JUN
16
2008

Honda starts production of zero-emission cars

Honda Motor Co. has begun commercial production of its new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car, called the FCX Clarity.

JUN
13
2008

Royal staff slams UN for asking to end monarchy

An official United Nations report has asked Britain to get rid of the Queen.

JUN
13
2008

Irish voters appear to reject EU reform treaty

In a stunning setback to efforts to draft a modern new European constitution, voters in Ireland today appeared to reject a new reform treaty, throwing the European Union´s future governance into doubt.

JUN
13
2008

Exxon to exit retail gas business

Exxon Mobil Corp said on Thursday it is getting out of the retail gas business in the United States as sky-high crude oil prices squeeze margins.

JUN
13
2008

Gitmo detainees can challenge detention in U.S. courts

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the foreign prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to challenge in U.S. civilian courts the government´s right to hold them.

JUN
13
2008

Prostitution ringleader in Spitzer scandal pleads guilty

The leader of the prostitution ring which numbered former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer among its clients entered a guilty plea in federal court Thursday.

JUN
13
2008

Lawmakers approve subpoenas over food testing

Lawmakers voted to subpoena nine companies responsible for analyzing the most dangerous food entering the country as part of an investigation that gained more urgency with an outbreak of salmonella from tomatoes.

JUN
12
2008

China dismisses accusations of cyber-attacks

China’s officials appeared very displeased with the accusations brought upon the country by two United States lawmakers, who claimed that their office computers have been compromised by several Chinese attacks, dismissing the allegations as completely unfounded.

JUN
12
2008

Under pressure: South Korea seeks US amendments to beef deal

South Korea is sending its chief trade official to Washington for what he describes as "additional" negotiations on a controversial beef import deal. However, leaders of mass protests say nothing short of scrapping the deal and restarting negotiations will be acceptable. VOA´s Kurt Achin reports from Seoul.

JUN
12
2008

GPC wins European patent for satraplatin in taxane-resistant cancer

GPC Biotech AG said it won a European patent for its experimental cancer drug satraplatin when used in prostate cancer patients who could not be helped by taxane-based chemotherapy, as it awaits regulatory approval.

JUN
12
2008

Feds fine homebuilders for water pollution

Four of the nation´s largest homebuilders have agreed to pay $4.3 million in fines for failing to control runoff at construction sites in 34 states and the District of Columbia, the Environmental Protection Agency and Justice Department announced Wednesday.

JUN
12
2008

Canadian leader: assimilation policy ´has no place´

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized for a defunct policy that attempted "to kill the Indian in the child" by taking native children from their families and placing them in schools to assimilate them.

JUN
12
2008

Canadian lawmakers urge talks with Taliban

Canadian diplomats and the military should open talks with the Taliban if they think negotiations can effectively shorten what may otherwise be a "very long" war in Afghanistan, said a Senate report released Wednesday.

JUN
12
2008

China and Taiwan reopen talks

Chinese and Taiwanese officials agreed Thursday to set up permanent offices in each other´s territories, in the first formal talks between the two sides in almost a decade.

JUN
12
2008

Irish voters control European treaty´s future

Ireland´s voters were deciding Thursday whether to support the European Union reform treaty in a referendum being watched closely across the continent.

JUN
12
2008

EC threatens energy giants with legal action

European Union regulators stepped up their threat of antitrust action against Germany´s E.On. AG and France´s Gaz de France on Thursday over allegations the two colluded to avoid selling natural gas in each other´s home markets.

JUN
11
2008

Defying U.S., EU mulls ending Cuban sanctions

European Union states are studying ending sanctions on Cuba in defiance of U.S. calls but have yet to agree on how this would be done, diplomats said on Tuesday.

JUN
11
2008

Senate proposes increased DWI Penalties

The New York State Senate has passed and sent to the Assembly a package of legislation to combat the growing problem of driving while intoxicated, upgrading tough penalties for the crimes of aggravated vehicular assault and vehicular murder, increasing the license revocation period for persons convicted of DWI offenses, and curbing underage consumption of alcoholic beverages.

JUN
11
2008

Wal-Mart to pay $250K settlement for firing worker disabled in shooting

Wal-Mart will pay $250,000 to settle a claim that it violated federal disability law when it fired a pharmacy technician who was injured in a shooting.

JUN
11
2008

US court again dismisses challenge to military ban on gays

A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a lawsuit challenging the legality of the US military´s ban on homosexuals, an issue with so many ups and downs it will likely end up in the US Supreme Court.

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