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• ANSA: Cottarelli, non soggetto a spoil system
• ANSA: A rischio ok a Destinazione Italia
• ANSA: Saccomanni, spending review va avanti
• ANSA: Giappone:Boj conferma politica monetaria
• Financial Times: US unemployment is key to rate direction
• Financial Times: India set to free Rajiv Gandhi killers
• Aljazeera: Blair 'offered Murdoch hack scandal advice'
• Huffington Post: Derek Jeter Talks Retirement: 'This Is The Right Time' (VIDEO)
• Huffington Post: Northeast Running Out Of Rock Salt As More Snow Falls
• Huffington Post: Kate Upton's Zero Gravity Bikini Photoshoot For Sports Illustrated Defies The Laws Of Physics
• Huffington Post: Sad Sochi Bear Is The Official Mascot Of Devastated Russian Hockey Fans (PHOTO)
• Aljazeera: Syrian rebels call commander's sacking a coup
• Financial Times: Canadian air freshens fusty Britain
• Financial Times: Washington rues the Abe it wished for
• Aljazeera: Gunfire erupts as Muslims flee CAR capital
• Aljazeera: UAE police hunt for Etihad plane arsonist

ANSA: Cottarelli, non soggetto a spoil system Posted: 17 Feb 2014 10:49 AM PST Ma mio mandato a disposizione

ANSA: A rischio ok a Destinazione Italia Posted: 17 Feb 2014 10:51 AM PST Olivero (Sc), ci appelleremo a senso responsabilità opposizione

ANSA: Saccomanni, spending review va avanti Posted: 17 Feb 2014 11:15 AM PST Sarà illustrata a nuovo Governo appena si insedierà

ANSA: Giappone:Boj conferma politica monetaria Posted: 17 Feb 2014 07:27 PM PST Borsa Tokyo 'brinda' con Nikkei a +2,86%

Financial Times: US unemployment is key to rate direction Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:07 PM PST Prospects for economic growth look promising and if it reaches 3% there is a good chance that unemployment will fall faster than expected

Financial Times: India set to free Rajiv Gandhi killers Posted: 19 Feb 2014 01:09 AM PST State of Tamil Nadu to release seven men convicted of involvement in the 1991 assassination of the then Indian prime minister

Aljazeera: Blair 'offered Murdoch hack scandal advice' Posted: 19 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST London jury read email which suggested the former PM offered to help News Corp navigate allegations of phone-hacking.

Huffington Post: Derek Jeter Talks Retirement: 'This Is The Right Time' (VIDEO) Posted: 19 Feb 2014 09:23 AM PST TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Derek Jeter decided to retire after the upcoming season when he concluded "this is the right time." The New York Yankees captain held a news conference Wednesday, a week after making an announcement many of his teammates said shocked and saddened them. Read More... More on MLB

Huffington Post: Northeast Running Out Of Rock Salt As More Snow Falls Posted: 19 Feb 2014 09:25 AM PST By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Successive winter storms led to critical shortages of rock salt in the U.S. Northeast on Tuesday including Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, while New Jersey scrambled to secure a huge shipment stuck at a port in Maine. The scarcity hit as the East Coast was slammed by a third winter storm system in a single week, leaving many states over-budget for snow removal and running low on supplies like rock salt, which is used to help melt ice and snow on roads and public areas. A 40,000-ton shipment of rock salt was stuck on a foreign ship in Searsport, Maine, days after New Jersey was denied a waiver of federal shipping rules that would have allowed it to travel to a Newark port. Instead, efforts to get the salt to New Jersey remained stymied by the 1920 Maritime Act, also known as the Jones Act, enacted to protect the U.S. shipping industry from foreign competition. By law, a foreign ship docked at a U.S. port cannot dock at another U.S. port without a federal waiver. "It's very frustrating. We could have had that shipment here by this past weekend," said New Jersey Department of Transportation Spokesman Joe Dee. Salt supplies were running so low in the state that crews were "scraping the bottom of the barrel," he said. With another month before the first day of spring on March 20, Dee said there was barely enough salt to cover one more storm. "And if it's a major storm, not even one storm," Dee said. "If we don't have the salt to treat the roads, we are going to have major problems." New Jersey officials said they have sent an American flagged vessel to retrieve part of the shipment, but it will not arrive back in the state until next week. The Department of Homeland Security, which would issue the waiver to allow for the shipment, said no decision had yet been made on waiving requirements of the Jones Act. STRETCHING SALT SUPPLIES New York City, meantime, has used the most salt in recent years this winter, spreading more than 460,000 tons so far this season, compared to 404,247 in 2000-2001, according to city Department of Sanitation spokeswoman Belinda Mager. Earlier this month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said New York City and Long Island were facing "dire" salt shortages. Connecticut on Tuesday was still awaiting shipments of salt after Governor Dannel Malloy last week declared a state of emergency because of dwindling supplies. The state said it was asking for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the White House. The latest storm system blanketed Midwestern states, including Michigan and Illinois, with up to 9 inches (23 cm) of snow on Monday before leaving more snow across Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York early on Tuesday. Parts of New England, including Boston, could pick up another 6 inches (15 cm) or more through Tuesday night, according to forecasting site AccuWeather.com. More than 600 U.S. flights have been canceled and another 2,500 delayed, according to the airline tracking website FlightAware. Western Pennsylvania officials said after the latest band of weather on Tuesday, salt inventory was very low. In Pittsburgh, the city's Department of Public Works was mixing its current salt supply with other chemicals to make it last longer. Transportation officials in Massachusetts said they currently had enough rock salt on hand to handle the latest storm but were taking precautions to ensure the spreading was done with minimal waste. Michael Verseckes, a spokesman with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, said Tuesday the state had also exceeded its $42 million snow removal budget this year, spending upwards of $70 million for labor, overtime, materials and ongoing shipments of salt and other supplies. (Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Cynthia Osterman) Read More...

