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| Global warming dials up our risks, UN report says Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 08:26 PM PDT  YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — If the world doesn't cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," the head of a United Nations scientific panel warned Monday. Full Story | Top |
| In Kentucky, Obamacare's success did nothing to change the politics of the law Monday, Mar 31, 2014 03:56 AM PDT  In one of the poorest areas of Appalachia, about 2,500 people have signed up to get health insurance over the last six months — a number that represents more than a tenth of Clay County's residents. Full Story | Top |
| Koreas trade fire; island residents in shelters Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:33 PM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other's waters Monday in a flare-up of animosity that forced residents of five front-line South Korean islands to evacuate to shelters for several hours, South Korean officials said. Full Story | Top |
| Health care website stumbles on last day Monday, Mar 31, 2014 10:52 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says a new technical problem briefly prevented last-minute users from signing up on the government's health insurance website. The new problem comes as traffic is surging on deadline day. Full Story | Top |
| Ocean garbage frustrates search for Flight 370 Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:02 AM PDT  Sometimes the object spotted in the water is a snarled fishing line. Or a buoy. Or something that might once have been the lid to an ice box. Not once — not yet at least — has it been a clue. Anticipation ... Full Story | Top |
| SKorea fires shells at NKorean waters after drills Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 10:07 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Monday returned fire into North Korean waters after shells from a North Korean live-fire drill fell south of the rivals' disputed western sea boundary, a South Korean military official said. Residents on a front-line South Korean island said they were evacuated to shelters during the exchange. Full Story | Top |
| Top UN court orders Japan to end Antarctic whale hunt Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:49 AM PDT  The United Nations' top court on Monday ordered Japan to end its annual Antarctic whale hunt, saying in a landmark ruling that the programme was a commercial activity disguised as science. Tokyo said it would honour the ruling shortly after it was handed down at the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ), but did not rule out the possibility of future whaling programmes. "Japan shall revoke any existent authorisation, permit or licence granted in relation to JARPA II (research programme) and refrain from granting any further permits," ICJ presiding judge Peter Tomka ordered. Tokyo was accused of exploiting a legal loophole in the 1986 ban on commercial whaling that allowed the practice to collect scientific data. Full Story | Top |
| Hourslong protest turns to 'mayhem' in Albuquerque Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:21 AM PDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque's mayor said that a more than 10-hour protest over recent police shootings turned from peaceful into "mayhem," as officers in riot gear clashed with hundreds of protesters who blocked traffic, tried to get on freeways and shouted anti-police slogans. Full Story | Top |
| Yellowstone National Park rattled by largest earthquake in 34 years Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 05:49 PM PDT  The latest earthquake struck at 6:34 a.m. near the Norris Geyser Basin and was felt about 23 miles away in two small Montana towns adjacent to year-around entrances to the park - Gardiner and West Yellowstone. The national park spans 3,472 square miles (8,992 square km) of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and draws about 3 million visitors each year to its iconic geysers and wildlife attractions, including bison. A U.S. Geological Survey team planned to tour the Norris Geyser Basin on Sunday to determine if the quake altered any of Yellowstone's geothermal features, such as geysers, mud pots and hot springs. Several people reported having felt shaking they compared to the rumble of a tractor-trailer truck driving by, and a few items fell off the shelves at a local grocery store, a West Yellowstone police dispatcher said. Full Story | Top |
| Is Walking Just as Good as Running? Monday, Mar 31, 2014 05:56 AM PDT A May 2013 study by researchers in the Life Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory looked at data from 33,000 runners and nearly 16,000 walkers to compare the relative health benefits of each activity. To be sure, both walking and running had positive effects. When the researchers checked in with participants six years after the start of the study, they found that running significantly reduced the risk of high blood pressure (by 4.2 percent), high cholesterol (4.3 percent), diabetes (12.1 percent) and cardiovascular heart disease (4.5 percent), for every MET h/d, which is a standard measure of metabolic energy expenditure. Walking decreased risk by 7.2 percent for high blood pressure, 7 percent for high cholesterol, 12.3 percent for diabetes and 9.3 percent for cardiovascular heart disease. Full Story | Top |
| Paris gets first female mayor as concierge bites back Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 06:42 PM PDT  It was a victory to savour. As she bid to become the first female mayor of Paris, Spanish-born Socialist Anne Hidalgo had to endure taunts from her opponents about her modest origins and lack of Parisian roots. Hidalgo had been expected to be run extremely close by her centre-right rival, glamorous former minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, on a night when the Socialists took a beating from voters across the country because of the unpopularity of President Francois Hollande's government. But Hidalgo emerged with nearly 55 percent of second-round votes in the capital, comfortably seeing off Kosciusko-Morizet's challenge. Full Story | Top |
