Two bombings kill 12 in Iraq

ShareThis Two bombings kill 12 in Iraq 25 Jun 2012 Two separate bombings in Iraq have killed twelve people and injured 39, reports say. A car bomb blew up in Hilla, 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad, killing eight people and injuring 32 at about 7:45 pm (1645 GMT) on Monday. Also, a roadside [...]

Olympus sues current president, ex-directors for covering up $1.7 billion in fraud

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Japan’s Olympus Corp has sued its current president and three ex-directors for several million dollars in compensation, sources told Reuters on Monday, as the company seeks to draw a line under one of the nation’s worst accounting scandals. The maker of cameras and medical equipment filed suit against its president, Shuichi Takayama, with the Tokyo [...]

Amazon, Indiana strike state sales tax deal

By Reuters, The Chicago Tribune Amazon.com and Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels unveiled an agreement on Monday that may mean that the world’s largest Internet retailer starts collecting sales tax in the state in 2014. Amazon will voluntarily begin collecting Indiana sales tax on Internet purchases on Jan 1, 2014, or 90 days from any federal [...]

More riots in Tunisia, Arab Spring birthplace

Authorities imposed an overnight curfew in a Tunisian province on Thursday, an official said, after riots over jobs highlighted the challenges facing the new government in meeting expectations for better living conditions. The riots in the Gafsa region followed violence in a nearby region on Wednesday night, when security forces were forced to fire into [...]

New CPR technique revives man after 63 minutes without pulse (Video)

The rules of how to treat cardiac arrest are being re-written at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Technology, new drug treatments, conventional CPR and the use of hypothermia are now being coordinated with great affect – in one case reviving a man who’d been clinically dead for more than an hour. Editor’s note: The Rothschild-owned [...]

Herman Cain’s popularity sinks after sexual harrassment allegations

ShareThis Herman Cain’s popularity sinks after sexual harrassment allegations 06 Nov 2011 The allegations of sexual harassment that have dogged Herman Cain for a week have taken their toll on his presidential campaign, according to a poll by Reuters/Ipsos. In the first sign that the claims, which date back to a decade ago when he [...]

Couple jailed, lose custody of daughter, over stolen sandwiches

(Reuters)   A pregnant woman and her husband were arrested for allegedly stealing two sandwiches at a supermarket in Honolulu, resulting in their 3-year-old daughter being put into state care for 18 hours, officials said on Saturday. The supermarket that called the police was a Safeway in Makiki, a neighborhood in Honolulu. A statement from a company spokesman said Safeway [...]

El Vaticano pide una autoridad mundial sobre economía

Sabiamos que el plan del NWO era una moneda mundial, la sorpresa es que viene del vaticano. Esperamos comenatarios  CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (Reuters) – El Vaticano pidió el lunes la creación de una “autoridad pública mundial” y un “banco mundial central” para controlar a instituciones financieras que se han quedado obsoletas y a menudo han [...]

Vatican calls for global authority on economy, raps “idolatry of the market”

By Philip Pullella, Reuters.com The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a “global public authority” and a “central world bank” to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crises. The document from the Vatican’s Justice and Peace department should please the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrators [...]

Jobless Claims Top 400,000 Again

By: Reuters, CNBC.com New claims for unemployment benefits fell last week and a gauge of labor market trends hit a six-month low, a government report showed on Thursday, pointing to an improvement in the jobs market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 403,000, the Labor Department said, from an [...]