkish military advances against Islamic State in the past week, notably its seizure of the town of Jarablus.
Blaise Misztal, director of national security at the Bipartisan Policy Center think-tank, said the United States was witnessing the consequences of a strategy that heavily depended on Kurdish fighters to defeat Islamic State, despite explicit Turkish objections.
Turkey is battling a Kurdish insurgency on its soil.
"The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy," Misztal said.
Experts warned that it was far from clear whether Ankara would back down, given that the United States was unlikely to side with Kurdish militia over NATO ally Turkey.
Turkey is host to important U.S. and NATO military facilities. They include Incirlik Air Base, from which U.S. fighters and drones hit Islamic State in neighboring Syria, U.S. listening posts and an early warning radar for NATO’s European missile defense system.
"When it comes down to: Do we alienate the Turks, or do we alienate the Syrian Kurds, there's no doubt who's going to be the loser," said Bruce Riedel, a Middle East expert at the Brookings Institution and a former CIA analyst.
The United States is already walking on eggshells after accusations from Turkey that Washington was too slow to condemn last month's failed coup there.
In a sign of the sensitivities, the top U.S. military officer, General Joseph Dunford, called his Turkish counterpart on Sunday and Carter told the briefing he would see Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik next week.
President Barack Obama will meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sept. 4, the White House said.
(Additional reporting by Idrees Ali, Yeganeh Torbati and Ruthy Munoz in Washington and Nick Tattersal in Istanbul; Editing by Cynthia Osterman) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-idUSKCN1142FR?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/be374421b7951cd2d4685508d7bffb5f5639026cc2376bb576c3e501e36fb774.json |
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BRUSSELS/DUBLIN, Aug 30 The European Commission ordered Apple Inc. to pay Ireland unpaid taxes of up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) on Tuesday as it ruled the firm had received illegal state aid. | http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSFWN1BB0FH?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/c778d6c2ecb54b890d1c05b566cf9aab0f900d54f4ab2edb989219cd8778ddd3.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T13:00:17 | null | 2016-08-31T12:25:13 | The historic Monza circuit is to stay on the Formula One calendar after agreeing a new deal with the sport’s organizers, Italian officials said on Wednesday. The circuit near Milan has been on the calendar every year bar one since the championship started in 1950 but had no contract beyond this year and its future had been uncertain. Roberto Maroni, president of the Lombardy region, said on his Facebook that a deal had been reached. "The Grand Prix will stay in Monza," he said. "With a few days to go until the signing of the contract, I'm very satisfied." Cabinet Undersecretary Luca Lotti, one of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's closest aides, also said a deal had been done. "Teamwork pays just as it does in Formula One," he said on Twitter. Italian media said the new deal would be for three years. Monza's absence from the calendar would be unthinkable for most fans, not least those of Ferrari for whom Monza is home territory. This season's race will be held on Sunday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-motor-racing-monza-idUSKCN1161K9%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DsportsNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FsportsNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BSports%2BNews%2529.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160831&t=2&i=1151720100&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7U0VJ | en | null | Monza to keep Formula One race: government officials | null | null | www.reuters.com | MILAN The historic Monza circuit is to stay on the Formula One calendar after agreeing a new deal with the sport’s organizers, Italian officials said on Wednesday. The circuit near Milan has been on the calendar every year bar one since the championship started in 1950 but had no contract beyond this year and its future had been uncertain. Roberto Maroni, president of the Lombardy region, said on his Facebook that a deal had been reached. "The Grand Prix will stay in Monza," he said. "With a few days to go until the signing of the contract, I'm very satisfied." Cabinet Undersecretary Luca Lotti, one of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's closest aides, also said a deal had been done. "Teamwork pays just as it does in Formula One," he said on Twitter. Italian media said the new deal would be for three years. Monza's absence from the calendar would be unthinkable for most fans, not least those of Ferrari for whom Monza is home territory. This season's race will be held on Sunday. | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-motor-racing-monza-idUSKCN1161K9?feedType=RSS&feedName=sportsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FsportsNews+%28Reuters+Sports+News%29 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/4c37c8a6d16c0a672c705cab58d1874de750857aa2565dfe1a18ded5d3643b60.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T18:51:03 | null | 2016-08-26T18:30:10 | BlackBerry Ltd said onFriday it would raise about $605 million by selling convertibledebentures to Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd and otherinvestors. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fblackberry-debt-idUSL3N1B74P0%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | BlackBerry to sell $605 mln of convertible debt to Fairfax, others | null | null | www.reuters.com | Aug 26 BlackBerry Ltd said on Friday it would raise about $605 million by selling convertible debentures to Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd and other investors.
The Canadian smartphone maker also said it would redeem the roughly $1.25 billion worth of outstanding debentures carrying a 6 percent coupon on Sept. 2.
The new debt that BlackBerry plans to issue will carry a coupon of 3.75 percent and will be due in November 2020.
BlackBerry said that if all of the $605 million of new debt is converted into stock, it would represent about 11.57 percent of the company's outstanding shares.
FairFax, led by well-known contrarian investor Prem Watsa, is the second-largest shareholder in BlackBerry with a stake of about 8.9 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data. (Reporting by Arathy S Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza) | http://www.reuters.com/article/blackberry-debt-idUSL3N1B74P0?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/87fbda37308d1001b49772df6e746d9e296d0a0612410fbd3204ea97ebe676ba.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T06:52:57 | null | 2016-08-31T06:04:51 | Floods have inundated an old people's home in Japan killing nine people, police said on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a typhoon battering northern parts of the country to at least 11. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-asia-storm-japan-home-idUSKCN1160HN%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DenvironmentNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252Fenvironment%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BEnvironment%2529.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160831&t=2&i=1151679034&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7U08N | en | null | Nine people killed in flooded Japanese old people's home | null | null | www.reuters.com | An aerial view shows a damaged home for the elderly caused by a flood triggered by Typhoon Lionrock, where local media say nine bodies were found, in Iwaizumi town, Iwate prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 31, 2016. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
TOKYO Floods have inundated an old people's home in Japan killing nine people, police said on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a typhoon battering northern parts of the country to at least 11.
Police found the nine bodies in the nursing home in the town of Iwaizumi on Wednesday but it was not clear when their home was inundated.
Nor was it clear why people there had not been taken to safety before the storm struck.
More than 1,000 other people were forced from their homes by the flooding brought by Typhoon Lionrock.
The body of a man was found near a river in Iwaizumi and a dead woman was found in Kuji city, police said.
Television showed pictures of flooded rivers with cars and homes partly submerged while rescuers picked up stranded people by helicopter.
The worst-hit Iwate prefecture was devastated by a big earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Several people were missing on the northern island of Hokkaido, police said.
(Reporting by Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Robert Birsel) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-asia-storm-japan-home-idUSKCN1160HN?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/f6e65f84f3d41a7924685c70df37d002dd6a24dadb9ce2a583083d6ffcd9c95f.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T16:51:31 | null | 2016-08-30T16:20:35 | A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Chevron Corp (CVX.N) workers who said the oil company breached its fiduciary duties by putting costly and poorly performing investment options in a $19 billion employee savings plan. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-chevron-lawsuit-idUSKCN11525N%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DbusinessNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FbusinessNews%2B%2528Business%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160830&t=2&i=1151607353&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7T18G | en | null | Chevron wins dismissal of claims of poor savings plan oversight | null | null | www.reuters.com | A Chevron gas station sign is pictured at one of their retain gas stations in Cardiff, California October 9, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Blake
NEW YORK A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Chevron Corp (CVX.N) workers who said the oil company breached its fiduciary duties by putting costly and poorly performing investment options in a $19 billion employee savings plan.
In a decision on Monday, Chief Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, wrote that the workers failed to raise a "plausible inference" of wrongdoing.
Hamilton gave the plaintiffs until Sept. 30 to file an amended complaint.
"The mere fact that the fund's price dropped is not sufficient to state a claim for breach of fiduciary duty," she wrote.
The judge also said it was acceptable for the plan to offer a money market fund rather than a higher-return stable value fund for plan participants seeking to preserve capital.
Neither Jerome Schlichter, whose firm represents the plaintiffs, nor a spokesman for San Ramon, California-based Chevron immediately commented.
Schlichter's St. Louis firm has pursued many lawsuits accusing companies of mismanaging 401(k) and other retirement plans. This month it also brought similar claims against a number of major universities.
The case is White et al v. Chevron Corp et al, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 16-00793.
(Reporting by Ross Kerber; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chevron-lawsuit-idUSKCN11525N?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28Business+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/6319f856f67d9f0d05940fb4139ba884e1a43b3d83ce16249fc066a0bf4460c6.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T23:03:07 | null | 2016-08-30T21:35:12 | Republican Donald Trump, who has made his criticism of a pending Pacific trade agreement central to his campaign, on Tuesday was to visit a Seattle suburb that is home to a large Boeing Co plane manufacturing facility that depends heavily on sales to Asian markets. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-election-idUSKCN1152QU%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160830&t=2&i=1151641488&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7T1KU | en | null | Trade critic Trump visits Boeing Co's backyard | null | null | www.reuters.com | EVERETT, Washington/WASHINGTON Republican Donald Trump, who has made his criticism of a pending Pacific trade agreement central to his campaign, on Tuesday was to visit a Seattle suburb that is home to a large Boeing Co plane manufacturing facility that depends heavily on sales to Asian markets.
Trump's campaign has booked the Xfinity Arena, which seats thousands of people, in anticipation of a large crowd. The Republican presidential candidate, who has courted manufacturing workers with vows to tear up trade agreements, is due to speak at 7 p.m. Pacific Time (10 p.m. EDT).
The rally is likely to attract workers from Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company. Supporters of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) point to Boeing's aircraft sales to Asia to tout the benefits of the agreement. Secretary of State John Kerry visited a nearby plant earlier this year to rally support for the pact.
Trump presents a conundrum for the unions who represent those workers. The unions agree with Trump on his opposition to TPP and the export of jobs overseas, but officials said they find his track record unconvincing.
"The fact is that Trump has had the opportunity to bring jobs to American, and he's chosen to outsource them," said Larry Brown, legislative and political director for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751, which represents about 32,000 workers in the state, mostly at Boeing.
Boeing produces some of its largest planes only miles from where Trump will be speaking. As they are assembled, the painted tails of the planes show the airlines that ordered them, and many are Asian. Major components of each plane come from overseas: South Korea, China and Europe.
Over the next 20 years, Boeing projects that Asian customers will account for 40 percent of the total global jetliner's market, the company said in a recent report.
"Trade is a huge part of the success of manufacturing in Washington," said Linda Dempsey, vice president of international economic affairs for the National Association of Manufacturers, which Boeing belongs to. "They are exporting $73 billion in manufactured goods."
But Trump offers a more dire outlook, arguing that only he can keep Boeing from moving those high-paying manufacturing jobs from Washington to China.
"They'll start taking your business away, and you won't have much of Boeing," Trump told Seattle's KIRO radio on Monday.
RALLYING WORKERS
Trump has broken with the Republican Party's traditional embrace of free trade. He has vowed to rip up the TPP and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, an existing deal with Canada and Mexico which he blames for the loss of U.S. jobs.
The Republican Party's support for free trade has put it in sync with large business groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.
Tony Fratto, a former official in the administration of Republican George W. Bush, criticized Trump as out of step with the party.
"Trump's policies in this area are really dumb generally, but are particularly dumb for a major exporting company," said Fratto, who worked on behalf of a coalition of large companies, including Boeing, that were pushing for renewal of the Export-Import Bank.
Visiting Washington state is also unlikely to get Trump much closer to victory on Nov. 8. Clinton leads by large margins in the state, according to opinion polls.
But voters there remain divided. Corey McNally, 40, of Whidbey Island, Washington, has not decided whom he will vote for.
"The union members love Hillary just because they're supposed to because she's a liberal," said McNally. And Trump, whom he called "just kind of a big show," may be too late to change anything.
"This company's been outsourcing jobs for years," he said of Boeing.
(Writing by Ginger Gibson; Reporting by Emily Stephenson in Everett, Washington; Alwyn Scott in Seattle and Ginger Gibson in Washington; Editing by Caren Bohan and Jonathan Oatis) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN1152QU?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/271b206ac388a706a89b4f6d8ea97d8ee7556189367c1c494f8d91dd0532997a.json |
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Two NASA astronauts completed a six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday to install a parking spot for upcoming commercial space taxis, which will end U.S. reliance on Russia for rides to the orbiting outpost.
Station commander Jeff Williams and flight engineer Kate Rubins floated outside the station's airlock and headed toward the berthing slip once used by NASA's now-retired space shuttles, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
"Great view," said Rubins, who made her first spacewalk.
Since grounding the shuttle fleet in 2011, the United States has been dependent on Russia to ferry astronauts to and from the space station, at a cost of more than $70 million per person.
During Friday's spacewalk, Williams and Rubins attached an adapter onto the shuttle's docking port that will allow commercial space taxis under development by Space Exploration Technologies and Boeing to park at the station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.
"It's a gateway to a new era in commercial space," said NASA mission commentator Rob Navias.
California-based SpaceX, owned and operated by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, plans to begin test flights of its new passenger Dragon capsule to the station in 2017.
Boeing's debut flight of its CST-100 Starliner capsule is expected in 2018.
NASA had hoped to have the first of two new docking ports installed last year, but the equipment was destroyed during a SpaceX cargo ship launch accident in June 2015.
A replacement docking port is under construction and expected to be delivered to the station in early 2018.
On Friday, Williams and Rubins routed a cable for the second docking port's installation in early 2018.
The astronauts had planned to tackle a few other lower-priority maintenance tasks, but NASA decided to end the spacewalk after an intermittent communications problem developed with Williams' spacesuit, Navias said.
Williams and Rubins are scheduled to make another spacewalk on Sept. 1 to retract a solar array cooling panel that is no longer being used and to install a high-definition television camera on the station's exterior frame.
(Reporting by Irene Klotz in Cairns, Australia; Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Paul Simao and Chizu Nomiyama) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacewalk-idUSKCN10U1CM?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FscienceNews+%28Reuters+Science+News%29 | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/0cc627070f1983ab36d030af438eb7f97857ef6f6868295ddd802baae1124cd0.json |
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DHAKA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Bangladesh on Monday to discuss security cooperation after a series of killings by Islamist militants, as well as economic development and human rights.
Kerry will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, opposition and civic leaders during the one-day visit, his first to Bangladesh as secretary of state.
While security cooperation between the United States and Bangladesh is not new, the Bangladeshi government has insisted the latest attacks, including the recent killings at a cafe that targeted non-Muslims and foreigners, are the work of homegrown groups.
Washington believes the killings carry the hallmarks of Islamic State and al Qaeda, and worries that such attacks could drive away investment in a country fighting widespread poverty.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the July 1 attack on the cafe in the capital Dhaka in which 22 people were killed, mostly non-Muslims and foreigners, including one American. It was the worst militant attack in the country's history.
Bangladesh police believe that Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, was involved in organizing that attack.
On Saturday, security forces killed three Islamist militants, including a Bangladeshi-born Canadian citizen called Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury who was accused of masterminding the assault on cafe.
"In the past several months there has been an intensification of the dialogue" on security, a senior State Department official said ahead of the visit.
"We are deepening that partnership and engaging with both civilian law enforcement bodies and with the military," the official added.
Michael Kugelman of The Wilson Center, a Washington-based think tank, said the U.S administration has not paid enough attention to the growing terror threats in Bangladesh, which is now impacting Americans.
"It has arguably taken its eye off the ball even as this threat has begun to directly affect Americans," he said.
"One of Kerry's core intentions in Dhaka will simply be to emphasize the importance that the U.S. accords to security problems in Bangladesh, and Washington's strong desire to help the government there address them," he added.
(Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom in Washington; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Simon Cameron-Moore) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-usa-idUSKCN1140W2?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/4bf2d90986508b4bd2e9aad604841e7d9f8e19df19cba15db58510e70da273f5.json |
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NEW YORK Patrick Reed survived a couple of late bogeys to clinch a one-stroke victory at The Barclays on Sunday.
Reed carded a closing 70 to finish on nine-under 275 at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale on New York's Long Island.
Fellow American Sean O'Hair (66) and Argentine Emiliano Grillo (69) were joint second on eight-under.
With his fifth victory on the PGA Tour, Reed secured a spot on the United States team for next month's Ryder Cup.
He also vaulted to the top of the FedExCup points list after the first of the four playoff events.
Reed was delighted with his win but acknowledged his game needed work after he recorded bogeys at the 16th and 18th holes.
"I have worked pretty hard with my coach for the past couple of weeks," the 26-year-old said in a greenside interview.
"The game shows I'm moving in the right direction but there are some things I need to work on. As the pressure started building I started going back to my old pattern, hit some shots left."
(Reporting by Andrew Both; Editing by Tony Jimenez) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-golf-pga-idUSKCN1130WH?feedType=RSS&feedName=sportsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FsportsNews+%28Reuters+Sports+News%29 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/5bee8915498412d5c5226c101758905b196de527a99206ec08ecec105973fbf8.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T15:02:06 | null | 2016-08-30T13:24:22 | A girl who was the focus of a high-profile criminal trial last year after accusing a fellow student of sexual assault has said their elite New Hampshire prep school did not take the incident seriously. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-new-hampshire-crime-idUSKCN1151NL%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DdomesticNews.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | New Hampshire sex victim says school didn't take attack seriously | null | null | www.reuters.com | BOSTON A girl who was the focus of a high-profile criminal trial last year after accusing a fellow student of sexual assault has said their elite New Hampshire prep school did not take the incident seriously.
In an interview broadcast on NBC's "Today" program on Tuesday, Chessy Prout identified herself publicly as the victim in the case and said she would not have pursued criminal charges against Owen Labrie had she received a letter of apology following the May 2014 incident.
"There was just no recognition that I had gone through something like this," said Prout, 17. She returned to the St. Paul's School in Concord after the incident but said she was given the cold shoulder and subjected to jokes by male students.
"I tried my best to go back to my school and try to have a normal life again," she said. "But if they're going to treat this topic as a joke, this is not a place I want to be."
Labrie was found not guilty in August 2015 of raping Prout, who was 15 at the time of the incident, but he was convicted of lesser charges, including using a computer to seduce a minor and three misdemeanor counts of having sex with a person under the age of consent.
The case shone a harsh light on the culture of St. Paul's, which Prout's family said turned a blind eye to an unofficial tradition known as the "senior salute," in which graduating students sought out younger students for sex.
Prout's family has since sued the school, charging it with not doing enough to protect her. St. Paul's is fighting the lawsuit and said in June that it rejected any allegations that it has an "unhealthy culture."
Prout spent three days on the witness stand during the trial, acknowledging she had accepted Labrie's invitation to meet but testifying that she expected to kiss him and not go much further.
Defense lawyers said Labrie and the girl had a mutually flirtatious relationship and went on to have a consensual encounter that stopped short of intercourse.
Prout was not publicly identified at the time of the trial, but told NBC on Tuesday that she came forward in hopes of giving other sex assault victims the confidence to do so.
St. Paul's officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Additional reporting by Laila Kearney in New York; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-hampshire-crime-idUSKCN1151NL?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/2d4a2f635b4cc3c3b43ccb27e75d19914eb7009ca5b6c838079a0231a4e66282.json |
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French labour union workers and students attend a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Marseille, France, as part of a nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
A French student holds a Communist Party flag during a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Paris, France, as part of a nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
French riot police stand together during a demonstration by highschool and university students against the French labour law proposal in Paris, France, as part of a nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
A sign announcing the closure of the Eiffel Tower is seen at a closed ticket sales counter in Paris, France, March 31, 2016 as part of a nationwide labor reform protests and strikes against the French labour law proposal. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
French gendarmes with protective shields watch as a youth throws back a tear gas canister during clashes with French high school and university students at a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Nantes, France, as part of nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
A cloud of tear gas fill the air as a youth throws a fire extinguisher during clashes with gendarmes as French high school and university students attend a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Nantes, France, as part of nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
French highschool and university students attend a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Nantes, France, as part of a nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. The slogan reads ' We have a leftist party who deserves to be punched'. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Masked demonstrators gather near burning garbage bins during clashes as French high school and university students attend a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Nantes, France, as part of nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
Youths take cover from tear gas grenades behind a mattress during clashes as French high school and university students attend a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Nantes, France, as part of nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
CGT labour union members attend a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Nice, France, as part of nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
French police direct a water cannon towards youths during a demonstration by employees, high school and university students against the French labour law proposal in Lyon, France, as part of nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Robert Pratta
French gendarmes use tear gas during clashes with youths during a demonstration by employees, high school and university students against the French labour law proposal in Lille, France, as part of nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
A hooded demonstrator walks near burning garbage bins during clashes as French high school and university students attend a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Nantes, France, as part of nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
French gendarmes clean debris after youths set fire to garbage bins and caddies as French high school and university students attend a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Nantes, France, as part of nationwide labor reform protests and strikes, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
PARIS Hundreds of thousands of workers and high-school students joined protest marches across France on Wednesday to challenge plans to loosen the country's protective labor laws that unions say favor businesses.
The day of protest -- which led to scores of arrests as youths and police clashed in Paris, Lyon and Nantes -- marked the fourth such test of strength in a month for President Francois Hollande.
He has been plagued by low popularity and a jobless rate that is stuck stubbornly above 10 percent little more than a year before a presidential election.
Organizers said more than 1.2 million people took part. The interior ministry put the number at just under 400,000, higher numbers -- despite persistent rain -- than in some other recent protests.
The three protests to date had been relatively low-key, but with rail, air traffic and utility staff among those to stop work, there was significant disruption across the country.
On Thursday, Reuters TV footage showed hooded youths in Paris jumping on cars, taunting police and throwing projectiles, prompting riot police to charge some groups. Reuters reporters also witnessed clashes in France's second city Lyon and in Nantes.
Police arrested more than 100 people and at least 13 officers were injured, the interior ministry said.
Unions said they planned further rallies on April 5 and 9 with the hardline CGT union saying the protests would not end until the draft labor bill was withdrawn entirely.
"Small employees are treated like dirt, we've had enough, (and) it's Hollande who pretends to represent the left," said Jean-Luc Gutel, a CGT representative who works in the delivery service in Paris.
"The youth are told to study for years, but what for?"
TRANSPORT DISRUPTED
State railway SNCF said stoppages among its staff had cut some services by 40 to 50 percent on Thursday. About one in five flights were canceled at Orly airport south of Paris, the DGAC air transport authority said.
French utility EDF said power output at several production units was cut after nearly 14 percent of its staff joined rallies.
Under rainy skies, secondary-level school pupils also mobilized in dozens of cities alongside labor unions.
At issue is a proposed overhaul of France's labor code, a set of regulations bosses claim deters recruitment. Critics say the reforms will lead to worse working conditions and more sackings.
The reforms, due to be debated in parliament next week, would give employers more flexibility to agree in-house deals with employees on working time.
After Communist lawmakers brandished signs in the Senate demanding the withdrawal of the text, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said many had a "distorted" view of the reform.
"We have already lifted a number of concerns," he said. "The door remains open ... to work this out for companies, workers and the youth of this country."
The protests come a day after Hollande, who has said he will not run for re-election if he fails to make a dent in the jobless rate, abandoned another piece of legislation - plans to strip convicted terrorists of French citizenship.
That climbdown was forced on him by other lawmakers, many of them in his own camp.
Hollande's government watered down the initial labor reform proposal shortly before it was unveiled this month by ditching a clause that would have capped severance pay awards.
Economists fault the French system for creating a divide between older people with open-ended work contracts and first-timers condemned to move between short-term jobs.
(Additional reporting by Sophie Louet; Writing by John Irish and Brian Love; Editing by Gareth Jones and John Stonestreet) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-protests-idUSKCN0WX1EE?feedType=RSS&feedName=wtMostRead&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FMostRead+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Most+Read+Articles%29 | en | 2016-03-31T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/5d2f738ca915f02fd58fab8a2883c97c3ed37bf76cf9c1c7da2ea0978d76cb40.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T10:59:56 | null | 2016-08-29T10:11:11 | England manager Sam Allardyce has defended the decision to leave Everton midfielder Ross Barkley out of his first squad for the 2018 World Cup qualifier in Slovakia at the weekend. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-soccer-england-allardyce-idUSKCN1140WG%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DsportsNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FsportsNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BSports%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151427592&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S0EY | en | null | England boss Allardyce defends decision to omit Barkley | null | null | www.reuters.com | England manager Sam Allardyce has defended the decision to leave Everton midfielder Ross Barkley out of his first squad for the 2018 World Cup qualifier in Slovakia at the weekend.
