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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Apple's big day
(adds Hodgson and Charlton quotes, changes slug) DORTMUND, Germany, April 23 (Reuters) - Manchester United's Premier League title triumph and the winning mentality of evergreen manager Alex Ferguson were widely praised across the game on Tuesday, with England boss Roy Hodgson labelling him a "magician". United clinched their 20th league title on Monday after Robin van Persie's hat-trick sealed a 3-0 win over Aston Villa, giving Ferguson the 49th trophy in his long managerial career. ...
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/appl-earnings--a-live-chat-about-the-future-of-apple-173717676.html
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
White House backs Reid?s sequester plan
With deep federal spending cuts known as the sequester beginning to affect air travel and forcing some public-sector layoffs, the White House on Wednesday seemed to offer public support for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's proposal to temporarily pay down the sequester without generating new tax revenue.
White House officials previously stated the president would not support any measure to replace the sequester that did not include some new tax revenue?what they called a "balanced" approach to deficit reduction.
Reid's plan suggests using some of the $650 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operation fund for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to pay down the sequester for about five months on the presumption the U.S. will not spend all the funds allocated given that the Iraq War has ended and U.S. combat troops are on track to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
"We believe that Sen. Reid's proposal is a good one," White House press secretary Jay Carney said at Wednesday's press briefing. It would "temporarily delay the sequester and all the negative effects that we're talking about down to air travelers, families, seniors, as well as the job loss and the drag on our economy in order to allow for the discussions that the president has made in trying to find common ground with Republicans to bear fruit."
When asked to explain the White House's seeming about-turn on tax revenue, Carney repeated that the White House is supportive of Reid's plan in order to "allow time" for congressional leaders and the White House to find "common ground."
Republicans dismissed Reid's plan as?at best?a budget gimmick.
"So, whether OCO is the mother of all gimmicks, or just a glaring one?everybody other than the majority leader evidently agrees on one thing: It?s the height of fiscal irresponsibility," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor on Wednesday.
McConnell later cast Reid's plan as a significant and potentially positive development: "There?s now bipartisan agreement that tax hikes won?t be a replacement to the sequester," he said.
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Kim Kardashian No Longer Worried About ?Inevitable? Delivery
"We buy all white," she says with a laugh. "Or we'll go and buy both [girl and boy clothing], and then no one will know!"
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Anna Merz, Protector of Black Rhinos, Dies at 81
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Mrs. Merz founded a wildlife reserve in Kenya that has helped the black rhinoceros come back from the brink of extinction.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
South Korean minister cancels Japan visit over war shrine
By Ju-min Park
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign minister canceled a trip to Japan on Monday after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an offering to a shrine seen as a symbol of Japan's former militarism, a South Korean government official said.
China also objected to Abe's offering on Sunday to the Yasukuni shrine, where 14 Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal are honored, saying Japan had to face up to its past nationalistic aggression.
Abe, an outspoken nationalist, made a ritual offering of a pine tree to the shrine. He did not go there but two Japanese ministers and a deputy chief cabinet secretary did visit it on the weekend.
Such gestures upset Asian victims of Japan's war-time aggression, including China and South Korea.
"We are disappointed," said a South Korean government official.
"Through a diplomatic channel, we sent a message several times that we did not want any visit to the shrine before our minister's trip," said the official, who declined to be identified.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se had aimed to discuss the direction of relations with his Japanese counterpart during his planned visit, the official said.
"It is now almost impossible to have a constructive conversation," the official said, referring to the decision to cancel the trip.
For Koreans, the shrine is a reminder of Japan's brutal colonial rule from 1910-1945.
China, which also suffered under Japanese occupation, also takes offence when Japanese leaders pay their respects at the shrine.
"PRIVATE CONDUCT"
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Japan's relations with its neighbors hinged on its acceptance of its history.
"Japan must face up to its history of nationalist aggression" and respect the feelings of victims, the Chinese spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, told a daily news briefing.
"We believe that only when Japan attains a deep understanding of its past history can it open up its future and develop a cooperative relationship with other Asian countries," she said.
In Tokyo, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference that final details of Yun's visit had not been worked out. Visits to the shrine should not disrupt relations between Japan and its neighbors, he said.
"Each country has its own position. We should not let it affect diplomacy."
Suga said the ministers' visits to the shrine were private.
"Cabinet ministers paying visit as private individuals is their private conduct. The government refrains from commenting," he said.
It is not clear how Abe made his offering.
China's Global Times newspaper, published by the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper, the People's Daily, said the shrine gesture was evidence that Japan was "a troublemaker and provocateur among Asian countries".
"This is yet another time that Japan has gone out of its way to manipulate Asian politics," it said.
(Additional reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka in TOKYO and Sally Huang and Megha Rajagopalan in BEIJING; Editing by Robert Birsel)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-korean-minister-cancels-japan-visit-over-war-013304254.html
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