| US, Russia talks fail to end Ukraine deadlock Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 10:39 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — The U.S. and Russia are advancing far different proposals on how to calm tensions and de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine as Russia continues to mass troops along its border with the former Soviet republic. Full Story | Top |
| Russian prime minister angers Ukraine by visiting Crimea Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:09 AM PDT  By Darya Korsunskaya SIMFEROPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev flaunted Russia's grip on Crimea by flying to the region and holding a government meeting there on Monday, angering Ukraine and defying Western demands to hand the peninsula back to Kiev. But in a gesture that could ease tension in the worst East-West stand-off since the Cold War, Russia pulled some troops back from near Ukraine's eastern border. President Vladimir Putin told Germany's Angela Merkel that he had ordered a partial drawdown in the region, the German chancellor's spokesman said. ... Full Story | Top |
| GOP opposition to Obamacare baffles Dr. Sullivan Monday, Mar 31, 2014 03:00 AM PDT Commentary: former HHS Secretary Sullivan says Obamacare resembles plan crafted by Republicans. Full Story | Top |
| Obamacare Enrolled Millions in Health Care, but It Is Still Only Loved by Democrats Monday, Mar 31, 2014 08:34 AM PDT  As new reports show that Obamacare is the largest healthcare expansion in 50 years, it faces a weird political problem: conservatives hate it far more than the left likes it. According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gained insurance through Obamacare, and less than a million people whose plans were cancelled are now currently uninsured. That figure includes a third of the people who bought private plans through the exchanges, part of the 4.5 million estimated to to have enrolled in Medicaid and a small portion of the 9 million people who bought plans directly from their insurers. It's a number that flat out debunks one of the GOP's biggest talking points, that the health care law has actually led to a net decrease in insurance. Full Story | Top |
| GOP has built-in advantage in fight for US House Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:59 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Even if Democrats recruit great candidates, raise gobs of money and run smart campaigns, they face an uphill fight to retake control of the House in this year's congressional elections, regardless of the political climate in November. Full Story | Top |
| Josh Elliot Leaves GMA Via Passive-Aggressive Memo Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 05:03 PM PDT  Josh Elliot is leaving Good Morning America, where he's been a news anchor since 2011, for NBC Sports. While it seems like a downgrade to go from ABC's morning show to NBC's sports arm, it was apparently Elliot's choice. ABC News president Ben Sherwood made this pretty clear in his memo announcing Elliot's move: Josh Elliott let us know today that he is going to NBC Sports. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry, Russian counterpart meet on Ukraine crisis Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 02:39 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Russia on Sunday set out demands for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Ukraine, saying the former Soviet republic should be unified in a federation allowing wide autonomy to its various regions as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in Paris in another bid to calm tensions. Full Story | Top |
| US, Russia offer differing solutions on Ukraine Monday, Mar 31, 2014 05:02 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are advancing far different proposals on how to calm tensions and de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine as Russia continues to mass troops along its border with the former Soviet republic. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry to Mideast at critical point in peace talks Monday, Mar 31, 2014 08:55 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry rushed to the Middle East on Monday for a surprise visit aimed at rescuing his Mideast diplomatic efforts, as peace talks approached a critical make-or-break point. Full Story | Top |
| Scale of Guinea's Ebola epidemic unprecedented: aid agency Monday, Mar 31, 2014 07:43 AM PDT By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic on an unprecedented scale as it battles to contain confirmed cases now scattered across several locations that are far apart, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Monday. The warning from an organization used to tackling Ebola in Central Africa comes after Guinea's president appealed for calm as the number of deaths linked to an outbreak on the border with Liberia and Sierra Leone hit 80. The outbreak of one of the world's most lethal infectious diseases has spooked a number of governments with weak health systems, prompting Senegal to close its border with Guinea and other neighbors to restrict travel and cross-border exchanges. Figures released overnight by Guinea's health ministry showed that there had been 78 deaths from 122 cases of suspected Ebola since January, up from 70. Full Story | Top |
| 11 ancient burial boxes recovered in Israel Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:59 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities on Monday unveiled 11 ancient burial boxes dating to around the time of Jesus, recovered by police during a midnight raid on suspected antiquities dealers. Full Story | Top |
| Israel hands Palestinians proposal to extend peace talks Monday, Mar 31, 2014 01:45 AM PDT  Israel has handed the Palestinians a proposal aimed at extending peace talks beyond an April 29 deadline, as efforts to salvage the negotiations came to a head. The fate of the US-brokered peace process could be decided within days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier, warning that "either the matter will be resolved or it will blow up". Netanyahu's remarks to ministers from his rightwing Likud party came as US officials were working around the clock to prevent a collapse of the negotiations over a dispute about Palestinian prisoners. "In any case, there won't be any deal without Israel knowing clearly what it will get in exchange," Netanyahu said. Full Story | Top |
