| Iran shakes up foundation controlled by Ayatollah's business empire Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:37 PM PST  By Steve Stecklow LONDON (Reuters) - A multi-billion dollar organization controlled by Iran's supreme leader shook up the management of its charity division, appointing as its new chief a man involved in the confiscation of thousands of properties from Iranian citizens. Aref Norozi was named director general of the Barakat Foundation, Iran's state news agency reported on Wednesday. The foundation is a unit of a massive business empire controlled by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that is known as Setad Ejraiye Farmane Hazrate Emam. The report by the Islamic Republic News Agency stated that Setad's president, Mohammad Mokhber, had ordered the appointment of Norozi, who once headed Setad's real-estate division and served on the boards of several Setad-linked companies.
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| China military sends air patrols through new defense zone: Xinhua Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:20 PM PST  China's military sent several fighter jets and an early warning aircraft on patrol into disputed air space over the East China Sea on Thursday, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported, quoting a spokesman for the People's Liberation Army Air Force. The move raises the stakes in a standoff with the United States, Japan and South Korea over the zone. Japan and South Korea sent their own military aircraft through the air space on Thursday.
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| IAEA says may need more money to help implement Iran nuclear deal Posted: 28 Nov 2013 08:44 AM PST  By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog will probably need more money to verify the implementation of a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers, its chief said on Thursday, and it would take some time to prepare for the task. Yukiya Amano also said Iran has invited the agency to visit the Arak heavy-water production plant on December 8, the first concrete step under a new cooperation pact aimed at clarifying concerns about the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. Both agreements indicate how Iran is acting quickly to address fears about its nuclear program after the election in June of a relative moderate, Hassan Rouhani, as new president on a platform to smooth its troubled relations with the world. The International Atomic Energy Agency can mobilize expertise and staff from within the organization for an increased workload in checking whether Iran is complying with the interim accord with the major powers to curb its nuclear program, IAEA Director General Amano told a news conference.
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| Afghan president condemns U.S. airstrike that killed a child Posted: 28 Nov 2013 12:24 PM PST  President Hamid Karzai said U.S. forces had bombed a home in southern Afghanistan, killing a small child and wounding two women, and condemned the attack as a sign of disregard for civilian lives, his spokesman said on Thursday. The strike could not have come at a worse time, as Karzai is engaged in a stand-off with the U.S. government over a bilateral security agreement that will decide whether U.S. troop stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014. "It shows that U.S. forces have no respect for the decisions of the Loya Jirga and life of civilians in Afghanistan," said Karzai's spokesman, Aimal Faizi. "If such operations continue, there will be no agreement." The United States has threatened to pull its troops out of Afghanistan after 2014 - an outcome known as the "zero option", as it did in Iraq two years ago - unless a deal is clinched by the end of this year, Karzai, however, has so far refused to sign, despite getting approval from the Loya Jirga last week.
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| Ukraine, EU fail to salvage trade pact Posted: 28 Nov 2013 04:15 PM PST  By Justyna Pawlak and Adrian Croft VILNIUS (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich failed on Thursday to salvage an ambitious free-trade pact with the European Union despite a warning that Ukraine was risking its future by turning its back on the deal. Ukraine and the 28-nation EU had aimed to sign an ambitious trade and cooperation agreement at Thursday's summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, which would have marked a historic westwards shift by the former Soviet republic away from Russia's orbit. But, under intense pressure from Moscow, Yanukovich renounced plans last week to sign the agreement in favour of closer ties with Russia, dealing a blow to the EU's efforts to build closer relations with former Soviet republics. Yanukovich still flew in for the meeting - held to discuss the EU's four-year-old outreach program for Ukraine and five other east European countries.