The 22-year-old has enjoyed an impressive start to the Premier League season and many observers felt he had done enough to deserve a place in the 23-man group named on Sunday.
However, Allardyce, who succeeded Roy Hodgson as manager after England's underwhelming Euro 2016 campaign, said there was still time for Barkley to feature in his future plans.
"We have had to make a few difficult decisions and none more so than Ross Barkley," Allardyce told reporters on Monday.
"For him it's disappointing, for me, you have to make these decisions. The door will always be open for Ross but right now I feel the squad I've picked is the right one."
Marcus Rashford also missed out, instead selected for the under-21 squad against Norway, even though the 18-year-old striker featured for England at Euro 2016 and scored Manchester United's injury-time winner against Hull City on Saturday.
"Having international experience in the under-21s will prove invaluable for us further down the line," the former West Ham, Bolton Wanderers and Sunderland manager added.
"If he plays for Manchester United on a regular basis, if he is regularly breaking into the United team then it will be a good basis for inclusion in my squad."
Allardyce, 61, will take his first training session with the players later on Monday with several, most notably Manchester City's goalkeeper Joe Hart, involved in speculation over their club futures ahead of Wednesday's transfer deadline day.
"If Joe arrives today, and I'm sure if there's anything in the pipeline Joe will tell us this may happen. Then we can get ready if it does," Allardyce said.
Slovakia held England to a goalless draw in their last meeting little at Euro 2016, a game Allardyce expects will have little bearing on Sunday's meeting in Trnava.
"The tactics will be different when we play them in Slovakia. That team will have to come out to attack us, they're playing at home, whereas in the Euros, we knew that one point was enough for them.
"They were a very sound, solid unit that proved very hard to break down, because they weren't interested in playing any type of attacking football I don't think."
(Reporting by Neil Robinson; Editing by John O'Brien) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-england-allardyce-idUSKCN1140WG?feedType=RSS&feedName=sportsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FsportsNews+%28Reuters+Sports+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/486e7e22a31e4438004f2afdc0fd55da2db954e08d478c8710ddb1a90da9dba8.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T20:57:56 | null | 2016-08-29T19:36:39 | Taylor Swift was the most high-profile absence at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) but on Monday but the singer happily took photos with fans after reporting for jury duty in Nashville. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-people-taylorswift-idUSKCN11427P%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DpeopleNews.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151485806&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S194 | en | null | Taylor Swift poses with fans at jury duty a day after VMA snub | null | null | www.reuters.com | LOS ANGELES Taylor Swift was the most high-profile absence at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) but on Monday but the singer happily took photos with fans after reporting for jury duty in Nashville.
Swift, 26, was photographed by other potential jurors as she was waiting to be selected as a jury member ahead of a trial in a Nashville court, according to Twitter user Tracy Bates (@TracysActivism).
Bates had initially tweeted, "I am on jury duty with @taylorswift13" and said at first Swift's security personnel initially would not let her take a picture. But later she posted a video and numerous photos, including a selfie with Swift, who was wearing a simple black dress and smiling, in the waiting room.
Bates said Swift was happy to pose with other potential jurors and she also posted an autograph from the pop star that said "So nice to meet you!!"
While Bates was happy to snap the star doing her civil duty, she said she did not consent for any media to use her photos, saying they were not for sale. Another user who posted a photo of Swift with her mother on jury duty made her account private.
Swift, named Forbes' top-earning female celebrity this year with $170 million in earnings, did not receive a single nomination at Sunday's MTV's VMAs and did not appear at the New York show.
She was however mentioned on stage by rapper Kanye West, with whom she has a long-running feud, as he rambled about asking her for permission to use her in an explicit lyric in his song "Famous."
A representative for the singer did not respond for comment on Swift's jury duty or on West's VMAs speech.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy and Melissa Fares; Editing by Bill Trott) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-taylorswift-idUSKCN11427P?feedType=RSS&feedName=peopleNews | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/b1ce1483c6edeca226eec755e162a360368ed4c2b639f3568f00d796f7c094bf.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T04:54:42 | null | 2016-08-30T04:05:36 | The great stock buyback boom may be on the wane, undermined by falling company earnings. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-markets-saft-idUSKCN115093%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DPersonalFinance%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Bnews%252Fwealth%2B%2528Reuters%2BWealth%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Kiss it goodbye, the great buyback boom is on the wane: James Saft | null | null | www.reuters.com | The great stock buyback boom may be on the wane, undermined by falling company earnings.
U.S. company stock buybacks are down 21 percent in the first seven months of 2016 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to TrimTabs Investment Research, a fall driven in part by five consecutive quarters of year-over-year earnings declines among S&P 500 stocks.
Buybacks, which cancel shares and thus increase per-share earnings, have played a crucial role in supporting the stock market since the financial crisis, flattering earnings even for companies with static or falling revenues.
They, along with dividends, return cash to shareholders, a process often facilitated by borrowed money.
“My biggest concern, which I voiced at the start of the year and continue to worry about, is the sustainability of cash flows. Put bluntly, U.S. companies cannot keep returning cash at the rate at which they are today,” Aswath Damodaran, a professor of finance at New York University, writes in his blog.
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Over the first six months of the year S&P 500 companies paid out 112 percent of their earnings in the form of either dividends or share buybacks. That, Damodaran argues, is the kind of figure you might expect to see when a recession had suddenly crimped company cashflows, not during a very long-running, if tepid, expansion.
The last time companies were paying out this much more than they are taking in was in 2008, when the financial crisis hammered revenues faster than companies could cut buybacks and dividends.
“Unless earnings show a dramatic growth (and there is no reason to believe that they will), companies will start revving down (or be forced to) their buyback engines and that will put the market under pressure,” according to Damodaran.
Facing difficulty in growing top-line revenues, companies have been able to fund outsized cash distributions and buybacks by selling bonds to a market hungry for an alternative to Treasury bonds and their extremely low yields. That same hunger, which has as its underlying cause extraordinary monetary policy, has also driven appetite for equities, as investors felt forced to take on more risk to gain even a modicum of reward.
RISING DEBT BUT FALLING ENTHUSIASM
Companies have issued debt in such size that net debt compared to a standard measure of earnings is now at an all-time high for non-financial companies in the S&P 500, according to data from FactSet, having almost doubled in about five years.
Yet investors seem less enthusiastic about company buyback plans. A Goldman Sachs basket of companies with the highest share repurchases has underperformed the broader market this year.
Certainly the very idea of buybacks has come under increasing scrutiny. While a share buyback improves per share earnings performance, it is a piece of financial engineering which increases leverage but does nothing to improve a company’s product offerings or market position, much less its long-term prospects. Indeed, the vogue for buybacks has happened at the same time as an otherwise puzzling lack of corporate investment, especially given that corporate profit margins are still high by historic standards.
For the buyback boom to truly end, one of two things must happen: companies must think better of it as a strategy, or funds must run short or become difficult to obtain. Even more likely, if money becomes more difficult to come by, the strategy rethink will become more urgent.
Corporate profits are still pretty high as a percentage of gross domestic product, but the trend, at least among the largest companies, is downward. If that carries on, and it clearly can even without the impetus of a recession, payouts must be cut or even more debt will be required.
As of yet, demand for corporate bonds remains strong. Yields on investment-grade U.S. corporate bonds are not far off all-time lows, driven by falling government debt interest rates. Volumes of bonds issued have been healthy too, though this year may see less issuance of corporate debt than last.
One potential problem for the corporate debt boom, and the accompanying buyback binge, would be rising interest rates.
While a return to historically normal rates seems far off, markets are now betting that the Fed makes its second interest rate hike in this tightening campaign in December, the anniversary of its first last year. As interest rates for safer instruments like Treasury bonds rise, the relative attractions of corporate debt and corporate leverage will fall.
Stocks won’t enjoy this process but long-term investors, who depend on company dynamism and on overall economic growth, should.
(Editing by James Dalgleish) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-saft-idUSKCN115093?feedType=RSS&feedName=PersonalFinance&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+news%2Fwealth+%28Reuters+Wealth+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/4f4c8a36a2aeef192c637ecd48503af8cff1203129499ed624423ecd5dc11e87.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T14:59:37 | null | 2016-08-27T14:19:40 | FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium,(Reuters) - Germany's Nico Rosberg set the fastest time in qualifying on Saturday to seize pole position for the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-motor-fi-belgium-idUSKCN1120FV%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DsportsNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FsportsNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BSports%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160827&t=2&i=1151276666&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7Q0DH | en | null | Rosberg on pole for Belgian Grand Prix | null | null | www.reuters.com | Belgium Formula One - F1 - Belgian Grand Prix 2016 - Francorchamps, Belgium - 27/8/16 - Mercedes' Nico Rosberg of Germany (C) reacts after qualifying in pole position ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen of the Netherlands (L) and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen of Finland. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium,Germany's Nico Rosberg set the fastest time in qualifying on Saturday to seize pole position for the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix.
The Mercedes driver lapped the 7-kilometer long Spa-Francorchamps circuit in one minute 46.744 seconds.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was second quickest and will start alongside the German on the front row for what is the closest the Dutchman has to a home race on the calendar.
Four-times Belgium winner Kimi Raikkonen was third for Ferrari.
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton, set to start last due to a 55-place engine-related grid penalty, drove only four laps at an easy pace and did not make it beyond the opening phase of qualifying.
The Briton heads into the weekend gunning to become only the third driver to take 50 career wins.
He has won six of the last seven races, four of those in succession, and leads Rosberg by 19 points in the standings.
(Reporting by Abhishek Takle, Editing by Ed Osmond) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-motor-fi-belgium-idUSKCN1120FV?feedType=RSS&feedName=sportsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FsportsNews+%28Reuters+Sports+News%29 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/c1a8b273ad145d66e05e59439ea2b2afd3545d29b0e50f34d1d7d90f78d08b08.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:50 | null | 2016-08-25T17:53:30 | By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) - Paying smokers to quit and giving them more money the longer they avoid cigarettes might help get more people to k | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-health-incentives-smoking-cessation-idUSKCN11027M%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DhealthNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FhealthNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BHealth%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160825&t=2&i=1151063359&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7O1GU | en | null | Cash may convince some smokers to quit | null | null | www.reuters.com | (Reuters Health) - Paying smokers to quit and giving them more money the longer they avoid cigarettes might help get more people to kick the habit than cessation advice on its own, a recent study suggests.
To test the power of money to combat addiction, researchers in Switzerland offered about 800 low-income smokers pamphlets and online cessation guides. Half of them were also eligible to receive as much as $1,650 if a series of six lab tests verified that they stopped smoking.
These payments started out at $100 if lab tests verified participants hadn’t smoked after one week, and gradually increased to $440 by the time the last test was done at six months.
At six months, 36 percent of the payment group and about 6 percent of the control group had quit smoking.
One year after the payments ended, about 10 percent of the people eligible for financial incentives remained abstinent, compared with roughly 4 percent for the control group.
“Money compensated for the loss of a valued activity (smoking) and increased both the likelihood of making a quit attempt and the likelihood of succeeding when trying to quit,” said lead study author Jean-Francois Etter, a public health researcher at the University of Geneva.
The participants were around 32 years old on average at the start of the study and they had typically started smoking around age 17.
They tended to smoke about 16 cigarettes a day, a little less than a pack.
About one in five were unemployed and roughly 45 percent were students. Half of them made no more than about $20,000 a year.
All of the participants received self-help books with advice for quitting and researchers also encouraged them to enlist a friend or family member to support their efforts.
Researchers tested for carbon monoxide in exhaled air and a byproduct of nicotine in saliva samples to confirm whether participants had quit or continued to smoke.
While many people who quit relapsed after payments ended, abstinence rates at the 18-month mark for the group that received financial motivation were nearly 10 percent, compared to less than 4 percent in the group that didn’t get any money, researchers report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
With a difference of about 6 percentage points between the control and the payments group one year after the money stopped flowing, 17 people would need to go through an incentive program like the one in the study to get one person to quit, the authors note.
One limitation of the study is that a large proportion of the 81 participants who dropped out of the study were in the control group, not the payments group, the authors note. Any participants who dropped out or had missing data were counted as smokers.
People joining the study also knew some participants would receive incentive payments, which could have impacted behavior, the authors also point out.
Previous research, however, has shown that financial incentives can help smokers remain abstinent, particularly among more affluent employed smokers who have access to counseling and other cessation support, Etter said by email.
With low-income smokers, cessation can be hard to encourage, Etter said.
“Many interventions based on education (booklets, leaflets, various education strategies) tend to work less well among people with low income and low education, in whom smoking prevalence is particularly high,” Etter said.
Still, the findings suggest that this method would cost about $28,000 a year to get just one additional long-term quitter, Judith Prochaska of Stanford University in California writes in an accompanying editorial. This might limit adoption in the real world.
The appeal of this intervention is its simplicity, Prochaska told Reuters Health by email.
“Individuals could create this type of intervention for themselves.” Prochaska said. “A pack a day smoker who puts that money aside rather than purchasing cigarettes would save over $2000 a year – more than the payment provided in the study.”
SOURCE: bit.ly/2biR8jh and bit.ly/2bkZVFH Journal of the American College of Cardiology, online August 23, 2016. | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-incentives-smoking-cessation-idUSKCN11027M?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FhealthNews+%28Reuters+Health+News%29 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/f6d89f931165a69e90e88674f7cb5a20b05eee7298cf9d76457c4a061b4dcf05.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T00:51:51 | null | 2016-08-29T00:33:11 | The union representing mostCanadian autoworkers has voted to strike if it cannot reachfavorable terms in talks with the Big Three U.S. carmakers, itsaid late on Sunday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fautos-labor-canada-idUSL1N1B90MF%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | UPDATE 1-Union votes for strike mandate in Canadian auto talks | null | null | www.reuters.com | (Recasts lead paragraph, adds details)
By Ethan Lou
TORONTO Aug 28 The union representing most Canadian autoworkers has voted to strike if it cannot reach favorable terms in talks with the Big Three U.S. carmakers, it said late on Sunday.
Unifor, which represents more than 20,000 autoworkers, is pushing General Motors Co, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Ford Motor Co to invest further in the province of Ontario, home to nearly all of Canada's auto industry, in talks that began this month.
Workers at General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler voted on Sunday 97.1 percent, 98.9 percent and 99.0 percent, respectively, in favor of striking, according to a statement from the union.
They would be in a position to walk off the job if the parties cannot come to terms by Sept. 19, when the union's current four-year contract with automakers expires, Unifor said.
The union has asked for terms including higher wages for GM to build new vehicles in Oshawa, and for Ford to keep its engine plant operating in Windsor.
"The bargaining committee will not accept a deal without a commitment to investment in Canada's auto sector," said Unifor President Jerry Dias, who is leading the talks. "The push for new investments in Canada got a lot stronger today."
Between 2001 and 2013, some 14,300 jobs were lost in vehicle manufacturing in Canada, according to Hamilton's Automotive Policy Research Centre. Some automakers have found cheaper labor in places such as the southern United States and Mexico.
GM's Oshawa plant could shut one of its two assembly lines, with several vehicles already produced elsewhere or expected to move in 2017.
GM Canada has said the negotiations are separate from the carmaker's future investments because labor is not the only cost it considers when deciding where to make new products.
GM said it will make future product decisions for Oshawa only after a labor agreement.
Automakers, however, had agreed to make investments during bargaining with the United Auto Workers in the United States. GM's 2015 deal with the UAW generated $1.9 billion in additional investment in U.S. plants.
GM, Fiat Chrysler and Ford did not immediately respond to requests for comment. (Reporting by Ethan Lou in Toronto; Editing by Bill Trott) | http://www.reuters.com/article/autos-labor-canada-idUSL1N1B90MF?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/c500959562ddea393b70133d93880ec0be791d2a4a5144c560769a742eb30662.json |
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"Hilary Russ"
] | 2016-08-29T21:01:59 | null | 2016-08-29T19:30:49 | Major League Baseball's New York Yankees team is seeking to sell $1.04 billion of tax-exempt revenue bonds to refinance debt it issued to build its new stadium in the Bronx. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-new-york-yankees-bonds-idUSKCN114272%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DdomesticNews.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | New York Yankees baseball team to refinance $1 billion of stadium debt | null | null | www.reuters.com | Major League Baseball's New York Yankees team is seeking to sell $1.04 billion of tax-exempt revenue bonds to refinance debt it issued to build its new stadium in the Bronx.
Yankee Stadium LLC would save money in the current low-interest rate environment by refinancing about $1.2 billion of old outstanding debt issued in 2006 and 2009, when the stadium opened.
The Yankees built a new home and related parking garages that were controversial at the time because they took over public parkland just one block north of their old ballpark, built in 1923.
The stadium refinancing was contained in a notice of a Sept. 15 public hearing by the New York City Industrial Development Agency (NYCIDA), an arm of the city's economic development corporation that acts as a conduit issuer for private firms to borrow on the tax-exempt municipal bond market.
The approximately 1.3 million square foot Yankees Stadium is owned by NYCIDA, subject to a long-term lease from the city of New York, but was built by the company.
The stadium debt was upgraded by Moody's Investors Service in June by one notch to Baa2 with a stable outlook because of the stadium's "proven resiliency through variable team performance and economic cycles."
It also reduced market and interest rate risk after terminating "virtually all" of its derivative transactions, contributing to its upgrade. It initially had at least twelve floating-to-fixed interest rate swaps, bond documents show.
Another key credit strength is the team's non-relocation agreement, which ties it to the new stadium, Moody's said.
(Reporting by Hilary Russ in New York; Editing by Alan Crosby) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-yankees-bonds-idUSKCN114272?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/ad207b229fc7e8508bdb12d82193fc661b82c0f26837785608ba248a40dcfc9d.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T21:00:05 | null | 2016-08-29T19:59:49 | As far as U.S. Open encores go they don't come much tougher than the act Roberta Vinci has to follow after pulling off one of the biggest upsets ever at a grand slam during her magical run to last year's final. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-tennis-open-vinci-idUSKCN114296%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DsportsNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FsportsNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BSports%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151488097&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S1AC | en | null | Vinci gives herself tough U.S. Open act to follow | null | null | www.reuters.com | Aug 29, 2016; New York, NY, USA; Roberta Vinci of Italy hits to Anna-Lena Friedsam of Germany on day one of the 2016 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports
uAug 29, 2016; New York, NY, USA; Anna-Lena Friedsam of Germany hits to Roberta Vinci of Italy on day one of the 2016 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 29, 2016; New York, NY, USA; Roberta Vinci of Italy after beating Anna-Lena Friedsam of Germany on day one of the 2016 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports
NEW YORK As far as U.S. Open encores go they don't come much tougher than the act Roberta Vinci has to follow after pulling off one of the biggest upsets ever at a grand slam during her magical run to last year's final.
Believing nothing could top last year when she stunned world number one Serena Williams in the semi-final before losing in the final to fellow Italian Flavia Pennetta, Vinci has returned to Flushing Meadows looking to go one step further.
Her long road back to the final began on Monday with a quiet 6-4 6-2 first-round win over Germany's Anna-Lena Friedsam on the same Arthur Ashe Stadium court she left in stunned silence a year earlier when she ended Williams's bid for a calendar grand slam.
"It's a dream to come back here." said Vinci. "Last year I had incredible emotion, I made final beat Serena this is a very special court to me."
A year ago oddsmakers had set the unseeded Vinci as a 300-1 longshot to win the season's final grand slam and the tale of the tape offered no hints of possible upset.
Williams, a 21-times major winner with a calendar grand slam within her grasp, entered the match having lost just twice all season and was riding a 33-match grand slam unbeaten streak.
As for Vinci, she had never been past the quarter-finals in her previous 43 grand slam appearances and had never taken a set from Williams in their four previous meetings.
Even Vinci did not fancy those odds and was preparing to pack her bags for a trip back to Taranto before pulling off the David v Goliath upset with a 2-6 6-4 6-4 win over Williams.
"It's tough to repeat of course the results of last year but I'm number seven (seed) so of course I have a lot of pressure," said Vinci. "They expect me semi-final, quarter-final, step by step and match by match.
"It was great to be back here to play on center court first match. It's incredible to be here."
Friedsam represented a tricky opponent for Vinci, the 46th-ranked German having claimed a three-set victory in their only previous meeting, a third-round clash in January at the Australian Open.
But on the U.S. hardcourts the Italian was never in danger breezing past Friedsam in 68 minutes.
"It is always tough play the first match of a grand slam, but I won," shrugged Vinci, who will next meet American Christina McHale, a 6-2 6-2 winner over Germany's Mona Barthel. "So this is important thing today."
(Editing by Frank Pingue) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tennis-open-vinci-idUSKCN114296?feedType=RSS&feedName=sportsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FsportsNews+%28Reuters+Sports+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/ee38168309d28e613f245ae89c44c8b632986a2a053af010c22b436a07f1f6a9.json |
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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks during an interview with a Cuban news agency in this handout picture provided by SANA on July 21, 2016. SANA/Handout via REUTERS
A Civil Defence member carries a damaged canister in Ibleen village from what activists said was a chlorine gas attack, on Kansafra, Ibleen and Josef villages, Idlib countryside May 3, 2015. REUTERS/Abed Kontar
A man inspects a site targeted by what activists said was a poison gas attack in the village of Sarmin in Idlib province March 17, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamad Bayoush
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault arrives to attend a defence council at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, a day after a priest was killed with a knife and another hostage seriously wounded in an attack on a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray carried out by assailants linked to Islamic State, July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
PARIS A U.N. report on the use of chemical weapons in Syria is a chance to push Russia to accept a resolution condemning the Syrian regime and resume political negotiations, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said.
A joint investigation by the United Nations and the global chemical weapons watchdog OPCW found that Syrian government troops were responsible for two toxic gas attacks and Islamic State militants used sulfur mustard gas.
"We are working with our partners in the U.N. Security Council, notably the United States and Britain, on a resolution condemning the attacks under Chapter 7," Ayrault told France's Le Monde newspaper in a interview published on Saturday.
"This means sanctions against the perpetrators of these crimes and those responsible for these abominations," he said.
The Security Council is due to discuss the report next week.
The inquiry found there was sufficient information to conclude that Syrian Arab Air Force helicopters dropped devices that then released toxic substances in Talmenes on April 21, 2014 and Sarmin on March 16, 2015, both in Idlib province. Both cases involved the use of chlorine.
It has set the stage for a Security Council showdown between the five veto-wielding powers, likely pitting Russia and China against the United States, Britain and France over whether sanctions should be imposed in the wake of the inquiry.
Ayrault said France's goal was to obtain a condemnation by the Security Council and create the conditions for resuming political dialogue.
"We must use this opportunity to tell Russia: You now have a opportunity to head back to the political track and get out of the military quagmire you walked into," Ayrault said.
Russia said on Thursday it was prepared to work with the United States on a response to the U.N. report.
Le Monde quoted Ayrault as saying: "Russia says it wants a political solution and resuming talks in Geneva? I tell them then: condemn the Syrian regime and stop the bombings."
(Reporting by Bate Felix and John Irish; Editing by Ruth Pitchford) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-syria-russia-idUSKCN1120LE?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/0d043b9c08dd1106292920d323b403df1cb7933c8900eb91c4084538623db41d.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:45 | null | 2016-08-25T15:12:20 | The Earth has gained coastal land equivalent to the size of Jamaica in the past 30 years with man-made construction outpacing erosion caused by rising sea levels, mapping data showed on Thursday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-climatechange-coasts-idUSKCN1101TY%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DenvironmentNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252Fenvironment%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BEnvironment%2529.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160825&t=2&i=1151041570&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7O17M | en | null | Coastal land expands as construction outpaces sea level rise | null | null | www.reuters.com | The undated satellite image shows how water and land have changed in South East Asia in the past 30 years. Deltares/Handout via REUTERS
A truck tyre floats in the sea water as an excavator works on land reclamation at 'Colombo Port City' construction site, which is backed by Chinese investment, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 9, 2016. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/File Photo
An excavator works on land reclamation at 'Colombo Port City' construction site, which is backed by Chinese investment, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 9, 2016. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/File Photo
An excavator works on land reclamation at 'Colombo Port City' construction site, which is backed by Chinese investment, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 9, 2016. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/File Photo
OSLO The Earth has gained coastal land equivalent to the size of Jamaica in the past 30 years with man-made construction outpacing erosion caused by rising sea levels, mapping data showed on Thursday.
