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US News Archive for June 2007:
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Cricket coach's death 'not murder'
Jamaican authorities have announced that Pakistan's cricket coach, Bob Woolmer, died of natural causes and was not murdered -- as originally announced -- during the Cricket World Cup in March...
CNN - June 12, 2007
Bush: Immigration bill will enforce borders
During a rare meeting on Capitol Hill, President Bush pushed lawmakers Tuesday to move forward on immigration legislation that he said enforces U.S. borders and workplaces...
CNN - June 12, 2007
Palestinian street battles intensify
Fighting between Palestinian factions is worse than ever and can produce no winner, a senior Palestinian official said Tuesday. Fierce battles in Gaza between Fatah and Hamas gunmen saw attacks on key figures from both sides. Fighting also spilled into the West Bank, where the Palestinian government is based...
CNN - June 12, 2007
Croatian Serb Convicted of Atrocities
PARIS, June 12 ? The U.N. war crimes court hearing cases from the former Yugoslavia today found a former henchman of president Slobodan Milosevic guilty of multiple crimes while heading a Serbian separatist rebellion and sentenced him to 35 years in prison...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
U.S. Pushes Iraqi Leader to Pursue Changes
Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte met with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to push for political changes intended to reconcile the country?s warring sects...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
New York Students Post Higher Math Scores
In every grade tested, New York City saw jumps, often in double-digits, in the proportion of students performing at grade level over the year before...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Critic?s Notebook: Fat, Glorious Fat, Moves to the Center of the Plate
A culinary counterrevolution may be in progress, as more restaurants in New York abandon small plates of light fare in favor of heaping platters of sinfully fatty meats...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Bush Lobbies G.O.P. Senators on Immigration
President Bush said "the time is now to move a comprehensive piece of legislation. The White House will stay engaged."...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Lehman Profit Climbs 27%
The profit is a record for Lehman Brothers and potentially augurs a good week for Wall Street earning reports...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Danone?s China Venture Turns Into a Battle
A dispute between Groupe Danone, the French multinational company, and a brash Chinese executive has escalated into a battle for control of the country?s largest beverage maker...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Google Tightens Limit on Its Data Retention
Addressing privacy concerns, the company announced on Tuesday that it would keep the Web search histories of users for only 18 months instead of 24...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Yahoo's China policy rejected
Yahoo shareholders reject plans for the company to adopt a policy opposing censorship on the internet...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Canada PM in land claims pledge
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces plans to overhaul the system for native land claims...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Deadly $2 'cheese heroin' aims at teens
A cheap highly addictive drug known as "cheese heroin" has killed 21 teenagers in the Dallas area over two years, and authorities say they are hoping they can stop the fad before it spreads across the nation...
CNN - June 12, 2007
Gaza clashes spill into West Bank
Factional clashes in Gaza escalated Tuesday with hundreds of Hamas fighters, pictured above, attacking a Fatah base as both sides ignored calls from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to observe an immediate cease-fire...
CNN - June 12, 2007
Bombing 'mastermind' held in swoop
One of Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorists, Abu Dujana, is seized in a raid in Indonesia, dealing a blow to the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah militant group, police tell CNN...
CNN - June 12, 2007
U.S. Forces Kill Afghan Police Officers
Afghan police officials said the exchange of fire between U.S. troops and the police officers today was a result of mistaken identity...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
GOP senator to Bush: 'Back off' on immigration bill
As President Bush prepares to make a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to push his ailing immigration plan, one GOP senator is saying the president should "back off" and "help us write a better bill."...