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| Britain, Argentina in fresh row over drilling in Falklands: media Posted: 28 Nov 2013 02:53 PM PST  (Reuters) - Argentina triggered a fresh diplomatic row with Britain on Thursday over the disputed Falkland Islands after the country's Congress passed a law that establishes criminal sanctions for the "illegal exploration" of hydrocarbons in the Argentine continental shelf, according to the Guardian newspaper. the banning of individuals and companies from operating in Argentina; and the confiscation of equipment and any hydrocarbons that would have been illegally extracted". In its response, the British Foreign Office said, "The UK government unequivocally supports the right of the Falkland Islanders to develop their natural resources for their own economic benefit." "Argentine domestic law does not apply to the Falkland Islands or South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which are UK overseas territories," the Foreign Office said.
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| More than 40 killed in depot blast in Libya, more clashes in east Posted: 28 Nov 2013 04:57 PM PST By Ghaith Shennib and Ayman al-Warfalli TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - More than 40 people were killed on Thursday in an explosion at an army depot in southern Libya after locals tried to steal ammunition, officials said, while four soldiers died in clashes in the restive eastern part of the country. The incidents highlighted the turmoil in Libya where the government is trying to restore order in the oil-producing country, which is awash with weapons after the 2011 ouster of Muammar Gaddafi. Libya's nascent military is struggling to secure army bases and curb Islamist militants, militias and gangs who fought in the uprising against Gaddafi but refuse to disarm and control parts of the country. The four soldiers were killed in Benghazi as clashes erupted between army special forces and militant Islamists of the Ansar al-Sharia group, officials said. |
| Syrian army takes town, and upper hand Posted: 28 Nov 2013 04:49 PM PST  Syrian troops recaptured the strategic town of Deir Attiyeh Thursday, less than a week after losing it, taking the advantage in its bid to crush rebels just north of Damascus. The seizure of Deir Attiyeh, on the Damascus-Homs highway, comes two weeks into an army offensive in the Qalamoun region, important to the regime for its proximity to the capital and to the rebels for the supply lines it offers to neighbouring Lebanon. The opposition demands that any talks should lead to a transition in which President Bashar al-Assad plays no role. "Our heroic army has taken total control of the town of Deir Attiyeh in Damascus province after it crushed the terrorists' last enclaves there," state television said.
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| Tuaregs stop Mali PM visiting town Posted: 28 Nov 2013 04:30 PM PST  Tuareg demonstrators on Thursday occupied an airport runway to prevent Mali's Prime Minister Oumar Tatam Ly visiting the rebel-controlled northeastern town of Kidal, officials said. Protesters said Malian soldiers shot and wounded three of the demonstrators, but the Malian army denied that. An African military source said troops with the UN military support mission in Mali, MINUSMA, had tried but failed to stop the demonstrators occupying and blocking the runway. Ismael Toure, an official in the regional governor's office, told AFP that, as the airport was preparing to receive Ly's plane, "several hundred youths and women backed by the MNLA went to Kidal aerodrome, determined to stop the plane from landing".
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| Mexico leftists exit pact, raising hope for deeper energy reform Posted: 28 Nov 2013 04:27 PM PST  By Ana Isabel Martinez and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's main leftist party said on Thursday it had pulled out of a cross-party pact on economic reform, raising hopes that the government will agree to a more far-reaching plan to attract private investment for the oil industry. The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, is hoping its energy reform will spur faster economic growth, and the departure of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) from the accord is likely to push the debate closer to a more business-friendly proposal backed by the center-right. Unveiling his plan to shake up the state-controlled oil and gas industry in August, President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed offering investors profit-sharing contracts to try and reverse a slump in crude output, which is down by a quarter since 2004. But the PRI has no majority in Congress and its natural ally on energy reform, the conservative National Action Party (PAN), has proposed a more radical opening of the oil sector, including concessions and production-sharing contracts.
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| British couples to get increased paternity leave rights Posted: 28 Nov 2013 04:11 PM PST  Britain announced Friday final details of a plan enabling couples to share parental leave after the birth of their child in a bid to help working mothers and give fathers more time with their children. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the proposals "challenge the old-fashioned assumption" that women should always be the parent that stays at home.