Expansion of ports off China, construction of luxury resorts off Dubai or land reclamation in the Netherlands were among causes of coastal expansion, according to a study by Dutch research group Deltares.
Using satellite data with Google Earth, Deltares said coastal regions had gained a net 13,565 square kilometers (5,237 square miles) of land since 1985, roughly the size of Jamaica or the U.S. state of Connecticut.
Overall, coasts added 33,700 square kms of land and lost 20,135 square kms to water, it said. Loss of land included erosion dotted around coasts from Vietnam to the Mississippi delta in the United States.
"We expected on average the coast to shrink ... as sea level has risen," said Fedor Baart of Deltares, an author of the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. "But the coasts are actually growing."
"We have a huge engineering power," he said. Off China, "the coastline all the way from Hong Kong to the Yellow Sea has almost been redesigned."
A U.N. panel of climate scientists says world sea levels have risen by about 20 cms (8 inches) in the past century, and links it to a warming driven by man-made greenhouse gas emissions that are thawing ice from Greenland to Antarctica.
Inland, the data also show big shifts to lakes such as the shrinking Aral Sea in central Asia and showed changing courses of rivers including the Amazon and the Ganges, sometimes linked to natural variations.
In other areas, human influences were clear. In Myanmar, for instance, there were more reservoirs and dams than previously known. North Korea also has a reservoir on the Rimjin River that does not appear on maps.
Including both coasts and inland areas, the Earth's surface gained 173,000 sq kms of land and 115,000 sq kms of water in the past 30 years, it said.
The scientists said the freely available data could help countries sharing the same river to monitor their neighbors' dams or help planning by U.N. agencies to prevent floods.
Also, anyone planning to buy a beachfront home could check the local coastline for signs of erosion.
(Reporting By Alister Doyle; editing by Ralph Boulton) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-coasts-idUSKCN1101TY?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/e5acb89a52d8d1fd8a59fa146f4dba4b9b894b1300c5784966591b46da0eb35c.json |
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PARIS Frank McCourt, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, said on Monday he had entered exclusive negotiations to buy Olympique de Marseille and vowed to restore the club to their former glories.
Billionaire businesswoman Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, the Russian-born chairwoman of Louis Dreyfus Commodities trading house, said in April she was looking for a buyer for the Ligue 1 side.
"Margarita and I just executed a contract for us to buy OM, the greatest football club in the French league and one of the best in the world," McCourt told a news conference alongside Louis-Dreyfus and Marseille mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin.
"I'm very excited about making Marseille a champion again,"
The deal is due to be completed by the end of the year, the two parties said. RMC Sport reported that the club had been sold for 40 million euros ($44.68 million).
Declining to give details on the sale, McCourt, who described himself as "very wealthy", told French sports newspaper L'Equipe he had bought the club as a long-term personal project and not to re-sell it like an investment fund.
"Football is becoming the most visible sport in the world. We see it through the World Cup, the (English) Premier League, which has created a fantastic business model," McCourt said.
"I think the future of French football can be excellent. I'm very optimistic on this."
Louis-Dreyfus took control of Marseille after the death of her husband Robert in 2009 but despite investing tens of millions of euros in recent years they have struggled and finished 13th in Ligue 1 last season.
She said she would keep five percent of the club as part of the deal.
BIGGEST FAN BASE
Marseille, who have French soccer's biggest fan base, won the last of their nine league titles in 2010.
While Qatari investors have bought arch-rivals Paris St Germain and Russian and Chinese investors have ploughed funds into Nice, Monaco and Olympique Lyonnais, OM have failed to attract top players and financial investment to take the club forward.
McCourt, who sold the Dodgers in 2012 for $2 billion, said he aimed to bring his experience in sport ownership to turn OM's fortunes around.
"We have a project we will build together," he added. "We will build a championship caliber team that can compete year-in and year-out for the championship."
($1 = 0.8953 euros)
(Editing by Andrew Callus and Ed Osmond) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-marseille-sale-idUSKCN1141JB?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28Business+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/5deae9221e3822c2f7ad59fe1b5fae2d5a4a8d173e4711dbd837d9502d95b6e9.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T22:59:44 | null | 2016-08-27T21:56:12 | Pablo Carreno Busta recorded his first ATP title triumph by beating fellow Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut in the final of the Winston-Salem Open in North Carolina on Saturday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-tennis-men-winston-salem-idUSKCN1120TE%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DsportsNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FsportsNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BSports%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Carreno Busta beats Bautista Agut in U.S. Open warm-up | null | null | www.reuters.com | Pablo Carreno Busta recorded his first ATP title triumph by beating fellow Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut in the final of the Winston-Salem Open in North Carolina on Saturday.
Carreno Busta, 25, won 6-7 (6) 7-6 (1) 6-4 in a match that lasted more than two hours 30 minutes.
In a confidence-boosting performance heading into the U.S. Open that starts on Monday, the world number 47 clinched victory in style with an ace.
The 16th seed had previously lost two finals this year and could have been excused for dropping his head after losing the first set in a tiebreak when second seed Bautista Agut sent a backhand winner down the line.
There was not a single break point in the first set but both players broke in the second before Carreno Busta leveled the match by dominating the tiebreak, helped by two double faults by his opponent.
Carreno Busta needed only one break point in the final set to set up the win.
A reward for both finalists was a ride in the same private jet to New York on Saturday night.
After losing to a countryman on Saturday, Bautista Agut faces another Spaniard in the first round at Flushing Meadows in the form of Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.
(Reporting by Andrew Both; Editing by Tony Jimenez) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tennis-men-winston-salem-idUSKCN1120TE?feedType=RSS&feedName=sportsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FsportsNews+%28Reuters+Sports+News%29 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/dfd65120e66ed408490133a2f8c221fd9c7a708356c6ab1a8d0ecf26720e8b12.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T05:04:58 | null | 2016-08-30T04:30:29 | China will crack down on social and entertainment news that promotes improper values and "Western lifestyles", the country's broadcasting regulator said, the latest effort at censorship in an already strictly regulated media environment. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-china-media-idUSKCN11509M%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DworldNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BReuters%252FworldNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BWorld%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160830&t=2&i=1151527505&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7T03X | en | null | China regulator to curb news that promotes 'Western lifestyles' | null | null | www.reuters.com | A Chinese national flag flutters at the headquarters of a commercial bank on a financial street near the headquarters of the People's Bank of China, China's central bank, in central Beijing November 24, 2014. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo
BEIJING China will crack down on social and entertainment news that promotes improper values and "Western lifestyles", the country's broadcasting regulator said, the latest effort at censorship in an already strictly regulated media environment.
President Xi Jinping has embarked on an unprecedented drive to censor media that do not reflect the views of Communist Party leaders. Authorities have already issued rules limiting "foreign-inspired" television shows and put tougher penalties on the spread of rumors via social media.
Social and entertainment news must be dominated by mainstream ideologies and "positive energy", the official Xinhua news agency said late on Monday, citing the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT).
News content should not make improper jokes, defile classics, or "express overt admiration for Western lifestyles", the regulator said in a circular, according to Xinhua.
"They should also avoid putting stars, billionaires or Internet celebrities on pedestals", and not advocate overnight fame or hype family disputes, Xinhua said.
China's legislature this week is also reviewing a draft law that would require film industry workers to maintain excellent "moral integrity", after recent cases in which celebrities had been arrested for drug offences and prostitution, Xinhua said in a separate report.
Xi has been explicit that media must follow the party line, uphold the correct guidance on public opinion and promote "positive propaganda".
The term "positive energy" is a catch phrase that has been favored by China's propaganda and internet authorities under Xi, referring to content that is morally uplifting and patriotic.
The government aggressively censors the internet, blocking many foreign sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, which it deems a potential challenge to party rule or a threat to stability.
Regulators say such controls are necessary in the face of growing security threats, and are done in accordance with law.
Despite government controls, foreign television shows are widely available in China as illegal downloads or on pirated DVDs. Many are also available legally online through distribution deals with domestic websites.
(Reporting by Michael Martina; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-media-idUSKCN11509M?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/ff605d9c36095cff7d6ba57810e997b8bcb328c6df3a77a35950370242d0b70d.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T14:50:44 | null | 2016-08-29T14:34:06 | Loyalty has been a driving force in the success of South Korea's family-run "chaebol" conglomerates, but it can also shield the failings of its corporate culture and on Friday was linked to tragedy at the Lotte Group, the subject of a sweeping criminal probe. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-lottegroup-probe-idUSKCN1140XH%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DbusinessNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FbusinessNews%2B%2528Business%2BNews%2529.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151453545&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S0FM | en | null | Loyal to a fault: Lotte probe exposes flaws of Korea Inc | null | null | www.reuters.com | SEOUL Loyalty has been a driving force in the success of South Korea's family-run "chaebol" conglomerates, but it can also shield the failings of its corporate culture and on Friday was linked to tragedy at the Lotte Group, the subject of a sweeping criminal probe.
Hours before group vice chairman Lee In-won was to be questioned by prosecutors, he was found dead in an apparent suicide, leaving a note hailing his boss as a "great man" and denying the company operated a slush fund, reportedly one of a list of prosecutors' suspicions that includes embezzlement, tax evasion and breach of trust.
A prosecution spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment on Monday, and Lotte Group declined to comment except to say it was cooperating with prosecutors.
Prosecutors have since June been investigating about a dozen units at the retail-to-chemicals conglomerate, South Korea's fifth-largest, but it would not be the first time that Lotte and similar groups have fallen short of governance standards in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
Many of the family conglomerates that dominate the economy have been penalized over the years for conduct that is symptomatic of opaque interlocking ownership structures that can mask improper behavior, and the fierce loyalty that can allow lapses to go unchecked.
"Under a corporate culture where loyalty towards a boss and an organization is the most important criteria for evaluation, a sound corporate governance structure cannot survive," said Kim Sang-jo, a professor of economics at Hansung University.
The attachment of staff and executives to the chaebol is legendary, typically embodied in a career-long service of grueling hours.
It could explain why the penultimate act of the 69-year-old Lee was to defend his chairman Shin Dong-bin and the company he served for 43 years.
And why, at the start of the probe, investigators discovered that Lotte employees had, apparently on their own initiative, begun deleting computer files, several people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
CULTURAL LEGACY
While many chaebol have taken steps to improve governance, South Korea has a long way to go to reform a corporate system that is a legacy of the country's decades of breakneck economic growth after the 1950-53 Korean war, investors and analysts say.
The complex cross-shareholdings they developed are a big part of the problem and were evident in an earlier run-in Lotte had with authorities four years ago, when one of the same units now being probed was fined for "unfair support" of an affiliate.
Lotte Group has since slashed the number of cross-shareholdings from a staggering 95,033 in April 2014 to 67 at the end of 2015, but that is still more than any other chaebol, according to South Korea's Fair Trade Commission.
Lee Kyung-mook, a professor at Seoul National University who with the deceased Lee co-headed a Lotte committee set up last year to improve its culture, said Lotte, like most chaebol, was hierarchical and less efficient than it could be.
"Lotte Group, which is more focused on domestic business than Samsung, has been a little bit late to transforming its corporate culture and bringing it to the global level," said Lee, who has written a book on the Samsung Group, the country's biggest conglomerate.
Shares in Korean chaebol still trade more cheaply than similar companies in the developed world on concerns about opaque ownership structures and weak governance, investors say.
But changing the culture is much harder than changing formal structures, especially in a country where transgressions have been both common and sometimes treated relatively lightly.
Over the years, the heads of the Samsung, Hyundai Motor, SK and Hanwha chaebol have been convicted of crimes but received suspended sentences and, later, presidential pardons.
As recently as this month, the ailing chairman of the CJ Group, the country's 15th-largest chaebol, was granted a presidential pardon after being sentenced last year to two and a half years in jail for tax evasion and embezzlement.
(Editing by Tony Munroe and Will Waterman) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-lottegroup-probe-idUSKCN1140XH?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28Business+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/fe0013810c77ca5c146a71c67b65c1b4cbe419f559846474e0c6415e7a72a067.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T13:03:05 | null | 2016-08-30T12:02:50 | Teen apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co's (ANF.N) sales dropped for the 14th straight quarter, hurt by lower traffic, including from tourists, at its flagship stores. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-abercrombie-results-idUSKCN1151CN%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160830&t=2&i=1151570315&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7T0NY | en | null | Abercrombie & Fitch sales fall for 14th straight quarter | null | null | www.reuters.com | An Abercrombie & Fitch store is pictured on 5th Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Teen apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co's (ANF.N) sales dropped for the 14th straight quarter, hurt by lower traffic, including from tourists, at its flagship stores.
The company's shares tumbled nearly 12 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday.
The retailer's comparable sales at stores open at least a year fell a slightly steeper-than-expected 4 percent in the second quarter ended July 30.
"Flagship and tourist locations continued to account for the vast majority of the comparable sales decline as traffic remained a significant headwind," Executive Chairman Arthur Martinez said.
"As we look to the rest of the year, we now expect flagship and tourist locations will continue to weigh on the business."
Abercrombie has also been hurt by fierce competition from fast-fashion retailers such as H&M (HMb.ST) and Inditex's (ITX.MC) Zara.
To win back shoppers, it has been remodeling its Hollister stores, hired designers from top brands to keep up with trends and shifted away from logo-centric designs.
Comparable sales at Abercrombie stores open at least a year fell 7 percent in the quarter. Analysts on average had expected a fall of 6.50 percent, according to research firm Consensus Metrix.
The company's total net sales fell 4.2 percent to $783.2 million.
The net loss attributable to Abercrombie increased to $13.1 million, or 19 cents per share, from $810,000, or 1 cent per share. Excluding items, it lost 25 cents per share.
Analysts on average had expected a loss of 20 cents per share and revenue of $782.7 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
(Reporting by Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-abercrombie-results-idUSKCN1151CN?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/2df9248f8818f4eae9a626d3fd3b781797409dd7f668cbd83bb80e9aef378bf7.json |
[
"Lucia Mutikani"
] | 2016-08-26T16:50:48 | null | 2016-08-26T16:11:57 | U.S. economic growth was slightly more tepid than initially thought in the second quarter as businesses aggressively ran down inventories, offsetting a spurt in consumer spending. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-economy-idUSKCN1111IB.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160826&t=2&i=1151171326&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7P0V9 | en | null | Declining inventories crimp U.S. second-quarter growth, consumer spending surges | null | null | www.reuters.com | WASHINGTON U.S. economic growth was slightly more tepid than initially thought in the second quarter as businesses aggressively ran down inventories, offsetting a spurt in consumer spending.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.1 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said on Friday in its second estimate of GDP. That was modestly down from the 1.2 percent rate it reported last month and also reflected more imports than previously estimated as well as weak government spending.
"The very slight downward revision to second-quarter GDP growth isn't too concerning, especially given that the more recent data point to a strong rebound in the third quarter," said Steve Murphy, an economist at Capital Economics in Toronto.
The economy has made a strong start to the third quarter with the goods trade deficit narrowing sharply and residential construction rising in July. Demand for manufactured capital goods surged in July, indicating the prolonged downtrend in business spending is abating.
While retail sales were weak in July, a buoyant labor market should continue to support consumer spending. Growth is also expected to get a boost from businesses restocking warehouses after liquidating inventories in the second quarter.
The Atlanta Federal Reserve is currently forecasting third-quarter GDP rising at a 3.4 percent rate. The economy expanded at a 0.8 percent pace in the first quarter. It grew 1.0 percent in the first half of 2016.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen struck an upbeat note on the economy on Friday when she addressed the annual global central bankers' gathering in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Yellen said she believed the case for raising interest rates had been strengthened in recent months by the "solid performance of the labor market and our outlook for economic activity and inflation."
The U.S. central bank hiked interest rates at the end of last year for the first time in nearly a decade, but has held them steady since amid concerns over persistently low inflation. Most economists expect another rate hike in December.
U.S. stocks were trading lower, while the dollar was up against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasuries were little changed.
PROFITS FALLS
The government also reported that after-tax corporate profits fell at a 2.4 percent rate last quarter after increasing at an 8.1 percent pace in the first quarter. Weak profits could limit an anticipated rebound in business spending.
With profits declining, an alternative measure of growth, gross domestic income, or GDI, increased at only a 0.2 percent rate in the second quarter, the weakest since the first quarter of 2013. GDI measures the economy's performance from the income side. It increased at a 0.8 percent pace in the first quarter.
Some economists said declining profits and business spending argued against the Fed raising interest rates.
"There is, to be clear, no recession on the horizon but the data also appear to reject the notion of growth accelerating into a need for higher interest rates from the Fed," said Steve Blitz, chief economist at M Science in New York.
"There is good reason for why interest rates are so low. It isn't just because of the Fed, there is a weaker demand for capital at play as well. As such, attempts by the Fed to raise rates will be met with slower growth."
Investment in inventories in the second quarter dropped a steeper $12.4 billion, instead of the $8.1 billion reported last month. That was the first decline since the third quarter of 2011 and resulted in inventories slicing off 1.26 percentage points from GDP growth, the largest drag in more than two years.
The hit from inventories was previously estimated to be 1.16 percentage points. It was the fifth straight quarter that inventories weighed on output. Economists say some of the inventory drawdown could be attributed to robust consumption.
Consumer spending, which makes up more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, rose at a brisk a 4.4 percent rate -- the fastest since the fourth quarter of 2014, instead of the previously reported 4.2 percent rate.
Though a second report on Friday showed an ebb in consumer sentiment in August as younger households worried about rising expenses, Americans were upbeat about the economy's prospects.
Some of the rise in demand in the second quarter was met with imports, which were revised to show them increasing rather than declining. Combined with a modest downward revision to exports, trade contributed one-tenth of a percentage point to GDP growth in the second quarter instead of 0.23 percentage point as reported last month.
Business investment was also weaker than initially estimated amid downward revisions to spending on equipment and nonresidential structures, which include oil and gas wells.
Business spending has declined for three straight quarters, hurt in part by lower oil prices, which have squeezed profits in the energy sector.
"The key factor behind the weak investment numbers, the collapse in drilling, is fading, so capital spending may grow in the third quarter," said Patrick Newport, an economist at
IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts.
(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Andrea Ricci) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-idUSKCN1111IB | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/2ac45c06b6ab7c8c977f4b0b8b922df4b23f4490937f0125f5e0f57daa401663.json |
[
"Jessica Dinapoli"
] | 2016-08-29T00:51:57 | null | 2016-08-29T00:28:46 | Hedge fund manager D.E. Shaw & Co LP is weighing a bid for SunEdison Inc's (SUNEQ.PK) controlling stake in TerraForm Power Inc (TERP.O), the bankrupt U.S. renewable energy producer's most valuable asset, according to people familiar with the matter. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-terraformpower-m-a-deshaw-idUSKCN11401D.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | D.E. Shaw set to enter race for SunEdison's TerraForm Power: sources | null | null | www.reuters.com | Hedge fund manager D.E. Shaw & Co LP is weighing a bid for SunEdison Inc's (SUNEQ.PK) controlling stake in TerraForm Power Inc (TERP.O), the bankrupt U.S. renewable energy producer's most valuable asset, according to people familiar with the matter.
D.E. Shaw's emergence as a possible bidder for TerraForm Power indicates that the potential sale process for the so-called "Class B" shares of TerraForm Power, which was formed by SunEdison to buy and operate its solar and wind power plants, is likely to be competitive.
Another hedge fund, Appaloosa Management LP, and asset manager Brookfield Asset Management Inc (BAMa.TO), have already announced plans to jointly bid on SunEdison's TerraForm Power Class B shares.
D.E. Shaw's bid preparations have not been finalized and there is no certainty its bid will materialize, the people said. Spokespeople for SunEdison and TerraForm Power declined to comment. D.E. Shaw did not respond to a request for comment.
D.E. Shaw and its affiliates already own some of the publicly traded common shares of TerraForm Power. They received them in an agreement announced last year after forgiving debt owed by SunEdison, regulatory filings show.
D.E. Shaw said in a filing last week that it owned 6.7 percent of TerraForm Power's common shares, and added that it could participate in transactions that could result in a change of control or take-private transaction involving TerraForm Power. It did not however provide specific details.
Appaloosa and Brookfield also own some common shares in TerraForm Power. An affiliate of D.E. Shaw received court approval last month to buy a solar project of SunEdison's.
While accounting for only 35 percent of the total shares outstanding, the Class B shares in TerraForm Power that SunEdison owns correspond to about 84 percent of the voting rights in TerraForm Power.
Once the fastest-growing U.S. renewable energy company, SunEdison filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April after a short-lived but aggressive binge of debt-fueled acquisitions proved unsustainable.
Since then, SunEdison has been selling off assets piecemeal as it decides which path its reorganization will take. It has not yet asked for court approval of a sale process for its stake in TerraForm Power, and referenced reorganizing around the shares as an option in a filing last week.
TerraForm Power, which has a market capitalization of $1.7 billion, is one of the two so-called "yield cos" that SunEdison has said it was exploring selling its stakes in. SunEdison is also considering selling its shares in TerraForm Global (GLBL.O), which has a market capitalization of $630 million.
Bloomberg News reported last week, citing anonymous sources, that Golden Concord Holdings Ltd, a Chinese clean energy company, was also planning to bid for SunEdison's controlling stake in TerraForm Power.
(Reporting by Jessica DiNapoli in New York; Editing by Alan Crosby) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-terraformpower-m-a-deshaw-idUSKCN11401D | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/c9407457eb75497664520c347bc13a62099c53872507affe9e4545d03d88c3ad.json |
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"Reuters Editorial"
] | 2016-08-31T06:53:00 | null | 2016-08-31T05:25:00 | Lakes Oil, a junior oil and gas explorer in Australia, is considering the grounds it may have for suing Victoria state, after the government there permanently banned fracking and extended a ban on onshore conventional gas drilling to 2020. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-australia-gas-lakes-oil-idUSKCN1160FC%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DenvironmentNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252Fenvironment%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BEnvironment%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Australian explorer looking at grounds for lawsuit over fracking ban | null | null | www.reuters.com | MELBOURNE Lakes Oil, a junior oil and gas explorer in Australia, is considering the grounds it may have for suing Victoria state, after the government there permanently banned fracking and extended a ban on onshore conventional gas drilling to 2020.
Lakes Oil shares sank as much as 50 percent on Wednesday in their first trading since the fracking ban was announced, and the stock was the fourth most active on the Australian exchange.
The move by the state in the country's southeast means Lakes will not be able to go ahead with two tentative deals lined up in 2014 to supply gas from its Wombat onshore conventional gas field to U.S. giant Dow Chemical Co and Australian food manufacturer Simplot.
"What the government's done is just unbelievable. It's unprecedented," Lakes Oil Chief Executive Roland Sleeman told Reuters in an interview.
Sleeman would not say whether his company would seek compensation from Victoria, but said it was a "really relevant question".
"I invite you to have a look at what has happened elsewhere. The key example is Metgasco in New South Wales - not exactly the same situation - but ultimately it was compensated by government," he said.
New South Wales agreed last year to pay Metgasco A$25 million ($19 million) to buy back three exploration licenses after suspending approval for drilling at a promising coal seam gas site due to public protests.
Victoria-focused Lakes was also considering a range of commercial options, Sleeman said, including expanding into South Australia state, which is eager to promote gas development.
Lakes could merge with another company, buy assets that larger players are spinning off, or in an extreme case, fold, he also said.
Lakes Oil has spent at least A$80 million to prove up gas resources on its Victorian acreage, Sleeman said.
($1 = 1.3298 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Sonali Paul; Editing by Tom Hogue) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-gas-lakes-oil-idUSKCN1160FC?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/953359599d3d0799afd01120ca6f46ad3e1cda1197b43c937a1b07d0294e480b.json |
[
"Luciana Lopez"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:04 | null | 2016-08-25T19:38:01 | Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is focusing an effort to win over Asian American voters on three states where it believes the small but rapidly growing group could make the difference in her race against Republican Donald Trump. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-election-clinton-asians-idUSKCN110256%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DpoliticsNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BReuters%252FPoliticsNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BPolitics%2BNews%2529.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160825&t=2&i=1151059537&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7O1FK | en | null | Clinton ramps up Asian outreach in three closely fought states | null | null | www.reuters.com | NEW YORK Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is focusing an effort to win over Asian American voters on three states where it believes the small but rapidly growing group could make the difference in her race against Republican Donald Trump.
