Afghan police: Suicide bomber misses NATO, kills 5

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• Afghan police: Suicide bomber misses NATO, kills 5
• VIDEO: Economic concerns in Belgium
• Australia warns citizens to leave Benghazi
• State spending fuels Correa's re-election bid in Ecuador
• Murder in Pakistan sparks anger at country's elite
• Chile aims to focus summit on its brighter side
• Mexico's legal soul search after Frenchwoman freed
• New Artisanal Rum - For Australia Day?
• Kirk Strawser, Head Of Wipro's Consulting Business, Dies
• State spending fuels Correa's re-election bid in Ecuador
• Greek riot police break up striking subway workers' sit-in
• Pharma's Digital Health Strategy: Four Options
• Trial of China's Bo Xilai opens next week, says Beijing-backed paper
• Greek riot police break up striking subway workers' sit-in
• Japan envoy says territory disputes with China can be resolved
• Trial of China's Bo Xilai opens next week, says Beijing-backed paper
• International adoptions by U.S. parents fall again in 2012
• Greek police storm metro depot to end strike
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• Japan envoy says territory disputes with China can be resolved

Afghan police: Suicide bomber misses NATO, kills 5 Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:53 PM PST KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan police say a suicide car bomber has killed five civilians and wounded another 25 in a botched attempt to hit a convoy of NATO supply trucks in eastern Afghanistan.

VIDEO: Economic concerns in Belgium Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:45 PM PST While senior officials are confident that Europe is emerging from its economic crisis, in Belgium it's predicted that 2013 will be a year of stagnation.

Australia warns citizens to leave Benghazi Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:39 PM PST Nation joins UK, Germany and Netherlands in warning citizens of "imminent threat" in Libyan city due to Mali conflict.

State spending fuels Correa's re-election bid in Ecuador Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:08 PM PST ZUMBAHUA, Ecuador (Reuters) - Once a forgotten cluster of mud houses amid windswept peaks, the Ecuadorean village of Zumbahua today boasts a state-of-the-art schoolhouse with large projection touch screens, Internet access in every classroom and lessons in three languages. Indigenous Kichwa Indians who once stuffed savings under their mattresses now have a bank in town and a free Internet cafe - all paid for by the state. The treacherous muddy road to the village is being widened and paved, and residents are particularly proud of their local school. "Education has improved dramatically ... ...

Murder in Pakistan sparks anger at country's elite Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:43 PM PST KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — More than 2,000 people were murdered in Pakistan's largest city last year, but the shooting death of 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan in one of Karachi's most upscale neighborhoods sparked an unusual outcry and highlighted a growing trend of citizens using social media to hold the country's rich and powerful to account.

Chile aims to focus summit on its brighter side Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:38 PM PST SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering for this weekend's economic summit will likely see only one side of Chile — the polished, upscale country where tourists and investors stay in five-star hotels in a sparklingly clean financial district nicknamed "Sanhattan," well away from Santiago's slums.

Mexico's legal soul search after Frenchwoman freed Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:25 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans are engaged in national soul searching over their country's flawed justice system as newly freed Florence Cassez, earlier convicted of and sentenced for being part of a kidnapping ring, makes the celebrity circuit in her native France.

New Artisanal Rum - For Australia Day? Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:29 PM PST When I think Australia and alcohol in the same sentence, I instantly think of wine.

Kirk Strawser, Head Of Wipro's Consulting Business, Dies Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:22 PM PST Kirk Strawser, managing partner of Wipro Consulting Services, the business consulting arm of  Indian tech giant Wipro controlled by billionaire Azim Premji, has died in the US after a brief illness, the company confirmed Wednesday. He was 58.

State spending fuels Correa's re-election bid in Ecuador Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:30 PM PST ZUMBAHUA, Ecuador (Reuters) - Once a forgotten cluster of mud houses amid windswept peaks, the Ecuadorean village of Zumbahua today boasts a state-of-the-art schoolhouse with large projection touch screens, Internet access in every classroom and lessons in three languages.

Greek riot police break up striking subway workers' sit-in Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:44 PM PST ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek riot police stormed a subway train depot in Athens early on Friday to disperse striking subway staff who defied a government order to return to work for a ninth consecutive day, a police official said. Scuffles broke out when police forced their way through a metal gate shortly after 4 a.m. (0200 GMT) and detained at least 10 workers, the official said on condition of anonymity. One woman was taken to hospital with light injuries, he added. ...

