Casino Referendum Planned by New York Leaders

Casino Referendum Planned by New York Leaders

Casino Referendum Planned by New York Leaders

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:10 PM PDT

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and top legislators have agreed to ask voters in November to amend the State Constitution to allow seven nontribal casinos.
    

Congo attacks over arrests in India

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:46 PM PDT

Shops belonging to Asians are targeted in a violent protest in DR Congo's capital over the arrest of Congolese students in India over the weekend.

Iran says appeals for 'jihad' in Syria fuel radicalism

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:34 PM PDT

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the Syrian government and its Shi'ite allies are fuelling radicalism in the region, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday.

US denies talks planned with Taliban

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:33 PM PDT

State Department denies scheduled meeting hours after Afghan president threatened to boycott peace talks with Taliban.

Before-and-after satellite photos from Darfur show entire villages wiped off the map

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:12 PM PDT

On April 8, one of Sudan's most infamous militia leaders, a man who fights under the name of Ali Kushayb, descended on the the town of Abu Jeradil, in Darfur. He was traveling with a convoy of khaki-uniformed men, some of them armed with anti-aircraft weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, according to survivors who spoke to Human Right Watch. The men opened fire shortly after arriving, firing indiscriminately. Then they set houses and fields on fire. After looting some of the livestock, they left.

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Kerry calls Karzai to defuse tension

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:35 PM PDT

The US Secretary of State John Kerry calls the Afghan leader to defuse tension over the opening of a Taliban office, an Afghan official tells the BBC.

Brazil protests proceed as smaller cities join the fray

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:54 PM PDT

SAO PAULO/FORTALEZA (Reuters) - Protesters blocked roads in Sao Paulo and marched toward a stadium hosting a major international soccer game in Brazil's northeast on Wednesday in a growing wave of nationwide demonstrations against poor public services, inflation and other woes in Latin America's biggest country.

China completes monitoring scheme for Tibet

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:43 AM PDT

Beijing rolls out campaign to crack down on what officials term "rumours" in the remote western region.

Greek party leaders to meet Thursday over ERT impasse

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:55 AM PDT

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's ruling coalition leaders will meet again on Thursday to resolve an impasse over last week's closure of state broadcaster ERT after failing to reach agreement during talks on Wednesday, PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos said.

Britain fails to get EU backing for Hezbollah blacklisting

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:46 AM PDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A British drive to put Hezbollah's armed wing on the EU's terror list again ran into resistance on Wednesday from governments concerned it would fuel instability in the Middle East, diplomats said.

State of the Art: Microsoft Office for the iPhone Is Here. Yawn.

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Microsoft's application falls short of duplicating the everyday functions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Some outside apps do it better.
    

Financier Leon Black Buys $48 Million Raphael Drawing

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:39 PM PDT

New York financier Leon Black was the mystery buyer of a $47.9 million Raphael drawing auctioned by Sotheby's London last December, according to several people familiar with the matter.

New clashes in Brazil before match

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:45 AM PDT

Police fire tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, ahead of a football match against Mexico.

Gyula Horn, the man who tore the Iron Curtain, dies at 80

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:07 PM PDT

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Gyula Horn, who as Hungary's last communist foreign minister ripped a hole in the Iron Curtain in 1989, has died at the age of 80 after long illness, the government said on Wednesday.

VIDEO: Afghanistan to boycott Taliban talks

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:16 AM PDT

The Afghan government will not take part in peace talks with the Taliban unless the process is "Afghan-led", President Hamid Karzai has said

Kerry calls Karzai to defuse tension

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:35 PM PDT

The US Secretary of State John Kerry calls the Afghan leader to defuse tension over the opening of a Taliban office, an Afghan official tells the BBC.

Kosovo's first envoy to Serbia quits after two days

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:25 AM PDT

PRISTINA (Reuters) - Independent Kosovo's first envoy to Serbia resigned on Wednesday, pre-empting his dismissal just two days into the job for exceeding his powers and making remarks likely to irritate Belgrade.

Michael Hastings, Award-Winning Journalist, Dies at 33

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:03 AM PDT

Mr. Hastings, an intrepid war zone reporter in Afghanistan and Iraq, won a Polk Award in 2010 for his Rolling Stone magazine cover story, "The Runaway General."
    

UAE charges 30 over 'Muslim Brotherhood ties'

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:13 AM PDT

Gulf state charges group of Egyptians and Emiratis for setting up illegal branch of Egyptian Islamist group.

Fed Outlines Timeline for Winding Down Stimulus

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:28 PM PDT

Federal Reserve policy makers, more confident about the economic recovery, said they intended to reduce their monetary stimulus program later this year if unemployment continues to decline.
    

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