WASHINGTON — An independent inquiry into the attack on the United States diplomatic mission in Libya that killed four Americans on Sept. 11 sharply criticized the State Department for a lack of seasoned security personnel and for relying on untested local militias to safeguard the compound, according to a report by the panel made public on Tuesday night. The investigation into the attack...
Attackers in Pakistan Kill Anti-Polio Workers
Label: LifestyleAthar Hussain/ReutersRelatives of Nasima Bibi, a worker in a polio vaccination drive, at a hospital morgue in Karachi. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Gunmen shot dead five female health workers who were immunizing children against polio on Tuesday, causing the Pakistani government to suspend vaccinations in two cities and dealing a fresh setback to an eradication campaign dogged by Taliban resistance in a...
Attackers in Pakistan Kill Anti-Polio Workers
Label: HealthAthar Hussain/ReutersRelatives of Nasima Bibi, a worker in a polio vaccination drive, at a hospital morgue in Karachi. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Gunmen shot dead five female health workers who were immunizing children against polio on Tuesday, causing the Pakistani government to suspend vaccinations in two cities and dealing a fresh setback to an eradication campaign dogged by Taliban resistance in a...
Dec
17
President Delivers a New Offer on the Fiscal Crisis to Boehner
Label: BusinessJoshua Roberts/ReutersSpeaker John A. Boehner returned to his office on Monday after meeting with President Obama. WASHINGTON — President Obama delivered to Speaker John A. Boehner a new offer on Monday to resolve the pending fiscal crisis, a deal that would raise revenues by $1.2 trillion over the next decade but keep in place the Bush-era tax rates for any household with earnings below $400,000....
Japan’s Next Leader, Shinzo Abe, Shifts Focus
Label: WorldYoshikazu Tsuno/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesShinzo Abe, set to be prime minister, said Monday that there would be no negotiation over Japan’s stake in islands that China also claims, but his position is no tougher than the incumbents’. TOKYO — Shinzo Abe, set to return as Japan’s prime minister after his party’s landslide victory on Sunday, means it when he says he knows what it feels like...
As Europe Presses Google on Antitrust, U.S. Backs Away
Label: TechnologyBRUSSELS — Google seems on its way to coming through a major antitrust investigation in the United States essentially unscathed. But the outlook is not as bright for Google here, as the European Union’s top antitrust regulator prepares to meet on Tuesday with Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman. In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission appears to be ready to back off...
N.I.H. to Start Initiatives to Raise Number of Minority Scientists
Label: LifestyleFew blacks enter biomedical research, and those who do often encounter obstacles in their career paths. A study published last year found that a black scientist was markedly less likely to obtain research money from the National Institutes of Health than a white one — even when differences of education and stature were taken into account. The institute has now announced initiatives...
N.I.H. to Start Initiatives to Raise Number of Minority Scientists
Label: HealthFew blacks enter biomedical research, and those who do often encounter obstacles in their career paths. A study published last year found that a black scientist was markedly less likely to obtain research money from the National Institutes of Health than a white one — even when differences of education and stature were taken into account. The institute has now announced initiatives...
Dec
16
In Spain, Having a Job No Longer Guarantees a Paycheck
Label: BusinessSamuel Aranda for The New York TimesRaul, a truck driver in Castellón, Spain, hoped last month to be paid from a government fund. Courts are jammed with requests. VALENCIA, Spain — Over the past two years, Ana María Molina Cuevas, 36, has worked five shifts a week in a ceramics factory on the outskirts of this city, hand-rolling paint onto tiles. But at the end of the month, she often went unpaid....
Chávez Party Wins Vote Amid Uncertainty
Label: WorldCARACAS, Venezuela — With President Hugo Chávez cancer-stricken and potentially unable to continue in office, Venezuelans showed overwhelming support for his party in elections for governor on Sunday, giving it control over almost all of the nation’s 23 states. But voters also delivered an important victory to Mr. Chávez’s main rival, re-electing Henrique Capriles Radonski as governor of...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Copyright © prime News. All rights reserved.
Design 
And Business Directories
