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9/14/2012 6:09:40 PM
A Japanese Cabinet panel called Friday for phasing out of nuclear power over the next three decades in a major shift for Japan as it overhauls energy policy following the Fukushima meltdowns.
9/14/2012 6:08:26 PM
 A trial next week for a flamboyant former police chief marks the latest step by China's leadership to contain the fallout from a messy political scandal that disgraced a senior politician and complicated an unexpectedly bumpy handover of power to new leaders.
9/14/2012 6:04:21 PM
 Greece may be given some more breathing room to meet its bailout commitments but no more money, European finance ministers indicated Friday as they gathered in Cyprus for a top-level meeting.
9/14/2012 5:59:09 PM
 A former KGB colonel turned opposition lawmaker who has angered the Kremlin with his scathing criticism and involvement in street protests against President Vladimir Putin was stripped of his parliament seat on Friday.
9/14/2012 5:54:27 PM
 PARIS (Reuters) - French magazine Closer published a series of photos of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, sunbathing topless on Friday, dealing a fresh blow to the royal family as it tries to move on from a scandal over naked shots of Prince Harry. Closer, a weekly round-up of celebrity gossip, ran a five-page spread of photos of Middleton relaxing topless with Prince William on a balcony at a 19th century hunting lodge in southern France it said is owned by a son of the late Princess Margaret. ...
9/14/2012 5:51:48 PM
 MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Wildcat strikers at Lonmin's Marikana mine rejected a pay offer on Friday, dashing any hope of ending five weeks of industrial action that has swept through South Africa's platinum sector and laid bare the power struggle in the ruling ANC. Workers camped on a rocky outcrop at the mine, where police shot dead 34 protesters last month, dismissed the offer as way below the 12,500 rand they have been demanding. ...
9/14/2012 5:45:50 PM
 Egypt's president says it's up to Muslims as part of their Islamic duty to protect embassies and foreign diplomats who are guests in the country.
9/14/2012 5:42:31 PM
 Photos apparently of Prince William's wife, Kate, sunbathing topless in the south of France were published in a French magazine on Friday, and an aide to the royal couple said they were "saddened" to learn about the images.
9/14/2012 5:36:39 PM
 The British palace will investigate a French magazine's claim of having topless photographs of Prince William's wife, Kate, an aide to the royal couple said Friday.
9/14/2012 5:31:01 PM
Striking South African miners say they are rejecting a Lonmin platinum mine wage offer of a 900 rand ($112.50) increase that would give new-entry workers a basic monthly salary of 5,500 rand ($688).
9/14/2012 5:30:46 PM
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police seized a cache of explosive-laden vests, grenades and automatic rifles in an overnight raid on a Nairobi apartment on Friday, thwarting an imminent attack by Somali Islamist militants, a senior police official said. East Africa's biggest economy has been on a heightened state of security since Nairobi sent troops into Somalia to crush al Qaeda-linked insurgents who carried out a double suicide bombing in neighbouring Uganda in 2010. Western embassies in Kenya have warned of potential attacks several times in the last nine months. ...
9/14/2012 5:28:56 PM
MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Striking miners at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine rejected a pay offer from management on Friday, dashing hopes for an end to a five-week strike. The strikers gathered on a rocky outcrop near the mine said Lonmin's offer was well below the 12,500 rand they are demanding to return to work.
9/14/2012 5:25:19 PM
Russian lawmakers on Friday debated whether to kick out of Parliament a former KGB colonel turned opposition lawmaker who has angered the Kremlin with his scathing criticism and involvement in street protests against President Vladimir Putin.
9/14/2012 5:23:31 PM
 A Pakistani court has granted bail to three owners of a garment factory in the southern city of Karachi where a fire this week killed 258 people, a defense lawyer said Friday
9/14/2012 5:22:01 PM
 With only two days left to avoid another damaging NHL lockout, players and owners huddled in separate circles to discuss what now seems inevitable.
