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Iran poll shows people want change, says Obama

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:40:07 -0400

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged Iran's newly elected president to prove to the world that the Islamic republic was not pursuing a nuclear weapon programme as the White House welcomed election of a moderate leader as a hopeful sign. "I think it says that the Iranian people want to move in a different direction," Obama said of the election results in Iran that saw a surprising ...

President Rousseff says Brazil has woken up after massive protests

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:37:27 -0400

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Anti-graft protests swept Brazil's main cities as some 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets against alleged mis-governance, forcing President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday to acknowledge the need for better public services and effective administration. The assurance from Rousseff came a day after biggest protests rocked at least ten Brazilian cities, including Sao ...

Talks between UK and Ecuador fail as Assange completes year in embassy

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:37:11 -0400

LONDON - Talks between the United Kingdom and Ecuador have ended without any breakthrough over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's fate with the Andean nation. Ecquador said it was vowing not to succumb to diplomatic pressure and was ready to consider any request from Edward Snowden, another whistleblower, for asylum. As the fugitive anti-secrecy advocate marks one year holed up in the ...

Libya to hold trial of Gaddafi's son in August

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:29:24 -0400

LONDON - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of deceased Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, will stand trial in August along with Gaddafi's last prime minister and a former intelligence director, the prosecutor's office has announced. The men will be tried for crimes against the Libyan people during the 2011 uprising that toppled the former regime. Notorious former spy chief Abdullah ...

Appeals court directs Ex-Im Bank to explain rationale for loan guarantee to Air India

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:24:35 -0400

WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Indian state-owned carrier Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines to the loan guarantee. The court has however directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for providing loan guarantee, which Delta claimed as a victory ...

Google renews efforts wipe out child porn images from internet

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:23:53 -0400

LONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. "We ...

GSK negotiating sale of thrombosis drug and plant to Aspen

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:20:31 -0400

DURBAN / LONDON - South Africa's biggest generic drug maker Aspen Pharmacare and its subsidiary Aspen Global Incorporated have made an offer to acquire thrombosis drugs and their associated manufacturing site at Notre Dame de Bondeville, France, from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). "AGI will acquire from GSK the Arixtra and Fraxiparine/Fraxodi brands and business worldwide, except in China, Pakistan ...

Carbon trading to begin in Shenzhen in bid to cut emission

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:12:35 -0400

BEIJING - China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is set to launch Tuesday its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in the southern city of Shenzhen as part of efforts to cut emissions in its key cities. Carbon emissions trading schemes are meant to encourage companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by setting a limit or a cap, on the level of emission that can be ...

Group of Eight leaders stop short of calling for Assad ouster

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:28:36 -0400

ENNISKILLEN - The Group of Eight industrialised nations called for a swift end to the bloody civil war in Syria and urgent peace talks but stopped short of calling for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in its joint statement at the end of talks Tuesday. Despite the lack of consensus among the G8 on the fate of Assad, as well as the use of chemical weapons by his regime, Canadian ...

Rise in transportation costs push up UK inflation to 2.7pc

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:12:21 -0400

LONDON - The consumer price index (CPI) inflation increased to 2.7% in May, up from 2.4% in April, mainly due to higher fuel costs pushing up transportation costs particularly airfares, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Tuesday. The ONS said the rise was due to a record increase in airfares and higher fuel prices. "The inflation rate has returned to the levels seen between ...

State Dept. Officials Might Have Committed Perjury

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:53:12 -0400

Two top officials at the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DS) -- the federal law enforcement agency that protects American diplomats and investigates allegations of criminal misconduct by State Department employees -- gave sworn testimony earlier this year that appears to be evasive at best, and untrue at worst, according to evidence obtained by Fox News. The officials are ...

United States Once Again Russias Worst Enemy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:48:33 -0400

considered by the greatest number of Russians to be an enemy of their country. Asked to list the five countries they considered to be hostile or unfriendly to Russia, 38 percent included the United States on the list, followed by Georgia at 33 percent, and the three Baltic states -- Latvia at 21 percent, Lithuania at 17 percent, and Estonia at 16 percent. Georgia and the United States ...

Nine Arrested In Connection With Georgian Arms Caches

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:48:33 -0400

Georgian investigators say they have found several caches filled with weapons, explosives, drugs, and documents targeting opponents of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's ...

ADL blasts Alice Walker over shocking new book

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:43:47 -0400

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker "has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level" in her latest book on intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies, according a review of the book by the Anti-Defamation League ...

Bennett Price Tag biggest threat to settlements

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:43:47 -0400

"Price Tag" attacks are immoral and un-Jewish, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett told the Knesset Wednesday.Bennett and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich responded to an urgent parliamentary question from MK Hana Sweid (Hadash) following ...

