Breaking News latest RSS headlines - Nebraska State News.net

Cut in nuclear stockpiles proposed by Obama in talks with Russia

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:25:30 -0400

BERLIN - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday said he would seek talks with Russia to reduce the number of strategic nuclear weapons both hold by up to a third. Speaking in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate during a visit to the German capital, Obama said he was confident the US could maintain its security while reducing its nuclear capacity by a third. He also called for ...

Dalian Wand Group to enhance UK presence with luxury hotel and yacht unit

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:45:23 -0400

LONDON - China's largest premier commercial property and entertainment conglomerate, Dalian Wanda Group Wednesday entered into 320million pounds definite acquisition deal with leading British yacht company, Sunseeker International Ltd, under which Wanda will acquire a majority shareholding of 91.81% in pre-eminent luxury motor yacht manufacturer. Under the agreement, the remaining 8.19% stake ...

Karzai says peace talks with Taliban should be Afghan led

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:23:12 -0400

KABUL - An angry Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday his government would not join US peace talks with the Taliban "until the peace process is totally under Afghan control." He also suspended talks with the US to discuss the nature of US military presence after international troops withdraw in 2014. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said the decision was taken over ...

North Korean leader Kim used luxury yacht to tour coast, says report

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:35:12 -0400

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has used a luxury boat to tour the country's east coast amid indications that the 90-feet-long yacht may have been smuggled into the country in defiance of UN sanctions that bans importing of luxury items to the impoverished country. A website that tracks events in the reclusive state said the yacht, a Princess 95MY made by British-based ...

Somalia UN office attacked and 15 killed by Islamist militants

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:34:40 -0400

MOGADISHU, Somalia - At least 15 people, including some United Nations workers, were killed Wednesday when a UN compound in the Somali capital came under a bomb and gun attack by Islamist militants of an Al Qaeda-linked group, a minister said. Interior Minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled in a hurriedly called press conference said that the eight slain UN workers included four foreigners working ...

NSA director defends e-snooping claiming it helped foil 50 terror attacks foiled

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:28:19 -0400

WASHINGTON - The controversial US snooping of foreign emails and telephone calls has prevented more than 50 potential terrorist attacks in at least 20 countries, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA) has said in defending the surveillance programme. The targets include the New York Stock Exchange and other important installations across the world, General Keith Alexander said ...

EU antitrust regulator fines Lundbeck and several generic drug firms

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:13:25 -0400

BRUSSELS - European Union in its first case over pay-for-delay deals that held back sales of cheaper generic drugs Wednesday fined Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck 93.8 million euros and imposed fines totaling 52.2 million euros on several other producers of generic medicines. The European Commission, the EU's antitrust regulator, said the companies had reached agreements that may have ...

Chrysler to recall 2.7 mn Jeeps but says vehicles not defective

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:20:18 -0400

NEW YORK - Chrysler avoided a showdown with the US government by agreeing to recall 2.7 million Jeeps with fuel tanks that could rupture and cause fires in rear-end collisions. Chrysler said it recognised the matter had raised concerns for customers The US company said it had resolved its differences with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The recall affects ...

Four US mortgage servicers faulted for lapses by settlement monitor

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:19:27 -0400

WASHINGTON - Four of the largest U.S. mortgage servicers, including Citigroup Inc (C). and Bank of America Corp., have failed to adequately upgrade their treatment of customers in danger of foreclosure, according to a court-appointed monitor. Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo have failed to adhere to some of the new standards set out in a landmark settlement meant to ...

Spain making progress but requires urgent action to generate growth says IMF

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:10:52 -0400

MADRID - Spain risks high joblessness and sluggish growth for years unless its government together with Europe takes "urgent action' to generate growth and jobs, the International Monetary Fund stated Wednesday. "While there are signs the economic contraction may end soon, the outlook remains difficult," IMF said in its annual assessment of the Spanish economy. "But unemployment remains ...

