Foreign news

Chile’s president assumes power in austere, post-quake ceremony

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:39:36 +0000

Billionaire businessman Sebastian Pinera took office as earthquake-stricken Chile’s new president on Thursday in an austere ceremony without traditional banquets as in previous inaugurations.

CHILE: Aftershocks Rock Inaugural Ceremony

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:19 +0000

SANTIAGO, Mar 11, 2010 – While Chile’s new rightwing President Sebastian Pinera, who announced that he would lead “a government of reconstruction,” was being sworn in Thursday, the earthquake-ravaged country was shaken by major aftershocks.

Boston Blackie’s Owners Accused In Theft Scheme

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:19:22 +0000

Share + Mar 11, 2010 2:18 pm US/Central CHICAGO 1 of 1 Boston Blackie’s restaurant owner Chris Giannis and manager Andy Bakopoulos, both 38, are two of the three men charged with defrauding banks out of $1.8 million in a check-kiting scheme.

Standardization/Harmonization

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:19:11 +0000

“Harmonization” is the name given to the effort by industry to replace the variety of product standards and other regulatory policies adopted by nations in favor of uniform global standards.

Offshoring

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:18:19 +0000

The debate now raging over service-sector offshoring represents the forseeable expansion of concerns first voiced in the early 1990s over the effect of globalization on U.S. jobs.

Latest BSE case delays “negligible” risk status

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:17:40 +0000

The birthdate of the Alberta beef cow that’s become Canada’s 17th case of BSE will delay Canada’s shot at regaining its “negligible” risk status for the disease, Reuters reported Thursday.

Interview: UN Envoy On Torture Says Concerned About Iran

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:51:40 +0000

The United Nations’ special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, is concerned not only about reports of torture, but executions of minors as well.

Two Mexican women wed in Latin American first

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:40:00 +0000

Lol Kin Castaneda, 33, and Judith Vazquez, 45, wore matching ivory dresses as they led a multiple ceremony at the city hall in which four other gay couples, including four other lesbians, were also married.

Sweden labels mass killing of Armenians genocide

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:19:15 +0000

Sweden’s parliament narrowly approved a resolution Thursday recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide, prompting the Turkish government to recall its ambassador in protest.