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| Masked artist makes sticky issue out of radiation in Japan Posted: 28 Nov 2013 04:10 PM PST  By Sophie Knight TOKYO (Reuters) - With his face hidden behind sunglasses and a white surgical mask, the artist is almost as invisible as the radioactive contamination he is protesting against - yet his stickers are graphic reminders of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Known as 281 Antinuke, Japan's answer to Banksy has covered Tokyo streets in images depicting politicians as vampires and children being shielded from radioactive rain to highlight the consequences of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant after an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. The disaster and the response by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) stoked anti-nuclear sentiment and the biggest public protests in Japan since the 1960s, but the movement has since lost momentum. "Perhaps because everyone believes people telling them on television that everything is fine, they don't seem so worried," 281 Antinuke told Reuters.
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| French troops start to deploy in strife-torn CAR Posted: 28 Nov 2013 03:59 PM PST  Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - French troops have begun to deploy to the strife-torn Central African Republic, airlifting men and equipment to Bangui in preparation for an intervention to restore order, an airport source said. "French military aircraft have made several round trips in the past few hours coming mainly from Gabon, to bring in supplies," the source told AFP, asking not to be named. Paris on Monday presented the UN Security Council with a draft resolution aimed at reinforcing a regional African military mission in the CAR (MISCA), with the goal of turning it into a UN peacekeeping force. "Many patrol vehicles and troop transports, (including) light armoured vehicles, have arrived from Cameroon by road and headed directly for the M'poko military base," which is MISCA headquarters near the capital, a Central African military source said.
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| Union: Worker warned crane was on unstable ground Posted: 28 Nov 2013 03:51 PM PST  SAO PAULO (AP) — A safety engineer at the World Cup stadium where a giant crane collapse killed two workers allegedly warned his supervisor of possible problems with the operation, only to have his concerns brushed aside, a labor union leader charged Thursday, as sniping over the accident heated up.
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| 'Paris shooter' convicted of domestic violence in UK Posted: 28 Nov 2013 03:46 PM PST  The man alleged to have wounded a photographer in a Paris shooting spree had been convicted of domestic violence in Britain shortly before returning to France, a newspaper said Thursday. Newspaper Liberation reported that Abdelhakim Dekhar, who is facing charges of attempted murder and kidnapping in France, was convicted of spousal abuse by a court in St. Albans, about 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of London, in January. His sentence ended on July 16, 2013, after which he came to France, Liberation said. "The rejection of his appeal on October 16 and, therefore, the definitive nature of his domestic violence conviction, may explain his decision to stay in France," Liberation wrote.
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| Coca trade in spotlight as Colombia peace talks resume Posted: 28 Nov 2013 03:13 PM PST  The Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels resumed peace talks Thursday amid differences over coca cultivation, blamed by political leaders for drug-linked violence and killings. "If we agree that coca and cocaine are not the same thing, it seems illogical that to put an end to drug trafficking we should eradicate a plant that can be beneficial to humanity," Ivan Marquez said. Marquez is the second in command at the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which has been in talks with the government for more than a year, aiming to end their near 50-year conflict. "Cocaine has become a harmful narcotic that poses serious problems for public health on a global level," Marquez said, adding that drug trafficking was "not an exclusively Colombian, but an international problem."
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| Britain switches focus of lending scheme to businesses Posted: 28 Nov 2013 03:02 PM PST  Britain's state-runned lending scheme will no longer boost mortgage borrowing, the Bank of England said Thursday, amid growing fears over the nation's buoyant property market. The government's Funding for Lending Scheme , launched last year to boost mortgage and business lending, offers cheap finance to banks in order to encourage loans and boost growth. But BoE governor Mark Carney said Thursday that it was now appropriate to take measures to ensure the "evolution" of Britain's housing market was "constructive". Finance minister George Osborne agreed it was the right time to concentrate efforts on boosting finance for small companies.