Ex-mistress sacked as foul tycoons PA after his wife discovered affair is in line for big payout as tribunal warns his behaviour has no place in a 21st Century office

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:59 -0400

A property tycoon who sacked his PA after his wife was tipped off about their affair faces a huge pay-out after his former lover won her unfair dismissal claim. The 32-year-old had a three year affair with her boss who treated her to a car, a London flat and whisked her away on luxury holidays to Cuba and Australia. The chief executive, who cannot be named for legal reasons but whose company has ...

Whats YOUR risk of impotence As our new calculator reveals your lifestyle could to increase the chance by 85

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:58 -0400

The results are startling. For example, according to our impotence calculator, if you are 50, smoke and have high blood pressure, your risk of developing ED is 14 per cent - double the average man's ...

Schoolboy 12 who was fascinated by TV magician Dynamo accidentally hanged himself in his bedroom

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:58 -0400

A 12-year-old schoolboy accidentally hanged himself in his bedroom just two weeks after jokingly wrapping a cable around his neck in a classroom prank, an inquest heard ...

Cannabis-smoking father Simon Redclift is banned from his own SHED by judge

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:56 -0400

A father has been banned from his own garden shed and a judge warned him he could be jailed if he goes inside in what is believed to be the first court order of its ...

Couple who suffered SEVEN miscarriages and stillbirths over 10 years finally take home their miracle baby

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:55 -0400

Last year Sara Sills was fitted with a cervical stitch and baby Mabel was born in April. Despite being born three months prematurely, she has now been able to go ...

Truly alarming Worldwide refugees hit highest number for almost two decades

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:33:02 -0400

By the end of 2012 there were 45.2m people considered as forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, and human rights violations, of which over 15m were international refugees and almost one million were still seeking asylum. The figure nearly matches the one at the height of the crises in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia.According to a report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ...

Internet monitoring must have proper limits Merkel tells Obama

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:21:57 -0400

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a news conference after their meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, June 19, ...

Brazil protesters flood Sao Paulo streets for 2nd night

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:19:46 -0400

SAO PAULO Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament -; people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get low-quality public services and a system of government infected with corruption. That was the repeated message Tuesday night in Sao Paulo, where upward of 50,000 people massed ...

Conditions subhuman

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:55:54 -0400

>Editor's note: For more information on this story, check out CNN affiliates WKYC, WOIO and WJW.(CNN) -- A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment crowded with people and animals for more than a year, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, authorities said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said the people accused of ...

Ohio captives

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:55:54 -0400

How to hide your data from the NSA

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:47:22 -0400

>Editor's note: Doug Gross covers consumer technology and the Web for CNN.com. Follow his updates on Twitter or add him to your Circles on Google+.(CNN) -- Let's face it: Most of us don't e-mail, tweet, text or post anything worthy of clandestine scrutiny. But having concerns about NSA cybersnooping doesn't mean we must surrender all privacy -- what's left of it -- in our day-to-day online ...

Czech Police Arrest Alleged Georgian Crime Boss

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:42:12 -0400

Czech police have arrested an alleged high-ranking member of a Georgian organized criminal group. Czech police officials say the 46-year-old man detained in Prague on June 18 by its organized crime unit is considered a member of the Kutaisi criminal group from Georgia. His name was not released. The suspect's arrest was part of an operation against so-called ...

Report French military training Syrian rebels

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:37:36 -0400

French military officials are training rebels fighting to bring down the Assad regime in the current Syrian conflict, according to a report by Army Radio.The army-run radio station reported that French officers stationed in Jordan and Turkey are currently training the rebels in warfare tactics and weapons usage. Army Radio quoted "experts with access to the information" in their ...

Fukushima groundwater contains toxin

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:36:59 -0400

An aerial view shows the Tokyo Electric Power Company's tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture in this March 11, 2013, file ...

Alleged sex offender tracked to resort

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:36:57 -0400

This 2011 photograph provided by the FBI shows Walter Lee Williams, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives. He has been arrested in the resort city of Playa del Carmen, ...

UK spying a wake-up call - CDP

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:36:56 -0400

Johannesburg - The reported surveillance of South African and Turkish delegations during the G20 summit in Britain should serve as a wake-up call to government, the Christian Democratic Party said on ...

Fathers grief at train suicide of 18-year-old son Mert Karaoglan and school friend 15

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:38 -0400

The father of a teenage boy who died after stepping in front of a high-speed train with his girlfriend in an apparent suicide pact has spoken of his ...

