U.S. pro-democracy groups pulling out of Russia

U.S. pro-democracy groups pulling out of Russia

U.S. pro-democracy groups pulling out of Russia

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 12:59 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After Russia recently ousted the U.S. government's aid agency from Moscow, some American pro-democracy groups are feeling pressured to leave, reducing Russian exposure to programs long viewed with suspicion by the Kremlin.

Live Video Coverage of the School Shooting

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 12:09 PM PST

Tap here for live video coverage of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

The Japan lesson: Can America learn from the country that has almost zero gun deaths?

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 12:27 PM PST

On Friday, 27 Americans, including 18 children, joined the casualties making up the highest gun-related death rate in the developed world. Those who died Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School are, statistically speaking, a drop in the bucket. So was the .223-caliber rifle that killed them. The United States of America has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world, followed by Yemen, where it is about half.

Read full article >>

Egypt tense ahead of constitution vote

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 11:53 AM PST

CAIRO — A deeply polarized Egypt was poised Friday to vote on a referendum that is likely to give the country a new constitution but that risks provoking even greater turmoil after weeks of jousting between onetime revolutionary allies.

Read full article >>

U.N. agency sees deal soon to check Iran nuclear work

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 12:07 PM PST

VIENNA (Reuters) - The United Nations nuclear agency expects to reach a deal with Iran next month enabling it to investigate whether the Islamic state has carried out atomic bomb research, the chief U.N. inspector said after returning from Tehran on Friday.

Live Video Coverage of the School Shooting

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 12:09 PM PST

Tap here for live coverage of the elementary school shooting from the local Fox affiliate in Connecticut.

Hundreds suffer cruise ship virus

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 11:01 AM PST

More than 400 passengers from a cruise ship were affected by winter vomiting bug norovirus, Southampton's port health authority confirms.

Russia retaliates against U.S. rights legislation

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 10:58 AM PST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia moved closer on Friday to adopting a law barring entry to Americans who violate human rights, the same day U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law a rights-linked trade bill Moscow finds objectionable.

Italy's left says Monti run "morally questionable"

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 11:13 AM PST

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's main center-left party, leading polls for next year's election, criticized calls for Prime Minister Mario Monti to run for a second term, a move one of the party's leading figures said would be "morally questionable".

Car bomb kills two in Somali capital

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 11:03 AM PST

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed two people in the centre of Somalia's capital Mogadishu capital on Friday in a blast that appeared to target an African Union peacekeepers' convoy, police and residents said.

'I did not dope Lance Armstrong'

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 11:19 AM PST

Doctor at centre of Lance Armstrong scandal denies doping and exclusively tells Al Jazeera he was 'convenient target'.

Wild Horses Are Running Out of Room Off the Range

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 12:23 PM PST

The question of what to do with horses who roam the rural West has confounded the federal government for decades.

Annapurna mountaineer Herzog dies

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 09:31 AM PST

French mountaineer Maurice Herzog, the first person to scale a peak of 8,000 metres when climbing Annapurna in 1950, dies at 93.

Obama signs Russia trade, human rights bill

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 10:33 AM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a bill that modernizes U.S. trade relations with Russia by ending a Cold War-era provision, but also punishes Russian human rights violators.

UFO hacker won't be tried in Britain for U.S. crimes

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 10:25 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - A British hacker whose extradition to face charges of accessing nearly 100 U.S. government computers in a quest for UFOs was halted on grounds he might harm himself will not be tried in Britain, the prosecution office said on Friday.

Thousands mourn leader of Morocco's main opposition group

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 10:38 AM PST

RABAT (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Moroccans took part in the funeral of the leader of the North African state's biggest opposition group on Friday, in a sign of the huge support commanded by Islamists opposed to the monarchy.

The ultimate holiday gift guide for the world news lover in your life

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 10:11 AM PST

If you're trying to find a good gift for the foreign affairs nerd or world news junkie in your life, then look no further. We've got tchotchkes, cooking classes, music, and more. Later today, I'll post a special stand-alone guide to that most important of foreign affairs gifts: books.

Read full article >>

China submits islands row to UN

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 09:57 AM PST

China submits a detailed explanation of its claims to a disputed part of the East China Sea to the United Nations.

VIDEO: Chinese inventor ready for the apocalypse

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 09:38 AM PST

An inventor from northern China has designed and built his own 'Noah's Ark' survival pods ahead of 21 December, the date some people believe the world will end.

VIDEO: Chinese inventor ready for the apocalypse

Posted: 14 Dec 2012 09:38 AM PST

An inventor from northern China has designed and built his own 'Noah's Ark' survival pods ahead of 21 December, the date some people believe the world will end.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)