Italians Head to the Polls: Italians voted Sunday and Monday in a general election that is being closely watched to see whether a clear winner will emerge.ROME — Italian voters delivered a rousing anti-austerity message and a strong rebuke to the existing political order in national elections on Monday, plunging the country into political paralysis after results failed to produce a clear winner. ...
HTC Settles F.T.C. Charges Over Security Flaws in Devices
Labels: TechnologyWASHINGTON — More than 18 million smartphones and other mobile devices made by HTC, a Taiwanese company that is one of the largest sellers of smartphones in the United States, had security flaws that could allow location tracking of users against their will and the theft of personal information stored on their phones, federal officials said Friday. The Federal Trade Commission charged...
Global Health: After Measles Success, Rwanda to Get Rubella Vaccine
Labels: LifestyleRwanda has been so successful at fighting measles that next month it will be the first country to get donor support to move to the next stage — fighting rubella too. On March 11, it will hold a nationwide three-day vaccination campaign with a combined measles-rubella vaccine, hoping to reach nearly five million children up to age 14. It will then integrate the dual vaccine into its national...
Global Health: After Measles Success, Rwanda to Get Rubella Vaccine
Labels: HealthRwanda has been so successful at fighting measles that next month it will be the first country to get donor support to move to the next stage — fighting rubella too. On March 11, it will hold a nationwide three-day vaccination campaign with a combined measles-rubella vaccine, hoping to reach nearly five million children up to age 14. It will then integrate the dual vaccine into its national...
Little Clarity in Italian Vote, Aside from Anger
Labels: BusinessItalians Head to the Polls: Italians voted Sunday and Monday in a general election that is being closely watched to see whether a clear winner will emerge.ROME — Italian voters delivered a rousing anti-austerity message and a strong rebuke to the existing political order in national elections on Monday, plunging the country into political paralysis after results failed to produce a clear winner. ...
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Afghanistan Order U.S. Troops From Key Province
Labels: WorldBryan Denton for The New York TimesAn Afghan soldier and resident of Maidan Wardak Province, which the government has decreed off limits to United States forces. KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government barred elite American forces from operating in a strategic province adjoining Kabul on Sunday, citing complaints that Afghans working for American Special Operations forces had tortured and killed...
French Tax Proposal Tackles Data Harvest by Google and Facebook
Labels: TechnologyPARIS — Only a few weeks after the French Constitutional Council rejected one new tax idea — a 75 percent levy on annual incomes of more than 1 million euros ($1.3 million) — another began percolating through the halls of the finance ministry here: a proposal to tax the collection of personal data on the Internet. Google and Facebook know that John Doe “likes” wine, is shopping for a...
The Texas Tribune: Advocates Seek Mental Health Changes, Including Power to Detain
Labels: LifestyleMatt Rainwaters for Texas MonthlyThe Sherman grave of Andre Thomas’s victims. SHERMAN — A worried call from his daughter’s boyfriend sent Paul Boren rushing to her apartment on the morning of March 27, 2004. He drove the eight blocks to her apartment, peering into his neighbors’ yards, searching for Andre Thomas, Laura Boren’s estranged husband. Expanded coverage of Texas is produced by...
The Texas Tribune: Advocates Seek Mental Health Changes, Including Power to Detain
Labels: HealthMatt Rainwaters for Texas MonthlyThe Sherman grave of Andre Thomas’s victims. SHERMAN — A worried call from his daughter’s boyfriend sent Paul Boren rushing to her apartment on the morning of March 27, 2004. He drove the eight blocks to her apartment, peering into his neighbors’ yards, searching for Andre Thomas, Laura Boren’s estranged husband. Expanded coverage of Texas is produced by...
Many Cruise Ship Lack Backup Power Systems, Vexing Regulators
Labels: BusinessDenis Poroy/Associated PressThe Carnival Splendor cruise ship was towed into San Diego Bay in 2010, after a fire destroyed its electrical systems. It is becoming a familiar tale: When the cruise ship was towed into port, the endless hours for passengers of sleeping on deck and going without electricity or toilets were finally over. “It was really hell,” said Bernice Spreckman, who is 77 and...
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