Venezuela’s Maduro accuses rival of “conspiring” against country

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro accused opposition leader Henrique Capriles on Saturday of “conspiring” against the OPEC nation during meetings in neighboring Colombia, stepping up his attacks on his most likely potential election rival.

The government is upbeat about President Hugo Chavez‘s recovery from cancer surgery in Cuba. But the socialist maverick has not been seen in public or heard from in eight weeks, calling into question the future of his self-styled revolution.

Any new vote in South America’s top oil exporter would probably pit Maduro, Chavez’s heir apparent, against Capriles, the 40-year-old governor of Miranda state, who lost to Chavez in last October’s presidential election.

Maduro has been sharpening his rhetoric against the opposition leader, and the former bus driver said on Saturday he was being kept informed about a series of meetings Capriles was holding during a trip to Colombia that began on Friday.

“The information reaching us is not good,” Maduro said, wearing a hard hat during a televised visit to a tractor factory in Portuguesa state, in the west of the country.

“We know who he met with, and where, conspiring against the country and against peace … in a few hours we are going to say what that loser was doing against the fatherland in Colombia.”

Capriles responded on Twitter, saying Maduro was the real conspirator and traitor because he was “receiving orders from Cuba’s government and giving away Venezuela’s money overseas.”

“It’s a big job for Mr. Maduro! Keep ranting to cover your inability. That’s what the mediocre are like, screamers!”

Capriles also tweeted a photo of himself meeting Spain’s former prime minister, Felipe Gonzalez, in Bogota, and said he had enjoyed a long talk with Gonzalez, a “great friend of our Venezuela.”

Earlier this week, Maduro said “honest, patriotic” lawmakers from the ruling party would present proof next Tuesday of “immense corruption” involving a senior figure in Primero Justicia, the party Capriles helped found in 2000.

OPPOSITION STRAINS

Opposition leaders, who accuse the government of secrecy over Chavez’s condition, say Maduro is in campaign mode and merely seeking to copy his boss’ vitriolic attacks on them.

The government, which says it has never been more transparent about the 58-year-old Chavez’s health, says he has completed a complex post-operative period following the December 11 surgery, and has started a “new phase” of his recuperation.

Maduro said Chavez was recovering gradually and held talks in Havana on Friday with Diosdado Cabello, the head of the National Assembly, and Defense Minister Diego Molero.

The president has never said exactly what type of cancer he is suffering, only that it was diagnosed in his pelvis in mid-2011. He has since undergone four operations in Cuba, and weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.

While his fragile health could spell an end to Chavez’s 14 years in power, the pressures of the situation have exposed old strains between moderates and more hard-line members of the opposition’s five-year-old Democratic Unity coalition.

It is made up of some 30 ideologically diverse political groups that chose Capriles as a unity candidate to run against Chavez in last year’s election.

Despite their differences, they are likely to pick Capriles again to face Maduro, should Chavez step down or die and a new vote was held within 30 days, as laid out in the constitution.

After chatting with workers and inspecting farm machinery in Portuguesa, the vice president slammed Capriles and two other top opposition figures: the coalition’s policy architect, Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, and Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma

“They’re a trio of wrecks with a history of defeat and treason,” Maduro said. “They must know that if our people see the proof that has been prepared of their plot … it is just going to radicalize us even more.”

During Capriles’ absence in Colombia on Friday, the government launched a high-profile anti-crime operation involving more than 2,000 officers in his state, Miranda, which includes crime-ridden parts of the capital, Caracas.

The interior and justice minister, Nestor Reverol, used the event to criticize the opposition governor for his trip outside the country.

“Instead of being in Colombia, meeting the paramilitaries, you should be here supervising the deployment and ensuring people’s safety,” Reverol said on state TV, flanked by commanders of the security forces and scores of National Guard troops lined up on motorcycles.

(Editing by Peter Cooney)

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Spain’s Rajoy denies wrongdoing in kickbacks scandal

MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Saturday denied wrongdoing in a growing corruption scandal that threatens his credibility just as he makes headway against economic crisis.

The ruling People’s Party (PP) has been buffeted all week by media reports alleging its former treasurers operated a slush fund with donations from construction industry executives that were then doled out to Rajoy and other party leaders.

“I need only two words: it’s false,” Rajoy said in a televised address after an extraordinary meeting of party leaders to discuss the allegations.

Rajoy, who has had a reputation for being boring but clean, welcomed an investigation into the affair and said he would publish his tax declarations on the internet.

