News related to
Ardi

China to strengthen defences, no word on budget

By Christian Shepherd and Philip Wen | BEIJING BEIJING China pledged more support to its military on Sunday including strengthening maritime and air defences amid efforts to safeguard sovereignty, but in a highly unusual move did not give spending figures for 2017 despite promises of transparency.Parliament's spokeswoman Fu Ying said on Saturday defence spending for this year would rise about 7 percent, accounting for around 1.3 percent [...]

Two new devices enhancing treatment for certain cardiovascular problems

A miniaturized pacemaker that doesn’t have any wires and a coronary stent that gradually dissolves in the body – both approved by Food and Drug Administration within the past year – are being put to good use by heart and vascular specialists. (via WSJ)

Senator Sasse Issues Statement On Trump's "Very Serious Wiretapping Allegations"

Senator Ben Sasse, a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary and Armed Services Committees, has issued the following statement after President Trump accused former President Obama of wiretapping his phones in 2016 and Obama's spokesman said that was false. Sasse raises several key points: if the wiretap was authorized by a FISA Court, Trump should demand to see the application, find out on what grounds it was [...]

Obama spokesman denies Trump claim of wiretap order

WASHINGTON A spokesman for ex-President Barack Obama on Saturday denied President Donald Trump's allegation that the former president ordered a wiretap of him last October.Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis said: "A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice." He added, "As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official [...]

How Pakistan’s Panama Papers probe unfolded – Pakistan – DAWN … – DAWN.com

Plot twists, accusations and 25,000 pages of evidence — a snapshot of the case that will determine Nawaz Sharif's fate. Panama Papers leaked; Sharif family under spotlight — Feica/Dawn.The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) makes 11.5 million secret documents available to the public for the very first time. The documents, coming from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, contain confidential attorney-client information for more than 214,488 offshore [...]

Nintendo Switch teardown reveals big battery and lots of cooling, just keep it away from your aquarium

Inside the Nintendo Switch iFixit It didn't take long for the folks at iFixit to get their hands on the new Nintendo Switch and carry out a teardown. It reveals a massive battery and the sort of cooling system usually reserved for laptops. Must read: How to make Google Chrome use less battery power Nintendo Switch tech specsCustomized Nvidia T1 Tegra chip6.2-inch, 1280 × 720 resolution, multi-touch [...]

Panama Papers lose integrity worldwide – Geo News, Pakistan

KARACHI: The Panama Papers — a huge leak of documents detailing the alleged secret offshore holdings of global elite — were released in April 2016. The leak made headlines all-over the world, but its impact was probably most keenly felt in Iceland. Just two days after the leak appeared, Iceland’s prime minister had to resign from his office over protests by the people. Thousands of people had [...]

The art of social media influencing

The biggest issue facing the world of social media influencers is transparency. Should the person with 100,000 followers on Instagram (or 5.4 million followers as the keynote speaker, Joelle Mardinian, can boast) announce that she is being paid to promote a product? The inevitable tangents to the four hours of conversations tried to answer the question: what constitutes an influencer (or a content generator as one panellist [...]

Exclusive – Trump aides’ bid to plug leaks creates unease among some civil servants

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin used his first senior staff meeting last month to tell his new aides he would not tolerate leaks to the news media, three sources familiar with the matter said.Current and former officials said that in a departure from past practice, access to a classified computer system at the White House has been tightened by political appointees to prevent some [...]

Johnson & Johnson wins trial in talc product liability lawsuits

Johnson & Johnson said on Friday that a state court jury in Missouri had returned a verdict in its favor in the latest trial to arise out of thousands of lawsuits alleging the company's talc-based products can increase the risk of ovarian cancer.The jury sided with Johnson & Johnson and talc supplier Imerys Talc in a lawsuit by Tennessee resident Nora Daniels, who alleged that she used [...]

Exclusive – Trump administration considering separating women, children at U.S.-Mexico border

By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Women and children crossing together illegally into the United States could be separated by U.S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to three government officials. Part of the reason for the proposal is to deter mothers from migrating to the United States with their children, said the officials, who have been briefed on [...]

How Trump Changed The Market: Goldman Explains

In the first stage of the Trump Rally (from the election to year-end), investors appeared to hedge as the market rallied. However, since the start of the new year, Goldman Sachs' proprietary macro hedging indicator has traded along with equities, suggesting that investors are buying stocks and discarding protection. As Goldman's John Marshall and Katherine Fogertey explain, the Trump rally has changed the market - Investors Stopped [...]

