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Rex Tillerson: Senators back Trump foreign affairs pick

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NewsHubA key US Senate committee has narrowly approved Rex Tillerson as secretary of state after leading Republican Senator Marco Rubio dropped his opposition.
Mr Rubio sparred with Mr Tillerson, the former head of Exxon Mobil, during confirmation hearings, accusing him of being soft on Russia.
A full vote will now be held in the Senate, where Republicans dominate.
Mr Tillerson, a 64-year-old Texan oilman, knew Russian President Vladimir Putin as a businessman.
But he has since criticised Russia for its annexation of Crimea.
He was chosen by Donald Trump, who was sworn in as America’s 45th president on Friday.
In its vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee split along party lines, with all 11 Republicans voting in favour and all 10 Democrats against.
Mr Rubio said earlier that although he had doubts over the choice, he believed a new president was entitled to deference in assembling his cabinet.
« Despite my reservations, I will support Mr Tillerson’s nomination in committee and in the full Senate, » said Mr Rubio.
He had challenged Mr Tillerson over his refusal to call President Putin a « war criminal » and his failure to condemn strongly enough human rights violations in Saudi Arabia and the Philippines.
Mr Rubio was among the candidates who fought Mr Trump in the battle for the Republican presidential ticket.
Senator Ben Cardin, the committee’s top Democrat, said earlier that he would not vote for Mr Tillerson, also over his position on Russia, as well as other issues.
He also suggested that Mr Tillerson’s « business orientation » could « compromise his ability as secretary of state to forcefully promote the values and ideals that have defined » America.
While critics raise concern about his ability to trade in his corporate interest for a national one, some supporters suggest the former CEO’s background as a global dealmaker may bring fresh perspective to the nation’s top diplomatic post.

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Czesi uratowali Polaka w Syrii

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NewsHubJak donosi portal novinky.cz czeskiej Ambasador w Syrii, Evie Filipi udało się doprowadzić do uwolnienia Polaka pojmanego w lutym 2016 roku. Leszek Panek jest już w Bejrucie pod opieką polskiego ambasadora Libanu, Wojciecha Bożka. Polak porusza się o kulach, gdyż został postrzelony w nogę, poza tym jest w dobrej formie.
Kancelaria czeskiego prezydenta podała, że Czechom udało się doprowadzić do uwolnienia Polaka, Leszka Panka, który od lutego 2016 roku był więziony w Syrii. Wcześniej pojawiły się informacje, że 54-latek z Wrocławia został skazany na karę śmierci.
Wcześniej polska dyplomacja próbowała ustalić co dzieje się z obywatelem naszego kraju, niestety wszelkie próby kontaktu kończyły się fiaskiem, Warszawa poprosiła o pomoc Pragę. Czechy są jedynym państwem NATO i UE, którego ambasada w Syrii działa normalnie.
Jak podaje portal novinky.cz, czeska ambasador Eva Filipi pozostaje w dobrych stosunkach z Syryjskim rządem i to jej udało się doprowadzić do uwolnienia Polaka. Leszek Panek został przewieziony do Libanu, gdzie pozostaje pod opieką polskiego ambasadora, Wojciecha Bożka.
54-letni wrocławianin został postrzelony w nogę, kiedy podczas kontroli drogowej sięgał po dokumenty. Porusza się o kulach, poza tym jest w dobrej formie.
Polka z Syrii wróciła do kraju. Wielki sukces
Zwiastował apokalipsę. Polak skazany na śmierć

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Ecclestone gefeuert – „Bin einfach weg“

