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Deepening divisions with Putin over Syria to overshadow G8 meet

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:40:40 -0400

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland - The escalating civil war in Syria and the deepening divisions between the western powers and Russian President Vladimir Putin over the war-torn country are to be the focus of the G8 summit that opened here Monday. Putin is likely to attack US President Barack Obama over his move to arm the rebels fighting the Assad regime. "The EU is convinced that we are at ...

US wants 'credible negotiations' with North Korea

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:53:57 -0400

WASHINGTON - The United States has said it wants "credible negotiations" with North Korea as Pyongyang in its latest offer has expressed desire to start "senior-level" talks with America on regional peace and easing tensions. President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye, are said to have discussed the issue by telephone Sunday evening. They agreed to close ...

Czech premier quits after aide accused of power abuse

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:37:55 -0400

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, once known as 'Mr Clean Hands' in a country troubled by corruption, was forced to resign after his chief of staff was accused of abusing the state security apparatus to spy on three people including the First Lady. The announcement threw the Czech Republic into political chaos. Necas will stay on as caretaker leader until a new ...

Britain snooped on foreign leaders at G20 summits

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:48:37 -0400

LONDON - Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed secrets of the US intelligence, has disclosed that Britain's electronic intelligence agency spied on foreign politicians and officials who attended the London G20 summit in 2009, a news report said. The disclosures by The Guardian may cause diplomatic tension as they coincide with the latest G8 summit being hosted by London in Northern ...

Russian president denies charge of stealing Super Bowl ring

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:57:31 -0400

MOSCOW - Robert K. Kraft, an American business magnate and New England Patriots football team owner, has alleged that Vladimir Putin took away his Super Bowl ring in 2005, an accusation that has sparked a minor international controversy The Russian president however denied the allegation about the diamond-encrusted sporting prize that he says was gifted to him by the football team owner. ...

Al Jazeera to launch US channel in August

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:28:01 -0400

WASHINGTON - Al Jazeera's new American channel coming in summer hopes to be different with lesser focus on celebrities or other tabloid fodder found on U.S. television news. Al Jazeera America hopes to stand out with a diet heavy on "fact-based, in-depth, long-format news." According to Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of international operations for Al Jazeera Media Network, Al Jazeera ...

Private drug firm Aragon being acquired by Johnson and Johnson

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:03:46 -0400

WASHINGTON - Healthcare products conglomerate Johnson Johnson is buying privately-held Aragon Pharmaceuticals in a near $1 billion deal to gain control of its experimental drugs for prostate cancer. The acquisition of Aragon Pharmaceuticals includes its androgen receptor antagonist program targeting the treatment of prostate cancer, including its primary product candidate in phase 2 ...

Australian consumer body reports $94mn losses due to shopping scams

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:28:51 -0400

SYDNEY - Australian consumers were fleeced of nearly $94 million last year due to various marketing scams, with the majority being perpetrated using text messages and direct calls, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in its latest report. The actual number of losses due to scams could be much higher because many go unreported, stated ACCC Deputy Chair Delia Rickard. The ...

Chevron begins production and shipment from Angola LNG

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:14:17 -0400

SAN RAMON, California - Production and shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Angola by Chevron Corporation's subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited has commenced with the first consignment being sent to Brazil, the global energy giant has confirmed. Angola LNG is one of the largest energy projects on the African continent. "First gas at Angola LNG is an important milestone in ...

UN Rights Chief Commends Serbian Progress Outlines Weaknesses

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:37:11 -0400

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has welcomed Serbia's progress on human rights issues but also outlined areas where more needed to be done. In a statement on June 18 after her first official visit to the country, Pillay said Serbia has adopted "a strong and fundamentally sound body" of laws and standards relating to human rights. She noted that Serbia's ...

Radio Farda Investigative Report Wins Silver In New York

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:37:10 -0400

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. Most of our programs are available on FM and medium-wave frequencies of local radio stations in the countries of our broadcast area. If you are having problems listening to programs on the internet, please read ...

Afghan forces take over as peace talks loom doubts remain

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:33:39 -0400

Afghan president Hamid Karzai (right) shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen after a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan national forces will lead all military operations in the country from June 19, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday. | Ahmad Massoud/Xinhua/Zuma ...

Netanyahu calls for an end to all Iranian enrichment

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:32:23 -0400

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Iran Tuesday to stop the enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels, shortly after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Iran has expressed readiness to stop uranium enrichment to 20 percent in exchange for easing international sanctions.Lavrov's comments to the Kuwait News Agency came a day after Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani said ...

Spain reigns supreme once again with Euro triumph

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:32:22 -0400

Spain's stranglehold over European soccer doesn't look like it will be ending any time soon after the Under-21 national team emulated the senior side by winning a second straight European Championship title on Tuesday night, outclassing Italy 4-2 at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem.The Spaniards entered the tournament in Israel as a firm favorite and lived up to their billing throughout the ...

Ending the Chief Rabbinate electoral machinations

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:32:19 -0400

The sleazy political machinations surrounding the impending elections for the Chief Rabbinate are shameful.There is today a unique opportunity to end the excessive influence exerted over the nation by ultra- Orthodox groups. This extends beyond the emotional issues of haredim serving in the army and becoming gainfully employed rather than subsisting on state welfare. It relates to the ...

In my own write Joking aside

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:32:18 -0400

I can recall two episodes during which I was seized with uncontrollable laughter, oddly both connected with music.The first happened many years ago, when I attended a chamber concert with my father at a private home. It was all pretty informal, but when the music began, people sat down and listened attentively.All went well at first, until a group of four musicians stepped up. Three of them ...

Today’s ‘Altneuland’ Jerusalem’s ‘beauty and wisdom’ season

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:32:18 -0400

It is symposium season in Jerusalem these days - and hero season in Israel. Every June I am overwhelmed by conferences, often balancing two per week, as academics and activists visit Israel before the summer - and summer heat - really begin.As my daily schedule fills up, I enjoy reading about the annual conferring by Israel's universities of honorary doctorates to intellectual and ...

Terra Incongnita Rewarding IDF service is not discrimination

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:32:16 -0400

The only discrimination of a bill allowing for preferential treatment for army, national service results between Jews who don't serve, those who ...

G-8 communique sidesteps Assad’s fate

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:31:34 -0400

G-8 leaders from left, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Lefteris ...

