NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks finished modestly higher on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 up for a fourth session, although volume was one of the year’s lowest on the day ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.Investors welcomed news that a ceasefire was declared to end the flare-up in violence between Israel and the Palestinians, though the lack of a deal to...
Gazans clean up as truce with Israel holds
Label: BusinessGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza residents cleared rubble and claimed victory on Thursday, just hours after an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers ended the worst cross-border fighting in four years.The cease-fire announcement had set off frenzied late night street celebrations in the coastal strip, and raised hopes of a new era in relations between Israel and Hamas. The...
Nov
21
Greek PM presses for deal on loan
Label: World
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has reacted with dismay to the European Union‘s failure to agree to release vital rescue loan funds for the debt-ridden country, with the prime minister warning it was not just Greece’s future that hangs in the balance.The delay prolongs uncertainty over the future of Greece, which faces a messy default that would threaten...
Republic Wireless Now Offering $19/Month Unlimited Smartphone Service to All
Label: Technology
Prepaid wireless carrier Republic Wireless has been offering its $ 19 per month, unlimited everything, prepaid smartphone plan since about this time last year. At the time, though, there were a few catches; you had to buy a very low-end smartphone from them, you had to use its Hybrid Calling technology for most of your calls, and you could only get in...
Singer Fiona Apple cancels tour dates to be with ailing dog
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Grammy award-winning singer Fiona Apple said in a handwritten letter posted on her website on Tuesday that she has canceled upcoming tour dates in North and South America to be with her ailing dog.Apple, who vowed to make up the concerts, called off three shows in Brazil between November 27 and 30, a Buenos Aires festival appearance...
Pharmacy owners had no hand in meningitis outbreak: lawyers
Label: Health
BOSTON (Reuters) – Lawyers for New England Compounding Center‘s owners told a federal judge on Tuesday there is no evidence that any of them directly participated in the events that led to a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak.“Due process should not be washed away in a sea of newspaper articles and conjecture,” defense attorney Alan Winchester said.
Winchester...
Violence flares as Clinton seeks Gaza truce
Label: BusinessGAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday pursued a Gaza truce, with Israel and Hamas still at odds over key terms, as Israeli air strikes shook the enclave and Palestinian rockets hit across the border. After talks in Ramallah with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and a possible second meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom...
Nov
20
U.S. fiscal impact of great concern to Canada: Canada’s Harper
Label: World
TORONTO (Reuters) – Any fiscal problems that would significantly slow the U.S. economy would be of great concern to Canada, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday.The United States needed a credible medium-term fiscal plan, Harper said at a business forum in Ottawa, adding that he was following the U.S. fiscal debate with “great interest.”
(Reporting...
HTC “happy” with Apple settlement, slams media estimates
Label: Technology
TOKYO (Reuters) – Taiwan’s HTC Corp is happy with its patent settlement with Apple Inc, but regards media reports on details of the licensing agreement as “outrageous”, chief executive Peter Chou told reporters on Tuesday.HTC and Apple announced a global patent settlement and a 10-year licensing agreement this month after a bruising patent war between...
Why Oscar’s “Simple” Date-Change Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – The press release didn’t look as if it contained big news.“Key Dates Announced for the 85th Academy Awards,” read the headline on the September 18 announcement, which came significantly later than usual for the Academy and contained one seemingly innocuous line:
“In an effort to provide members...
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