A shooting in Taksim still echoes for protesters |
- A shooting in Taksim still echoes for protesters
- Snowden’s U.S. hacking claim captures Chinese attention
- Brazilian indigenous man shot dead
- Mandela's health improving but condition still 'serious'
- Tunisia rapper jailed over song
- Obama considers Syria moves, Assad turns guns on north
- White House Pushes Back on Bill Clinton’s Syria Remarks
- Movie Review: ‘Man of Steel’ Depicts a Striving Stranger in a Strange Land
- Erdogan to meet park protesters
- Tunisian rapper in court to hear sentence for insulting police
- Hillary Clinton Steps Onto a Stage Again
- Matter: In Glittering Gems, Reading Earth’s Story
- Politicians unite over data powers
- Tehran calm on eve of presidential election as Iranians weigh whether to vote
- North Korea seeking to deepen ties with far-away Uganda
- A Lifeline for No-Longer-Illegal Immigrants
- Medieval leprosy skeletons sequenced
- Lebanese Hezbollah suspects to sue Nigerian government
- BBC condemns Iran over 'harassment'
- Yahoo mulls ads based on influence
| A shooting in Taksim still echoes for protesters Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:53 AM PDT It's not clear how he let himself stray so far from his fellow riot police, but when he looked up from the protester he was kicking and saw the crowd of Istanbul protesters closing in, the lone policeman appeared to panic. The video, now infamous in Turkey, shows him reach for his pistol and fire into the air three times over the crowd, apparently to scare them off. But by the third shot, his arm had dropped, and one of the protesters collapsed. Read full article >>
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| Snowden’s U.S. hacking claim captures Chinese attention Posted: 13 Jun 2013 06:14 AM PDT HONG KONG —For days the reaction in mainland China to the presence in this city of Edward Snowden, who has confessed to leaking information about secret U.S. surveillance programs, was almost total indifference. Now, with his claim that the U.S. government has been hacking Chinese institutions for years, he has the country's attention. Read full article >>
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| Brazilian indigenous man shot dead Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:36 PM PDT A man from the Guarani-Kaiowa ethnic group is shot dead in an area disputed by cattle ranchers near an indigenous reserve in western Brazil. | |
| Mandela's health improving but condition still 'serious' Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:38 PM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela continues to recover from a lung infection but his condition remains serious, the South African government said on Thursday.        | |
| Tunisia rapper jailed over song Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:11 PM PDT Tunisian rapper Ala Yaacoub, known as Weld El 15, is sentenced to two years for insulting and threatening police, as clashes take place outside court. | |
| Obama considers Syria moves, Assad turns guns on north Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:24 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is deciding whether to take new action to help Syria's rebels, the White House said on Thursday, while President Bashar al-Assad's surging forces and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies turned their guns on the north.     | |
| White House Pushes Back on Bill Clinton’s Syria Remarks Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:42 AM PDT After former President Bill Clinton endorsed a more robust American intervention in Syria, the White House said it would not act to "satisfy critics." 
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| Movie Review: ‘Man of Steel’ Depicts a Striving Stranger in a Strange Land Posted: 13 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT "Man of Steel" weaves the Superman story into the fabric of 20th-century America and surrounds it with epic-scale cosmic effects. 
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| Erdogan to meet park protesters Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:48 AM PDT Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to meet a group of protesters, having given them a "final warning" to leave Istanbul's Gezi Park. | |
| Tunisian rapper in court to hear sentence for insulting police Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:44 AM PDT TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian rapper who was sentenced to two years in jail in absentia in March for insulting the police was handed the same punishment on Thursday after he surrendered to the authorities.     | |
| Hillary Clinton Steps Onto a Stage Again Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:12 AM PDT In a speech for her husband's foundation in Chicago, the former first lady and secretary of state made remarks suited to a domestic policy debate. 
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| Matter: In Glittering Gems, Reading Earth’s Story Posted: 13 Jun 2013 05:00 AM PDT Because gems are formed when molecules interact in extreme physical circumstances, the presence of gems like rubies and jade indicates past tectonic activity. 
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| Politicians unite over data powers Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:33 AM PDT Former home secretaries issue a letter, seen by BBC Newsnight, calling for UK security services to be given greater internet monitoring powers. | |
| Tehran calm on eve of presidential election as Iranians weigh whether to vote Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:01 AM PDT TEHRAN — Official campaigning for Friday's presidential election ended here Wednesday night, with small but spirited rallies by supporters of the six remaining candidates. The street scenes in the capital were just a shadow of the massive rallies leading up to the 2009 presidential election, in which hundreds of thousands of Tehran residents participated, but they also served as a reminder of the bitterness and deadly violence of the protests that followed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contested reelection. Read full article >>
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| North Korea seeking to deepen ties with far-away Uganda Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:49 AM PDT North Korean officials visiting Uganda have signed deals to provide police training, security hardware such as tear gas and even housing construction, according to a report by the independent news site NKNews. Although North Korea has sold martial arts training to the Ugandan police since 1988, this deal seems to mark a new level of cooperation and a rare diplomatic success for Pyongyang. Read full article >>
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| A Lifeline for No-Longer-Illegal Immigrants Posted: 13 Jun 2013 06:37 AM PDT A program that lifted the threat of deportation for young people offers insights on efforts toward a broader overhaul. 
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| Medieval leprosy skeletons sequenced Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:10 AM PDT The genetic code of leprosy-causing bacteria from 1,000-year-old skeletons has been laid bare, showing the bug has hardly changed over the past millennium. | |
| Lebanese Hezbollah suspects to sue Nigerian government Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:01 AM PDT ABUJA (Reuters) - Four Lebanese men suspected of having links to Islamist militant group Hezbollah are seeking 1 billion naira ($6.2 million) in compensation from the Nigerian government for unlawful incarceration, their lawyer said on Thursday.     | |
| BBC condemns Iran over 'harassment' Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:59 AM PDT The BBC condemns "unprecedented levels of intimidation" of BBC employees' families by Iran ahead of its Friday's presidential elections. | |
| Yahoo mulls ads based on influence Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:14 AM PDT Yahoo files a patent suggesting it could charge marketers different rates according to the social influence score of the consumers they want to target. |
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