Penny Pritzker Said to Be Candidate for Commerce Dept.

Penny Pritzker Said to Be Candidate for Commerce Dept.

Penny Pritzker Said to Be Candidate for Commerce Dept.

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:18 PM PST

Penny Pritzker, a leading fund-raiser for President Obama, withdrew her name from consideration for the same post in 2008.

South Korean military sharpens reflexes on divided peninsula

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:08 PM PST

YEONCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - As North Korea prepares a third nuclear test, South Korean soldiers on the world's most heavily armed border now have orders to shoot back immediately if they come under attack, a move that risks escalating any small-scale conflict.

Turkish parliament approves anti-terrorism financing law

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:10 PM PST

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament has approved a long-awaited anti-terrorism financing law two weeks ahead of a deadline which could have seen it expelled from an international watchdog, parliamentary officials said on Thursday.

Soccer scandal shows darker side of regimented Singapore

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:08 PM PST

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has long cultivated a reputation as a clean, safe and regimented place to live and do business in a turbulent region, but the apparently major role of Singaporeans in a global soccer match-fixing scandal shows a seamy underside often out of view.

Nafis Admits Trying to Bomb Federal Reserve Bank in N.Y.

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:56 AM PST

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis pleaded guilty in a plot last year that involved an undercover federal agent.

Open-source data contradicts Feinstein on 'single-digit' civilian drone deaths

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:14 PM PST

In her introductory comments to John Brennan's confirmation hearing to becoming director of central intelligence, Sen. Dianne Feinstein asserted that civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes now number in the single digits annually. Those numbers are difficult to know with any certainty, and official U.S. estimates are secret. But some organizations do follow open-source reports on the strikes and attempt to track individual civilian casualties. At least some of their numbers, gathered by the scholar Micah Zenko for a Council on Foreign Relations report, appear to contradict Feinstein's assessment.

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Chinese dams in Tibet raise hackles in India

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:01 PM PST

NEW DELHI — Plans by China to build three dams in Tibet have rung alarm bells downstream in India, where fears are rising that the northern nation's thirst for power and water will one day affect the flow of the mighty Brahmaputra River, a lifeline for tens of millions of people.

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Pentagon leaders favored arming Syrian rebels

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:29 AM PST

The Pentagon's top leaders testified Thursday that they favored supplying weapons to rebels engaged in a civil war with the Syrian government, something the White House has resolutely opposed.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made only a brief mention of their stance on Syria during a hearing called by the Senate Armed Services Committee to investigate the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, last year.

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VIDEO: South Korean soldiers' Les Mis spoof

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:23 PM PST

The South Korean air force has posted a "Les Miserables" video parody on YouTube, complete with snow-shovelling airmen, a lovelorn military service conscript and a vindictive superior officer.

Former UK minister forced me into abortion, ex-wife tells trial

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:54 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - A former British cabinet minister pressured his ex-wife into an abortion because having the baby would have damaged his career, she told a criminal court on Thursday.

China intensifies crackdown on Tibetan burnings, detains 70

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:10 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have detained 70 people in a crackdown on self-immolations in ethnic Tibetan regions, state media said on Thursday, the largest single reported sweep of suspects to date as the government tries to stop the unrest.

Security hiked for Egypt opposition

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:48 AM PST

Move comes after death threats by hardline clerics and killing of secular politician in Tunisia.

Katherine Boo: By the Book

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 08:40 AM PST

As a child, the author of "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" appreciated books in which "the weak were rarely bullied for long, and the bad guys didn't get away."

Magnitude 6.6 quake strikes off Solomon Islands: USGS

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:32 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary 6.6 magnitude struck 256 miles east of the Solomon Islands on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, the latest aftershock following a tremor that caused a tsunami which killed at least five people.

VIDEO: Argentines react to 'offensive chants'

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:09 AM PST

People in Buenos Aires were surprised after a video emerged which appeared to show Chilean marines chanting offensive slogans against their Argentine, Bolivian and Peruvian neighbours.

Report Faults Indian Government Over Widespread Child Sex Abuse

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:11 AM PST

Human Rights Watch said that child protection laws were not properly enforced, and that many cases went unreported.

Common Ancestor of Mammals Plucked From Obscurity

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:15 AM PST

A lowly occupant of the fossil record, Protungulatum donnae, is the most likely common ancestor of the mammalian family tree that includes mankind, scientists said.

Findus lasagne 'was 100% horsemeat'

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 12:14 PM PST

The meat content of some beef lasagne products recalled by Findus was was up to 100% horsemeat, the Food Standards Agency says.

Former Los Angeles Police Officer Sought in Shootings

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 11:10 AM PST

Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer, has killed at least three people, including a police officer, the authorities said.

Ronell Wilson, Killer of 2 Officers, Is Eligible for Death Penalty, Judge Says

Posted: 07 Feb 2013 10:33 AM PST

Ronell Wilson, who was sentenced to be executed for the 2003 murder of two undercover police officers on Staten Island, was found to be mentally competent for the death penalty.

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