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| Chile's Collahuasi evacuates workers following quake, mine fine: union Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 09:03 PM PDT SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's Collahuasi copper mine is evacuating workers following Tuesday night's strong earthquake so that they can be with their families, a union leader to local radio. The massive deposit and its port have not been damaged by the 8.2 quake, the mine's CEO told Reuters earlier on Tuesday. (Reporting by Alexandra Ulmer; Editing by Kim Coghill) Full Story | Top |
| Insight: Japan may only be able to restart one-third of its nuclear reactors Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 08:44 PM PDT  By Mari Saito, Aaron Sheldrick and Kentaro Hamada TOKYO (Reuters) - Three years after the Fukushima disaster prompted the closure of all Japan's nuclear reactors, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is moving to revive nuclear power as a core part of the energy mix, but many of those idled reactors will never come back online. This means Japan is likely to remain heavily reliant on imported fuel to power the world's third-largest economy, straining a trade balance that has been in the red for nearly two years. Hokkaido Electric Power Co and Kyushu Electric Power Co, both facing a third year of financial losses, are seeking capital infusions totaling nearly $1.5 billion from a state-owned lender. Kyushu Electric shares dropped as much as 7 percent on Wednesday to an 8-week low. Full Story | Top |
| Chilean authorities say two confirmed dead following massive quake Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 08:13 PM PDT SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Two people were confirmed dead and three were seriously injured when a major earthquake struck off the northern coast of Chile on Tuesday night, the governor of Iquique Gonzalo Prieto told local radio station Cooperativa. The earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck triggered a tsunami that hit the northern part of the country. (Reporting by Anthony Esposito; Editing by Ron Popeski) Full Story | Top |
| Chile says tsunami alert to stay in place at least six hours Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 07:58 PM PDT SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo said a tsunami alert for the country's coastline will remain in place for at least another six hours following a major earthquake. The magnitude 8.2 quake struck off the northern coast of Chile on Tuesday, triggering a tsunami that hit the northern part of the country, but the government said there was no serious damage and no reports of deaths. (Reporting by Anthony Esposito; Editing by Kim Coghill) Full Story | Top |
| Another Japan nuclear operator turns to government for aid Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 07:00 PM PDT By Taiga Uranaka and James Topham TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Kyushu Electric Power Co has become the second nuclear generator to seek state support this week as reactors across the country remain idled and industry losses mount three years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Kyushu Electric, a regional monopoly that supplies power in southern Japan, said on Wednesday it was in talks with state-owned Development Bank of Japan for financial backing. On Tuesday, a source said Hokkaido Electric Power Co, which supplies Japan's northernmost island, had asked the same bank for financial assistance. All of Japan's 48 nuclear reactors have been shut down, pending stringent safety checks, since a massive earthquake and 13-metre-high (43-feet-high) tsunami smashed into the Fukushima nuclear complex in March 2011, triggering a meltdown in the world's worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Full Story | Top |
| Chile says no serious damage or injuries reported after quake Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 06:26 PM PDT SANTIAGO (Reuters) - There is no serious damage to infrastructure or reports of victims following a massive 8.2 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of northern Chile on Tuesday evening, a government representative said. "We have asked citizens to evacuate the entire coast ... there is no serious damage to houses ... there have been no people hurt," said home office minister Mahmud Aleuy. (Reporting by Rosalba O'Brien; Editing by Eric Walsh) Full Story | Top |
| California snow levels remain low, signaling less water for summer Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 06:13 PM PDT Snow levels atop California's Sierra Nevada mountains, key indicators of how much water will be available for drought-stricken farms, residents and wildlife this summer, remained precariously low despite recent storms, officials said Tuesday. The snowpack, which melts in the spring and feeds streams and reservoirs throughout the state, has just a third of the amount of water it normally contains this time of year, said Mark Cowin, director of the state Department of Water Resources. "We're already seeing farmland fallowed and cities scrambling for water supplies," Corwin said in a statement Tuesday after snow surveyors turned in the results of their monthly examination of snow levels. "We can hope that conditions improve, but time is running out." Storms pummeled parts of California on throughout the weekend, lasting through the day on Tuesday, allowing the state to release more water than had been anticipated from the fragile San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta to fill reservoirs and provide waters to farms and cities. Full Story | Top |
| Chile emergency office says landslides blocking some roads after quake Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 06:08 PM PDT SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's ONEMI emergency office said that it has initial reports that the massive earthquake that struck off the country's north Tuesday night has caused landslides which are partially blocking some roads and highways. (Reporting by Anthony Esposito; Editing by Eric Walsh) Full Story | Top |