The push in closely fought Nevada, Virginia and Pennsylvania follows a broader national effort by Clinton's campaign to court minorities who are critical to her chances of winning the White House in the Nov. 8 election.
Asians make up less than 3.5 percent of the U.S. population, but are the fastest-growing racial group in the country, according to the U.S. Census, due largely to net migration, making them more important than ever in an election.
“Secretary Clinton understands the importance of the AAPI community and has launched a program that reflects that, reaching AAPI voters in unprecedented ways,” said Jason Tengco, the Clinton campaign’s outreach director for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).
The three states were targeted because Asian voters could swing the outcome in the tight races between Trump and Clinton there.
The effort will include print, digital and broadcast advertising in a handful of Asian languages and more coordination among volunteer groups representing ethnic communities within the Asian American and Pacific Islander group, according to the campaign.
Among the recent hires for the effort was Philip Kim, a Los Angeles native who previously worked with Senator Tim Kaine, Clinton's running mate, as outreach director for Asian American and Pacific Islander voters in Nevada.
The campaign did not say how much the three-state push would cost.
While small, the Asian population could eclipse the margin of victory in each of the states Clinton is targeting. Asians make up some 2.1 percent of eligible voters in Pennsylvania, 5 percent in Virginia and 9 percent in Nevada, according to APIAVote, a nonpartisan group.
Polling from Reuters/Ipsos shows Clinton with a mere 1 point lead over Trump in Pennsylvania, a 6 point lead in Virginia, and a 2 point lead in Nevada.
GETTING ASIANS TO THE POLLS
The challenge will be to get Asian Americans to the polls.
Asian American voters have tended to lean Democrat but register to vote much less frequently than whites and blacks. Asian registration was about 56.3 percent in 2012, according to the Census, versus 73.1 percent for black voters and 71.9 percent for white voters.
The number of Asian Americans voting in presidential elections rose from 2008 to 2012, according to the Census, which showed 4.3 million Asian voters in 2012 and a turnout of 47.9 percent.
“A big part of what we’re doing is voter registration,” said Xochitl Hinojosa, a Clinton spokeswoman.
Clinton's campaign has already done significant Asian outreach. It launched the "AAPI for Hillary" campaign to engage Asian voters in January and has done phone calling in a range of languages for months.
But the campaign said the latest push was the first with state-specific programs. The Clinton campaign is considering advertisements in Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Chinese.
A spokesperson for Trump's campaign did not respond to requests for comment about its Asian outreach.
The Trump campaign has, however, recently made some efforts to appeal to black and Latino voters to undercut Clinton, including a meeting on Thursday with Latino and black Republicans in New York.
Trump has had problems with minorities in the past and has angered some with his hardline anti-immigration rhetoric. He has accused Mexico of sending rapists and drug dealers over the border, vowed to build a wall to stop them and called for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to shore up U.S. national security.
Clinton leads Trump by 12 percentage points nationally among likely voters, bolstered by minority support, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.
(Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Cynthia Osterman) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-asians-idUSKCN110256?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reuters+Politics+News%29 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/209f01d0a93be3915ecbd83ce399d382f5e1655ad8c766e08816761bfb27c58d.json |
[
"Kizito Makoye"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:01 | null | 2016-08-26T01:12:54 | By Kizito MakoyeDAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of the biggest tests of Justine Michael's job as a community health worker is not th | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-tanzania-health-idUSKCN111037%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DhealthNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FhealthNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BHealth%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Tanzania's army of community health workers face mistrust as they roll out services | null | null | www.reuters.com | DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of the biggest tests of Justine Michael's job as a community health worker is not the distances he must travel along remote dirt roads to visit patients in Tanzania's Mkuranga district, but rather the suspicion he often encounters.
Many villagers are wary when they are approached by a stranger dressed in trousers and a shirt, rather than the crisp white coats favored by doctors all over the world, he said.
"Some people don't trust the services we provide. When I visit a family, the people are sometimes very hostile or say, 'what do these hospital sweepers (cleaners) want?'," Michael said.
"We want them to change this mindset and know we are trained to do this work," he added.
Michael is one of more than 5,000 community health workers the Tanzanian government has deployed to provide essential life-saving services in rural areas where 70 percent of the country's population of 49 million live.
The initiative was introduced a year ago to address gaps in healthcare in the East African country where there are only 0.1 doctors and 2.4 nurses and midwives for every 10,000 people, according to 2014 data from the World Health Organization.
In Tanzania, healthcare is considered a luxury especially in remote, rural parts where, according to the World Bank, only 9 percent of the nation's doctors are based.
"Our plan is to have at least two community health workers in each village," said Otilia Gowelle, director of human resources and development at the ministry of health, referring to the government's five-year plan.
COURAGE
In Bagamoyo district housing one of the most important trading ports along the East African coast during the slave trade, community health workers make regular visits to Fatma Abdul as she progresses through her third pregnancy.
Using simple messages with pictures, they stress the importance of breastfeeding for the first six months and offer advice on how to keep babies warm or identify signs of illness.
But the health workers have done more than provide antenatal care, they have also brought hope to the HIV-positive mother of two.
"I got a lot of courage when they told me being HIV-positive is not a death sentence," Abdul said, sitting outside her mother's thatch-roofed house not far Bagamoyo town where houses with doors of intricately carved wood line the dusty streets.
Shame over her status stopped Abdul from attending appointments at the local hospital, but she soon started receiving home visits from community health workers instead.
"They taught me how to stay healthy and protect my baby from being infected with HIV," said the heavily pregnant 35-year-old.
"When I give birth I might feed my baby with infant formula to avoid passing the infection," she added.
MATERNAL MORTALITY
Eireen Darlington says the community health workers she trains at a nursing and midwifery school in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam, are taught to promote nutrition, basic hygiene, family planning and immunization.
They are also trained to tackle domestic violence and alcohol abuse, provide counseling and care for HIV/AIDS patients and give special attention to expectant mothers.
"They detect and handle risky pregnancies as well as assisting women during labor and child birth," Darlington said.
According to the World Health Organization, only 47 percent of births in Tanzania are attended by a skilled health worker of any kind - a reality that contributes to high maternal mortality rates.
"While Tanzania has reduced child mortality, mothers and new born are still at high risk of untimely death," said Keith Hansen, World Bank Vice President for Human Development, at the launch of a report on service delivery data in Tanzania in May.
Tanzania's maternal mortality rate was 432 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2014, an improvement on 790 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2008.
But the rate still falls short of northern neighbors Kenya, which had a maternal mortality rate of 495 deaths per 100,000 live births and Uganda, which had 438 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2014, World Bank data showed.
Although the use of community health workers is widely seen as an effective way of addressing Tanzania's shortage of health professionals, critics of the scheme say health workers do not always provide quality services.
"For community health workers to be able make an effective contribution, they must be carefully selected, adequately trained and continuously supported," said Anastacia Kileo, a public health expert at KCMC medical training center.
She also worries that the government does not have the budget to pay a larger health workforce.
"If we cannot even pay our doctors decently, where will the money to pay this army of community health workers come from?" she said.
(Editing by Katie Nguyen) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tanzania-health-idUSKCN111037?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FhealthNews+%28Reuters+Health+News%29 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/27f54356a6a855fbbb370f264f6eecc13ba9c946deafb37c6e0f9cae3f3add34.json |
[
"Padraic Halpin"
] | 2016-08-26T16:49:15 | null | 2016-08-26T15:54:51 | U.S. jobs data top economic readouts from around the world next week as global markets begin to return to business as usual following a typically quiet August with the calm broken on Friday by comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-global-economy-weekahead-idUSKCN1111WK%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DbusinessNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FbusinessNews%2B%2528Business%2BNews%2529.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160826&t=2&i=1151191333&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7P167 | en | null | U.S. jobs data to test case for rate hike | null | null | www.reuters.com | Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen attends a news conference after chairing the second day of a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee to set interest rates in Washington, DC, U.S. on June 17, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
People wait in line to enter the Nassau County Mega Job Fair at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York October 7, 2014. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
DUBLIN U.S. jobs data top economic readouts from around the world next week as global markets begin to return to business as usual following a typically quiet August with the calm broken on Friday by comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.
Speaking at a three-day international gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Yellen said the case for an interest rate rise has strengthened in recent months because of improvements in the labor market and economy.
Recent strong employment data, and signs that inflation is finally beginning to pick up, have encouraged some policymakers to believe rates should rise, if not as soon as September's policy meeting, then at least before the end of the year.
The Fed last raised rates in December, its first hike for nearly a decade.
Yellen did not indicate when the U.S. central bank might do so next, but her comments reinforced the view that it could come later this year. Fed board member Dennis Lockhart raised the possibly of two increases before year-end.
But not all Fed policymakers agree that a rate hike must come soon and their patience may be tested or justified when U.S. non-farm payrolls for August are released on Friday.
"Following two extraordinarily sound labor market reports, we are looking for slightly weaker data in August, yet this does not change the picture of the US economy further approaching full employment," Commerzbank economist Christoph Balz said.
"The report is unlikely to be sufficient to persuade sceptics (in the Fed) that interest rates should be hiked as soon as in September. Signals from the manufacturing ISM are also more likely to support a cautious stance," he said.
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) index of national factory activity, which expanded at a slower pace in July, comes a day before the jobless figures and alongside snapshots of how the sector is faring in most major economies.
In Europe, a flash reading of euro zone private business activity this week edged up to a seven-month high, more thanks to services than manufacturing firms, but both sectors seem unruffled so far by Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
Next week's publication of euro zone jobless data for July and August's figures for consumer sentiment and inflation, slowly on the rise from anemic levels, come ahead of the next meeting of European Central Bank governors on Sept 8.
BIG BREXIT DATA
Euro zone firms are not the only ones who appear to have taken the Brexit vote largely in their stride. British high streets have been heaving with shoppers and big companies report few signs of distress, for now.
Next week sees further important data for UK mortgage lending, house prices and consumer sentiment, the latter seeing its biggest drop for more than 26 years in July in the wake of the vote.
Thursday's manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey, which set alarm bells ringing in July and was cited by the Bank of England when it launched its stimulus program earlier this month, will likely be the most closely watched.
It is expected to have contracted again in August but not as sharply as in July when it shrank at its fastest pace in over 3 years. The corresponding PMI reading for construction arrives a day later.
"It is still very early days in terms of gauging the impact of the referendum on the economy and much could still go wrong," independent research house Oxford Economics' lead UK economist, Andrew Goodwin, said.
"But if next week's higher profile clutch of surveys for August – in particular the consumer confidence barometer and surveys for manufacturing and construction – follow the pattern shown by the other recent indicators then this might encourage us to upgrade our forecast for Q3 GDP growth from the flat outturn that we currently anticipate."
The main interest rate decisions next week will be made in Israel, Colombia and Brazil with all three expected to keep their benchmark rates on hold, according to Reuters polls.
Brazil also reports second quarter GDP numbers on Wednesday that will indicate whether the run up to the Olympic Games handed Latin America's largest economy any sort of boost.
(Editing by Louise Ireland) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-economy-weekahead-idUSKCN1111WK?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28Business+News%29 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/5c323beef62e0d6a337138c3beef8b9279279240418ea5b905d554d02d3c20e2.json |
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Trump's campaign has booked the Xfinity Arena, which seats thousands of people, in anticipation of a large crowd. The Republican presidential candidate, who has courted manufacturing workers with vows to tear up trade agreements, is due to speak at 7 p.m. Pacific Time (10 p.m. EDT).
The rally is likely to attract workers from Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company. Supporters of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) point to Boeing's aircraft sales to Asia to tout the benefits of the agreement. Secretary of State John Kerry visited a nearby plant earlier this year to rally support for the pact.
Trump presents a conundrum for the unions who represent those workers. The unions agree with Trump on his opposition to TPP and the export of jobs overseas, but officials said they find his track record unconvincing.
"The fact is that Trump has had the opportunity to bring jobs to American, and he's chosen to outsource them," said Larry Brown, legislative and political director for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751, which represents about 32,000 workers in the state, mostly at Boeing.
Boeing produces some of its largest planes only miles from where Trump will be speaking. As they are assembled, the painted tails of the planes show the airlines that ordered them, and many are Asian. Major components of each plane come from overseas: South Korea, China and Europe.
Over the next 20 years, Boeing projects that Asian customers will account for 40 percent of the total global jetliner's market, the company said in a recent report.
"Trade is a huge part of the success of manufacturing in Washington," said Linda Dempsey, vice president of international economic affairs for the National Association of Manufacturers, which Boeing belongs to. "They are exporting $73 billion in manufactured goods."
But Trump offers a more dire outlook, arguing that only he can keep Boeing from moving those high-paying manufacturing jobs from Washington to China.
"They'll start taking your business away, and you won't have much of Boeing," Trump told Seattle's KIRO radio on Monday.
RALLYING WORKERS
Trump has broken with the Republican Party's traditional embrace of free trade. He has vowed to rip up the TPP and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, an existing deal with Canada and Mexico which he blames for the loss of U.S. jobs.
The Republican Party's support for free trade has put it in sync with large business groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.
Tony Fratto, a former official in the administration of Republican George W. Bush, criticized Trump as out of step with the party.
"Trump's policies in this area are really dumb generally, but are particularly dumb for a major exporting company," said Fratto, who worked on behalf of a coalition of large companies, including Boeing, that were pushing for renewal of the Export-Import Bank.
Visiting Washington state is also unlikely to get Trump much closer to victory on Nov. 8. Clinton leads by large margins in the state, according to opinion polls.
But voters there remain divided. Corey McNally, 40, of Whidbey Island, Washington, has not decided whom he will vote for.
"The union members love Hillary just because they're supposed to because she's a liberal," said McNally. And Trump, whom he called "just kind of a big show," may be too late to change anything.
"This company's been outsourcing jobs for years," he said of Boeing.
(Writing by Ginger Gibson; Reporting by Emily Stephenson in Everett, Washington; Alwyn Scott in Seattle and Ginger Gibson in Washington; Editing by Caren Bohan and Jonathan Oatis) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN1152QU?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reuters+Politics+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/93cf0a9454c46c9ca8e597379d92fb6d59992c6664cacd6718fa74deed6a245f.json |
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CARACAS Venezuelan intelligence agents on Saturday took Daniel Ceballos, a former opposition mayor accused of fomenting violence, to prison from house arrest in the capital of Caracas, his wife said via her Twitter account.
Ceballos was arrested in 2014 on accusations he helped lead violent unrest in the tumultuous western city of San Cristobal, where he was mayor. He denies the accusations.
Opposition leaders called his arrest an effort to quash dissent and describe Ceballos as a political prisoner. President Nicolas Maduro calls him a criminal who sought to destabilize the country, and denies Venezuela holds political prisoners.
Patricia de Ceballos said agents from the Sebin intelligence service arrived at their residence at around 3:00 a.m. saying they were going to conduct a medical exam for her husband, who was granted house arrest in 2015 for health reasons.
"They put him in an ambulance, and in the ambulance they showed us a notice of transfer to prison," she said in a video posted on her Twitter feed.
Reuters was unable to immediately obtain comment from the office of the vice presidency, which oversees Sebin.
Venezuela has faced intense international pressure to free jailed opposition leaders including Ceballos and Leopoldo Lopez, another former mayor who was also imprisoned in 2014 in connection with anti-government demonstrations.
The issue complicated a rapprochement effort last year between Caracas and Washington, which have been at ideological loggerheads since the 14-year rule of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez.
Maduro calls says Lopez and Ceballos are dangerous coup-plotters intent on toppling his government, and blames them for more than 40 deaths during the 2014 protests.
(Reporting by Brian Ellsworth; editing by Mark Heinrich) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKCN1120MJ?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/1104dd96c705a57e64e8753e9e31676a639ab2262072b78a2669efbd48efa210.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T06:50:32 | null | 2016-08-29T05:30:47 | Swiss drugmaker Roche (ROG.S) said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its test for the Zika virus. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-roche-zika-idUSKCN1140BL%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DbusinessNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FbusinessNews%2B%2528Business%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151405355&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S05G | en | null | Roche says U.S. FDA issues Emergency Use Authorization for Zika test | null | null | www.reuters.com | Swiss drugmaker Roche's logo is seen at their headquarters in Basel, Switzerland January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
ZURICH Swiss drugmaker Roche (ROG.S) said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its test for the Zika virus.
"The LightMix Zika test is an easy-to-use molecular diagnostic test that enables healthcare professionals to quickly detect the virus," said Uwe Oberlaender, the head of molecular diagnostics at Basel-based Roche.
The virus has been associated with microcephaly, a birth defect characterized by an unusually small head and potential developmental problems.
(Reporting by Joshua Franklin; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-roche-zika-idUSKCN1140BL?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28Business+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/759e2a6f8e60a7176b91ba3d13abbe923234cdb6b3f3a99a3a5cd425b89b17c0.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T14:57:44 | null | 2016-08-28T14:05:51 | The divas of pop and R&B look set to steal the show at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs)on Sunday, with Beyonce leading all nominations for her testament to female empowerment "Lemonade," and excitement building over performances by Rihanna and Britney Spears. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-awards-mtvvma-idUSKCN1130LV%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DpeopleNews.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160828&t=2&i=1151350948&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7R0CL | en | null | Divas, disruptors set to dominate MTV Video Music Awards | null | null | www.reuters.com | Beyonce performs a medley of songs during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards in Inglewood, California August 24, 2014. REUTERS/Kevork Djansezian
NEW YORK The divas of pop and R&B look set to steal the show at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs)on Sunday, with Beyonce leading all nominations for her testament to female empowerment "Lemonade," and excitement building over performances by Rihanna and Britney Spears.
But don't count out Kanye West, the rapper with a talent for the unpredictable, who is a contender for the coveted video of the year award and who will be seated in the front row just a short leap from the VMA stage.
VMA organizers won't say whether Beyonce, West, or sultry eight-time nominated British singer Adele will sing during Sunday's live show from New York's Madison Square Garden.
That's because the annual VMAs thrive on surprises and controversy.
"The culture around the show is that every artist has the latitude to express themselves in whichever way they want to, and we sort of light that candle and hold on for dear life," said VMA executive producer Garrett English.
"There is a volatility to it, a massive creative expectation and a lot of one-upmanship that happens, and from that a lot of spontaneity happens and we are good with that," he added.
Beyonce dominates the VMA nominations, with a career-best 11 nods for videos from her visual album "Lemonade" and its bold songs about betrayal, revenge and race.
The R&B singer's politically-charged "Formation" will compete for video of the year prize with Adele's 2015 comeback single "Hello," Canadian rapper Drake's "Hotline Bling," Justin Bieber's "Sorry" and West's sleeping nude celebrity look-alikes in "Famous."
The winners are voted on by fans.
Confirmed performers include Nicki Minaj, who will join Ariana Grande for Grande's new song, "Side to Side," Nick Jonas who will sing "Bacon" with Ty Dolla $ign, and the Chainsmokers with Halsey on their summer hit "Closer."
Spears, 34, will return to the VMA stage for the first time since her humiliating 2007 showing with "Gimme More" when her personal and professional life was falling apart.
This time, with a newly-released album already a hit, Spears is one of the most-talked about celebrities ahead of Sunday's show.
Rihanna will open the show and is expected to perform a career retrospective marking her lifetime achievement award in the form of the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard prize.
One of pop music's biggest names isn't expected to attend. Taylor Swift, who has dominated music award shows for the past decade, didn't get a single VMA nomination this time.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Andrew Bolton) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-mtvvma-idUSKCN1130LV?feedType=RSS&feedName=peopleNews | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/642cc9e303d07ef1b9ff84769d390bd9680480784fd55dda5222ffedc35ef650.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T17:01:29 | null | 2016-08-26T15:12:07 | The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday issued a proposed rule that would require trucks and buses to be equipped with devices that would limit their speed, a move it said could save both lives and fuel. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-transportation-speed-idUSKCN1111RO%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DdomesticNews.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160826&t=2&i=1151184207&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7P12I | en | null | U.S. mulls rule to require speed-limiting devices for trucks, buses | null | null | www.reuters.com | A bus passes in front of the 446-foot-high (136-meter-high) Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, Texas April 3, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Stone
WASHINGTON The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday issued a proposed rule that would require trucks and buses to be equipped with devices that would limit their speed, a move it said could save both lives and fuel.
"There are significant safety benefits to this proposed rulemaking," Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a statement. "In addition to saving lives, the projected fuel and emissions savings make this proposal a win for safety, energy conservation, and our environment."
Under the long-delayed proposal, all new U.S. trucks and buses weighing more than 26,000 pounds would need to be equipped with a speed-limiting device.
The department said the maximum allowable speed would be decided after the agency receives public input. Publication of the proposal kicks off a 60-day comment period.
It said both vehicle manufacturers and the companies that purchase and operate the vehicles would be subject to the rule.
(Reporting by Timothy Ahmann; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and Meredith Mazzilli) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-transportation-speed-idUSKCN1111RO?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/fb0ae22d90f6a3bc2c0182164d9a2dd4b72cc762f273a2c858be690b38c51379.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:19:29 | null | 2016-08-25T14:03:52 | If your kids' college savings are not walled off in some kind of separate account, how do you keep yourself from raiding the kitty? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-education-university-investment-idUSKCN1100A6%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DPersonalFinance%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Bnews%252Fwealth%2B%2528Reuters%2BWealth%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160825&t=2&i=1150965516&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7O05B | en | null | Lock up the college funds, or it is easy to raid them | null | null | www.reuters.com | A graduate wears a houndstooth ribbon on her graduation cap during the University of Alabama commencement ceremony at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, August 6, 2011, in honor of fellow students who were killed in a devastating April 27, 2011 tornado. REUTERS/Marvin Gentry
NEW YORK If your kids' college savings are not walled off in some kind of separate account, how do you keep yourself from raiding the kitty?
Stephanie Sadural Heincker is one mom who does not trust herself: she has an automatic deduction from each paycheck go into 529 college savings plans for her two- and four-year-old.
Heincker's own parents dipped into the money they had set aside in a savings account for her, so she ended up saddled with a lot of student debt.
"This is the least I can do to try to smooth the path for my kids a little bit," said the 36-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana.
The number of families saving for college is at an all-time high, according to new data released on Thursday from Fidelity Investments. But a large portion of parents do not keep college savings separate, leaving money earmarked for education vulnerable to emergencies or luxuries.
Since Fidelity started measuring college savings rates in 2007, the number of families who say they are saving has jumped 24 percent, from 58 percent to 72 percent today. But among those who are saving now, only 42 percent use a dedicated savings account, such as a 529 plan.
The reasons for co-mingling savings ranged from simply preferring it that way to confusion about account types to apathy about getting started.
Financial experts offer plenty of cautionary tales about why this matters.
Take one of financial adviser Levi Brandriss' clients from Bethesda, Maryland, who kept the money stashed for college in a savings account, intending to roll it into a 529 plan. The clients stalled because they were concerned about what would happen to the funds if their child did not go to college, or did not need all that they had saved.
In the meantime, they decided to use that money to buy a vacation property.
Vickie Adams, a financial adviser who specializes in divorce issues in Manhattan Beach, California, has had many clients with nebulous chunks of money that were originally supposed to go toward college funds. She said that money always gets divided up and used to pay legal fees and other expenses.
"But when there is a 529 plan, nobody ever thinks of invading that, they are sacrosanct," said Adams.
In 24 years of practice, she has only had one case where a parent went into a dedicated college fund and took out money, and that was a spouse who also committed tax fraud.
ALTERNATIVE INVESTING
Not everyone who shies away from 529 plans and other educational savings plans is doing so out of financial ineptitude.
Some college savers prefer to have more sophisticated investing options than are available in most state 529 plans. Some are seeking lower fees. Some do not want to be locked into only spending the funds on educational expenses. Some eschew the volatility of the stock market.
One choice for these investors is to consider a Roth IRA as part of their college saving strategy. Contributions can be withdrawn penalty-free after five years, while the growth stays in and continues to build tax-free.
But this is risky for parents if the Roth is part of their own retirement strategy. "It sounds clichéd, you can't borrow for retirement, but you can borrow for college," said Keith Bernhardt, Fidelity's vice president of retirement and college products.
High-net worth families could also consider zero-coupon municipal bonds, said Jonathan Swanburg, a financial adviser for Tri-Star Group in Houston, Texas.
