Myanmar detains Thai villagers in unclear border area

Myanmar detains Thai villagers in unclear border area


Myanmar detains Thai villagers in unclear border area

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:29 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar's army has detained 75 Thai villagers suspected of encroaching on Myanmar soil in an area where the border is not properly demarcated, a Thai deputy prime minister said on Friday. The villagers were rounded up by Myanmar soldiers on Wednesday night from land by Kra Buri district in Ranong province, 570 km (350 miles) southwest of the Thai capital, Bangkok, Yutthasak Sasiprapa told a news conference. "We are in discussions with Myanmar to find a way out of this situation. ...


Pena Nieto's win confirmed by Mexico vote count

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:43 PM PDT

Election officials and party representatives recount votes at an electoral institute district council in Mexico City, Thursday, July 5, 2012. Of the 143,000 ballot boxes used during last Sunday's general elections, 78,012, or more than half of the total, will be opened and the votes recounted, according to Mexican electoral officials. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)Mexico took a big step toward resolving its contested presidential election with the official confirmation of the victory by Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate seeking to return the former autocratic ruling party to power after a 12-year hiatus.



The Next Best Thing To Being On Mars

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:31 PM PDT

It took nearly 5 months for Mars rover Opportunity to take this gorgeous panorama of the surface of Mars.


Myanmar detains Thai villagers in unclear border area

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:29 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar's army has detained 75 Thai villagers suspected of encroaching on Myanmar soil in an area where the border is not properly demarcated, a Thai deputy prime minister said on Friday.


US objects to SKorean whaling plan

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:39 PM PDT

The United States says it doesn't support a South Korean plan to restart whale hunting for purportedly scientific purposes.


Syria Defector's Little-Traveled Path

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:52 PM PDT

A Syrian oil official who defected to Turkey attributed the lack of high-level civilian defections largely to steppedup security measures.


Emerging Investors in Africa: Africans

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:31 PM PDT

As U.S. and European companies retrench from their efforts to bankroll projects across Africa, a cohort of homegrown companies has mounted an unprecedented expansion drive.


Chinese Scholars Call for Revision of One-Child Policy

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:55 PM PDT

A group of prominent Chinese scholars issued an open letter on Thursday calling for a rethink of the country's one-child policy, the second high-profile challenge to the long-standing law this week.


German Economists Protest Summit Deal

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:34 PM PDT

About 160 academics published a petition Thursday calling on German citizens to put pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel to block any further moves toward European integration.


Roger Federer's Wimbledon Bluff

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:49 PM PDT

Roger Federer is known for wondrous shots that few players in history have been able to execute. If he wins Wimbledon this year, though, it will be because of another skill: Federer knows how to bluff.


Fiat Chief Retools Italian Car Maker

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:31 PM PDT

Fiat is on an austerity plan in Italy, restructuring factories in order to squeeze more cars out of a leaner workforce.


Finance Face Tricky Questions

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:26 PM PDT

Euro-zone finance ministers meet Monday with a host of tricky items on their agendas.


Denmark Central Bank Cuts Interest Rates

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:38 PM PDT

Denmark's central bank cut its main interest rates, including slashing one rate to a negative level for the first time, to prevent further appreciation pressure on the krone.


FSA's Policing of Libor Is Under Fire

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:30 PM PDT

The scandal over banks' attempts to manipulate a key interest rate is raising questions about whether the U.K.'s financial regulator missed warning signs.


U.K. Lawmakers Back Libor Probe

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:29 PM PDT

The House of Commons voted to support the coalition government's proposal for a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the rigging of Libor, but Labour's proposal for a lengthier, independent judge-led inquiry was defeated.


Traders' Messages Provide Grist for Investigators

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:03 PM PDT

Regulators probing the manipulation of key interest rates are zeroing in on a pile of potentially incriminating messages from traders at banks under investigation.


Worker Classification Issue Can Be Worse Than Disallowed Deductions

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:31 PM PDT

Video The poster child for IRS attacks on hobby losses is probably the horse breeding business.  I don't exactly live in horse country, so most of what I have learned about the business has been from reading Tax Court decisions.  There is a serious sampling problem in making inferences from that [...]


How The New Ron And Rand Paul 'Technology Revolution' Manifesto Gets It Wrong

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 05:13 PM PDT

Although news that Ron and Rand Paul will be focusing on internet freedom is welcome, their new manifesto is strangely partisan. Techdirt's Mike Masnick explains why. Rand Paul (via Daylife) Earlier I wrote about the new "Technology Revolution" manifesto released by Rand and Ron Paul, detailing how the libertarian Republicans plan to [...]


