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US News Archive for January 2007:
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Iraq troops surge faces opposition
President Bush was told Friday that boosting troop levels in Iraq would be a "serious mistake." In an open letter, top Democrats called it a "strategy that has already failed." The criticism comes as Bush considers his Iraq options and makes top-level military and diplomatic changes...
CNN - January 5, 2007
U.S. ships block Islamist escape route
Somali troops backed by Ethiopians prepared to launch a major assault Friday on the last stronghold of Islamic movement militiamen. U.S. warships were patrolling off the Somali coast to prevent the militiamen from escaping by sea...
CNN - January 5, 2007
Democratic leaders reject troop surge
The new leaders of Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, on Friday urged President Bush not to pour more U.S. troops into the war in Iraq, calling the idea "a strategy that you have already tried and that has already failed."...
CNN - January 5, 2007
As Trees Blossom in N.Y., More Snow Out West
In New York City, this is the first time since 1978 when there has been no snow this far into the season...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Ties to Secret Police Snare Polish Bishop
Warsaw?s new archbishop admitted that he had collaborated with the Communist-era secret police...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
U.S. and Japan Warn North Korea Against 2nd Test
The warning came as South Korean officials reported suspicious activities at the North?s test site but no evidence of preparations for a nuclear blast...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Playoff Rivalry Puts Longtime Friendship on Hold
Tony Dungy will coach the Indianapolis Colts against his friend Herman Edwards and his Kansas City Chiefs...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Top Democrats Oppose More Troops in Iraq
As President Bush prepares to present his new strategy on Iraq, Democratic Congressional leaders said today they will fight any approach that calls for deploying more U.S. troops...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
US 'heroes' catch falling toddler
Two New York men are hailed as heroes after catching a toddler as he fell four storeys from a Bronx building...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
Bush shakes things up
U.S. President George W. Bush is putting the finishing touches on his new Iraq plan, reshuffling his top military and diplomatic leadership amid speculation about his plans for the region and pressure for change from a new Democratic Congress. Bush has said he will announce his new blueprint for the war in Iraq "sometime next week."...
CNN - January 5, 2007
Why is this man sitting on a dead horse?
Who is that mysterious, elegant man? And why is he sitting on a dead horse? A black-and-white photograph taken in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, between 1876 and 1884 has become an Internet obsession...
CNN - January 5, 2007
Bush builds new Iraq team
U.S. President George W. Bush is putting the finishing touches on his new Iraq plan, reshuffling his top military and diplomatic leadership amid speculation about his plans for the region and pressure for change from a new Democratic Congress...
CNN - January 5, 2007
Bush nominates new intelligence chief
President Bush today nominated retired Vice Adm. Mike McConnell to be national intelligence director and chose John Negroponte to be deputy secretary of state. Bush also has tapped two new military leaders to take over top posts overseeing the Iraq war, military sources said...
CNN - January 5, 2007
Political Memo: Giuliani?s Strategy Is All on His Web Site
While JoinRudy2008.com is shiny and super-spun, the campaign document is dark and forthright...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
A Hamas Leader Tries to Halt Spiraling Violence
The call by the Palestinian prime minister came a day after his own Hamas militia killed a Fatah commander...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
C. Harry Falk, Chief of New York Board of Trade, Dies at 66
C. Harry Falk became chairman of the exchange?s board in 2000 and helped guide it after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Google Acquires Stake in Chinese Web Site
The fast-growing Chinese Web site, Xunlei.com, allows users to download music and video clips from the Internet...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Job Market Ends 2006 on Strong Note
Businesses added many more workers last month than economists expected, and their pay rose at a healthy clip...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Healthy growth in US jobs market
The US jobs market added 167,000 jobs in December, leaving the jobless rate unchanged, figures show...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
GM 'will impose further job cuts'
Car giant GM's chief executive says the firm will cut more jobs in the year ahead as it tries to improve its fortunes...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
Heston sued over 'slope failure'
Actor Charlton Heston is sued by neighbours who blame him for a mudslide which damaged their home...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
US man seized in Iraq
Police in Iraq say an American and his two Iraqi interpreters have been taken hostage near the city of Basra...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
FBI releases files on late judge
Newly-released FBI files give more details on William Rehnquist's dependence on painkillers in the 1980s...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
Tijuana police ordered to disarm
Local police in the Mexican city of Tijuana are made to hand in their guns in a crackdown on drugs violence...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
Democrats: Find way out of Iraq
Democratic congressional leaders have signaled that any plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq could receive a cool reception and are urging President George W. Bush to find a way out of the nearly four-year-old war...
