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July 22 (Reuters) – The United States announced on Thursday it was dropping a more than decade-old ban on ties with Indonesia’s special forces, imposed over human rights abuses in the 1990s.
The decision, made public by U.S. officials during a visit by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Jakarta, was taken after Indonesia took steps requested by Washington including the removal of convicted human rights violators from the organisation’s ranks. (Reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by Sara Webb)
July 22 (Reuters) – U.S. and South Korean plans to start large-scale joint military drills this month pose a major danger to the region, a North Korean diplomat said on Thursday.
“The decision to hold military drills is a major danger for the security of the region,” North Korean official Ri Tong-il, a member of Pyongyang’s delegation at a regional security forum in Hanoi, told reporters.
South Korea and the United States say the exercises scheduled from July 25 aim to deter North Korea from any future attack, after Seoul blamed Pyongyang for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.
(Reporting by John Ruwitch; Editing by Jason Szep)
Japan, July 20 (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co (7267.T), Japan’s No. 2 automaker, said on Tuesday it would launch a plug-in hybrid car and a battery electric model in the United States and Japan in 2012. (Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim)
BUCHEON CITY, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea, July 18 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — TCOM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. is notifying consumers that a AZBOX EVO XL, identified below, bears an unauthorized UL Mark for the United States and Canada. This product has not been evaluated by UL to the appropriate standard for safety for the United States or Canada, and is not authorized to bear the UL Mark. It is unknown if this product complies with the United States or Canada safety requirements.
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Name of Product: AZBOX EVO XL
Units: 45,500
Manufacturer: TCOM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. IN KOREA.
Identification: The below serial numbers marked on the product along with the UL Mark on the rear panel shown on the picture below:
TNG330907000001-6500
TNX24090907000001-2500
TNG330907009001-22000
TNG330907025001-50000
TNX24090907005001-12500
Consumer Contact:
— COMPANY NAME: TCOM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
— ADDRESS: 601 CHUNGJUK TOWER 546-9, Sang2-Dong, Wonmi-Gu, Bucheon City,
Gyeonggi-Do, Korea
— TEL: +82-32-326-4842
— Email: info@i-linkone.com
Sold at: CALYANI Store located in 3108 NW 72 AV Miami, Florida
What you should do: TCOM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. recommends that users stop using the product immediately and return it to the place of purchase.
SOURCE Tcom Technology Co., Ltd.
(Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri had been free to come and go from the United States.
“Mr. Amiri has been in the United States of his own free will and he is free to go,” Clinton told reporters. “In fact he was scheduled to travel to Iran yesterday but was unable to make all of the necessary arrangements to reach Iran through a transit country,” she said.
Clinton called on Tehran to release three American hikers being held in Iran and to provide more information on former FBI agent Robert Levinson who disappeared during a business trip to Iran.
Referring to Amiri, Clinton said: “He’s free to go, he was free to come, these decisions are his alone to make.”
(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria; Editing by Paul Simao)
July 13 (Reuters) – Iran’s state radio said on Tuesday a missing Iranian nuclear scientist who Tehran says was kidnapped by the CIA, had taken refuge in Pakistan’s embassy in Washington.
“A few hours ago Shahram Amiri took refuge at Iran’s interest section at the Pakistan embassy in Washington, wanting to return to Iran immediately,” state radio said.
Iran and the United States cut diplomatic relations shortly after the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution. The embassy of Pakistan preserves Iran’s interests in the United States.
(Writing by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)
July 13 (Reuters) – Iran’s state radio said on Tuesday a missing Iranian nuclear scientist who Tehran says was kidnapped by the CIA, had taken refuge in Pakistan’s embassy in Washington.
“A few hours ago Shahram Amiri took refuge at Iran’s interest section at the Pakistan embassy in Washington, wanting to return to Iran immediately,” state radio said.
Iran and the United States cut diplomatic relations shortly after the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution. The embassy of Pakistan preserves Iran’s interests in the United States.
(Writing by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)
July 5 (Reuters) – European shares briefly turned negative in early trade on Monday as banking shares fell, weighed down by worries over stress tests being conducted on the sector.
At 0808 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 .FTEU3 index of top European shares was flat at 969.43 points after rising to a high of 975.28 and falling to a low of 967.89.
Among banks, Barclays (BARC.L), Lloyds (LLOY.L), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) and BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA) fell 1.3 to 2.1 percent.
The market was expected to remain choppy as volumes were low because of a holiday in the United States.
(Reporting by Atul Prakash)
July 1 (Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has acquired university programme provider Study Group from Australia’s CHAMP Private Equity for $570 million, the company said in a statement on Thursday.
Providence would buy the shares in Study Group owned by CHAMP and Petersen Investments, Study Group said in a statement.
Study Group International helps prepare students for university study in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, where it owns the Centre for English Studies chain of language schools.
(Reporting by Michael Smith, Editing by Narayanan Somasundaram)
June 30 (Reuters) – Mexico’s IPC stock index rose on Wednesday after data showed business activity in the U.S. Midwest grew slightly more than expected, tempering concerns of a slowdown in the United States, Mexico’s top trading partner.
Financials
The IPC stock index .MXX jumped 1.01 percent to 31,790, bouncing back from its steepest one-day loss in a year in the previous session.
Tuesday’s gains also were supported by a 1.5 percent gain in share of America Movil (AMXL.MX) as Latin America’s top wireless provider recovered some ground after its steepest fall in more than five months on Tuesday. (Reporting by Michael O’Boyle; Editing by Theodore d’Afflisio)
June 25 (Reuters) – U.S. aluminium giant Alcoa Inc (AA.N) said it ratified a new four-year contract with the United Steelworkers union covering 5,400 employees at ten of its locations in the United States.
