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Thursday, July 26, 2012

2:14 PM 7/26/2012 - Mike Nova's starred items

 


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Ukraine activist bares breasts to Russian patriarch

via Uploads by AFP by AFP on 7/26/12
An activist from Ukraine's prominent feminist rights group FEMEN on Thursday bared her breasts in front of the Russian Orthodox Patriarch just minutes after he flew in to the country. Duration: 00:24
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via Voice of America by Jeff Seldin on 7/26/12
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One key to stopping the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is making sure workers in the global sex industry take appropriate precautions. But there are growing concerns medical breakthroughs in the fight against AIDS will soon make that more difficult. Excitement about turning the tide in the fight against HIV is being tempered by researchers who worry some of the most vulnerable populations will miss out on medical advances. "The risk to sex ...


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Euro Bankers Signal New Action
Wall Street Journal
By BRIAN BLACKSTONE And WILLIAM HOROBIN Global markets rose following ECB president Mario Draghi's comments that the ECB would do "whatever it takes to preserve the euro." Charles Forelle reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Reuters.
Draghi: ECB to do "whatever it takes" to save euroBusinessweek
European shares rally as Draghi hints at ECB actionReuters
European Central Bank vows to protect the euro, sending stocks sharply higher ...Washington Post
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via NYT > World by By NICHOLAS WADE on 7/26/12
Geneticists’ new finding that a previously unknown archaic species of human mingled with early modern humans in Africa has been met with skepticism because no fossil evidence exists.


via Reuters Video: Top News on 7/26/12
July 26 - Prime Minister David Cameron insists the British people are behind the Olympics, after U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney voiced concerns over preparations for the London Games. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

via Reuters Video: Top News on 7/26/12
July 26 - U.S. Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney will hope his glamorous London fundraisers are more successful than his attempts at diplomacy after he offends British Prime Minister David Cameron.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it appeared that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were "lining up" for a massacre in the city of Aleppo, but again ruled out military intervention in the conflict. The U.S. State Department said that credible reports of tank columns moving on Aleppo along with air strikes by helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft represented a "serious escalation" of the government's efforts to crush an armed rebellion. ...

President Barack Obama addresses the National Urban League convention at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Wednesday, July 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Even as the issue of guns shifts to the forefront of the presidential campaign, the White House and the Senate's top Democrat made it clear Thursday that new gun legislation will not be on the political agenda this year. Instead, President Barack Obama intends to focus on other ways to combat gun violence — a position not unlike that of his rival, Mitt Romney.

via WSJ.com Video - World on 7/26/12
The Olympics may have been just another event in London in 1908 and 1948, but 64 years later London will become the first city to host the modern games three times. WSJ's Dipti Kapadia takes a look back at London's past Olympics.


via BBC News - World on 7/26/12
Eight high-ranking employees of the US justice department improperly promoted hiring of relatives, an investigation finds.

This an an image of a screen displaying the the micro-blogging site Twitter in London Thursday July 26, 2012. Twitter says that people may have trouble accessing its site. Users across the United States, Europe and Africa are reporting outages or sluggishness on the day before the London 2012 Games are expected to cause a spike in activity on the site. (AP Photo/Cassandra Vinograd)People across much of the planet were having problems accessing Twitter on Thursday, a day before the 2012 Olympic Games are expected to cause a spike in use of the micro-blogging site.

via Reuters: Politics on 7/26/12
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun control advocates are looking ahead to this year's first presidential debate, set to be held in Denver, Colorado, as a chance to keep pressing President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney on U.S. gun policy.

via Reuters: Politics on 7/26/12
LONDON (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's trip to London is intended to enhance his credibility as a world figure in the run-up to the November 6 election but it also could turn a spotlight on some of his political vulnerabilities.

via Reuters Video: Top News on 7/25/12
StockTwits' Phil Pearlman says the wide dispersion in estimates for Facebook's first earnings report means no one knows what to expect and that investors will learn a lot from the release.

via Reuters: Health News on 7/26/12
(Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Thursday it would collaborate with some of the country's biggest health insurers to try to combat healthcare fraud.

via The New York Times's Facebook Wall by The New York Times on 7/26/12
The 41-year-old Briton, whose body was found in November in a hotel in Chongqing, was allegedly poisoned by a woman trying to protect her son.


Bo Xilai’s Wife Is Charged in Killing of British Businessman
www.nytimes.com
Gu Kailai, the wife of the disgraced political leader Bo Xilai, has been indicted for intentional homicide, in a crime that has triggered China’s most serious political crisis in decades.

via NYT > N.Y. / Region by By MATT FLEGENHEIMER on 7/26/12
Over nearly five years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's fleet of tunnel-boring machines, all of them named, have been plowing beneath the city in service of the agency's megaprojects.


via NYT > Dining & Wine by By KIM SEVERSON on 7/25/12
An executive’s statements have reignited opposition to, as well as support for, a chain that gives millions of dollars to groups fighting same-sex marriage.



Mike Nova's starred items

via NYT > Europe by By ANDREW E. KRAMER on 7/26/12
The allegation touched on the personal dealings of Aleksandr I. Bastrykin, head of the Russian agency that coordinates criminal investigations and Aleksei A. Navalny, a figure loathed by anticorruption activists.


via The New York Times's Facebook Wall by The New York Times on 7/26/12
Op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof writes, “We shield youngsters in cinemas from violence — but only if it’s on the screen. Almost a week after the cinema shooting, we can also be sure what won’t happen: serious gun control.”


Safe From Fire, but Not Guns
www.nytimes.com
If we have safety regulations even for toy guns, how about some for real ones?

Haiti's 2010 earthquake sent some 1.5 million Haitians to live in tent cities. A new radio series follows a family living in a camp, educating listeners on everything from health to housing services.


via NYT > N.Y. / Region by By DAVID W. CHEN on 7/26/12
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has chosen to endorse Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, because of the senator’s “tough stand” on gun control, a spokesman says.


via NYT > World by By MORT ROSENBLUM on 7/26/12
Vietnam made it clear that ideological wars are not won from the air, yet Americans -- pretty much alone in the world -- don't seem to understand this.


via The Guardian World News by Alan Travis on 7/26/12
Cannabis is the most popular drug among all age groups, official figures show, but use has fallen by more than a third since 1996
Illicit drug use among young people aged 16 to 24 has been stable over the past year at about 1.3 million, or 19% of the age group, and remains at its lowest level since records began in 1996, according to official figures published on Thursday.
The 2011-12 annual survey of drug use, measured by the Crime Survey for England and Wales, shows that cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit drug among young adults, followed by powder cocaine, which appears to have passed a peak of popularity.
The annual drug data from what used to be the British Crime Survey shows that the government's ban on the "legal high" mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant, appears to have had some impact: there has been a slight decline in the level of use reported in the past year, from 1.4% to 1.1%.

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