CNN - June 12, 2007
The DNA Age: As Breeders Test DNA, Dogs Become Guinea Pigs
Breeders have used new tests to exert dominion over the canine gene pool, and the lessons may bear on humans...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Cricket Coach Not Murdered, Jamaican Police Say
Reversing course, police said today that Bob Woolmer, a Pakistani cricket coach, died of natural causes in March...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Take-Two Posts 6th Consecutive Loss
Take-Two Interactive Software, publisher of the popular Grand Theft Auto video games, said on Monday that the company would cut jobs and costs...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Top Court Rules Against Philip Morris
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a class-action lawsuit against Philip Morris should not be decided in federal court, handing a defeat to the tobacco company...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
China Inflation Hits 3.4 Percent in May
Inflation in China reached a 27-month high last month, but separate figures for growth in the money supply and loans suggested that the broader economy was not yet overheating...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Unlikely alliance in Iraq
There are signs the US is turning to a new tactic in facing the Sunni-led insurgency in Iraq, the BBC's Jim Muir says...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Golf: Girl secures US Open berth
Twelve-year-old Alexis Thompson becomes the youngest golfer ever to qualify for the United States Women's Open...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Bush makes immigration plea
President Bush tries to convince Republican senators to back controversial immigration reforms...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Meet the president
The BBC News website looks at how New Hampshire's peculiar politics bring the presidential candidates flocking to woo its voters...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
In Castro's shadow
The BBC's Duncan Kennedy looks at the mood in Cuba, where illness has kept long-time leader Fidel Castro on the sidelines for 10 months...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Dow Jones shareholders set terms
Dow Jones shareholders seek guarantees from suitor News Corp of the independence of the Wall Street Journal...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Grand Theft Auto firm to cut jobs
The firm behind video game Grand Theft Auto says it will cut jobs to reduce by costs by $25m a year by 2008...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Rally for Hmong leader in court
Hundreds of Hmong protest in the US as a key leader appears in court accused of plotting a coup in Laos...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Nasa astronauts finish spacewalk
Astronauts complete a spacewalk to deploy solar panels on a new segment of the International Space Station...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Stem cell first for Parkinson's
Parkinson's researchers inject human stem cells into primates for the first time, with promising results...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Woolmer death statement due
Jamaica police are expected to say Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered as they said earlier...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
Colombia hit by flood emergency
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announces aid to deal with flooding that has left thousands homeless...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
An Appraisal: A Filmmaker Who Found Africa?s Voice
Ousmane Sembène, by consensus the father of African cinema, pointed an angry, often satirical finger at the failures and excesses of modern African governments...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
3 Guardsmen Charged With Human Smuggling
Federal agents found a member of the Texas National Guard in uniform driving a van crammed with 24 illegal immigrants...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Congress Turns to Energy, and Lobbyists Arrive
The Senate has begun debating a sprawling energy bill that has already kicked off an epic lobbying war...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
The DNA Age: In Age of DNA Tests, the Dog Becomes a Guinea Pig
Dog breeders are seizing on new genetic research to exert dominion over the canine gene pool...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
In Senate Vote, G.O.P. Fights Off Gonzales Rebuke
Although they fell short of the 60 votes needed to bring the no-confidence resolution to a vote, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales?s critics mustered a majority with some Republican support...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Milestone Marks What Phillies Fans Already Knew
The Philadelphia Phillies have lost more games than any professional franchise in any sport and are fast approaching their 10,000th loss...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Judges Say U.S. Can?t Hold Man as ?Combatant?
A federal appeals court ruled that the president may not declare civilians in this country ?enemy combatants? and have the military hold them indefinitely...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
World Business Briefing: Canada: Onex Joins Group Bidding for Bell
The Onex Corporation, Canada?s largest investment firm, has joined the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board in its bid for Bell Canada, the country?s largest telephone company. Onex will bring additional capital to the bid and help ensure that the pension fund?s bid meets Canadian ownership requirements for telecommunications companies. Others in the bidding group include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, that province?s biggest pension fund. Bell, which changed its name from BCE last week, has formally recognized two other bidding groups, one led by the Ontario Teachers? Pension Plan, Bell?s largest stockholder with 6.3 percent of its shares, and the other led by Cerberus Capital Management working with unnamed Canadian investors...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
World Business Briefing: Sweden: I.B.M. To Buy Software Company
International Business Machines said that it had agreed to buy a software provider, Telelogic, for $745 million, bolstering I.B.M.?s portfolio for the defense, telecommunications and automotive industries. I.B.M. said that Telelogic will fit into its Rational Software division, which also was expanded with I.B.M.?s purchase last week of the Watchfire Corporation, a maker of security software. Telelogic, based in Malmo, Sweden, has its North American headquarters in Irvine, Calif., and has more than 900 workers in 20 countries. Telelogic?s products help companies develop and test software used in complex systems such as aircraft radar and antilock braking systems...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
World Business Briefing: Britain: Rexam to Buy a Plastics Packager
The British packaging company Rexam said that it had agreed to acquire the plastic packaging unit of Owens-Illinois for nearly $1.83 billion. The division makes plastic prescription bottles, tamper-proof closures and plastic medical devices. Rexam, based in London, said that the unit reported a profit of $114 million on sales of $760 million in 2006. ?The acquisition of O-I Plastics will transform our plastic packaging business and is consistent with our strategy to expand our positions in growth markets,? Rexam chief executive, Leslie Van de Walle, above, said...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Canadian Real Estate Concern Makes Bid for Australian Developer