In states like Texas with no income tax, Swanburg's clients often look beyond 529 plans. For those worried about stock market volatility, bonds offer low risk and a comparable return over time, given that most age-based investment plans get more conservative as children get closer to college age. But to make the strategy work, he suggests minimum investments of around $15,000 when a child is born.
"It's not the solution for everyone. This is for where a person says 'I hate volatility and I don't want to pay tax and I want to remain flexible,'" Swanburg said.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Stephanie Sadural Heincker supplements her 529 plan with a walled-off savings account tied to an app called Qapital (www.qapital.com/), which rounds up change from her debit card transactions. It's a few cents at a time, but it makes her feel better.
"Something about the psychology of having that separate account just works," Sadural Heincker said.
(Editing by Lauren Young and Andrew Hay) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-education-university-investment-idUSKCN1100A6?feedType=RSS&feedName=PersonalFinance&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+news%2Fwealth+%28Reuters+Wealth+News%29 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/1772d586f4f0464c985379050525a435747d5b46b80b25b95e062ee9d88e3fc7.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T22:52:20 | null | 2016-08-29T22:02:55 | Twin Butte Energy Ltd (TBE.TO) debenture holders voted to reject a takeover bid by Hong Kong's privately held Reignwood Resources Holding Pte Ltd on Monday, throwing the cash-strapped Canadian oil and gas producer's financial future into uncertainty. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-twin-butte-takeover-idUSKCN1142DU.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Twin Butte Energy debenture holders reject proposed takeover deal | null | null | www.reuters.com | CALGARY, Alberta Twin Butte Energy Ltd (TBE.TO) debenture holders voted to reject a takeover bid by Hong Kong's privately held Reignwood Resources Holding Pte Ltd on Monday, throwing the cash-strapped Canadian oil and gas producer's financial future into uncertainty.
Under the proposed terms of the deal, announced in June, shareholders would have received 6 Canadian cents per share while long-term debtholders would have received C$140 per C$1000 amount of debentures, or essentially 14 Canadian cents to the dollar.
But following a rebellion led by Murray Bockhold of Bockhold Investment Management Group, who argued they should be entitled to more, only 32 percent of debenture holders voted in favor of the deal, well below the two-thirds required. Shareholders voted 76 percent in favor of the Reignwood takeover.
In a news release Rob Wollman, chief executive of Calgary-based Twin Butte said as a result of the vote the arrangement with Reignwood could be terminated by either party.
It also means the grace period granted to Twin Butte by its senior lenders is over, giving them the right to demand repayment of the company's bank debt and appoint a receiver to liquidate assets.
Twin Butte was producing around 13,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the second quarter of 2016, down 27 percent from the same period last year, and focuses on medium and heavy oil operations around the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.
(Reporting by Nia Williams; Editing by Bernard Orr) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twin-butte-takeover-idUSKCN1142DU | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/a5c2059151cdf79affe9502c618bfca0015de678106a4e77df337bba7e5884f6.json |
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WASHINGTON, Aug 29 A federal appeals court in California on Monday dismissed a U.S. government lawsuit that accused AT&T Inc of deception for reducing internet speeds for customers with unlimited mobile data plans once their use exceeded certain levels. | http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSFWN1BA0CJ?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/e93aeadc23f8d2bbcb6cf3f87df3b39c6ea678413425af6641d67801e4be80d1.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T06:52:19 | null | 2016-08-30T06:19:00 | Japanese stocks ended marginallylower on Tuesday as the yen's extensive retreat stalled and asinvestors awaited U.S. job data later this week for more clueson a possible U.S. interest rate hike this year. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fjapan-stocks-close-idUSL3N1BB27A%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Nikkei edges down as yen's weakness stalls, market focuses on US jobs report | null | null | www.reuters.com | TOKYO Aug 30 Japanese stocks ended marginally lower on Tuesday as the yen's extensive retreat stalled and as investors awaited U.S. job data later this week for more clues on a possible U.S. interest rate hike this year.
The Nikkei slipped 0.1 percent to 16,725.36 points, retreating from strong gains the previous day when it added 2.3 percent following hawkish-sounding comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.
The markets' focus has now shifted to Friday's U.S. non-farm payrolls report and its impact on Fed policy, currencies and Wall Street shares.
The broader Topix was flat at 1,312.81 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 was also flat at 11,810.53. (Reporting by Ayai Tomisawa and Shinichi Saoshiro; Editing by Kim Coghill) | http://www.reuters.com/article/japan-stocks-close-idUSL3N1BB27A?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/e24e96c22dea1104aeccbf5e5e2e9d16bfb0186b48e4385eaf628be9a8245c6e.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T12:50:41 | null | 2016-08-29T12:01:59 | BlackRock Inc withheld support from two high-profile directors at Exxon Mobil Corp, (XOM.N) securities filings show, a rare spat apparently driven by a board communications policy at the world's largest energy company. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-exxon-directors-blackrock-idUSKCN11417F%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DbusinessNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FbusinessNews%2B%2528Business%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151438260&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S0L3 | en | null | BlackRock withheld support from two key Exxon directors: filings | null | null | www.reuters.com | The BlackRock sign is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York, in this October 11, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Files
BOSTON BlackRock Inc withheld support from two high-profile directors at Exxon Mobil Corp, (XOM.N) securities filings show, a rare spat apparently driven by a board communications policy at the world's largest energy company.
Because top fund managers like BlackRock rarely discuss their votes in detail, filings in late August to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provide a rare window into the influential ballots they cast at springtime shareholder meetings like the one held by Exxon on May 25, one of this year's more contentious.
BlackRock, (BLK.N) which manages nearly $5 trillion, has been criticized for largely supporting company managers on matters like executive pay or electing directors. BlackRock funds have backed corporate directors around 97 percent of the time since 2013, according to research firm Proxy Insight, and mostly backed Exxon at this year's meeting such as opposing shareholder proposals addressing climate change.
BlackRock executives say they prefer to press companies behind the scenes, and vote against management only when such engagement fails. But in a rare break, filings on Friday showed funds including the $45 billion BlackRock Global Allocation Fund (MALOX.O) withheld support from Exxon directors Jay Fishman and Kenneth Frazier this year.
Fishman, who recently passed away, had been CEO of insurer Travelers. (TRV.N) Frazier is CEO of drugmaker Merck & Co.(MRK.N)
While spokesman for BlackRock and Exxon declined to comment, BlackRock's reasoning for the votes appears to be spelled out in a recent governance report on its website. The report describes how BlackRock executives tried to discuss strategy and capital allocation with independent directors of an unnamed "large oil and gas corporation," but were rebuffed because of a policy against such talks.
As a result, BlackRock said it withheld support from the company's lead independent director and the chair of the committee that set the policy. Fishman had been Exxon's "presiding director," meant to provide independent board leadership according to Exxon's proxy statement, while Frazier led its board affairs committee.
The two were re-elected with 88 and 90 percent of votes cast, respectively, down from 95 and 98 percent in 2015. BlackRock is Exxon's second-largest shareholder with about 6 percent of its stock, according to the proxy. Exxon's other directors got no less than 95 percent support this year.
How much contact independent directors should have with outsiders has become a loaded issue because of the rise of activist investors pushing disruptive agendas.
Asked about BlackRock's concern, Exxon spokesman Alan Jeffers cited a webpage outlining board communications procedures, which do not directly address the matter. But Tim Smith, who leads shareholder engagement efforts at Walden Asset Management, said Exxon executives have described at meetings the sort of policy criticized by BlackRock.
Filings also showed BlackRock funds did not back resolutions at 3M Co, (MMM.N) Illinois Tool Works Inc (ITW.N) or Xerox Corp (XRX.N) calling on the companies to exclude the impact of share buybacks when calculating executive pay, even though the resolutions cited the concerns about buybacks raised by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.
(Reporting by Ross Kerber in Boston; Editing by Andrea Ricci) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-exxon-directors-blackrock-idUSKCN11417F?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28Business+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/74a8c915132e294e4518caf87bd8da056461e63de65cb6280d8592d841f3c8ad.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T07:04:44 | null | 2016-08-29T06:52:13 | Germany and Turkey have made progress in resolving a dispute over Turkey's refusal to allow German lawmakers to visit 250 troops stationed at Incirlik Air Base, European Affairs Minister Michael Roth told broadcaster Suedwestrundfunk on Monday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-germany-turkey-military-idUSKCN1140HE%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DworldNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BReuters%252FworldNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BWorld%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151411466&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S08F | en | null | German minister sees progress on lawmaker visits to Turkey air base | null | null | www.reuters.com | People reflect on a floor with an airplane symbol at the air base in Incirlik, Turkey, January 21, 2016. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz/Pool
BERLIN Germany and Turkey have made progress in resolving a dispute over Turkey's refusal to allow German lawmakers to visit 250 troops stationed at Incirlik Air Base, European Affairs Minister Michael Roth told broadcaster Suedwestrundfunk on Monday.
Roth, who just returned to Germany from a visit to Ankara, said he saw "great movement" on the issue, and hoped it could be resolved soon.
Turkey, angered by a resolution passed by the German parliament in June that branded the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as a "genocide", has denied German lawmakers access to the base. Six German surveillance jets and a refueling tanker are using the base to support the U.S.-led coalition's strikes on Islamic State.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-turkey-military-idUSKCN1140HE?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/d775de628a689a1ecd091562d1b5c25680e132386dc0323a5e975ae22ba42135.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T14:52:17 | null | 2016-08-29T14:16:34 | Pipeline company Williams Cos Inc (WMB.N) added three new directors to its board on Monday as it works to fend off an attempt by activist investor Keith Meister to replace all of the company's directors. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-williams-board-idUSKCN1141IU.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Williams adds 3 new directors as it seeks to fend off board takeover | null | null | www.reuters.com | NEW YORK Pipeline company Williams Cos Inc (WMB.N) added three new directors to its board on Monday as it works to fend off an attempt by activist investor Keith Meister to replace all of the company's directors.
Williams said on Monday it appointed Pioneer Natural Resources Co (PXD.N) CEO Scott Sheffield, PPL Corp (PPL.N) CEO William Spence and former American Midstream Partners (AMID.N) CEO Stephen Bergstrom as directors, effective immediately, increasing the size of its board to 10 directors.
Meister, who runs hedge fund Corvex Management LP, nominated a slate of 10 directors last week, after assailing the quality of Williams' current directors. He was previously a Williams director, but resigned in June, along with five other directors, after failing to oust Williams CEO Alan Armstrong.
Corvex is Williams' fourth largest shareholder.
Williams had announced its plan to name new directors to its board before Meister said he would campaign to have the company's board replaced.
(Reporting by Michael Erman Editing by W Simon) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-williams-board-idUSKCN1141IU | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/56624f2d9b35f1cf8a03c54b3c14d624411fd912bbcc46b90c0641ec384b2cfa.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T11:02:08 | null | 2016-08-30T10:26:24 | The Arizona sheriff famous for his tough stance on illegal immigration and keeping jail inmates in tents faces a primary challenge from three fellow Republicans on Tuesday and a difficult race for re-election in November. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-arizona-election-sheriff-idUSKCN11513J%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DdomesticNews.json | http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160830&t=2&i=1151558113&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7T0I1 | en | null | Veteran Arizona sheriff faces off against three in Republican primary | null | null | www.reuters.com | Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
PHOENIX The Arizona sheriff famous for his tough stance on illegal immigration and keeping jail inmates in tents faces a primary challenge from three fellow Republicans on Tuesday and a difficult race for re-election in November.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is seeking election to a seventh term as the top lawman for the area around Phoenix, is up against ex-police chief and three-time opponent Dan Saban and two others in the Republican primary.
Arpaio, 84, was expected to win despite a judge’s request that criminal contempt charges be brought against him stemming from a 2007 racial profiling case where he was found to have violated the constitutional rights of Latino motorists.
The investigation and possible prosecution was turned over to the U.S. Justice Department last week. It was not clear when a decision would be made.
Arizona pollster Mike O'Neil predicted that Arpaio would win the primary even with the possibility of a contempt charge hanging over him.
O’Neil said the primary is well-suited for Arpaio, with his core of Republican support, known for turning out in large numbers.
Arpaio, who styles himself as America’s toughest sheriff, said he expects to prevail at the polls and win against any prosecution efforts.
But Saban, his main Republican opposition, said it is time to retire the longtime incumbent after his latest legal troubles.
Saban has called on Arpaio to resign, saying the sheriff has “soiled his badge” and made himself ineffective as a lawman.
Arpaio, along with three others, could face incarceration and fines if convicted of any criminal charges. Arpaio and his second-in-command, Gerard Sheridan, already have been cited and admitted to civil contempt.
The charges center on unlawful traffic stops and detentions by deputies of Latino drivers for 18 months after the judge ordered them to cease.
Opponents also have targeted the profiling lawsuit’s high cost to the county, which will have spent an estimated $54 million on the case by next summer.
Also on the Republican primary ballot are Wayne Baker, a retired deputy sheriff, and Marsha Ann Hill, an ex-sheriff’s volunteer.
The primary winner will go against Democrat Paul Penzone, who is unopposed in his party's primary. Penzone, a former Phoenix police officer who is expected to present a tough challenge to Arpaio in November, lost to the longtime sheriff in 2012 by six percentage points.
(Editing by Sharon Bernstein and Bill Rigby) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-arizona-election-sheriff-idUSKCN11513J?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/3bd1a45a04eb011256a9a94f3a77e1957cac031a5f3329e5db2b92740ccad8a4.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T21:05:00 | null | 2016-08-30T20:42:13 | The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that authorities were assessing the validity of a video released by Afghan militants that depicts U.S. hostage Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, who were seized four years ago. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-afghanistan-usa-hostage-idUSKCN1152OC%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DworldNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BReuters%252FworldNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BWorld%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | U.S. aware of Afghan hostage video, assessing it: State Dept. | null | null | www.reuters.com | WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday that authorities were assessing the validity of a video released by Afghan militants that depicts U.S. hostage Caitlan Coleman and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, who were seized four years ago.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said the United States was concerned about the welfare of the couple and their family and "continue to urge for their immediate release on humanitarian grounds."
Coleman and Boyle vanished a few days after arriving in Afghanistan while on a backpacking trip near the Pakistani border in 2012. Coleman, who was pregnant at the time, has given birth to two boys while in captivity, ABC News reported earlier this year, citing her parents.
The Daily Beast online news organization said on Tuesday it had obtained the new video, which depicted Coleman saying her captors were threatening to kill the family if Taliban prisoners were executed in Afghan jails. Coleman pleaded for U.S. intervention, the newspaper said.
The Daily Beast said the Haqqani network, a Taliban affiliate operating in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, was holding the family captive and made the video and posted it online.
Kirby said the United States was "regularly engaged with the governments of both Afghanistan and Pakistan at the highest levels to emphasize our commitment to seeing our citizens return safely to their families."
(Reporting by David Alexander; Editing by Peter Cooney) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-usa-hostage-idUSKCN1152OC?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/e3120b10124ddd74c7bd0821b97c365cae85fbe9bf573962403e0c46e7b3e355.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T06:52:12 | null | 2016-08-30T06:35:20 | Goodyear Thailand Pcl said on Tuesday it planned to invest $162 million to build a newradial aviation tyre factory to expand production atPhathumthani, north of Bangkok, to meet growing demand in AsiaPacific. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fgoodyear-th-expansion-idUSL3N1BB218%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Goodyear Thailand to build $162 mln aviation tyre factory | null | null | www.reuters.com | BANGKOK Aug 30 Goodyear Thailand Pcl said on Tuesday it planned to invest $162 million to build a new radial aviation tyre factory to expand production at Phathumthani, north of Bangkok, to meet growing demand in Asia Pacific.
The expansion will help the tyre maker capture growing demand for radial tyres as commercial airlines are rapidly converting their fleets to radial tyres from bias tyres, Managing Director Finbarr O'Connor said in a statement.
The first phase of the three-phase expansion is targeted to begin operations by 2018, O'Connor said.
The demand for radial tyres is expected to improve as new commercial planes use them as standard, because they are lighter than bias tyres and more suitable for aircraft landings.
The world's aviation fleet is projected to double in size over the next 20 years, O'Connor said.
The Thai unit, 66.8 percent owned by U.S.-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, provides original equipment and replacement tyres for passenger cars, commercial trucks and retread tyres for domestic sales and exports.
The Thai company, which employs more than 1,000 people in Thailand, expects to hire 100 more workers after the project is completed, it said.
Ernst & Young Corporate Services Ltd is the financial adviser for the project. (Reporting by Khettiya Jittapong; Editing by Amrutha Gayathri) | http://www.reuters.com/article/goodyear-th-expansion-idUSL3N1BB218?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/3d4551cd95dc60529d479a58a8adb7e0930fbb708ff5b342ed5470ba5a4baa1b.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T20:52:53 | null | 2016-08-30T20:15:48 | Police surrounded the Los Angeles home of Chris Brown on Tuesday in response to a pre-dawn 911 call from a woman there who asked for help, and media reports said the woman claimed the pop star had pointed a gun at her. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-people-chrisbrown-idUSKCN1152JO%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DentertainmentNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252Fentertainment%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BEntertainment%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160830&t=2&i=1151627506&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7T1HZ | en | null | Singer Chris Brown, police in standoff after 911 call by woman | null | null | www.reuters.com | Recording artist Chris Brown poses at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Awards in Inglewood, California, in this file photo dated April 3, 2016. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
LOS ANGELES Police surrounded the Los Angeles home of Chris Brown on Tuesday in response to a pre-dawn 911 call from a woman there who asked for help, and media reports said the woman claimed the pop star had pointed a gun at her.
Brown, 27, denied any wrongdoing and said in posts on Instagram that he had woken up to find police outside and that they would need a warrant to enter the property in the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley.
"This morning, around three o'clock, officers responded to a radio call for a woman requiring assistance. The incident involved the residence of Mr. Chris Brown, where officers responded and met with that person," Lieutenant Chris Ramirez of the Los Angeles Police Department told reporters at a press conference.
Ramirez said the LAPD's robbery-homicide division would lead the investigation and interview any potential witnesses.
TMZ.com said the apparent stand-off outside Brown's home was triggered by an unnamed woman who had been a guest at the house on Monday night, and who told police the singer had pulled a gun on her. The woman has since left the house, TMZ said.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the woman said Brown had pointed a gun at her in a violent rage and that she had run outside to call police.
TMZ showed live-streamed images of police and fire vehicles stationed outside Brown's home and reported that his attorney, Mark Geragos, had also gone to the scene.
Geragos could not be reached by Reuters for comment.
In 2009, Brown assaulted his then girlfriend Rihanna, and in 2015 he finished a lengthy term of probation, community service and domestic violence classes. Brown has also been involved in several other incidents involving violence.
"I don't sleep half the damn night I just wake up to all these ... helicopters, choppers is around, police out there at the gate," Brown said on an Instagram video.
"What I do care about is you are defacing my name and my character and integrity," he added, saying he had done nothing wrong and criticizing police actions.
"I don't care y'all going to stay playing with me like I'm the villain out here, like I'm going crazy ... good luck when you get the warrant or whatever you need to do. You're going to walk right up in here and you're going to see nothing you idiots," he added.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant and Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Leslie Adler) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-chrisbrown-idUSKCN1152JO?feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fentertainment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Entertainment%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/e7084e272ee1e4ac8085b761f738271a9e14a7a99f5060b75f1c76c80b9487ff.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T18:53:11 | null | 2016-08-26T17:37:47 | Hong Kong's first rabbit cafe opened in a small upstairs space over the busy commercial district of Causeway Bay.Serving different combos, the each s | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-china-cafe-rabbits-idUSKCN11124L%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DlifestyleMolt.json | http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160826&t=2&i=1151203792&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7P1C1 | en | null | Eating while petting a bunny in Hong Kong | null | null | www.reuters.com | A rabbit is seen behind a fence at the first rabbit cafe in Hong Kong, China August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
A rabbit is seen behind a fence at the first rabbit cafe in Hong Kong. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
A rabbit looks at a customer at the first rabbit cafe in Hong Kong, China August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
Hong Kong's first rabbit cafe opened in a small upstairs space over the busy commercial district of Causeway Bay.
Serving different combos, the each set comes with a rabbit snack.
Inspired by a similar cafe on Japan's famous ''rabbit island'', Ricky Lam and his friends decided to bring a rabbit cafe to Hong Kong.
"We went to Okunoshima in Japan last year, and we were inspired by the atmosphere when having meal with rabbits which could be a pretty relaxing. Also we all know abandoning rabbits is common so over half of rabbits in our cafe were adopted," he said.
Lam also said they have a list of rules customers have to follow before playing with the rabbits, including not pulling their ears or picking them up by the ears.
Providing the experience to play with bunnies is attracting animal lovers and people considering whether to keep rabbit as their pet.
Lis Liu brought her two daughters to the cafe.
''It is the first rabbit restaurant in Hong Kong and here we come. Because my girls they want (to) have rabbits as their pets, so I just take them here and to have a look of rabbits,' she said.
Liu's younger daughter Tiana Yung had a great time with rabbits.
''I think the rabbits are cute and I like them and I like the drinks and I like the food.'' Tiana's sister Charlotte also like rabbits, admitted, ''I like rabbits because they are very cute. I like feeding them, and they are very soft and fluffy," she said.
However, rabbits are very fragile animals, and they can suffer severe physiological reactions to fear or stress according to founder of Dr. Hugh's Veterinary Hospital Dr. Hugh Stanley.
''The rabbits in the cafe, the rabbits are prey species and they get very easily stressed. The diet is very important because they get sick very easily. I don't know what the set up in the cafe is. It may be wonderful; the rabbits might be kept separate from people. It may work but it has to be managed extremely well to avoid stress and disease in the individual rabbits in the cafe," he said.
Lam said that the cafe, which opened in June, is so popular people need to make reservations. | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cafe-rabbits-idUSKCN11124L?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/de2a163b072af63a98e0b198f9f6d49e3f421181ce4935e54bc9b55dbb97419d.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:19 | null | 2016-08-26T10:46:55 | Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri wants more from his title-winning squad this season and is eager to see how his team will compete against Europe's top clubs in their Champions League debut. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-soccer-champions-lei-idUSKCN11115H%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DsportsNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FsportsNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BSports%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160826&t=2&i=1151156048&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7P0MF | en | null | Ranieri urges Leicester players to deliver in Champions League | null | null | www.reuters.com | Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri wants more from his title-winning squad this season and is eager to see how his team will compete against Europe's top clubs in their Champions League debut.
Ranieri led the 5,0000-1 outsiders to a historic league title last season and they have been drawn in Group G along with Porto, Club Bruges and FC Copenhagen.
"Last season was wonderful but I want more. Now we are in the Champions League and we have another wonderful opportunity to show our quality," Ranieri told the club's website. (www.lcfc.com)
"Now that the teams have been drawn that excitement is building even more and although it won't be easy against great champions like Porto, like everyone, I'm curious to see how my players perform.
"It will be tough, but we come into this competition to win games and we want so much to progress into the knockout stages."
The Italian conceded that his side would be underdogs.
"For this reason we must fight for everything," he said. "I want to see my players fight against the best in Europe.
"Every team in the competition will fight like champions and we must give 100 percent to make our supporters proud.
(Reporting by Nivedita Shankar in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-champions-lei-idUSKCN11115H?feedType=RSS&feedName=sportsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FsportsNews+%28Reuters+Sports+News%29 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/9f084030689a0cc23c3071551af9aae6704d343a58fa8b4b548bf7b6965072d0.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T11:02:42 | null | 2016-08-31T09:50:51 | Ireland's cabinet may be given more time to decide on whether to back the finance minister's recommendation that Dublin appeal the European Commission's ruling against its tax dealings with Apple (AAPL.O), another minister said on Wednesday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-eu-apple-ireland-idUSKCN116136%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtechnologyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtechnologyNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BTechnology%2BNews%2529.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160831&t=2&i=1151700997&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7U0JO | en | null | Irish cabinet may need more time to decide on Apple appeal: minister | null | null | www.reuters.com | A man looks at his phone as he walks past an authorised apple reseller store in Galway, Ireland August 30, 2016. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
DUBLIN Ireland's cabinet may be given more time to decide on whether to back the finance minister's recommendation that Dublin appeal the European Commission's ruling against its tax dealings with Apple (AAPL.O), another minister said on Wednesday.
Finance Minister Michael Noonan said on Tuesday he "disagreed profoundly" with the Commission's order that Apple should hand over to Ireland unpaid taxes of up to 13 billion euros ruled to be illegal state aid. He will seek approval for an appeal from cabinet at 1030 GMT.
