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2012年11月15日星期四

Morning Digest: China names conservative, older leadership

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11/15/2012

Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between

China names conservative, older leadership

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party unveiled an older, conservative leadership line-up on Thursday that appears unlikely to take the drastic action needed to tackle pressing issues like social unrest, environmental degradation and corruption..

War looms after Hamas rocket kills three Israelis

GAZA (Reuters) - A Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, drawing the first blood from Israel as the Palestinian death toll rose to 13 and a military showdown lurched closer to all-out war with an invasion of the enclave..

Growth worries, U.S. fiscal fears hit shares

LONDON (Reuters) - World share markets fell for a seventh day on Thursday, hit by evidence that Europe's debt crisis has stalled economic growth and as concern over the fiscal problems facing the United States ratchets up..

Judge throws out Justin Bieber paparazzo chase case

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Criminal charges filed against a photographer who pursued teen pop star Justin Bieber at high speeds on a Los Angeles freeway in July were thrown out on Wednesday, striking a blow to California's crackdown on overly aggressive paparazzi..

Exclusive: Livestrong cancer charity drops Lance Armstrong name from title

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Lance Armstrong Foundation has formally dropped the name of the disgraced cyclist from its title, the organization said on Wednesday, marking the latest move by the cancer charity to distance itself following the biggest doping scandal in the sport's history..

Facebook campaign wins German boy soccer gravestone

BERLIN (Reuters) - A church in Germany has bowed to public pressure and allowed the parents of a soccer-mad nine-year old boy who died from a brain tumor to erect a gravestone with a ball beside it after a Facebook campaign spawned more than 100,000 angry messages..

Scientists identify new risk gene for Alzheimer's

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two international teams of scientists have identified a rare mutation in a gene linked with inflammation that significantly increases the risk for the most common form of Alzheimer's disease, the first such discovery in at least a decade..

San Francisco nudists rally for right to bare it all

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two dozen pro-nudity activists wearing little but their righteous indignation assembled on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday to protest a proposed municipal ban on public nakedness..