Suicide bomber, gunmen kill 33 in Iraq's Kirkuk

Suicide bomber, gunmen kill 33 in Iraq's Kirkuk

Suicide bomber, gunmen kill 33 in Iraq's Kirkuk

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 12:39 AM PST

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a car and gunmen disguised in police uniforms killed at least 33 people in the Iraqi city Kirkuk on Sunday when they tried to storm the police headquarters.

Suicide bomber, gunmen hit police HQ in Iraq's Kirkuk - sources

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:35 PM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least one suicide bomber driving a car and gunmen disguised in police uniforms attacked a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, police sources said.

Suicide bomber, gunmen kill 33 in Iraq’s Kirkuk

Posted: 03 Feb 2013 12:32 AM PST

KIRKUK, Iraq, Feb 3 — A suicide bomber driving a car and gunmen disguised as police killed at least 33 people in Iraq's Kirkuk today when they tried to storm a city police headquarters, police sources said. Kirkuk, a religiously and ethnically mixed area of Arabs, Kurds and Turkman, is at the heart of a dispute over oil and land between Baghdad's ...

Bus crashes into Boston overpass, injuring 33 people

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 10:24 PM PST

BOSTON, Feb 3 – A bus carrying 42 passengers traveling from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Pennsylvania crashed into a Boston overpass last night, injuring 33 people, according to emergency officials. The crash happened about 7.30pm on Soldiers Field Road in Boston, according to Boston Emergency Medical Services spokeswoman ...

French parliament backs main clause in gay marriage law

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 09:47 PM PST

PARIS, Feb 3 – The French parliament yesterday adopted the main clause of a bill that would allow same-sex marriage and grant gay couples the right to adopt children. Deputies voted 249-97 to back the clause eliminating opposite gender as a condition of the right to marriage. The draft law, the first major social reform of Francois Hollande's ...

Researchers turn to Twitter to track the flu

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 11:16 PM PST

As flu season takes its toll across North American and Europe, Johns Hopkins University in the US is using Twitter to build a tool to track the epidemic.

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Islamist threatens to attack Germany, Merkel

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 09:08 PM PST

BERLIN, Feb 3 – A German Islamist has threatened to attack Berlin this summer and kill Chancellor Angela Merkel in a video posted on the Internet, a newspaper reported yesterday. A spokesman for Germany's intelligence service, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, confirmed its agents had seen such a video. "This is an Islamist battle ...

White House rebuffs plan to arm Syrian rebels

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 07:58 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 – A plan developed last summer by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-CIA Director David Petraeus to arm and train Syrian rebels was rebuffed by the White House, The New York Times reported yesterday. The United States has sent humanitarian aid to Syria but has declined requests for weapons by rebels fighting to ...

Rajoy denies wrongdoing in kickbacks scandal

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 07:46 PM PST

MADRID, Feb 3 – Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy yesterday denied wrongdoing in a growing corruption scandal that threatens his credibility just as he makes headway against economic crisis. The ruling People's Party (PP) has been buffeted all week by media reports alleging its former treasurers operated a slush fund with donations from ...

Maduro accuses rival of ‘conspiring’ against Venezuela

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 07:22 PM PST

CARACAS, Feb 3 – Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro accused opposition leader Henrique Capriles yesterday of "conspiring" against the OPEC nation during meetings in neighbouring Colombia, stepping up his attacks on his most likely potential election rival. The government is upbeat about President Hugo Chavez's recovery from cancer surgery in ...

Syrian opposition talks with Russia and Iran

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 07:16 PM PST

MUNICH, Feb 3 – The Syrian opposition leader met the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran yesterday, opening a window to a possible breakthrough in efforts to broker an end to Syria's civil war. Russia and Iran have been the staunchest allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad throughout an armed uprising, and any understandings they might reach ...

White House rebuffed Clinton-Petraeus plan to arm Syrian rebels - report

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:41 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A plan developed last summer by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-CIA Director David Petraeus to arm and train Syrian rebels was rebuffed by the White House, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

VIDEO: Fifth day for Alabama hostage case

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 09:27 PM PST

Police in Midland City in the US state of Alabama are spending a fifth day negotiating with a man accused of holding a young boy hostage in a bunker.

VIDEO: Iran unveils 'stealth fighter' plane

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:46 PM PST

Iran has unveiled a new home-made combat aircraft, which officials say can evade radar.

VIDEO: Indian fisherman held in Pakistan

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:47 PM PST

More than 50 Indian fisherman have been detained by Pakistani coastguards, over allegations that they trespassed into the country's territorial waters.

Mali hails ‘saviour’ Hollande, says fight not over

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:26 PM PST

TIMBUKTU, Feb 3 – Cheering, grateful Malians mobbed French President Francois Hollande yesterday as he visited French troops fighting Islamist jihadist rebels, and he pledged France would finish the job of restoring government control in the Sahel state. In a one-day trip to Mali accompanied by his ministers for defense, foreign affairs and ...

Turkey says tests confirm leftist bombed US embassy

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 06:20 PM PST

ANKARA, Feb 3 – A member of a Turkish leftist group that accuses Washington of using Turkey as its "slave" carried out a suicide bomb attack on the US embassy, the Ankara governor's office cited DNA tests as showing yesterday. Ecevit Sanli, a member of the leftist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), blew himself up in a ...

Expect an early spring, says Pennsylvanian groundhog

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 05:04 PM PST

PUNXSUTAWNEY (Pennsylvania), Feb 3 – Punxsutawney Phil, America's most famous groundhog, emerged from his burrow yesterday to the glare of cameras and the cheers of thousands of spectators and offered his annual weather prognostication: An early spring is coming. Each year thousands of fans from as far away as Australia and Russia attend the ...

Efforts to end Alabama hostage situation shrouded in secrecy

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 04:57 PM PST

MIDLAND CITY, Feb 3 – Efforts to free a 5-year-old boy from a gunman in an underground bunker, where he fled after killing the boy's school bus driver, were shrouded in secrecy yesterday as the standoff in rural Alabama dragged into a fifth straight day. Police sources said the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, often described as federal law ...

Video of protester stripped and beaten fires Egypt fury

Posted: 02 Feb 2013 04:08 PM PST

CAIRO, Feb 3 – After eight days of protests that killed nearly 60 people, a video of one demonstrator stripped naked, dragged across the ground and beaten with truncheons by helmeted riot police has fired Egyptians to a new level of outrage. Hamada Saber, 48, lay in a police hospital yeterday, the morning after he was shown on television naked, ...

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