Japan follows allies, adds Iran bank to sanctions list

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• Japan follows allies, adds Iran bank to sanctions list
• Exclusive: France's Le Pen clears hurdle to stand in election
• Apple: Jefferies Ups Target; Sees Evidence TV Is Coming
• Malaysia, Cronyism, And The Art Of The 'Good Resignation'
• Japan follows allies, adds Iran bank to sanctions list
• Scores missing in Bangladesh ferry accident
• Inside China's secret 'black jails'
• Congratulations! You Just Made Rush Limbaugh Sympathetic!
• Over 150 passengers missing as ferry sinks in Bangladesh
• Guatemala sentences soldier to 6,060 years for massacre
• Students protest US soldier who killed Afghans
• Egypt: Cease-fire between Israel, Gaza militants
• Guatemalan gets 6,060-year sentence in massacre
• Dozens missing in Bangladesh ferry accident
• NGO urges probe of Honduras journalist killings
• Tibetan teen self-immolates on revolt anniversary
• Police: Belgian mosque attacked, imam dies
• Obama, Cameron to focus on foreign threats
• Guatemala sentences soldier to 6,060 years for massacre
• Over 150 passengers missing as ferry sinks in Bangladesh

Japan follows allies, adds Iran bank to sanctions list Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:59 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday placed Iran's third-largest bank on a blacklist for allegedly having helped Tehran develop its nuclear programme, following up on similar moves by the United States and the European Union announced in January. The addition of state-owned Bank Tejarat takes to 21 the number of Iranian banks with which Japan has suspended its correspondent banking ties, the government said in a statement. ...

Exclusive: France's Le Pen clears hurdle to stand in election Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:17 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has obtained the backing of 500 elected officials required to be a candidate in the April-May presidential election, she told Reuters on Tuesday, clearing a hurdle days before Friday's filing deadline.

Apple: Jefferies Ups Target; Sees Evidence TV Is Coming Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:12 AM PDT Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek late Monday reiterated his Buy rating on Apple shares, while boosting his target on the stock to $699 from $599. He also lifted his calendar 2012 estimate on iPhone unit sales to 155 million from 145 million. For calendar Q1, he now sees iPhone sales of 33.2 million units, ...

Malaysia, Cronyism, And The Art Of The 'Good Resignation' Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:20 PM PDT ? If politics is the art of the possible, graceful exits are the art of the impossible. It?s very hard to resign from public office under a cloud of suspicion and come up smelling of roses. But timing does matter.??In the foul-mouthed BBC comedy ?The Thick Of It?, a satire on New Labour, a bullying ...

Japan follows allies, adds Iran bank to sanctions list Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:59 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday placed Iran's third-largest bank on a blacklist for allegedly having helped Tehran develop its nuclear programme, following up on similar moves by the United States and the European Union announced in January.

Scores missing in Bangladesh ferry accident Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:15 PM PDT Police say at least 150 people are missing after a ferry sunk in the Meghna River, southeast of the capital.

Inside China's secret 'black jails' Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:29 PM PDT Relatives seek answers about "kidnapped" family members, as China moves to grant more legal rights to detainees.

Congratulations! You Just Made Rush Limbaugh Sympathetic! Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:05 PM PDT Imagine this scenario: you are a lifelong liberal. You pretty much hate everything stands for, and says. You are really glad that the times have finally seemed to have caught up to him, and that people are outraged by his callous, gross comments. So what do you do next? You do the one thing that ...

Over 150 passengers missing as ferry sinks in Bangladesh Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:19 PM PDT DHAKA (Reuters) - A ferry carrying more than 250 passengers sank in a south Bangladesh river on Tuesday after colliding with a barge, and at least 150 people are still missing, police and witnesses said. The accident occurred on the Meghna river in Munshiganj district, some 50 km (31 miles) south of the capital. Mohammad Azizul Alam, deputy commissioner for the district, said the Dhaka-bound ferry, the MV Shariatpur-1, was hit by the oil-laden barge early in the morning. ...

Guatemala sentences soldier to 6,060 years for massacre Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:50 PM PDT GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan court sentenced a former special forces soldier to 6,060 years in prison on Monday for participating in a 1982 massacre that claimed 201 lives. Pedro Pimentel, 55, was deported from Los Angeles, California to Guatemala last year to face charges of murder and crimes against humanity and is the fifth soldier to be sentenced in the Central American nation for his role in the Las Dos Erres massacre at the height of the country's brutal civil war. ...

Students protest US soldier who killed Afghans Posted: 12 Mar 2012 11:16 PM PDT Hundreds of students in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday shouted angry slogans against the United States and the American soldier who killed 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting spree, the first significant protest in response to the tragedy.

Egypt: Cease-fire between Israel, Gaza militants Posted: 12 Mar 2012 06:18 PM PDT Egypt has mediated a cease-fire between Palestinian militant factions and Israel after four days of violence, an Egyptian security official said.

Guatemalan gets 6,060-year sentence in massacre Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:08 PM PDT A former member of an elite Guatemalan military force extradited from the United States last July was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison Monday for his role in the killings of 201 people in a 1982 massacre.

Dozens missing in Bangladesh ferry accident Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:24 PM PDT A ferry packed with about 200 people capsized in a river in southern Bangladesh early Tuesday and authorities said dozens of people were missing.

NGO urges probe of Honduras journalist killings Posted: 12 Mar 2012 07:25 PM PDT Press groups on Monday called for an international investigation into attacks on journalists in Honduras after a radio host was killed by machete blows, bringing to 19 the number of media employees slain over the past two years.

Tibetan teen self-immolates on revolt anniversary Posted: 12 Mar 2012 07:05 PM PDT A teenage Tibetan monk set himself on fire in protest on the 53rd anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, an overseas activist group said Tuesday.

Police: Belgian mosque attacked, imam dies Posted: 12 Mar 2012 06:47 PM PDT A mosque near Brussels was the target Monday evening of an arson attack in which the imam died, Belgian authorities said late Monday.

Obama, Cameron to focus on foreign threats Posted: 12 Mar 2012 05:06 PM PDT Efforts to end the international mission in Afghanistan, curtail Iran's nuclear ambitions and halt the bloody repression of Syria's opposition will dominate talks opening Tuesday between U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Guatemala sentences soldier to 6,060 years for massacre Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:50 PM PDT GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan court sentenced a former special forces soldier to 6,060 years in prison on Monday for participating in a 1982 massacre that claimed 201 lives.

Over 150 passengers missing as ferry sinks in Bangladesh Posted: 12 Mar 2012 10:19 PM PDT DHAKA (Reuters) - A ferry carrying more than 250 passengers sank in a south Bangladesh river on Tuesday after colliding with a barge, and at least 150 people are still missing, police and witnesses said.

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