Pharma's Digital Health Strategy: Four Options Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:15 PM PST As pharma companies confront the digital health wave and contemplate their digital health strategy, I see four high-level options:

Trial of China's Bo Xilai opens next week, says Beijing-backed paper Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:32 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - China's disgraced former senior politician, Bo Xilai, will go on trial next week, a Beijing-backed Hong Kong newspaper said on Friday, in what would be the final act of a drama that has shaken the ruling Communist Party.

Greek riot police break up striking subway workers' sit-in Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:44 PM PST ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek riot police stormed a subway train depot in Athens early on Friday to disperse striking subway staff who defied a government order to return to work for a ninth consecutive day, a police official said.

Japan envoy says territory disputes with China can be resolved Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:16 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan believes tensions with China fanned by a dispute over a group of uninhabited islands can be resolved, a special envoy from Tokyo said on Friday after meeting China's president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping. Natsuo Yamaguchi, head of New Komeito, the junior partner in Japan's ruling coalition, said Japan will take a broad view in dialogue with Beijing to resolve the dispute between the world's second- and third-largest economies, which has escalated in recent weeks. ...

Trial of China's Bo Xilai opens next week, says Beijing-backed paper Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:32 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - China's disgraced former senior politician, Bo Xilai, will go on trial next week, a Beijing-backed Hong Kong newspaper said on Friday, in what would be the final act of a drama that has shaken the ruling Communist Party. Bo, once a contender for top leadership in the world's second-largest economy, was ousted in China's biggest political scandal in two decades last year following his wife's murder of a British businessman, Neil Heywood. ...

International adoptions by U.S. parents fall again in 2012 Posted: 24 Jan 2013 08:50 PM PST (Reuters) - The number of children adopted internationally by American parents fell 7 percent last year, continuing a multi-year decline brought on in part by tightened adoption rules, a U.S. State Department report showed on Thursday. Some 8,668 children were adopted into U.S. families from abroad in the 2012 fiscal year, down from 9,320 the previous year, with more children coming from China than from any other country, the report said. "This is a continuation of a trend," said Adam Pertman, executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and the author of "Adoption Nation. ...

Greek police storm metro depot to end strike Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:09 PM PST ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek riot police stormed the Athens subway train depot early Friday to enforce a government emergency order forcing striking metro workers back to work in an escalating standoff over new austerity measures.

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Japan envoy says territory disputes with China can be resolved Posted: 24 Jan 2013 11:03 PM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan believes tensions with China fanned by a dispute over a group of uninhabited islands can be resolved, a special envoy from Tokyo said on Friday after meeting China's president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping.

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DC police 'lax' on sexual crime

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• DC police 'lax' on sexual crime
• Israeli voters force Netanyahu to seek centrist partner
• Eat: Surf and Turf Revisited
• Chicago ice building fire resumes
• Viewpoint: Canada no stranger to al-Qaeda
• Taiwan enters fray in China, Japan sea spat
• Africa gets 'female billionaire'
• U.N. to consider validity of China's claim over disputed islands
• The five stages of North Korean provocation
• The N.T.S.B. Sees Lengthy Inquiry Into 787 Dreamliner
• Israel's man of the 'future'
• 'We've been oppressed long enough'
• Mexico: Release French woman
• 3 Canadians aboard plane missing in Antarctica
• Bipartisan Filibuster Deal Is Reached in the Senate
• Canadian police in Algeria to investigate gas plant attack
• Italian prosecutors investigate Concordia owner over shipwreck
• Berezovsky battles in court with ex-partner over assets
• Spain newspaper sorry for "false photo" of Chavez
• Pentagon to move ‘expeditiously’ to lift ban on women in combat roles

DC police 'lax' on sexual crime Posted: 24 Jan 2013 01:50 PM PST Human Rights Watch accuses Washington DC police of neglecting sexual assault complaints, in a report swiftly rejected by the department.

Israeli voters force Netanyahu to seek centrist partner Posted: 24 Jan 2013 01:34 PM PST JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's next government must heed voters and devote itself to bread-and-butter issues, not foreign policy problems such as Iran's nuclear plans and the Palestinian conflict, senior politicians said on Thursday.

