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North Korea fires short range weapons

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:25:10 -0400

PYONGYANG - North Korea continued to fire short range projectiles into waters off its east coast for a third straight day on Monday, officials here said, despite warnings from the US and South Korea against increasing tensions. The North has conducted six such firings since Saturday, in what are believed to be tests of short-range guided missiles or rockets from multiple launchers, officials ...

Papering over border differences China and India agree to boost trade

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:19:57 -0400

NEW DELHI - India and China Monday played down a recent border stand-off and agreed to maintain peace along their disputed boundary as well as boost economic relations. Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, who decided to make India the first stop of his maiden foreign jaunt as premier, stressed that the population of the two nations comprised one third of the world. Both countries have seen ...

Musharraf gets bail in Bhutto assassination case

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:10:36 -0400

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Former Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf was Monday granted bail in a case related to the assassination of ex premier Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf has been under house arrest because he is accused of failing to provide adequate security for Bhutto who was murdered in a bomb and gun attack in December 2007 while campaigning for elections. The assassination ...

Multiple bombings in Iraq leave over 60 dead

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:05:19 -0400

BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 60 people, including Iranian Shia pilgrims, were killed in a series of car bombings and shootings across Iraq Monday, officials said. The worst hit in Monday's violence was Baghdad where eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through bus stops, marketplaces and other crowded areas in Shia neighbourhoods. The attacks left 12 people dead and 109 wounded, a senior ...

Hezbollah loses 23 militants in clash with Syrian rebels claim activists

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:58:56 -0400

BEIRUT, Lebanon - At least 23 elite fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, fighting alongside the Syrian government troops, were killed near the Lebanese border Monday, an activist group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syria's war, said more than 100 Hezbollah members also have been wounded in the fighting around the opposition-held ...

Blogging platform Tumblr acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 bn

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:40:57 -0400

NEW YORK - Yahoo promised "not to screw it up" as it formally announced its acquisition of the popular Tumblr blogging platform for $1.1bn in cash, giving the company a much-needed base in social media to reach a younger generation of users. The relaxed wording of the memo for one of the internet giant's biggest acquisitions was echoed in the memo sent by David Karp, Tumblr's 26-year-old ...

US drugmaker Actavis buying Warner Chilcott in $8.5bn deal

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:31:34 -0400

WASHINGTON/ DUBLIN - Actavis Inc, the largest US generic drug maker by market value, is acquiring Dublin-based Warner Chilcott in a deal worth $8.5billion (5.6billion pounds) including $3billion net debt, to create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the country. Under the deal, Actavis, which itself has been the subject of bid speculation, would be offering $5billion in ...

Bombardier unveils Challenger 350 mid sized business jet

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:11:21 -0400

GENEVA - Canadian aeroplane maker Bombardier has expanded its leading Challenger family of business jets with the launch of the new Challenger 350 aircraft in collaboration with global leader in private aviation, US firm NetJets. The launch on Monday was held at a special event here at the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE). Bombardier said deliveries of the ...

$254mn Eskom wind power project gets South African regulator's nod

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:01:11 -0400

JOHANNESBURG - The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has granted power producer Eskom a licence for its Sere wind farm in the Western Cape, paving the way for the company to start construction of its $254.3 million (R2.4-billion) project. Sere is the Nama word for "cool breeze". The wind farm project is scheduled to become fully commercially operational by the end of ...

Morgan Stanley India to sell wealth management arm to StanChart

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:51:43 -0400

MUMBAI - The UK based Standard Chartered (StanChart) Monday announced plans to acquire the Indian private wealth management business of US multinational financial services firm Morgan Stanley for an undisclosed amount as part of plans to expand operations. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals. "Standard Chartered India has agreed to acquire Morgan Stanley's onshore private ...

Obamas Former Chief of Staff Questions Had Been Raised About IRS

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:18:57 -0400

President Barack Obama's former chief of staff, Jack Lew, the current treasury secretary, said today at a Capitol Hill hearing that he was aware "questions had been raised" about the IRS when he was at the White ...

Treasury Inspector General and Former IRS Commissioner Law Is Relevant

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:18:57 -0400

The inspector general who filed the report on the IRS targeting conservatives and former IRS commissioner agree: The law is relevant. The statements were made at a hearing today on Capitol ...

Former Commissioner I Cant Say That I Know How IRS Targeted Conservative

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:18:56 -0400

Testifying today on Capitol Hill, Douglas Shulman, the former IRS commissioner, says he "can't say" how the targeting of conservatives by the agency he once led ...

