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| Toronto mayor Ford gets jay-walking ticket in Vancouver -reports Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 12:26 PM PST  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who gained global notoriety last year after admitting to smoking crack cocaine while in a "drunken stupor", was ticketed for jay-walking during a trip to Vancouver to attend a funeral, Canadian media reported on Saturday. The Toronto Sun newspaper said Ford confirmed he was issued a C$109 ($97.76) ticket on Friday night by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for disobeying a pedestrian sign. Full Story | Top |
| Former Chicago Mayor Daley in intensive care at hospital Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 12:23 PM PST  (Reuters) - Richard M. Daley, who was mayor of Chicago from 1989 to 2011, was in the intensive care unit of a Chicago hospital on Saturday after falling ill the day before, the hospital said. Northwestern Memorial Hospital said that Daley, 71, became ill after returning from a business trip in Arizona and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. "Mayor Daley's family is with him and they are visiting between tests." No further information was immediately available. Full Story | Top |
| Florida reviews thousands of drug cases for possible evidence tampering Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 10:37 AM PST  By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida's state police agency on Saturday announced a massive evidence review in thousands of drug cases handled by one crime-laboratory chemist, saying its findings could lead to some criminal cases being quashed and drug dealers set free. The chemist is suspected of taking illegal drugs out of evidence storage and replacing them with over-the-counter medication, the agency said. We don't know," Gerald Bailey, head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), said at a news conference. Full Story | Top |
| Shareholder DWS urges Lufthansa to appoint new CEO Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 08:20 AM PST  Deutsche Bank's fund management unit DWS is growing impatient with German airline Lufthansa's delay in appointing a new chief executive, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said. Henning Gebhardt, a fund manager at DWS, told the paper Lufthansa was taking too long to appoint a successor to Christoph Franz who said in September he would leave to join Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche . Full Story | Top |
| Thousands march in Madrid against planned abortion limits Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 07:57 AM PST  By Inmaculada Sanz MADRID (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched in Spain's capital on Saturday to protest against a government plan to limit abortions that has caused unusually open divisions in the ruling conservative People's Party. Protesters from around the country joined the biggest demonstration so far against a draft bill to restrict abortion to cases of rape or severe danger to the mother's health. Four years ago, Spain came in line with most of the rest of Europe when the then Socialist government legalised abortion on demand in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's cabinet approved the draft bill on abortion in December - in a move widely seen as an attempt to appease his party's disgruntled right wing - but it has not been submitted yet to parliament for debate. Full Story | Top |
| Khartoum stops Red Cross activities in Sudan: ICRC spokesman Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 06:26 AM PST Sudan's government has suspended the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the country, the organization said on Saturday without giving details of the reasons. The Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC), a government agency responsible for permitting, coordinating and monitoring the activities of aid organizations, told the ICRC on Wednesday its work would be suspended on February 1, Adel Sherif said. "We have stopped our work across all of Sudan," Sherif, spokesman for the ICRC in the country, told Reuters. The United States imposed sanctions on Sudan in 1997 over alleged human rights violations and support for "international terrorism", then strengthened the penalties in 2006 over Khartoum's festering conflict with rebels in Darfur. Full Story | Top |
| S.Africa's dogged dealmaker Joffe eyes Adcock victory Saturday, Feb 01, 2014 04:29 AM PST By David Dolan JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Brian Joffe, the hard-headed South African entrepreneur whose empire spans ships to mops, has a favourite saying: "Why go into business to test the waters? Go in to make waves." The 66-year-old son of Lithuanian immigrants made another splash this week when he fended off a rival bid for Johannesburg's Adcock Ingram after months of jostling for control of the drugmaker. His rival, Chile's CFR Pharmaceuticals, has offered 12.8 billion rand for Adcock. But Joffe sees another chance for his sprawling Bidvest Group to turn around an ailing firm and access new markets. Full Story | Top |
| India's Rajasthan state bars entry of foreign supermarkets Friday, Jan 31, 2014 11:20 PM PST  The government of India's western state of Rajasthan has barred foreign direct investment in the multi-brand retail sector, newspapers said, becoming the second state to block foreign supermarkets from setting up shop. Last month, the newly-elected Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party government in the capital, New Delhi barred foreign supermarkets, opposing the efforts of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to attract overseas investment and revive the economy. Singh had thrown open the country's $500-billion retail industry to foreign investors late in 2012, allowing companies such as Wal-Mart Stores and TESCO Plc to own majority stakes in Indian chains for the first time. So far, fewer than half of India's 28 states have agreed to roll out the policy. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans, eyeing elections, paper over divisions Friday, Jan 31, 2014 10:03 PM PST  By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan CAMBRIDGE, Maryland (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers, hoping to ride the disastrous rollout of President Barack Obama's healthcare law to victory in the November congressional elections, are trying to put internal fights behind them and unify around a proposed Obamacare replacement. During a two-day retreat on Maryland's frozen eastern shore, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives also sought to shed the image they acquired during last October's government shutdown as a cantankerous opposition party. The smaller-government Tea Party faction and more moderate "establishment" House Republicans are linking arms around a strategy for the first time since they took control of the chamber in early 2011 - if all goes according to plans hatched during the closed-door retreat 85 miles east of Washington. Republicans have seized on "Obamacare" as a way of turning around their image. Full Story | Top |
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