9/14/2012 5:21:42 PM
Oil prices rose above $99 a barrel Friday in Asia after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced a plan to jolt the U.S. economy and unrest in the Middle East heightened concerns about supply.
9/14/2012 5:16:53 PM
Kenyan police said Friday they disrupted a major terrorist attack in its final stages of planning, arresting two people with explosive devices and a cache of weapons and ammunition.
9/14/2012 5:13:01 PM
 Chinese and Japanese government ships exchanged warnings Friday in waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea, while Tokyo called on Beijing to protect its citizens amid anti-Japan protests and reported assaults in China.
9/14/2012 5:12:55 PM
9/14/2012 5:11:43 PM
 World stock markets bounded higher Friday after investors got just what they wanted — big moves by the Federal Reserve to help the U.S. economy out of its funk.
9/14/2012 4:59:29 PM
Greece may be given some more breathing room to meet its bailout commitments but no more money, European finance ministers indicated Friday as they gathered in Cyprus for a top-level meeting.
9/14/2012 4:56:12 PM
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9/14/2012 4:37:36 PM
An official of Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies said Friday he is concerned that new Australian laws to protect communication networks from cyber-attacks could exclude companies from tendering for work simply because they're Chinese.
9/14/2012 4:22:30 PM
 Villagers and farmers living at the foot of a Guatemalan volcano say they were awoken by a massive roar when the long-simmering Volcan del Fuego exploded with a series of eruptions that darkened the skies and covered the surrounding sugar cane fields with ash.
9/14/2012 4:21:08 PM
 Congress is moving to quash the threat of a government shutdown, but the prospect of a one-two punch of tax increases and slashing, automatic spending cuts will still confront lawmakers when they return to Washington after Election Day.
9/14/2012 4:13:07 PM
A car went out of control near a Las Vegas intersection and rolled as it slammed into a bus stop, killing four pedestrians and injuring several other people. Police said the driver faces charges of driving under the influence resulting in death.
9/14/2012 4:11:17 PM
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian protesters angry at a film they say insults Prophet Mohammad hurled stones on Friday at a line of police in Cairo blocking their way to the U.S. embassy, which was attacked earlier this week. Police in riot gear fired tear gas and threw stones back at the demonstrators. A burnt-out car was overturned in the middle of the street which leads to the fortified embassy from Tahrir Square. ...
9/14/2012 4:11:03 PM
 A grand, aging, red-brick house in Washington concealed by a pair of towering magnolia trees has become an unlikely setting for South Korea's festering grievances against Japan and a reminder of an old rift between the two staunch U.S. allies.
9/14/2012 4:10:33 PM
 The public face for the anti-Muslim film inflaming the Middle East is not the filmmaker, but an insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran whose unabashed and outspoken hatred of radical Muslims has drawn the attention of civil libertarians, who say he's a hate monger.
9/14/2012 4:08:55 PM
A U.S. judge has thrown out a lawsuit contesting the will of an elderly widow who gave some $60 million to the disgraced Roman Catholic religious order the Legion of Christ.
9/14/2012 4:02:10 PM
An elderly American aid worker kidnapped over a year ago in Pakistan is asking his family to get Jewish communities in the United States to pressure Washington to meet al-Qaida's demands so he can go free, according to a new video of the captive.
9/14/2012 3:50:18 PM
 BEIRUT (Reuters) - Pope Benedict arrives in Lebanon on Friday to bring a message of peace to a region torn by civil war in neighboring Syria and strained by violent Islamist protests against the United States in Libya and Egypt. While those tensions overshadowed preparations for the religiously sensitive visit, security was low-key in Beirut and the only protests - against a film denigrating the Muslim Prophet Mohammad - were due to take place far from the capital. ...
9/14/2012 3:45:11 PM
 Republican Mitt Romney is trying to shift the focus of the presidential campaign away from anti-American violence overseas and back to the economy.