Senator Culture of Intimidation at IRS Targeted Texas Conservatives

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:18:56 -0400

Texas senator John Cornyn has released this video, titled "A Culture of Intimidation," about the IRS's targeting of conservatives in his home state and across the ...

GAO ‘Visa Overstay’ Backlog at DHS Remains Over One Million

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:18:56 -0400

issued a report of preliminary finding on the progress the Department of Homeland Security has made in its efforts to reduce the backlog of immigrant visas. Although almost 863,000 records were "closed" in the last two years, the backlog of potential overstays remains at more than one million [emphasis ...

Eurovision Vote Theft Claims Roil Russia Azerbaijan

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:12:13 -0400

Russia's foreign minister called it "outrageous." In Baku, hopes were expressed that the incident would not damage Russian-Azerbaijani relations. The issue? Possible vote theft at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Azerbaijani officials are investigating why Azerbaijan gave Russia’s song entry "nul points" at this year's final, held in Malmo, Sweden, on ...

Media Watchdog Calls For Probe Into Afghan Journalists Murder

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:12:12 -0400

KABUL -- A leading press freedom organization in Afghanistan, Nai, has demanded an investigation into the killing of a journalist who was found dead after being missing for weeks. In a statement, Nai called on Afghan authorities to probe the murder of Mohammad Mohsin Hashimi in northern Kapisa Province. Abdul Woudod Haideri, district governor of Nijrab in Kapisa, told RFE/RL's Radio ...

Eight Suspected Terrorists Go On Trial In Kazakhstan

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:12:11 -0400

Eight local men have gone on trial in Kazakhstan's western city of Atyrau on terrorism charges. The trial started on May 21 and is being held behind closed doors. The suspects are charged with terrorism, the illegal possession and distribution of weapons and explosives, as well as kidnapping, murder, car theft, and burglary. The suspects were arrested in Atyrau between December and ...

Saudi Arabia blocks access to Jpost.com

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:12 -0400

Commentator article Ahmed Abdel-Raheem is an Egyptian artist and a PhD student who works as a lecturer at Al-Lith College for Girls, Um Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia, according to his byline on the website of ...

Jordan refuses entry to thousands of Syrian refugees

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:11 -0400

AMMAN - Jordan has turned away thousands of Syrian refugees in the past week in the first such clampdown since the crisis in Syria began more than two years ago, diplomats, activists and aid workers said on Tuesday.Jordan, due to host an international conference on Syria on Wednesday, has already taken in 473,587 Syrians out of a total of 1.5 million who have fled the conflict in an exodus that ...

UK asks EU to place Hezbollah on terror blacklist

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:11 -0400

BRUSSELS - Britain said on Tuesday it had asked the European Union to put the military wing of Islamist group Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations.Britain's request came after Bulgaria accused the Lebanese militant movement on February 5 of carrying out a bomb attack on a bus in the Black Sea city of Burgas that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver in July last ...

Three killed in Syria-related clashes in Lebanon

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:11 -0400

TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Three people were killed in further sectarian fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Tuesday, security sources said, raising the death toll from four days of sporadic conflict related to Syria's civil war to nine.Rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire shook Tripoli on Tuesday afternoon. Snipers positioned in apartment blocks made walking through some ...

Chabad opens shelter for those displaced by tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:10 -0400

displaced by a deadly tornado .The Chabad Community Center of Southern Oklahoma also is collecting supplies for those left homeless by the tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday afternoon, leaving at least 24 people dead, including several children, and injuring ...

Syria’s rebels blame Putin for prolonged fight

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:10 -0400

Khalid Dayli, a 23-year old fighter with Syria's rebel forces, flicked through the channels on his television, ogling at the scantily clad female singers and dismissing the talents of a Saudi soccer team. But when he reached a news channel reporting on Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to end the Syrian civil war he sneered. "Without Russian support, we could have toppled ...

Iran acts to expand sensitive nuclear capacity

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:10 -0400

VIENNA, - A UN nuclear agency report due this week is expected to show Iran further increasing its capacity to produce material that its adversaries fear could eventually be put to developing atomic bombs, Western diplomats said on Tuesday.But they said it is also likely to indicate that growth in Iran's most sensitive nuclear stockpile has been held back because some of it has been ...

The height of rule-breaking Everest climber Daniel Hughes in trouble for illegal video interview from peak

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:56:51 -0400

A British climber who delivered a live video interview from the top of Mount Everest has found himself in trouble with the Nepalese authorities who have branded the broadcast ...