Brookfield Asset Management made a cash offer worth 4.2 billion Australian dollars ($3.55 billion) for Multiplex, a troubled developer and contractor...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
World Business Briefing: Japan: Economic Growth Revised Upward
Japan revised its first-quarter economic growth to an annual pace of 3.3 percent, from 2.4 percent, because business investment was stronger than initially estimated. The report confirmed that Japan?s economy remained on a healthy recovery path in the first three months of the year. The bulk of the revision came from capital investment, which rose 0.3 percent from the previous quarter, better than the preliminary figure of a decrease of 0.9 percent. Consumer spending, which makes up more than half of Japan?s gross domestic product, was up 0.8 percent from the previous quarter, the data showed. That was slightly below the preliminary reading of a 0.9 percent rise. Compared with the previous quarter, the G.D.P. rose 0.8 percent in the January-March quarter, the cabinet office said...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Trade Board Deal Cleared
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Dow Jones) ? The Justice Department said on Monday that the proposed merger between Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings and Chicago Board of Trade Holdings would not pose a threat to competition...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Hedge Fund Agrees to Acquire James River
The James River Group, a property and casualty insurer, said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by the hedge fund D. E. Shaw Group for $575 million in cash...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Morgan Stanley?s Chief U.S. Investment Strategist Resigns
Henry H. McVey, Morgan Stanley?s chief United States investment strategist, said that he was joining the hedge fund Fortress Investment Group...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: The Market Fluctuates, Then Finishes Flat
Stubbornly high bond yields discouraged investors from extending Wall Street?s recovery from last week?s losses...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
YouTube Sets Tests of Video Blocking
Google says it will soon begin testing a long-awaited system that can block unauthorized copyrighted clips from being uploaded to YouTube...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
China?s Trade Surplus Near High
The surplus hit $22.5 billion, up 73 percent from last May, the Chinese customs agency said Monday on its Web site...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Fidelity Reports a 10.5% Stake in Delta Air Lines
The FMR Corporation, the holding company of Fidelity Investments, said that it controlled 25.1 million shares of the Atlanta-based carrier...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Frequent Flier: But the Wrong Coat Was So Much Nicer Than Mine
My business travel is fairly uneventful. But a flight this year did force me onto a slippery slope of morality...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Cheating Leads TheStreet.com to Cancel an Investing Contest
TheStreet.com said Monday that it would cancel the first round of its ?Beat the Street? competition because some of the contestants had taken advantage of the system...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Memo Pad: Passport Pandemonium
The confusion and delays in passport processing are a warning to plan far ahead to renew or obtain a passport...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Cancer Drug Representatives Spelled Out the Way to Profit
Big pharmaceutical companies sometimes calculated to the penny the profits that doctors could make from their cancer drugs and shared those estimates with doctors...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Mississippi Attorney General Sues State Farm Over Katrina Claims
Mississippi?s attorney general, Jim Hood, said the company failed to honor an agreement for a mass settlement of claims over Hurricane Katrina damage...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Rare Stamps Fetch $9 Million
A collection of 19th- and early 20th-century British stamps owned by bond investor William H. Gross was auctioned in New York for $9.1 million...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Top Executive at EADS Quits in Dispute Over Marketing
Jean-Paul Gut, the chief operating officer of EADS, quit on Monday, adding further turmoil to the company?s top management one week before the Paris air show...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
The Inevitability of Bumps
People who fly a lot tend to be nonchalant about the experience ? until the plane hits a patch of choppy air. But airliners are built to take the turbulence...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Sole U.S. Company That Enriches Uranium Is Struggling to Stay in Business
Nuclear power experts worry that USEC?s failure would leave the Russians dominant in the market for fuel processing...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
On The Road: Flight Snags Are Arriving on Schedule
This year is shaping up to be the worst ever for delays, and there will be lots of blame to go around, and lots of finger-pointing...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Advertising: Mocking an Olympics Logo, but Loving the Attention
Has any marketer ever gotten more for its money than the London Olympics organizers when they introduced a new logo for the 2012 Games?...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Blackstone Founders Prepare to Count Their Billions
The giant private equity firm, founded by Stephen Schwarzman and Peter Peterson, is expected to go public in the next few weeks...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
For Yahoo, an Ordeal of Dissent
Terry S. Semel, Yahoo?s chief executive, is facing mounting questions about internal morale problems...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
For a Russian Builder of Nuclear Plants, Business Is Booming
The Russian nuclear power company Atomstroyexport has been roundly criticized for helping Iran build its nuclear program. Yet it hasn?t hurt business...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Effort to Advise on Risky Loans Runs Into Snag
Critics complained a that a mandatory mortgage counseling program amounted to government intrusion...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Incentives Limit Any Savings in Treating Cancer
The ballooning cost of cancer treatment offers an example of how difficult it may be to rein in the nation?s runaway health care spending...
New York Times - June 12, 2007
Bail refused for 'JFK plotters'
A judge in Trinidad refuses bail for three men accused of plotting to blow up JFK airport in New York City...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
US veterans 'high suicide risk'
US war veterans are twice as likely to commit suicide than ordinary civilians, a study suggests...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
US sex sentence overturned
A US man jailed for having consensual oral sex with a teenage girl has his sentence overturned...
BBC News - June 12, 2007
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