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NewsHubLondon. Die Regentschaft des Bernie Ecclestone ist am 23. Januar 2017 zu Ende gegangen – einfach so, ohne Tamtam, ohne Glamour. „Ich wurde heute abgesetzt. Bin einfach weg“, zitierte „auto-motor-und-sport.de“ den Briten. Nach rund vier Jahrzehnten hat Ecclestone demnach nichts mehr zu sagen. „Das ist offiziell.“ Vom neuen Formel-1-Besitzer Liberty Media gab es dafür zunächst keine offizielle Bestätigung.
Britische Medien hatten zuvor allerdings auch schon den (erzwungenen) Rücktritt des 86 Jahre alten Ecclestone für diese Woche prophezeit. Neuer starker Mann ist nun offenbar der US-Amerikaner Chase Carey, ein ehemaliger TV-Direktor. Ecclestone, der Ende der 70er-Jahre die TV- und Vermarktungsrechte der Formel 1 gekauft und damit für den Grundstein seines milliardenschweren Imperiums gesorgt hatte, ist nach eigenen Angaben nun „eine Art Ehrenpräsident. Ich führe diesen Titel ohne zu wissen, was er bedeutet“.
Es hatte sich abgezeichnet und angedeutet. Das, was sich die Formel 1 trotz nicht weniger Skandale Ecclestones praktisch nie hatte vorstellen können. Gut zwei Monate vor dem Saisonauftakt am 26. März im australischen Melbourne gibt es eine Formel 1 ohne Bernie Ecclestone. Schon beim Kauf der ersten Anteile durch den neuen Besitzer sei er nicht gefragt worden, hatte Ecclestone vor Monaten beklagt. Jetzt hat Ecclestone offensichtlich gar nichts mehr zu melden. „Meine Tage im Büro werden jetzt etwas ruhiger“, sagte er „auto-motor-und-sport.de“. „Vielleicht komme ich auch mal zu einem Grand Prix. Ich habe immer noch viele Freunde in der Formel 1. Und ich habe noch genug Geld, um mir den Besuch bei einem Rennen leisten zu können.“
In der vergangenen Woche hatten die Aktionäre von Liberty Media dem Kauf der Mehrheitsanteile an der Rennserie zugestimmt. Anschließend erteilte auch der Weltverband FIA Grünes Licht für die Übernahme. Nur die EU-Wettbewerbshüter könnten das Geschäft noch stoppen. Insgesamt soll Liberty Media für die Mehrheit an der Königsklasse des Motorsports 4,4 Milliarden Dollar (etwa 3,93 Milliarden Euro) zahlen. Zudem sollten Schulden von 4,1 Milliarden Dollar übernommen werden. Der Liberty-Anteil soll auf 35,3 Prozent wachsen, das Stimmrecht vollständig bei dem US-Konzern liegen. Bisheriger Hauptgesellschafter war seit 2005 das Finanzunternehmen CVC, das Ecclestone als Geschäftsführer eingesetzt hatte.
Ein konkretes Zukunftskonzept der neuen Formel-1-Lenker ist – zumindest öffentlich – noch nicht bekannt. Auch die meisten anderen Vorstände im Formula One Management (FOM) sollen Medienberichten zufolge ihre Positionen verlieren. Für die Vermarktung ist der ehemalige Chef des US-Sportsenders ESPN, Sean Bratches, im Gespräch, für den Sport soll der einstige Ferrari- und Mercedes-Teamchef Ross Brawn künftig zuständig sein.
Ecclestone nahm zuletzt in erster Linie über die Vermarktung Gelder ein, hinzu kamen die Gebühren von den Rennstreckenbetreibern. Andere Bereiche wie soziale Medien oder den Verkauf von TV-Rechten hatte Ecclestone gar nicht oder nur unzureichend beachtet. Als „dysfunktional“ soll der neue starke Mann Carey laut BBC das Modell bezeichnet haben. Auch Ecclestones Führungsstil erscheint anachronistisch. Der Brite herrschte und entschied allein, Demokratie war nicht sein Ding. Nun wurde er selbst offensichtlich ohne zu fragen abgesetzt.
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Neuer Formel-1-Besitzer nahm ihm den Job weg | Ecclestone abserviert!

