Casino Referendum Planned by New York Leaders |
- Casino Referendum Planned by New York Leaders
- Congo attacks over arrests in India
- Iran says appeals for 'jihad' in Syria fuel radicalism
- US denies talks planned with Taliban
- Before-and-after satellite photos from Darfur show entire villages wiped off the map
- Kerry calls Karzai to defuse tension
- Brazil protests proceed as smaller cities join the fray
- China completes monitoring scheme for Tibet
- Greek party leaders to meet Thursday over ERT impasse
- Britain fails to get EU backing for Hezbollah blacklisting
- State of the Art: Microsoft Office for the iPhone Is Here. Yawn.
- Financier Leon Black Buys $48 Million Raphael Drawing
- New clashes in Brazil before match
- Gyula Horn, the man who tore the Iron Curtain, dies at 80
- VIDEO: Afghanistan to boycott Taliban talks
- Kerry calls Karzai to defuse tension
- Kosovo's first envoy to Serbia quits after two days
- Michael Hastings, Award-Winning Journalist, Dies at 33
- UAE charges 30 over 'Muslim Brotherhood ties'
- Fed Outlines Timeline for Winding Down Stimulus
| Casino Referendum Planned by New York Leaders Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:10 PM PDT Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and top legislators have agreed to ask voters in November to amend the State Constitution to allow seven nontribal casinos. 
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| Congo attacks over arrests in India Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:46 PM PDT Shops belonging to Asians are targeted in a violent protest in DR Congo's capital over the arrest of Congolese students in India over the weekend. | |
| Iran says appeals for 'jihad' in Syria fuel radicalism Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:34 PM PDT KUWAIT (Reuters) - Calls by Sunni Muslim clerics for a holy war against the Syrian government and its Shi'ite allies are fuelling radicalism in the region, a senior Iranian official said on Wednesday.      | |
| US denies talks planned with Taliban Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:33 PM PDT State Department denies scheduled meeting hours after Afghan president threatened to boycott peace talks with Taliban. | |
| Before-and-after satellite photos from Darfur show entire villages wiped off the map Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:12 PM PDT On April 8, one of Sudan's most infamous militia leaders, a man who fights under the name of Ali Kushayb, descended on the the town of Abu Jeradil, in Darfur. He was traveling with a convoy of khaki-uniformed men, some of them armed with anti-aircraft weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, according to survivors who spoke to Human Right Watch. The men opened fire shortly after arriving, firing indiscriminately. Then they set houses and fields on fire. After looting some of the livestock, they left. Read full article >>
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| Kerry calls Karzai to defuse tension Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:35 PM PDT The US Secretary of State John Kerry calls the Afghan leader to defuse tension over the opening of a Taliban office, an Afghan official tells the BBC. | |
| Brazil protests proceed as smaller cities join the fray Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:54 PM PDT SAO PAULO/FORTALEZA (Reuters) - Protesters blocked roads in Sao Paulo and marched toward a stadium hosting a major international soccer game in Brazil's northeast on Wednesday in a growing wave of nationwide demonstrations against poor public services, inflation and other woes in Latin America's biggest country.       | |
| China completes monitoring scheme for Tibet Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:43 AM PDT Beijing rolls out campaign to crack down on what officials term "rumours" in the remote western region. | |
| Greek party leaders to meet Thursday over ERT impasse Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:55 AM PDT ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's ruling coalition leaders will meet again on Thursday to resolve an impasse over last week's closure of state broadcaster ERT after failing to reach agreement during talks on Wednesday, PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos said.     | |
| Britain fails to get EU backing for Hezbollah blacklisting Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:46 AM PDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A British drive to put Hezbollah's armed wing on the EU's terror list again ran into resistance on Wednesday from governments concerned it would fuel instability in the Middle East, diplomats said.     | |
| State of the Art: Microsoft Office for the iPhone Is Here. Yawn. Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:30 AM PDT Microsoft's application falls short of duplicating the everyday functions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Some outside apps do it better. 
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| Financier Leon Black Buys $48 Million Raphael Drawing Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:39 PM PDT New York financier Leon Black was the mystery buyer of a $47.9 million Raphael drawing auctioned by Sotheby's London last December, according to several people familiar with the matter. | |
| New clashes in Brazil before match Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:45 AM PDT Police fire tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, ahead of a football match against Mexico. | |
| Gyula Horn, the man who tore the Iron Curtain, dies at 80 Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:07 PM PDT BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Gyula Horn, who as Hungary's last communist foreign minister ripped a hole in the Iron Curtain in 1989, has died at the age of 80 after long illness, the government said on Wednesday.       | |
| VIDEO: Afghanistan to boycott Taliban talks Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:16 AM PDT The Afghan government will not take part in peace talks with the Taliban unless the process is "Afghan-led", President Hamid Karzai has said | |
| Kerry calls Karzai to defuse tension Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:35 PM PDT The US Secretary of State John Kerry calls the Afghan leader to defuse tension over the opening of a Taliban office, an Afghan official tells the BBC. | |
| Kosovo's first envoy to Serbia quits after two days Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:25 AM PDT PRISTINA (Reuters) - Independent Kosovo's first envoy to Serbia resigned on Wednesday, pre-empting his dismissal just two days into the job for exceeding his powers and making remarks likely to irritate Belgrade.     | |
| Michael Hastings, Award-Winning Journalist, Dies at 33 Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:03 AM PDT Mr. Hastings, an intrepid war zone reporter in Afghanistan and Iraq, won a Polk Award in 2010 for his Rolling Stone magazine cover story, "The Runaway General." 
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| UAE charges 30 over 'Muslim Brotherhood ties' Posted: 19 Jun 2013 11:13 AM PDT Gulf state charges group of Egyptians and Emiratis for setting up illegal branch of Egyptian Islamist group. | |
| Fed Outlines Timeline for Winding Down Stimulus Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:28 PM PDT Federal Reserve policy makers, more confident about the economic recovery, said they intended to reduce their monetary stimulus program later this year if unemployment continues to decline. 
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