Have hired guns finally scuppered Somali pirates?

Have hired guns finally scuppered Somali pirates?

Have hired guns finally scuppered Somali pirates?

Posted: 10 Feb 2013 12:09 AM PST

ABOARD RMS QUEEN MARY (Reuters) - Posted between septuagenarian passengers in deck chairs, lookouts stand watch over the Gulf of Aden, scanning the horizon for pirates.

VIDEO: Tunisia PM warns of 'chaos'

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 06:25 PM PST

Tunisia's Prime Minister is warning the country could slide into "chaos" unless he succeeds in forming a new non-partisan government in the next few days.

VIDEO: Isaf 'on road to winning Afghan war'

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 10:15 PM PST

The outgoing Commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, Gen John Allen, has said the alliance is on the road to winning the war.

Five killed in bomb attack in Southern Thailand

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 10:24 PM PST

BANGKOK, Feb 10 – Five soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack in Kampung Kubae Talak, Thatong, Reman, Yala, today.   Thatong police chief Lt Col Topan Pusantiar said 50kgs of explosives loaded in the car, which was parked by the roadside of the village, were detonated as a truck carrying six soldiers was passing through the area at ...

Rajoy publishes tax returns amid kickbacks scandal

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 09:34 PM PST

MADRID, Feb 10 – Spain's prime minister published his tax returns yesterday in a bid to quell reports he and other conservative politicians received secret cash payments but the opposition said many questions remain unanswered. The government's website posted tax authority documents detailing Mariano Rajoy's income and tax payments from the past ...

U.S. Northeast digs out from blizzard, storm brewing in Plains

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 11:29 PM PST

BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Northeast started digging itself out of a blizzard that dumped up to 40 inches of snow with hurricane force winds, killing at least nine people and leaving about half a million customers without power.

VIDEO: Fireworks mark the Year of the Snake

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 11:42 PM PST

Millions of people have celebrated to mark the Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, the most important annual holiday in much of Asia.

VIDEO: Snow-hit US states begin clear-up

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 09:47 PM PST

The north-eastern United States is beginning to recover from one of its biggest winter storms in living memory, which left at least four people dead.

UN, U.S. condemn attack on Iran dissidents in Iraq

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 09:57 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. secretary-general and the U.S. government condemned a deadly attack on an Iranian dissident camp in the Iraqi capital early on Saturday and urged Iraqi authorities to carry out a full investigation.

Snowstorm shuts down Massachusetts nuclear plant

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 08:53 PM PST

BOSTON, Feb 10 – A nuclear power plant in Massachusetts lost power and automatically shut down yesterday during a massive blizzard across the northeastern United States, the nuclear regulator said. The reactor at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth closed down with no problems and there was no threat to public safety, an official at the ...

Christian patriarch prays for peace in Syria

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 08:48 PM PST

BEIRUT, Feb 10 – The head of Lebanon's Maronite Catholic church, Patriarch Beshara al-Rai, prayed in an old Damascus church yesterday for an end to Syria's civil war. Rai, whose church has 900,000 members in Lebanon, a quarter of the country's population, is on the first visit to Syria by a Maronite Patriarch since the independence of neighboring ...

Irish marchers protest nationwide against austerity

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 08:43 PM PST

BELFAST, Feb 10 – Tens of thousands of people marched in six cities around Ireland yesterday to protest against austerity measures, days after the government struck a vital deal on its bank debt. Prominent trade unionists and opposition members of parliament marched alongside citizens facing a sixth year of cuts since a financial crisis plunged ...

Protests erupt as India executes Kashmiri man

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 07:37 PM PST

NEW DELHI, Feb 10 – India hanged a Kashmiri man yesterday for an attack on the country's parliament in 2001, sparking clashes in Kashmir between protesters and police who wielded batons and fired teargas. Dozens of people were injured. President Pranab Mukherjee rejected a mercy petition from Mohammad Afzal Guru and he was hanged at 8am in Tihar ...

New fighting in Sudan’s borderland

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 07:31 PM PST

JUBA, Feb 10 – At least 24 people have been killed in fresh fighting in the volatile borderland between Sudan and South Sudan, the southern army and rebels said yesterday. South Sudan's army spokesman Philip Aguer said his troops killed seven fighters from a militia supported by Khartoum which had crossed the poorly-defined border. The South's ...

Blizzard hammers U.S. Northeast, nine dead, 700,000 lose power

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 07:17 PM PST

BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A blizzard packing hurricane-force winds hammered the northeastern United States on Saturday, cutting power to 700,000 homes and businesses, shutting down travel and leaving at least nine people dead.

Obama to lay out economic growth plan in State of Union speech

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 06:24 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will describe his plan for spurring the economy in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, offering proposals for investments in infrastructure, manufacturing, clean energy and education, a senior administration official said on Saturday.

Michelle Obama mourns slain Chicago girl

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 06:03 PM PST

CHICAGO, Feb 10 – The national debate over gun violence took a highly personal turn for first lady Michelle Obama when a Chicago girl was slain near Obama's family home just days after she performed at the presidential inauguration in Washington. The first lady and top federal, state and city officials joined hundreds of mourners yesterday at the ...

Manhunt for ex-cop widens to Mexican border

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 05:52 PM PST

LOS ANGELES, Feb 10 – US Border Patrol agents yesterday helped police widen the mountaintop manhunt for an ex-policeman wanted as a suspect in three California slayings, seeking to block his potential escape to neighboring Mexico. Former Los Angeles officer Christopher Dorner, 33, has declared war on law enforcement officers and their families in ...

France, Britain in uproar over horsemeat scandal

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 04:53 PM PST

PARIS, 10 Feb – The French and British governments promised yesterday to punish those found responsible for selling horsemeat in beef products at the heart of a growing scandal that started in Britain but is quickly spreading to France. French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon said an investigation had found that the horsemeat had originated ...

Cameron urges Scotland not to go it alone

Posted: 09 Feb 2013 04:48 PM PST

LONDON, 10 Feb – Prime Minister David Cameron conceded today that Scotland had what it takes to be an independent nation, but said it currently enjoyed "the best of both worlds", imploring it not to break the United Kingdom apart. Stepping up his government's campaign to hold Britain together ahead of an independence referendum expected next year, ...

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