Third exchange of fire over Golan Heights in a week heightens concern at violence on Israel-Syria border

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:56:51 -0400

Israeli and Syrian troops exchanged fire across the Golan Heights today, the third time this week that the two sides have clashed across the disputed ...

Pistorius Brother Cleared Over Womans Death

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:55:05 -0400

Carl Pistorius, the brother of murder-accused Olympian Oscar Pistorius, has been acquitted of a charge of culpable homicide. The charge referred to the death of a woman in a car accident in 2008. A magistrate ruled that Carl Pistorius was not negligent and that the woman - Maria Barnard - was driving her motorcycle too fast when she crashed into the back of his vehicle. A court ...

Dont count Obama out

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:45:26 -0400

>Editor's note: Joseph S. Nye is a professor at Harvard and author of the new book "Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era. " In 1993 and 1994, he was chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which coordinates intelligence estimates for the president. In 1994 and 1995, he served as assistant secretary of Defense for international security affairs.(CNN) -- Many a ...

Kerry visits Oman for arms deal talks on Syria Mideast

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:45:02 -0400

CORK/DUBLIN - Ireland said on Tuesday it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments and had no special rate deal with the company after the U.S. Senate said it paid little or no tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits stashed in Irish ...

Dozens dead in Moore 101 pulled alive from rubble

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:44:24 -0400

>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH. Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Even for a city toughened by disaster, Moore has never seen this kind of ...

Poll Most think IRS targeting was deliberate

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:43:23 -0400

As the Obama administration responds to criticism over IRS practices targeting conservative groups for higher scrutiny, a new poll from Washington Post/ABC News indicates that a majority of Americans believe the IRS was deliberately harassing these groups - and nearly 3 in 4 Americans see the behavior as inappropriate. According to ...

Obama Full focus is on recovery from Oklahoma tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:43:23 -0400

After a ferocious, deadly tornado flattened Moore, Okla., Monday, President Obama Tuesday affirmed the nation's support for those affected by the storm, guaranteeing aid for victims in the destroyed 20-mile-long path. "We recognize you face a long road ahead, in some cases there is enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not travel that path alone," Mr. Obama said. ...

Syria activists 31 Hezbollah fighters killed in Qusair

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:43:23 -0400

BEIRUT Three members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group died of wounds sustained while fighting for control of a strategic Syrian town near the Lebanese border, activists said Tuesday, as the battle in the area raged for its third straight day. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the deaths brought the total number of Hezbollah fighters killed since Sunday ...

Oklahoma tornado leaves dozens dead including many children

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:43:20 -0400

MOORE, Okla. Search-and-rescue crews worked through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood. At least 24 people were killed, including at least seven children, and those numbers were expected to ...

Sights and sounds of disaster rescue

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:43:19 -0400

A 200-mile-an-hour tornado kills at least 51 people, including 20 children. Also, the search and rescue operation continued overnight in Moore, Okla., for survivors trapped in the rubble. A look at what we've been covering on "CBS This ...

Afghan forces in deadly battle with Taliban

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:40:06 -0400

Afghan government forces have been engaged in a deadly battle with Taliban fighters at a police checkpoint in the south of the country, local officials have said. The interior ministry told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that five police officers and 25 Taliban fighters were killed in fighting which raged for 24 hours in Helmand province. Omar Zwak, the provincial governor's spokesman, said that ...

Dont trust your memory

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:20:55 -0400

>Editor's note: This is part of CNN's "Life's Work" series, which features innovators and pioneers who are making a difference in the world of health and medicine. (CNN) -- You probably feel pretty attached to your memories -- they're yours, after all. They define who you are and where you came from, your accomplishments and failures, your likes and dislikes. Your memories help you separate ...

Oklahoma tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:10:19 -0400

Yet Another Obamacare Design Flaw

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:05:23 -0400

The more the evidence emerges, the more one has to wonder: Could Obamacare have been designed any more poorly? Even those who don't mind Obamacare's striking consolidation of power and money in Washington at the expense of Americans' liberty, or who don't mind the medical overhaul's $2 trillion price-tag over its real first decade (2014 to 2023), must be starting to ...

Explainer Iran’s Process For Vetting Presidential Candidates

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:00:26 -0400

The official shortlist of candidates that will be bidding to succeed Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in the June 14 election is set to be announced this week. More than 600 men and women registered their names to become presidential candidates during a five-day registration period that ended on May 11. The task of vetting the nominees and determining a shortlist of approved candidates ...

