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US News Archive for June 2006:
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Zarqawi successor already enigma
A week after the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. military and intelligence don't have a concrete answer as to who his successor is -- or if he even exists. Statements published on Islamist Web sites name Abu Hamza al-Muhajer as the group's new leader, but U.S. counterterrorism officials question whether there is such a person...
CNN - June 14, 2006
Thousands flee Indonesia volcano
Indonesia's most volatile volcano nearly enveloped a village with a searing gas cloud during an eruption Wednesday and forced thousands of residents to evacuate. "The situation is ... life-threatening," said Yousana Siagian, head of the government's Vulcanology and Disaster Mitigation Center...
CNN - June 14, 2006
Surgeons Work to Separate Twins in L.A.
About 80 doctors will try to separate the girls' vital organs in a 24-hour operation...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Germany 1, Poland 0: Germany Prevails in Dramatic Fashion
Substitute Oliver Neuville scored on a sliding kick off a cross from another sub, David Odonkor, in injury time as Germany edged Poland...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Bayer of Germany Wins Its Bid for Schering
The deal, which was clinched after Merck backed off, is expected to create a new pharmaceutical powerhouse...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Shares Plummet After Delay in Airbus Jet Delivery
The parent company's stock slid by as much as a third after news that the A380 airplane is behind schedule...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
U.A.W. Re-elects Leader After Tumultuous Term
During Ron Gettelfinger's first four-year term, the auto industry was hit by its worst downturn in over a decade...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Chandlers Call for Tribune Breakup
The family's trustees called for a study on spinning off the company's television stations and newspapers...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
United Airlines to axe 1,000 jobs
United Airlines says it will cut 1,000 jobs by the end of the year as part of plans to reduce costs by $400m...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
Messi setback for Argentina
Argentina starlet Lionel Messi hurts his left foot in training as he is hit by a new injury...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
Chile backs Andes gold project
Chile approves plans by an international company to mine for gold in the Andes despite environmental concerns...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
Doctors try to separate US twins
Surgeons in California try to separate a pair of 10-month-old conjoined twin girls...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
Katrina aid bought diamonds, porn
A $200 bottle of champagne from a bar and $300 worth of erotic videos were among items bought with debit cards handed out by a U.S. emergency relief agency to help victims of last year's hurricane Katrina victims, auditors probing $1 billion in potential waste and fraud have found...
CNN - June 14, 2006
Drug caches found in Home Depot vanities
Large quantities of drugs were found inside merchandise from at least two Home Depot stores in Massachusetts, and authorities are investigating, police said Wednesday...
CNN - June 14, 2006
Bush on Iraq: Politics won't force my hand
Just hours after returning from Baghdad, President Bush said Wednesday that domestic politics and dipping opinion polls will have no effect on his plan for a stable and democratic Iraq. "One message I will continue to send to the enemy is, 'Don't count on us leaving before the mission is complete,' " Bush said at a White House news conference...
CNN - June 14, 2006
Cleric Linked to 2002 Bali Blasts Is Released
Abu Bakar Bashir walked out of prison after serving just over a year for criminal conspiracy...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
After Iraq Visit, Bush Urges Patience
The message suggested that although certain milestones have been achieved in Iraq, the U.S. mission now included broader measurements of success...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Man Suspected of Stabbing 4 in N.Y. Is Arrested
The man was arrested shortly after two women were stabbed outside the W hotel at 47th and Broadway early this morning...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Airbus Faces a New Delay in Delivery of Its Biggest Jet
Shares of European Aeronautic, Defense & Space, the majority owner of Airbus, plunged today in response to the news...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
BP to Invest $500 Million on Biofuels at a Research Center
The energy giant is in talks with several universities as possible sites for the research center but says it has not yet picked a partner...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power
A sprawling new data center in Oregon shows the extraordinary drive to beat Microsoft and Yahoo...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Led by Higher Rents, Prices Continue to Climb
The report reaffirmed the belief among many economists and investors that the Fed will raise interest rates again...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Guantanamo pressure grows
The adverse reaction to a claim by a senior US official that the suicides of three Guantanamo detainees was a "good PR move" adds to the growing international pressure for the camp to be closed...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
BBC pundits on Ronaldo's decline
"Against Croatia, he was very, very bad" - Leonardo...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
NFL: Roethlisberger injured
Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is improving after surgery on injuries he suffered in a motorbike crash...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
US-Cuba row over blackout
US diplomats in Havana complain about power cuts at their mission, as Cuba says the power shortages are over...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
Mexico parties vow clean election
Mexico's political parties agree to curb campaign insults and respect the outcome of the 2 July presidential poll...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
Guantanamo suicide queried
The father of a man said to have committed suicide at Guantanamo Bay says he believes he was murdered...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
US price growth fuels rate fears
Rising energy costs push up US consumer prices in May, raising the possibility of a further rise in interest rates...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
Alberto fizzles out after Florida
The first storm of the Atlantic hurricane season weakens to a tropical depression after drenching parts of Florida...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
Security clampdown in Baghdad
At least 70,000 troops -- most of them Iraqi -- are deployed on the streets of Baghdad in an effort to bring security to the city, according to the country's interior ministry. Officials say it is the largest operation in Baghdad since the new Iraqi government took over in June 2004...