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| Journal withdraws controversial French Monsanto GM study Posted: 28 Nov 2013 02:50 PM PST  By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - The publisher of a controversial and much-criticized study suggesting genetically modified corn caused tumors in rats has withdrawn the paper after a yearlong investigation found it did not meet scientific standards. Reed Elsevier's Food and Chemical Toxicology journal, which published the study by the French researcher Gilles-Eric Seralini in September 2012, said on Thursday the retraction was because the study's small sample size meant no definitive conclusions could be reached. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued a statement in November 2012 saying the study by Seralini, who was based at France's University of Caen, had serious defects in design and methodology and did not meet acceptable scientific standards. In its retraction statement, the Food and Chemical Toxicology journal said that in light of these concerns, it too had requested to view the raw data from the study.
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| Scientists: Sun-grazing comet likely broke up Posted: 28 Nov 2013 02:47 PM PST  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Once billed as the comet of the century, Comet ISON apparently was no match for the sun.
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| Protest prevents Gibraltar chief speaking in Spain Posted: 28 Nov 2013 02:32 PM PST  Algeciras (Spain) (AFP) - Spanish activists and fishermen hurled insults Thursday at the political chief of Britain's outpost of Gibraltar, preventing him from speaking to law students in Spain. Several dozen Spanish protesters including activists and fishermen joined in the rowdy rally against Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo at a time of high tension over the sovereignty of the "Rock". A group of young men and women, some with their faces covered, unfurled banners and Spanish flags while hurling insults and chanting "Gibraltar is Spanish" at the event in a faculty in Algeciras, across the bay from Gibraltar. Fishermen from the Spanish ports of La Linea and Algeciras joined in, shouting that Picardo and Gibraltar had ruined their livelihoods.
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| Fresh protests keep Honduras political tensions high Posted: 28 Nov 2013 02:23 PM PST  Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in the streets of Honduras's capital Thursday to support the leftist presidential candidate from whom they believe victory was snatched. "Juan Orlando, dictator!" and "Get out of Honduras!" an estimated 500 marchers chanted, referring to conservative Juan Orlando Hernandez. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal says Hernandez won the vote with an unbeatable 36.35 percent lead after Sunday's presidential election, against 28.91 percent for leftist Xiomara Castro, wife of ousted ex-president Manuel Zelaya. It was the third day running that hundreds of students rallied to support Castro, who would be impoverished Honduras's first woman president if elected.
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| EU leaves door open for Ukraine deal after summit Posted: 28 Nov 2013 02:22 PM PST  VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — With Russia warily looking on, European Union leaders on Thursday implored Ukraine to sign a landmark association agreement and reverse the geopolitical defeat they suffered last week when the former Soviet republic sought closer ties with Moscow instead of Brussels.
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| Police arrest Egypt activist over call to protest Posted: 28 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces arrested a prominent political activist Thursday night over inciting a demonstration in defiance of a new law heavily restricting protests in the country, his family said.
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| Canada let NSA spy on G20, G8 summits Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:45 PM PST  Canada allowed America's National Security Agency to spy on G20 talks in Toronto in 2010 and at the G8 summit days earlier, according to documents cited by public broadcaster CBC. The NSA briefing notes provided by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who is now a fugitive in Russia, reportedly detail a six-day spying operation run out of the US embassy in Ottawa. The documents say the monitoring -- conducted while American President Barack Obama and 25 other foreign heads of government met on Canadian soil in June 2010 -- was meant to "support US policy goals." The G20 summit in Toronto focused on how to rouse a global economic recovery and prevent another financial crisis.
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| With a midnight meeting, delicate new balance emerges in Pakistan Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:42 PM PST  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Just after midnight in early October, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and a coterie of his closest advisers met at his palatial Lahore home and made his toughest decision since coming to power - picking the new army chief. The meeting took place only hours after Pakistan's all-powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani suddenly announced he would retire in November, scotching rumors he was seeking to extend his tenure. Sharif saw Kayani's departure as a chance to limit the sway of an institution that has ruled Pakistan for more than half its 66-year history. "We have to say 'no' to the Kayani doctrine," the insider quoted Sharif as saying at the meeting.