CNN - January 5, 2007
Embezzlement Is Found in Many Catholic Dioceses
Eighty-five percent of dioceses that responded to a survey had discovered embezzlement in the last five years...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
In War of Vague Borders, Detainee Longs for Court
The only person on the American mainland still held as an enemy combatant wants to challenge his detention...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Pakistan Premier Wants Afghan Refugees to Return Home
Shaukat Aziz said he wanted three million Afghan refugees to go home to end the problem of insurgents using Pakistan as a haven...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
The Hard Part: Boulevard in Newark Runs From Decline to Rebirth
After years of decline and sporadic renewal efforts, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard shows signs of progress...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
News Analysis: New Majority?s Choice: Should G.O.P. Policies Be Reversed?
As they take control of Congress, Democrats are divided on how much energy to spend trying to undo tax cuts, deregulation and abortion restrictions...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Saying the No. 1 Ranking Is Worth Keeping, G.M.?s Chief Vows to Fight Toyota
Rick Wagoner said G.M. is not ready to concede its No. 1 position, but offered scant evidence that it could fend off a challenge from Toyota...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Slow sales prompt Motorola alert
Motorola warns that slow handset sales means it will miss profit forecasts for the October to December period...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
US album sales drop in 2006
The number of albums bought in the US falls by 4.9% in 2006 but individual downloads mean sales rise overall...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
NFL: Oakland coach to go
Oakland Raiders are to replace head coach Art Shell after their poorest season in over 40 years...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
Oil stabilises after sharp falls
Oil prices fall slightly in Asian trade after experiencing their sharpest drop in two years on Thursday...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
Brazil model wins YouTube battle
A Brazilian judge orders YouTube to remove a clip of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli romping on a beach...
BBC News - January 5, 2007
Bush: Regret on Hussein execution
U.S. President George W. Bush tells reporters he wished Saddam Hussein's execution had "gone in a more dignified way." The remark -- at a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel -- was Bush's first on-camera response to the chaotic scene captured in a cell-phone recording of the former Iraqi dictator's hanging...
CNN - January 5, 2007
Haniya, Abbas agree on pull back
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya and President Mahmoud Abbas agree to withdraw armed militants from the streets and appealed for calm to end a cycle of violent clashes...