Official count confirms Pena Nieto win in Mexico

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:54 PM PDT

Election officials and party representatives recount votes at an electoral institute district council in Mexico City, Thursday, July 5, 2012. Of the 143,000 ballot boxes used during last Sunday's general elections, 78,012, or more than half of the total, will be opened and the votes recounted, according to Mexican electoral officials. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)The official count of Mexico's presidential election confirmed the victory of Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate seeking to return the former autocratic ruling party to power after a 12-year hiatus, the country's electoral authority reported Thursday night in a major step toward the resolution of the contested vote.



Social Value and CoreValue: Small Businesses and Local Communities

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 04:57 PM PDT

"When small to mid-sized businesses shut down, the losses to the economy, especially the local economy, can be lasting and profound...Employees may experience prolonged unemployment and costly relocation, and local economies and local government revenues can be severely affected. History has shown us that it can take decades for a [...]


Colombia arrests 'drug dealer'

Colombia arrests 'drug dealer'


Colombia arrests 'drug dealer'

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:43 PM PDT

Colombian officials give release details of the arrest of a suspected drug dealer at his own wedding, two years after his death was registered.


U.S. sanctions Eritrean officials for aiding Somalia militants

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:54 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on two Eritrean government officials on Thursday, saying they had assisted Islamist militants including the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab in the lawless neighboring state of Somalia.


Northern Ireland police to investigate 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:07 PM PDT

BELFAST (Reuters) - A murder investigation is to be launched into the killings of 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers by British soldiers in Londonderry 40 years ago, Northern Ireland's police service said on Thursday.


U.N. stops short of endorsing intervention in Mali

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:50 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday endorsed West African political efforts to end unrest in Mali but stopped short of backing military intervention in the West African state where al Qaeda-linked militants control significant territory.


Female F1 driver loses eye

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:45 AM PDT

Maria de Villota has lost her right eye following a crash at a test event, her Formula One team Marussia announced on Wednesday.


Argentina baby-stealing verdict coming

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:53 AM PDT

An Argentine court Thursday is expected to deliver a verdict in a trial in which two former dictators, among others, stand accused of stealing babies during the country's dirty war.


Recounts in Mexico election

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:07 PM PDT

More than half of the ballot boxes from last weekend's Mexican presidential election -- 54.5% -- will be individually recounted, the executive secretary of Mexico's Federal Election Institute said Wednesday.


Olympics near, UK cops flex muscle

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:13 AM PDT

Britain's police swung into action Thursday as two separate incidents, one involving a security scare on a bus and the other six terror arrests, pointed to the heightened state of alert ahead of the London Olympic Games.


Argentine baby-stealing trial verdict expected

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:34 AM PDT

An Argentine court Thursday is expected to deliver a verdict in a trial in which two former dictators, among others, stand accused of stealing babies during the country's dirty war.


WikiLeaks releases Syria emails

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:43 AM PDT

`WikiLeaks said Thursday it has begun publishing some 2.4 million e-mails from Syrian politicians, government ministries and companies dating back to 2006.


Mexico: Recounts for more than half the ballot boxes

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:41 AM PDT

More than half of the ballot boxes from last weekend's Mexican presidential election -- 54.5% -- will be individually recounted, the executive secretary of Mexico's Federal Election Institute said Wednesday.


British police flex muscle as Olympics near

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:13 AM PDT

Britain's police swung into action Thursday as two separate incidents, one involving a security scare on a bus and the other six terror arrests, pointed to the heightened state of alert ahead of the London Olympic Games.


Nervous Libyans ready for first taste of democracy

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:26 PM PDT

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyans will vote in their first free national poll in more than half a century on Saturday amid fears that violence could taint an election meant to usher in a temporary national assembly and draw a line under Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year autocratic reign.


Gambling Raid in Chinatown Reveals a Difference in Cultures

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:11 PM PDT

Law enforcement officials say a building harbored a huge illegal betting operation, but the charges they brought suggest and people from the building say that at most, there were friendly, low-stakes games being played there.


Turkey Recovers Bodies of Pilots Downed by Syria

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:23 PM PDT

The bodies of two pilots shot down by Syria were recovered Thursday from the seabed and will be buried in a military funeral on Friday.


Army unit cuts prompt criticism

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:06 PM PDT

Government plans to cut the Army by 17 major units and 20,000 regular soldiers by 2020 are criticised by MPs and former soldiers.


Group: Thousands killed in Syria

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:15 PM PDT

A human rights group claims thousands have been killed since the start of the unrest in Syria. Ivan Watson reports.


Go inside Air France 447 crash

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:58 AM PDT

What really caused the deadly crash of Air France Flight 447? CNN's Richard Quest looks back at the aviation disaster.


VIDEO: Shard skyscraper opens in London

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:46 AM PDT

The tallest building in western Europe has had its official inauguration.


VIDEO: Final report into the Air France crash

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:21 AM PDT

Technical failure and human error led to the loss of an Air France flight over the Atlantic in June 2009 and the deaths of 228 people, according to the final report into the crash.