Huffington Post: Kate Upton's Zero Gravity Bikini Photoshoot For Sports Illustrated Defies The Laws Of Physics Posted: 19 Feb 2014 09:32 AM PST Kate Upton famously defies gravity on a daily basis, and was likely Sports Illustrated's inspiration to have the buxom blonde pose for photos inside a zero gravity chamber. Clad in a tiny gold bikini, the 21-year-old model learned that what goes up will not always come down in the Zero Gravity Plane at the Space Coast Regional Airport at Cape Canaveral. The photos featured inside Sports Illustrated's special 50th anniversary Swimsuit Issue, are a nod to Jane Fonda's weightless striptease from the 1968 film "Barbarella." And though Fonda achieved her airborne scene with help of camera tricks and plexiglass, Upton's floatation is real and was experienced inside a "modified Boeing 727 flown in a parabolic, roller-coaster maneuver," according to NBC News. Read More... More on Kate Upton

Huffington Post: Sad Sochi Bear Is The Official Mascot Of Devastated Russian Hockey Fans (PHOTO) Posted: 19 Feb 2014 09:34 AM PST Even the mascots are sad in Sochi. Devastation was in the air at the Bolshoy Ice Dome following the Russian men's hockey team's stunning 3-1 defeat to Finland in the quarterfinals of the Olympic tournament on Wednesday. Alex Ovechkin and his teammates were visibly distraught on the ice when their early exit was sealed. Russian fans looked stunned in the stands as their team's medal hopes were dashed yet again. Once the players and the fans had cleared out, one of the official Sochi Olympics mascots, the Polar Bear, remained. With his oversized head in his furry paw, the sad bear's posture of sadness summed up the feelings of everyone who had been hoping the home team would win gold. #Sochi2014 Bear is inconsolable after Russia's loss to Finland in the #IceHockey... :-( pic.twitter.com/8nOAw3Cqdr — Sochi 2014 (@Sochi2014) February 19, 2014 Read More... More on 2014 Olympics

Aljazeera: Syrian rebels call commander's sacking a coup Posted: 19 Feb 2014 09:43 AM PST Salim Idriss says he rejects sacking from Free Syrian Army by political wing, as commanders rally in his support.

Financial Times: Canadian air freshens fusty Britain Posted: 19 Feb 2014 09:49 AM PST Having a non-Briton as head of the Bank of England has accentuated the increasing openness of the British economy

Financial Times: Washington rues the Abe it wished for Posted: 19 Feb 2014 10:49 AM PST The US is becoming increasingly concerned that Japan's departure from postwar pacifism will provoke a counter-reaction in Beijing

Aljazeera: Gunfire erupts as Muslims flee CAR capital Posted: 19 Feb 2014 10:50 AM PST Violence broke out after Christian fighters tried to halt the evacuation of Muslims from a camp near the airport.

Aljazeera: UAE police hunt for Etihad plane arsonist Posted: 19 Feb 2014 11:01 AM PST Abu Dhabi-bound, 250 passenger flight was forced to land in Indonesia after crew discovered fires in the lavatories.

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