The minority government led by Noonan's Fine Gael is reliant on the support of a number of independent lawmakers, a group of whom, the Independent Alliance, said on Tuesday that they were reviewing the decision and would need to further consult with Noonan, tax officials and independent experts.
If the Independent Alliance refused to back an appeal and pulled out of government, Fine Gael would no longer have sufficient support in parliament to pass legislation and the government could collapse.
"I'm sure, if people need time to understand this matter, that we will create the time and space to do this properly," Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe of Fine Gael told national broadcaster RTE when asked if Prime Minister Enda Kenny would allow the Alliance more time if they ask for it.
"We will be able to make a decision but it is appropriate that we give this the time it needs. I am very confident that this government will work its way through this issue and continue with the mandate the Irish people have given us."
Fine Gael is also reliant on an agreement with its biggest rival, Fianna Fail, to abstain on key votes to facilitate the minority government. Fianna Fail said on Tuesday it would back an appeal through the European Courts.
Both parties were criticized by left-wing Sinn Fein, the country's third largest party. It said the government should accept the Commission's ruling and impose the tax bill on the iPhone maker, which says it will also appeal.
"It is important that Irish taxpayers are represented at today's cabinet meeting. The Independent Alliance have an opportunity to do that. They should oppose any appeal and insist that the correct tax bill is paid by Apple," Sinn Fein's David Cullinane said in a statement.
(Editing by Andrew Roche) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-apple-ireland-idUSKCN116136?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtechnologyNews+%28Reuters+Technology+News%29 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/388d10fbf932877a98691147d4c265dcd6c114a4b8a4fdd851741ac88f44d16a.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T18:51:52 | null | 2016-08-27T16:55:08 | The Kansas City area was flooded late Friday after a three-day downpour, forcing emergency services to conduct about 10 water rescues in Missouri's largest city, officials said. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-missouri-weather-idUSKCN1120NO%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DenvironmentNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252Fenvironment%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BEnvironment%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Kansas City area hit by floods after three days of downpour | null | null | www.reuters.com | The Kansas City area was flooded late Friday after a three-day downpour, forcing emergency services to conduct about 10 water rescues in Missouri's largest city, officials said.
News photos showed vehicles stopped or abandoned as flood waters swelled across streets. No injuries nor fatalities were reported.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency notice to the Kansas City area for the first time ever on Friday night that went into Saturday morning.
The flooding had receded within the urban center later on Saturday, but rivers in more rural regions north of the city were still overflowing, said Dan Hawblitzel, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Kansas City.
Rains and some thunderstorms were forecast in parts of the region on Saturday, but were not expected to cause further flooding, Hawblitzel said.
Widespread precipitation in the region had brought anywhere from 3 to 8 inches of rainfall to the city since Wednesday, causing waterways in the region including the Missouri River to overflow, Hawblitzel said.
"Some parts of the city received more rain last night than they had seen all summer long," he said in a phone interview, noting it was the first time the weather service had issued a flash flood emergency for the region since it began such notices in the past decade.
Kansas City's Fire Chief Paul Berardi posted the emergency warning on Twitter late Friday, adding the department was conducting water rescues in three parts of the city.
A spokeswoman for the Johnson County Emergency Management office on Saturday said they had received reports of approximately 10 water rescues and had no reports of injuries or fatalities.
(Reporting by Chris Prentice in New York; Editing by Daniel Trotta and Bernard Orr) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-missouri-weather-idUSKCN1120NO?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/cf21d21ecbe0dbc085e42ea721b612cd7826c9d602bb604848330e78ad4c7791.json |
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"Michael Martina"
] | 2016-08-29T07:02:49 | null | 2016-08-29T05:47:57 | China is hoping to cement its standing as a global power when it hosts leaders from the world's biggest economies this weekend, but suspects the West and its allies will try to deny Beijing what it sees as its rightful place on the international stage. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-g20-china-idUSKCN1140CN%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151406273&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S05Z | en | null | China wants a successful G20 but suspects West may derail agenda | null | null | www.reuters.com | The buildings of a conference centre, where the G20 summit will be held, is pictured in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, August 3, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
A man rides an electronic bike past a billboard for the upcoming G20 summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, July 29, 2016. Picture taken July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song
BEIJING China is hoping to cement its standing as a global power when it hosts leaders from the world's biggest economies this weekend, but suspects the West and its allies will try to deny Beijing what it sees as its rightful place on the international stage.
Ensuring that this does not happen will be one of President Xi Jinping's priorities, and a key mark of how successful China will judge the G20 summit to be.
Beijing wants to use the Sept 4-5 meeting in the tourist hub of Hangzhou to lay out a broad strategy for global growth, but talks are likely to be overshadowed by arguments over everything from territorial disputes to protectionism, diplomats said.
"From where China sits, it looks like the Americans are trying to encircle them," said a senior Western envoy, describing conversations with Chinese officials ahead of G20 as being dominated by the South China Sea row and an advanced U.S. anti-missile system to be deployed in South Korea.
In recent months, China has been incensed by a ruling against its claims in the South China Sea by an international court, a case initiated by Manila but blamed by Beijing on Washington.
While China wants to make sure its highest profile event of the year goes off successfully, Xi will be under pressure at home to ensure he is strong in the face of challenges to his authority on issues like the South China Sea, going by reports in state media.
China has already made clear it does not want such matters overshadowing the meeting, which will be attended by U.S. President Barack Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and other world leaders.
State media has given great play to the idea that G20 is for China to show leadership in shaping global governance rules and forging ahead with sustainable global growth, with the official People's Daily saying this could be one of the G20's most fruitful ever get-togethers.
"Let's make cooperation ever higher," it wrote in a commentary last week.
But the state-run Study Times wrote in mid-August that Western countries were trying to deliberately exclude a rising China and deny it a proper voice on the world stage with schemes like the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership.
"Trying to get back their right to global governance, they are forging a new 'sacred alliance', striving to establish new rules," the influential paper, published twice a week by the Central Party School, wrote in a G20 commentary.
"These new rules will exclude China."
ANGERED BY BRITAIN, AUSTRALIA
Overseas, China has been angered by questions raised by Britain and Australia over strategic Chinese investments in their countries, saying it smacks of protectionism and paranoia.
Australia has blocked the A$10 billion ($7.7 billion) sale of the country's biggest energy grid to Chinese bidders, while Britain has delayed a $24 billion Chinese-invested nuclear project.
But Western officials have their own concerns about access for their companies in China and are increasingly not afraid to talk about it.
Joerg Wuttke, the President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, said there has been a change in tone as European officials having been expressing more dissatisfaction with China's overcapacity problems and a lack of reciprocal market access for European companies. "It has reached the point where people are not afraid to speak up any more. They feel like they have to be tougher in front of their own constituencies," Wuttke told Reuters.
A European official involved in trade issues with China expressed exasperation at China's attitude on protectionism.
"The Chinese would shut you down at once if you said you wanted to buy one of their grids. You wouldn't get to the end of the sentence," the official added.
None of this will make for plain sailing at G20.
"China is angry with almost everyone at the moment," said a second Beijing-based Western diplomat familiar with the summit.
To be sure, China does want G20 to go smoothly, said a third Western diplomat.
"It's very important from the stance of national pride," said the diplomat, pointing out it was not uncommon for G20s to be hijacked by issues other than economics.
"It's a minefield for China."
JAPAN WORRIES
Then there is Japan, a country with which China has been embroiled in disputes for much of the last decade over their wartime past and a spat over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.
Last week, China's top diplomat called on Japan to be "constructive" at G20, with the deeper fear in Beijing that Japan is angling to become involved in the South China Sea dispute as well, at the behest of its ally the United States.
Wang Youming, the head of the developing countries program at the Foreign Ministry-backed China Institute of International Studies, wrote in the widely-read Chinese tabloid the Global Times that the closer G20 got, the more Japan was trying to cause trouble.
"Japan is getting entangled in the South and East China Sea issues, cozying up to the Philippines, and urging China to respect the result of the so-called 'arbitration' case," Wang wrote.
"Japan is up to its old tricks, and it's hard not to think they are trying to mess things up."
(Additional reporting by Gao Liangping and Beijing newsroom; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-china-idUSKCN1140CN?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/f490119caac9d59ad6d42daa27583cf4b299f80269e9f0c9d99f0a54ae1864fc.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T13:02:49 | null | 2016-08-28T12:44:05 | Iran has arrested a member of the team that negotiated a landmark nuclear deal with world powers on suspicion of spying, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-iran-nuclear-arrest-idUSKCN1130H9%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160828&t=2&i=1151346373&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7R08Y | en | null | Iran arrests nuclear negotiator suspected of spying | null | null | www.reuters.com | Iran's national flags are seen on a square in Tehran February 10, 2012, a day before the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl
DUBAI Iran has arrested a member of the team that negotiated a landmark nuclear deal with world powers on suspicion of spying, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday.
The suspect was released on bail after a few days in jail but is still under investigation, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said at a regular weekly news conference, calling the unidentified individual a "spy who had infiltrated the nuclear team," state media reported.
The deal that President Hassan Rouhani struck last year has given Iran relief from most international sanctions in return for curbing its nuclear program, but it is opposed by hardliners who see it as a capitulation to the United States.
(Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, Editing by William Maclean) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-arrest-idUSKCN1130H9?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/1472033dec8a27533cbf74b51934b29c2224bac3c5b67d53b5663ec57b387628.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T02:52:16 | null | 2016-08-31T02:21:56 | Japanese stocks rose on Wednesdayto highs not seen in two weeks, led by exporters and financialstocks as the dollar stood tall against the yen and upbeat U.S.consumer confidence data lifted expectations of a near-term U.S.interest rate hike. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fjapan-stocks-midday-idUSL3N1BC1CQ%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Nikkei rises to more than 2-week high; exporters and financials gain | null | null | www.reuters.com | * Nikkei rises 1.7 pct for the month
* Mitsubishi Motors falls on fuel economy admission
By Ayai Tomisawa
TOKYO, Aug 31 Japanese stocks rose on Wednesday to highs not seen in two weeks, led by exporters and financial stocks as the dollar stood tall against the yen and upbeat U.S. consumer confidence data lifted expectations of a near-term U.S. interest rate hike.
The Nikkei gained 0.8 percent to 16,856.98 in mid-morning trade after touching 16,885.36, the highest level since August 16. The benchmark index has risen 1.7 percent this month.
The dollar, which was at around 100.500 yen at the start of the week, was little changed at 102.895 after rising on Tuesday to a one-month peak of 103.140.
Toyota Motor Corp gained 2.0 percent, Nissan Motor Co added 1.4 percent and Panasonic Corp rose 1.2 percent.
"Confidence in stocks will likely continue if the dollar maintains the current level or above," said Isao Kubo, equity strategist at Nissay Asset Management, adding that Friday's U.S. jobs data was closely monitored by market participants.
The financial sector also rallied. Nomura Holdings surged 2.1 percent, Daiwa Securities Group added 1.8 percent. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group jumped 3.5 percent and Mizuho Financial Group added 3.3 percent.
Mitsubishi Motors Corp tumbled 4.8 percent to a four-week low after the automaker said that more of its vehicle models were involved in a fuel consumption cheating scandal than initially stated.
The broader Topix gained 0.9 percent to 1,324.00 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 advanced 0.9 percent to 11,918.26
(Reporting by Ayai Tomisawa; Editing by Eric Meijer) | http://www.reuters.com/article/japan-stocks-midday-idUSL3N1BC1CQ?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/6f63bd285671ae51cebcf1486d567143461e763c0723dda606545977ba4ec816.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T18:57:38 | null | 2016-08-30T17:01:28 | Men and women wrestlers wearing fancy dress tackled a slippery surface for a somewhat unusual contest on Monday - the "World Gravy Wrestling Championships". | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-britain-gravywrestling-idUSKCN1152A3%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DoddlyEnoughNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FoddlyEnoughNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BOddly%2BEnough%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Competitors slip and slide for gravy wrestling championships | null | null | www.reuters.com | Men and women wrestlers wearing fancy dress tackled a slippery surface for a somewhat unusual contest on Monday - the "World Gravy Wrestling Championships".
Cheered on by spectators, contestants from all over Britain slid in the gooey mixture, usually an accompaniment to Sunday roast meals, as they wrestled each other on a padded gravy pool at the Rose 'n' Bowl pub in Lancashire, England in a bid to raise money for a local hospice.
Rules state that participants wrestle in gravy in two-minute bouts and they win points for not only their moves but also the audience's applause.
"If you can stay on your feet and get the upper hand on your opponent, it allows you to throw them and toss them around," competitor Joel Hicks said. "But if you can't get any balance then you're just straight over."
(Reporting By Reuters Television) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-gravywrestling-idUSKCN1152A3?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FoddlyEnoughNews+%28Reuters+Oddly+Enough%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/fee5657ea1f89946285c14ec675b655191d6b62155a61e9cbde57df3c084efda.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T00:59:16 | null | 2016-08-27T23:35:50 | Democrat Hillary Clinton on Saturday received her first national security briefing since accepting her party's nomination for the presidency last month. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-election-clinton-briefing-idUSKCN1120UM%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DpoliticsNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BReuters%252FPoliticsNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BPolitics%2BNews%2529.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160827&t=2&i=1151309173&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7Q0MP | en | null | Democrat Clinton receives first security briefing | null | null | www.reuters.com | Democrat Hillary Clinton on Saturday received her first national security briefing since accepting her party's nomination for the presidency last month.
Clinton, a former secretary of state, attended the meeting alone, according to a pool report.
The meeting was held at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's field office in White Plains, New York, not far from the Chappaqua, New York, residence she shares with her husband, former President Bill Clinton. It lasted a little over two hours.
Clinton's Republican rival, New York businessman Donald Trump, recently received his first briefing, as well.
The two are vying for the White House in the Nov. 8 general election, which has grown increasingly contentious as they have traded barbs about racism and minority voters.
(Reporting by Amanda Becker in Washington; Writing by Luciana Lopez; Editing by Matthew Lewis) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-briefing-idUSKCN1120UM?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reuters+Politics+News%29 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/77e4d7977b9dd3ef406a8013f1fa927e7c398d2916330b170a82649a41251970.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T02:50:27 | null | 2016-08-29T00:46:31 | Most Asian share markets slipped on Monday while the U.S. dollar held firm on Monday after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated an interest rate increase remains on the cards for this year. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-global-markets-idUSKCN11402C%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DbusinessNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FbusinessNews%2B%2528Business%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151386900&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S00X | en | null | Most Asia stocks slide on Fed officials' rate comments, dollar firms | null | null | www.reuters.com | SINGAPORE Most Asian share markets slipped on Monday while the U.S. dollar held firm on Monday after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated an interest rate increase remains on the cards for this year.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS slid 0.7 percent.
Japan's Nikkei .N225, bucked the trend and climbed 2.2 percent as the yen weakened against the resurgent dollar.
The case for a rate hike has strengthened in recent months, with a lot of new jobs being created, and economic growth is looking likely to continue at a moderate pace, Yellen said in a speech at the Fed's annual monetary policy conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday.
While Yellen did not give guidance on what the central bank needs to see before raising rates, she said the Fed already thinks it is close to meeting its goals of maximum employment and stable prices. She described consumer spending as "solid" but noted that business investment was weak and exports hurt by a strong dollar.
Comments by the Fed's No. 2 policymaker, Vice Chair Stanley Fischer, following Yellen's speech also bolstered the case for a hike this year.
Asked on CNBC whether a rate hike in September and more than one policy tightening before year end should be expected, Fischer said Yellen's comments were "consistent with answering yes" to both questions, albeit still data-dependent.
Traders remained cautious, however. The odds of a hike in September rose to 30 percent following the comments from 21 percent on Thursday, according to CME Group's FedWatch tool. Traders were pricing in a 60.2 percent chance of a hike in December, up from 51.8 percent on Thursday.
"While the move towards another Fed rate hike will likely cause bouts of consternation in investment markets I don’t see the same degree of uncertainty that we saw around last year’s Fed rate hike," Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy at AMP Capital in Sydney, wrote in a note.
"It’s clear from the Fed’s actions this year that it is aware of global risks, the impact of its own actions on those risks and any potential blow back to the U.S. economy and of the impact of a rising U.S. dollar in doing some of its work for it."
The comments from Yellen and Fischer dragged Wall Street lower at the close.
But they proved a boon for the U.S. currency, with the dollar index .DXY, which tracks the greenback against six global peers, jumping 0.8 percent on Friday. It held steady at 95.561 in early trading on Monday.
The dollar surged 1.3 percent against the yen JPY=D4 on Friday to a two-week high, its biggest one-day advance in almost seven weeks. It extended those gains by 0.1 percent to 101.99 yen early on Monday.
The euro EUR=EBS was little changed at $1.1194 after tumbling 0.8 percent on Friday, its biggest one-day slide since July 15.
In commodities, the rally in the dollar drove crude lower. U.S. crude futures CLc1 fell 0.9 percent to $47.22 in early Asian trade.
Investors will be looking to Japan household spending and retail sales on Tuesday, global factory activity readings on Thursday and the U.S. non-farm payrolls report on Friday.
(Editing by Kim Coghill) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-idUSKCN11402C?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28Business+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/b08c99ce418dad2a8783382bd175add37c702f66bd653203d31f34f4ef1559fb.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:03 | null | 2016-08-23T12:28:26 | Australian police are searching for four men who left three malnourished saltwater crocodiles in a school, after breaking in to steal computer equipment. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-australia-crocodiles-vandals-idUSKCN10Y0C6%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DoddlyEnoughNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FoddlyEnoughNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BOddly%2BEnough%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Police hunt men who dumped crocodiles in Australian school | null | null | www.reuters.com | Australian police are searching for four men who left three malnourished saltwater crocodiles in a school, after breaking in to steal computer equipment.
Northern Territory Police said the men entered the Taminmin College in Humpty Doo, 40km (25 miles) south of Darwin, early on Sunday after pushing the crocodiles through a broken window.
CCTV footage released by police showed the men stealing a computer monitor before running away.
Parks and Wildlife rangers said the reptiles, who had their mouths taped shut, had probably been taken from a nearby crocodile farm but were unlikely to survive as they were in such poor health.
"Basically skin and bones, not much meat left on them; they were really quiet and easy to catch," ranger Luke McLaren told ABC radio.
"We'll determine what farm they're from and we'll try to take them back to that farm but looking at their condition it's likely they'll have to be destroyed."
(Reporting by Reuters TV. Editing by Patrick Johnston) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-crocodiles-vandals-idUSKCN10Y0C6?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FoddlyEnoughNews+%28Reuters+Oddly+Enough%29 | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/a0e90717aefa6a5792d108fca32d7780342b0e0026f2afaa4400c768d79f30d6.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T01:02:46 | null | 2016-08-29T00:48:10 | U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday night that he would make a major speech on illegal immigration in Arizona on Wednesday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-election-trump-idUSKCN1130Y3%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151386909&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7R0M2 | en | null | Trump to give speech on illegal immigration on Wednesday | null | null | www.reuters.com | WASHINGTON U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday night that he would make a major speech on illegal immigration in Arizona on Wednesday.
The announcement came a day after Trump said he would crack down on illegal immigrants who overstay their visas, as he sought to clarify his views on how to overhaul the U.S. immigration system. Last week, Trump had said he was "softening" on his plan to deport all 11 million illegal immigrants.
That stance had aroused criticism from conservatives who wanted him to stand fast after he won the Republican presidential nomination in large part with a hard-line position that called for building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
"I will be making a major speech on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION on Wednesday in the GREAT State of Arizona. Big crowds, looking for a larger venue," Trump, who had postponed an immigration speech originally planned for last Thursday in Denver, said in his tweet on Sunday.
In another tweet on Sunday night, Trump said both he and Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival for the Nov. 8 election, should release detailed medical records. "I have no problem in doing so! Hillary?"
In his speech on Saturday in Iowa, Trump said he would seek to institute a tracking system to ensure illegal immigrants who overstay their visas are quickly removed, and would propose an e-verify system to prevent undocumented residents from gaining access to welfare and other benefits.
"If we don’t enforce visa expiration dates, then we have an open border – it’s as simple as that," he said.
Trump said his first priority on taking office next January would be the immediate deportation of thousands of undocumented immigrants who remain in the United States despite having committed crimes.
"These international gangs and cartels will be a thing of the past," he said. "Their reign of terror will be over. In this task, we will always err on the side of protecting the American people – we will use immigration law to prevent crimes, and will not wait until some innocent American has been harmed or killed before taking action."
Trump did not explain how his plan would affect undocumented residents who have been in the United States for decades and obeyed U.S. laws.
(Reporting by Peter Cooney; Editing by Bill Trott) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-idUSKCN1130Y3?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/b94ea4bdeceed930f7b90c87792a5849129c0dfd041769a86f2d7a017c5bd9d0.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T16:50:50 | null | 2016-08-26T16:38:00 | Britney Spears is hitting up pop culture one more time, releasing a new album, singing retro karaoke hits and about to take the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) stage for the first time since 2007. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-people-britneyspears-idUSKCN111210%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DentertainmentNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252Fentertainment%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BEntertainment%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160826&t=2&i=1151197342&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7P19X | en | null | Oops! Britney Spears does it again in latest pop culture comeback | null | null | www.reuters.com | Millennium Award recipient Britney Spears performs a medley of songs at the 2016 Billboard Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., May 22, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
NEW YORK Britney Spears is hitting up pop culture one more time, releasing a new album, singing retro karaoke hits and about to take the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) stage for the first time since 2007.
Spears, 34, who became a teen pop phenomenon with breathy, sexually-charged hits like "Toxic" and "Oops!.. I Did it Again," released new album "Glory" on Friday ahead of a much anticipated return to the VMA show on Sunday in New York.
She also became the latest superstar to ride, sing and chat with U.S. talk show host James Corden for his viral "Carpool Karaoke" segment, where both donned the schoolgirl uniforms that shot her to fame as a 16-year old in the 1998 music video for "... Baby One More Time."
Spears dominated pop music before undergoing a personal and career meltdown in 2006-2007 that included shaving her signature blonde locks, losing custody of her two children and being placed under a court-ordered conservatorship.
She made a comeback in late 2008 and for the past three years has been performing a nightly show in Las Vegas. But the new album and the anticipation surrounding her VMA performance have thrust her back in the national spotlight.
Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield said "Glory" was "another fantastic comeback" for Spears, in which she "goes back to the fizzy electro-stomp mode she does best."
"Glory" was top of the iTunes charts in more than 40 nations on Friday, including Saudi Arabia, Chile and Russia.
Billboard's Jennifer Keishin Armstrong said that with the single and music video for "Make Me", Spear had "reclaimed her standout talent, a distinctive dance style that combines cheerleader precision with slinky bits of burlesque."
Spears will perform "Make Me," with rapper G-Eazy, at the live VMA show, her first appearance there since her halting performance of "Gimme More" in 2007 when her career hit a low.
"She has had such a huge impact on this show throughout her career, so for us to have her back is a no-brainer," said Garrett English, executive producer of the VMA show.
"She embodies what the VMAs is to a large extent and she has had some of the biggest moments on this stage, and I think Sunday night will be the same," English added.
Spears is also to be the subject of a 2017 TV biopic for the Lifetime cable channel that will chart her rise to fame along with her stumbles, and her romances with Justin Timberlake and ex-husbands Jason Alexander and Kevin Federline.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Alistair Bell) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-britneyspears-idUSKCN111210?feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fentertainment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Entertainment%29 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/eeec1a28a4467274420c25911a4cb8eb3af8c3f0cf1a0f2b49c5fbebf9201613.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T19:02:23 | null | 2016-08-26T17:46:29 | Herbalife Ltd's (HLF.N) biggest critic, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, said he had been approached to buy shares in the nutritional supplements maker from billionaire investor Carl Icahn. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-herbalife-icahn-idUSKCN11115N%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160826&t=2&i=1151204747&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7P1CH | en | null | Ackman approached to buy Herbalife shares owned by Icahn | null | null | www.reuters.com | An Herbalife logo is shown on a poster at a clinic in the Mission District in San Francisco, California April 29, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo
Activist investor Bill Ackman, chief executive of Pershing Square walks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange November 10, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Herbalife Ltd's (HLF.N) biggest critic, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, said he had been approached to buy shares in the nutritional supplements maker from billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
Ackman, who has bet more than $1 billion against Herbalife, said on CNBC that Icahn's planned stake sale would accelerate the company's downfall.