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NewsHub(Aus! Die Alleinherrschaft von Bernie Ecclestone (86) ist nach 40 Jahren vorbei.
Gegenüber „auto motor und sport“ bestätigt der Boss der Formel 1 : „Ich wurde heute abgesetzt. Bin einfach weg. Das ist offiziell. Ich führe die Firma nicht mehr. Meine Position wurde von Chase Carey übernommen.“
Der Amerikaner Carey (62) ist nun Präsident und Geschäftsführer der neuen Formel 1-Gesellschaft. Unter dem US-Eigentümer Liberty Media hat Ecclestone nichts mehr zu sagen, wird nur noch „Ehrenpräsident“ ohne Machtbefugnis.
Es ist nur ein Satz, doch Valtteri Bottas verrät darin, wie groß der Druck auf ihn in der neuen Formel-1-Saison sein wird.
Was bleibt von Bernie?
Ecclestone machte eine Pleite-Serie zur Königsklasse des Motorsports – mit knallharten Verhandlungen, vielen Tricks und auch Witz.
Ecclestone (1,59 Meter): „Ich liebe es, nach Japan zu fliegen! Dort sind alle so groß wie ich.“ Aber: Wegen seiner Vorliebe für diktatorische Regime geriet er immer mehr in Verruf. Viele Formel-1-Teams (Ausnahme Ferrari) waren wegen der Geldverteilung gegen ihn.
Auch Ecclestones Vertraute fliegen nun aus dem Vorstand. Die Formel 1 wird entberniesiert.
Höchste Zeit – findet zumindest Weltmeister Nico Rosberg (31). Der frühere Mercedes-Pilot bei Twitter: „Bernie, mega Job! Aber ein Wandel war überfällig. Mr. Carey, nur das Beste dabei, unseren Sport wieder fantastisch zu machen.”
Bernie, mega job! But a change has been overdue. Mr. Carey, all the best in making our sport awesome again.

Число получателей субсидий в 2016 году выросло на 43,4% – нардеп

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NewsHubКассовый разрыв в системе субсидий в 2017 году может достигнуть 50 миллиардов гривен, что приведет к цепочке неплатежей по всей экономике. Так считает нардеп от Оппозиционного блока Михаил Папиев.
« Рост количества обращений за жилищными субсидиями был легко прогнозируемым после повышения правительством Гройсмана тарифов на отопление и природный газ для населения. Только в Киеве тариф на отопление вырос на 116% », – отметил Папиев.
По его данным, количество получателей субсидий в 2016 году выросло на 43,4% и составило почти 7,7 млн домохозяйств.
Депутат считает, что даже при нынешнем уровне тарифов действующая система субсидий показала свою фискальную несостоятельность, а с учетом дальнейшего роста тарифов для населения она грозит вызвать коллапс в газовом секторе и запустить цепочку неплатежей по всей экономике.
« Картина на 2017 год выглядит еще более пугающей – в проекте бюджета правительство предлагает выделить на жилищные субсидии только 47 млрд грн при необходимых 108 млрд грн. Кассовый разрыв в системе субсидий может достигнуть 50 млрд грн или 2% ВВП в нынешнем году. А это приведет к цепочке неплатежей по всей экономике », – пояснил Папиев.
По его мнению, для ликвидации этого разрыва необходимо вдвое снизить тарифы на газ, тепловую энергию и повысить адресность жилищных субсидий, используя опыт постсоветских стран.
Ранее Верховная Рада Украины внесла изменения в государственный бюджет на 2016 год, увеличив объемы государственных субвенций местным бюджетам на предоставление льгот и жилых субсидий на 4,4 млрд гривен.

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Asian markets mixed; Dollar index hovers at 100 handle