BREAKING NEWS Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans arrested on suspicion of three further offences of indecent assault

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:38 -0400

The 55-year-old was answering bail today at Preston police station in Lancashire following his arrest in May on suspicion of rape and sexual assault, when he was told that he faces the additional ...

Victory for families of soldiers killed in Iraq in unprotected snatch Land Rovers to sue Government the government for damages under human rights laws

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:37 -0400

Families of British soldiers killed fighting in Iraq secured a major victory in their fight to secure damages from the Government for sending troops into battle without proper ...

Boris Johnson is a rock and roll star Music fans help boost Tory poll rating if London mayor was leader

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:36 -0400

Boris Johnson could boost support for the Tory party if he became leader by reaching out to rock fans of Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix and Muse, new research ...

Drunk robber who held up petrol station wearing a SEE-THROUGH plastic bag over his head jailed for two years

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:35 -0400

Is this Britain's stupidest crook? Drunk robber who held up petrol station wearing a SEE-THROUGH plastic bag over his head is jailed for two ...

Men dont stand a chance with women if under 6ft Bad luck for Tom Cruise Daniel Radcliffe Jack Black and Seth Green

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:33 -0400

Tom Cruise, Daniel Radcliffe, Jack Black, Seth Green and Macauley Culkin should probably visit their nearest Cuban heel outlet the next time they're interested in wooing a lady ...

Rick Stein two rival fish and chip shops and a bitter battle of the signs that has left behind a very bad taste

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:32 -0400

Row: Celebrated chef Rick Stein is at the centre of a row after two Scottish restaurants claimed they produced the best fish and chips he had ever ...

Incredible video shows how to fold a t-shirt in just TWO SECONDS

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:32 -0400

But master this trick and it could be taken care of in seconds - literally. An incredible tutorial, posted on YouTube, shows how to fold a t-shirt or short-sleeved shirt in less than two ...

UK weather Hottest day of the year with temperatures set to top 27C

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:31 -0400

The sunshine struggled to break through the cloud yesterday, and the highest temperature recorded was 24C in Manchester - slightly below the high of the year which was 25C on June 6 in Lee-On-Solent, ...

Ian Brady Moors murderer 75 hatched plot to escape secure hospital by seducing woman visitor

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:29 -0400

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

Danny MacAskill Daredevil stunts made to look like childs play as trial rider releases stunning new video inspired by his old toys

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:28 -0400

Somersaulting over a Formula One car on a BMX, bunny hopping over train tracks and using a giant Dandy comic as an over-sized cycle ramp, a stunning new stunt video could easily have been conceived in the mind of an over imaginative ...

Catholic cleric to call for dads to be given more recognition for the role they play in shaping society

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:33:27 -0400

The head of the Catholic church in England and Wales will call for fathers to be given more recognition for the important role they play in holding society together at a religious summit ...

World Bank warns Poorest will feel brunt of climate change

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:27:19 -0400

In a report released today, the international lending institution warned that heat waves, rising seas, more severe storms and other impacts of climate change will trap millions in poverty."Urgent action is needed to not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also to help countries prepare for aworldof dramatic climate change and weather extremes,"WorldBankPresident Jim Yong Kim said ...

In pictures Brazil protests continue for another night

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:27:19 -0400

Cities across Brazil were rocked by another day of protests against public services, police violence and government corruption. There were clashes between police and ...

Obama to revive push for nuclear weapons cuts

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:26:25 -0400

U.S. President Barack Obama waves next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside the Chancellery in Berlin, June 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter) BERLIN – U.S. President Barack Obama will use a speech on Wednesday to revive proposals for a world without nuclear arms by targeting cuts in deployed nuclear weapons of up to a third below levels achieved in a 2010 treaty with Russia, a senior ...

The Executioner under microscope in Bulger trial

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:26:24 -0400

James "Whitey" Bulger holds John Martorano's youngest son, John Jr., during his Christening ceremony in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts. Prosecutors showed the photograph to the jury June 18, 2013 as Martorano took the stand in the trial of accused mob boss Bulger, and has implicated him in a dozen killings over the course of ...

Extending a hand abroad Barack Obama often finds a cold shoulder

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:22:25 -0400

Washington: Over porterhouse steak and cherry pie at a desert estate in California earlier this month, President Barack Obama delivered a stern lecture to President Xi Jinping about China's disputes with its neighbors. If it is going to be a rising power, he scolded, it needs to behave like one.The next morning, Xi punched back, accusing the United States of the same computer hacking tactics ...

Suicide bomber gunmen attack U.N. office in Somalia

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:17:13 -0400

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, in a strike that bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda-linked ...