Last week El Pais published extracts from what it said were secret ledgers by PP treasurers over 20 years.

“It is not true that we received cash that we hid from tax officials,” Rajoy said. He did not take media questions.

The PP on Saturday also released findings from an internal probe into party accounts back to 1995, concluding payments to members and income from donations were correctly declared and legal. An external investigation would begin in weeks, the report said, and three auditing firms would pitch for the job.

Dozens of police in riot gear guarded PP headquarters in central Madrid on Saturday. A small gathering of demonstrators shouted “resign” outside the building after several hundred people protested there on Thursday and Friday nights.

The scandal has hit Rajoy, 57, just as he had appeared to make some headway in the country’s financial crisis. Last year doubts over Spain‘s solvency forced state borrowing costs dangerously high and Rajoy looked to be on the brink of seeking an international bailout as Greece, Portugal and Ireland have.

But market attacks have abated since the European Central Bank pledged it would back Spain.

Rajoy has asked Spaniards for sacrifices and cut spending. His popularity has sunk during 13 months in office as austerity measures aggravate a deep recession and 26 percent unemployment.

The small United Left party urged him to resign and call early elections over the scandal. But the PP has an absolute parliamentary majority and has shown no sign of any split that might allow opponents to carry a vote of no confidence.

The main opposition Socialists demanded explanations but not his resignation. Polls show they would not win an election now.

CORRUPTION “PERVASIVE”

Bankers called for a rapid response to the scandal. Spain has taken 40 billion euros in European rescue money to clean up its financial sector.

Francisco Gonzalez, chairman of the country’s second-biggest lender BBVA, defended Rajoy at a news conference on Friday, saying he knew him well and that he was honest.

“There are clearly many bad practices in many parts of our country and these practices need to be eradicated,” he said.

“This is an opportunity for Spain to come out much cleaner.”

The anti-corruption prosecutor’s office said on Friday it was investigating the alleged payments to PP members. Newspaper El Pais says it has photocopies of ledgers showing annual payments to Rajoy of 25,200 euros ($ 34,200) over 11 years.

If he reported the income to tax authorities and they appear in public PP accounts, the payments may not be illegal.

If the prosecutor finds evidence of a crime, he will report to the High Court, which will then decide whether it opens a judicial investigation, the first step to any criminal trial.

A judicial probe could take many years to conclude.

In the meantime, Rajoy may struggle to turn around public opinion. A poll before the scandal broke found 96 percent of Spanish adults see corruption as pervasive in politics. Tax evasion and unemployment benefits fraud are rife.

Education and healthcare cuts have soured the public mood. Protesters march in Madrid and other cities almost every day.

Around 10,000 people, many pensioners, protested across Spain on Saturday over how their savings, invested in complex securities, will be wiped out in a bank bailout.

Spain’s rescue of its lenders is a common complaint, as the government goes further into debt to help banks that lent recklessly to builders during a property bubble.

A prolonged economic boom, which went into reverse in 2008, was fed by construction. Courts have probed cases of builders accused of paying politicians in exchange for public works contracts or for re-zoning rural land to allow development.

THE BARCENAS PAPERS

Former PP treasurer Luis Barcenas has been under investigation since 2009 for alleged involvement in a kickbacks scheme known as the Gurtel Case. A number of PP mayors and city councilors have had to resign in the Gurtel probe, but the case has bounced from one judge to another and never gone to trial.

The affair returned to the public eye in January when court officials said they had discovered Barcenas had a Swiss bank account that once held as much as 22 million euros.

Barcenas’s lawyer said the money came from legitimate businesses and has now been reported to tax authorities.

“The People’s Party does not have and never had accounts in a foreign country and has never issued orders to open accounts in a foreign country. We have nothing to do with it,” Rajoy said on Saturday.

El Pais said last week it had 20 photocopied pages of Barcenas’ secret ledger, allegedly showing almost 20 years of cash donations from executives and a stream of payments. The ledger also allegedly detailed expenses such as suits for Rajoy. Barcenas denied any wrongdoing and called the reports “false”.

(Additional reporting by Iciar Reinlein and Rodrigo de Miguel; Writing by Fiona Ortiz; Editing by Andrew Roche and Jason Webb)

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UK: No charges for Australian royal hoax DJs

LONDON (AP) — British prosecutors said Friday they will not press charges against two Australian DJs over the royal hoax call that preceded a nurse’s suicide.

