Viability of hemispheric parley challenged

Viability of hemispheric parley challenged


Viability of hemispheric parley challenged

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:47 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos during a dinner at the sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, Saturday April 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)Could this weekend's gathering of 33 Western Hemisphere leaders be the last Summit of the Americas?



Taliban attack Pakistan prison, free 380 prisoners

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:59 PM PDT

Taliban militants battled their way into a prison in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, freeing close to 400 prisoners, including at least 20 described by police as "very dangerous" insurgents, authorities and the militants said.


North Korea shows off new missile

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:23 PM PDT

North Korea has unveiled what appears to be a new missile at a military parade in Pyongyang.


Israeli police on alert for fly-in

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 09:53 PM PDT

Police say hundreds of officers are deployed at Israel's main airport to detain activists flying in to protest Israel's occupation of Palestinian areas.


Pebble Watch for iPhone and Android, The Most Successful Kickstarter Project Ever

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:12 PM PDT

In less than three minutes of video, Migicovsky lays out this case for the Pebble watch with the inevitability of an Apple product launch (without the turtleneck!). He has, in fact, demonstrated a believable new category of devices, the smartphone accessory.


Condoleezza Rice Addresses BYU Community on the American Paradox

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:05 PM PDT

? Earlier this evening in Washington DC, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice headlined the Brigham Young University Management Society 28th Annual Gala Dinner. Discussing life outside government service, the inevitability of the Arab Spring, the universal value of freedom, the exceptionality of the United States, and my personal favourite, the American paradox of ...


U.N. to send monitors to Syria as fighting rages

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 08:12 PM PDT

China's Ambassador to the United Nations Li Baodong votes during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations in New YorkBEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations will send an advance team of observers to Syria on Sunday to start monitoring a shaky ceasefire, even as a surge in violence on the ground threatened to derail international efforts to end more than a year of bloodshed. Russia and China joined the rest of the Security Council to authorize the deployment of up to 30 unarmed observers in the first resolution on Syria the 15-nation council managed to approve unanimously since the uprising erupted in March 2011. ...



North Korean leader calls for 'final victory'

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:57 PM PDT

On the anniversary of the nation's founder's birth, Kim Jong-un gives his first public speech since taking office.


Kim Jong Eun Makes First Public Speech

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:26 PM PDT

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Eun spoke publicly for the first time, declaring before a giant crowd gathered to commemorate his grandfather's 100th birthday that the country will continue putting military matters above the economy and trying to unify the Korean peninsula under the North's leadership.


Taliban Fighters Attack Prison in Pakistan

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 08:38 PM PDT

Police said 150 Taliban fighters armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades have attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan, freeing hundreds of prisoners, including some suspected militants.


Rebel-Held Hostages Freed in Peru

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 06:24 PM PDT

Thirty-six kidnapped construction workers walked out of Peru's jungle to freedom after being released by Shining Path rebels who abducted them five days earlier from a town near the country's main natural gas fields.


Political Prisoner Freed in Belarus

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 04:49 PM PDT

Belarus' most prominent prisoner was pardoned and freed late Saturday after 16 months of Western pressure on the country's authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, to end a broad crackdown on the political opposition.


Does Obama Return Make Michael S Solheim "First Accountant" ?

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 08:40 PM PDT

So here it is 9:00 PM on Saturday April 14th and I decide to look at one more return before I go to bed.?? And it is not even for??a client or a relative.?? I wish I still had my mother?s return to do, but no need to be maudlin.?? It is a actually a ...


The iPad Enables a New Age of Personal Cinema, Welcome to "The Feelies"

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 08:31 PM PDT

Just as the "talkies" replaced silent pictures, high performance tablets like the new iPad will enable a new kind of intimate cinema experience???named after Aldous Huxley's fictional entertainment device in Brave New World???"the feelies."


Taliban attack prison in Pakistan, free militants

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 08:35 PM PDT

Close to 150 Taliban fighters armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan before dawn Sunday, freeing hundreds of prisoners, including some suspected militants, police said.


New N. Korean leader Kim speaks publicly for first time

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 08:16 PM PDT

SEOUL — New North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun spoke publicly for the first time Sunday, telling tens of thousands at a parade in Pyongyang that he'd honor the legacy of his father and grandfather and prioritize the country's military strength.

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U.N. to send monitors to Syria as fighting rages

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 08:12 PM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations will send an advance team of observers to Syria on Sunday to start monitoring a shaky ceasefire, even as a surge in violence on the ground threatened to derail international efforts to end more than a year of bloodshed.


Belfast, Northern Ireland, embraces its Titanic connection at last

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 10:16 AM PDT

I knew before I left on a recent trip to Belfast that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who don't care about the Titanic, the doomed ocean liner that sank off the coast of Newfoundland on her maiden Atlantic crossing exactly 100 years ago, and another tribe of otherwise reasonable people who can't seem to get enough of its tragic story. Count me among the latter.

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Secure despite rocket fiasco, N.Korea's Kim lauds military

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:25 PM PDT

State media film North Korean leader Kim Jong-un waving in PyongyangPYONGYANG (Reuters) - North Korea's new leader delivered his first major public speech on Sunday as the impoverished state celebrated the centenary of its founder's birth, calling for a push to "final victory" despite a failed rocket launch two days ago. A jowly Kim Jong-un, clad in black and the third of his line to rule North Korea, read monotonously from a script in Pyongyang's central square after goose-stepping soldiers and sailors showcased the North's military power in a parade in spring sunlight. ...



What Do the Titanic and Your Smartphone Have In Common?

Posted: 14 Apr 2012 07:37 PM PDT

Next time you're trying to download your favorite website or a video on your iPhone or Android device and wishing it could be even quicker and cheaper, think about how nice it would be if fully flexible property rights and free market pricing -- not Beltway politics and regulation -- could rule the spectrum for the next 100 years.