Afghan government irked over U.S. talks with Taliban

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:17:12 -0400

1 of 6. Muhammad Naeem (R), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha June 18, ...

Obama and Berlin Faded echoes meet new realities

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:14:50 -0400

BERLIN This city may be the only place in the world where President Obama's rhetoric is no match and can be no match for the presidents who came before him. Mr. Obama will speak Wednesday at the Brandenburg Gate just days before the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy's speech of Cold War solidarity with all of West Germany, menaced for years by communist East Germany and nursed through ...

Zimbabwe cattle bank promises easy credit

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:13:45 -0400

A bank has begun accepting cattle as collateral for cash loans in Zimbabwe, the The Associated Press has reported.Depositors can get loans of an equal value of the cattle they have put in the bank."Cattle banking is the only way owners can get monetary value for their animals without having to sell them,'' TN Bank executive Charles Chakoma said on Wednesday. For many rural poor in ...

One of FBIs most-wanted nabbed in Mexico

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:03:06 -0400

Los Angeles to the Philippines in January 2011 to engage in sex acts with two 14-year-old boys he met online in 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement Monday. While in the Philippines, Williams allegedly engaged in sex acts with both boys and produced sexually explicit photos of one of the boys. Williams fled the Los Angeles area approximately one week after returning from the ...

Latvian Bank Fined For Magnitsky-Related Money Laundering

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:37:29 -0400

A Latvian bank has been hit with the stiffest fine possible for involvement in money laundering connected to the case of the whistle-blowing Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Latvia's Financial and Capital Market Commission announced that it has levied a $191,000 fine on the bank for its role in laundering $230 million stolen from the Russian government. The regulator did not name the ...

Final Charges Presented To Russian Opposition Activist

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:37:29 -0400

Russian opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev has been presented with the final charges against him by investigators. Razvozzhayev was brought from a Moscow detention center to the Investigative Committee’s headquarters on June 19. He was officially charged with the preparation of and participation in mass unrest and illegal border crossing. Razvozzhayev was arrested in October ...

Russian Rights Defender Fined For Refusing Demand For Documents

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:37:28 -0400

Prominent Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina has been fined for refusing to provide documents demanded by prosecutors. A court in Moscow ruled late on June 18 that the chairwoman of Moscow-based Civic Collaboration Committee must pay 2,000 rubles ($63) for failing to turn over papers related to the financial activities of her organization. Gannushkina, a Soviet-era veteran ...

Four U.S. Soldiers Killed In Afghan Attack

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:37:27 -0400

The Taliban says it fired the rockets into Bagram Airfield that killed four U.S. soldiers. The attack north of Kabul came just hours after Taliban leaders said they were ready to start peace talks with the United States in Qatar later this week. In a statement, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said militants fired "two big rockets" into the Bagram compound late on June 18. ...

Palestinians wanted in Josephs Tomb murder arrested

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:32:36 -0400

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last month arrested three Palestinian security operatives who were allegedly involved in the shooting death of an Israeli man and the wounding of five others near Joseph's Tomb in Nablus two years ago.On April 24, 2011, Ben Yosef Livnat was killed near the site after he and a group of worshippers entered the site to ...

Brazil boosts security for Confed Cup

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:31:59 -0400

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil will deploy a special police force to help provide security for the Confederations Cup tournament following mass protests against government spending, the state news agency said on ...

Assange fears arrest by US

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:31:58 -0400

London - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorean embassy in London even if Sweden stops pursuing sexual assault claims against him, because he fears arrest on the order of the United ...

Motorcycle bomber hits Yemeni market

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:31:57 -0400

Soldiers are seen in the streets of Sana'a, Yemen. Three people were killed and eight others were wounded when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up in a busy market in the north of the country, according to officials. File photo: Mohamed al-Sayaghi, ...

Disabled woman ‘treated like a slave’

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:31:56 -0400

Chicago - A mentally disabled woman and her child were forced to live in an Ohio basement with snakes and pitbulls, and were treated like slaves for more than two years, US prosecutors said on ...

Rousseff to marchers I can hear you

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:31:55 -0400

Sao Paulo - President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday sought to defuse a massive protest movement sweeping Brazil, acknowledging the need for better public services and more responsive governance as demonstrations continued in some cities around the ...

Pictured The passenger on Hong Kong flight to the U.S. who screamed that he had secrets from the CIA and NSA leaker Edward Snowden

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:28:32 -0400

Another passenger filmed the disturbance with a cell phone on which Perry can be heard ranting: 'My name is Daniel Morgan Perry... they take my stuff away, then I become an ...

World Bank warns global warming woes closing in

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:27:32 -0400

The World Bank on Wednesday warned that severe hardships from global warming could be felt within a generation, with a new study detailing devastating impacts in Africa and ...