9/14/2012 3:43:08 PM
 The apparent collapse of a case against a Christian girl accused of burning pages of a Quran has given a dim ray of hope to critics of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, some of the harshest in the Muslim world.
9/14/2012 3:42:59 PM
A bus and truck collided and burst into flames in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 51 people.
9/14/2012 3:42:17 PM
 With protests at U.S. embassies and four Americans dead, Mitt Romney is suddenly facing a presidential election focused on a foreign policy crisis he gambled wouldn't happen.
9/14/2012 3:41:18 PM
 A Republican appointed to the Electoral College, Melinda Wadsley was expected to cast her vote for Mitt Romney if he won the state of Iowa in the presidential election.
9/14/2012 3:41:10 PM
 Septembers shock, Octobers surprise, early Novembers can knock a campaign sideways. In a presidential race's waning weeks, almost anything can happen — bedlam in the Middle East, financial panic at home, a scandal in the headlines. And as Election Day ticks closer, candidates get less and less time to absorb the blow.
9/14/2012 3:40:21 PM
 A representative for a U.S. citizen who won an appeal after being jailed for nearly two years on drug and money-laundering charges said Nicaraguan authorities did not allow him to leave the country despite his release from prison.
9/14/2012 3:38:18 PM
Football at St. John's University stands out. There's no tackling at practice or lengthy calisthenics. No whistles or wind sprints. No captains either, unless you count the honor shared by the seniors.
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9/14/2012 2:16:57 PM
 SANAA/CAIRO (Reuters) - Demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and the United States sent warships toward Libya, where the U.S. ambassador was killed in related violence this week. In Libya, authorities said they had made four arrests in the investigation into the attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi on Tuesday. U.S. ...
9/14/2012 5:06:30 PM
 BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Six Chinese surveillance ships briefly entered waters near disputed islands claimed by Tokyo and Beijing on Friday, raising tensions between Asia's two biggest economies to their highest level since 2010. Japan protested to China and urged that the situation not be allowed to escalate - an outcome neither side would welcome given the two countries' tight economic links. ...
9/14/2012 1:32:33 PM
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials say they believe an Arabic talk show last Saturday showing parts of an anti-Muslim video made in the United States was the spark that set off violent attacks on U.S. missions in Libya and Egypt, but acknowledge the broadcast did not prompt a major upgrade in security precautions. On Tuesday, four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in an attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that U.S. officials said may have been planned by one or more militant factions. On the same day, protesters in Cairo breached the U.S. ...
9/14/2012 4:59:35 PM
 BEIRUT (Reuters) - In 1510, Pope Leo X thanked Divine Providence for having preserved the Maronite Christians through the hardest of times, "planted among infidels, schismatics and heretics as in a field of error". He described them as a "rose among thorns, an impregnable rock in the sea, unshaken by the waves and fury of the thundering tempest". Today, more than five centuries later, Pope Benedict will reassert this message in a three-day visit to Lebanon. His visit comes at a time when Christians in the region feel their existence threatened by the rise of political Islam. ...
9/14/2012 5:07:17 PM
 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday denied accusations he was interfering in U.S. politics after coming under fire for fiercely criticizing Washington's handling of Iran. Relations between Netanyahu and President Barack Obama hit a new low this week after the Israeli leader said nations that failed to set red lines for Iran did not have the "moral right" to prevent Israel from launching a military strike. He did not mention the United States by name, but the comments were clearly aimed at Obama and his administration. Coming less than two months before a ...
9/14/2012 5:48:05 PM
 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian parliament expelled an opponent of President Vladimir Putin on Friday in a vote which he said intensified a Kremlin crackdown on dissent and likened to a Stalinist show trial. A vote in the lower house, the State Duma, deprived opposition deputy Gennady Gudkov of his parliamentary immunity over allegations he denied of operating a business while in the assembly, a charge that carries a two-year jail sentence. ...