G8 calls for urgent Syria peace talks despite Russia split

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:27:32 -0400

G8 leaders on Tuesday called for a peace conference on Syria to be held as soon as possible but deep divisions remained as Russia stood by its embattled Middle East ...

Turkish PM Erdogan claims victory after protest crackdown

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:27:31 -0400

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday claimed victory over anti-government protesters after a heavy crackdown, as police raided homes and arrested dozens of demonstrators in a bid to stamp out nearly three weeks of ...

Syria spillover into Lebanon intensifies with clashes in Sidon

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:22:09 -0400

The southern Lebanese city of Sidon erupted in heavy clashes as followers of a radical Sunni cleric battled gunmen believed to be sympathisers of the Shia-backed Hezbollah, in the latest outbreak of violence between factions supporting opposing sides in the Syrian ...

At last it’s time for America to talk to the men from the Taliban

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:22:05 -0400

No more long dinners in Qatari restaurants, or idle afternoons in the capital's many shopping centres. Since they were first secretly delivered by US plane to Doha in 2010, the senior Taliban emissaries whom Washington hoped would eventually agree a peace deal with Kabul have not been rushed off their feet; efforts to kick-start a formal negotiating process to end the war repeatedly ...

Guantanamos Most Dangerous Revealed

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:20:33 -0400

A list released by the US government has identified several dozen Guantanamo Bay prisoners designated as too dangerous to release but who cannot be prosecuted. Those on the list are prisoners held without charge under the Authorised Use of Military Force act passed by Congress and signed by President George W Bush in 2001, said Pentagon spokesman, Army Lt Col Todd Breasseale. The government ...

Quake shakes Perus capital of Lima

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:11:39 -0400

LIMA (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake shook buildings in Peru's capital on Tuesday but there were no reported injuries or damage, Reuters witnesses and safety officials ...

WikiLeaks trial focuses on whether Tweets meet evidence standards

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:11:39 -0400

FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The court-martial of the U.S. soldier accused of providing reams of classified documents to WikiLeaks in a case illustrating the challenge of keeping secrets in the digital age must decide whether tweets and Web pages can be admitted as ...

Ex-NFL player with ALS responds after radio hosts fired for mocking him

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:10:03 -0400

ATLANTA A day after the cast of an Atlanta sports radio show was fired for mocking Steve Gleason's battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the former Saints player issued a response. Team Gleason, an organization named after the former NFL player, posted a statement on ...

4 accused of holding mother child captive in Ohio

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:10:03 -0400

CBS/AP (CBS) ASHLAND, Ohio - Four people have been arrested and are accused of holding a mother and her child captive for two years in Ashland, Ohio, in what the U.S. ...

Bostons One Fund nears $55M with more than 250 claims

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:10:02 -0400

One Fund Boston administrator Kenneth R. Feinberg leads a town hall meeting held to discuss how victims of the Boston Marathon bombing will be compensated on May 7, 2013, at the Boston Public ...

Floods wallop Northern India

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:10:02 -0400

Indian army personnel rescue stranded people in one of the worst flood-affected regions in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, June 18, 2013. Torrential rain and floods washed away buildings and roads, killing at least 23 people in the northern Indian state, officials said on Monday. Many more people remain ...

Hungary indicts 98-year-old for Nazi war crimes

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:10:02 -0400

Alleged Hungarian war criminal Laszlo Csatary, leaves the Budapest Prosecutor's Office after he was questioned by detectives on charges of war crimes during WWII and prosecutors ordered his house arrest in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, July 18, ...

Mali and Rebels Reach Peace Deal

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:07:32 -0400

DAKAR, Senegal ...

The stories you want covered

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:59:58 -0400

>Editor's note: John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN Opinion and head of Change the List. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com.(CNN) -- Remember that scene at the end of that Facebook Movie ("The Social Network") when Mark Zuckerberg's character sits alone at a computer screen hitting the refresh button over and over again -- stuck in a loop of anxiety and ...

WH on American Soldier Kidnapped By Taliban Hes Been Away from Us for Four Years

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:36:03 -0400

conference call with two unnamed senior administration officials to provide background for reporters on today's transition in Afghanistan handing over the lead on security in the country to the Afghan National Security Forces. One reporter inquired about how the recently reported peace talks with the Taliban came about, and what conditions were met or will need to be met in order for those ...

G-8 Disagreement on Syria

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:36:02 -0400

President Obama and other world leaders at the G-8 summit Tuesday agreed in calling for an end to the two-year civil war in Syria, but the U.S. and its allies could not convince Russia to unite behind a call for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. As expected, Russian President Vladimir Putin would not explicitly endorse an agreement to force Assad, his longtime ally, to step down ...

NSA boss 50 terror attacks foiled

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:33:11 -0400

US surveillance efforts have foiled more than 50 potential terrorist events since the 2001 attacks, the head of a US spy agency argues, defending the programs as vital to national security. "These programs are immensely valuable for protecting our nation and securing the security of our allies," said General Keith Alexander, director of the secretive National Security Agency, in the latest bid by ...

Russia Scientists To Clone Stalingrads Oldest Living Survivor

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:30:48 -0400

It survived one of World War II's bloodiest battles, in which some 2 million people are thought to have perished. Although it was often pummeled by machine-gun fire and shrapnel, it stood firm as fierce fighting in Stalingrad raged around it for 200 days. It's little wonder, therefore,that the gnarled,100-year-old poplar, which still stands in Volgograd (as Stalingrad is now ...

IDF general Palestinians quietly aiding US peace drive

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:26:01 -0400

US peacemaking drive by quietly cutting off funds for grassroots campaigners against Israel's occupation of the territory, a senior Israeli general said on Tuesday.The allegation, which the campaigners contested, underscored the sensitivity of the Palestinians' security coordination with Israel at a time of deadlocked diplomacy over their independence drive and censure from rival Hamas ...

Palestinians ‘aiding US peace drive’

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:25:24 -0400

JERUSALEM - The Palestinian administration in the West Bank has tried to help the latest US peacemaking drive by quietly cutting off funds for grassroots campaigners against Israel's occupation of the territory, a senior Israeli general said on ...

Don’t prolong Iran talks Netanyahu

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:25:18 -0400

Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned world powers on Tuesday against holding ';drawn out'; negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme following the election of a more moderate president in ...

Pope John II on brink of sainthood

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:25:16 -0400

In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis prays in front of the tomb of Pope John Paul II, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore ...