Explainer Why Do Tornadoes Occur And Why Are We Seeing More Of Them

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:00:25 -0400

Liz Bentley: Tornadoes are violent rotating columns of air -- quite small-scale -- so they tend to be a few meters across, sometimes 100 meters across. They develop out of supercells or violent thunderstorms that develop in the atmosphere. So the places around the world where tornadoes will develop are where we get these supercells, these huge thunderstorm clouds developing. And for a ...

Dazed zombie-like -- but alive

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:58:29 -0400

>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKIMoore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Kids screamed for their parents and parents hollered their children's names, walking and searching in panic in the parking lot of ...

Beersheba mayor Our whole city is wounded

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:55:17 -0400

Thousands turned out Tuesday for the funeral of Anat Even-Haim, one of four people who were gunned down in a shooting attack a day earlier at a bank in the southern city of Beersheba. Bank Hapoalim branch manager Avner Cohen, 44, his assistant manager Meir Zeitoun, 40, and customers Anat Even-Haim, aged 34, and Idan Schnitzer Sabari, 22, were shot dead by 40-year-old local resident Itamar Alon ...

IDF Shin Bet thwart terror attack kidnapping in W. Bank

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:55:15 -0400

Shin Bet reveals that in past two months it nabbed members of two separate Hamas, Islamic Jihad cells that were planning to kill an Israeli and demand the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the ...

Families attend funerals of Beersheba victims

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:55:14 -0400

opened fire in a small Bank Hapoalim branch in Beersheba the previous day, killing four people before taking his own life.Responding to the tragedy, Beersheba Mayor Ruvik Danilovich said four were killed in the shooting, but the entire city was wounded and in pain. Army Radio reported earlier that the mayor had visited Walid Omar, 22, from the Negev Bedouin community, who was seriously injured in ...

Zuma ‘mourns with US’ after tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:54:41 -0400

Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma sent condolences to the United States on Tuesday after a tornado killed at least 51 people, the international relations department ...

Richard Christie who beat ex-soldier Bill Hopkins so badly he almost died caught when victim ripped glove from his hand during attack giving police a DNA match

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:25 -0400

Bill Hopkins, 79, suffered a broken jaw and was treated in hospital for two days following the unprovoked attack outside his home in Digbeth, Birmingham, last ...

Bright teenager gains highest English A-level in the country despite predictions she would fail after doctors diagnosed her with dyspraxia

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:24 -0400

A teenager who was predicted to fail her English A-Level was allowed to type an exam after being diagnosed with a form of dyspraxia and ended up wit the highest mark in the ...

Council which removed foster children after parents Ukip membership was discovered finally apologises for its handling of the case seven months on

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:23 -0400

A council has finally apologised over the way it handled a decision to remove three Eastern European children from foster parents who were members of ...

A giant meteor - not overhunting - wiped out the woolly mammoth because it struggled to cope with the rapid climate change that followed

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:23 -0400

A meteor hitting the Earth 12,800 years ago released toxic gases into the air and blocked out the sun causing temperatures to plummet and plants to ...

Final picture of Pistorius and the girlfriend he shot dead shows smiling Reeva days before her death and the pet monkey they both adored

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:21 -0400

Snuggling tenderly on the sofa, Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp could not seem more in love as they share a laugh over their pet monkey - in their final photograph together before he shot her ...

Biggest cockerel in the world Little John rules the roost

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:20 -0400

Little John, who is the world's largest cockerel, at 26in tall, is often fed popcorn by children who visit him in the grounds of Mountfitchet Castle in Stansted, Essex. He is pictured with his owner Jeremy ...

Woman who hanged herself five days after being groped was never asked about her emotional state by sexual assault counsellors

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:17 -0400

Criticised: A health team at the sexual assault referral centre at Cardiff Royal Infirmary (above) failed to properly assess Miss Crawford's emotional state before she took her life, an inquest was ...

A staggering 75 PER CENT of holidaymakers use out of date sun-cream putting themselves at risk of UV exposure

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:12 -0400

Past their sell-by date: Three quarters of British holidaymakers said they used lotions that were more than a year old, and in many cases considerably ...

Practice may NOT make perfect Innate talent is whats required for greatness in areas such as games or music

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:11 -0400

A study has shown that differences in practice levels are not enough to explain why people differ in ability when taking part in activities such as playing chess or ...

Queens coronation outfit to go on show at Buckingham Palace for first time in celebration of 60th anniversary

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:10 -0400

Now, 60 years after the Queen was formally crowned at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace is to reunite for the first time some of the dresses, uniforms, robes and jewellery worn for the historic ...