9/14/2012 5:37:57 PM
 YALTA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Friday dismissed the case of his jailed opponent Yulia Tymoshenko as a hindrance to relations with the West and predicted that the path would soon be clear to completing key deals with the European Union. The EU, which represents a huge market for Ukraine's steel and chemicals exports, froze negotiations with the Yanukovich leadership on political association and free trade, because of Tymoshenko's prosecution and jailing. ...
9/14/2012 4:24:59 PM
 TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government said it intends to stop using nuclear power by the 2030s, marking a major shift from policy goals set before last year's Fukushima disaster that sought to increase the share of atomic energy to more than half of electricity supply. Japan joins countries such as Germany and Switzerland in turning away from nuclear power after last year's earthquake unleashed a tsunami that swamped the Fukushima Daiichi plant, causing the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986. Japan was the third-biggest user of atomic energy before the disaster. ...
9/14/2012 3:41:12 PM
 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Mark Rutte said on Friday he wanted to form a government with the Labour Party and said a new coalition could also include other parties. Rutte's Liberal Party became the biggest in the lower house of parliament following a general election on Wednesday, winning 41 seats, to Labour's 38, according to the most recent forecast. "In the Liberals' opinion, a cabinet which has at least Liberals and Labour has to be investigated first. That is also logical looking at the election result," Rutte told reporters. ...
9/14/2012 2:12:54 PM
 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu's deputy for intelligence and atomic affairs on Thursday broke with the Israeli prime minister's call for Iran to be confronted with a "red line" beyond which its disputed nuclear program would face military attack. In a broadcast interview, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor appeared to side with the United States in balking at Netanyahu's repeated demand that it set Iran an ultimatum or risk seeing Israel launch region-rattling unilateral strikes. ...
9/14/2012 5:45:50 PM
Egypt's president says it's up to Muslims as part of their Islamic duty to protect embassies and foreign diplomats who are guests in the country.
9/14/2012 5:59:09 PM
A former KGB colonel turned opposition lawmaker who has angered the Kremlin with his scathing criticism and involvement in street protests against President Vladimir Putin was stripped of his parliament seat on Friday.
9/14/2012 4:08:55 PM
A U.S. judge has thrown out a lawsuit contesting the will of an elderly widow who gave some $60 million to the disgraced Roman Catholic religious order the Legion of Christ.
9/14/2012 4:22:30 PM
Villagers and farmers living at the foot of a Guatemalan volcano say they were awoken by a massive roar when the long-simmering Volcan del Fuego exploded with a series of eruptions that darkened the skies and covered the surrounding sugar cane fields with ash.
9/14/2012 6:08:26 PM
A trial next week for a flamboyant former police chief marks the latest step by China's leadership to contain the fallout from a messy political scandal that disgraced a senior politician and complicated an unexpectedly bumpy handover of power to new leaders.
9/14/2012 3:43:08 PM
The apparent collapse of a case against a Christian girl accused of burning pages of a Quran has given a dim ray of hope to critics of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, some of the harshest in the Muslim world.
9/14/2012 2:53:59 PM
 Not all journalists are created equal in the eyes of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa.
9/14/2012 5:31:01 PM
Striking South African miners say they are rejecting a Lonmin platinum mine wage offer of a 900 rand ($112.50) increase that would give new-entry workers a basic monthly salary of 5,500 rand ($688).
9/14/2012 6:09:40 PM
A Japanese Cabinet panel called Friday for phasing out of nuclear power over the next three decades in a major shift for Japan as it overhauls energy policy following the Fukushima meltdowns.
9/14/2012 6:04:21 PM
Greece may be given some more breathing room to meet its bailout commitments but no more money, European finance ministers indicated Friday as they gathered in Cyprus for a top-level meeting.
8/22/2012 5:53:38 PM
Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared unconstitutional a key portion of a military law that has broadened the influence of military courts and angered civilian victims seeking justice.