CNN - January 5, 2007
Taliban Leader Promises More Afghan War
Mullah Muhammad Omar?s statements appear to be the first exchange with a journalist since going into hiding five years ago...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Embezzlement Is Found in Catholic Dioceses
Eighty-five percent of dioceses said that they had discovered embezzlement in the last five years...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Yankees Send Johnson Back to Arizona
The trade was not announced because the Diamondbacks must formalize a contract extension with Randy Johnson...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Remain Silent? Some in Custody Spell It All Out
Notwithstanding the constitutional right to remain silent, many people arrested talk freely...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
The Hard Part: Along a Newark Street, Signs of Urban Renewal
A two-mile boulevard through Newark?s Central Ward is showing signs of progress...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
A Terror Detainee Longs for Court
Ali al-Marri wants the right to challenge President Bush?s assertion that he is a terrorist...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Players? Off-Season Regimens Are as Different as Their Swings
Christina Kim is one of the hundreds of golfers on the L.P.G.A. and the P.G.A. Tours whose off-season regimens are as unique as the golf swings they employ...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Jubilant Democrats Assume Control on Capitol Hill
Both Senator Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised a new era of cooperation after years of partisan passion and gridlock...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
The Churn: People
People...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Advertising: 30 Seconds of Fame at Super Bowl XLI Will Cost $2.6 Million
More than a dozen marketers agreed to an estimated average of $2.6 million ? a record amount ? for each 30-second commercial during the game...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
World Business Briefing: France: Setback for Pinault?s Suez Bid
In a possible setback for the billionaire investor François Pinault?s takeover plan for the utility Suez, President Jacques Chirac and Albert Frère, Suez?s biggest investor, said they supported a merger with Gaz de France. ?For me, G.D.F. and Suez is still the best thing,? Mr. Frère said in an interview after a New Year?s address to business leaders by Mr. Chirac in Paris. ?It?s clear.? Suez is coveted as European utilities prepare for a full opening of power markets to competition later this year. ?We need a major actor in gas, that?s why the combination of Gaz de France and Suez is strategic for France and Europe,? Mr. Chirac said in his speech. Mr. Pinault signaled on Tuesday that he might consider a bid for Suez. France?s stock market regulator said it will set on Tuesday a deadline by which Mr. Pinault will have to declare plans to bid or be prohibited from making a takeover offer for six months...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
World Business Briefing: China: Google Invests in Internet Firm
In a move to expand beyond the search business in the world?s second-largest Internet market, Google has made an investment in Xunlei NetworkTechnology, a Chinese Internet video firm, the company said. A Google spokesman said that the investment in Xunlei would be announced today in Beijing, but he declined to give details. According to wire services, the China Daily reported that Google will team up with Ceyuan Ventures, a venture capital firm in Shangai, to buy a stake in Xunlei, which is in Shenzhen. According to the reports, Xunlei?s Web site attracts more than 50 million visitors a day and more than 80 million users have downloaded its software. The Xunlei deal would be Google?s second in as many days in China. Google is also teaming with China Mobile, that country?s largest mobile telecommunications carrier, to deliver search services to cellphones...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
World Business Briefing: Switzerland: Kraft Moving European Base
Kraft Foods, the food and beverage company, said it was moving its European headquarters to Switzerland. The decision, which will transfer several hundred employees from London and Vienna to a research park in Opfikon near Zurich, is intended to streamline the company?s operations in Europe, a Kraft spokeswoman, Sabine Peters-Halfbrodt, said. ?At the moment we have two European headquarters, and the aim is to have just one, in Zurich,? she said. The move would begin this summer and be completed by the summer of 2008, Kraft said...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Xerox Offices Are Sold
Xerox sold its corporate headquarters to a developer in Norwalk, Conn., for $54.8 million...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
World Business Briefing: Canada: Goodyear to Change Tire Plant
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company will stop producing tires at its Valleyfield, Quebec, plant and turn it into a materials mixing center by the end of June, cutting 800 jobs, the company said. Goodyear expects to save about $40 million a year under the plan, which will cut the hourly and salaried work force at the unionized plant to 200 from about 1,000. Goodyear expects to take charges of $115 million to $120 million, or $165 million to $170 million after tax, for restructuring and accelerated depreciation at Valleyfield, with most of the charges in the fourth quarter...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
World Business Briefing: Brazil: Judge Blocks Youtube Video