Eat: Surf and Turf Revisited Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:33 AM PST Chicken and clams, oysters and sausage, mussels and chorizo — who says you need to stick to steak and lobster?

Chicago ice building fire resumes Posted: 24 Jan 2013 01:19 PM PST A warehouse in the US city of Chicago which was engulfed in ice after firefighters extinguished a blaze there on Wednesday is again on fire.

Viewpoint: Canada no stranger to al-Qaeda Posted: 24 Jan 2013 09:19 AM PST Viewpoint on grappling with al Qaeda-inspired militants

Taiwan enters fray in China, Japan sea spat Posted: 24 Jan 2013 01:07 PM PST Taiwan, which is seen by China as a breakaway province, claims disputed islands are within its territory.

Africa gets 'female billionaire' Posted: 24 Jan 2013 10:09 AM PST Isabel dos Santos, the eldest daughter of Angola's president, has become Africa's first female billionaire, US financial magazine Forbes says.

U.N. to consider validity of China's claim over disputed islands Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:58 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations is planning to consider later this year the scientific validity of a claim by China that a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea are part of its territory, although Japan says the world body should not be involved.

The five stages of North Korean provocation Posted: 24 Jan 2013 01:02 PM PST North Korea announced late on Wednesday night, U.S. east coast time, that it may carry out a nuclear test in retaliation for new international sanctions. Those sanctions were themselves punishment for Pyongyang's December launch of a long-range rocket. The rocket launch was seen as new leader Kim Jong Eun's way of cementing his rule by flaunting the weapons program for which the world has so isolated his country, including by way of sanctions. Read full article >>

The N.T.S.B. Sees Lengthy Inquiry Into 787 Dreamliner Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:49 PM PST The National Transportation Safety Board indicated that an investigation into the failure of lithium-ion batteries aboard two Boeing 787 planes is still far from determining a cause.

Israel's man of the 'future' Posted: 24 Jan 2013 05:26 AM PST Yair Lapid, the charismatic journalist-turned-politician who surprisingly vaulted to second place in Israel's national election, has long been a familiar face across the Jewish state.

'We've been oppressed long enough' Posted: 24 Jan 2013 07:42 AM PST CNN's Arwa Damon first met Syrian activist Abu Omar 12 months ago when he helped smuggle her into his Damascus suburb. A year on, the neighborhood is a bloody battleground and he is on the front line.

Mexico: Release French woman Posted: 24 Jan 2013 08:49 AM PST Mexico's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of a Frenchwoman who had been sentenced to 60 years in prison for her alleged role in a kidnapping ring.

3 Canadians aboard plane missing in Antarctica Posted: 24 Jan 2013 05:25 AM PST A plane carrying three Canadians across Antarctica is unaccounted for, and inclement weather is impeding the search for the aircraft, New Zealand officials said.

Bipartisan Filibuster Deal Is Reached in the Senate Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:26 PM PST Lawmakers and aides said the new rules would end the use of a tactic that forces the majority party to marshal 60 votes to bring a bill to the floor.

Canadian police in Algeria to investigate gas plant attack Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:48 PM PST OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian police are in Algeria looking for evidence that Canadian citizens were involved in last week's attack and hostage-taking at a desert gas plant, a government official said on Thursday.

Italian prosecutors investigate Concordia owner over shipwreck Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:33 PM PST ROME (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors investigating last year's Costa Concordia shipwreck in which 32 people died are looking into the vessel owner's potential responsibility as an employer, the company said on Thursday.

Berezovsky battles in court with ex-partner over assets Posted: 24 Jan 2013 12:05 PM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky's ex-partner, with whom he has two children, is pursuing him in court for a share of his assets, adding to financial pressures on him months after he lost a $6 billion dispute with rival Roman Abramovich.

Spain newspaper sorry for "false photo" of Chavez Posted: 24 Jan 2013 11:48 AM PST MADRID/CARACAS (Reuters) - Spain's influential El Pais newspaper apologized on Thursday for publishing a "false photo" of cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, removed the image from its website and withdrew its print edition.

Pentagon to move ‘expeditiously’ to lift ban on women in combat roles Posted: 24 Jan 2013 11:54 AM PST The Pentagon will move "expeditiously" to integrate women into the military's combat units, Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta vowed Thursday, arguing that the inclusion of female troops would make the country and its fighting force stronger. Read full article >>

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