The company, one of the world’s largest aluminum producers, said on its website there would be no wage increases in 2010 and 2011 but all job classes will see their wages go up by 2.5 percent each in 2012 and 2013.
Also, the company’s healthcare program will see increased employee contributions, with price tags increasing every year.
The union contract covers all Alcoa workers in the U.S. under an umbrella deal. (Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Mike Nesbit)
June 25 (Reuters) – Russian state-owned bank VEB will run a roadshow for its benchmark Eurobond from June 28 to June 30 in the United States and Europe, a banking source told Reuters late on Thursday.
Financials
VEB, an investment vehicle of the Russian government, had earlier said it would likely place the bond in mid-2010 with a potential size of around $1 billion.
The bank picked Barclays Capital, Citi, HSBC, Societe Generale, ING Bank, VTB Capital and Troika Dialog to arrange the deal.
(Reporting by Oksana Kobzeva; Writing by Dmitry Sergeyev; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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Healthcare
HELSINKI June 22 (Reuters) – Orion Oyj (ORNBV.HE):
* Says it has settled patent dispute with Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (SUN.BO)
* Says the settlement agreement relates to all lawsuits
* Says according to the agreement Sun will be able to launch generic versions of Parkinson’s drugs Stalevo in 2012 and Comtan in 2013 in the United States
* Says Orion will supply said generic product versions to Sun
(Corrects Sun Reuters Instrument Code to SUN.BO from SUNH.O)
Healthcare
HELSINKI June 22 (Reuters) – Orion Oyj (ORNBV.HE):
* Says it has settled patent dispute with Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (SUN.BO)
* Says the settlement agreement relates to all lawsuits
* Says according to the agreement Sun will be able to launch generic versions of Parkinson’s drugs Stalevo in 2012 and Comtan in 2013 in the United States
* Says Orion will supply said generic product versions to Sun
June 20 (Reuters) – Slovenia forward Nejc Pecnik is out of the World Cup after breaking his ankle in Friday’s 2-2 draw with the United States in Group C, the team’s doctor has said.
Pecnik came on as a second half substitute and was carried off on a stretcher in injury time after a collision with an opponent.
“Pecnik was taken to hospital immediately and the scan revealed a fractured ankle and ligament damage, meaning that he will return to Slovenia as quickly as possible,” Matjaz Vogrin told the Slovenian Football Association website (www.nzs.si).
(Editing by Jon Bramley)
South Africa, June 20 (Reuters) – England’s misfiring World Cup squad is to hold a no-holds-barred crisis meeting with manager Fabio Capello on Monday evening, defender John Terry told reporters.
Terry said he expected the entire squad and Capello to review the team’s miserable performance in their uninspired 0-0 draw with Algeria on Friday evening.
“We are going to look at the whole 93 minutes and see where we went wrong,” said Terry. “And that means pretty much the whole lot of it.
“It is going to be a chance for everyone to get it off their chest and if that means a few players get upset then that is the way it is. We need to win the next game and we have to say ‘Sod it, let’s sort it out and show everyone what we can do’.”
England have just two points from their two Group C matches, having drawn their opener against the United States 1-1. They play table-topping Slovenia on Wednesday.
(Editing by Ossian Shine)
June 15 (Reuters) – Belgian crude oil transporter Euronav (EUAV.BR) could end up benefiting from the BP (BP.L) oil spill if the United States needs to transport more oil, its finance chief said, according to Belgian daily De Tijd.
Energy | Industrials
“The image of the oil sector is bad, but for us it can be a good thing,” the paper quoted Hugo De Stoop as saying in a report published on Tuesday.
“The U.S. will probably have to import more oil from overseas areas like the Middle East. This will be done by ship. We can with our large and modern oil tankers play a major role.”
On Monday, BP said it aimed to nearly triple its oil-collecting capacity within a month to a maximum of 80,000 barrels a day in response to a U.S. demand that the company work faster to contain the gushing leak in the Gulf of Mexico. [ID:nN14207756] (Writing by Ben Deighton; Editing by Dan Lalor)
(Reuters) – The United States on Sunday welcomed Israel’s decision to begin an internal investigation into the events surrounding last month’s raid on a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships.
Politics
A statement by White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the proposal for the probe “an important step forward” and said Israel was capable of conducting a fair investigation into the deadly flotilla raid.
“But we will not prejudge the process or its outcome, and will await the conduct and findings of the investigation before drawing further conclusions,” the statement said.
(Writing by Caren Bohan; Editing by Sandra Maler)
June 13 (Reuters) – The United States on Sunday welcomed Israel’s decision to begin an internal investigation into the events surrounding last month’s raid on a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships.
A statement by White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the proposal for the probe “an important step forward” and said Israel was capable of conducting a fair investigation into the deadly flotilla raid.
“But we will not prejudge the process or its outcome, and will await the conduct and findings of the investigation before drawing further conclusions,” the statement said.
(Writing by Caren Bohan; Editing by Sandra Maler)
(Reuters) – It could be up to three years before Iran is capable of developing a nuclear weapon, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday, adding that there was still time for the world to put pressure on Tehran. Asked how long the United States and its allies were prepared to wait for U.N. sanctions on Iran to bite, Gates said:
World
“I think that everybody agrees we have some more time, including the Israelis, and we will just continue to work it.
“Most people believe that the Iranians could not really have any nuclear weapons for at least another year or two. I would say the intelligence estimates range from one to three years.”
Even if Iran got that far, he said having nuclear weapons material was different to full “weaponization” or having a capable delivery system that could threaten neighbors or enemies further afield.
“But clearly them getting to the threshold of having the weapons is what concerns every body.”
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