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NewsHubAsian stocks were mixed on Tuesday as the dollar remained soft amid uncertainty over U. S. President Donald Trump’s policies and his withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Withdrawing from the TPP agreement was a promise Trump had made in his presidential campaign, saying it would protect American workers. The 12-nation trade deal was negotiated by former President Barack Obama’s administration as a key pillar in his pivot to Asia.
Meanwhile, Trump also told business leaders on Monday that his administration could cut regulations by 75 percent or « maybe more » although further details were not given.
« Investors are nervous due to Trump’s protectionism policies and their hope is that his tax cut policies could perhaps save the day for them, » said Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at ThinkMarkets, in a note on Tuesday.
The greenback fell against a basket of currencies, dipping below 100 intraday, a low not seen since mid-November, and hovering around 100.04 in afternoon trade in Asia.
« Unwinding free trade agreements and imposing border taxes is seen by markets as a negative for the dollar, » said Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, in a note on Tuesday.
Media reports also cited U. S. Treasury Secretary-designate Steve Mnuchin’s comments that the « excessively strong dollar may have negative short-term implications on the economy » as a reason for the dollar’s drop.
But analysts noted that the comments needed context as media reports said the remarks were from a written response to a senator’s question about a hypothetical scenario of a 25 percent rise in the dollar.
In South Korea, the Kospi slipped 0.21 percent, after initially trading higher.
Samsung Electronics was flat after it said fourth-quarter operating profit rose 50 percent to 9.22 trillion won ($7.93 billion), in line with guidance, as record earnings in its semiconductor business outweighed the negative impact of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 models. Samsung’s revenue remained flat at 53.3 trillion won from the previous year, and it also announced a share buyback plan worth 9.3 trillion won this year.
Shares of LG Display fell 2.92 percent, after it announced plans to sell its entire stake in LG Siltron for 620 billion won ($533.5 million). The LCD panel maker also announced early Tuesday that its 2016 operating profit fell 19 percent from a year earlier at 1.3 trillion won ($1.12 billion).
Japan’s Nikkei 225 was down 0.43 percent, extending the previous session’s declines of more than 1 percent.
Takata shares tumbled 7.07 percent, recovering from earlier losses of more than 13 percent, on worries of court involvement in its Japanese business plans. Since last Wednesday’s close, Takata’s stock has lost 49 percent.
The embattled airbag maker is in the process of selecting a financial backer as it faces heavy costs to replace approximately 100 million potentially defective airbag inflators that have been linked to several deaths globally. Potential bidders for Takata favor a court-led turnaround of its Japanese operations, which is a strategy the company opposes, Reuters reported.
In mainland China, the Shanghai composite was up 0.09 percent, while the Shenzhen composite was down 0.193 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up 0.37 percent.
Down Under, the ASX 200 ended up 0.72 percent or 40.63 points at 5,651.6, buoyed by strength in its materials sub-index, up 2.65 percent. Base metal prices had jumped overnight in the U. S. as the dollar weakened and on hopes that the Trump administration would boost infrastructure spending, Reuters reported.
Major miners were all in the green, with Rio Tinto gaining 3.62 percent, Fortescue Metals up 5.4 percent, and BHP Billiton adding 2.5 percent.
In the broader currency market, the dollar also weakened against the yen , fetching 112.86, as the Australian dollar gained against the greenback at $0.7574.
The pound/dollar pair was higher at $1.2505, compared to levels as low as 1.2256 last week, ahead of the U. K. Supreme Court’s decision on whether Prime Minister Theresa May can use her executive powers to invoke Article 50 and begin the Brexit process.
During Asian trade, U. S. crude futures were up 0.47 percent at $53.00 a barrel, while Brent crude was up 0.51 percent at $55.51.
The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 0.14 percent to close at 19,799.85, while the S&P 500 fell 0.27 percent at 2,265.2 and the Nasdaq closed down 0.04 percent at 5,552.94.

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Trump’s Pacific Trade Retreat

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NewsHubPresident Trump fulfilled a campaign promise Monday with an executive order formally withdrawing from the 12-nation Pacific trade pact, and that was the easy part. Now he’ll have to deal with the fallout, which includes new doubts about U. S. economic commitments and strategic gains for China.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), negotiated and signed by President Obama, was already on life support as Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton…

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GreenSync eyes global opportunities

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NewsHubA recently closed $11.5 million funding round will help Australian company GreenSync take its software platform to the world, says the company’s founder Phil Blythe.
GreenSync today revealed details of the Series B funding round, which included $5 million from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation through the Clean Energy Innovation Fund, and $5 million from Southern Cross Venture Partners through its Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund. The remaining capital was provided by a private fund, Greensync said.
Blythe founded the company in 2010 and it had its first commercial launch with a customer in 2012 — Queensland’s Ergon Energy — making 2017 GreenSync’s fifth year of working with energy utilities.
GreenSync’s core software platform is designed to manage and orchestrate distributed electricity generation and storage systems.
“Distributed energy is a major transformational shift that we’re seeing in Australia, and Australia is very much at the forefront of this globally,” Blythe said. “As solar goes on roofs, as there’s an increase in renewables, as we’re starting to move away from coal-fired generation to wind and solar energy, we needed a quantum shift in the technology we use to manage grids.”
“No longer are we just using massive systems — generators that we’re switching on and off,” Blythe said. “We’ve got literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of smaller generators on rooftops that we need to schedule.
“Essentially what we provide is a software layer that connects into all of those types of resources — whether they’re solar, or they’re battery storage systems — to control and coordinate and orchestrate those resources to bring stability back into the grid.”
GreenSync helps deliver monitoring, control and optimisation of these systems, he said.
Although the platform initially targeted electricity network operators, the customer base has broadened to include energy retailers and end users, ranging from industrial sites to residential estates.
Customers include United Energy, which last year entered a partnership with the software company for a Mornington Peninsular project. The Community Grids Project will help defer capital investment by managing peak energy demand in the region, including through the use of solar and energy storage systems to reduce household consumption.
GreenSync also revealed last year that it was working with AusNet Services on a Mooroolbark energy minigrid project. The minigrid involves a group of 14 neighbouring houses that will be fitted with solar power systems and 10 kilowatt-hour batteries. Each house, which will also have a standard connection to the electricity grid, will be able to generate and store electricity that can then be shared with the other houses.
Blythe said the Series B funding would help commoditise GreenSync’s technology so that utilities around the world can start to use it ‘out of the box’.
“We’ve set up an office in Singapore and we’re using it as a growth hub into Asia,” he said. “Asia’s very much an important growth market for battery storage systems.”
“There is huge potential for GreenSync internationally and with our strong market position in Australia, we look forward to starting the journey of mapping the global grid,” Blythe said.
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China new "Two Child" policy increases births by 7.9 percent, government says

