Bomb in Thai south wounds six day after landmark deal

Bomb in Thai south wounds six day after landmark deal

Bomb in Thai south wounds six day after landmark deal

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 01:09 AM PST

BANGKOK, March 1 — A motorcycle bomb wounded six people in southern Thailand today, a day after a landmark agreement between the government and a Muslim rebel group to start talks aimed at ending a conflict that has claimed more than 5,000 lives since 2004. No group claimed responsibility for the device, which exploded outside a market in ...

Cambodia orders action to stop deadly bird flu

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:32 AM PST

Phnom Penh on Friday ordered urgent action to stem the "worrying" number of bird flu deaths in Cambodia, following a surge in the number of fatalities from the virus.

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Netanyahu seeks more time to build new Israeli government

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:29 AM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Deadlocked talks with potential coalition partners have forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek more time to build a new government and avert a snap election, officials said on Friday.

Two car bombs at cattle market kill five in southern Iraq

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:15 AM PST

DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two blasts at a busy cattle market in a mainly Shi'ite city in southern Iraq on Friday killed at least 5 people and injured dozens more, police and medics said, as Iraq's precarious sectarian balance comes under growing strain.

Hungary's new central bank chief will need to woo investors

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:07 AM PST

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The first task Hungary's new central bank governor faces when he takes office will be to convince international investors he is a man of safety and not surprises.

Reject toadyism

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:21 AM PST

I'm not going to predict how many seats each party can win. All that I hope is that we are able to retain the best and discard the trashy after the election.

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VIDEO: Huge ash clouds as Etna erupts

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:35 PM PST

Europe's only active volcano Mount Etna has been erupting, sending plumes of ash into the air.

Bangkok election could herald new chapter in turbulent Thai politics

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:43 PM PST

BANGKOK (Reuters) - For years, Thailand's turbulent and sometimes violent politics have had a familiar narrative: the poor in the country's rural northern and eastern regions at polarising odds with the royalist establishment in the bright lights of Bangkok.

Julia Child turned into comic book heroine

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:30 PM PST

In line with other chefs who've been immortalized in comic book form, Julia Child has been given the graphic novel treatment for her role in transforming the culinary landscape in the US.

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Italy's centre-left rules out grand coalition - paper

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:25 PM PST

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's centre-left will not form any grand coalition with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right group after inconclusive parliamentary elections earlier this week, left-wing leader Pier Luigi Bersani said in an interview on Friday.

Angry scenes in China amid land grab protest

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:18 PM PST

Villagers in southern China were Friday locked in a tense standoff with police after angry protests over land rights, a local resident said, as Beijing prepares for its annual meeting of legislators.

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Exclusive - Glencore bartered with firm linked to Iran nuclear program

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:16 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Commodities giant Glencore supplied thousands of tons of alumina to an Iranian firm that has provided aluminium to Iran's nuclear program, intelligence and diplomatic sources told Reuters.

Pentagon says to resume F-35 flights

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:44 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Thursday it would resume flights of its F-35 fighter jets following a week-long precautionary grounding imposed after a crack was found on an engine blade on a test plane in California.

i'm Watch smartwatch ventures into fitness tracking

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:12 PM PST

Dubbed "the first real smartwatch," i'm Watch just debuted a new app for fitness buffs, called i'msport, at this week's GSMA Mobile World Congress.

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Samsung's virtual wallet app joins mobile payment lineup

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:09 PM PST

The South Korean technology juggernaut has become the latest company to launch a form of mobile payments system and with it bring yet more disruption to a market that is barely past its embryonic stage.

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Armband of brothers: new device for gesture control

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:07 PM PST

The MYO armband is the latest in a growing number of products to offer "Minority Report"-style gesture controls for computers and mobile devices.

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Research houses maintain 'buy' call on MAS

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:04 PM PST

Four research houses have issued reports on national carrier, Malaysia Airline System Bhd (MAS), and issued 'buy' calls with price targets ranging from 90 sen to RM1.

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Russian girl, 8, filmed while driving at 100km per hour

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:00 PM PST

Police in Russia's northwestern city of Saint Petersburg have launched a probe after a video of an eight-year-old girl driving 100 kilometres per hour (60mph) through snowy scenery went viral on the Internet.

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Intruders should accept govt's offer: Najib

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:14 PM PST

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today said that the group or armed Filipino intruders in Kampung Tanduo, Lahad Datu, should accept the offer to surrender and leave the area as soon as possible.

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Cow show

Posted: 02 Mar 2013 06:48 PM PST

A woman makes up cows for a photocall at the "40th Show of the Best" agricultural exhibition in Verden, Germany.

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