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Daily News: Reuters Business News Headlines - Telus names new CEO, Entwistle stays on as executive chairman
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| Telus names new CEO, Entwistle stays on as executive chairman Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:57 PM PDT By Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian telecommunications company Telus Corp shuffled its top ranks on Monday, with Chief Executive Officer Darren Entwistle set to become executive chairman and long-time lieutenant Joe Natale due to replace him. Analysts were broadly positive about the promotion of Natale, who is currently Telus' chief commercial officer, though Entwistle is expected to remain active in his new role. ... Full Story | Top |
| Republican Paul Ryan to unveil U.S. budget plan on Tuesday Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:53 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Paul Ryan on Tuesday plans to unveil a 10-year balanced budget plan that seeks to bolster Republicans' campaign credentials as the party of fiscal prudence but also leaves them open to fresh attacks over deep cuts to social programs. The House Budget Committee, which Ryan chairs, said in a statement that it has scheduled a vote on a budget resolution on Wednesday. Under House rules, the document must be made public at least 24 hours before it can be considered by a committee. ... Full Story | Top |
| FCA's handling of insurance review 'not finest hour' Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:30 PM PDT  By Huw Jones and Chris Vellacott LONDON (Reuters) - The UK financial watchdog's handling of information that sparked a slump in insurance company shares was not its "finest hour," its chief executive said following criticism from an influential lawmaker. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) boss Martin Wheatley said on Monday he takes responsibility for what happens at the regulator after Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of parliament's Treasury Committee, described the watchdog's actions as an "extraordinary blunder". ... Full Story | Top |
| Macy's head merchant promoted to president Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:28 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Macy's Inc on Monday said that Chief Merchandising Officer Jeffrey Gennette has been named president of the department store chain, effectively immediately. In addition to continuing to serving as the retailer's chief merchant, Gennette will oversee marketing and e-commerce at Macy's namesake chain. He will also take on oversight of Macy's in-house brands. Gennette, 52, has been Macy's chief merchant since 2009. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. allows partial restart of Exxon pipeline a year after spill Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:17 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. regulator on Monday allowed Exxon Mobil Corp to restart operations on the Texas leg of its Pegasus pipeline, which spilled thousands of barrels of oil into a residential area in Arkansas last year. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) approved Exxon's restart plan for a 210-mile (338-km) stretch of the pipeline from Corsicana to Nederland at 80 percent of the operating pressure in place before the March 29, 2013 incident in the small town of Mayflower, Arkansas. ... Full Story | Top |
| N.Y. regulators say MetLife to pay $60 million for violations Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:14 PM PDT  By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - Insurer MetLife will pay $60 million because two subsidiaries solicited insurance business in New York without a license, New York authorities said on Monday. Investigations by the state's Department of Financial Services and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office found that MetLife subsidiaries ALICO and DelAm, bought from AIG in 2010, misrepresented their business activities to regulators. An investigation is ongoing into violations by AIG and its subsidiaries on conduct before the MetLife purchase, Benjamin Lawsky, the state's top financial regulator, said in a statement. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in a statement that the two subsidiaries used Manhattan-based staff to solicit insurance business even though neither company was licensed to do so in New York. Full Story | Top |
| NHTSA chief says agency did not have evidence to warrant GM probe Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration did not have enough evidence to open a formal investigation into defective ignition switches in General Motors cars, NHTSA acting Administrator David Friedman said in prepared testimony to Congress. Friedman, who will testify on Tuesday before a House of Representatives panel, said GM "had critical information that would have helped identify this defect," which is linked to 13 deaths and has prompted the recall of 2.6 million GM cars. ... Full Story | Top |
| Canada's Toyota workers poised to vote on joining union Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:06 PM PDT  By Susan Taylor and Solarina Ho TORONTO (Reuters) - Workers at Toyota Motor Corp's Canadian plants are set to vote next week on whether to become the first at wholly owned Toyota facilities in North America to unionize, a push Canada's biggest private-sector union is confident will succeed. A "yes" vote would mark a major victory for the union, Unifor, which has more than 300,000 members, including more than 39,000 in the auto industry, even though previous attempts to organize Toyota's Canadian plants failed. "There's no question, there will be a lot of eyes on this drive," Unifor President Jerry Dias said at a press conference on Monday, where he was flanked by Toyota employees who said they wanted a bigger say in their workplace. Unifor, which filed for union certification at Toyota with the Ontario labor board on Monday, said it did not want to say exactly how many workers have signed union cards, citing strategy. Full Story | Top |