Greece PM in fresh bid to break deadlock over broadcaster

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:27:32 -0400

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will on Wednesday make a last-ditch effort in talks with coalition allies to avert a crisis over his controversial shutdown of the state broadcaster which threatens to bring down his ...

NSA claims secret surveillance programs have foiled at least 50 terror plots since the September 11 attacks

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:21:53 -0400

The head of the US National Security Agency has claimed secret surveillance programs have foiled at least 50 terror plots since the September 11 ...

China executes former top official for raping 11 girls

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:21:52 -0400

Authorities in central China executed a former Communist Party official for raping 11 underage girls, state media said today, following an online uproar about the latest case of abuse of ...

Brazil protests see violence erupt in Sao Paulo as government websites are hit with cyber attacks

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:21:51 -0400

Another night of violence in Brazil saw more clashes between protesters and police, with demonstrators in Sao Paulo looting shops, setting fire to a TV satellite truck and attempting to invade the city ...

Rohani once approved of hiding Iran atomic work

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:11:51 -0400

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Years before he became Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rohani spoke approvingly about concealing his nation's nuclear program and said that when Pakistan got atomic bombs and Brazil began enriching uranium, "the world started to work with ...

Afghan govt halts talks with U.S. on security pact

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:10:11 -0400

London The Afghan government said Wednesday it was suspending talks with Washington aimed at nailing down a future security agreement between the two nations due to "inconsistencies" by the Obama administration in its actions and remarks about U.S. involvement in peace talks between Afghanistan and the Taliban. A statement from the Office of the National Security Council of Afghanistan ...

Report Aaron Hernandez questioned in death investigation

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:10:11 -0400

according to Sports Illustrated . Another group of officers was searching an industrial park about a mile away where a body was discovered the day before. Police at the Hernandez home and prosecutors would not comment on the actions while Sports Illustrated, citing an unidentified source, reported that Hernandez was not believed to be a suspect in what was being treated as a possible homicide. ...

Loud explosion heard in Somali capital

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:08:59 -0400

A loud explosion and the sound of ensuing gunfire have been heard in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses have told the Reuters news agency. The explosion was reported near a United Nations compound in the city. A plume of thick black smoke was seen billowing into the sky above the Somali capital, which has been dogged by suicide bomb attacks in recent ...

Attack on Al Jazeera cameramen condemned

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:08:58 -0400

The Turkish Journalists' Association (TGC) has condemned the recent assault on two Al Jazeera journalists by riot police in Istanbul’s Taksim Square. In a statement published on TGC’s website on Tuesday, the association called on the Istanbul governor and chief of police to identify the policemen responsible for the attack on Al Jazeera Turk cameramen, Kemal Sogukdere and Alper ...

Blast reported near Syrian port city

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:08:58 -0400

A loud explosion was heard near a military site in the Syrian port city of Latakia, an opposition monitoring group said, but the cause of the blast was unclear. Explosions in Latakia, part of President Bashar al-Assad's stronghold on the Mediterranean coast, have been extremely rare during Syria's two-year-old conflict. Residents on Twitter and a report from the Syrian Observatory for ...

Afghanistan suspends talks on US security pact

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:28:05 -0400

KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has decided to suspend talks on a security pact with the United States, accusing Washington of mixed messages regarding peace talks with the Taliban, his spokesman said on Wednesday."In a special meeting chaired by President Hamid Karzai, the president has decided to suspend talks about a security pact with the US because of their inconsistent statements ...

Voices of Jerusalem Ultimate felafel family

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:28:03 -0400

felafel business in Jerusalem," says Yossi Vashady, owner of Shalom Felafel, a franchise with ten branches in total: eight in Jerusalem, one in Modiin and one in Mevasseret Zion. The stores are either Glatt Kosher Parev and specialize in felafel (recognizable by their green branding) or Kosher Rabbinate meat restaurants that also offer shwarma and meat on the grill. The store on Bezalel ...

Home is where the cookbook is

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:28:02 -0400

After a colorful career as a trained nutritionist and setting up her own successful business offering culinary tours of Israel, Orly Ziv thought long and hard about what her next step would be. As a food lover, it only seemed natural to concentrate her expertise and write a cookbook sharing her vast knowledge of the local Israeli cuisine.Her first cookbook, the ...

Montreal mayor vows to fight charges

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:27:32 -0400

Montreal - Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum resigned on Tuesday, a day after he was charged with fraud and corruption in the latest major Canadian municipal ...

Kim Jong-un ‘stresses Hitler’s skills’

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:27:30 -0400

Seoul - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills ...