Kyrgyz Parliament Sets Date For Manas Transit Center Closure

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:35:42 -0400

BISHKEK -- The Kyrgyz parliament has set a date for the closure of the NATO Transit Center at Manas International Airport near Bishkek. Lawmakers voted on June 20 to end the U.S.-Kyrgyz agreement on the center as of July 11, 2014. According to the legislation, the Kyrgyz authorities must officially notify Washington 180 days in advance of the closure. The legislation must be signed by ...

Reports Russia Railway Chief Fired Called False

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:35:41 -0400

Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin has denied reports that the head of Russian Railways was fired. Naryshkin's comments on June 20 come after Russian news agencies Interfax, ITAR-TASS, and others were sent an e-mail statement late on June 19 that appeared to be a government press release announcing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had dismissed Russian Railways chief Vladimir ...

Jew 2 Arabs involved in Temple Mount fight arrested

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:30:12 -0400

A Jewish man and two Islamic religious officials were arrested by Jerusalem police on Thursday after the former was determined to have instigated a shoving match atop the Temple Mount complex. The Jewish suspect was alleged to have physically assaulted an official from the Waqf religious trust, Israel Radio ...

Lebanese president urges Hezbollah to leave Syria

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:30:12 -0400

BEIRUT - President Michel Suleiman has called on the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah movement to pull its guerrillas out of Syria, saying any further involvement in its neighbor's civil war ...

Palestinians rally behind Gaza Arab Idol star

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:30:11 -0400

GAZA - Palestinian fans and big business are rallying behind a 22-year-old singer from the Gaza Strip in a final push to vote him the next "Arab Idol" in a TV talent contest choosing a winner in Beirut on ...

Weekly Schmooze Girls Season 38

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:30:11 -0400

Gail Lerner , producer of "Will and Grace" and other sitcoms, decided to take action and create her own episode of the popular HBO show with an incredible cast, imagining what its four stars would be up to in season 38, when they're 65 years old. Hannah (played by SNL ...

Suu Kyi faces long road to top job

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:29:39 -0400

But to emerge as president after a 2015 general election, Suu Kyi, 68, must overcome challenges that would daunt a less formidable political ...

FBI We use drones on home soil

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:29:37 -0400

FBI Director Robert Mueller listens at the US Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in ...

Top court rejects Berlusconi’s bid

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:29:36 -0400

Rome - Italy's Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a claim by former premier Silvio Berlusconi which the billionaire had hoped would block a trial against him which could see him booted out of ...

Rhoose school crash Five children and four adults including lollipop lady taken to hospital with serious injuries after car smashed into them and overturned outside primary school

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:52 -0400

Witnesses said the black Audi ploughed into the group as they were crossing Fontygary Road on their way to Rhoose Primary School in the Vale of Glamorgan at around 8.50am this ...

Nigella Lawson is seen without her wedding ring close to Mayfair bolthole where she has been living apart from husband Charles Saatchi

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:51 -0400

Nigella Lawson has been spotted for the first time since she walked out on her husband Charles Saatchi almost a week ago - but was not wearing her wedding ...

Bernadette Lee Dental nurse 25 froze to death in the snow without shoes or coat outside sisters house when she called around after night out and found her away from home

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:50 -0400

Bernadette Lee, 25, who was wearing a short dress, had no coat and had taken her shoes off, was found lying dead in the snow near to her older sister Jodie's house in ...

Dramatic moment couple spark full-scale rescue after getting stuck in quicksand up to their waists just yards from the shore

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:50 -0400

The woman was submerged up to her waist and the man stuck from his knees down before they were pulled from the quicksand on Sunday afternoon in a 40-minute rescue ...

UK weather Electrical storm warnings issued as Britains hot spell descends into weekend wash-out

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:49 -0400

The Met Office have issued yellow weather warnings for the south-east and south-west with up to half a months rainfall expected in the space of three hours ...

