VIDEO: Air France crash report awaited

VIDEO: Air France crash report awaited

VIDEO: Air France crash report awaited

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:02 PM PDT

The final report is due to be released into the crash on an Air France airliner in June 2009, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil, killing 228 people.


Mexico recounts votes from over half of polling booths

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:02 PM PDT

An electoral worker recounts votes at a district office of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's election officials on Wednesday recounted votes from more than half the polling booths in Sunday's presidential and congressional elections, responding to claims of fraud and requests for recounts in areas where the race was tight. Officials with the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) said the recount would not significantly change preliminary results of the presidential vote, which showed Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) winning with more than 38 percent of the vote, 6.5 points clear of his nearest rival. ...

New food crisis looms in Somalia: aid agency

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:20 PM PDT

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A deadly combination of conflict, poor rainfall and a predicted late harvest threatens to push hundreds of thousands of Somalis back into hunger, undermining aid efforts put in place during last year's drought, Save the Children warned on Thursday.

VIDEO: Laser show to mark London's Shard

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 10:52 PM PDT

The Shard will be officially inaugurated later today with a light show across London


VIDEO: Air France crash report awaited

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:02 PM PDT

The final report is due to be released into the crash on an Air France airliner in June 2009, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil, killing 228 people.


Japan nuclear disaster was 'man-made'

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:16 PM PDT

The accident at Fukushima last year was not only due to the tsunami, a parliamentary panel said in final report.


Final report due on 2009 Air France crash

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 10:51 PM PDT

French officials to issue report on mid-Atlantic crash that killed 228 people amid row between Airbus and Air France.


Apple App Store Encryption Glitch Causes Many New App Updates To Crash, See List

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:15 PM PDT

Many people who have downloaded new apps, or installed recently updated apps on their iOS device or Macintosh computer have had them crash immediately on launch. The issue seems to be that the original app files get corrupted through the encryption process.


Leaks Galore! More on the Inside Story of John Roberts' Obamacare Supreme Court Flip-Flop

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:07 PM PDT

Jan Crawford's blockbuster scoop, in which she suggests that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts caved to left-wing media pressure to uphold Obamacare, isn't the only account out there. We now have several competing accounts, one of which contradicts Crawford in alleging that Roberts wrote not only the majority opinion, but also the bulk of the dissent. "He is," quipped Benjy Sarlin, "the most interesting man in the world."


CalPERS $7.0 Billion Potential Health Insurance Bunker Buster

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:51 PM PDT

In the first part of the Health Insurance's $4.4 Billion Bunker Buster two-part series, I highlighted how the Medical Loss Ratio and Direct Primary Care facets of Obamacare would have far-reaching impacts beyond what most commentators have observed. Healthcare providers and plans (with a few exceptions) are still flat-footed on these critical [...]


Qliance

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:51 PM PDT

Qliance: Background on Direct Primary Care and positive results for Qliance


VIDEO: Pilgrims gather in Karbala

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:10 PM PDT

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have converged on the city of Karbala in southern Iraq to celebrate one of the most important figures in Shia Islam.


VIDEO: Pilgrims gather in Karbala

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:10 PM PDT

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have converged on the city of Karbala in southern Iraq to celebrate one of the most important figures in Shia Islam.


Malians protest rebel takeover of the north

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:00 PM PDT

Thousands gather in capital Bamako to protest Islamist takeover of immense northern region.


Mexico recounts votes from over half of polling booths

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:02 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's election officials on Wednesday recounted votes from more than half the polling booths in Sunday's presidential and congressional elections, responding to claims of fraud and requests for recounts in areas where the race was tight.

Mystery disease kills scores of Cambodia kids

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:05 PM PDT

World Health Organization says 61 of the 62 children admitted to hospitals with the illness have died.


Peru protest against Newmont leaves one dead, leader detained

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 07:44 PM PDT

Woman clashes with police during demonstrations against Newmont Mining project in downtown LimaLIMA (Reuters) - One person died and police detained one of the leaders of protests against Newmont's $5 billion gold mine in Peru on Wednesday, the day after clashes between police and protesters left three people dead and 21 injured. The second day of violence erupted in the northern region of Cajamarca as President Ollanta Humala came under criticism for suspending freedom of assembly in the area late on Tuesday. "One death has been confirmed, a civilian," Prime Minister Oscar Valdes told a press conference. ...

Amnesty slams China for Uighur crackdown three years after riots

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 07:37 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has detained and intimidated dozens of ethnic Uighurs in the far western region of Xinjiang for speaking out on rights abuses following riots in the regional capital three years ago, Amnesty International said. In July 2009, the capital city of Urumqi was rocked by violence between majority Han Chinese and minority Uighurs that killed nearly 200 people. Many of the Muslim Uighurs, who speak a Turkic language and call Xinjiang home, chafe at Beijing's rule. ...


Libor Rate Scandal Set to Spread

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 08:38 PM PDT

Former Barclays chief Robert Diamond was assailed by British lawmakers for a mushrooming scandal over interest-rate manipulation, in a preview of the scrutiny likely to lie ahead for other big lenders that are under investigation.


U.K. Scandal Unleashes a Political Backlash

Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:53 PM PDT

Britain's latest banking scandal is creating collateral damage for many figures in the U.K. political establishment, underscoring a deep distrust of banking executives among the British public.


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