News Headlines - 14 August 2015
▽Abe Draws Line Under Past Apologies for Japan’s Wartime Actions - Bloomberg Business
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan inflicted “immeasurable damage and suffering” during World War II, while adding that the nation shouldn’t be expected to continually apologize for a conflict that ended 70 years ago... Abe’s message comes a day before the country commemorates the end of the bloody conflict whose scars continue to dog Japan’s relations with South Korea and China, where many say Japan hasn’t done enough to atone for its militarism. He stopped short of making a personal apology, risking a nascent thaw in ties with Japan’s two-biggest Asian trading partners.
▽Marines Return to Cuba to Raise US Flag for First Time in 54 Years - ABC News
The three Marines who took down the American flag at the U.S. embassy in 1961 were on hand in Havana once again today, witnessing three much younger Marines raise the flag there for the first time in 54 years, marking the historic reopening of the U.S. embassy in Cuba.
▽Documents confirm Apple is building self-driving car | The Guardian
Apple is building a self-driving car in Silicon Valley, and is scouting for secure locations in the San Francisco Bay area to test it, the Guardian has learned. Documents show the oft-rumoured Apple car project appears to be further along than many suspected.
▽Billionaire Soros Sells Most of Alibaba, Reduces Its Oil Stocks - Bloomberg Business
Billionaire George Soros’s family office sold almost all of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in the second quarter, as Asia’s largest Internet company saw its stock decline further because of a slowing Chinese economy... Soros’s firm trimmed its energy holdings during the quarter. Crude oil reached highs for the year in June, peaking at about $60 a barrel, before plummeting to current levels of about $42. The family office sold off its stakes in Cenovus Energy Inc. and Suncor Energy Inc. and reduced its holdings in EQT Corp. and Noble Energy Inc.
Before her death earlier this year, American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly raped by the top leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to counter-terrorism officials.
Mueller's family confirmed to ABC News that government officials have told them that their daughter, who would have turned 27 today, was the victim of repeated sexual assaults by al-Baghdadi.