Two Australian DJs impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and her son, Prince Charles, as they phoned London‘s King Edward VII hospital in December to ask about the condition of the Duchess of Cambridge, formerly Kate Middleton, who had been hospitalized for treatment of acute morning sickness stemming from her pregnancy.

Nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who put the call through to a colleague who in turn described the details of Kate’s condition, was found hanged in her room three days after the prank was broadcast across the world.

Prosecutors on Friday said there was no evidence to support a charge of manslaughter, and despite “some evidence” to warrant further investigation of offenses under Britain’s Data Protection Act and Malicious Communications Act, any potential prosecution would not be in the public interest.

The Crown Prosecution Service said that decision was taken because it isn’t possible to extradite from Australia for those potential offenses, and because “however misguided, the telephone call was intended as a harmless prank.”

DJs Michael Christian and Mel Greig —apologized after Saldanha’s death in emotional interviews on Australian television, saying they never expected their call would be put through.

The radio show behind the call, the “Hot 30″ program, was taken off air following Saldanha’s death and later canceled.

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Hackers target Twitter, access about 250,000 user accounts

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Anonymous hackers have targeted Twitter this week and gained access to roughly 250,000 user accounts though only “limited information” such as email addresses was compromised, the microblog said on Friday.

Twitter has already reset passwords for affected users, and will notify them soon, it said in a blog post. The cyberattacks come days after the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal revealed they had been the target of a well-coordinated hacking effort.

“This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,” Twitter said. “The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.”

(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Gary Hill)

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Julia Stiles Joins Mary Pickford Biopic ‘The First’

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – Julia Stiles has joined the cast of the Mary Pickford biopic “The First” to play famed screenwriter Frances Marion, Poverty Row Entertainment announced Thursday.

Marion was the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, taking the prize in 1930 for “The Big House.” She collaborated often with Pickford, writing the scripts for “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” and “The Poor Little Rich Girl.”

“The First,” based on Eileen Whitfield‘s biography, “Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood,” tells the story of one of Hollywood’s first superstars.

“Julia is someone I could instantly envision in that era and within the world of Old Hollywood,” director Jennifer DeLia said in a statement. “I’ve watched her work since I was a kid in the mid-90′s when she was emerging as a very cool and very talented actress, and in my eyes, she has never wavered from being someone totally dedicated to what she does. “

Stiles last appeared in David O. Russell‘s Oscar-nominated “Silver Linings Playbook” and the YouTube series “Blue,” a show on Jon Avnet and Rodrigo Garcia’s WIGS channel. She recently finished shooting John Crowley’s “Closed Circuit” and will next appear in “Aguar Rojas” for Jonathan King and Participant Media.

In “The First,” she joins a cast that includes Lily Rabe as Pickford, Michael Pitt as Pickford’s first husband Owen Moore and Ryan Simpkins as a young Pickford.

DeLia and producer Julie Pacino will be taking meetings at the Berlin Film Festival for the movie and must still cast roles such as Pickford’s second husband and fellow star, Douglas Fairbanks. Fairbanks’ great grandson Dominick Fairbanks is a producer on the project.

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Uninsured less likely to get heart meds

New York (Reuters Health) – Uninsured Americans were less likely to get the best treatment for heart troubles than those with insurance in a new study that hints the blame may lie with the quality of physicians who typically treat the uninsured.

In a group of about 61,000 Americans, researchers found that those without any health insurance were between 6 percent and 12 percent less likely than people with either public or private insurance to be prescribed drugs that are considered standard care for heart disease.

“There is some difference of treatment. It only applies – interestingly enough – to uninsured patients,” said the study’s senior author Dr. Paul Chan, of Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri.

In the past, studies found uninsured Americans have worse health outcomes, compared to the insured. They’re also less likely to get screenings and preventive care – possibly because they don’t often go to a doctor.

Less is known, though, about uninsured people who do go to doctors and whether they receive worse care than insured people.

For the new study, Chan and his colleagues used data from 2009 on 60,814 heart patients at 30 doctors’ offices around the U.S.

Of those patients, about 9 percent were uninsured, 71 percent had private insurance, and 20 percent had public insurance, such as Medicare or Medicaid.

The researchers, who published their findings in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, looked to see which patients received the recommended medications for their heart conditions and whether the treatment they got was linked to their insurance status.

Overall, patients with public or private insurance received about the same number of prescriptions, but the uninsured patients were less likely to be prescribed drugs, compared to the insured patients.