No date for Afghan peace talks Taliban

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:27:26 -0400

Muhammad Naeem (L), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha. The Afghan Taliban opened an office in Qatar on Tuesday to help restart talks on ending the 12-year-old war. REUTERS/Mohammed ...

Jeremy Forrests wife Emily flees witness box in tears as she described their last meal together

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:24:25 -0400

He tucked me in and told me he loved me: Wife of married teacher who ran to France with schoolgirl, 15, flees witness box in tears as she described their last ...

Pictured Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson dining at same restaurant where he choked her

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:24:24 -0400

Pictured: Saatchi and Nigella dining at the same restaurant where he choked her... just 24 hours before she left him as storm over the assault ...

Syria crisis David Cameron pledges not to remove Assad military if they overthrow tyrant

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:24:22 -0400

David Cameron last night made an appeal to Syria's military and security leaders in an extraordinary attempt to spark a coup against Bashar ...

Taliban Attack and Afghan Move Cast Pall on Peace Talks

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:06:07 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan ...

Taliban We killed 4 U.S. troops at Afghan air base

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:05:58 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack in Afghanistan that killed four American troops just hours after the insurgent group announced it would hold talks with the U.S. on finding a political solution to ending the nearly 12-year war in the country. The deadly attack underscores the challenges ahead in trying to end the violence roiling Afghanistan via peace ...

Suicide bomber strikes Yemen town

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:04:49 -0400

Several people have been killed and wounded in Yemen's northern Saada town when a suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up in a busy market, a defence ministry statement said.No further details were immediately available on the incident on Wednesday.Saada, near the Saudi border and about 130km north of the capital Sanaa, has been under the control ofShia Houthi rebels for several ...

China executes ex-official for raping minors

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:04:48 -0400

China has executed a former official of the ruling Communist Party after he was convicted of raping 11 underage girls, state media reports. Li Xingong, 44, was executed after he was found guilty by a court in the central city of Yongcheng, Henan province, state broadcaster China Central Television quoted court officials as saying on Wednesday. Li, the former deputy secretary of Yongcheng's ...

Obama To Urge U.S. Russia To Reduce Nukes By One-Third

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:28:34 -0400

A senior U.S. official says President Barack Obama is planning to propose that the United States and Russia cut their strategic nuclear warheads by a further one-third. The official said Obama will deliver the proposal in a speech on June 19 in Berlin. Under the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that the Obama administration negotiated with Moscow during Obama's first term, Russia ...

U.S. Journalist Known For Afghan Iraq Work Dead At 33

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:28:34 -0400

The American award-winning war correspondent Michael Hastings, who authored notable articles and books about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been killed in a car accident in Los Angeles. He was 33. The news website BuzzFeed, for which Hastings wrote, said he died early on June 18. Hastings is known for a 2010 profile in "Rolling Stone" magazine of General Stanley McChrystal, ...

LIVE President Peres to honor Clinton

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:23:39 -0400

Former US president to receive highest civil distinction at opening session of the fifth Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem; Middle East envoy Tony Blair says two-state solution has short window of ...

Deputy minister Ben-Dahan to stay in IDF corps

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:23:39 -0400

Since being elected to the Knesset and appointed deputy minister for religious services, Bayit Yehudi MK Eli Ben-Dahan has had to fight battles on numerous fronts - be it the struggle within his party over which candidate to back for chief rabbi, or the internecine skirmishes that have erupted within the coalition over pieces of contentious legislation.But while clear-cut successes in the ...

‘We’re here to demand a better Brazil’

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:23:02 -0400

';I am here to demand a better Brazil,'; said 21-year-old student Juliana Alves. ';They are spending billions of dollars on the World Cup, but virtually nothing on education. This is ...

Rafaelle Sollecito forced to abandon Switzerland after his residence permit is revoked

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:19:34 -0400

Rafaelle Sollecito served four years in prison for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher, who was found half naked, her throat slit, in the flat she shared with Knox in ...

Girl Guides no longer have to swear allegiance to God and country

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:19:33 -0400

Tradition: Although members have been required to make a pledge to God since its inception in 1910, the phrase 'and my country' has been included only since ...

US House passes bill banning abortion after 20 weeks

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:18:32 -0400

The US House of Representatives approved a Republican measure restricting abortion to the first 20 weeks after conception, one of the most stringent pro-life bills in the past ...

FBI fugitive arrested in Mexican resort

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:11:42 -0400

Walter Lee Williams, a former university professor seen here in a 2011 handout photo released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has become the 500th person to be named to the Ten Most Wanted list, according to an FBI statement. (REUTERS/FBI/Handout via Reuters) CANCUN – Mexican authorities on Tuesday arrested a former U.S. university professor, who recently was added to the ...