| CEO Barra calls GM's actions on deadly defect 'unacceptable' Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 06:02 PM PDT  After taking an oath at a House of Representatives panel, Barra kicked off the contentious hearing by declaring, "I am deeply sorry" for the company's failure to respond quickly to the safety problem and subsequent deaths. The questioning became contentious at times but it did not appear to rattle the GM chief executive, who rose to her current job in January. Still, during a nearly three-hour appearance on Capitol Hill, Barra testified again and again that GM had taken steps to prevent future safety problems from occurring. She labored to remind lawmakers that the so-called "new GM" she heads was nothing like the "old GM" that failed to deal with faulty ignition switches for more than a decade. Full Story | Top |
| Families of GM crash victims bring their anguish to Washington Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 05:25 PM PDT By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Standing on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday morning in the path of an early spring breeze, Renee Trautwein tearfully braced herself to relive the worst morning of her life. In a few hours, Mary Barra, the chief executive officer of General Motors, would be pressed to answer why the largest U.S. automaker did not act sooner to fix an ignition switch defect that can suddenly leave certain models of its cars without power. Trautwein's daughter died in one of those cars, a 2005 Chevy Cobalt, in South Carolina on the morning of June 12, 2009 - an accident Trautwein had previously thought was caused by her daughter falling asleep at the wheel. Since the recall of the vehicle earlier this year, Trautwein now believes the car lost power and was unable to be steered. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. FDA advisers back MannKind's inhaled diabetes drug Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 04:49 PM PDT By Susan Heavey HYATTSVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. health advisers on Tuesday recommended approval of MannKind Corp's inhaled diabetes drug, and said the experimental treatment could help some patients, especially those wary of needles typically used with traditional insulin therapy. The Food and Drug Administration's panel of outside advisers said that while the therapy, called Afrezza, did not appear as beneficial for adults with type 1 diabetes, it was clearly safe and effective for those with the more common type 2 form of the chronic disease. Overall, it voted 13-1 to recommend approval for patients with type 1 diabetes and unanimously backed it for those with type 2, adding that longer-term studies would still be needed to monitor possible side effects such as lung cancer. According to the American Diabetes Association, more than 25 million U.S. children and adults have diabetes, a chronic condition that affects insulin needed for digestion and impacts blood sugar levels. Full Story | Top |
| Breast cancer screening a complex mix of benefits, risk -report Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 04:47 PM PDT By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A review of 50 years of studies on the risks and benefits of yearly mammograms has tied them to a 19 percent drop overall in breast cancer deaths, but whether a woman benefits depends on factors such as age and family history, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. A report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association is the latest attempt to sort out mixed messages about mammogram screening, once an annual chore whose merits have been questioned by some studies suggesting that mammograms save far fewer women than previously thought. "It would be easier for everyone if there was a clear, pre-specified pathway with a given risk profile, but we don't have that because our data is not perfect and everyone is different," Dr. Lydia Pace of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who led the study, told Reuters Health. "I wish that we had more certainty." Five years ago, U.S. women routinely started getting annual mammograms at age 40. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. House backs Ukraine aid, sanctions Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 04:37 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to provide aid to Ukraine, back a $1 billion loan guarantee for the Kiev government and impose sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea. The 378-34 vote was in support of a package approved by the U.S. Senate, meaning it will be sent to the White House for President Barack Obama to sign into law, ending weeks of haggling in Congress over how best to support Ukraine. Besides the loan guarantee, the legislation provides $150 million in aid to Ukraine and surrounding countries and requires the State and Justice Departments to help the Kiev government recover assets amassed by corrupt Ukraine officials. Full Story | Top |
| Stallergenes gains U.S. FDA approval for Oralair allergy drug Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 04:29 PM PDT (Reuters) - France's Stallergenes said on Tuesday it received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's green light to sell its immunotherapy pill Oralair for treating grass allergies. The drug is a fast-dissolving tablet to be placed under the tongue that contains extracts from five grass pollens: sweet vernal, orchard, perennial rye, timothy and Kentucky bluegrass. Oralair is the first oral immunotherapy drug for treating grass allergies to be approved in the United States. In December, both drugs received strong recommendations from outside advisers to the FDA. Full Story | Top |
| East Libyan rebels to end oil port blockage within days: senior leader Tuesday, Apr 01, 2014 04:03 PM PDT  By Feras Bosalum and Ulf Laessing TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A rebel group in eastern Libya has agreed with the government to end its seizure of vital oil ports within days, a senior leader told Reuters on Tuesday, raising hopes for an end to an eight-month stalemate that has dried up state income and fuelled chaos. The oil conflict is just one aspect of the turmoil in the OPEC producer where the weak central government is unable to control militias that helped topple Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 but refuse to disarm and are trying to grab a share of power or oil wealth. The government had earlier met a rebel demand by releasing three of its fighters who had boarded the tanker at Es Sider, one of three ports seized by the group in August to press for autonomy and a greater share of oil wealth. "We agreed on all issues with the government in Tripoli." A government delegation would visit the group's home base Ajdabiya in eastern Libya within two days to hammer out the details, he told Reuters by phone. Full Story | Top |
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