A judge has ordered YouTube to find a way to stop Brazilians from viewing steamy footage of the supermodel Daniela Cicarelli, left, and her boyfriend on its Web site, court officials said. YouTube was first ordered in September to remove video showing Ms. Cicarelli and a Brazilian banker, Renato Malzoni, in intimate scenes along a beach near Cadiz, Spain. But the clip still appears periodically on YouTube, prompting the expanded order from Justice Enio Santarelli Zuliani of São Paulo State Supreme Court on Tuesday, the court?s press office said. Ms. Cicarelli, one of Brazil?s best-known models, is host of a show on Brazilian MTV and was previously engaged to the Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo. Links to the video appeared on YouTube yesterday, but efforts to view them from Brazil and the United States produced this message: ?This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.? A YouTube spokeswoman, Jennifer Nielsen, declined to comment...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Hedge Fund Plans to Solicit Proxies
Pirate Capital plans to solicit proxies in support of its push to persuade the Brink?s Company to hire an investment bank for a possible sale...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Monsanto Profit Climbs 53% in Quarter
Demand for corn seeds and its Roundup herbicide contributed to the increase but the company forecast 2007 earnings below analysts? estimates...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Australian Insurer Buys 2nd U.S. Firm
QBE Insurance Group agreed to buy the U.S. arm of Winterthur for $1.16 billion, its biggest purchase and second American acquisition in three weeks...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Wine Producer Misses Forecast, and Shares Dive
Constellation Brands said its profit edged up 1 percent in its fiscal third quarter, but crimped by heightened competition in Britain...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Motorola Lowers Profit Forecast
The cellphone maker said fourth-quarter sales and earnings would fall below its forecasts because of a shortfall in mobile devices sales...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Options Developments at 2 Companies
The UnitedHealth Group said its former chief executive entered into an options repricing agreement with the company to avoid a potential tax liability...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Growth in Services Sector Slowed Last Month
New factory orders also rose at a disappointing pace in November, pointing to a slackening economy...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Cisco to Buy Maker of Security Software
Cisco Systems agreed to buy IronPort Systems for $830 million to push into the security software market...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Marvell Executives to Return Money From Backdated Options
Marvell Technology Group said it had found incorrect dating of stock-option grants and that top executives had agreed to pay back extra money...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Boeing?s Orders for Commercial Aircraft Set a Record in 2006
Boeing received a record 1,044 orders for commercial airplanes last year, positioning it to formally regain the sales lead from Airbus for the first time since 2000...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
After Struggling, Wall Street Ekes Out Some Small Gains
A bounce in technology stocks and sharply lower oil prices helped investors brush off concerns about sluggish consumer spending...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Northwest Reaches Deal to Buy Feeder Airline
Northwest said it reached an agreement to buy Mesaba, although it was not clear that Mesaba?s parent company would accept it...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Times Co. Agrees to Sell TV Stations to Equity Firm
The New York Times Company agreed to sell its nine local television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for $575 million...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Second-Largest Tribune Company Shareholder Hires Buyout Consultant
The McCormick Tribune Foundation said it had hired a buyout firm to advise it on a course of action while the Tribune Company is on the block...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Distributor?s Bankruptcy Rattles Book Industry
Book publishers braced themselves for a financial blow after a bankruptcy filing by Advanced Marketing Services...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
2 Law Firms Call Off Plans for a Merger
Dewey Ballantine and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe called off plans for a merger, the victim of too many insurmountable issues...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Rise in Ethanol Raises Concerns About Corn as a Food
A study found that ethanol plants could use as much as half of the U.S. corn crop next year, renewing concerns over a shortage in corn...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Gap Falters, and Board Isn?t Amused
The Gap?s directors are participating in a broad review of the company?s strategy to pull it out of a protracted sales slump...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Street Scene: The Year That Made Deal Makers Giddy
Mergers, takeovers and buyouts broke all records in 2006, and the party may well go on into 2007...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Ford, Lift Up Your Weary Head
Ford has rapidly seen its position in the auto industry and in its hometown eroded by its failure to combat foreign competition...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Gadflies Get Respect, and Not Just at Home Depot
An activist investor led the campaign against Home Depot?s management and strategy that culminated in the ouster of its chief executive...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
A Director Decides to Override a Friendship
When Robert L. Nardelli refused to accept a pay cut, he lost the crucial support of Kenneth G. Langone, a director at Home Depot...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
Lilly Settles With 18,000 Over Zyprexa
Eli Lilly agreed to pay up to $500 million to people who claimed they had developed diabetes or other diseases after taking Zyprexa...
New York Times - January 5, 2007
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