Obama to call for deep cuts in U.S. Russian nuke arsenals

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:26 -0400

President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during June 17, 2013 bilateral meeting at G-8 Summit in Enniskillen, Northern ...

Global refugee numbers at 19-year high

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:59:21 -0400

The number of people who have been forcibly displaced by war and other crises worldwide has risen to its highest level for almost two decades, hitting 45.2 million, according to the UN's refugee agency. Annual figures released by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday showed that 1.1 million fled across international borders in 2012, while a further 6.5 million ...

Ohio captives

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:54:05 -0400

Ohio captives

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:54:05 -0400

Ohio captives

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:54:05 -0400

Ohio captives

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Professor on US FBIs most wanted list nabbed in Mexico

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:50:35 -0400

This 2011 image provided by the FBI shows Walter Lee Williams. He is wanted on charges of sexual exploitation of children and traveling abroad for the purpose of engaging in sexual acts with ...

Palestinians launch rockets toward South shattering calm

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:19:49 -0400

"Code Red" warning sirens sounded in Ashkelon and surrounding areas early Wednesday morning, an IDF spokesperson confirmed.Shortly after the sirens went off, three rockets fell in open areas, landing in Palestinian areas, Israel Radio ...

Rohani Iran nuclear work never meant to be exposed

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:19:48 -0400

UNITED NATIONS - Years before he became Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rohani spoke approvingly about concealing his nation's nuclear program and said that when Pakistan got atomic bombs and Brazil began enriching uranium, "the world started to work with them." The comments offer an intriguing window into the past thinking of Rohani, widely seen as a moderate or pragmatic ...

Serial rapist Adrian Bayley jailed for life in Melbourne over murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:18:41 -0400

A serial sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of an Irish woman that outraged Australia's second-largest ...

Rockets fired from Gaza hit Israeli coast

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:09:38 -0400

Three grad rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit the Israeli coastal town of Ashkelon this morning, according to media reports, the first time missiles from the Palestinian enclave have hit Israel for nearly two ...

Analysis French EU-wariness complicates life for Hollande

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:00:05 -0400

PARIS (Reuters) - A feeling in France that the European Union no longer works in its interest is fueling tensions between Paris and Brussels and adding pressure on President Francois Hollande to be more assertive in ...

Obama to set new goals to cut nuclear weapons senior official

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:00:05 -0400

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 17, ...

In Berlin Obama to renew calls for reductions to US Russian nuclear stockpiles

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:58:36 -0400

BERLIN - President Barack Obama will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles during a speech in Berlin Wednesday. A senior administration official says Obama will propose cutting the U.S. and Russian stockpiles by up to one-third. That would bring the total number of warheads in each country to about 1,000. Obama is not expected to propose any timeline for achieving those ...

Taliban kill US troops after peace moves

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:57:13 -0400

At least four US soldiers have been killed in an attack on Bagram air base in Afghanistan, hours after Washington said its officials would meet the Afghan armed group for talks. The Taliban on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the attack.. "Last night two big rockets were launched at Bagram (air base) which hit the target. Four soldiers are dead and six others are wounded. The rockets ...

Flood death toll in hilly Indian states climb

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:57:12 -0400

NDTV has reported.The channel said on Wednesday that thousands of houses in the states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh had been swept away in the floods and authorities were using helicopters to evacuate people and drop essential food supplies.Northern India has witnessed torrential rains at least three times more than usual over the past week ever since the annual monsoon broke a fortnight ...

Fed seen keeping options open on pace of bond buying

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:24:20 -0400

Reuters © Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Joint Economic Committee in Washington in this May 22, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Gary ...

Presidential Conference 2013 ready to kick off Day Two

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:16:11 -0400

The most festive aspect of this year's "Facing Tomorrow" conference - the fifth in the Presidential Conference series - was the celebration of President Shimon Peres's 90th birthday on Tuesday night at the Jerusalem International Convention Center. In attendance were past and present world leaders, international scholars, social activists, poets, scientists, artists, ...

AIPAC urges caution on Rohani

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:16:10 -0400

US Senate unfazed on sanctions after Rohani win "More fundamentally," the memo continued, "there is no indication that Supreme Leader Khamenei will limit his absolute control over Iran's nuclear policy. Even if Rouhani wished to change the country's policy, he may have no ability to do so."Pointing to a speech Rowhani gave in March 2006, in which he spoke of ...

Poland Germany probe Nazi-led unit commander in Minneapolis

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:03:35 -0400

The June 3, 1944, photo provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Heinrich Himmler, centre, SS Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the Interior of Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945, as he reviews troops of the Galician SS-Volunteer Infantry Division Michael Karkoc a top commander whose Nazi SS-led unit is blamed for burning villages filled with women and ...

