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Koreas agree to meeting in bid to ease tensions

Koreas agree to meeting in bid to ease tensions
Police: Suspect identified for China bus fire
Analysis: U.S. domestic spying controversy complicates cybersecurity efforts
Obama, Xi agree to work together on cybersecurity
Southern California Edison To Shut Down San Onofre Nuclear Plant
World Digest: June 7, 2013
VIDEO: Ohio 'kidnapper' facing 329 charges
Dozens killed after bus catches fire in China
Rival Koreas agree to meet at border truce village
Obama calls for 'new model' at China summit
Cyber disputes loom large as Obama meets China's Xi
Cyber disputes loom large as Obama meets China's Xi
Sudan police use teargas to break up protest
First Ladies Won't Meet at U.S.-China Summit
Architect Fights to Save His Vision for Church
China bus fire kills 47, probed as criminal case
U.N. says it can't accept Russia's offer of Golan troops
Shining Path Maoist leader gets life in Peru
China bus fire kills 47, probed as criminal case
Social Media and the Startup - How much is too much?

Koreas agree to meeting in bid to ease tensions

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 10:05 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea will meet Sunday at a village straddling their heavily armed border as the sides try to lower tension and restore projects once seen as symbols of their rapprochement, officials said.

Police: Suspect identified for China bus fire

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 09:04 PM PDT

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police said Saturday that they had identified a suspect who might be responsible for the fire that gutted a commuter bus, killing 47 and injuring dozens more during rush hour in a port city in southeastern China.

Analysis: U.S. domestic spying controversy complicates cybersecurity efforts

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 09:09 PM PDT

By Andrea Shalal-Esa and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Obama administration's cybersecurity agenda, which includes expanding the military's Cyber Command and beefing up protection for critical infrastructure, faces more intense scrutiny after two vast domestic surveillance programs were exposed this week. Civil liberties groups say the revelations give new life to several privacy lawsuits against the National Security Agency, which hit the headlines twice in two days for secretly monitoring Americans' phone records and internet activity. ...

Obama, Xi agree to work together on cybersecurity

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 09:04 PM PDT

RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed on Friday on the need to work together to resolve disputes on cybersecurity, a topic that has become a major irritant in relations between Washington and Beijing. Obama, speaking after the first in a series of meetings with Xi in sun-baked southern California, said he and Xi had recognized it was necessary to establish a set of common rules on the thorny issue. ...

Southern California Edison To Shut Down San Onofre Nuclear Plant

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 09:01 PM PDT

Southern California Edison has decided to shut down Units 2 and 3 of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

World Digest: June 7, 2013

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 08:35 PM PDT

Suicide attackers rammed car bombs on Friday into a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims and a police checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing 19 people in all, in the latest bout of violence to shake Iraq.

The attacks follow the deadliest two months in the country in half a decade, raising fears that it is descending into a new wave of widespread killing.

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VIDEO: Ohio 'kidnapper' facing 329 charges

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 08:02 PM PDT

A man accused of imprisoning three women for about a decade in his home in Cleveland, Ohio, has been indicted by a grand jury for rape and kidnapping.

Dozens killed after bus catches fire in China

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 07:58 PM PDT

Police say they are investigating the fire as a 'serious criminal case' after 48 people died in Xiamen.

Rival Koreas agree to meet at border truce village

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 07:36 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea have agreed to hold their first meeting in recent years at a truce village straddling their heavily armed border.

Obama calls for 'new model' at China summit

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 07:38 PM PDT

US president and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledge to look for a new way of co-operation on a slew of disputes.

Cyber disputes loom large as Obama meets China's Xi

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 07:58 PM PDT

By Steve Holland, Matt Spetalnick and John Ruwitch RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that the United States welcomes China's "peaceful rise" and seeks a world order where all countries play by the same rules on thorny issues like cybersecurity. At the start of a two-day summit at a luxurious desert estate in southern California, Obama said the world's two biggest economies must strike a balance between competition and cooperation to overcome the challenges that divide them. ...

Cyber disputes loom large as Obama meets China's Xi

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 09:04 PM PDT

RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that the United States welcomes China's "peaceful rise" and seeks a world order where all countries play by the same rules on thorny issues like cybersecurity.

Sudan police use teargas to break up protest

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 07:23 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese police used teargas to break up an anti-government protest in the capital Khartoum on Friday, witnesses said.

First Ladies Won't Meet at U.S.-China Summit

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 06:22 PM PDT

As the leaders of the world's two most powerful countries prepared to meet in California on Friday to grapple with a host of vexing issues, their better halves were making other plans.

Architect Fights to Save His Vision for Church

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 09:41 PM PDT

Although Manuel Núñez-Yanowsky had won an international contest for the Russian Orthodox church, the Kremlin said it would turn to a rival French architect for a new plan.

China bus fire kills 47, probed as criminal case

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 06:56 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - A fire on a bus in southeastern China has killed 47 people and is being investigated as a "serious criminal case", state media said on Saturday, just days after 120 people died in a fire at a poultry plant. The bus caught fire during rush hour on Friday as it was operating on elevated tracks in the coastal city of Xiamen, the official Xinhua news agency reported, without elaborating on the cause. The case in southeastern China has initially been identified as a "serious criminal case" and further investigations are under way, the report said. ...

U.N. says it can't accept Russia's offer of Golan troops

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 07:00 PM PDT

By Louis Charbonneau and Alissa de Carbonnel UNITED NATIONS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Friday it could not accept Russia's offer to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights because an agreement between Israel and Syria bars permanent members of the Security Council from the U.N. observer mission. The United Nations expressed appreciation for the Russian offer, made on Friday by President Vladimir Putin after Austria said it would recall its troops from a U.N. monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria. ...

Shining Path Maoist leader gets life in Peru

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 06:53 PM PDT

Court sentenced Florencio Flores Hala, on of the last leaders of the guerrillas to life in prison on various charges.

China bus fire kills 47, probed as criminal case

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 10:52 PM PDT