A shooting in Taksim still echoes for protesters

A shooting in Taksim still echoes for protesters

A shooting in Taksim still echoes for protesters

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:53 AM PDT

It's not clear how he let himself stray so far from his fellow riot police, but when he looked up from the protester he was kicking and saw the crowd of Istanbul protesters closing in, the lone policeman appeared to panic. The video, now infamous in Turkey, shows him reach for his pistol and fire into the air three times over the crowd, apparently to scare them off. But by the third shot, his arm had dropped, and one of the protesters collapsed.

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Snowden’s U.S. hacking claim captures Chinese attention

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 06:14 AM PDT

HONG KONG —For days the reaction in mainland China to the presence in this city of Edward Snowden, who has confessed to leaking information about secret U.S. surveillance programs, was almost total indifference. Now, with his claim that the U.S. government has been hacking Chinese institutions for years, he has the country's attention.

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Brazilian indigenous man shot dead

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:36 PM PDT

A man from the Guarani-Kaiowa ethnic group is shot dead in an area disputed by cattle ranchers near an indigenous reserve in western Brazil.

Mandela's health improving but condition still 'serious'

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:38 PM PDT

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela continues to recover from a lung infection but his condition remains serious, the South African government said on Thursday.

Tunisia rapper jailed over song

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:11 PM PDT

Tunisian rapper Ala Yaacoub, known as Weld El 15, is sentenced to two years for insulting and threatening police, as clashes take place outside court.

Obama considers Syria moves, Assad turns guns on north

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:24 PM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is deciding whether to take new action to help Syria's rebels, the White House said on Thursday, while President Bashar al-Assad's surging forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies turned their guns on the north.

White House Pushes Back on Bill Clinton’s Syria Remarks

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:42 AM PDT

After former President Bill Clinton endorsed a more robust American intervention in Syria, the White House said it would not act to "satisfy critics."
    

Movie Review: ‘Man of Steel’ Depicts a Striving Stranger in a Strange Land

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT

"Man of Steel" weaves the Superman story into the fabric of 20th-century America and surrounds it with epic-scale cosmic effects.
    

Erdogan to meet park protesters

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:48 AM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to meet a group of protesters, having given them a "final warning" to leave Istanbul's Gezi Park.

Tunisian rapper in court to hear sentence for insulting police

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:44 AM PDT

TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian rapper who was sentenced to two years in jail in absentia in March for insulting the police was handed the same punishment on Thursday after he surrendered to the authorities.

Hillary Clinton Steps Onto a Stage Again

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:12 AM PDT

In a speech for her husband's foundation in Chicago, the former first lady and secretary of state made remarks suited to a domestic policy debate.
    

Matter: In Glittering Gems, Reading Earth’s Story

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 05:00 AM PDT

Because gems are formed when molecules interact in extreme physical circumstances, the presence of gems like rubies and jade indicates past tectonic activity.
    

Politicians unite over data powers

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:33 AM PDT

Former home secretaries issue a letter, seen by BBC Newsnight, calling for UK security services to be given greater internet monitoring powers.

Tehran calm on eve of presidential election as Iranians weigh whether to vote

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:01 AM PDT

TEHRAN — Official campaigning for Friday's presidential election ended here Wednesday night, with small but spirited rallies by supporters of the six remaining candidates.

The street scenes in the capital were just a shadow of the massive rallies leading up to the 2009 presidential election, in which hundreds of thousands of Tehran residents participated, but they also served as a reminder of the bitterness and deadly violence of the protests that followed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contested reelection.

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North Korea seeking to deepen ties with far-away Uganda

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:49 AM PDT

North Korean officials visiting Uganda have signed deals to provide police training, security hardware such as tear gas and even housing construction, according to a report by the independent news site NKNews. Although North Korea has sold martial arts training to the Ugandan police since 1988, this deal seems to mark a new level of cooperation and a rare diplomatic success for Pyongyang.

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A Lifeline for No-Longer-Illegal Immigrants

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 06:37 AM PDT

A program that lifted the threat of deportation for young people offers insights on efforts toward a broader overhaul.
    

Medieval leprosy skeletons sequenced

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:10 AM PDT

The genetic code of leprosy-causing bacteria from 1,000-year-old skeletons has been laid bare, showing the bug has hardly changed over the past millennium.

Lebanese Hezbollah suspects to sue Nigerian government

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:01 AM PDT

ABUJA (Reuters) - Four Lebanese men suspected of having links to Islamist militant group Hezbollah are seeking 1 billion naira ($6.2 million) in compensation from the Nigerian government for unlawful incarceration, their lawyer said on Thursday.

BBC condemns Iran over 'harassment'

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:59 AM PDT

The BBC condemns "unprecedented levels of intimidation" of BBC employees' families by Iran ahead of its Friday's presidential elections.

Yahoo mulls ads based on influence

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:14 AM PDT

Yahoo files a patent suggesting it could charge marketers different rates according to the social influence score of the consumers they want to target.

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