(Reuters) – Bankrupt AMR Corp and its pilots’ union have agreed on language for a new labor deal to be voted on by union members, the union announced on Friday. AMR, parent of American Airlines, has been in talks with its pilots as it tries to reduce labor costs and emerge from bankruptcy. The union’s board on Friday presented a “counter-proposal” to offers from AMR management, which the company accepted, according to the statement. But the contract still has to be ratified by union members, who rejected a previous labor proposal in August. …
Raptors most consistent player Kyle Lowry remains question mark for Philly
minus the protective boot and any noticeable limp.
Citigroup to pay former executives more than $15 million each
(Reuters) – Former Citigroup Inc CEO Vikram Pandit, who resigned last month under pressure from company directors, and former chief ope rating officer John Havens will receive more than $15 million each, the company said on Friday. The sums were disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. (Reporting by David Henry in New York; Editing by Gary Hill) Transat, Air Canada and WestJet denounce Sunwing's use of foreign pilots
MONTREAL – The Canadian Transportation Agency’s decision to allow Sunwing to integrate four Czech planes into its fleet this winter has raised the ire of rivals Transat (TSX:TRZ.B), Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) and WestJet (TSX:WJ).
Free agents turn down $13.3 million offers as general managers head home from meetings
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. – John Hamilton, B.J. Upton and Kyle Lohse were among nine free agents who turned down $13.3 million offers from their former clubs Friday as the annual general managers’ ended and team officials headed home for what figures to be a busy month of negotiations.
Mexico charges cops with trying to kill CIA agents
Mexican prosecutors charged 14 federal police officers Friday with trying to kill two CIA agents and a Mexican navy captain in an August ambush south of the capital. Chevron subsidiaries appeal Argentine asset freeze
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Two Chevron subsidiaries on Friday appealed a freeze on up to $19 billion worth of the company’s assets in Argentina, part of an environmental lawsuit by Ecuadorean villagers that has spanned two decades and several countries. The subsidiaries, Chevron Argentina and Ing. Norberto Priu, argued that they are not directly owned by Chevron Corp , which was the target of the litigation in Ecuador. “Chevron Corp, the sole judgment debtor, has no assets in Argentina. …
Algerian military plane crashes in France, four dead
TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) – An Algerian military transport plane flying home from Paris crashed in southeast France on Friday, killing four of the six people aboard, police and fire brigade sources said. They said the other two people were missing after the plane crashed in a mountainous, uninhabited area near the city of Avignon. About 70 firefighters put out a blaze at the scene of the crash and found the remains of the four dead. France’s civil aviation authority said no information was available yet on the reasons for the crash. …
UN says 11,000 Syrians have fled the country in past 24 hours into Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon
ANKARA, Turkey – At least 11,000 Syrian refugees have fled their country in single day, pouring into Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon with children and dozens of wounded, U.N. officials said Friday. Some desperately climbed over razor-wire border fences to seek safety.
2 New Emperor Penguin Colonies Spied in Antarctica
Researchers have finally found a long-sought colony of emperor penguins in eastern Antarctica, but they say it's been split in two due to a glacier break. Moreover, a tally of the 6,000 chicks among these two populations suggests there are more emperor penguin parents in this part of the frozen cont inent than previously thought. Russian convicts first of "Bolotnaya-17" anti-Putin protesters
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Friday convicted the first of 17 Russians detained during a protest against Vladimir Putin, sentencing the only member of the group to plead guilty to four and a half years’ jail. The protesters have gained notoriety as the “Bolotnaya 17″, after the square where they protested on the eve of Putin’s inauguration in May, and have been held up by opposition leaders as a symbol of resistance to a Kremlin crackdown on dissent. …
UK sex abuse victim apologizes to Thatcher party treasurer
LONDON (Reuters) – A child rape victim apologised on Friday to an ally of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher who had been falsely identified on the Internet as his abuser, after days of furious speculation of a high-level paedophile ring in Britain. Steven Messham, who had told the BBC he had been repeatedly sexually abused as a child in social care by a leading political figure in the late 1970s, said former Conservative Party treasurer Lord Alistair McAlpine was not among his attackers. …
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