Jeremy Forrests father collapses as the jury in his sons abduction trial start considering their verdict

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:48 -0400

The father of Jeremy Forrest has collapsed and was then taken to hospital as the jury in his son's abduction case was about to start considering its ...

Singing lullabies to premature babies helps them leave hospital sooner

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:47 -0400

The researchers found that slowing a premature baby’s heart rate and improving their sleep and feeding behaviours, helps them to gain weight which means they may be able to leave hospital ...

Ugly employees are more likely to be bullied by their cruel and harsh attractive colleagues

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:46 -0400

The study by Michigan State University found that unattractive workers were treated more harshly than their attractive colleagues when it came to promotions and which tasks they were given to ...

British explorer leads team to the lowest depths recorded by cavers venturing almost a mile underground through pitch black tunnels including 600m underwater swim

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:45 -0400

Jason Mallinson, from Huddersfield, pictured carrying diving gear through a sump reached the deepest into the earth that anyone has been in the Western ...

Pedestrian mobile phone injuries DOUBLE in five years

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:44 -0400

The number of pedestrians admitted to A&E because they're too busy on their mobile phone to watch where they are going has doubled in the last five years - and is expected to double again in the next ...

EasyJet passengers told they need passport valid for at least three months

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:43 -0400

Holidaymakers travelling to Cyprus could be turned away at the airport by budget airline easyJet if their passports are due to expire within the next three months - despite UK and Cypriot authorities insisting that their passports are still valid for ...

Amanda Knoxs secret meeting with ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito just hours after Italian judges ordered their re-trial over the death of Meredith Kercher

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:42 -0400

The former lovers were pictured strolling in New York on Tuesday - just hours after Italian judges ordered them to return to court for a retrial for the murder of British student Meredith ...

Hit squads of top teachers should be sent in to rescue failing rural and seaside schools says chief inspector

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:25:42 -0400

Hit squads of top teachers and headteachers should be employed directly by the government and parachuted into failing schools, Ofsted’s chief inspector said ...

Mystery after Putin ally fired in fake press release

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:24:37 -0400

Russian security services sought Thursday to unravel a mystery after a fraudster managed to fool the country's news agencies into believing one of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies had been "fired" from his ...

FBI finds possible human remains at former home of late gangster James Burke - the man who inspired Goodfellas

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:19:00 -0400

Investigators send material for analysis at house that was once occupied by the infamous mobster who inspired Robert De Niro's character in the 1990 ...

Singapores air at hazardous a levels as Indonesia fires burn

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:18:03 -0400

'Hazardous' air in Singapore, Indonesia SINGAPORE – Singapore’s air quality deteriorated to "hazardous" levels on Thursday as smoke from forest fires in Indonesia obscured skies over the wealthy city-state and parts of Malaysia and disrupted some businesses and travel. In Singapore, air traffic controllers gave more time for aircraft between taking off and landing ...

India Floods Up To 1000 Feared Dead

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:16:57 -0400

At least 1,000 people may have died in flash floods and landslides in the north of India, officials have said. The news comes as India's army military increases its efforts to reach tourists and pilgrims in villages and towns cut off by torrential monsoon rains in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Helicopters and up to 10,000 soldiers have been deployed and mobilised to "provide ...

Insight Pakistan influence on Taliban commanders helped Afghan breakthrough

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:07:44 -0400

1 of 2. Afghan Taliban look on after handing over their weapons as they join the Afghan government's reconciliation and reintegration program in Herat province, February 17, ...

Egypt court orders Mubarak PM Nazif freed

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:07:44 -0400

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court ordered the release of former prime minister Ahmed Nazif on Thursday, because of a limit on pretrial detention in a corruption case for which he had been held since the revolution that toppled Hosni ...

