China says aims to banish superstition, promote knowledge

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• China says aims to banish superstition, promote knowledge
• China criticizes US for its human rights record
• China says aims to banish superstition, promote knowledge
• Reduced security blamed for Taliban attack
• Family in Dagestan defends Boston suspects
• Analysis: Rough start to post-Chavez era augurs badly for Venezuela
• Analysis: Rough start to post-Chavez era augurs badly for Venezuela
• Rich political novice the favorite to win Paraguayan presidency
• China rushes relief after Sichuan quake kills 180
• Rich political novice the favorite to win Paraguayan presidency
• North Korea moves two more missile launchers: report
• China hits back at U.S. in annual human rights survey
• Conservatives 'likely to win Paraguay poll'
• North Korea moves two more missile launchers: report
• China hits back at U.S. in annual human rights survey
• Boston bombing investigation turns to motive
• Insight: Pakistan cleric tries hand at politics
• Opposition, election body differ on Venezuela vote audit
• Rescuers struggle to reach China quake zone
• China rushes relief after Sichuan quake kills 179

China says aims to banish superstition, promote knowledge Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:54 PM PDT By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs about things like sickness and death, the country's top religious affairs official told a state-run newspaper. Wang Zuoan, head of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, said there had been an explosion of religious belief in China along with the nation's economic boom, which he attributed to a desire for reassurance in an increasingly complex world. ...

China criticizes US for its human rights record Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:48 PM PDT BEIJING (AP) — China slammed the human rights record of the United States in response to Washington's report on rights around the world, saying that U.S. military operations have infringed on rights abroad and that political donations at home have thwarted the country's democracy.

China says aims to banish superstition, promote knowledge Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:54 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China is struggling to get its estimated 100 million religious believers to banish superstitious beliefs about things like sickness and death, the country's top religious affairs official told a state-run newspaper.

Reduced security blamed for Taliban attack Posted: 20 Apr 2013 07:37 PM PDT The Taliban fighters who blew up a half-dozen U.S. Marine fighter jets on a sprawling NATO base last fall were able to walk easily onto the encampment because patrols of the perimeter had been scaled back and watchtowers left unmanned, according to senior military officials. Read full article >>

Family in Dagestan defends Boston suspects Posted: 20 Apr 2013 05:17 PM PDT Mother of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says her sons are innocent and "controlled by the FBI".

Analysis: Rough start to post-Chavez era augurs badly for Venezuela Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:07 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - About the only tranquil place in Caracas over the last few days is a hilltop military museum housing the remains of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez.

Analysis: Rough start to post-Chavez era augurs badly for Venezuela Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:06 PM PDT By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - About the only tranquil place in Caracas over the last few days is a hilltop military museum housing the remains of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez. Visitors tip-toe around his marble sarcophagus, reprimanded by guards if their voices rise above whispers. Outside, a shell-shocked nation is still reeling both from Chavez's death from cancer last month and a week of violence and recriminations over the disputed election to succeed him. ...

Rich political novice the favorite to win Paraguayan presidency Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:02 PM PDT By Daniela Desantis and Hilary Burke ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguayans go to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election that could return the center-right Colorado Party to power less than a year after the nation's leftist leader was impeached. Millionaire businessman Horacio Cartes, 56, is the Colorado Party candidate and front-runner in the race, most polls show. A political novice, he vows to reform his party, which was tainted by corruption during its 60-year reign through 2008. ...

China rushes relief after Sichuan quake kills 180 Posted: 20 Apr 2013 09:56 PM PDT YA'AN, China (AP) — Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China's Sichuan province Sunday after an earthquake left at least 180 people dead and more than 11,000 injured and prompted frightened survivors to spend a night in cars, tents and makeshift shelters.

Rich political novice the favorite to win Paraguayan presidency Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:03 PM PDT ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguayans go to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election that could return the center-right Colorado Party to power less than a year after the nation's leftist leader was impeached.

North Korea moves two more missile launchers: report Posted: 20 Apr 2013 08:50 PM PDT By Jane Chung SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has moved two short-range missile launchers to its east coast, apparently indicating it is pushing ahead with preparations for a test launch, a South Korean news agency reported on Sunday. South Korea and its allies have been expecting some sort of North Korean missile launch during weeks of heightened hostility on the Korean peninsula. ...

China hits back at U.S. in annual human rights survey Posted: 20 Apr 2013 08:47 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States on Sunday of spying on its own citizens, discriminating against women and ethnic minorities and allowing gun crime to run out of control, in Beijing's annual rebuttal to Washington's criticism of its rights record. The U.S. government's yearly survey of human rights around the world issued last week said that repression and coercion in China were routine, especially for rights activists and people living in Tibet and the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang. ...

Conservatives 'likely to win Paraguay poll' Posted: 20 Apr 2013 08:42 PM PDT Businessman Horacio Cartes of the Colorado Party leads in most polls ahead of presidential election on Sunday.

North Korea moves two more missile launchers: report Posted: 20 Apr 2013 08:51 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has moved two short-range missile launchers to its east coast, apparently indicating it is pushing ahead with preparations for a test launch, a South Korean news agency reported on Sunday.

China hits back at U.S. in annual human rights survey Posted: 20 Apr 2013 08:47 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States on Sunday of spying on its own citizens, discriminating against women and ethnic minorities and allowing gun crime to run out of control, in Beijing's annual rebuttal to Washington's criticism of its rights record.

Boston bombing investigation turns to motive Posted: 20 Apr 2013 07:21 PM PDT Surviving suspect of Marathon blasts in "serious condition" and unable to speak due to throat injuries, authorities say.

Insight: Pakistan cleric tries hand at politics Posted: 20 Apr 2013 06:37 PM PDT By Michael Georgy JHANG, Pakistan (Reuters) - When Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi greets supporters on the Pakistan election trail, he opens his pitch with the kind of promises to the poor that any other politician might make. But behind the reassuring rhetoric lies what his opponents believe is a dangerous agenda - to gain a foothold in parliament and further his designs to oppress Pakistan's Shi'ite minority. ...

Opposition, election body differ on Venezuela vote audit Posted: 20 Apr 2013 07:23 PM PDT By Daniel Wallis and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition and electoral authority expressed on Saturday widely differing expectations for an audit of the contested April 14 presidential election, a day after Nicolas Maduro was sworn in to succeed the late Hugo Chavez. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who says there were thousands of irregularities, wants a manual recount of all ballots cast in the vote, but has accepted the electoral body's decision to carry out a more limited electronic audit. ...

Rescuers struggle to reach China quake zone Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:55 PM PDT By Michael Martina and Maxim Duncan LUSHAN, China (Reuters) - Rescuers struggled to reach a remote corner of southwestern China on Sunday as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst earthquake in three years climbed to 203 with more than 11,000 injured. The 6.6 magnitude quake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya'an in the southwestern province of Sichuan, close to where a devastating 7.9 temblor hit in May 2008 killing some 70,000. ...

China rushes relief after Sichuan quake kills 179 Posted: 20 Apr 2013 08:47 PM PDT YA'AN, China (AP) — Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China's Sichuan province Sunday after an earthquake left at least 179 people dead and more than 6,700 injured and prompted frightened survivors to spend a night in cars, tents and makeshift shelters.

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