British military stock left over from Afghan war being moved out

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:24:50 -0400

The details of what has been happening to Britain's military equipment in Afghanistan were given today as the government there assumed responsibility for security across the country and international forces embarked on the final part of their exit strategy from the ...

David Cameron prepares for G8 summit with early morning dip... but Vladimir Putin did not join him

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:15:03 -0400

When you are hosting a world leaders' summit surrounded by water, there is only one way to start the day. David Cameron duly took the plunge at 6am today when he went for a swim in Lough Erne in County ...

Brazil kicks off World Cup excess draws hundreds of thousands to street protests

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:59 -0400

When the Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced in 2007 that next year's World Cup would be staged in Brazil, he predicted it would have "a big social and cultural impact". It has, but not in the way he expected. Instead of uniting Brazil in celebration, football's biggest prize, which is returning after 54 years to the country that has won it more times than any other, is ...

Syria crisis World leaders appeal to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:58 -0400

World leaders appealed to allies of Bashar al-Assad to force the Syrian President to surrender power at the close of their two-day summit in Northern ...

Weak G8 agreement on Syria hailed as victory

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:10 -0400

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (4th L) arrives for a group photo with (L-R) European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Barack Obama, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, France's President Francois Hollande, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italy's Prime Minister ...

Chrysler Agrees To Recall Jeeps Over Fire Risk

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:10:55 -0400

DETROIT (AP) -- Chrysler says it has resolved its differences with the government and will recall older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs that could be at risk of a fuel tank fire. Earlier this month the company refused the government’s request to recall the Jeeps. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contended that the gas tanks could rupture if hit from the rear, ...

Mobster recounts murder for hire in ‘Whitey Bulger trial

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:04:41 -0400

A vehicle with bullet holes and broken glass which was shown to jurors hearing the racketeering and murder trial of accused Boston mob boss James ''Whitey'' Bulger is seen in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office June 17, 2013. John Martorano, a former associate of Bulger took the stand in the trial and told jurors about killing rivals in ...

Mali signs deal with Tuareg separatist rebels

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:04:40 -0400

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Mali signed a ceasefire deal with Tuareg separatist rebels on Tuesday, paving the way for government troops to return to the northern, rebel-held town of Kidal before a presidential election next ...

A test for throat cancer caused by HPV

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:02:35 -0400

HPV, the most common sexually transmitted disease, can lead to throat cancer. Doctors have been warning about the link for years, and earlier this ...

50th Paris Air Show

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:02:34 -0400

A French Airforce Rafale performs its demonstration flight on the first day of the 50th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, June 17, ...

NSA chief defends US spying programme

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:01:25 -0400

The head of the US National Security Agency has defended government's sweeping electronic surveillance programmes and said it had helped disrupt possible attacks more than 50 times since September 11, 2001.Justifying the spying programmes that were disclosed by contractor Edward Snowden earlier this month, General Keith Alexander said on Tuesday he would give lawmakers classified details of ...

Deadly clashes erupt in south Lebanon

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:01:24 -0400

Two people have reportedly been killed in armed clashes between supporters of a pro-Hezbollah group and followers of a Sunni cleric in south Lebanon, local media has said. The fighting erupted in the Abra neighbourhood of the port city of Sidon on Tuesday, as the army cut off roads leading to Abra in an effort to control the fighting there, state news agency NNA said. It is the latest apparent ...

U.S. Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:58:42 -0400

After months of delays, the Taliban opened a political office in the Qatari capital of Doha, paving the way for talks to begin. The decision was a reversal of months of failed efforts to start peace talks while Taliban militants intensified a campaign targeting urban centers and government ...

CNN BuzzFeed Pageant cringes

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:50:34 -0400

>Editor's note: This post was created for your reading pleasure as a collaborative effort between the editorial staffs of BuzzFeed and CNN.(CNN) -- Pageants are nerve-wracking. Participants are judged on every aspect of their looks, personality and ability to discuss anything from affirmative action to peace in the Middle East -- all in front of thousands, sometimes millions of people. As Miss ...

G-8 Meeting Ends With Cordial Stalemate on Syria

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:46:48 -0400

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland ...

Taliban Step Toward Afghan Peace Talks Is Hailed by U.S.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:38:56 -0400

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Report Ecuador Might Offer Asylum to Edward Snowden

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:28:03 -0400

Xinhua reports that Ecuador might offer asylum to Edward Snowden. "Ecuador would consider granting asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA employee who single- handedly disclosed the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)'s PRISM mass-surveillance program, a top Ecuadorian official said Monday," the outlet ...

Turkeys standing man

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:24:27 -0400

>Are you there? Share your story on CNN iReport, but please remember to stay safe. Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkish protesters are giving their government the silent treatment. Hundreds of men and women stood silently Tuesday in Istanbul's Taksim Square emulating the performance artist whose quiet protest Monday night quickly gained him the nickname "Standing Man. "For more than five hours, Erdem ...

Turkeys standing man

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:24:27 -0400

Police open probe into Facebook picture portraying Lapid as Hitler

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:17:52 -0400

The National Police Headquarters announced on Tuesday that they had opened an investigation into a picture posted on Facebook earlier in the day showing Finance Minister Yair Lapid with a toothbrush mustache, apparently in a reference to Hitler.The photo, which included the words "Israeli economy despot," was the subject of widespread criticism by MKs, including former Knesset Speaker ...

Health Ministry to launch campaign thwarting polio spread

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:17:51 -0400

The Health Ministry will in the next few days launch an information campaign via the media encouraging the public to wash their hands with soap and water before eating and after going to the toilet or handling diapers. The effort is mean to halt the spread ...

Bride-to-be organised dream wedding in just 10 DAYS after her boyfriend was diagnosed with stomach cancer and given just months to live

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:14:01 -0400

Last October Charlotte organised a last minute wedding to terminally-ill boyfriend Chris Clark. He proposed within minutes of being diagnosed with incurable stomach ...

Moors murderer Ian Brady 75 storms out of tribunal claiming evidence is ad nauseam

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:14:00 -0400

Brady, sketched at the tribunal yesterday taking notes, is not allowed a pen while in the secure hospital in Merseyside, after he used it as a potential ...

Wish you werent here Tourists on Italian beach ignore the CORPSE lying in the surf and continue having fun just yards away

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:13:59 -0400

In August 2011 Italy was left shocked after the body of a 67-year-old, who died on a beach towel under an umbrella, lay undiscovered for three hours, surrounded by beach-goers, on a beach near ...