8/10/2012 3:58:28 AM
 Tropical Storm Ernesto drenched Mexico's southern Gulf coast Thursday and was expected to head inland, as authorities in the flood-prone region prepared shelters, army troops and rescue personnel.
8/6/2012 8:44:25 PM
8/2/2012 9:40:28 AM
 A new law in Chile aims to take some of the fun out of fast-food by forcing McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and other restaurants to stop including toys and other goodies with children's meals.
7/27/2012 8:53:47 AM
The government's human rights commission says there have been 126 attacks on journalists or media outlets in Mexico since 2000 and only 24 of these cases have been prosecuted. Only two of these cases have resulted in convictions.
6/14/2012 3:59:36 AM
The Mexican subsidiary of Spanish cell carrier Telefonica SA and local carrier Iusacell are joining forces to share mobile networks in a bid to expand coverage.
5/24/2012 12:20:43 AM
 Iran traded proposals with six world powers, including the United States, Wednesday in a new round of talks aimed at persuading Tehran to curb its nuclear program and ease concerns it wants to make atomic weapons. But divisions over sanctions complicated the discussions.
5/23/2012 7:11:38 PM
 Iran and six world powers resumed talks Wednesday over Tehran's nuclear program, with the Iranians pushing for specific timetables and goals but Westerns leaders signaling they want more disclosures before offering rewards.
5/23/2012 1:14:33 PM
Iran has made the first move in attempts to gain an edge in nuclear talks with the U.S. and other world powers: It agreed in principle to allow U.N. inspectors to restart probes into a military site suspected of harboring tests related to atomic weapons.
5/23/2012 5:29:04 AM
 Despite some remaining differences, a deal has been reached with Iran that will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to restart a long-stalled probe into suspicions that Tehran has secretly worked on developing nuclear arms, the U.N. nuclear chief said Tuesday.
5/23/2012 12:01:07 AM
 Pese a ciertas diferencias que perduran fue logrado un acuerdo entre Irán y el organismo nuclear de las Naciones Unidas que permitirá a sus observadores reanudar la inspección de instalaciones atómicas, ante la sospecha de que el gobierno de Teherán trabaja secretamente para producir ojivas nucleares, dijo el martes el director de la AIEA.
5/22/2012 5:20:28 PM
 El director general de la Agencia Internacional de Energía Atómica dijo el martes que había llegado a un acuerdo con Irán para inspecciones de sospechas de fabricación de armas atómicas y agregó que el acuerdo será firmado "dentro de poco".
2/8/2011 1:50:04 PM
With cheerleaders shouting encouragement, more than 1,000 young Japanese trying to break into the job market have held a pep rally in Tokyo to highlight what officials say is the bleakest employment outlook Japan has faced in years.
2/8/2011 11:58:39 AM
 State media are reporting that people celebrating the Lunar New Year by setting off fireworks in Beijing caused 194 fires in the Chinese capital, double the number from last year.
2/8/2011 11:48:55 AM
 Japan's sumo association began questioning dozens of top wrestlers Tuesday in a widening investigation into allegations of bout-fixing that have deeply tarnished the image of the nation's ancient national sport.
2/8/2011 9:28:32 AM
The Philippine health secretary says a former military chief implicated in a corruption scandal has died of a gunshot wound.
2/8/2011 9:26:09 AM
Health secretary says former Philippine military chief in center of corruption probe shot dead.
2/8/2011 9:20:24 AM
Taiwan has recalled its representative to the Philippines over Manila's decision to extradite 14 Taiwanese citizens to face criminal prosecution in China.
2/8/2011 8:52:01 AM
A group of South Korean military officers has headed to a rare meeting with North Korean officials to try to lay the groundwork for high-level defense talks aimed at easing hostilities on the peninsula.
2/7/2011 12:46:03 PM
 A crew member of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship was found dead in the Mexican resort island of Cozumel, possibly the victim of a violent crime, authorities and company officials said Sunday.
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