martedì 3 aprile 2012

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ANSA: Petrolio: in aumento a 103,58 dlr/barile

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 12:09 AM PDT

Brent a 123,20 (+0,3%)

ANSA: Oro: a 1.669,50 dlr/oncia

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 12:18 AM PDT

In tre mesi la crescita e' stata del 6,7%

ANSA: Cambi:euro stabile in apertura settimana

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 12:23 AM PDT

yen a 110,73

ANSA: Monti all'Asia: crisi superata, Italia solida

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 11:20 AM PDT

Aljazeera: Scores of 'al-Qaeda fighters' killed in Yemen

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 03:56 AM PDT

Armed forces say they have killed 43 in two days of air raids and shelling on armed group's mountainous hideouts.

Aljazeera: Migrant workers killed in Moscow blaze

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:10 AM PDT

At least 15 die in fire that emergency officials suspect was started by electric heater used to beat freezing cold.

Financial Times: US puts $10m bounty on Pakistan militant

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:36 AM PDT

Saeed has spent past few months criss-crossing the country giving fiery speeches to crowds of flag-waving supporters

Financial Times: Chinese set course for foreign universities

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 07:34 AM PDT

Chinese students are increasingly heading to western universities for both undergraduate and postgraduate education

Aljazeera: Egypt's Brotherhood defends presidential bid

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:06 AM PDT

Group says nominating presidential candidate is "the people's will", despite criticism that move may prove unpopular.

Aljazeera: Palestinians to meet 'soon' with Israelis

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:15 AM PDT

Meeting between negotiators Saeb Erekat and Yitzhak Molcho expected within "hours or days" after months of delays.

Financial Times: Dutch boy steals Wolfson prize limelight

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:21 AM PDT

Eleven-year-old earns honourable mention for cartoon entry in £250,000 competition on dismantling the euro

Financial Times: UN team to enter Syria within 48 hours

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:58 AM PDT

Advance group from the UN peacekeeping department to discuss deployment of observers to monitor ceasefire

Huffington Post: Corporate Personhood Was Key, Ironically, To New Court Ruling Requiring Donor Disclosure

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:25 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- Progressive activists angered by the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission allowing corporations to spend freely in elections often point the finger of blame at the legal doctrine that corporations have certain protections as legal persons. Ironically, that same concept of corporate personhood was just applied by a district court judge in reversing an FEC rule that had permitted the non-disclosure of donors to groups spending money on certain political ads. Many such secret donors are believed to be corporations.

The March 30 ruling in Van Hollen v. FEC held that the FEC may not issue rules, as it had done in 2007, that narrow a disclosure provision in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law requiring groups to reveal donors paying for "electioneering communications" -- ads that mention, but do not call for the election or defeat of, a candidate. The ruling, handed down by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, D.C., said that an administrative agency like the FEC has no authority to reinterpret a congressional law that, as in this case, is clear in its intent.

The McCain-Feingold provision states that any "person" -- meaning both real persons and legal persons -- spending $10,000 in aggregate on electioneering communications must disclose the spending and that the person must also disclose all donors giving $1,000 or more to either the person or a segregated bank account set up exclusively for electioneering communications. The FEC rule invalidated by the court undermined the latter measure.


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Huffington Post: Two-Year-Old Rescued From Well With Help Of iPhone Used By Chinese Firefighters (VIDEO)

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:25 AM PDT

A two-year-old Chinese boy was saved by firefighters after falling into a 40-foot well in southwestern China Saturday, the Telegraph reports.

As emergency workers struggled to hoist the boy up using an adult-sized harness, they decided to tie a piece of rope around an iPhone, slide it down and film the full position of the boy during the rescue.

Rescuers also used a hose to pump fresh oxygen into the well to keep him from suffocating.


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Huffington Post: Indian Man, Jadav "Molai" Payeng, Single-Handedly Plants A 1,360 Acre Forest In Assam

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:27 AM PDT

More than 30 years ago, a teenager named Jadav "Molai" Payeng began planting seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in India's Assam region, the Asian Age reports.

It was 1979 and floods had washed a great number of snakes onto the sandbar. When Payeng -- then only 16 -- found them, they had all died.


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Huffington Post: 'To Rome With Love' Trailer: Yep, It's A Woody Allen Movie (VIDEO)

Posted: 03 Apr 2012 10:29 AM PDT

"The kid's a Communist, the father is a mortician; does the mother run a leper colony?" Try the veal, y'all!

The first trailer for Woody Allen's "To Rome With Love" has arrived and it's as Woody Allen-y as you would hope. Jokes about Communism, misery, infidelity, intelligence, sexually adventurous brunettes, and nebbishes abound, as do a pair of big-screen revivals: Allen himself and Roberto Benigni.

In "To Rome With Love," a quasi-omnibus tale of a bunch of Americans and Italians living and loving in Italy, Allen appears in front of the camera for the first time since "Scoop" in 2006. The good news: He hasn't lost one smidgen of comic timing, as evidenced by his delightful repartee with nominal Allen regular, Judy Davis. Also: this looks a lot better than "Scoop"!


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