Rapist and murderer pictured walking to the gallows to face execution in Kuwaiti car park

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:13:58 -0400

If the "liars" had kept their word when they abolished the death sentence in this country ie life imprisonment where life does mean life - then there wouldn't be so many supporting execution as a ...

More than 100 children are killed in bug epidemic brought on by monsoons in worse outbreak of encephalitis to hit India in a decade

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:13:57 -0400

The disease has already killed at least 118 children this year, and authorities fear the death toll could reach about 1,000, said Dr. R.N. Singh of the Encephalitis Eradication Movement, an Indian ...

More than 200000 protesters take to the streets of Brazil to protest the billions spent on hosting the 2014 World Cup

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:13:56 -0400

Angry demonstrations and clashes with riot police have taken place in Brazil's biggest cities after more than 200,000 people protested over the expense of the 2014 football World ...

Outraged Australian women bombard Facebook with photos of their breasts after Julia Gillard is criticised for exposing too much cleavage

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:13:55 -0400

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has unwittingly sparked a rush of cleavage photos on social media after a commentator said it was wrong for her to show too much of her breasts in ...

Kim Jong Un hands out copies of Mein Kampf to senior North Korean officials to see what lessons can be learned from it

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:13:54 -0400

Senior government officials in North Korea were given copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf for Kim Jong Un’s birthday in January, it has been ...

Art collector Saatchi cautioned over row with TV chef wife

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:12:37 -0400

British art collector Charles Saatchisaid on Tuesday that he had accepted a police caution for assaulting his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, to bring an end to the public row over the ...

Pregnant Muslim woman attacked in Paris miscarries

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:06:36 -0400

A pregnant Muslim woman attacked in a Paris street by skinheads, apparently because she was wearing a veil, has miscarried as a result of the assault, her lawyer ...

Royal family affair Artist demands DNA to prove she’s king’s daughter

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:06:35 -0400

Now the British-educated artist has launched a court battle to obtain DNA from the sovereign and his family in a bid to prove her claim. Ms Bol, a 45-year-old Belgian who studied at the Chelsea College of Art, claims she is the product of an affair in the 1960s between King Albert and the Belgian aristocrat, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps.While King Albert has never publicly acknowledged Ms ...

Revealed The 44 Guantanamo Bay inmates too dangerous to release

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:06:34 -0400

The United States government has identified for the first time the several dozen inmates at the deeply troubled prison facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba whom it considers too dangerous to release but also too difficult to prosecute or ever put on ...

Clues implicating Amanda Knox ‘were underestimated’ by judges

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:06:34 -0400

Italy's supreme court has declared that clues that implicated Amanda Knox in the killing of British student Meredith Kercher had been underestimated by the judges who quashed her conviction for the crime and freed her from prison in ...

News Corp phone hacking claim US courts more likely than English counterparts to jail executives if found guilty

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:06:33 -0400

The former US Secretary of State, and potential presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, said that whether it's law, finance, medicine, academia or running a small business "people rely on confidential communications to do their ...

Could Bernard Tapie bring down his friend Nicolas Sarkozy

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:06:32 -0400

Bernard Tapie has lived many lives in his 70 years:business tycoon, pop singer, television presenter, actor, racing driver, yachtsman, football executive, writer, politician, ...

Major pipeline explodes in Louisiana

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:05:35 -0400

Blast at Louisiana chemical plant kills one, injures dozens A major natural gas pipeline exploded on Tuesday in Washington Parish, La., destroying a mobile home and causing an evacuation of the area but no injuries were reported, local officials said. The blast on the Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) pipeline, which transports gas from Texas to south Florida, sent a mushroom cloud into the sky and ...

Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan accused of choosing sex of baby

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:03:03 -0400

Health officials in Mumbai are investigating reports that the Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan and his wife know the sex of a baby they are having through a surrogate ...

In US News Corp may truly be held to account

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:02:52 -0400

The former US Secretary of State, and potential presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, said that, whether it's law, finance, medicine, academia or running a small business, "people rely on confidential communications to do their ...

Brazils poor rail against spending

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:59:53 -0400

>Editor's note: James Montague is the author of When Friday Comes: Football, War and Revolution in the Middle East (deCoubertin Books). He is in Brazil for the Confederations Cup. Follow him @JamesPiotrBelo Horizonte, Brazil (CNN) -- At 11 pm, the tired and the injured gathered in Belo Horizonte for one last expression of discontent. More than a thousand sat in Praca Sete de Setembro, a square ...

Hungarian Charged With War Crimes for Actions in World War II

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:58:59 -0400

BERLIN -- A prosecutor in Budapest filed war-crimes charges against a Hungarian man, now 98, who is accused of regularly beating Jewish men, women and children under his supervision and helping to send almost 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Nazi death camps during World War ...

Afghan Taliban opens Qatar office in search of political solution

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:54:57 -0400

14/11/2012 18:17 CET The Afghan Taliban has announced its opened an office in Qatar to help restart talks on ending the 12-year-old war. Speaking at a news conference its representative Mohammed Naeem said the Islamist insurgency wanted a political solution that would bring a just government and end foreign occupation. It also wants good relations with Afghanistan’s neighbouring ...

Brazilian protesters being heard president says

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:54:51 -0400

>Are you witnessing the protests in Brazil? Share your images and videos with CNN iReport. Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- Brazilians angry about high taxes, corruption, lavish spending on the upcoming World Cup soccer tournament and other complaints vowed to hit city streets again Tuesday, a day after the largest protests in the country in at least 20 years. President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday ...

Italy top court cites erotic game hypothesis in Knox case

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:54:00 -0400

ROME Italy's high court on Tuesday faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, saying its ruling was full of "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions and ordering the new appeals court to look at all the evidence to determine whether Knox helped kill the teen. In March, the Court of Cassation overturned ...

FAA approval sought for 650-foot-tall Vegas thrill ride

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:54:00 -0400

This artist rendering released by U.S. Thrill Rides LLC shows a tower called the Polercoaster at the Tropicana Las Vegas hotel-casino on the south end of the ...

Widespread protests in Brazil

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:53:59 -0400

A protester kicks a gas canister during a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 17, 2013. Thousands took to the streets in at least eight cities in Brazil, demonstrations that voiced the deep frustrations Brazilians feel about carrying heavy tax burdens but receiving woeful returns in public education, health, security and transportation. Officers in Rio fired tear gas and rubber ...