"This is a confidence game. Carl is what creates the confidence in the company. With Carl exiting, I think the thing is over, and over quickly. The sooner he sells the better," Ackman said. "I think he knows that this thing is toast."
Herbalife's shares slumped 7 percent in early trading on Friday.
Icahn and Ackman have opposing bets on Los Angeles-based Herbalife. Ackman for years has accused Herbalife of running a pyramid scheme and bet that the stock would fall to zero.
The duo even became embroiled in a public war of words, with Icahn famously calling Ackman a "liar" and a "crybaby" in a CNBC interview in 2013. They have since made up.
While Ackman has lost money on his short bet over the years, Icahn has made money but his gains are now at risk of shrinking as the stock has fallen in the last few days.
The approach to Ackman comes a little over a month after the company agreed to pay $200 million and change the way it does business to avoid being labeled a pyramid scheme by U.S. regulators.
Investment bank Jefferies Group has been trying to find buyers for Icahn's 18.3 percent stake for about a month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. (on.wsj.com/2bMkIA0)
Sources told Reuters on Thursday that Icahn was considering structuring a sale of Herbalife shares.
Ackman's Pershing Square declined to comment. Jefferies and Herbalife were not immediately available for comment. Icahn was not immediately available for comment.
Following the settlement with regulators in July, Herbalife said its board had cleared the way for Icahn to boost his stake in the company to as much as 35 percent.
Since then, the company's shares have risen 4.3 percent.
(Reporting by Bhanu Pratap and Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bengaluru; additional reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss in Boston; Editing by Savio D'Souza and Saumyadeb Chakrabarty) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-herbalife-icahn-idUSKCN11115N?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/6b2cf6b61ba510db8337cb983f7339a4a95590756d1f903db15d7eab24c5648e.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T09:02:31 | null | 2016-08-27T08:04:03 | The number of people killed in an earthquake that has wrecked parts of central Italy rose to 284 on Saturday, as the country started a day of mourning and prepared for a mass funeral for some of the victims. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-italy-quake-idUSKCN112066%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160827&t=2&i=1151256021&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7Q02L | en | null | Italy quake death toll hits 284 on day of mass funeral | null | null | www.reuters.com | Firefighters and rescuers work following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
Firefighters and rescuers work following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
Firefighters and rescuers work following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
Italian President Sergio Mattarella (C) is seen with Amatrice mayor Sergio Pirozzi (L) during his visit to Amatrice after the earthquake in central Italy August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
A firefighter stands in front of Sant'Agostino church following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
Coffins of some of the victims of the earthquake in central Italy are seen inside a gym before the funeral in Ascoli Piceno August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Adamo Di Loreto
Mourners pay their respects as they attend a funeral for the earthquake victims inside a gym in Ascoli Piceno August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Adamo Di Loreto
A picture of San Francesco church hangs on the wall of a damaged house following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
Mourners pay their respects as they attend a funeral for the earthquake victims inside a gym in Ascoli Piceno August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Adamo Di Loreto
A woman sits next to a coffin to pay her respects as she attends a funeral for the earthquake victims inside a gym in Ascoli Piceno August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Adamo Di Loreto
A friar pays his respects as he attends a funeral for the earthquake victims inside a gym in Ascoli Piceno August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Adamo Di Loreto
ASCOLI PICENO, Italy The number of people killed in an earthquake that has wrecked parts of central Italy rose to 284 on Saturday, as the country started a day of mourning and prepared for a mass funeral for some of the victims.
A further two bodies were found overnight in the worst-hit town, Amatrice, which was flattened by Wednesday's powerful quake causing the deaths of at least 224 residents and tourists.
Although rescuers continued to scour the mounds of rubble -- all that remains of most buildings -- there was little hope of finding survivors.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella flew to Amatrice by helicopter on Saturday to see the damage first hand before traveling on later in the morning to the nearby city of Ascoli Piceno for the funeral of up to 40 of the victims.
Mourners gathered at a sports center in the city, where 35 coffins were lined up by early Saturday.
"Even if I didn't know them my heart broke for them. My thoughts are with them because there are people who have lost everything, homes, loved ones and the sacrifices made in life," said local resident, Luciana Cavicchiuni.
"These things should not happen," she said.
Aftershocks continued to rattle the area overnight, the strongest measuring 4.2. The Italian geological institute said some 1,332 aftershocks have hit Italy's central mountains since Wednesday's predawn 6.2 magnitude quake.
(Additional reporting by Iona Serrapica; Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Susan Fenton) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-quake-idUSKCN112066?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/d16cd69d2bbfe646f656302a44c9be6b8f86b65a75576542e89504c34d44a8fb.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T12:52:13 | null | 2016-08-30T12:25:12 | Engagement Labs Inc : | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FidUSFWN1BB0E3%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | BRIEF-Loeb will invest $1.5 million and add directors to company's board | null | null | www.reuters.com | Aug 30 Engagement Labs Inc :
* Loeb Holding Corporation will invest U.S. $1.5 million and add directors to company's board
* Q2 revenue increased by 36% from $839,005 in q2 2015 to $1,144,059
* Qtrly loss per share $0.03 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: | http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSFWN1BB0E3?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/153a2a9737c1ec0d389134964fe1471155b0753d8f8c7074c2aa020d5893b875.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T00:52:31 | null | 2016-08-30T23:37:05 | The U.S. Department of Agriculture has closed six offices in five states after receiving anonymous threats, a USDA spokesman said on Tuesday, and police were investigating similar threats to faculty members from at least two universities in eastern states. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usda-threats-idUSKCN11527G.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | USDA closes offices in five states after anonymous threats | null | null | www.reuters.com | CHICAGO The U.S. Department of Agriculture has closed six offices in five states after receiving anonymous threats, a USDA spokesman said on Tuesday, and police were investigating similar threats to faculty members from at least two universities in eastern states.
"Yesterday, USDA received several anonymous messages that are concerning for the safety of USDA personnel and its facilities. As a precaution, USDA has closed offices," department spokesman Matthew Herrick said.
One email message was sent to multiple employees at offices in Fort Collins, Colorado; Hamden, Connecticut; Beltsville, Maryland; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Kearneysville and Leetown, West Virginia, Herrick said.
The agency was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement agencies to determine whether the threat was credible, Herrick said.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the USDA was working with the Department of Homeland Security to ensure the safety of the agency's offices and personnel, but he declined to provide any details about the threats.
"In consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, USDA has taken some prudent steps to ensure the protection of their facilities and their personnel," Earnest told a news conference.
In West Virginia, Jefferson County Sheriff Pete Dougherty said by telephone that his office was notified of the threat on Monday by a USDA employee in the Kearneysville facility, located in the northeastern part of the state.
"It's a threat to do harm to people at the facility until the police arrive. They were going to break into the building," Dougherty said by telephone.
Dougherty said the emailed threat did not name the facility specifically, and was similar to, or the same as, electronic threats sent to other facilities.
In Colorado, an employee working at the United States Geological Survey's offices in Fort Collins, located in the same compound as the USDA building, said the offices were evacuated at around 8:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday by building security.
"They (security officers) were checking to make sure everyone was out and told us to leave," the employee said.
A number of other universities were threatened this week, school officials said.
"Along with individuals at other universities and the USDA, two faculty members at NC State received an email that included a general, unconfirmed threat to campus," the school said in a statement.
Police at NC State said they determined that several dozen individuals at Virginia Tech University, in Blacksburg, Virginia, received the same email threat on Monday.
Virginia Tech's police chief, Kevin Foust, said in a statement that "other schools have also received cyber-threats," and that the campus was operating normally.
(Reporting by Tim Ahmann in Washington, P.J. Huffstutter and Timothy McLaughlin in Chicago, and Eric M. Johnson in Seattle, writing by Michael Hirtzer; editing by Matthew Lewis and G Crosse) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usda-threats-idUSKCN11527G | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/64bb308f20af73ad81fb280db451f0f8797782d80f098d9d50a452685963a125.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T21:04:29 | null | 2016-08-27T20:14:04 | Colombia's main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces, said in a statement on Saturday they will hold their final conference on Sept. 13-19 to ratify a peace accord with the government. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-colombia-rebels-meeting-idUSKCN1120R9%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DworldNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BReuters%252FworldNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BWorld%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160827&t=2&i=1151299229&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7Q0L9 | en | null | Colombia's FARC rebels to hold final conference, peace vote September 13-19 | null | null | www.reuters.com | Carlos, a member of the 51st Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), is seen at a camp in Cordillera Oriental, Colombia, August 16, 2016. REUTERS/John Vizcaino
Eduar, a member of the 51st Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), is seen wearing a cap with badges showing images of Che Guevara and FARC's late founder Manuel Marulanda at a camp in Cordillera Oriental, Colombia, August 16, 2016. REUTERS/John Vizcaino
A machine gun and a chair are pictured in at a camp of the 51st Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Cordillera Oriental, Colombia, August 16, 2016. REUTERS/John Vizcaino
A member of the 51st Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) walks at a camp in Cordillera Oriental, Colombia, August 16, 2016. REUTERS/John Vizcaino
Leidi, a member of the 51st Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), poses for a picture at a camp in Cordillera Oriental, Colombia, August 16, 2016. REUTERS/John Vizcaino
BOGOTA Colombia's main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces, said in a statement on Saturday they will hold their final conference on Sept. 13-19 to ratify a peace accord with the government.
The deal between the leaders of the leftist guerilla group, referred to as FARC, and the government was announced Wednesday in Havana, after almost four years of talks. The rebels have agreed to lay down arms after half a century of war.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has sent the text of the accord to Congress, where legislators have 30 days to go over it before a national referendum on Oct. 2.
(Reporting by Helen Murphy; Writing by Alden Bentley; Editing by Bernard Orr) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-colombia-rebels-meeting-idUSKCN1120R9?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/876c6628b3db526ce6f122c96a8e82d53a58bf6b9834c8f8199f920271e824d9.json |
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"Joseph Menn"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:58 | null | 2016-08-26T12:51:54 | Apple Inc issued a patch on Thursday to fix a dangerous security flaw in iPhones and iPads after researchers discovered that a prominent United Arab Emirates dissident's phone had been targeted with a previously unknown method of hacking. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-apple-iphone-cyber-idUSKCN1102B1%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtechnologyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtechnologyNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BTechnology%2BNews%2529.json | http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160825&t=2&i=1151085284&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7O1I2 | en | null | Apple fixes security flaw after UAE dissident's iPhone targeted | null | null | www.reuters.com | SAN FRANCISCO Apple Inc issued a patch on Thursday to fix a dangerous security flaw in iPhones and iPads after researchers discovered that a prominent United Arab Emirates dissident's phone had been targeted with a previously unknown method of hacking.
The thwarted attack on the human rights activist, Ahmed Mansoor, used a text message that invited him to click on a web link. Instead of clicking, he forwarded the message to researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab.
The hack is the first known case of software that can remotely take over a fully up-to-date iPhone 6.
Experts at Citizen Lab worked with security company Lookout and determined that the link would have installed a program taking advantage of a three flaws that Apple and others were not aware of. The researchers disclosed their findings on Thursday.
"Once infected, Mansoor’s phone would have become a digital spy in his pocket, capable of employing his iPhone’s camera and microphone to snoop on activity in the vicinity of the device, recording his WhatsApp and Viber calls, logging messages sent in mobile chat apps, and tracking his movements," Citizen Lab wrote in a report released on Thursday.
The researchers said they had alerted Apple a week and a half ago, and the company developed a fix and distributed it as an automatic update to iPhone 6 owners.
Apple spokesman Fred Sainz confirmed that the company had issued the patch after being contacted by researchers.
The Citizen Lab team attributed the attack software to a private seller of monitoring systems, NSO Group, an Israeli company that makes software for governments which can secretly target mobile phones and gather information. Tools such as that used in this case, a remote exploit for a current iPhone, cost as much as $1 million.
NSO Chief Executive Shalev Hulio referred questions to spokesman Zamir Dahbash, who said the company "cannot confirm the specific cases" covered in the Citizen Lab and Lookout reports.
Dahbash said NSO sells within export laws to government agencies, which then operate the software.
"The agreements signed with the company's customers require that the company's products only be used in a lawful manner," he added. "Specifically, the products may only be used for the prevention and investigation of crimes."
Dahbash did not answer follow-up questions, including whether the exposure of the tools use against Mansoor in UAE and a Mexican journalist would end any sales to those countries.
NSO has kept a low profile in the security world, despite its 2014 sale of a majority stake for $120 million to California private equity firm Francisco Partners. That company's chief executive, Dipanjan Deb, did not return a call on Thursday. In November 2015, Reuters reported that NSO had begun calling itself "Q" and was looking for a buyer for close to $1 billion.
Sarah McKune, senior legal adviser to Citizen Lab, said Israel tries to follow the strictures of the Wassenaar Arrangement, which puts controls on the international sale of nuclear and chemical weapons technology and more recently cyber intrusion tools.
NSO may have had to apply for an export license, she added, saying that raised questions about "what consideration was given to the human rights record of UAE."
The Israeli embassy in Washington did not respond to an email seeking comment.
NSO marketing material says that it also has capabilities for Android and BlackBerry devices. No version of the software has been exposed, indicating it remains effective.
Citizen Lab did not directly accuse UAE of carrying out the attack on Mansoor with NSO gear called Pegasus, but it said other NSO attacks on critics of the regime were connected to the government.
It also said a Mexican journalist and a minority party politician in Kenya had been targeted with NSO software and that domain names set up for other attacks referred to entities in Uzbekistan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and other nations, suggesting that other targets lived in those nations.
A call to the UAE embassy in Washington was not immediately returned.
The market for "lawful intercept," or government hacking tools, has come under increased scrutiny with revelations about authoritarian customers and noncriminal victims.
Two popular vendors, Hacking Team of Italy and Gamma Group of the United Kingdom, have had their wares exposed by researchers or hackers.
Mansoor had previously been targeted with software from both of those companies, according to Citizen Lab.
"I can't think of a more compelling case of serial misuse of lawful intercept malware than the targeting of Mansoor," said one of the Citizen Lab researchers, John Scott-Railton.
(Reporting by Joseph Menn; editing by Peter Henderson and Tom Brown) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphone-cyber-idUSKCN1102B1?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtechnologyNews+%28Reuters+Technology+News%29 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/afaca6716de2f3dba56833ce201996a421b64bafc5937419e544d0a0bfefe842.json |
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"James Pearson",
"Ju-Min Park"
] | 2016-08-31T01:05:01 | null | 2016-08-30T23:04:36 | min Park | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-northkorea-weapons-idUSKCN1152VD%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DworldNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BReuters%252FworldNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BWorld%2BNews%2529.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160830&t=2&i=1151649625&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7T1MH | en | null | North Korea makes progress on missiles, but no evidence of nuclear weapons yet | null | null | www.reuters.com | Passengers watch a TV screen broadcasting a news report on North Korea's submarine-launched ballistic missile fired from North Korea's east coast port of Sinpo, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, August 24, 2016 REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo
A view shows the January 18 General Machine Plant in Kaechon, North Korea, in this satellite image taken on August 22, 2016 and provided by Planet Labs, Inc on August 24, 2016. Planet Labs, Inc/Handout via Reuters
A passenger walks past a TV screen broadcasting a news report on North Korea's submarine-launched ballistic missile fired from North Korea's east coast port of Sinpo, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, August 24, 2016 REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo
SEOUL North Korea has made considerable progress this year on weapons technology, including testing a submarine-launched missile for the first time, but it's still not clear if the isolated nation has developed a nuclear warhead.
It also does not yet have a fleet of submarines that can launch the newly developed missile.
Nevertheless, concerns about the threat posed by North Korea have spiraled since it conducted its fourth nuclear explosion in January and followed it up with a series of missile tests despite severe United Nations sanctions.
Also, three major factories known to produce machine parts for North Korea's sanctioned nuclear and missile programs have been modernized or expanded, according to analysis of recent satellite imagery seen by Reuters, a further sign of its commitment of scarce resources to weapons.
"North Korea has dramatically increased the pace of missile testing and invested heavily in modernizing its factories that produce them, something we can see in satellite images," said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
"These investments have paid off with the recent test of a solid-fueled submarine-launched missile, but North Korea has not yet completed development of a submarine to carry that missile."
In April, a South Korean official said the North had accomplished miniaturization of a nuclear warhead to mount on a missile, although there was no direct evidence it had done so. The United States has said the North's claim that it had miniaturized a warhead had to be taken as a credible threat.
"I think North Korea is capable of miniaturizing nuclear bombs," said Yang Uk, a senior research fellow at the Korea Defence and Security Forum and a policy adviser to the South Korean navy. "But they don't have any standardized warhead yet to put on missiles. They keep gathering data through nuclear tests and working to standardize a warhead."
Experts have predicted that the delivery vehicle for the North's first nuclear warhead would be the medium-range Rodong missile, which can fire a 1 tonne (1,100 lb) warhead up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles).
Despite threats to strike the mainland United States, the North is seen as several years away from building an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can carry a nuclear warhead.
EXPANDED PRODUCTION
In the past year, North Korea has boasted of numerous weapons breakthroughs in unprecedented detail.
Although some of it was bluster, international experts have concluded North Korea's missiles have flown higher and for longer than previously, indicating progress in the country's banned missile program.
In June, after repeated failures, it successfully launched an intermediate-range missile, which can fly up to 3,500 km (2,100 miles).
Analysis of satellite images shows that the North has recently expanded factories known to contribute to its nuclear and missile programs.
An Aug 22 image of a sprawling plant in a rural area 60 km (37 miles) north of Pyongyang appears to show several new structures, extensive refurbishment of existing buildings and a new entrance to a probable underground facility, according to data from satellite imagery provider Planet that was analyzed by Lewis.
The January 18 General Machine Plant has long been used to produce engines for tanks, missiles and other military vessels, according to experts.
"This represents an enormous investment in North Korea's missile production infrastructure, something that is consistent with the propaganda offensive we have seen and the spike in missile testing," said Lewis.
The Kanggye General Tractor Plant, believed by arms control experts to assemble North Koreans munitions, was also upgraded in the last year, according to imagery analyzed by Lewis.
The plant is the country's "main weapons production base," a defector who worked in North Korea's secretive munitions industry told South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper in 2010.
For Pyongyang, however, building a new submarine fleet seems to be a top priority.
A new construction hall has come up at North Korea's Sinpo submarine base on the east coast, according to images collected by Planet.
An image from Aug 10 shows a new structure being built beside a refurbished pier within the base, although it was not clear if the new hall would house a new class of submarine.
Perfecting submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) technology and having a fleet of submarines that could deploy the weapons would raise North Korea's threat to Japan and U.S. interests in the Pacific to a new level, given the ability of submarines to escape a land attack and evade missile defense shields.
Leader Kim Jong Un proclaimed the SLBM test the country's "greatest success" and said North Korea was at the "front-rank of nuclear powers".
Moon Keun-sik, a retired South Korean submarine captain and squadron leader, said North Korea's conventional diesel-powered submarines were a persistent threat despite their age but its SLBM-capable craft could be a game-changer.
"North Korea will be or is already in the process of building a newer, bigger submarine that may happen as early as next year," he said.
(Additional reporting by Yun Hwan Chae in SEOUL and Tim Kelly in TOKYO; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-weapons-idUSKCN1152VD?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/52b084c923617bc9fee111df2bd00de460f968096cf16e8784892fd8dc61c5c9.json |
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"Reuters Editorial"
] | 2016-08-30T22:52:28 | null | 2016-08-30T22:32:26 | U.S. regulators said on Tuesday that AstraZeneca Plc (AZN.L) will pay $5.52 million to resolve a foreign bribery probe into improper payments by its sales and marketing staff to officials at state-controlled health care providers in China and Russia. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-astrazeneca-usa-idUSKCN1152U9.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160830&t=2&i=1151646890&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7T1LU | en | null | AstraZeneca to pay $5.52 million to resolve SEC foreign bribery case | null | null | www.reuters.com | A sign is seen at an AstraZeneca site in Macclesfield, central England May 19, 2014. REUTERS/Phil Noble
NEW YORK U.S. regulators said on Tuesday that AstraZeneca Plc (AZN.L) will pay $5.52 million to resolve a foreign bribery probe into improper payments by its sales and marketing staff to officials at state-controlled health care providers in China and Russia.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission detailed the settlement with the drug company in an order instituting an administrative proceeding arising out of violations of provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; Editing by Alan Crosby) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-astrazeneca-usa-idUSKCN1152U9 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/b09d78749ecd3804c302e10774cd08025845ecca0bbdfd3636b6428106ee587f.json |
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"Christophe Van Der Perre"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:09 | null | 2016-08-25T17:56:36 | The first driverless taxi began work on Thursday in a limited public trial on the streets of Singapore. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-autos-selfdriving-singapore-idUSKCN1100ZG%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DlifestyleMolt.json | http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160825&t=2&i=1150994682&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7O0IG | en | null | First driverless taxi hits the streets of Singapore | null | null | www.reuters.com | A nuTonomy logo is pictured on their self-driving taxi booking app during its public trial in Singapore August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su
A Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) module is pictured on a nuTonomy self-driving taxi during its public trial in Singapore August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Pedestrians cross the road as a nuTonomy self-driving taxi undergoes its public trial in Singapore August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su
A staff member of nuTonomy demonstrates their self-driving taxi booking app on a mobile phone drives during its public trial in Singapore August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Cameras that read traffic lights are mounted inside a nuTonomy self-driving taxi during its public trial in Singapore August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su
People pass by a nuTonomy self-driving taxi during its public trial in Singapore August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su
A nuTonomy self-driving taxi drives on the road in its public trial in Singapore August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su
SINGAPORE The first driverless taxi began work on Thursday in a limited public trial on the streets of Singapore.
Developer nuTonomy invited a select group of people to download their app and ride for free in its "robo-taxi" in a western Singapore hi-tech business district, hoping to get feedback ahead of a planned full launch of the service in 2018.
"This is really a moment in history that's going to change how cities are built, how we really look at our surroundings," nuTonomy executive Doug Parker told Reuters.
The trial rides took place in a Mitsubishi i-MiEv electric vehicle, with an engineer sitting behind the steering wheel to monitor the system and take control if necessary.
The trial is on an on-going basis, nuTonomy said, and follows private testing that began in April.
Parker, whose company has partnered with the Singapore government on the project, said he hoped to have 100 taxis working commercially in the Southeast Asian citystate by 2018.
Nutonomy is one of several companies racing to launch self-driving vehicles, with automakers and technology firms striking new alliances.
Swedish automaker Volvo AB said last week it had agreed to a $300 million alliance with ride-hailing service Uber [UBER.UL] to develop a driverless vehicle.
Israeli driving assistant software maker Mobileye NV said its vehicle, developed with Delphi Automotive Plc, would be ready for production by 2019, while Ford Motor Co said its self-driving car was slated for 2021.
(The story was refiled to fix a typo in the second paragraph to say "full launch")
(Writing by Patrick Johnston; Editing by Robert Birsel) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-selfdriving-singapore-idUSKCN1100ZG?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/41cb8df0e556c2ebb27a140020ee2917bffcccd5cf694d166897a7902ae407e5.json |
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"Gavin Jones"
] | 2016-08-28T10:51:58 | null | 2016-08-28T10:26:41 | Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-italy-quake-reconstruction-idUSKCN1130AO%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DenvironmentNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252Fenvironment%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BEnvironment%2529.json | http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160828&t=2&i=1151338289&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7R04A | en | null | L'Aquila is grim reminder of struggle facing Italy's quake-hit towns | null | null | www.reuters.com | Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (C) and his wife Agnese are seen after a funeral service for victims of the earthquake inside a gym in Ascoli Piceno, Italy August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Adamo Di Loreto
Destroyed houses in Onna are seen in this aerial view near L'Aquila April 7, 2009. REUTERS/Max Rossi
L'AQUILA, Italy Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.
Scaffolding still covers the city's Baroque buildings, the skyline is dominated by cranes, most of the dusty streets are deserted and many areas remain cordoned off.
"This place is one big building site," said Luca Dioletta, the owner of Bar Duomo in the L'Aquila's main square, dominated by the neoclassical cathedral which is one of few buildings not shrouded in protective tarpaulins.
