- US Ready for New Talks with Iran on Nuclear Fuel
US says Iran has given indications in will take part in nuclear confidence building talks in mid-November 米国は11月中旬に核の信頼醸成協議に参加するイランは、指示を与えているという
- Iran plans more naval exercises in Hormuz Strait
BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran has announced plans for new military exercises in the world’s most important oil shipping lane. This is its latest gesture towards the West, as new sanctions threaten Tehran’s oil exports.
Real Admiral Ali Fadavi, naval commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, said exercises next month would focus directly on the Strait of Hormuz. Leading up to this, Iran held a 10-day drill which ended on Monday in neighbouring seas. Fadavi said Iran has full domin ... null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Michael Jackson's estate earned £173m in year after star's death
The 'King of Pop' generated more income than Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Madonna and Jay-Z combined in 2010Michael Jackson's This Is It tour was the singer's plan to try to regain some control over the debts he had amassed during his extravagant life, and ultimately the preparation for it played its part in his death. But it was also his death which proved just how strong his selling power was.His estate received a huge boost in the wake of his death and saw him generate £173m in the 12 months after he died.With a succession of timeless hits, sales of his material increased dramatically as fans rushed out to capture some of the magic which saw him labelled the King of Pop.Coupled with radio play royalties, the star earned more than Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Madonna and Jay-Z combined during the year after his death in June 2009.While it is not uncommon for major stars to get a sales spike following their death, figures complied by Forbes magazine showed Jackson was the highest earning dead celebrity of 2010, beating the pooled income of the next 12 stars on the list, and four times greater than second-placed Elvis Presley.An increase in radio play and a massive boost in album sales is said to have brought in around £32m, while video games sales, memorabilia and a reissued autobiography also brought in a similar amount.Sales from the This Is It film, assembled from footage of rehearsals for the 02 Arena concerts for which he was preparing when he died, helped add to the millions.But Jackson's greatest money maker had always been his rights to other people's songs, which include his half-share in a catalogue of hits by artists such as Elvis Presley and the Beatles, which famously led to the end of his friendship with Sir Paul McCartney.With his lavish lifestyle, Jackson would rely null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Yahoo in search for turnaround engine
Carol Bartz arrived at Yahoo in January last year with a reputation for tough talk and turnarounds, having revived design software maker Autodesk. The two California companies are 105 kilometres apart and worlds apart culturally - a gap she has been unable to bridge.
Carol Bartzがデザインソフトウェアメーカーオートデスクの復活を有する、タフな話とターンアラウンドの評判で、昨年1月にYahooに到着した
- US and Afghanistan: Bad trip | Editorial
Within a short space of time, the relationship between President Hamid Karzai and his US and UN backers has plummeted. Soon after Barack Obama's flying visit to Kabul, Mr Kabul told a meeting of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) – misnamed because it is packed with Karzai loyalists – that foreigners were to blame for the widespread fraud in the elections last year. Not just any foreigners, but Peter Galbraith, the former head of the UN mission to Afghanistan who blew the whistle on corrupt election practises. Hillary Clinton attempted to defuse the row in a phone call with Mr Karzai on Friday night, but the Afghan president went on to repeat his claims to Afghan MPs, reportedly threatening to join the Taliban if foreigners continued to interfere. On Tuesday night Mr Galbraith said in a television interview that Mr Karzai was unbalanced, prone to tirades and that he had a fondness for some of his country's most profitable exports, meaning that he had a substance abuse problem.What is going on on the eve of a major US offensive to push the Taliban out of Kandahar, a battle that could prove to be decisive in the current campaign? Without a reliable Afghan partner, the counterinsurgency strategy against the Taliban fails. Without the presence of US troops, Mr Karzai and his brothers would be on the first plane to Doha. If ever a relationship was defined by mutual interdependence, this is it. So why has diplomacy broken down?An optimistic reading of this spat goes as follows: Mr Karzai had already acceded to pressure from Washington to force the director of the IEC, Azizullah Ludin, and the IEC's chief electoral adviser, Daoud Ali Najafi, to stand down when he blamed the UN for the very things these two men were accused of – abetting vote-rigging in August's presiden 短期間内では、ハミドカルザイ大統領と彼の米国や国連の支持者との関係は急落している
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