Bahrain: Alleged terror cell tied to Iran, allies

Bahrain: Alleged terror cell tied to Iran, allies


Bahrain: Alleged terror cell tied to Iran, allies

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:39 PM PST

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain's interior minister says police have arrested eight members of an alleged terrorist cell linked to Iran and other countries following widespread clashes in the Gulf nation during protests marking the second anniversary of an Arab Spring-inspired uprising.

Karzai to limit foreign air strike assistance

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:22 PM PST

Afghan president says he will issue a decree on Sunday preventing any resort to such measures by his forces.

USGS reports 5.0 quake 34 miles southwest of Kalamata, Greece

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:15 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Geological survey said on Sunday a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck in the Mediterranean 34 miles southwest of Kalamata, Greece at 07:42 a.m. (0542 GMT).

Ecuador votes for president, Correa seen winning new term

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 09:30 PM PST

Ecuador's President Correa addresses supporters during his final closing political rally in QuitoQUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadoreans vote for president on Sunday in a ballot expected to hand incumbent Rafael Correa a new term to advance his socialist agenda of heavy government spending and expansion of state power that critics slam as creeping authoritarianism. Generous state outlays to expand access to healthcare, pave decrepit roads and build new schools have given the combative economist a strong base among the South American nation's poor. ...


Bomb kills 64 in Pakistan's Quetta

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:05 PM PST

Smoke rises after a bomb attack in a Shi'ite Muslim area of the Pakistani city of QuettaQUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Sixty-four people including school children died on Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority, police said. A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni group, claimed responsibility for the bomb in Quetta, which caused casualties in the town's main bazaar, a school and a computer center. Police said most of the victims were Shi'ites. Burned school bags and books were strewn around. ...


Cyprus goes to polls to elect president to seal bailout deal

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 09:58 PM PST

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriots went to the polls on Sunday to elect a president who will have to take responsibility for negotiating a financial rescue to save the small island nation from a bankruptcy that would reignite the euro zone debt crisis. Cyprus' worst economic crisis in four decades has blown away the island's divided status as the main issue in this year's elections, which conservative leader Nicos Anastasiades is tipped to win. ...

Bomb kills 64 in Pakistan's Quetta

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:05 PM PST

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Sixty-four people including school children died on Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority, police said.

Cyprus goes to polls to elect president to seal bailout deal

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 09:58 PM PST

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriots went to the polls on Sunday to elect a president who will have to take responsibility for negotiating a financial rescue to save the small island nation from a bankruptcy that would reignite the euro zone debt crisis.

Death toll in Pakistani bombing climbs to 81

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:34 PM PST

Smoke rises from the site of a bomb blast in a market in Quetta, Pakistan on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. Senior police officer Wazir Khan Nasir said the bomb went off in a Shiite Muslim-dominated residential suburb of the city of Quetta. Residents rushed the victims to three different hospitals.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from a horrific bombing that tore through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of southwestern Pakistan climbed to 81 with many of the severely wounded dying overnight, a Pakistani police official said Sunday.


Ecuador votes for president, Correa seen winning new term

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 09:31 PM PST

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadoreans vote for president on Sunday in a ballot expected to hand incumbent Rafael Correa a new term to advance his socialist agenda of heavy government spending and expansion of state power that critics slam as creeping authoritarianism.

Report: Bill would set an 8-year path to residency

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 08:40 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about immigration at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 by USA Today. President Barack Obama's bill would create a "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday by USA Today.


Five Take-Aways From Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's Surprising New Book

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 08:30 PM PST

John Mackey, co-author of the imperfect but stimulating new book, Conscious Capitalism, has a fascinating story.  As in, you might not expect an impassioned, full-throated defense of the free market to come from a guy who (as he describes it) grew up in "the counterculture movement of the late 1960s and 1970s," studied "Eastern philosophy and religion," lived in "an urban co-op/commune," was "a member of three separate food-co-ops" because he believed "the co-op movement was the best way to reform capitalism because it was based on cooperation instead of competition," and initially "embraced the ideology that corporations were essentially evil."

Mexico's Pemex evacuates hospital unit after short circuit

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 08:26 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's state-owned Pemex oil monopoly evacuated a unit of its Cadereyta hospital in the eastern state of Nuevo Leon after a short circuit in ceiling wiring produced smoke, the company said on Saturday night, adding there were no injuries. The incident "was controlled without major damage," Pemex said in a tweet. In a statement shortly afterward, the company said the short circuit occurred just before 7 p.m. local time and firefighters evacuated 10 patients and 36 hospital workers. ...

Mexico's Pemex evacuates hospital unit after short circuit

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 08:27 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's state-owned Pemex oil monopoly evacuated a unit of its Cadereyta hospital in the eastern state of Nuevo Leon after a short circuit in ceiling wiring produced smoke, the company said on Saturday night, adding there were no injuries.

Vatican considers early papal conclave

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 07:20 PM PST

Catholic Church raises possibility of pushing forward date to elect new pontiff to replace outgoing Pope Benedict XVI.