UN warns of Nigeria refugee crisis

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:52:43 -0400

Thousands of people are fleeing to Chad, Niger and Cameroon as the crisis in neighbouring Nigeria deepens, the UN refugee agency has said.UNHCR officers said on Tuesday that up to 3,000 refugees had arrived in Cameroon amid reports of at least 6,000 people escaping to Niger over the past weeks as the confrontation between the Nigerian army and the Boko Haram group intensified in the ...

The U.S. war you dont know about

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:46:20 -0400

>Editor's note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of "Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive. " (CNN) -- Today, the United States is conducting offensive cyberwar actions around the world. More than passively eavesdropping, we're penetrating and damaging foreign networks for both espionage and to ready them for attack. We're creating custom-designed ...

... And its not the only one

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:36:55 -0400

>Editor's note: MainSail is CNN's monthly sailing show, exploring the sport of sailing, luxury travel and the latest in design and technology.(CNN) -- Diving 27 meters underwater, the light turns a deep, hazy blue. Emerging from the darkness, three ballerinas in white tutus stretch their legs on the deck of a sunken military ship. It's not a ghostly apparition but one of a series of haunting ...

Suicide Bombers Kill 37 at Shiite Mosque in Baghdad

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:31:09 -0400

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Youths battle cops in Brazil unrest

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:20 -0400

Youths clashed with police in central Rio de Janeiro yesterday as more than 200,000 people marched in major Brazilian cities to protest against the billions of dollars spent on the Confederations Cup and higher public transport costs. The nationwide demonstrations, the most extensive since the unrest began 10 days ago, were relatively peaceful. However, acts of vandalism were reported in ...

Putin faces isolation over pro Assad stance

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:18 -0400

British Prime Minister David Cameron has made an attempt to bounce Russia into supporting a future for Syria without President Bashar al-Assad. The host of the G8 summit lined up the support of the six other members for a five-point plan to underpin a second round of peace talks on Syria in Geneva. At a dinner at the G8 summit at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, he challenged Russia's Vladimir Putin ...

Abuser may face longer prison term

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:16 -0400

Stuart Hall remained stony-faced as the judge told him that although he was known to the public for his "genial personality ... there was a darker side to you". Photo / APBritain's Attorney-General is to review the 15-month jail sentence given to Stuart Hall, the disgraced BBC presenter, for a 20-year campaign of sexual abuse against young girls. Dominic Grieve's office confirmed it had received ...

Gillard coup rumours dog Labor

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:14 -0400

The Australian Parliament continues to sit in a surreal session in which policy still takes second place to a leadership spill that no one claims is happening and in which both key players refuse to take up their gloves. While Prime Minister Julia Gillard tries to focus attention on her proposed overhaul of the nation's education system it is her future that absorbs ...

Spy chief tailed PMs wife

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:12 -0400

A former head of Czech military intelligence has admitted following the wife of the country's Prime Minister on the orders of a female aide at the centre of a sex and corruption scandal that threatens to bring down the Government. General Milan Kovanda told police that he organised the surveillance of Radka Necasova, the 47-year-old wife of Petr Necas, who quit as Prime Minister ...

Flow of arms to Syria alarms Israel

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:10 -0400

Israel is worried about continued arms supplies to the Syrian regime from Russia, which has ignored Israeli pleas not to deliver promised shipments of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles which could target planes taking off from Israeli territory, according to a senior Israeli official. But officials also say that Israel is also cautious about Western plans to supply weapons to the divided ...

Underworld killer testifies against boss

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:08 -0400

A packed courtroom in Boston listened in rapt silence as a former hitman for the Winter Hill Gang testified against his former underworld boss, James "Whitey" Bulger. John Martorano has confessed to 20 murders during the period that the gang, under Bulger, ran serial criminal enterprises in Boston from 1972 to 2000, extracting protection money from businessmen, drug dealers and bookmakers ...

Handover to Afghan armed forces marred by bungled bomb attack

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:06 -0400

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his country's armed forces have assumed control of the country's security from the US-led Nato coalition. The handover of responsibility last night marked a significant milestone in the nearly 12-year war and a turning point for American and Nato military forces, which will now move entirely into a supporting role. It also opens the way for their full withdrawal ...

Rebel fighters already receiving Saudi rockets

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:04 -0400

Opposition fighters in Syria, preparing for a major onslaught by government forces in their northern strongholds around Aleppo, have been equipped with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, it has emerged. While Western powers deliberate over whether or not to arm "moderate" rebel groups, Saudi Arabia has sent the weapons, which the rebels have often said was their most needed piece of ...

Lasers find Angkor Wat secrets

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:02 -0400

Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples complex. The discovery was announced yesterday in a peer-reviewed paper released early by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The laser scanning revealed a previously undocumented formal urban planned landscape ...

Two Russians Detained In China For Attempted Smuggling Of Bear Paws

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:14:59 -0400

Chinese officials have detained two Russian nationals for attempted smuggling of 213 bear paws. Chinese media reports said on June 18 that the men were arrested after customs officers found the bear paws hidden inside the tires of their vehicle crossing the Chinese-Russian border on May 22. Bear parts are prized in China for their perceived medicinal value, but their sale is illegal. ...

G8 Calls For Syria Conference As Soon As Possible

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:14:57 -0400

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Send President Peres a birthday greeting

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:10:04 -0400

President Shimon Peres will celebrate his 90th birthday Tuesday night at the start of his fifth annual Facing Tomorrow conferee night in Jerusalem, with hundreds of world leaders, dignitaries and famous faces in attendance. Peres, born in Vishnyeva, Belarus, just outside of Minsk, is a Nobel Laureate and the 9th and current President of the State of Israel.Hollywood royalty Robert De Niro, Barbra ...

Bill Clinton places a note in the Western Wall

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:10:03 -0400

Former US President Bill Clinton visited the Western Wall and the Western Wall Tunnels on Tuesday, accompanied Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz.Clinton placed a note in the Wall and expressed emotion over visiting the holy site and praying ...

Yaalon Iran may exploit Rohani win to advance nuclear program

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:10:03 -0400

Defense minister warns against delusions, saying that "Rohani is a part of conservative regime, Islamic revolution" and Khamenei may exploit the moderate image of the president-elect to push nuke ...