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NewsHubBEIJING – In late 2015, China announced an end to its infamous 35-year-old “One Child” policy , which was aimed at curbing the exploding population of the nation of more than 1.3 billion people. 
Now, the initial data on the experiment to allow married couples to have two children has come in, and the Chinese government is touting it as a success.
China is preparing to end its controversial « one-child » policy, allowing couples to have two children. CBSN’s Contessa Brewer reports on the new…
According to the Communist Party’s National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC,) there were 17.86 million births in China last year, an increase of 7.9 percent from the previous year.
“It demonstrates that the universal second-child policy came in time and worked effectively,” said Yang Wenzhuang, a division director of the NHFPC in a press release .
Like many countries with a low birth rate , China was concerned about how to care for its aging population, as there were a dearth of young worker to help support them, as well as a gross gender imbalance , because so many female babies were abandoned or aborted in the patriarchal society.
Experts warned the “Two Child” policy was “too little, too late” to reverse the trend.
The NHFPC claims, however, that their data proves otherwise.
In their press release, the NHFPC said that “by 2050, the policy is expected to bring about an extra 30 million working-age people and reduce the nation’s aging rate by 2 percent, commission projections show.”
World population on brink of 7 billion, but birth rates are down in some countries
However, the NHFPC said the Communist Party’s leaders need to come up with better policies to support couples willing to have more than one child, “particularly in terms of maternity education and health services.”
In a study published in the Lancet journal , professors Yi Zeng and Therese Hesketh warned that celebrating the policy change’s success should not begin yet.
The wrote: “The benefits of the new policy include: a large reduction in abortions of unapproved pregnancies, virtual elimination of the problem of unregistered children, and a more normal sex ratio. All of these effects should improve health outcomes. Effects of the new policy on the shrinking workforce and rapid population ageing will not be evident for two decades. In the meantime, more sound policy actions are needed to meet the social, health, and care needs of the elderly population.”

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iPS細胞の提供、一部停止 京大

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NewsHub京都大iPS細胞研究所(CiRA、山中伸弥所長)は23日、再生医療用iPS細胞の一部について、大学や企業などへの提供を停止すると発表した。誤った試薬を使って作製した可能性があり、安全性についてリスクを否定できないとしている。 問題があったのは、赤ちゃんのへその緒の血液(臍帯血(さいたいけつ))から作ったiPS細胞。昨年8月以降、13機関の23プロジェクトに出荷していた。CiRAは提供先の具体名は明らかにしていないが、大半が患者には直接使わない研究用。ただ患者に使う目的での提供もあり、取材によると、大阪大のグループの角膜移植の臨床研究が、1年ほど遅れる見通しだという。 会見したCiRAによると、iPS細胞は不純物が入らないようにした施設内で、血液の細胞に遺伝子を入れて作る。昨年11月、遺伝子が入ったかを確かめるための本来使わない試薬のチューブに、製造時に使う試薬のラベルが誤って貼られているのが見つかった。職員らへの聞き取りや製造記録などの確認を行ったが、いつラベルが貼られたのか特定できなかった。本来使わない試薬に含まれる遺伝子が混入した可能性を否定できないため、提供停止を決めた。 再発防止のため管理体制を見直すほか、細胞製造に実績のある民間企業タカラバイオ(滋賀県)と連携し、高品質な細胞を生産できる体制を目指す。 CiRAは、再生医療用のiP…

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