DC police 'lax' on sexual crime

DC police 'lax' on sexual crime

DC police 'lax' on sexual crime

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 01:50 PM PST

Human Rights Watch accuses Washington DC police of neglecting sexual assault complaints, in a report swiftly rejected by the department.

Israeli voters force Netanyahu to seek centrist partner

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 01:34 PM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's next government must heed voters and devote itself to bread-and-butter issues, not foreign policy problems such as Iran's nuclear plans and the Palestinian conflict, senior politicians said on Thursday.

Eat: Surf and Turf Revisited

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:33 AM PST

Chicken and clams, oysters and sausage, mussels and chorizo — who says you need to stick to steak and lobster?

Chicago ice building fire resumes

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 01:19 PM PST

A warehouse in the US city of Chicago which was engulfed in ice after firefighters extinguished a blaze there on Wednesday is again on fire.

Viewpoint: Canada no stranger to al-Qaeda

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:19 AM PST

Viewpoint on grappling with al Qaeda-inspired militants

Taiwan enters fray in China, Japan sea spat

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 01:07 PM PST

Taiwan, which is seen by China as a breakaway province, claims disputed islands are within its territory.

Africa gets 'female billionaire'

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:09 AM PST

Isabel dos Santos, the eldest daughter of Angola's president, has become Africa's first female billionaire, US financial magazine Forbes says.

U.N. to consider validity of China's claim over disputed islands

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:58 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is planning to consider later this year the scientific validity of a claim by China that a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea are part of its territory, although Japan says the world body should not be involved.

The five stages of North Korean provocation

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 01:02 PM PST

North Korea announced late on Wednesday night, U.S. east coast time, that it may carry out a nuclear test in retaliation for new international sanctions. Those sanctions were themselves punishment for Pyongyang's December launch of a long-range rocket. The rocket launch was seen as new leader Kim Jong Eun's way of cementing his rule by flaunting the weapons program for which the world has so isolated his country, including by way of sanctions.

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The N.T.S.B. Sees Lengthy Inquiry Into 787 Dreamliner

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:49 PM PST

The National Transportation Safety Board indicated that an investigation into the failure of lithium-ion batteries aboard two Boeing 787 planes is still far from determining a cause.

Israel's man of the 'future'

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 05:26 AM PST

Yair Lapid, the charismatic journalist-turned-politician who surprisingly vaulted to second place in Israel's national election, has long been a familiar face across the Jewish state.

'We've been oppressed long enough'

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 07:42 AM PST

CNN's Arwa Damon first met Syrian activist Abu Omar 12 months ago when he helped smuggle her into his Damascus suburb. A year on, the neighborhood is a bloody battleground and he is on the front line.

Mexico: Release French woman

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 08:49 AM PST

Mexico's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of a Frenchwoman who had been sentenced to 60 years in prison for her alleged role in a kidnapping ring.

3 Canadians aboard plane missing in Antarctica

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 05:25 AM PST

A plane carrying three Canadians across Antarctica is unaccounted for, and inclement weather is impeding the search for the aircraft, New Zealand officials said.

Bipartisan Filibuster Deal Is Reached in the Senate

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:26 PM PST

Lawmakers and aides said the new rules would end the use of a tactic that forces the majority party to marshal 60 votes to bring a bill to the floor.

Canadian police in Algeria to investigate gas plant attack

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:48 PM PST

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian police are in Algeria looking for evidence that Canadian citizens were involved in last week's attack and hostage-taking at a desert gas plant, a government official said on Thursday.

Italian prosecutors investigate Concordia owner over shipwreck

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:33 PM PST

ROME (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors investigating last year's Costa Concordia shipwreck in which 32 people died are looking into the vessel owner's potential responsibility as an employer, the company said on Thursday.

Berezovsky battles in court with ex-partner over assets

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:05 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - Exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky's ex-partner, with whom he has two children, is pursuing him in court for a share of his assets, adding to financial pressures on him months after he lost a $6 billion dispute with rival Roman Abramovich.

Spain newspaper sorry for "false photo" of Chavez

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 11:48 AM PST

MADRID/CARACAS (Reuters) - Spain's influential El Pais newspaper apologized on Thursday for publishing a "false photo" of cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, removed the image from its website and withdrew its print edition.

Pentagon to move ‘expeditiously’ to lift ban on women in combat roles

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 11:54 AM PST

The Pentagon will move "expeditiously" to integrate women into the military's combat units, Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta vowed Thursday, arguing that the inclusion of female troops would make the country and its fighting force stronger.

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