Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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Longtime Tokyo-based Star and Stripes reporter Hal Drake dies in Australia at age 83
CANBERRA, Australia – Longtime Pacific Stars and Stripes reporter Harold A. Drake has died in Australia of cancer. He was 83.


Carmaker Fiat likely to miss debt target
Fiat-Chrysler chief executive Marchionne makes his speech during the visit of Italy's Prime Minister Monti at the Fiat car factory in the southern city of MelfiMILAN (Reuters) – Italian carmaker Fiat-Chrysler is likely to miss its d ebt target when it reports 2012 earnings on Wednesday, making it harder to pay for an ambitious expansion and boost its stake in U.S. affiliate Chrysler. As Fiat's management moves to increase spending, analysts are keeping a close watch on the debt for signs that its money-losing European operations are straining the group's finances. Fiat's share price has outperformed rivals like Volkswagen and Peugeot in the past 30 days, driven partly by hopes that Fiat will buy more Chrysler shares beyond its 58. …


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Ravens' Lewis calls report on deer-antler spray 'stupidity,' declines to discuss in detail
NEW ORLEANS – Of all the topics Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis might have been prepared to talk about at Super Bowl media day, deer-antler spray probably was not among them.


Canada's top-ranked player succeeds with Spanish coach and training methods
VANCOUVER – Milos Raonic will try to use a little Spanish insight to help Canada beat Spain in Davis Cup action this weekend.


Santa Maria mourns its dead, calls for justice
Girls cry in front of a makeshift memorial outside the Kiss nightclub where a fire killed over 230 people in Santa Maria, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. The repercussions of a tragic nightclub fire in southern Brazil widened Tuesday as mayors around the country cracked down on such venues in their own cities and investigators searched two other nightspots owned by a partner in the club that caught ablaze. Most of the dead were college students 18    to 21 years old, but they also included some minors. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) -- The young law student sat alone in a pew, clutching a shirt on which she'd written the names of friends she'd lost in a weekend nightclub fire in this Brazilian college town.


ABC: Barbara Walters is home from the hospital, recovering 'comfortably' from chicken pox
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – ABC says Barbara Walters is out of the hospital and recovering from chicken pox at home.


UN, experts poised to confirm any NKorean blast
People walk near giant portraits of late North Korean leaders, Kim Il Sung, left, and his son Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. North Korea appears all set to detonate an atomic device, but confirming the explosion when it takes place will be virtually impossible for outsiders, specialists said Tuesday. North Korea watchers in South Korea are speculating diverse dates for a possible nuclear test, with some predictin   g that could happen as early as this week and others choosing the days just before the Feb. 16 birthday of Kim Jong Il. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCESEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- With North Korea appearing set to detonate an atomic device, the U.N. agency that detected two previous tests says it is prepared to confirm an explosion when it takes place. But experts say it might be difficult to establish whether the blast is nuclear in nature.


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