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• ANSA: Eni:utile primo trimestre 1,3 mld (-15%)
• ANSA: Petrolio: in aumento a 100,9 dollari
• ANSA: Oro: in calo a 1.293,7 dollari
• Huffington Post: Los Angeles NAACP Denounces Donald Sterling
• Huffington Post: Netflix Agrees To Pay Verizon For Faster Internet, Too
• Huffington Post: Turkey's Erdogan Says He Will Try To Extradite Rival From The U.S
• Huffington Post: Alfonso Cuarón Tears Apart Mexican President's Energy Reform In Open Letter
• Financial Times: Poll cannot mask Assad’s vulnerabilities
• Financial Times: EU moves to end smartphone ‘patent wars’
• Aljazeera: Apartheid analogy common among Israel's left
• Financial Times: Chinese investors’ anger at trust default
• Aljazeera: Pakistan cuts power to government offices
• Aljazeera: UN lifts ban on Ivory Coast diamonds
• Financial Times: Weaning the world off its sweet tooth
• ANSA: P.A.: Renzi, mercoledì al via ragionamento su riforma
• Aljazeera: Drug firms: protecting profits and products?

ANSA: Eni:utile primo trimestre 1,3 mld (-15%) Posted: 28 Apr 2014 11:02 PM PDT Risultato adjusted 1,19 mld (-14,3%). Scaroni, risultati solidi

ANSA: Petrolio: in aumento a 100,9 dollari Posted: 28 Apr 2014 11:14 PM PDT Brent sale a 108,37

ANSA: Oro: in calo a 1.293,7 dollari Posted: 28 Apr 2014 11:20 PM PDT Sui mercati asiatici

Huffington Post: Los Angeles NAACP Denounces Donald Sterling Posted: 29 Apr 2014 06:10 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NAACP has decided against honoring Donald Sterling with a lifetime achievement award from its Los Angeles chapter after the Clippers owner allegedly made racist comments in a recorded conversation. Donations made by Sterling, who has owned the team since 1981, will be returned, Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles NAACP, said at a news conference Monday. Jenkins would not say how much money was involved. "There is a personal, economic and social price that Mr. Sterling must pay for his attempt to turn back the clock on race relations," he said. Read More... More on Donald Sterling

Huffington Post: Netflix Agrees To Pay Verizon For Faster Internet, Too Posted: 29 Apr 2014 06:13 AM PDT LOS ANGELES, April 28 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc has reached a deal to pay Verizon Communications Inc for faster delivery of its TV shows and movies, the second arrangement to pay fees for quicker access that the company argues should be free. Financial terms were not disclosed. In February, Netflix struck a deal with Comcast Corp to pay for faster delivery over the Internet through a practice known as interconnection. Weeks later, Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings said he had reluctantly agreed to pay the fees so his customers would get better service. Hastings, in a blog post in March, called on broadband providers to make adequate connections available to Netflix for free, but said Netflix might reach deals to pay other providers in the short term. On Monday, Netflix spokesman Joris Evers said "we have reached an interconnect arrangement with Verizon that we hope will improve performance for our joint customers over the coming months." Verizon spokesman Bob Varettoni confirmed the deal. "We reached this agreement to deliver improved service for our combined customers," he said. (Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Bernard Orr) Read More... More on Netflix