Somali Islamists threaten more carnage after attack on U.N. base

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:07:43 -0400

Security was tight on Thursday as Somali army pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns blocked the main road linking the city center with the fortified airport and nearby U.N. base that was targeted. A water canon truck blasted away bloodstains on the ...

China euro zone threaten U.S.-led economic recovery

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:07:42 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - Factory output in China, the world's second largest economy, weakened to a nine-month low in June, combining with a continued recession in the euro zone to threaten a global recovery led by the United ...

Rush to rescue thousands trapped by India flooding

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:05:46 -0400

An Indian army personnel carries a stranded woman pilgrim to a safer area in Chamoli district, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, June 18, ...

The 4 remaining Supreme Court cases to watch

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:05:46 -0400

The Supreme Court has a little more than a week left to hand down its remaining rulings from this term, including four broaching the contentious issues of race and marriage equality. The court's most hotly-debated and complicated rulings always come down at the end of its term, which comes to a close in late June. This year, the final rulings are almost sure to be two cases hitting on the ...

ICC postpones Kenyatta war crimes trial

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:04:32 -0400

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has postponed the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's war crimes trial in connection with deadly post-election violence in 2007-08."Today, the Trial Chamber... set a new date for the commencement of the trial of Mr Uhuru Kenyatta. The trial is now scheduled to commence on November 12," the Hague-based ICC said in a statement on Thursday. ...

Protests roil Brazil despite fare rollback

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:04:31 -0400

Protesters in Brazil have continued to clash with police, even after authorities in two of the biggest cities rolled back the transit fare hikes that triggered two weeks of nationwide protests. The bus and subway fares rollback in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday marked a major victory for the protests, which are the biggest Brazil has seen in two decades. But the government’s ...

Ten sentenced to death in Bangladesh

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:04:30 -0400

A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 10 people to death after finding them guilty of assisting a suicide bombing. A judge announced the sentences in the capital Dhaka, special public prosecutor Rafiqul Islam, told the AFP news agency on Thursday. "They assisted the suicide bomber in making the bomb, providing information, planning and carrying out the attack," the prosecutor said. The ...

Delayed Voting Under Way In Two Iraqi Provinces

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:25:34 -0400

Iraqis in two Sunni-majority provinces are casting ballots in provincial elections two months after most of the country held the same polls. Some 2.8 million voters in the Anbar and Nineveh provinces are voting on June 20 to elect representatives to provincial council seats. Twelve of Iraq's 18 provinces conducted their elections in April but voting in Anbar and Nineveh, both in ...

The future of Syria

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:19:32 -0400

No matter how grim the future looks for Syria, it is still our humanitarian duty and in our long-term national security interests to get ...

MKs pay solidarity visit to price tag-hit Abu Ghosh

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:19:32 -0400

A delegation of lawmakers from Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid faction visited the Arab village of Abu Ghosh on Thursday morning to express their support for local residents after this week's headline-grabbing "price tag" ...

The Jerusalem Press Club

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:19:30 -0400

Israel is always in the news. Everyone has an opinion about this geographically tiny country, so small its name on maps has to be abbreviated, and even the abbreviation doesn't fit and has to float in the Mediterranean Sea. It is sometimes said that Israel could use some good public relations, to improve, or change, people's opinions about it.The new Jerusalem Press Club is not ...

Singapore smog could last for weeks as pollution level reaches hazardous record high

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:18:30 -0400

The smog engulfing Singapore could last for weeks, the city state's prime minister warned as air pollution levels reached record highs and hazardous ...

Premature baby born three months early and weighing under 2lb is back at home before his due date

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:15:38 -0400

But yesterday the parents of baby Callum Alexander David Evatt paid tribute to their ‘little fighter’ who has finally been allowed to come ...

France gives Google three month deadline over privacy policy

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:14:37 -0400

France on Thursday threatened Google with a fine of up to 150,000 euros (US$198,000) if it does not bring its privacy procedures into line with French law on data protection within three ...

