Japan approves 2 reactor restarts, more seen ahead

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• Japan approves 2 reactor restarts, more seen ahead
• Cuba: Health of jailed American Alan Gross is "normal"
• Japan to restart two nuclear reactors
• Cuba: Health of jailed American Alan Gross is "normal"
• Shares In Hong Kong Cosmetics Leader Sa Sa Climb 2.2% As Profit, Sales Soar
• A Revolution Quashed by Politics
• Japan OKs restart of 1st reactors since tsunami
• Hurricane Carlotta makes landfall in Mexico
• Japan approves 2 reactor restarts, more seen ahead
• American imprisoned in Nicaragua: 'I'm 100 percent innocent'
• Save Yourself From A Depressing Retirement
• Who Got Rich This Week: Vera Bradley's Daughter, A Foreign Exchanger And More
• Mexico cancels big tourism project after civic pressure
• Myanmar refugees turned back by Bangladesh: U.N.
• Europe Is Unraveling, While U.S. and Canada Grow Closer
• New Jersey to Consider Millionaire's Tax... Again
• Can The Times-Picayune's New Business Model Work?
• Seventeen killed in violent land eviction in Paraguay
• Colombia, Costa Rica to sign trade agreement
• Feds have interviewed more than 100 people in two leak investigations

Japan approves 2 reactor restarts, more seen ahead Posted: 15 Jun 2012 10:19 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Saturday approved the resumption of nuclear power operations at two reactors despite mass public opposition, the first to come back on line after they were all shut down following the Fukushima crisis. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, his popularity ratings sagging, had backed the restarts for some time. He announced the government's decision at a meeting with keep ministers, giving the go-ahead to two reactors operated by Kansai Electric Power Co at Ohi in western Japan. ...

Cuba: Health of jailed American Alan Gross is "normal" Posted: 15 Jun 2012 10:15 PM PDT HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba on Friday disputed charges that jailed American contractor Alan Gross is in declining health and demanded an end to what it called a "campaign of fabrications" implying that he is being mistreated. The government issued a statement in response to allegations by his lawyer and the U.S. government that Gross, 63, was suffering from a variety of worsening conditions about which the Cubans were withholding information. "Mr. Alan Gross' health is normal. He has chronic conditions typical of someone his age, and is being properly treated for them," the statement said. ...

Japan to restart two nuclear reactors Posted: 15 Jun 2012 10:19 PM PDT First reactors to go online since last year's Fukushima disaster to avert power shortages, despite public opposition.

Cuba: Health of jailed American Alan Gross is "normal" Posted: 15 Jun 2012 10:15 PM PDT HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba on Friday disputed charges that jailed American contractor Alan Gross is in declining health and demanded an end to what it called a "campaign of fabrications" implying that he is being mistreated.

Shares In Hong Kong Cosmetics Leader Sa Sa Climb 2.2% As Profit, Sales Soar Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:32 PM PDT Shares in Sa Sa International Holdings, Hong Kong largest specialty cosmetics chain, rose 2.2% on Friday after the company reported a more than one-third rise in net profit for the 12 months ending March 31. Sa Sa also warned, however, that its growth rate in the coming year "is expected to slow down" owing to ...

A Revolution Quashed by Politics Posted: 15 Jun 2012 10:21 PM PDT Egypt's Arab Spring revolution, which toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, has stalled in a quagmire of divide-and-conquer politics, leaving the country's revolutionaries splintered and disillusioned.

Japan OKs restart of 1st reactors since tsunami Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:20 PM PDT Japan's government on Saturday approved bringing the country's first nuclear reactors back online since last year's earthquake and tsunami led to a shutdown of reactors nationwide.

Hurricane Carlotta makes landfall in Mexico Posted: 15 Jun 2012 09:08 PM PDT Hurricane Carlotta slammed into Mexico's resort-studded Pacific coast late Friday, toppling trees and lashing hotels while authorities evacuated people from low-lying areas.

Japan approves 2 reactor restarts, more seen ahead Posted: 15 Jun 2012 10:36 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Saturday approved the resumption of nuclear power operations at two reactors despite mass public opposition, the first to come back on line after they were all shut down following the Fukushima crisis.

American imprisoned in Nicaragua: 'I'm 100 percent innocent' Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:13 PM PDT An American being held in a Nicaraguan prison said he is innocent and described his treatment in a "hellhole" in an exclusive phone interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.

Save Yourself From A Depressing Retirement Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:01 PM PDT A new book, The Retirement Maze, explores tactics to help improve well-being during retirement.

Who Got Rich This Week: Vera Bradley's Daughter, A Foreign Exchanger And More Posted: 15 Jun 2012 07:53 PM PDT Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the stock market. With the Dow up a shocking 1.5% over last??Friday, the markets have managed??what no one saw coming: a winning streak of sorts, with all three major indices finishing in the black for??the ...

Mexico cancels big tourism project after civic pressure Posted: 15 Jun 2012 08:06 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced the cancellation of a $2 billion tourist development in Baja California on Friday, bowing to opposition by environmentalists that said the plan was a threat to a nearby coral reef.

Myanmar refugees turned back by Bangladesh: U.N. Posted: 15 Jun 2012 10:22 PM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - An unknown number of people fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar's Rakhine region are adrift in boats on the Naf River and some have been turned back by Bangladeshi border authorities, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.

Europe Is Unraveling, While U.S. and Canada Grow Closer Posted: 15 Jun 2012 07:40 PM PDT While Europe grapples with a deep economic crisis and doubts about the future of its common currency, the United States and Canada are reaffirming their shared economic interests with a uniquely structured deal to build an international bridge near . The new bridge spanning the River between the Motor City and Windsor, Ont., will create ...

New Jersey to Consider Millionaire's Tax... Again Posted: 15 Jun 2012 07:24 PM PDT If, at first you don?t succeed, try, try again. And again. And potentially, again. Despite being spurned not once but twice with vetoes from New Jersey Governor Christie (R), Democrats in the New Jersey Assembly are trying again to impose a ?millionaire?s tax? in the state. The proposal would increase the tax rate by nearly ...

Can The Times-Picayune's New Business Model Work? Posted: 15 Jun 2012 07:16 PM PDT Four years ago, Jeff Jarvis did a thought experiment. What if you had free rein to build a digital newroom, without needing to retain the traditional structures of newspapers or other legacy media? This newsroom starts with 100 employees. It will be cut 30%. How do you redistribute your resources, given new tools and digital ...

Seventeen killed in violent land eviction in Paraguay Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:53 PM PDT ASUNCION (Reuters) - At least eight police officers and nine peasant farmers were killed in armed clashes on Friday during a land eviction in Paraguay, marking one of the worst such incidents in the country for two decades. Leftist President Fernando Lugo deployed troops to support local police. He ruled out any links between the incident and the Paraguayan People's Army, a small leftist group that has staged a series of raids on rural police posts in recent years. ...

Colombia, Costa Rica to sign trade agreement Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:05 PM PDT SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Presidents Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica and Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia agreed on Friday to start negotiations for a free trade agreement between their two countries. Santos said he expects the agreement to be ready for the leaders to sign at the end of this year and would then require approval from both congresses. "We trust that the declaration signed today will allow us to work towards joint aspirations, such as joining the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)," said Chinchilla in a press conference after the meeting. ...

Feds have interviewed more than 100 people in two leak investigations Posted: 15 Jun 2012 06:36 PM PDT Federal authorities have interviewed more than 100 people in two separate investigations into the public disclosure of classified national security information, the start of a process that could take months or even years, according to officials familiar with the probes. Read full article >>

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