Huffington Post: Turkey's Erdogan Says He Will Try To Extradite Rival From The U.S Posted: 29 Apr 2014 06:13 AM PDT * Gulen in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1997 * Erdogan accuses him of building "parallel state" * Erdogan also criticises German president (Adds comment on German president, extradition process) By Gulsen Solaker ANKARA, April 29 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would ask the United States to extradite an Islamic cleric he accuses of plotting to topple him and undermine Turkey with concocted graft accusations and secret wire taps. Fethullah Gulen has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1997, when secularist authorities raised accusations of Islamist activity against him. Erdogan accuses him of building a "parallel state" of followers in institutions such as the police and judiciary and using them to try to pull the levers of state power. Gulen, a former ally, denies engineering a police graft investigation which has seen three cabinet ministers quit, but has denounced Erdogan over moves to shut down the inquiry by purging police and judiciary of his followers. Asked by a reporter at parliament after a meeting of his ruling AK Party if a process would begin for Gulen's extradition, Erdogan said: "Yes, it will begin." In an interview with PBS talk show host Charlie Rose broadcast late on Monday, Erdogan said Gulen could also pose a threat to U.S. security by his activities. "These elements which threaten the national security of Turkey cannot be allowed to exist in other countries because what they do to us here, they might do against their host," Erdogan told Rose in the interview, according to a transcript. Erdogan has drawn accusations of increasing authoritarianism with his response to the graft investigation, which has included removing thousands of police officers and hundreds of judges and prosecutors, as well as imposing a two-week ban on Twitter and broadening the powers of the state intelligence service. Human Rights Watch on Monday criticised a new law giving the national intelligence agency (MIT) more scope for eavesdropping, greater immunity from prosecution for top agents and jail terms for leaks of sensitive information, saying it gave the agency "carte blanche" and was open to abuse. The government has said the law replaces outdated legislation and brings Turkey in line with international norms. German President Joachim Gauck criticised Erdogan's leadership style during a trip to Turkey on Monday and warned against curbing freedom of expression. "Presumably he still thinks he is a clergyman," Erdogan said of Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor, adding his comments showed a lack of statesmanship and that he was "saddened" by his attitude. EXTRADITION Erdogan said Turkey had complied with more than 10 extradition requests from the United States and now expected the same response from its NATO ally. But it was not clear on what basis an extradition might be agreed. Turkish authorities would first need to issue an arrest warrant for Gulen and produce evidence indicating he has committed a crime, according to the 1979 treaty signed between the two countries. "If he was tried in Turkey and had been convicted, then you can send that court ruling. You can request extradition for the implementation (of that sentence)," said former European Court of Human Rights judge Riza Turmen, a deputy from the main opposition CHP party. "But none of these are currently the case," he told Reuters. The 1979 treaty also exempts all crimes of a "political character" unless they can be shown to have targeted either the head of state or head of government, or their families. Erdogan said Turkey had cancelled Gulen's passport and that he was in the United States as a legal resident on a green card. The U.S. embassy in Ankara had no immediate comment. Gulen runs a network of businesses and schools, well-funded and secular in nature, across the world. The schools are a major source of influence and funding and have become the target of government efforts to have them shut down. Erdogan accuses Gulen of contriving criminal allegations that his son and the children of three ministers were involved in a corruption scandal and took billions of dollars of bribes. He has also accused Gulen's Hizmet (Service) movement of bugging thousands of phones and leaking audio recordings, including purportedly of his foreign minister and senior security officials discussing possible armed intervention in neighbouring Syria, on the website YouTube. Gulen has denied these accusations. The recordings appeared ahead of a March 30 municipal election, but did little to affect Erdogan's popularity, with his AK Party dominating the electoral map. (Additional reporting by Ayla Jean Yackley and Daren Butler in Istanbul, Jonny Hogg in Ankara; Editing by Nick Tattersall, Ralph Boulton and Sonya Hepinstall) Read More... More on Turkey

Huffington Post: Alfonso Cuarón Tears Apart Mexican President's Energy Reform In Open Letter Posted: 29 Apr 2014 06:14 AM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron published a full-page ad Monday in Mexican newspapers questioning President Enrique Pena Nieto's energy reform. The director of the blockbuster space film "Gravity" wrote the open letter to Pena Nieto, in which he thanked Pena Nieto for his congratulations on the best-director win at this year's Oscar. Read More... More on Latino Politics

Financial Times: Poll cannot mask Assad’s vulnerabilities Posted: 29 Apr 2014 07:42 AM PDT The Syrian leader who is, in effect, a ward of the Iranian state, would do well to study Obama's determined pursuit of rapprochement with Iran

Financial Times: EU moves to end smartphone ‘patent wars’ Posted: 29 Apr 2014 07:45 AM PDT Motorola found to have breached EU antitrust rules, and Samsung has reached a deal with Brussels after agreeing to stop injunctions against rivals

Aljazeera: Apartheid analogy common among Israel's left Posted: 29 Apr 2014 08:49 AM PDT Kerry's comments about Israel's risk of becoming an apartheid state merely echo sentiment common among country's left.

Financial Times: Chinese investors’ anger at trust default Posted: 29 Apr 2014 08:50 AM PDT Some of those who lost money after investing in a China Construction Bank product take to streets to seek refunds in wake-up call for country's leaders

Aljazeera: Pakistan cuts power to government offices Posted: 29 Apr 2014 09:20 AM PDT Government offices owe millions of dollars in unpaid bills, which contribute to the country's power outage problem.

Aljazeera: UN lifts ban on Ivory Coast diamonds Posted: 29 Apr 2014 10:19 AM PDT UN resolution immediately terminates sanctions imposed in 2005 on diamond imports from the west African nation.

Financial Times: Weaning the world off its sweet tooth Posted: 29 Apr 2014 10:33 AM PDT Information will help consumers cut back on calories. Raising the cost is generally an effective way of limiting use

ANSA: P.A.: Renzi, mercoledì al via ragionamento su riforma Posted: 29 Apr 2014 11:06 AM PDT Ancora tempo per ok a nuove norme. Sindacati chiedono confronto

Aljazeera: Drug firms: protecting profits and products? Posted: 29 Apr 2014 11:25 AM PDT Pharmaceutical companies offer controversial new prescription to keep the industry in good health.

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