Pet Shop Boys Israel not like apartheid-era South Africa

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:10:02 -0400

When you're the most successful British musical duo in history, you tend to attract some attention. But this is the kind of interest that Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe who make up the wildly successful techno/Britpop team the Pet Shop Boys could probably do without.In the midst of a high-profile world tour ahead of the release of their 12th ...

Syria-related clashes in Lebanon

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:09:17 -0400

Dozens have been killed in Syria-related clashes in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli during the 27-month-old conflict in Syria, which has killed 93,000 people, according to the United ...

Sun journalist Nick Parker and a prison officer Lee Brockhouse to be charged over allegations of passing on details about inmates for cash

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:06:01 -0400

Lee Brockhouse, who worked at Swaleside prison in Kent, will be charged with one count of misconduct in a public office and one count of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public ...

Rousseff praises Brazil protests says government committed to change

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:02:02 -0400

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday the massive protests that have swept the country in recent weeks represent legitimate calls for better public services and more responsive governance at all levels. Speaking the morning after hundreds of thousands of Brazilians marched through more than a half-dozen cities nationwide, Rousseff said her government remains ...

Prisoners demand move as valley fever death toll rises

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:59:18 -0400

Thousands of inmates at two California prisons may be transferred to other facilities, to avoid the threat of a condition known as valley ...

Scientists Timber at possible Griffin shipwreck site has been in Lake Michigan for centuries

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:47:14 -0400

FAIRPORT, Mich. - Scientists say a wooden beam extending from the floor of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, an important finding as they try to determine whether it's part of the Griffin, the first European-style ship to sail on North America's upper Great Lakes. Marine archaeologists from the U.S. and France are studying the timber and digging a pit ...

Facebook organ donor status option upped number of donors

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:46:54 -0400

American Journal of Transplantation on June 18 showed that the social network gave a 21-fold boost to the number of people who registered themselves as organ donors in a single day. The study comes at a time when ...

Officials Surveillance info helped stop Wall St. attack plot

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:46:53 -0400

Updated: 12:37 p.m.The FBI on Tuesday unveiled four terrorist plots it says were prevented in large part due to information collected by the National Security Agency's controversial, top-secret data gathering programs, including planned bombings of both the New York City subway system and the New York Stock Exchange. According to Sean Joyce, the Deputy Director of the FBI, and General Keith ...

Report Pregnant workers face routine discrimination

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:46:53 -0400

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act "would provide a clear and unambiguous rule requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant workers who need them," a new report ...

N.S.A. Chief Says Surveillance Has Stopped Dozens of Plots

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:45:32 -0400

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G8 leaders condemn Syrian violence

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:34:05 -0400

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:27:55 -0400

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NSA head says U.S. surveillance thwarted more than 50 attacks

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:26:47 -0400

By Patricia Zengerle and Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:26pm EDT WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. National Security Agency on Tuesday defended the broad surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet data as a vital security tool and said it had helped disrupt possible attacks more than 50 times since Sept. 11, 2001. Justifying the ...

Standing man in defiant protest

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:16:25 -0400

>Are you there? Share your story on CNN iReport, but please remember to stay safe. Istanbul (CNN) -- A man stood silently in Istanbul's Taksim Square for hours Monday night, defying police who had broken up weekend anti-government protests with tear gas and water cannon and drawing hundreds of others to emulate his vigil. For more than five hours, he appeared to stare at a portrait of Kemal ...

The Lesson of Kermit Gosnell

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:12:55 -0400

What was the lesson of the Kermit Gosnell trial? Since the Philadelphia doctor was convicted last month of murdering three born-alive infants, two competing viewpoints have ...

Destruction Of Historic Building Sparks Debate About Pakistans History

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:08:00 -0400

fighting for a homeland in the vast, resource-rich region that borders Afghanistan and Iran. Others brushed it aside as the destruction of a colonial-era building favored by British administrators. They pointed out that it is more important to protect the restive province's beleaguered communities from terrorist violence rather than lament the loss of an historic building favored by ...

Brazilian Leaders Brace for New Round of Protests

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:06:01 -0400

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Abbas Palestinians keen to see Kerrys peace efforts succeed

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:02:51 -0400

US Secretary of State John Kerry may return to the region next week as part of his efforts to revive the stalled peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, Palestinian officials in Ramallah said Tuesday.PA President Mahmoud Abbas emphasized that the Palestinians were keen on ...

Officials US Taliban to open direct dialogue

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:02:50 -0400

US officials on Tuesday said that the first formal meeting involving US and Taliban representatives is scheduled to be held next week in Doha.A senior Taliban official said on Tuesday no date had been agreed for talks in Qatar on ending Afghanistan's 12-year-long war, after US officials said they would meet representatives of the Islamist insurgency next week in the Gulf ...

Sharon Stone fans basic instinct for photography in TA

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:02:49 -0400

It's unclear whether the man pictured in the picture below is a fan of Sharon Stone or a fan of campy t-shirts. Either way, he had what was surely a surreal moment Monday when, dressed in ...

Maria Miller under fire for boasting about being the only mother in Cabinet to divert attention from damp squib web porn plan

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:14 -0400

Boast: Aides to Culture Secretary Maria Miller highlighted her children ahead of an internet porn summit Maria Miller today faced claims she is using her children to divert attention from government failures on tackling internet porn. The Culture Secretary is under fire after highlighting that she is the ‘only mother at the Cabinet table’ in an attempt to suggest she takes the issue ...

Married teacher who ran to France with pupil 15 phoned her mother for help to quash affair rumours

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:13 -0400

The wife of teacher Jeremy Forrest fled court in tears today while giving evidence as she described the last meal with her husband before he left for France with a 15-year-old ...

Retired accountant 68 trampled to death by a herd of cows while out walking her dog

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:12 -0400

Sandra Wiltshire, 68, died alongside her beloved golden Labrador, Bruce, after the incident in a field near their home in Chippenham in Wiltshire last ...

Water dating back 3 BILLION years may be interesting - but it tastes terrible and salty says leading scientist

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:11 -0400

The similarity between the rocks in the mine and those on Mars raises the hope that similar life-sustaining water could exist on the nearby planet ...

Adults today are self-obsessed and more stressed than those who lived through the Blitz claims psychologist

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:10 -0400

British adults today are self-obsessed and 'consumed' with negative thoughts about their own personal problems from work and money to relationships, a psychologist has ...