For example, about 73 percent of uninsured patients were prescribed beta-blockers after a heart attack, compared to about 81 percent of privately insured patients. And about 89 percent of uninsured patients received medication for high cholesterol, compared to about 95 percent of privately insured patients.

But those differences seemed to disappear when the researchers took into account where the patients were being treated.

“That seems to suggest that at lot of this is being mediated by the clinics that are seeing lots of uninsured patients. They’re underperforming compared to clinics that are seeing insured patients,” said Chan.

“It speaks to the idea that the higher the number of uninsured patients in your practice, the more financially unstable it is… and quality goes down,” said Dr. Ed Havranek, a cardiologist at the Denver Health Medical Center in Colorado.

Havranek, who wrote a commentary accompanying the new study, told Reuters Health, “If it’s just the lack of insurance, it should not affect the physicians’ decisions to sit down and prescribe (a drug).” It could be driven by doctors’ perceptions of their patients, he said.

Chan added that uninsured people tend to be sicker and their other conditions may take priority over their heart problems.

“Truth be told, when many of these patients come in it’s not just cardiovascular disease. It’s diabetes, obesity and smoking too,” Chan said.

Havranek said the first step to solving the problem is doing what Chan and his colleagues did by shining a light on it, and then finding a practical solution.

“You have to be open to the possibility that you’re not doing things accurately or fairly across patient populations,” he said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/WHGbw0 Journal of the American College of Cardiology, January 2013.

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Sept. 11 judge rules on censor but little else

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The second round of pretrial hearings in the Sept. 11 case sputtered to a close Thursday with the judge ordering the government to remove censorship equipment from the courtroom at the U.S. base in Cuba but little progress on fundamental legal issues that must be resolved before the long-stalled case can go to trial.

Army Col. James Pohl ordered an undisclosed government agency to disconnect equipment it used to unilaterally cut the courtroom sound system to prevent the release of classified information to spectators. His abrupt order came toward the close of a four-day hearing devoted largely to such procedural matters as the rules for handling evidence.

The existence of a previously unknown government censor may have created a new delay, as the defense filed an emergency motion to halt proceedings until they can be assured that officials are not surreptitiously monitoring their communications with the defendants, who are facing death penalty charges for their alleged roles planning and aiding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Pohl did not immediately rule on their request, but said he would hear arguments on their motion at the start of the next session, scheduled to start Feb. 11 at the base. “This needs to be resolved before anything else,” he said.

Five Guantanamo Bay prisoners, including self-proclaimed mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are being tried on charges that include murder and terrorism in a military commission, a special tribunal for wartime offenses that includes elements of a court martial and civilian criminal court. They could get the death penalty if convicted at a trial that’s at least a year away, and likely much farther off at this rate.

The Judge said in ruling on the censor that only he has the authority to decide when to close a hearing or when spectators should be prevented from hearing testimony, and he ordered the government to disconnect any equipment that would enable officials to unilaterally cut the sound feed in the courtroom at the U.S. base in Cuba.

Spectators, who include journalists and relatives of people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, watch proceedings from behind soundproof glass with a 40-second delay so that a courtroom security officer, in consultation with the judge, can turn on a white noise machine at the mention of any classified information.

But on Monday, the white noise machine was suddenly activated — without the apparent knowledge of the judge or his courtroom security officer — when a defense attorney began to refer to the secret CIA prisons overseas where the five Sept. 11 defendants were held before they were taken to Guantanamo. The judge later determined the statement was not secret and he released a transcript of the remarks.

The identity of the person who cut the sound has not been released, but a prosecutor later said it was an “OCA,” a government term for Original Classification Authority, a broad category that refers to any agency, such as the CIA, that has responsibility for the classified information at issue. Judge Pohl said it was inappropriate for anyone but him to close courtroom proceedings.

“This is the last time that an OCA or any other third party will be permitted to unilaterally decide that a broadcast should be suspended,” he said.

He then ordered the government to “disconnect any ability or any third party to suspend the broadcast of these proceedings.”

David Nevin, the attorney for Mohammed whose remarks prompted the censor, said the censorship incident raised fears among attorney that all their confidential conversations with clients are being monitored. That would violate attorney-client privilege and mean they could not continue to speak with the accused without breaching the rules of professional conduct for defense lawyers.

Before the censorship issue, the four-day hearing had been dealing with procedural matters such as the rules for calling witnesses and handling classified evidence.

This is a far more complex case than has been handled by a military commission in the past, so there are many preliminary rulings that must be addressed. Among them is the question of whether the defendants themselves can be allowed to attend closed session during which classified matters are discussed. Since many issues must be resolved in closed session, that question has to be answered before more substantive issues can be addressed.