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| Marijuana-smoking Mountie stirs the pot in Canada Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:38 PM PST  A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with a medical marijuana prescription for job-related stress provoked a national debate Thursday over whether he should be allowed to smoke in uniform. Corporal Ronald Francis serves in Canada's New Brunswick province, and reportedly received a prescription for medical-grade marijuana on November 4. He told Canada's public broadcaster CBC that he should be allowed to smoke joints while in uniform, but received a cool response from his bosses who fear tarnishing the RCMP's image. Reactions poured in from across Canada both in support and against the corporal's plea, including from Attorney General Peter MacKay who said it would "set a very poor example for Canadians."
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| Protest law, jail terms boost Egypt opposition Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:33 PM PST  Restrictions on protests and hefty jail terms for girl demonstrators are reviving Egypt's autocratic past, say activists and erstwhile supporters of the government that replaced Islamist president Mohamed Morsi after he was overthrown. The military, the real power behind the civilian government it installed after Mori's ouster in July, remains wildly popular, and many Egyptians, troubled by a stagnant economy, care more for stability than for rowdy protests. But even supporters of the new government, and secular activists who viewed it as a lesser evil after Morsi's divisive rule, say it has gone too far by banning all but police-sanctioned protests.
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| Retailer fires Latvia chairman for comments on roof collapse Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:31 PM PST  Lithuanian retail chain Maxima Group fired the chairman of its Latvian operations on Thursday after he stirred a furor by saying he felt no real sense of responsibility for a supermarket roof collapse in Riga that killed 54 people. The chairman, Gintaras Jasinskas, told a news conference he did not see that anyone at Maxima should resign after the collapse that had already brought down Latvia's government. I can look people in the eye," Jasinskas told journalists. On Wednesday, Latvia's Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis resigned over the tragedy that shattered the Baltic state, leaving the country without a government just weeks before it is due to join Eurozone in January.
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| Quake near Iran nuclear plant kills 8 Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:30 PM PST  A 5.7 magnitude earthquake on the Gulf coast near Iran's sole nuclear power plant killed eight people and injured 190 on Thursday, emergency response chief Hassan Qadami told state media. However, an official said the temblor had "not created any problem for the activities of the power plant" at Bushehr, where Iran has its Russian-built reactor. The quake's epicentre was near Borazjan, around 60 kilometres (35 miles) from Bushehr. Iran stands on several seismic fault lines.
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| Italy PM Letta must confirm new coalition in parliament: president Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:19 PM PST  Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta must ask parliament to confirm its backing of his government after centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party withdrew its support two days ago, the country's president said on Thursday. Since Letta won a confidence vote in the Senate over the 2014 budget without the backing of Forza Italia on Tuesday, the confirmation is likely to be a procedural formality done at the request of Berlusconi's party. Forza Italia had been a member of the ruling right-left coalition since April, when it was put together to end a political stalemate that followed a deadlocked national election in February. After meeting a Forza Italia delegation, President Giorgio Napolitano said "there will no doubt be a parliamentary passage to mark the shift from the grand coalition government to the one that won confidence over the budget," a spokesman in his office said.
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| In Vietnam, weary apparatchiks launch quiet revolution Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:15 PM PST  By Martin Petty HANOI (Reuters) - The Vietnam of today wasn't what Le Hieu Dang had hoped for when he joined the Communist Party 40 years ago to liberate and rebuild a country reeling from decades of war and French and U.S. occupation. The socialist system of the late revolutionary Ho Chi Minh has been corrupted, he says, by a shift to a market economy tightly controlled by one political party that has given rise to a culture of graft and vested interests. But in Vietnam, where politics is taboo, free speech is stifled and the image of unity in the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) sacrosanct, analysts say the significance of comrades speaking out publicly cannot be understated. The CPV-dominated National Assembly on Thursday approved amendments to a 1992 constitution that, despite a public consultation campaign, entrench the party's grip on power at a time when discontent simmers over its handling of land disputes, corruption and an economy suffocated by toxic debt amassed by state-run firms.