CNN - June 14, 2006
Weak Alberto heads north
Alberto -- the first named storm of the Atlantic's 2006 hurricane season -- weakened to a tropical depression over South Carolina early today. It came ashore as a tropical storm Tuesday, dumping heavy rains on Florida and southern Georgia...
CNN - June 14, 2006
Heat 98, Mavericks 96: Unstoppable Wade Breathes New Life Into Staggering Heat
The Miami Heat rallied in the fourth quarter to beat the Dallas Mavericks in Game 3 of the N.B.A. finals. Dallas leads the series, 2-1...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Cleric Linked to 2002 Bali Nightclub Bombings Is Released
Abu Bakar Bashir walked out of prison on Wednesday morning, after serving just over a year for criminal conspiracy...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Reef at forefront of climate battle
Belize backs a petition pressing the UN to acknowledge that climate change is damaging World Heritage Sites...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
Terror cleric freed from jail
Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, who was jailed in Indonesia for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali bombings, has been released after 26 months...
CNN - June 14, 2006
Weak Alberto still a soaker
Tropical Storm Alberto blew across south Georgia on Tuesday evening with winds of 40 mph as it made its way to South Carolina, leaving heavy rains in its wake but only a portion of the havoc that coastal residents had expected...
CNN - June 14, 2006
No Rove Charges Over Testimony on C.I.A. Leak
A former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney is now alone among White House officials still facing legal jeopardy...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
House Approves Funds for Wars and Hurricane Aid
A bill that provides $94.5 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan and Gulf Coast recovery is expected to pass the Senate...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Texas Tourist Is Stabbed on the Subway
The knife attack on a 21-year-old tourist on the Upper West Side happened without apparent provocation...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Togo's Chaotic Trip to Remember and Forget
Togo's first appearance in the World Cup has produced more coaching changes than goals...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Outspoken New Englander Is New Poet Laureate
Donald Hall's deceptively simple language builds on images of the New England landscape...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
News Analysis: In Iraq Visit, Bush Seizes on a Step Forward
President Bush tried to deliver a calibrated message: that Iraq is turning a corner, but troops will not be withdrawn anytime soon...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
The Road Back: Lives Suspended on Gulf Coast, Crammed Into 240 Square Feet
Contained within the 9,000 FEMA trailers in Hancock County, Miss., are lives in claustrophobic suspension...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Heat 98, Mavericks 96: Meltdown Leaves Mavs Up 2-1, Feeling Lots of Heat
The meltdown that led to a loss in Game 3 of the N.B.A. finals was uncharacteristic, but not unprecedented for the Dallas Mavericks...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Foreign Briefing: Europe, Americas, Australia, Asia
EUROPE...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
S.E.C. Opens Fund Rules for Comment
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Square Feet: Pastoral Site of Historic Inventions Faces the End
The Bell Labs building has been sold, and the public will be invited in for at least one date while it remains, which may not be much longer...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Phone Seizure Seen as Example of Russian Corruption
Law enforcement agencies in Russia are not only taking sides in commercial disputes, but also precipitating them to enrich corrupted officials...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
U.A.W. Will Use Part of Strike Fund to Aid Recruitment of New Members
The amendment to the union's constitution allows the international leadership to spend up to $60 million from the strike fund...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Philip Merrill, 72, Publisher and Ex-Diplomat, Is Dead
Philip Merrill was an Annapolis publisher and former diplomat who has been missing since he set out for a solitary sail on Saturday afternoon...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Embracing Digital Era, PBS Hires John Boland of KQED to Fill New Post
As chief content officer at PBS, Mr. Boland will will oversee television programming, new media, education and promotion...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Best Buy Profit Rises 38% on Big Purchases and Cost-Cutting
Best Buy said the gain was driven by an increase in the average size of each transaction...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Charges Called for in Option Schemes