Heat avoid elimination beat Spurs in overtime 103-100

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:54:09 -0400

Mike Miller (L) and LeBron James (R) of the Miami Heat vie for a rebound with Tim Duncan (C) of the San Antonio Spurs during the first half in Game 6 of the NBA Finals at the American Airlines Arena June 19, 2013 in Miami, ...

Game 6 Heat 103 Spurs 100 OT Heart-Stopping Survival as Heat Force Game 7

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:49:36 -0400

In the fight to keep their title Tuesday night, the Miami Heat kept losing vital accessories. Mike ...

Ammo Blasts Rock Russias Samara

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:16:49 -0400

Ammunition explosions have rocked a military training area in Russia’s southwestern Samara region, causing officials to order the evacuation of some 6,000 people. The exploding shells set off a fire that was reportedly still triggering explosions June 19 at the Chapaevsk military depot. Officials said about 30 people have sought medical help in connection with the blasts, and some of ...

Asia business sentiment rises in second quarter global growth risk still dominates

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:51:19 -0400

SEOUL (Reuters) - Asia's top companies have become more optimistic about their business outlook with the retail and shipping industries rebounding sharply in the second quarter of 2013, the latest Thomson Reuters/INSEAD Asia Business Sentiment Survey ...

Google asks FISA court to lift gag order on NSA requests

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:49:15 -0400

WASHINGTON Google on Tuesday sharply challenged the federal government's gag order on its Internet surveillance program, citing what it described as a First Amendment right to divulge how many requests it receives from the government for data about its customers in the name of national security. The move came in a legal motion filed in the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ...

Criminal charges sought after anti-Islamic rant

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:06:38 -0400

For the second time in as many months, a Muslim civil rights group in the US is pursuing criminal charges on behalf of a taxicab driver who was subjected to an anti-Islamic rant caught on tape. In the most recent case, an Ashburn, Virginia, woman unleashed a string of expletives and called the police emergency dispatcher to report that she was afraid for her life because she said her ...

Obama to invoke call of history in Berlin speech

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:00:09 -0400

Barack Obama will on Wednesday invoke the Cold War history of German-US solidarity, on a long-awaited first visit to Berlin as president, but will face sharp questions on US spy snooping ...

Japan finds highly toxic strontium in Fukushima groundwater

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:57:30 -0400

TOKYO (Reuters) - High levels of toxic strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the utility that operates the facility said on Wednesday Strontium-90 is a by-product of the fission of uranium and plutonium in nuclear reactors as well as nuclear weapons, according to the website of the U.S. Environmental Protection ...

The F.B.I. Deemed Agents Faultless in 150 Shootings

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:54:45 -0400

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Spoils of the Sea Elude Many In an Alaska Antipoverty Plan

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:47:59 -0400

AKIAK, Alaska -- The humble pollock, great cash fish of the north, conquered the world through the flaky bland hegemony of a fish stick. At more than $1 billion a year, there is no bigger fishery for human consumption on the ...

Extending a Hand Abroad Obama Often Finds a Cold Shoulder

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:47:55 -0400

The next morning, Mr. Xi punched back, accusing the United States of the same computer hacking tactics it attributed to China. It was, Mr. Obama acknowledged, "a very blunt ...

House Republicans pass 20-week limit on abortions

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:42:08 -0400

social issues , especially in light of the GOP's 2012 election losses, the Republican-led House of Representatives Tuesday passed a bill that would restrict abortions to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. Restricting the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision by a month, the bill is a statement from social conservatives in the House and no more. It passed along party lines - all but six ...

Jerusalem Journal A-List Celebration Traces Leaders Trajectory and Israels

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:38:25 -0400

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Mauled girl ready for reconstructive surgery

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:37:20 -0400

A 4-year-old Bolivian girl who was unconscious for nearly three weeks after being mauled in the face and body by a Rottweiler is awake and ready to fly to Boston for reconstructive surgery, a doctor said Tuesday. The case of Rosalia, the fifth of seven children of a poor family in a slum outside La Paz, has been closely watched by Bolivians. It also drew the attention of the Boston ...

3 suspects arrested in modern slavery case

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:20:16 -0400

UN World Refugees At 18-Year High

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:04:42 -0400

The United nations refugee agency says the number of refugees and displaced people around the world rose to 45.2 million last year – the most in 18 years. It its annual "Global Trends" report, the UNHCR said the increase was fueled by conflicts in Syria, Mali, and elsewhere. Worldwide, it said some 7.6 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 – or about ...

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