MAY
19
2010

Brussels fines chipmakers €331m for price-fixing

Nine memory chip makers, including world leader Samsung Electronics, were fined a total €331m ($411m) by European Union regulators on Wednesday for illegally fixing prices.

MAY
19
2010

Survey: NZers favour blood-alcohol reduction

New Zealanders are in favour of reducing the amount drivers can legally drink before getting behind the wheel, with 70 per cent supporting a limit of 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, a survey has found.

MAY
19
2010

German prosecutors investigating Google

German prosecutors are investigating Google Inc. on suspicion of violating privacy laws by recording fragments of people´s online activities through unsecured Wi-Fi networks.

MAY
19
2010

Canadian doc charged with unlawfully treating NFLers

U.S. authorities have charged a Canadian doctor with unlawfully treating professional football players with unapproved drugs, including human growth hormone.

MAY
19
2010

New rules to aid ash flight chaos

New rules allowing planes to fly in areas with double the density of volcanic ash than before are to be introduced by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) later.

MAY
19
2010

´World´s biggest´ forest protection deal for Canada

Timber companies and environment groups have unveiled an agreement aimed at protecting two-thirds of Canada´s vast forests from unsustainable logging.

MAY
19
2010

Argentina calls on Cameron to reopen Falklands talks

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has urged new UK Prime Minister David Cameron to hold talks over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.

MAY
19
2010

White House presses senate to approve Russia arms pact

Senior Obama administration officials urged the Senate on Tuesday to approve a new arms control treaty with Russia, calling it a critical step to improve relations with Moscow and bolster international solidarity against emerging nuclear powers like Iran and North Korea.

MAY
19
2010

Auditor-General won´t take MPs to court

The office of Auditor-General Sheila Fraser says it will not take a secretive House of Commons committee to court for refusing to allow an audit of MP expense accounts, even as Ms. Fraser´s predecessor added his voice to the growing number of calls for parliamentarians to open their books.

MAY
19
2010

Pakistani court orders Facebook blocked

A Pakistani court ordered the government Wednesday to block the popular social networking website Facebook temporarily because of a page that encourages users to submit images of Islam´s Prophet Muhammad, an official said.

MAY
19
2010

“I have no problem in recognizing Lula da Silva’s regional leadership” – Felipe Calderón

An interview from Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón to El País in English.

MAY
19
2010

Lula’s Iranian diplomatic coup may be linked to shot at UN post

While Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday celebrated what was being hailed as a diplomatic coup in convincing Iran to swap its nuclear fuel with Turkey, many analysts are wondering whether his mediation was a rehearsal for a bigger role — at the United Nations.

MAY
18
2010

Banning mentally ill passengers from flying ´illegal, unworkable´

Banning people with a mental illness from flying in the name of aviation security would be illegal and unworkable, say health and civil liberties experts.

MAY
18
2010

International abduction treaty trumps parental rights, says U.S. Supreme Court

An order prohibiting the removal of a child from a country without the noncustodial parent´s consent is enforceable under an international child abduction treaty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday.

MAY
18
2010

Reluctant Russia, China have agreed on Iran sanctions, Clinton says

The United States, Russia, China and other key nations have reached agreement on a "strong" Iran sanctions resolution, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday.

MAY
18
2010

Portugal´s president to ratify same-sex marriage law

Portugal´s President Anibal Cavaco Silva says he will sign a law legalising same-sex marriage passed by parliament earlier this year.

MAY
18
2010

U.S. to promote press freedom

President Obama signed legislation on Monday intended to promote a free press around the world, a bipartisan measure inspired by the murder in Pakistan of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

MAY
17
2010

In Trenton, issuing IDs for illegal immigrants

Since moving to this city from her native Guatemala a decade ago, Herlinda, an illegal immigrant, has supported her family with restaurant work, but has had no way of proving that she lives here. Without government-issued photo identification, like a driver’s license or a passport, she said, she could not get treatment at most medical clinics, borrow a book from the library, pick up a package from a mail center or cash a check.

MAY
17
2010

Foreign companies chafe at China’s restrictions

Foreign companies doing business in China are increasingly feeling as if the deck is stacked against them.

MAY
17
2010

Prudential details $21 billion rights issue

Prudential, the British insurer, announced the terms of its $21 billion rights issue Monday, a move that keeps it on track to finance its acquisition of American International Group’s Asian life insurance unit.

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