Bar Duomo, which opened just a month ago, is the only bar or restaurant in the square which used to teem with life before the quake struck on April 6, 2009.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's promise to rebuild Amatrice and other mountain towns ravaged by last week's tremors echoed pledges made by former premier Silvio Berlusconi to some 80,000 people who lost their homes in and around L'Aquila in 2009.
In power since February 2014, Renzi will be determined to prove himself a more able leader than Berlusconi and avoid the many errors made in L'Aquila, which lies just 56 km (35 miles) south of Amatrice.
Reconstruction here has been held up by bureaucracy and corruption, while billions of euros were spent on unpopular housing projects, or "new towns", with rows of identical dwellings built on special quake-proof platforms.
Residents say that while these brand new estates are comfortable enough, they lack any sense of community.
"Look around you, there are no services, no bars, no restaurants, no newsstands, just houses surrounded by nothing," said Ottavio Masciovecchio, 60, who lives in the Paganica new town some 10 km outside L'Aquila.
Masciovecchio, who was born in the nearby village of Paganica, says he has lost all hope of ever returning to his former home and speaks bitterly as he walks around the boarded up houses and debris in the narrow streets where he used to live.
"They say Paganica is being rebuilt but it's a lie. I'd like to show this mess to the whole world," he said.
Renzi's ministers say they will not let the communities around Amatrice die, but they have not explained how they can speed up Italy's rebuilding efforts and have declined to speculate when the reconstruction might be complete.
"This is not about setting challenges and making promises. We need the pace of a marathon runner," Renzi said on Thursday.
ORGANIZED CRIME
Some 21 billion euros ($23 billion) was earmarked for L'Aquila's reconstruction, but so far only 7 billion euros has been spent.
Local residents say the project has been snarled by inefficient use of the resources and cloying red tape, scourges that repeatedly trip up the euro zone's third largest economy.
The housing projects were expensive, costing 2,000-3,000 euros per square meter, and residents and architects say the money could have been better spent on demolishing and rebuilding old houses or on more modest but temporary dwellings.
The new towns were strongly supported by Berlusconi himself, who made his first fortune as a construction magnate.
Marco Morante, an architect from L'Aquila who has worked with the town council and private contractors, described the failure to involve the local community in decisions over reconstruction as a mistake.
"Nearly everything was dictated by the central government, with a sort of military occupation of the area by the Civil Protection Department which alienated the townspeople," he said.
Masciovecchio said reconstruction contracts in L'Aquila went to firms from abroad or other parts of Italy and few local residents had been hired. His son, who had worked in a local bakery, left to seek work abroad and now lives in Finland.
Morante, who estimated that only 5-10 percent of the center of L'Aquila had been rebuilt, said bureaucracy was mainly to blame, with a bewildering series of changes in the rules on project allocation and construction permits.
Some of these changes were triggered by evidence that another Italian plague -- organized crime -- had infiltrated the reconstruction effort. In 2014 seven building contractors were arrested on allegations they had collaborated with the Naples mafia, the Camorra, to obtain cheap labor.
Morante said Amatrice and the other towns hit by this week's earthquakes could learn from L'Aquila's experience, but there were important differences.
For example, only an estimated 2,500 people had been made homeless in the latest disaster, far fewer than in L'Aquila. However, a higher proportion of the houses were leveled and will have to be completely rebuilt.
The risk for Amatrice and the surrounding towns is that if the rebuilding takes too long, the local youngsters will drift away, dealing a potentially fatal blow to communities where pensioners already make up a large proportion of inhabitants.
"I'm afraid our village and others will just die," said Salvatore Petrucci, 77, who lost his house in Trisunga on Wednesday. "We may be the last people to have lived (here)."
After an earthquake hit southern Italy near Naples in 1980, some survivors had to wait more than 20 years before their damaged properties were restored.
Leonardo Innocenzi, 62, who was born and brought up in the center of L'Aquila, lives in a "new town" 5 km away and says with resignation that he hopes he can get back to his old home within "two or three years, maybe four."
"I think it will need another 8-10 years for this city to return to anything like it was, and we will have to see if it ever become the community that it used to be."
($1 = 0.8932 euros)
(Editing by Crispian Balmer and Timothy Heritage) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-quake-reconstruction-idUSKCN1130AO?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/f69e870a555c30256cd62cfed067a301cd8ec43dfa509822d9fef6899408ea6d.json |
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"Reuters Editorial"
] | 2016-08-29T10:52:03 | null | 2016-08-29T10:18:03 | Mylan NV said on Monday it wouldlaunch the first generic to its allergy auto-injector EpiPen ata discount of more than 50 percent to the branded product's listprice. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fmylan-nl-pricing-idUSL3N1BA36I%3Ftype%3DcompanyNews%26feedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DcompanyNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FcompanyNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BCompany%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Mylan to launch first generic to EpiPen allergy injection | null | null | www.reuters.com | Aug 29 Mylan NV said on Monday it would launch the first generic to its allergy auto-injector EpiPen at a discount of more than 50 percent to the branded product's list price.
This company reduced the out-of-pocket costs of EpiPen for some patients last week amid a wave of criticism from lawmakers and the public over the rapid escalation in the product's price in the past few years.
Mylan said it expects to launch the generic product "in several weeks" at a list price of $300 per generic EpiPen, compared with the branded product's cost of about $600. (Reporting by Ankur Banerjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza) | http://www.reuters.com/article/mylan-nl-pricing-idUSL3N1BA36I?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/aec6a478f97485f39ddd3599e22787078ad6fce933b622a4acd2b1af5fdc9758.json |
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"Farah Master"
] | 2016-08-31T06:51:25 | null | 2016-08-31T06:11:12 | Volkswagen AG's (VOWG_p.DE) global Audi sales chief said on Wednesday that talks with U.S. authorities over large-engined diesel cars found to have cheated emissions tests are progressing well and a technical and financial settlement could be agreed as soon as October. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-audi-china-idUSKCN1160EK%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DbusinessNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FbusinessNews%2B%2528Business%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160831&t=2&i=1151679979&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7U099 | en | null | VW could agree U.S. large-car diesel fix by October: Audi executive | null | null | www.reuters.com | Dietmar Voggenreiter, member of the Board of Management for Sales and Marketing at Audi AG, poses during an interview in Hong Kong, China August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
An Audi logo is displayed on an engine during a promotional event in Hong Kong, China August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
An Audi logo is displayed at a window during a promotional event in Hong Kong, China August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
Dietmar Voggenreiter, member of the Board of Management for Sales and Marketing at Audi AG, poses during an interview in Hong Kong, China August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
Dietmar Voggenreiter, member of the Board of Management for Sales and Marketing at Audi AG, poses during an interview in Hong Kong, China August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
An Audi logo is displayed on a tyre during a promotional event in Hong Kong, China August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
Hong Kong Volkswagen AG's (VOWG_p.DE) global Audi sales chief said on Wednesday that talks with U.S. authorities over large-engined diesel cars found to have cheated emissions tests are progressing well and a technical and financial settlement could be agreed as soon as October.
"(We're) in really good discussions with U.S. authorities," said Dietmar Voggenreiter, head of sales and marketing worldwide at VW premium brand Audi (NSUG.DE), speaking in an interview with Reuters in Hong Kong.
"Hopefully in October, latest in the beginning of November, we will have the final agreement with the U.S." on 3.0 liter engine vehicles.
VW in June agreed with U.S authorities to pay up to $15.3 billion for car buybacks and fixes to 475,000 2.0-litre VW and Audi diesel vehicles equipped with software that tricks emissions tests. The accord did not include fixes for 80,000 VW, Audi and Porsche 3.0 liter engine that could potentially cost billions more if the automaker needs to buy them back.
The diesel emissions scandal, affecting roughly 11 million vehicles worldwide, continues to drag on VW and Audi profits, with Audi set to miss profitability targets this year and the core VW brand recording a 12 percent year-on-year drop in profit in the second quarter.
(Reporting by Farah Master; Writing by Jake Spring; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-audi-china-idUSKCN1160EK?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28Business+News%29 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/0d28dd51a5533ee67c4b4b436bddb22bf5bc122f52d299829c9f0da40ba1cd40.json |
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"Jeffrey Dastin"
] | 2016-08-30T00:52:20 | null | 2016-08-30T00:10:31 | United Continental Holdings Inc (UAL.N) has hired the No. 2 executive at rival American Airlines Group Inc (AAL.O), Scott Kirby, to be its president, the companies said on Monday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-ual-president-idUSKCN1142D2.json | http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160829&t=2&i=1151498378&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7S1C0 | en | null | United Airlines hires No. 2 at American to be its president | null | null | www.reuters.com | U.S. Airways President Scott Kirby speaks at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington December 5, 2006. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
United Continental Holdings Inc (UAL.N) has hired the No. 2 executive at rival American Airlines Group Inc (AAL.O), Scott Kirby, to be its president, the companies said on Monday.
The move, effective immediately, is the latest attempt by United's reshuffled board and new Chief Executive Officer Oscar Munoz to shape a new strategy and boost the airline's stock price. United has lagged other U.S. carriers in on-time arrivals and profit margins, though its results have recently improved.
United's shares rose more than 1 percent in after-market trading. American's fell nearly 2 percent.
In a letter to employees, Munoz called Kirby's hiring the "culmination" of his forming a new leadership team.
"This move will allow me to sharpen my own focus as CEO on the core mission of driving United's overall strategy, business innovation and financial performance," he said.
Industry experts welcomed United's move.
"United has lacked intellectual rigor," said consultant Robert Mann. "Scott going over there will absolutely shake up the place."
Travel industry analyst Henry Harteveldt said United "got themselves a star player."
Earlier this month, United appointed a new chief financial officer and new chief commercial officer, each with airline industry expertise. The company came under pressure from activist investors in the spring to name airline veterans to its board who could guide Munoz, a former railroad executive who took the helm of United in September 2015.
At American, Chief Operating Officer Robert Isom will replace Kirby as president, the airline said in a news release.
The management change stemmed from succession planning and the conclusion that "it would not be able to retain its existing executive team in their current roles," after "conversations regarding career expectations," the airline said.
A filing by American showed the airline agreed to pay Kirby a cash severance of $3.85 million and to accelerate the vesting of his stock.
The timeline that led to Kirby's move was not immediately clear.
A United spokeswoman said the appointment followed several conversations between Kirby and Munoz, 57.
Industry watchers said a chance to become CEO of United may have attracted Kirby, 49, to the role. At American, board director John Cahill said in a statement on Monday he looked forward to the "leadership for many years to come" of CEO Doug Parker, 54.
Reporting to Kirby at United will be Chief Commercial Officer Julia Haywood and Chief Operations Officer Greg Hart.
(Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in New York and Supantha Mukherjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta, Tom Brown and Bill Rigby) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ual-president-idUSKCN1142D2 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/45840c829447f4acd25a37903c55aa2e631a463df36bed30b300c271f2c4e219.json |
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"Reuters Editorial"
] | 2016-08-27T19:02:32 | null | 2016-08-27T16:55:08 | The Kansas City area was flooded late Friday after a three-day downpour, forcing emergency services to conduct about 10 water rescues in Missouri's largest city, officials said. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-missouri-weather-idUSKCN1120NO%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DtopNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FtopNews%2B%2528News%2B%252F%2BUS%2B%252F%2BTop%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/rcom-default.png | en | null | Kansas City area hit by floods after three days of downpour | null | null | www.reuters.com | The Kansas City area was flooded late Friday after a three-day downpour, forcing emergency services to conduct about 10 water rescues in Missouri's largest city, officials said.
News photos showed vehicles stopped or abandoned as flood waters swelled across streets. No injuries nor fatalities were reported.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency notice to the Kansas City area for the first time ever on Friday night that went into Saturday morning.
The flooding had receded within the urban center later on Saturday, but rivers in more rural regions north of the city were still overflowing, said Dan Hawblitzel, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Kansas City.
Rains and some thunderstorms were forecast in parts of the region on Saturday, but were not expected to cause further flooding, Hawblitzel said.
Widespread precipitation in the region had brought anywhere from 3 to 8 inches of rainfall to the city since Wednesday, causing waterways in the region including the Missouri River to overflow, Hawblitzel said.
"Some parts of the city received more rain last night than they had seen all summer long," he said in a phone interview, noting it was the first time the weather service had issued a flash flood emergency for the region since it began such notices in the past decade.
Kansas City's Fire Chief Paul Berardi posted the emergency warning on Twitter late Friday, adding the department was conducting water rescues in three parts of the city.
A spokeswoman for the Johnson County Emergency Management office on Saturday said they had received reports of approximately 10 water rescues and had no reports of injuries or fatalities.
(Reporting by Chris Prentice in New York; Editing by Daniel Trotta and Bernard Orr) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-missouri-weather-idUSKCN1120NO?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/bf97ae1b6d5a912609ed19037860ada43505edf3e6d78ede6e9262e32059205e.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:19:57 | null | 2016-08-19T15:07:39 | An artists' collective took credit for exposing Donald Trump to unflattering scrutiny on Thursday, saying it was responsible for a life-sized nude statue of the Republican presidential candidate that turned up in a New York City park. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-election-trump-statues-idUSKCN10T2D0%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DoddlyEnoughNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FoddlyEnoughNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BOddly%2BEnough%2529.json | http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160818&t=2&i=1150226988&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7H1CJ | en | null | Naked Trump statues draw dozens of onlookers in U.S. cities | null | null | www.reuters.com | People photograph a naked statue of Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
People photograph a naked statue of Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park in New York. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
New York City Parks workers move a naked statue of Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
A woman touches a naked statue of Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
New York City Parks workers place a naked statue of Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park onto a truck. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
People pose for selfies with a naked statue of Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park in New York City. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
NEW YORK An artists' collective took credit for exposing Donald Trump to unflattering scrutiny on Thursday, saying it was responsible for a life-sized nude statue of the Republican presidential candidate that turned up in a New York City park.
Copies of the orange-tinted likeness - featuring a massive belly, small fingers and missing some genital parts - were simultaneously unveiled in downtown Manhattan's Union Square Park and public places in four other U.S. cities.
The collective titled the work "The Emperor Has No Balls."
In New York, the unauthorized installation appeared to surprise passers-by - prompting stares, giggles and shrugs of bemusement from park visitors.
Ina Cope, a 58-year-old retiree from the Bronx borough of New York, said she was not expecting to see the Trump statue when she got off the subway to meet a friend for lunch.
"It was crazy: I was coming off the train, minding my own business, and there it was," she said, laughing.
By early afternoon, workers from New York's Department of Parks and Recreation had taken down the statue.
Mae Ferguson, a Parks Department spokeswoman, said the statue was removed because the installation of any unapproved structure is illegal in any city park.
The activist collective, a group called INDECLINE that includes artists, musicians and filmmakers, claimed ownership of the work, saying in an email that the statues were also placed in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Cleveland. It said an artist called Ginger helped create the likeness.
"These fleeting installations represent this fleeting nightmare and in the fall, it is our wish to look back and laugh at Donald Trump's failed and delusional quest to obtain the presidency," INDECLINE said in a statement.
A Trump spokeswoman did not respond immediately to an email with a request for comment.
(Reporting by Chris Prentice in New York; Editing by Frank McGurty and Jonathan Oatis) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-statues-idUSKCN10T2D0?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FoddlyEnoughNews+%28Reuters+Oddly+Enough%29 | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/f0d0551559a9013859894580cb1c634ee279d6359ef8a0ac0320c98dd1747182.json |
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* Dynasty reports financial results for the six and three months ended June 30, 2016
* Tonnage mined during Q2 of 2016 was only 3,860 tonnes, a decrease of 15,723 tonnes compared to previous quarter
* Ongoing labour situation at Zaruma mine impacted production for Q2 of 2016
* Qtrly loss per share $0.11 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: | http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSASC094XS?type=companyNews&feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FcompanyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Company+News%29 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/3f06995fda7d11aad204132d528ce0cc7c98e5cfd73381b05d588bd7e1ade5f9.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T15:04:15 | null | 2016-08-26T14:45:05 | Turkey opens one of the world's biggest suspension bridges on Friday, creating a new link between two continents with the latest megaproject in a $200 billion building spree that President Tayyip Erdogan hopes will secure his place in history. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-turkey-bridge-idUSKCN1111QZ%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DworldNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2BReuters%252FworldNews%2B%2528Reuters%2BWorld%2BNews%2529.json | http://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160826&t=2&i=1151183144&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7P11Z | en | null | Turkey opens bridge between continents in megaproject drive | null | null | www.reuters.com | Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan greets the crowd during the opening ceremony of newly built Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge, the third bridge over the Bosphorus linking the city's European and Asian sides, in Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
A riot police stands guard during the opening ceremony of newly built Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge, the third bridge over the Bosphorus linking the city's European and Asian sides in Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan greets the crowd during the opening ceremony of newly built Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge, the third bridge over the Bosphorus linking the city's European and Asian sides, in Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
Newly built Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge, the third bridge over the Bosphorus linking the city's European and Asian sides is pictured with a Turkish flag during the opening ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
Newly built Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge, the third bridge over the Bosphorus linking the city's European and Asian sides, is pictured during the opening ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
GARIPCE, Turkey Turkey opens one of the world's biggest suspension bridges on Friday, creating a new link between two continents with the latest megaproject in a $200 billion building spree that President Tayyip Erdogan hopes will secure his place in history.
The bridge across the Bosphorus Strait, which divides Asia and Europe, is built in the style of New York's Brooklyn Bridge and boasts pylons higher than the Eiffel Tower. It is 1.4 km (0.9 mile) long and 59 meters wide, with eight vehicle lanes and two high-speed rail lines.
Erdogan is seeking to use such projects to drive economic growth and secure a place as Turkey's most significant leader since the modern republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
"Be proud of your power, Turkey," said a TV advert before the opening of the $3 billion Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge on the edge of Istanbul. It is named after a 16th-century Ottoman ruler.
Erdogan's infrastructure drive is transforming Europe's biggest city, which straddles the Bosphorus Strait. In a little more than a decade, Istanbul's skyline has soared, new highways have been built, and the length of the metro tripled.
But Turkey's stellar economic growth has slowed since 2011 and it could face difficulties attracting investment following an attempted coup last month, which led to a purge by the government that has seen tens of thousands of people in the military, judiciary, civil service and education being detained, suspended or placed under investigation.
The country has also been hit by attacks this summer by Islamic State on a wedding party and Istanbul airport, while the Turkish army's incursion this week in Syria to curb jihadist and Kurdish forces has unsettled nerves.
But Erdogan - whose government announced a $200 billion, decade-long infrastructure investment plan three years ago - has vowed the months of turmoil will not hold back planned megaprojects. He is due to attend Friday's bridge opening.
The Yavuz Sultan Selim, which runs from the Garipce area on Istanbul's European side to the region of Poyrazkoy on the Asian side, is the third bridge to span the Bosphorus Strait and can withstand winds of 300 km an hour. It ranks among the world's biggest suspension bridges, in terms of width of deck, height of pylons as well as length of span.
It has been built by Italy's Astaldi and Istanbul-based IC Ictas which will jointly operate it for about a decade.
Officials say the bridge will ease congestion in a city of 14 million people, reduce fuel costs and save workers time.
Environmentalists say the project threatens Istanbul's last forestland and will contaminate water supplies. Some economists warn the costs of such large-scale building is unsustainable.
BRIDGE 'IS SYMBOL'
Turkey closed deals to secure $45 billion in private infrastructure investment last year, absorbing 40 percent of the global total, according to the World Bank.
Other planned megaprojects include the world's biggest airport in Istanbul and a huge canal that would render a large chunk of the city an island.
Such undertakings trumpet Turkey's regional clout and drive the economy, Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan told Reuters near the bridge site at Garipce. Construction accounts for 6 percent of output and employs 2 million people.
"Turkey, by virtue of its geography, bridges Asia and Europe, the Balkans and the Caucasus, but to benefit from this position, we need arteries and corridors," he told Reuters. "There is money to be made by easing transportation between Europe and Asia, and this is why we are doing these projects."
As Arslan spoke, workers scaled the bridge's gleaming white steel cables. Some 300 meters below, crude tankers rumbled north through the Bosphorus, one of the world's busiest oil transit points, connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
Each day, 650 new cars hit Istanbul's roads, Arslan said, making it the word's third-most congested city and increasing travel times by 50 percent, according to TomTom Traffic Index.
The bridge "is a symbol and much like Turkey a gateway", said Paolo Astaldi, chairman of Astaldi which owns a third of the joint venture. "It not only alleviates traffic in Istanbul, it speeds movement of goods across Turkey and, as Syria stabilises, the importance of the link will increase."
Under a build-operate-transfer model, the consortium receives the toll crossing fees for vehicles using the hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge - $3 for cars and $15 for trucks. The government guarantees the firms will receive, as a minimum, the toll income from 135,000 cars a day, though the actual number expected to use the bridge is expected to be higher.
Planned Turkish megaprojects, if realized, may add 10 to 15 percentage points in the next five years to the debt-to-GDP ratio, now 33 percent due to a wide current-account deficit, said Atilla Yesilada, an analyst at Global Source Partners.
"You're trying to stimulate sagging growth with a surge in infrastructure, but you have a savings problem. There comes a point when the international community won't lend to you."
ISTANBUL'S 'LUNGS'
The bridge is part of a network of 215 km of transit roads for freight to bypass Istanbul, Arslan said, reiterating a government pledge to protect the area from housing development.
Yet realtors in nearby fishing and farming villages report a fourfold rise in land prices, and activists in the Northern Forests Defence campaign group believe the real aim is to erect new suburbs.
"Transit makes up 3 percent of total traffic, so it won't mitigate traffic jams," said Cihan Baysal of the Northern Forests Defence. "This opens up hitherto pristine lands to more construction projects, because Turkey's economy depends on construction ... which paradoxically exacerbates traffic jams."
The new roads seared gashes through forestland. Arslan said that while 380,000 trees were felled, 2.5 million were planted.
"These forests are Istanbul's lungs," said Baysal, pointing to a court ruling the bridge lacked an environmental report.
Among other concerns are the fate of what media reports said were a trove of unexcavated antiquities in the construction area, including Paleolithic remains and a Byzantine jail.
The two older Bosphorus Strait bridges, crossed by 150 million vehicles a year, sparked protests in 1973 and 1988; now their silhouettes define the skyline.
Even the third bridge's name stirred controversy when it was announced at a 2013 ground-breaking ceremony. Selim I, known as Selim the Grim, expanded the Ottoman Empire to dominate the Middle East.
Many members of Turkey's Alevi community, whose faith draws from Shi'ite, Sufi and Anatolian traditions, say Selim slaughtered tens of thousands of their forebears. They unsuccessfully lobbied to change the bridge's name.
(Editing by Edmund Blair and Pravin Char) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-bridge-idUSKCN1111QZ?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/39afb0d256f425f0b3e084f3eb379e02b519d6d80591e83ad0eb411a63ad51bb.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T12:51:33 | null | 2016-08-31T12:38:31 | U.S. President Barack Obama will call on leaders from the Group of 20 to use fiscal policy and other tools to boost economic growth while reducing excess capacity at steel factories, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Wednesday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-g20-china-usa-idUSKCN1161MC%3FfeedType%3DRSS%26feedName%3DbusinessNews%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Breuters%252FbusinessNews%2B%2528Business%2BNews%2529.json | http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20160831&t=2&i=1151721330&w=&fh=545px&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXNPEC7U0X1 | en | null | U.S. to urge G20 to boost economies, pay attention to angry citizens | null | null | www.reuters.com | WASHINGTON U.S. President Barack Obama will call on leaders from the Group of 20 to use fiscal policy and other tools to boost economic growth while reducing excess capacity at steel factories, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Wednesday.
The United States will also urge the G20 group to pay more attention to angry and anxious citizens who feel left behind by the global economic recovery, Lew said in a preview of America's message to the Sept 4-5 summit in Hangzhou, China.
"There are very real concerns about globalization and technology, but the answer cannot be to close ourselves off," Lew said in prepared remarks at the Brookings Institution.
The G20 needs to find ways to boost the living standards of poor and middle-class families, Lew said. Obama will press G20 leaders to make banking services universally available, Lew said.
The U.S. president also will urge more countries to launch reviews of fuel subsidy programs, part of a commitment at the G20 to phase out inefficient programs supporting fuel purchases.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) | http://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-china-usa-idUSKCN1161MC?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FbusinessNews+%28Business+News%29 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.reuters.com/491041ad6342614c3a09d1d45d2d3fc37a1040f7c72a473c338b6b1793ee6aa1.json |
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