How LSE and D Börse’s cursed merger unravelled

The heads of the London Stock Exchange Group and Deutsche Börse went to Brussels at the start of February on the verge of clearing a major obstacle for their historic €29bn merger.Xavier Rolet and Carsten Kengeter thought EU regulators were set to bless the deal they had been working on for more than a year.But midway through the meeting, Mr Kengeter stepped out to take an emergency phone call.The [...]

Investors see Snap's IPO as 'too big to fail'

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO Institutional investors anxious not to be left out of this year's marquee initial public offering helped Snap Inc (SNAP.N) pull off the biggest U.S.-listed technology share sale this week since Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group Holding Inc (BABA.N) smashed records in 2014. Keen to boost returns and with a dearth of new stocks to buy, the IPO of a buzzy social media group was [...]

How Pakistan’s Panama Papers probe unfolded – Newspaper … – DAWN.com

April 3, 2016Panama Papers leaked; Sharif family under spotlightThe International Consortium of Investigative Journalists made nearly 11.5 million secret documents public. The documents contained confidential attorney-client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities, with the source of these leaks being a Panamanian financial law firm, Mossack Fonseca. Eight offshore companies were reported to have links with the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother, Punjab [...]

Malaysia condemns use of VX at airport; prepares to deport North Korean

By Praveen Menon and Angie Teo | KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia condemned the use of VX, the super toxic nerve agent that killed the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a Kuala Lumpur airport last month, as authorities on Friday prepared to deport a North Korean suspect.Kim Jong Nam was murdered on Feb. 13 at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, where he was [...]

Latin America’s Accountability Revolution

People take part in a protest against corruption in Lima, Peru after a scandal involving bribes Brazil's Odebrecht distributed in Peru, February 16, 2017 (Guadalupe Pardo/Reuters). A wave of corruption scandals has roiled Latin America in recent years, from Chile’s campaign finance affairs, through Mexico’s Casa Blanca revelations. Most recently, the information divulged in the December Odebrecht settlement has sent a shudder of fear across regional politics [...]

U.S. proposes awarding five air carriers new Mexico City slots

By David Shepardson | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The U.S. Transportation Department on Thursday proposed awarding 24 slot pairs at Mexico City’s Benito Juarez International Airport to Alaska Airlines, JetBlue Airways Corp (JBLU.O), Southwest Airlines Co (LUV.N), Volaris and Grupo Viva Aerobus SAB de CV.The tentative Mexico City allocations will result in new or additional low-fare service to 15 U.S. cities, including Chicago O’Hare, Denver, Houston Hobby, Los Angeles, [...]

Gold Fundamentals Strong As PDAC Looms

Interested in precious metals investing or storage? Contact us HERE          Written by Peter Diekmeyer (CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL)     Gold prices have surged (+8.57% EOD Wednesday) since January. However, one expert says that trend could continue. “Shrinking exploration budgets, a dearth of new high-quality deposits and the “fear trade” will provide continuing upside pressure as the year unfolds,” says Brent Cook, editor [...]

Uber will apply for a self-driving test permit in California

Uber is now in the process of getting a permit from the California DMV to resume testing its self-driving vehicles on public state roads. Uber started testing its self-driving Volvo XC90 SUVs in San Francisco last year – but the state DMV ultimately opposed the tests since Uber had not applied for its autonomous testing permit prior to beginning service. While Uber took its test fleet of XC90s [...]

Melanoma Survivors Should Limit Sun Exposure To Reduce Risk Of Second Diagnosis, New Study Reveals

A new study reveals that melanoma survivors should avoid sun exposures as it may lead to the recurrence of the disease. However, it was found that survivors who should be avoiding sunlight tend to seek suntans and get sunburnt. It is believed that for most of the melanoma survivors, an early-stage diagnosis is moderately a minor experience. However, the illness is quite serious, as they reportedly have [...]

UAE military might on display at Corniche – in pictures

All branches of the Armed Forces participated, including the Quick Reaction Force of the Presidential Guard, supported by the UAE Joint Aviation Command, the Navy, the Air Force, Air Defence and the Army. Antonie Robertson / The National The event was attended by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and sheikhs, military commanders and officials. Ryan [...]

After conflict-of-interest questions, NPR is tweaking its financial disclosure rules

Beginning today, rank-and-file journalists at NPR are responsible for making sure appropriate financial disclosures are made in their stories — and they have the information to make that happen. Until now, the responsibility to disclose who funds NPR's journalism was left to senior supervising producers. But in response to conflict-of-interest questions raised by NPR's coverage of the Iran deal (a review found no journalistic impropriety), the public radio [...]