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Qualcomm Raises Profit and Sales Estimates a Second Time
The maker of chips for mobile phones raised its third-quarter profit and sales forecasts citing unexpectedly high consumer demand for new phones...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Finally, Face to Face on a Steel Merger
Meetings scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday will be the first time managers from Mittal Steel and Arcelor meet face to face to talk about a deal...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
British Publishers Seek Exclusive Rights to Sell English-Language Books in Europe
The arcane trade issue has returned as British publishers complain about what they see as a new threat on their home turf...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
EBay to Add a Phone Link From Listings to Sellers
EBay said that sellers would be able to add a link to their listings allowing potential buyers reach to them through Skype, the Internet phone service...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
2 Utilities to Pay Enron $50 Million in Settlement
Two small utilities are set to pay more than $50 million to Enron for electricity that they agreed to buy but that Enron will never deliver...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Ontario Revives Nuclear Power Plan
Ontario announced a plan to spend about 20 billion Canadian dollars ($18 billion) to build reactors and refurbish some current units...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Bayer Sues German Rival Over a Deal With Schering
Bayer filed suit in a federal court Tuesday to stop a German rival, Merck, from voting its recently acquired stake in Schering...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
David Leonhardt: The Price of Day Care Can Be High
Quebec offers universal day care, an audacious idea that recognizes the revolution in women's work over the last 30 years...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Advertising: Hey, Kid, You Want to Buy a Toyota Scion?
Toyota is counting on children to influence their parents' car purchases and maybe grow up with some Toyota brand loyalty...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Square Feet: In Major Projects, Agreeing Not to Disagree
It has become standard practice for developers to negotiate with neighborhood and other groups to forge so-called community benefits agreements...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Trial for Jailed Times Researcher to Start Friday in a Beijing Court
Zhao Yan, who is accused of disclosing state secrets and fraud, has been in custody for 22 months without appearing in court...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Canada Conservative Gets Aggressive With Big Oil
By taking on Big Oil, which has developed other offshore fields in Newfoundland and Labrador, premier Danny Williams is taking quite a gamble...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
KFC Is Sued Over the Use of Trans Fats in Its Cooking
A nutrition advocacy group wants the fast-food chain to stop using partially hydrogenated oils, a key ingredient of its fried chicken...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Airbus Faces a New Delay in Delivery of Its Biggest Jet
Airbus said that it would produce only nine of its giant new A380 jets next year because of numerous design changes...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Core Producer Prices Rise a Little More Than Forecast
Retail sales were essentially flat in the latest set of economic data to suggest that inflation is creeping higher and the economy is slowing down...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks an Expansion of Power
A sprawling new data center in Oregon is evidence of Google's extraordinary ambition in its battle with Microsoft and Yahoo...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
A Clash of Newspaper Families
Chandler and McCormick are proud names in newspaper history; now the heirs are locked in a showdown over the direction of the Tribune Company...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Market Place: Goldman Doubles Its Profit
Goldman Sachs reported that its earnings more than doubled from a year earlier but the company failed to impress Wall Street and its stock fell...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Selling Wave Circles Globe With Losses
In the United States, stocks drifted in and out of positive territory early in the day but closed down for the third consecutive trading day...
New York Times - June 14, 2006
Amnesty seeks rendition 'honesty'
Human rights group Amnesty International asks EU leaders to end a "see no evil" policy on CIA renditions...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
US prisoner flight angers Ireland
Dublin demands an explanation after a handcuffed marine is discovered on a US plane refuelling in Ireland...
BBC News - June 14, 2006
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