China Russia angry over US human trafficking criticism

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:14:36 -0400

China and Russia on Thursday blasted a US report that downgraded their countries for failing to make greater efforts to combat human trafficking, a move which could lead to ...

Italy PM sees no impact on government from Berlusconi trials

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:58:46 -0400

People of Freedom (PDL) party member and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attends the Upper house of the parliament in Rome, April 30, ...

Afghan peace bid stumbles on Kabul-Taliban protocol row

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:58:41 -0400

Talks between U.S. officials and representatives of the Taliban had been set for Thursday in Qatar but Afghan government anger at the fanfare surrounding the opening of a Taliban office in the Gulf state threw preparations into ...

Insight Chinese whispers Who wants to bet on the Nicaragua Canal

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:58:40 -0400

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (L) and Wang Jing, chairman of the Hong Kong international company Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. (HKND Group) celebrate signing a concession agreement for the construction of an inter-oceanic canal in Nicaragua at the Casa de los Pueblos in Managua June 14, ...

Brazil protests continue despite appeasement effort

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:56:59 -0400

SAO PAULO Leaders in Brazil's two biggest cities said Wednesday that they reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited anti-government protests that have spread across the nation in the past week. Many people doubted the move would quiet the demonstrations, which have moved well beyond outrage over the fare hikes into communal cries against poor public services in Latin ...

Senate deal seen near on key aspect of immigration reform

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:56:58 -0400

WASHINGTON White House-backed immigration legislation is gaining momentum in the Senate, where key lawmakers say they are closing in on a bipartisan compromise to spend tens of billions of dollars stiffening the bill's border security requirements without delaying legalization for millions living in the country unlawfully. "This is a key moment in the effort to pass this bill. This is ...

3 arrests in fatal stabbing on Hollywoods Walk of Fame

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:56:58 -0400

LOS ANGELES Three panhandlers were arrested Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of a young woman who was taking photographs on Hollywood's star-lined "Walk of Fame," Los Angeles police said. Officers found the 23-year-old woman bleeding from multiple stab wounds near the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Homicide detectives say the ...

Taliban offers prisoner swap for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:56:57 -0400

This image from a video released by a Taliban affiliated group on Nov. 24, 2010 shows captive U.S. Army Spc. Bowe Bergdahl alongside his suspected captor, Mullah Sangeen ...

Five sentenced over Doha mall fire

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:55:55 -0400

A Qatari court has sentenced five people to jail terms in connection with a deadly mall fire in the capital Doha last year. The five were convicted on Thursday of negligence, that resulted in the death of 19 people. Four received six-year jail terms, while the fifth received a five-year term. All five are currently out on appeal, and will remain out of custody until the appeals process is ...

South Sudan set to sign new Nile agreement

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:55:53 -0400

South Sudan is set to sign an agreement that would replace a colonial-era law that gave most of the River Nile's waters to Egypt and Sudan, local media have reported. The signing of the Cooperative Framework Agreement of the Nile Basin countries, sometimes known as the Entebbe agreement, is likely to be signed and ratified at the Nile Water Summit in Juba on Thursday. Paul Mayom Akec, ...

Pollution in Singapore Hits Record Level

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:53:18 -0400

HONG KONG ...

British High Court Quashes Sanctions On Private Iranian Bank

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:18:01 -0400

Britain's Supreme Court has ruled that sanctions should not have been imposed on Iran’s biggest private bank over its alleged links to Iran's nuclear weapons program. The court ruled that Bank Mellat had been arbitrarily, irrationally, and disproportionately singled out for punishment and that the sanctions should be quashed. The ruling means that the bank can now sue the ...

First Israeli Ambassador To Turkmenistan Presents Credentials

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:18:00 -0400

Israel's first-ever ambassador to Turkmenistan has presented his credentials to Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. Turkmen media reported that Shemi Tzur also gave Berdymukhammedov an invitation from President Shimon Peres to visit Israel. Tzur was the second candidate Israel proposed to take up the ambassador's post in Turkmenistan. The first candidate to be ...