G8 summit Putin refuses to back G8 call for removal of Assad despite Camerons after dinner ambush to end bloodshed in Syria

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:09 -0400

The Russian leader refused to sign a communique at the summit in Northern Ireland which mentioned ousting the Syrian President amid claims that chemical weapons have been used against opposition ...

Kettle police acted unlawfully at cuts demonstration by filming woman and asking for her personal details

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:08 -0400

A woman 'kettled' by police, before being filmed and told to hand over personal details during a 2011 trade union rally was treated unlawfully, the High Court said ...

Labour frontbencher opposed to unqualified teachers boasts of taking lessons himself

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:59:07 -0400

Historian: Labour education spokesman Tristram Hunt faced charges of hypocrisy after taking lessons himself while campaigning against unqualified ...

Taliban open Qatar office US signals meetings to begin

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:58:10 -0400

TheTalibanon Tuesday opened an office in Qatar in a bid to start "dialogue with the world" as US officials said they hoped to meet the insurgents within days, after the Afghan government took control of nationwide security from ...

Egypt court ends Mubarak detention in fraud case

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:58:08 -0400

An Egyptian court on Tuesday ended the detention of HosniMubarakin one corruption case, judicial sources told AFP, but the ousted president will remain in custody on other ...

Greek state TV still off air amid negotiations

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:58:07 -0400

ATHENS:State-run television channels in Greece remained off-air on Tuesday as the government scrambled to deal with a storm of protest over its decision to shut down public broadcaster ERT.A meeting late Monday between conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his centre-left coalition partners ended inconclusively.A new meeting has been called for Wednesday to determine whether Samaras ...

G-8 agrees to promote Syrian peace talks

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:53:05 -0400

View Photo Associated Press/Matt Dunham, Pool - Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a media conference after a G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June ...

US to begin formal peace talks with Taliban to find political solution to war in Afghanistan

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:52:20 -0400

The first meeting is expected to take place in a few days after theTalibanannounced they would open the facility in Qatar to try to find a political solution to the war in ...

G8 summit Leaders overcome fundamental differences to pave way for peace talks

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:52:20 -0400

G8 summit: Leaders overcome 'fundamental' differences to pave way for end to Syria crisis but future of Bashar al-Assad unclear after resistence from Vladimir ...

Turkeys New Protest Tactic Standing Still

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:50:38 -0400

The first such protest was carried out on Monday by performance artist Erdem Gunduz. He stood for hours at Istanbul's central Taksim Square, in passive defiance of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ...

Iraq Bombing At Least 24 People Killed

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:50:37 -0400

At least 24 people have been killed in a suicide bombing by a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad. And 52 others were injured in the blast - the latest in a coordinated string of attacks on the country. The first bomber detonated his explosives at a security checkpoint near the mosque in the middle-class, Shi'ite-majority area of the northern Qahira neighbourhood in an apparent attempt to ...

Italian court says Knox murder acquittal had inconsistencies

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:50:12 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Amanda Knox (R) walks away holding hands with her mother Edda Mellas after a press conference at Sea-Tac International Airport, Washington after Knox landed there on a flight from Italy ...

Officials Kerry taps ex-senator for Africa post

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:47:41 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two officials say that Secretary of State John Kerry has chosen Russ Feingold, a former Democratic senator from Wisconsin, as the new U.S. special envoy for Africa Great Lakes ...

Vandals Strike in Quiet Jerusalem Suburb

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:45:08 -0400

Children played on Tuesday in front of graffiti sprayed on a wall in Abu Ghosh, an Arab-Israeli suburb of Jerusalem. The graffiti reads "Arabs out" at left and "racism or ...

G8 leaders sidestep fate of Syrias Assad in final communique

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:41:59 -0400

1 of 18. British Prime Minister David Cameron (R), Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan (2nd R), U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto walk together during the G8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 18, ...

NSA chief agency programs prevented over 50 potential terrorist acts

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:41:58 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Keith Alexander, the director of the U.S. National Security Agency, said on Tuesday that the NSA's data gathering programs had prevented potential terrorist attacks more than 50 times since September 11, ...

Iceland received informal approach over Snowden seeking asylum

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:41:58 -0400

A bus passes by a poster of Edward Snowden, a former contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), displayed by his supporters at Hong Kong's financial Central district during the midnight hours of June 18, 2013, while Snowden is engaged in a live chat online believed to be in Hong ...

Dozens held in Turkey silent protester goes viral

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:41:58 -0400

ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A lone, silent vigil by a man in Istanbul inspired copycat protests on Tuesday, as police detained dozens of people across Turkey in an operation linked to three weeks of often violent demonstrations against Prime Minister Tayyip ...

Peace talks on tap between Taliban Afghanistan

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:15 -0400

Afghan investigators and police are seen through the window of a badly damaged bus at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on June 11, 2013. A Taliban suicide car bomber on June 11 targeted staff at Afghanistan's top court, killing 15 civilians and wounding 40 others in the second attack in two days in the heavily fortified capital, police ...

FBI NYC offer $65K reward for 2008 Times Square bombing info

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:14 -0400

The FBI and the New York City Police Department announced they are offering a reward of up to $65,000 for information related to the suspect or suspects involved in the 2008 bombing of the Times Square Armed Forces Recruiting ...

The Internship 6 real-life lessons from the movie

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:14 -0400

years out of college , a low-paying or even unpaid opportunity (like a volunteer or job-shadowing position) may be the best way to transition to a new career. Taking a pay cut may also be a smart long-term choice if you're trying to transition to a new industry. A short stint at a low-paying position may or may not snag you a full-time one, but the skills you learn should help you land ...

Former critic McCaskill pushes for Hillary Clinton 2016 bid

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:14 -0400

It's three years away with no candidates, but that hasn't stopped the first member of Congress from endorsing a potential 2016 presidential campaign. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who backed President Obama over Hillary Clinton in 2008, announced her support Tuesday ...

Bollywood star probed over alleged baby gender test

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:13 -0400

NEW DELHI Health officials in Mumbai are investigating reports that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and his wife know the sex of a baby they are having through a surrogate mother. Sex determination tests are banned in India to stop the practice of aborting female fetuses due to a preference for sons. Khan was not at home when municipal authorities tried to question him about reports that the ...