| Proxy adviser Glass Lewis backs Recchi as chairman of Telecom Italia Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:02 PM PDT  Proxy advisor Glass Lewis has recommended that Telecom Italia investors vote in favor of Giuseppe Recchi as chairman of the board when shareholders meet on April 16, it said in a document seen by Reuters. Telecom Italia's largest investor Telco said earlier this month it had proposed Recchi as chairman of Italy's largest phone group. Recchi is a former executive at General Electric and is currently chairman of Italian state-owned oil group Eni. Telco is owned by Spain's Telefonica, Italian insurer Generali and two banks, Intesa Sanpaolo and Mediobanca, and owns 22.4 percent of Telecom Italia. Full Story | Top |
| GM engineer OK'd sub-standard ignition switch: documents Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:01 PM PDT  WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - A General Motors engineer signed off on a design change for troubled ignition switches even though those changes did not meet company standards, according to documents provided to a U.S. House of Representatives panel. The disclosure appeared to conflict with information provided by GM engineer Ray DeGiorgio during 2013 legal proceedings surrounding the company's defective ignition switches that are linked to 13 deaths. ... Full Story | Top |
| Barrick announces new pay scheme, may add two directors Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:57 AM PDT  By Allison Martell TORONTO (Reuters) - Barrick Gold Corp unveiled a new executive compensation plan on Monday, and lead director J. Brett Harvey said the company might select two new board members after its annual meeting. Under the plan, effective for 2014, the majority of top executives' compensation will be awarded in units that convert into Barrick shares and cannot be sold until the executive retires or leaves the company. The new pay plan, detailed in a regulatory filing, is Barrick's latest move to improve governance after a series of missteps in a tough market angered investors. ... Full Story | Top |
| Royal Opera sets accent on youth for cut-rate opening night Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:55 AM PDT  By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - The Royal Opera will slash ticket prices to appeal to students and young people and will revive the racy modern opera "Anna Nicole" for its season opener in September in what management said was a bid to knock this stuffing out of galas. All tickets in the house, whose 2,200 seats can go for as much as 200 pounds ($330), will be priced from 1 pound to 25 pounds for the opening night on September 11 and will be sold through the opera's student standby scheme and in conjunction with a music venue that works with young people, the ROH said. "I think it's fantastic to have a season opening gala which is something that sounds stuffy and elitist to actually be a night where we celebrate new work...and is celebrated by selling the whole house to students and young people," the ROH's Director of Opera Kasper Holten told Reuters on Monday. Music Director Antonio Pappano, whose contract the ROH announced was being extended until at least the end of 2017, will conduct English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera based on the life of the Playboy centerfold who married an oil billionaire. Full Story | Top |
| Deutsche puts FX sales director in London on leave: source Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:53 AM PDT  Deutsche Bank AG, the world's largest currency trader, has placed on leave a director of institutional foreign exchange sales as part of an internal investigation into potential exchange rate manipulation, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. Kai Lew, based in London and responsible for central bank FX business at the German lender, was placed on leave earlier this month, the source said. She is the first woman among some 30 currency traders at several big banks to be placed on leave, suspended or fired as a result of the ongoing global probe into alleged wrongdoing in the $5.3 trillion-a-day market, the world's largest. A spokeswoman for Deutsche declined to comment, referring Reuters to a previous statement from the bank that read: "Deutsche Bank has received requests for information from regulatory authorities that are investigating trading in the foreign exchange market. Full Story | Top |
| Charlie Brooks hid his 'smut' to protect wife Rebekah Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:48 AM PDT  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Charlie Brooks, the husband of Rupert Murdoch's former British newspaper chief, told a London court on Monday he hid his porn collection from police investigating phone-hacking because he feared leaks to the press which would embarrass his wife. Brooks' wife Rebekah is on trial at London's Old Bailey accused of conspiracy to hack phones and authorising illegal payments to public officials. They are both accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice by hindering the police investigation. Rebekah Brooks was arrested in July 2011 at the height of a phone-hacking scandal that rocked Murdoch's News Corp. empire and shook Britain's political establishment. Full Story | Top |
| Wall Street rises on Yellen; S&P on track for modest first quarter gain Monday, Mar 31, 2014 11:48 AM PDT  By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Monday, with the S&P 500 on track to end the first quarter of 2014 with slight gains, after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen calmed concerns about a rate hike coming earlier than expected. Gains were broad, with nine of the S&P 500's 10 primary sectors rising on the day. Full Story | Top |
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