Posts Tagged ‘dismisses’

Top official dismisses concerns about Kim Jong Un (AP)

FILE - In this MOnday, Jan. 16, 2012 file photo, Yang Hyong Sop, vice president of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, meets with a delegation from The Associated Press at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea.  In the first high-level interview with foreign journalists since North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's Dec. 17 death, Politburo member and Kim family confidante Yang dismissed concerns about Kim Jong Un's readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helped him make key policy decisions on the economy as well as military affairs. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)AP – A senior North Korean party official dismissed concerns about Kim Jong Un’s readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helped him make key policy decisions on economic and military affairs.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Judge dismisses $1B lawsuit against Microsoft (AP)

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2011 photo, Bill Gates arrives  to testify at the Frank E. Moss federal courthouse in Salt Lake City. Closing arguments are set Tuesday Dec. 13,2011 in a $1 billion federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. Novell Inc. claims the software giant duped it into working on a new version of the WordPerfect writing program only to withdraw support months before Microsoft's Windows 95 was released. Novell claims it was later forced to sell WordPerfect for a $1 billion loss. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart,File)AP – A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Utah company’s $1 billion federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict in a case so important to the computer giant that it put Bill Gates on the stand for two days last month.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

NY court dismisses sex case; Strauss-Kahn free (AP)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves Manhattan State Supreme court with his wife Anne Sinclair, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, in New York. A New York judge dismissed the sexual assault case against Strauss-Kahn, but the order is on hold until an appeals court rules on his accuser's request for a special prosecutor. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)AP – Dominique Strauss-Kahn became a free man Tuesday when a judge ended the sexual assault case against him at the request of prosecutors, who said the hotel maid who accused the former International Monetary Fund chief couldn’t be trusted.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Judge dismisses charges against DSK

A Manhattan judge dismissed the charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Tuesday, but his ruling is on hold while the accuser’s lawyers press for a special prosecutor.

View full post on NYDailyNews.com – Breaking News

Libya dismisses international arrest warrants (AP)

Children wave pre Moammar-Gadhafi flags during a demonstration in  Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, May 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP – The Libyan deputy foreign minister has dismissed efforts by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants against three senior leaders.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Pentagon study dismisses risk of openly gay troops (AP)

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, speaks to reporters on gays in the military, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010, at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – The Pentagon’s study on gays in the military has determined that overturning the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on serving openly might cause some disruption at first but would not create widespread or long-lasting problems.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Obama dismisses GOP ‘Pledge’ as echo of disaster (AP)

President Barack Obama walks down the stairs from Air Force One upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. on Friday, Sept. 24,  2010. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP – President Barack Obama says Republicans’ plan to slash taxes and cut spending if the GOP retakes the House in November is no more than “an echo of a disastrous decade we can’t afford to relive.”


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Amazon Free Clicks