Noticias de Hoy

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and U. S. congressional leaders agreed on Friday to make a final effort to prevent the United States from going over the "fiscal cliff," setting off intense bargaining over Americans’ tax rates as a New Year’s Eve deadline looms. With only days left to avoid steep tax hikes and spending cuts that could cause a recession, two Senate veterans will try to forge a deal that has eluded the White House and Congress for months. Obama said he was "modestly optimistic" an agreement could be found. . . .

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The Indian gang-rape victim whose assault in New Delhi triggered nationwide protests died in hospital on Saturday of injuries suffered in the attack, a Singapore hospital treating her said. "We are very sad to report that the patient passed away peacefully at 4:45 a. m. on Dec 29, 2012 (11:45 a. m. ET Friday). Her family and officials from the High Commission of India were by her side," Mount Elizabeth Hospital Chief Executive Officer Kelvin Loh said in a statement. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and congressional leaders were to meet on Friday for the first time since November with no sign of progress in resolving their differences over the federal budget and low expectations for a "fiscal cliff" deal before January 1. Instead, members of Congress are increasingly looking at the period immediately after the December 31 deadline to come up with a retroactive fix to avoid the steep tax hikes and sharp spending cuts that economists have said could plunge the country into another recession. . . .

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African lawyer has moved to file a class action suit against over 30 gold firms on behalf of 17,000 former miners who say they contracted silicosis, a debilitating lung disease, due to negligence in health and safety. The companies include third-largest global bullion producer AngloGold Ashanti, fourth-largest Gold Fields and Harmony Gold. Also named is Anglo American’s South African unit, which owed gold assets in the past but no longer produces it. . . .

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MONTCLAIR, N. J. (AP) ? Many military veterans say having music to listen to helps them deal with the stress of deployment.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and lawmakers are launching a last-chance round of budget talks just days before a New Year’s deadline to reach a deal or watch the economy go off a "fiscal cliff. " Obama will meet congressional leaders from both parties at the White House on Friday at 3 p. m. EST (2000 GMT) to try to revive negotiations to avoid tax hikes and spending cuts – together worth $600 billion – that will begin to take effect on January1. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican in the U. S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, on Thursday said that there is still time to avert the “fiscal cliff” and a “wholly preventable economic crisis. ” In a speech on the Senate floor McConnell warned, however, that Senate Republicans “aren’t about to write a blank check for anything Senate Democrats put forward just because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – In his latest book “Far From the Tree,” National Book Award winner Andrew Solomon turns the conventional wisdom that children are composites of their parents on its head, but says that is not a bad thing. In the 700-page tome that explores the lives of families with children with conditions ranging from autism to deafness, Solomon says having a child is an act of production rather than reproduction that “abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger. . . .

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he’s accused of: detaining mothers who can’t pay their bills. Lazarus Omondi says it’s the only way he can keep his medical center running.

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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Former President George H. W. Bush, who led a coalition that ejected Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991, is in intensive care at a Houston hospital in "guarded condition," family spokesman Jim McGrath said Wednesday. The 88-year-old was admitted to hospital November 23 for bronchitis. "The president is alert and conversing with medical staff, and is surrounded by family," McGrath said in a statement. . . .

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