Analysis: Japan's Abe gets second chance at loosening limits on military

Analysis: Japan's Abe gets second chance at loosening limits on military

Analysis: Japan's Abe gets second chance at loosening limits on military

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 10:55 PM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - A likely win by Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democrats in this weekend's election will give the ex-Japanese premier a second chance to achieve his goal of easing the limits of a pacifist constitution on the military to let Tokyo play a bigger global security role.

Philippine typhoon toll passes 700

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 11:09 PM PST

Hundreds missing and thousands living in temporary shelters as government struggles in the aftermath of disaster.

VIDEO: Chavez in Cuba for cancer surgery

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 10:33 PM PST

The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, has arrived in Cuba for his fourth cancer operation, having spoken openly for the first time about handing over to a possible successor.

Crashes raise concern about Pakistani air force

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 10:50 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2011, file photo, villagers stand near wreckage of a Pakistani air force fighter jet that crashed in Attock near Islamabad, Pakistan. Over a dozen Pakistani air force planes have crashed in roughly the past 18 months, raising concerns about the health of an aging fleet that officials are struggling to upgrade because of a lack of funds. A significant number of the air force's combat aircraft are nearly half a century old and have been called on in recent years to help the army fight a domestic Taliban insurgency that has killed thousands of people. This has added to the strain on a force that has historically focused on countering the threat from Pakistan's neighbor and archenemy, India. (AP Photo/Ghulam Shabbir, File)Over a dozen Pakistani air force planes have crashed in roughly the past 18 months, raising concerns about the health of an aging fleet that officials are struggling to upgrade because of a lack of funds.

iSolated: Bad Apple Maps directions lead to desert

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 10:31 PM PST

This screen shot taken Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, of an iPhone's Apple mapping application shows the service placing the city of Mildura 70 kilometers (44 miles) away in the Murray Sunset National Park, a desert-like 5,000 square kilometer (1,900 square mile) region with scorching temperatures and virtually no mobile phone reception. Australian police are warning the public that errors in Apple's much-maligned mapping application are leading drivers headed to the southern city to take a potentially "life-threatening" wrong turn into the middle of a remote state park. (AP Photo)The city of Mildura is not at the end of a dirt road in the Australian bush, in tire-choking desert sand far from food and water. Unfortunately, Apple's much-maligned mapping application thinks it is.

Quake hits near Indonesian islands of Moluccas

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 10:40 PM PST

(Reuters) - A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the Indonesian islands of the Moluccas on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

VIDEO: Chavez in Cuba for cancer surgery

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 10:33 PM PST

The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, has arrived in Cuba for his fourth cancer operation, having spoken openly for the first time about handing over to a possible successor.

Japan's LDP, partner on track for big election win: surveys

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 09:59 PM PST

TOKYO/TAKATSUKI (Reuters) - Conservative former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its smaller ally are heading for a resounding victory in Sunday's election, winning more than 300 seats in parliament's 480-member lower house, media surveys showed on Tuesday. Abe, 58, who resigned abruptly as premier in 2007 after a troubled year in office, is pushing the Bank of Japan (BOJ) for more powerful monetary stimulus and promises to boost public works to rev up a stagnant economy. ...

Investigators study Mexico crash that took singer

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 10:05 PM PST

Photos and flowers honoring late singer Jenni Rivera, placed by fans next to religious images, are seen at the cemetery where her mother is buried in Hermosillo, northern Mexico, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. U.S. authorities confirmed Monday that Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a Mexican-American superstar, was killed in a plane crash early Sunday in northern Mexico. (AP Photo/Baldemar De Los Llanos)Tearful fans set up candlelight shrines and memorials to Jenni Rivera from California to Mexico, as investigators said it would take days to piece together the wreckage of the plane carrying the Mexican-American music superstar and find out why it went down.

VIDEO: Christmas home's 180,000 light bulbs

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 01:34 PM PST

One Wiltshire family turns their home into a 180,000 bulb Christmas display.

Japan's LDP, partner on track for big election win: surveys

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 09:59 PM PST

TOKYO/TAKATSUKI (Reuters) - Conservative former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its smaller ally are heading for a resounding victory in Sunday's election, winning more than 300 seats in parliament's 480-member lower house, media surveys showed on Tuesday.

Meeting delay a sign of cooling US-Vietnam ties

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 09:39 PM PST

FILE - In this undated file photo, Vietnamese-American pro-democracy activist Nguyen Quoc Quan is seen in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Quan, 59, was arrested at Ho Chi Minh City airport in April soon after arriving on a flight from the United States, where he has lived since fleeing Vietnam by boat as a young man. The detention and looming trial of the democracy activist may be the clearest example of Hanoi's unwillingness to listen to American concerns over human rights. (AP Photo/ Vietnam News Agency, File)The U.S. and Vietnam, former enemies who share concerns about China's rise, are finding that one issue — human rights — is keeping them from becoming closer friends.

AP Interview: Mexico leader to continue drug fight

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 09:15 PM PST

Enrique Pena Nieto speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. Pena Nieto says he'll mount a "real fight" against production and trafficking of marijuana, despite its legalization in two U.S. states. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)Newly elected President Enrique Pena Nieto promised Monday to continue combatting all illegal drug production and trafficking in Mexico, including marijuana, despite its legalization in two U.S. states and liberalized use for medical purposes in others.

Costa Rica passes law banning hunting as a sport

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 08:40 PM PST

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rica on Monday became the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport, following an unanimous and final vote from Congress. Lawmakers had provisionally approved a reform to its Wildlife Conservation law back in October. With a population of 4.5 million people, Costa Rica is one of the world's most biodiverse nations. The Central American country is already known for its environmental mindset, with some 25 percent of its land protected as national parks or reserves. ...

Mali PM Diarra resigns after arrest

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 10:22 PM PST

Cheick Modibo Diarra announces his resignation, hours after being arrested by coup leaders, state TV reports.

Costa Rica passes law banning hunting as a sport

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 08:40 PM PST

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rica on Monday became the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport, following an unanimous and final vote from Congress.

Mali's PM resigns after being arrested by junta

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 09:44 PM PST

FILE - In this March 27, 2012 file photo, Malian soldiers loyal to coup leader Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo secure the location as he arrives at his headquarters at Kati military base, just outside Bamako. A policy officer and an intelligence official have confirmed that Mali's Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra was arrested at his home late on Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, by the soldiers who helped lead the recent coup. For several weeks, tension has been mounting between the soldiers who led Mali's March 21 coup and Diarra, the civilian prime minister they were forced to appoint when they handed back power to a transitional government.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Mali's prime minister resigned on state television early Tuesday, hours after soldiers who led a recent coup burst into his home and arrested him, in the latest sign of the volatile political situation in this once-stable nation in West Africa.

Mexican architect given light prison term for smuggling drugs to U.S. under duress

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 08:05 PM PST

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A Tijuana architect who admitted smuggling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border was ordered on Monday to serve six months in prison in an unusually lenient sentence taking into account that he committed the crime under threats to his family.

Mexican architect given light prison term for smuggling drugs to U.S. under duress

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 08:05 PM PST

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A Tijuana architect who admitted smuggling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border was ordered on Monday to serve six months in prison in an unusually lenient sentence taking into account that he committed the crime under threats to his family. Eugenio Velazquez, who designed one of Tijuana's most widely recognized landmarks - the cube-shaped addition to the Tijuana Cultural Center - also was ordered to remain under home confinement for six months following his release from federal prison. ...

AP Interview: Mexico pres will continue drug fight

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 08:14 PM PST

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto says he'll mount a "real fight" against production and trafficking of marijuana, despite its legalization in two U.S. states.

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