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| In the Gandhi political bastion, India's rural poor eye Modi's promise Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:13 PM PST  By Mayank Bhardwaj and Jo Winterbottom SHIVGARH, India (Reuters) - If Sonia Gandhi and her Congress party need evidence that their policies of subsidies and safety nets for India's poor may no longer be enough to keep their support, they need look no further than her own constituency of Rai Bareli. In the family borough in the northern heartland, which has been loyal to India's most powerful dynasty from the days of first Prime Minister Jawaharal Nehru, voters want electricity, hospitals and roads, more than the cheap food on offer. Instead, even in such a bastion of Congress support as Rai Bareli district, opposition leader Narendra Modi's message of growth and investment is gaining ground, despite critics' misgivings about his hardline Hindu nationalist roots and a perceived bias against the nation's minority Muslims.
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| 'New Voyager' Rouhani follows Obama onto YouTube Posted: 28 Nov 2013 01:02 PM PST  A music video has surfaced on YouTube hailing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a similar way to a famed 2008 paean to his US counterpart Barack Obama. In the video, which has been retweeted on the Iranian president's unofficial Twitter account, Rouhani is shown along with traditional musical instruments, banned on state media since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
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| Mexico leftists exit pact, may boost case for energy reform Posted: 28 Nov 2013 12:56 PM PST  By Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The head of Mexico's main leftist party said on Thursday it had pulled out of a cross-party pact on economic reform, which could push the government toward a more radical plan to spur investment in the oil industry wanted by conservatives. Such a move could herald more intense opposition in the street to President Enrique Pena Nieto's plans to open up the state-run energy industry to greater private investment. Party of the Democratic Revolution Chairman Jesus Zambrano said the PRD was being left out of talks over the energy overhaul, and would leave the pact definitively unless the situation changed. "If they don't correct this, there is no point." Mexico's peso extended gains following the announcement.
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| Italian mafia boss must stay in British custody Posted: 28 Nov 2013 12:55 PM PST  England's High Court on Thursday overturned a decision to grant bail to an Italian mafia boss who was arrested in London after two decades on the run. Domenico Rancadore is wanted in Italy to serve a seven-year jail term for his role in the Sicilian mafia and authorities are seeking his extradition. Judge John Goldring said it was clear that Rancadore had heart trouble, which should be borne in mind. "In my view this appeal should be allowed and Mr Rancadore remanded in custody."
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| Spain passes law that may open the door to fracking Posted: 28 Nov 2013 12:53 PM PST Spain's parliament passed an environmental impact law on Thursday that could open the door to hydraulic fracturing or fracking, a controversial method of extracting shale gas that has not been used up to now in the country. The government said it would evaluate hydraulic fracturing, the first mention in a Spanish law of the technology, which has been banned in France and Bulgaria. Lawmakers in the northern region of Cantabria had unanimously voted in April to ban fracking on environmental grounds, dashing the center-right government's hopes to develop a region believed to be rich in shale gas. Spain, in the grips of a severe economic downturn marked by high unemployment, imports around three-quarters of its energy needs and fracking could help relieve its dependence on foreign sources of fuel. |
| Man jailed for 40 years for slaying Chinese family in Britain Posted: 28 Nov 2013 12:52 PM PST  A businessman who butchered a Chinese family of four in Britain was told he would likely die in jail as he was sentenced on Thursday for the frenzied revenge attack. Chinese national Du Anxiang, 54, was sentenced at Northampton Crown Court in central England to life in jail with a minimum term of 40 years. Du killed compatriot Ding "Jeff" Jifeng, 46, his wife Ge Chui, 47, and their daughters Xing, 18, and Alice, 12, at their home in the town on April 29, 2011. The jury heard how Du "massacred" the Dings, his former business partners, in revenge after losing a 10-year legal battle over a Chinese herbal medicine business.
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