PM to Ashton If Hezbollah is not a terrorist group who is

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:13:04 -0400

In meeting with EU foreign policy chief, PM takes swipe for not blacklisting Hezbollah; ahead of Kerry visit says EU undermining efforts by focusing on settlements; calls on EU to pressure Iran over nuclear ...

States key witness in Bar Noar murder case disappears

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:13:03 -0400

The state's key witness in the Bar Noar murder case let his safe house on Thursday without telling police and has not yet been located, Tel Aviv police said Thursday.Officers are using all means at their disposal to find the man, they added, and have notified airport authorities to deal with the possibility he may try to flee the ...

Barack Obama calls George Osborne Jeffrey

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:09:11 -0400

Spot the difference: George Osborne (right) was repeatedly referred to as 'Jeffrey' by US President Barack Obama, who confused him with favourite R&B singer Jeffrey Osborne ...

Former Springwatch star Bill Oddie says that all Rolf Harris did was cuddle his secretary

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:09:09 -0400

Wildlife presenter and comedian Bill Oddie has called for TV star Rolf Harris to be left alone because all he did was have a 'morning cuddle with his ...

Younger brother of Woolwich murder suspect says MI5 and MI6 tried to recruit me

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:09:08 -0400

'MI5 and MI6 tried to recruit me': Younger brother of Woolwich murder suspect says 'threatening' British spies made 11 attempts to make him an ...

Rescue operation involves 32 emergency staff after obese driver crashes into back of a bus

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:09:08 -0400

An obese driver was trapped in his vehicle for more than an hour as emergency services staff struggled to transfer him to a specialist ambulance for overweight ...

John Cronin One of Britains most dangerous sex offenders back on the streets

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:09:07 -0400

of Britain’s most dangerous sex offenders, who once impersonated a priest to trick his way into a woman’s home and rape her, has returned to live in ...

End of the line How children were ordered off a model train... due to health and safety

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:09:06 -0400

But last week the model railway at Barshaw Park in Paisley, Scotland, was brought to an abrupt standstill at the insistence of health and safety ...

Uzbek Border Guards Kill Kyrgyz Citizen

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:13:04 -0400

BISHKEK -- Uzbekistan's border guards have shot dead a Kyrgyz citizen under circumstances that remain unclear. The incident happened early on June 20 near Kyrgyzstan's Aydarken border post. Kyrgyzstan's border service said only that a 37-year-old citizen of Kyrgyzstan was shot and died from his wounds. Some 200 relatives and friends of the slain man blocked the Osh-Batken ...

Five Pakistani Army Troops Killed By Militants Near Peshawar

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:13:03 -0400

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Five Pakistani Army soldiers reportedly have been killed during an attack on their military convoy on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal reports the attack came late on June 19 near Matani, a village that is an important road link between Peshawar and remote tribal areas. Bahram Khan, ...

Detention Deaths in Chinese Corruption Cases Stir Concern

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:08:47 -0400

BEIJING ...

Report Irans Rohani tied to AMIA 1994 bombing

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:07:35 -0400

'Washington Free Beacon' cites indictment by the Argentine government prosecutor accusing the Iranian government of directing the bombing; says Iranian president-elect connected to decision to launch ...

UNESCO to include Yad Vashem database in world register

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:07:34 -0400

UNESCO, the United Nations' organ which aims to promote international cooperation in the field of science and culture, announced that it has included Yad Vashem's database of the names and stories of those who have perished in the Holocaust as part of its Memory of the World Register.This marks the first time that UNESCO has included an Israeli archival collection in its ...

Bid to block Berlusconi verdict fails

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:06:59 -0400

ROME - Italy's constitutional court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Silvio Berlusconi to block a tax fraud conviction from October, clearing the way for a final verdict this year and deepening the uncertainty facing Prime Minister Enrico ...

