Noticias de Hoy

QUITO (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is “fine” even though the cancer surgery he underwent was complex, Ecuador’s leader Rafael Correa said on Wednesday. Chavez underwent a six-hour surgery in Cuba on Tuesday. “He is fine even though the surgery was complex,” Correa told reporters at the presidential palace. (Reporting by Alexandra Valencia; Writing by Eduardo Garcia; Editing by Will Dunham)

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U. S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Wednesday he still has "serious differences" with President Barack Obama over how to resolve the year-end "fiscal cliff" as top Republicans vowed to stay in Washington until just before – and after – Christmas to reach a deal. "I was born with a glass half full. I remain the most optimistic person in this town. But we’ve got some serious differences," Boehner told reporters at a news conference. . . .

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The fungal meningitis outbreak continues to confound doctors as new infections emerge.

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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The exhumed body of Turkey’s late President Turgut Ozal, who led the country out of military rule in the 1980s, contained poison but the cause of death was unclear, local media reported an autopsy as showing on Wednesday. There have long been rumors that Ozal, who died of heart failure in 1993 aged 65, was murdered by militants of the “deep state” – a shadowy group within the Turkish establishment of the day. Ozal had angered some with his efforts to end a Kurdish insurgency and survived an assassination bid in 1988. . . .

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Turmoil surrounding an unprecedented $3 billion cancer-fighting effort in Texas worsened Tuesday when its executive director offered his resignation and the state’s chief public corruption prosecutor announced an investigation into the beleaguered agency.

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The Texas prosecutor responsible for investigating public corruption among state officials said Tuesday that he has opened an investigation into the state’s troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting agency.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who is 94 and has been in hospital since Saturday for tests, has suffered a recurrence of a lung infection but is responding to treatment, the government said on Tuesday. The revered anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace laureate is spending his fourth day in hospital in the capital, Pretoria. Known affectionately by his clan name “Madiba”, Mandela remains a hero to many of South Africa’s 52 million people and two brief stretches in hospital in the past two years made front page news. . . .

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It’s about to get faster and easier to diagnose food poisoning, but that progress for individual patients comes with a downside: It could hurt the nation’s ability to spot and solve dangerous outbreaks.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly three in five New York City grocery stores and restaurants that sell seafood have mislabeled part of their stock, substituting varieties that could cause health problems, according to a new study. Some 39 percent of the fish obtained for the study by the ocean conservation group Oceana was inaccurately identified, Oceana said. Sometimes cheap fish is substituted for more expensive varieties or plentiful species for scarce ones. . . .

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DALLAS, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission is investigating a nightclub where Dallas Cowboys players may have been drinking before a one-vehicle crash in which player Jerry Brown Jr. died early Saturday morning, a commission official said Monday. Commission officials would not identify the club, but a club called Privae Dallas issued a statement saying it was cooperating with the commission and with police as they investigate. . . .

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