Sri Lankan Leader Seems to Reject Greater Autonomy for Tamils

Sri Lankan Leader Seems to Reject Greater Autonomy for Tamils

Sri Lankan Leader Seems to Reject Greater Autonomy for Tamils

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:40 PM PST

President Mahinda Rajapaksa promised for years to support greater political autonomy for the country's Tamil ethnic minority in the wake of a bloody civil war.

Bin Laden city to build fun park

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:38 PM PST

The Pakistani city where Osama Bin Laden was found and killed is building an amusement park in a bid to boost tourism, officials say.

Bin Laden city to build fun park

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:38 PM PST

The Pakistani city where Osama Bin Laden was found and killed is building an amusement park in a bid to boost tourism, officials say.

VIDEO: Dylan Hall: Thai internet sensation

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 10:02 AM PST

Three-year-old Dylan Hall became an internet sensation in Thailand after his parents posted a video of him on YouTube reciting the Thai alphabet.

IRA supergrass 'not abandoned'

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 09:50 AM PST

The case of an IRA informer who said he was abandoned by MI5 is rejected by a tribunal which considers complaints against the security services.

Former FBI official questioned on role in abuse of intelligence-gathering tools

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:22 PM PST

A senior Republican lawmaker is probing allegations that the former general counsel of the FBI bore greater responsibility for abuses of surveillance authorities than previously known.

The former official, Valerie E. Caproni, left the FBI in 2011 and has been nominated by President Obama to a be a judge in the Southern District of New York.

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State Department strains to avoid Israeli-Palestinian textbook dispute

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:09 PM PST

WASHINGTON State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland did rhetorical backflips Monday to avoid taking any position on a new U.S.-funded study that faulted both Palestinian and Israeli textbooks as misleading and one-sided.

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India protesters decry new rape law

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:21 PM PST

Activists say legalisation passed in the wake of fatal gang-rape does not go far enough.

FBI examines US death in Turkey

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:20 PM PST

The FBI is helping Turkish authorities investigate how a mother-of-two from New York died in Istanbul, a US congressman has said.

Brazilian Congress elects leaders probed for corruption

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:59 PM PST

BRASILIA (Reuters) - In a country that has taken big strides toward greater transparency in government in recent years, the Brazilian Congress is out of step.

South Sudan fails to withdraw troops from Sudan border

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:52 PM PST

JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's army said there were no orders to withdraw from the border with Sudan to set up a buffer zone by a deadline on Monday, despite the government saying last month it had begun pulling back its troops.

In Minneapolis, Obama Presses Case for Tougher Gun Laws

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:06 PM PST

President Obama cited the city's successful gun violence prevention efforts, even as evidence mounted that expanded background checks on sales may emerge as a compromise.

High-Level Feud Bares Tensions in Iran

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 11:49 AM PST

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escalated a political fight with Iran's most influential political family by disclosing secret film recordings of what he purported were fraudulent business deals.

US 'will sue' Standard & Poor's

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:58 PM PST

Credit agency Standard & Poor's says it is to be sued by the US government over its rating of mortgage bonds before the financial crisis.

Colombian ELN rebels capture two thought to be German citizens

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 01:36 PM PST

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian rebels from the National Liberation Army (ELN) said on Monday they have captured two men believed to be from Germany, the second time in a month the armed group has seized foreigners.

Three decades on, survivors of worst Pemex blast still want answers

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:21 PM PST

SAN JUAN IXHUATEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) - As Mexico waits for news of what caused a deadly blast at the headquarters of state oil giant Pemex last week, survivors of the worst explosion in the company's history three decades ago still wonder what exactly happened then and what became of their friends.

Kerry takes the helm at State, signaling early push on peace in Middle East

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:18 PM PST

New Secretary of State John F. Kerry is signaling an early push to rekindle Middle East peace talks, making lengthy telephone calls to the Israeli and Palestinian leaders even before starting work at the State Department on Monday.

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U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Africa defined by a decade of missteps

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 12:17 PM PST

The U.S. military was closely tracking a one-eyed bandit across the Sahara in 2003 when it confronted a hard choice that is still reverberating a decade later. Should it try to kill or capture the target, an Algerian jihadist named Mokhtar Belmokhtar, or let him go?

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'Zero Dark Thirty' a hit in Pakistan, despite being seen as 'a pack of lies'

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 11:59 AM PST

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — "Zero Dark Thirty," the Oscar-nominated film about the CIA's 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden, stirred great umbrage in the Distict with its implication that the brutal interrogation technique known as waterboarding was key to locating the al-Qaeda chief, who hid out in Pakistan for years.

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Preacher on trial in daughter's slaying

Posted: 04 Feb 2013 10:31 AM PST

Outrage is mounting in Saudi Arabia about the case of a 5-year-old girl who died after allegedly being beaten and tortured by her father, who activists say is an Islamist preacher.

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