French data watchdog tells Google to change privacy policy

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:05:06 -0400

PARIS, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:05am EDT PARIS, June 20 (Reuters) - France's data protection watchdog ordered Google on Thursday to change its privacy policy or face fines, heading an EU-wide push to get the Internet giant to better spell out its intentions and methods for collecting user data. The CNIL watchdog said Google Inc's privacy policy violated French laws and gave ...

James Gandolfini dead The Sopranos actor dies in Italy following a suspected heart attack

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:03:06 -0400

The Sopranos cast and crew led tributes to the star, with creator David Chase and co-star Steve Schirripa mourning the loss of their 'brother' ...

Education minister Dont allow TVs or computers in childrens bedrooms

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:03:05 -0400

'Don't allow TVs or computers in children's bedrooms': Education minister reveals concerns parents don't realise their offspring can access hard core ...

UNESCO lists 6 Syrian heritage sites as endangered

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:01:48 -0400

UNESCO on Thursday added six ancient sites in Syria to the endangered World Heritage list, warning that more than two years of civil war had inflicted heavy ...

Rabbi Moshe Greenberg prominent Jewish educator who survived a Soviet Gulag dies at 84

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:54:19 -0400

JERUSALEM -- Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has died in Israel. He was 84. The Hasidic Chabad Lubavitch movement in which Greenberg was a member says he died on Tuesday. Chabad said on Thursday that Greenberg was born in Moldova. At the age of 14 he went to Uzbekistan to study ...

European Union fines drug companies for delaying generics

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:53:57 -0400

BRUSSELS - European antitrust officials Wednesday fined a group of drug companies, including Denmark’s Lundbeck, a total of $195 million for colluding to delay market entry of a less-expensive generic version of a blockbuster antidepressant, ...

U.S.-Taliban talks in Qatar not expected Thursday source

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:46:03 -0400

DOHA (Reuters) - Preliminary Afghan peace talks in Qatar between U.S. and Taliban officials are unlikely to take place on Thursday as had been expected, a source familiar with the matter told ...

Haze casts shadow over Singapore-Jakarta ties

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:43:00 -0400

Indonesia has accused Singapore of "behaving like a child" by complaining about severe haze from raging forest fires on Sumatra island that has cloaked the city-state. "Singapore should not be behaving like a child and making all this noise," Agung Laksono, the minister who is coordinating Indonesia's response to the haze crisis, told reporters in Jakarta on ...

US lauds Israel for efforts in combating trafficking

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:58:45 -0400

Israel, for the second year in a row received a "Tier 1" ranking for it's efforts to prevent human trafficking, prosecute offenders, and protect victims, according to this ...

Hungary exposes huge fake sugar deal

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:58:08 -0400

Budapest - Hungary's tax authority has questioned two men over a fake contract that, if fulfilled, would have involved the sale of nearly half a million tonnes of sugar - more than the country's annual sugar consumption - and a massive tax ...

Investigation sought in U.S. plane crash missile-strike theory

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:46:54 -0400

The reconstructed wreckage of TWA Flight 800 is shown during the original investigation, which concluded that the crash was caused by an explosion in a fuel tank. ...

Hologram Videos Could Be On Laptops Soon

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:45:43 -0400

Scientists say they have cracked a major technological hurdle to make low-cost, high quality holographic videos a reality. Until now, the video hologram has generally been confined to science fiction - the most famous example being the projected image of Princess Leia in the first Star Wars film. Existing systems that project moving holographic images are costly and suffer from severe ...

New MERS virus spreads easily deadlier than SARS - Boston.com

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:45:35 -0400

LONDON (AP) - A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi ...

Afghanistan threatens to boycott US-backed peace talks in anger at Talibans Qatar office

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:44:10 -0400

The United States was racing to gather up the pieces of its always fragile relationship with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan after he broke off security talks with Washington and denounced plans for the start of peace negotiations with the ...