Jedi Souls: The Best 'Star Wars' Game That Doesn't Actually Exist

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 07:18 PM PST

Lightsabers, Dark Souls style melee combat...praise the sun and use the Force, because you won't live long or prosper.

The Ultimate Spring Car Guide

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 07:04 PM PST

5 Questions To Get You Car-Ready For Spring

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 07:04 PM PST

Snow is still falling in many parts of the country, but we're just two weeks away from Daylight Savings Time, and spring won't be that long in coming after that.

Ecuador prepares for presidential vote

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 06:54 PM PST

Polling stations set to open in election that incumbent president Rafael Correa is widely expected to win.

Islamist militia edging back into Benghazi

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 05:22 PM PST

BENGHAZI, Libya — After the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission last fall that left the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans dead, the Islamist militia widely accused of leading the assault all but disappeared amid a popular backlash.

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Vast Throng in Bangladesh Protests Killing of Activist

Vast Throng in Bangladesh Protests Killing of Activist


Vast Throng in Bangladesh Protests Killing of Activist

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 12:06 PM PST

An organizer's death reignited demonstrations demanding the death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in the nation's 1971 independence fight.

Four convicted for L'Aquila quake

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 01:02 PM PST

An Italian court convicts four people over the collapse of a university hall of residence during the deadly earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009.

Oldham 2-2 Everton

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 12:17 PM PST

Oldham striker Matt Smith repeats his FA Cup heroics with an injury-time equaliser to force a replay with Everton.

Gunmen shoot Sri Lanka investigative journalist

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 12:37 PM PST

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen shot and seriously wounded a Sri Lankan investigative journalist, colleagues and officials said on Saturday, prompting condemnation from the United Nations' top human rights official.

Singaporeans protest over population plan

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST

Thousands in tightly controlled city-state stage rare mass rally against proposal to increase population by 30 percent.

Winter Sports Roundup: Shiffrin, 17, Becomes World Champion in Slalom

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:58 AM PST

The American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin became the youngest women's slalom world champion in 39 years on Saturday.

Militants Infiltrate Towns in Freed Areas of Mali

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 09:16 AM PST

Militant forces that once controlled major towns appear to have taken refuge in smaller villages nearby.

Some Chinese Are Souring on Being North Korea’s Best Friend

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:42 AM PST

The sense of fraternity appears to be souring as ordinary people express anxiety about possible fallout from North Korea's nuclear test last Tuesday.

U.N. says delayed Congo peace deal due to be signed February 24

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 12:07 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A delayed U.N.-mediated peace deal aimed at ending two decades of conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is due to be signed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on February 24, the United Nations said on Saturday.

Vast Throng in Bangladesh Protests Killing of Activist

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 12:06 PM PST

An organizer's death reignited demonstrations demanding the death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in the nation's 1971 independence fight.

Greek anti-bailout leftists regain opinion poll lead

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:36 AM PST

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's leftist opposition party has regained a narrow lead over the ruling conservatives, two opinion polls published on Saturday said.

VIDEO: Singapore rally over foreign workers

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:41 AM PST

Singaporeans have been staging a rare political demonstration to protest against the surging number of foreign workers in the island state.

Singaporeans protest over population plan

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST

Thousands in tightly controlled city-state stage rare mass rally against proposal to increase population by 30 percent.

After the meteor, some in Chelyabinsk prepare to clean up

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:13 AM PST

MOSCOW — The big blast from outer space was still reverberating in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Saturday, as glaziers went to work replacing windows, divers vainly sought meteorite fragments at the bottom of a lake, doctors tended the wounded, residents found new ways to doubt the authorities and seemingly everyone looked expectantly to Moscow for the flood of cash that rolls in on the heels of catastrophe.

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Arsenal 0-1 Blackburn

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 09:34 AM PST

Colin Kazim-Richards's goal stuns Arsenal as Blackburn Rovers knock out the Gunners in the FA Cup fifth round.

Pakistan party vows to quit ruling coalition as polls loom

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 10:30 AM PST

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) threatened to quit the ruling coalition on Saturday, piling fresh pressure on President Asif Ali Zardari ahead of elections due this spring.

Julian Newman’s Age and Size Stand Out, but So Does His Talent

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 09:27 AM PST

The wild contrast of the 11-year-old point guard Julian Newman's stature on the court with his varsity teammates has brought global attention.

Russians Seek Clues and Count Blessings After Meteor Blast

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 09:25 AM PST

As the government pursued the scientific mysteries of Friday's exploding meteor, residents reacted to their survival with giddy relief and humor.

Deadly blast hits Mogadishu eatery

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 11:12 AM PST

Car bomb outside restaurant frequented by officials kills at least one patron and leaves two wounded in Somali capital.

Explosion in Crowded Market Kills Dozens in Pakistan

Posted: 16 Feb 2013 09:19 AM PST

The bombing in Quetta occurred in an area dominated by a Shiite ethnic minority that has suffered many attacks at the hands of Sunni militants.