Justin Bieber behind wheel as car hits man in Hollywood

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:13 -0400

Los Angeles police say Justin Bieber struck a pedestrian with his car in Hollywood Calif., on Monday night, but there was no crime and the injuries aren't life-threatening. Lt. Craig Valenzuela says Bieber's car collided with someone -- possibly a photographer -- at 11:45 p.m. local time Monday in the 8800 block of Sunset ...

FBIs Most Wanted list gets 500th addition

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:11 -0400

Walter Lee Williams is the 500th person to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list on Monday. (CBS/AP) WASHINGTON-- Walter Lee Williams, a former University of Southern California professor, became the 500th person named to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives list ...

6 ways to pay off your student loans

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:40:11 -0400

student loans . Here are six steps that college grads can take to whittle down their college debt balances: 1. Know what loans you have. This might seem silly, but there are plenty of borrowers who confuse their federal student loans with private student loans. It's important to know the difference because borrowers have more options for repaying their federal student loans. 2. Use the ...

Standing man

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:33:25 -0400

European Union Audit Criticizes Foreign Aid Program

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:27:25 -0400

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China tests U.S. academic freedom

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:24:56 -0400

>Editor's note: James Millward is professor of intersocietal history at the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of History, Georgetown University.(CNN) -- The Chinese legal advocate Chen Guangcheng, facing the end of his fellowship at New York University, has claimed that NYU is forcing him out due to Chinese pressure. NYU's participation in a complex deal to allow Chen to leave ...

House to Consider Tax on New Flu Vaccines

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:06:08 -0400

its version of the bill without further debate if the House passes an identical version. If passed into law, all new flu vaccines would become subject to the 75 per dose vaccine tax, and also become eligible to be included in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). A summary of the bill provided by the House Republican Conference ...

Russian Man Films Own Death In Tragic Workplace Accident

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:01:19 -0400

dismal safety record was underlined once again this week with the publication of a video on YouTube depicting a horrible workplace accident that has already been viewed by tens of thousands of people just a couple of days after being uploaded. The tragic incident was the result of a botched demolition job in the city of Lipetsk on June 16. According to ...

Russian Activists Defense Witnesses Not Allowed To Testify In Court

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:01:18 -0400

All 13 defense witnesses of Russian anticorruption blogger Aleksei Navalny have been barred from testifying at his embezzlement trial in the city of Kirov. Announcing his decision on June 18, Judge Sergei Blinov said Navalny's defense lawyers had "failed to clarify what the witnesses could say in the courtroom." Meanwhile, 30 witnesses for the prosecution have testified at ...

After Eight Years In Office Ahmadinejad Faces An Uncertain Future

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:01:18 -0400

When an outgoing president has as many enemies as does Iran's Mahmud Ahmadinejad, there would seem to be little future left for him. It is not only Ahmadinejad's reputation abroad that plunged during his two terms in office. Statements at the United Nations in which he called the Holocaust a myth and the 9/11 attacks a "mysterious" precursor to the wars in Afghanistan and ...

William Hanna Teacher 63 had sex with damaged 15-year-old schoolgirl in hotel room while streaming online

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:52:28 -0400

William Hanna, 63, and his girlfriend Diane Whitehouse, 58, 'degraded' their young victim in the sordid sessions they held in a Birmingham hotel room, a court was ...

Taliban Signal Readiness to Begin Peace Negotiations

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:52:18 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan ...

Iran South Korea qualify for 2014 World Cup

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:50:58 -0400

Iran beat South Korea 1-0 to reach the 2014 World Cup on Tuesday but the hosts also qualified on goal difference despite a heroic effort by group rivals Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan beat Qatar 5-1 in Tashkent but, needing to win by seven goals, failed to overhaul South Korea for the second automatic qualifying spot in Group A. The former Soviet Republic now go into a play-off ...

100000 flood Brazils streets in protests ahead of World Cup and Olympics

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:45:35 -0400

Protests in Brazil turned violent as more than 100,000 people took to the streets across the country, angered by allegations of police brutality in beating and firing rubber bullets at demonstrators in a march last ...

Erdem Gunduz quietly defied police in Turkey

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:41:21 -0400

Kimberly-Clark moves to ease Venezuelan toilet paper shortage

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:39:35 -0400

CARACAS (Reuters) - Kimberly-Clark Corp is planning a $234 million investment to expand operations in Venezuela, the state news agency said, in a move that should help ease an embarrassing national shortage of toilet ...

The Taliban is ready to talk peace says senior Afghan official

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:36:19 -0400

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban have held secret discussions with the Afghan government and are willing to consider peace talks, a senior Afghan official said on Tuesday, in what may be a significant step towards an end to the long-running ...

Video Watch Careless baggage handler tosses boxes on conveyor belt

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:34:38 -0400

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Report U.S. teacher training an industry of mediocrity

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:34:34 -0400

WASHINGTON The nation's teacher-training programs do not adequately prepare would-be educators for the classroom, even as they produce almost triple the number of graduates needed, according to a survey of more than 1,000 programs released Tuesday. The National Council on Teacher Quality review is a scathing assessment of colleges' education programs and their admission standards, ...

Jesse Jackson Jr. asks to serve jail sentence before wife

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:34:34 -0400

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill, who over the past several years has become embroiled in scandal, says that if he and his wife both have to go to jail, he'd like to serve his time ...

Gang of 8 Has ‘De-Linked’ Citizenship and Border Security

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:59:32 -0400

This comes on the heels of Sen. Marco Rubio's recent admission on Univision that illegal immigrants would be legalized before the border is secured (which, in turn, would incentivize even more illegal immigrants to arrive and hence become legalized before the border is ...

47 Believe W.H. Behind IRS Targeting of Conservatives

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:59:31 -0400

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Suicide attack kills 18 at Pakistan funeral police

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:58:28 -0400

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - A suicide bombing at a funeral in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killed at least 18 people, including a provincial lawmaker, and wounded 50 others, police said.The attack took place in Shergarh town in Mardan district, 145 kilometres (90 miles) northwest of Islamabad, during prayers for the owner of a local fuel station.The blast, which police said appeared to target the ...

Mysterious Taliban Video Unleashes Political Storm In Georgia

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:54:43 -0400

You might expect a Taliban video threatening a country's leaders and warning of impending terrorist attacks to bring a nation together. But in Georgia, the appearance of such a video, purporting to come from the Afghan Taliban, has instead exacerbated political divisions and intensified political conflict. It has been a brutal month for Georgian forces contributing to the NATO-led ...

Brazil protests