India floods strand thousands more than 100 dead

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:43:07 -0400

LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Days after floods killed more than 100 people - possibly many more - Indian officials say rescuers are using helicopters and climbing through mountain paths to reach nearly 4,000 people trapped by landslides in a narrow valley near a Hindu shrine in the northern ...

Why Taliban peace talks are critical to Afghanistans future

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:35:22 -0400

Flash Points: CBS News correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS News senior national security analyst Juan Zarate about the ongoing struggle to begin peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and why you "can't see stability" in Afghanistan "until there's a political solution" that incorporates the ...

L.A. to give every student an Apple iPad

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:35:21 -0400

Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least ...

TWA Flight 800 disaster

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:35:21 -0400

An aerial view of the U.S. Coast Guard station at East Moriches, N.Y., July 27, 1996. The base was the operations center for the National Transportation Safety Board in its investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800. Former investigators of the Paris-bound TWA flight, which crashed off Long Island killing 230 people, are now calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to ...

Paula Deen says she used slur but doesnt tolerate hate

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:35:21 -0400

Paula Deen says the celebrity chef "does not condone" racial epithets, following reports that Deen admitted to using "the N-word" and once planned a wedding reception with all black waiters. Deen's admission of using the slur came while she was providing deposition as part of a $1.2M lawsuit filed against her and her brother Earl "Bubba" Biers by Lisa Jackson, ...

Chinese astronauts deliver lecture from space

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:34:10 -0400

China has held its first classroom lecture from its orbiting space station as part of efforts to popularise the successful manned space flight programme among young people.Female astronaut Wang Yaping took questions live from among 330 elementary and middle school students at a Beijing high school from aboard the Tiangong 1 prototype space station on Thursday morning.The class lasted ...

Study Jordan teens support honour killings

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:34:08 -0400

The belief that so-called "honour killings" are justified continues to be common among Jordanian teenagers, a new Cambridge University study says. The study by researchers from the university's Institute of Criminology found that almost half of boys and one in five girls interviewed in the capital, Amman, believe that killing a daughter, sister or wife who has ...

Experts Trifecta of elements says no ...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:20:54 -0400

>Editor's note: Note language in story(CNN) -- A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," its co-producer said Wednesday. "Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data shows a(n) asymmetric explosion coming out of ...

Panic over MERS virus fades in Saudi Arabia

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:42:06 -0400

People in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province have again started greeting friends with the traditional kiss on the cheek, and face masks in public are becoming rarer, as panic subsides over the outbreak of a deadly respiratory disease that hit the country last ...

Obama urges bold nuclear cuts in Berlin speech

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:40:00 -0400

Summoning the harsh history of Berlin, US President Barack Obama cautioned the US and Europe against "complacency" brought on by peace, pledging to cut America's deployed nuclear weapons by one-third if Cold War foe Russia does the same. The president also declared that his far-reaching surveillance programs had saved lives on both sides of the Atlantic, as he sought to defend the controversial ...

US Postpones Taliban Talks Amid Karzai Fury

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:32:28 -0400

Talks between the US and the Taliban aimed at ending the Afghan war have been delayed for several days following anger from President Hamid ...

China factory activity hits nine-month low policy action eyed

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:28:14 -0400

By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity weakened to a nine-month low in June as demand faltered, a preliminary survey showed, heightening the risk of a sharper second quarter slowdown and increasing the heat on the central bank ...

30 dead after bus plunges into river in Peru

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:08:30 -0400

At least 30 people have died after a bus plunged off a highway into a river in central Peru, authorities say. "So far, I have 30 confirmed dead, but the police are continuing to search for victims," said Rodoricao Cubas Hurtado, chief of the local highway police. Cubas said nine people were still unaccounted for, and the search for additional victims was focused on the vehicle, which was still ...

TWA Flight 800