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Online bingo shows its worth at Rank

LONDON (Reuters) – It may lack the noisy camaraderie of a trip to the bingo hall, but the online version of the numbers game has proved more profitable for Britain‘s Rank Group than the original.

The merits of the online business were further emphasized when Rank said a snowy January had cost it 3 million pounds ($ 4.7 million) in revenue as Britons opted not to venture out to its bingo halls and casinos.

Operating profit from online bingo was 11.4 million pounds, just beating the 11.1 million earned from the venues themselves.

The company, majority owned by Malaysia’s Guoco, reported a 4 percent decline in pretax profit to 31.3 million pounds in the six months to December, with its loss-making Blue Square betting business proving a drag.

Many parts of Britain have seen heavy snow over the last two weeks and there are fears that the bad weather will hit economic activity and push the country back into recession.

Pub groups Enterprise Inns and Mitchell & Butlers both said the recent cold snap had hit sales.

“Allowing for the slow start to the second half we remain confident in our prospects for the remainder of the year and in our longer-term growth strategy,” Rank Chief Executive Ian Burke said.

Rank’s main activities are in Britain where it runs 35 Grosvenor Casinos and more than 100 Mecca bingo clubs.

Profits growth in its online bingo business mirrors that in the gambling industry as a whole where online betting is the fastest growing part of the market, helped by the popularity of smart phones and tablets.

However, Rank has said it is reviewing the future of its own struggling online betting business Blue Square, a relative minnow in a crowded sector.

“We felt the losses were not losses we could continue to sustain,” said Burke.

Blue Square reported an operating loss of 4.8 million pounds in the six months and Rank has now cut its spending on marketing the business.

“There were 11 or 12 competitors advertising and that spending just wasn’t cutting through,” said Burke.

He declined to comment further on the future of the business pending completion of the review.

Rank is awaiting regulatory clearance for a planned 205 million pound deal to buy the casino business of Gala Coral.

A preliminary report by the Competition Commission said Rank could have to sell six casinos to get the deal approved.

($ 1 = 0.6332 British pounds)

(Editing by Louise Ireland and Brenda Goh)

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“Gomer Pyle” actor Jim Nabors weds longtime male partner

SEATTLE (Reuters) – American actor Jim Nabors, the star of 1960s television comedy “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” married his longtime male partner at a Seattle hotel this month.

Nabors, 82, also a singer, wed 64-year-old Stan Cadwallader, his partner of some 38 years, in a ceremony before a judge on January 15 at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, where the couple traveled after same sex marriage became legal in Washington state last month.

“I was just trying to solidify all of our years together,” Nabors told Reuters on Wednesday from Hawaii, where the two live. “When you find a good friend in this life, you hang on to him.”

Nabors said the ceremony in his hotel room was “very touching” but laughed off any suggestion of feeling different afterward.

“Oh please, nothing’s changed,” Nabors said. “Most of the things you promise, we got through that 38 years ago.”

Nabors, an Alabama native, played goofy gas-station attendant Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and in the spin-off “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” among many other television and musical appearances.

Nabors said he met Cadwallader, a former firefighter in Honolulu, in 1975, and Cadwallader eventually went to work for him.

Nabors said he was open with his colleagues and friends about his sexuality, but that his marriage was a private affair not intended as a public statement in the national debate over gay marriage.

“I am not an activist, particularly. But I think every single human being has the right to choose the person they want to spend their life with,” Nabors said. “That’s not even an argument, it’s just a God-given right.”

Nine of the 50 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage. Another 31 states have passed constitutional amendments restricting marriage to heterosexual couples.

Nabors’ marriage application and marriage certificate are on file with the Thurston County Auditor in Olympia, according to a clerk in the King County Archives.

(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson and Laura Myers in Seattle; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz, Cynthia Johnston and Jim Loney)

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UK cost agency rejects drugs from AstraZeneca, Bristol and Roche

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s healthcare cost watchdog NICE said on Friday it was not able to recommend a new diabetes drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca, and has asked for more information from the companies.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been considering Forxiga, or dapagliflozin, as an add-on therapy for use with other medicines, including insulin.

NICE, which decides if drugs should be paid for on the state health service, also said it had issued draft guidance not recommending Roche’s Avastin for ovarian cancer. The agency has already rejected Avastin in other tumor types.

(Reporting by Ben Hirschler; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)

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