First ever streaker at the Chelsea Flower Show Man strips off and plunges into pool of award-winning garden

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:09 -0400

Tim Wilkinson was so ecstatic that Trailfinders Australian Garden won the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Best in Show award that he celebrated by stripping off and jumping into a nearby water ...

Eddie Braben dies Morecambe and Wise scriptwriter dead at 82

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:08 -0400

He later worked with Ken Dodd, Ronnie Corbett and Morecambe and Wise Braben won the Best British Light Entertainment Script award four times ...

Young mother is a ticking timebomb due to EIGHT tumours that cause hearing loss and balance problems - and theres a 50 chance her son could inherit the condition

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:49:07 -0400

Derrie Tustin, 25, has five non-cancerous tumours in her brain and three on her spine - and doctors have warned her that more could develop at any ...

Police hunting 3 suspects in Cannes jewellery heist

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:47:53 -0400

French police said Tuesday they were hunting three men suspected of being behind the spectacular theft last week of a million euros (US$1.4 million) worth of jewellery at the Cannes Film ...

Oklahoma tornado Frantic search for victims continues as tales of survival emerge

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:41:29 -0400

A monstrous tornado that may be remembered as among the largest and most destructive in American history roared through a heavily populated suburb of Oklahoma City, cutting a swathe as much as two miles wide and flattening homes, shops, hospitals and, perhaps most devastatingly, schools that had no time to ...

Jodi Arias could join tiny death row group

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:40:37 -0400

Jodi Arias stands and looks as the jury is excused for the lunch break during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, April 4, 2013. Arias is on trial for the killing of her boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008. (REUTERS/David Wallace/The Arizona ...

Officials revise death toll in Oklahoma tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:40:37 -0400

Two girls stand in rubble after a tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, May 20, 2013. A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. REUTERS/Gene ...

Syria Destroys Israeli Vehicle In Golan Heights

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:39:53 -0400

Syria claims it has destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights. Israel acknowledged a vehicle was hit by gunfire but said it was inside its territory at the time and none of its soldiers had been hurt. "In response, IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) forces returned precise fire at the source of the gunfire. They reported a direct hit," it said in ...

Ireland says not to blame for Apples low tax rate

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:29:28 -0400

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland said on Tuesday it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments after the U.S. Senate said the company paid little or nothing on tens of billions of dollars in profits stashed in Irish ...

UKs Cameron committed to ruling in coalition until 2015 spokesman

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:29:28 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is committed to governing as part of a two-party coalition until the next national election in 2015, his spokesman said on Tuesday, days after Cameron raised the prospect of the alliance breaking ...

Boat hijack stokes tension between N. Korea China

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:27:39 -0400

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits Breeding Station No. 621 of the Korean People's Army, under construction at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in an undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on May 21, ...

More severe weather expected after monster tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:27:39 -0400

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., says golf ball-sized hail, powerful winds and isolated, strong tornadoes could strike areas of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma on Tuesday. The area at risk does not include Moore, Okla., where dozens of people were killed in a monstrous tornado Monday. Severe weather warnings extend through most of the central United States, with conditions ...

US senate to grill Apple over tax evasion

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:24:46 -0400

The chief executive of Apple is to be questioned about tax evasion after a US Senate investigation found that it uses overseas companies to avoid paying billions of dollars in ...

Crews Search for Survivors in Oklahoma After Tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:21:31 -0400

MOORE, Okla. ...

Scenes from Moore

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:20:43 -0400

>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKIMoore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Kids screamed for their parents and parents hollered their children's names, walking and searching in panic in the parking lot of ...

Anchored Putting Strokes to Be Banned in 2016

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:01:32 -0400

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Two Senior Saakashvili Allies Ex-Ministers Arrested In Georgia

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:47:24 -0400

TBILISI -- Former Georgian Prime Minister Ivane Merabishvili and former Health Minister Zurab Chiaberashvili have been arrested and charged with embezzling public funds. They are close associates of President Mihkeil Saakashvili and members of his United National Movement party. Georgia's Interior Ministry said the two former officials were summoned to the prosecutor’s office in ...

Levada Center Russia’s Most Respected Pollster Fears Closure

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:47:23 -0400

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Kyrgyz To Cancel Manas Transit Center Deal With U.S.

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:47:22 -0400

BISHKEK -- The Kyrgyz government has decided to cancel the U.S.-Kyrgyz agreement on NATO's use of a transit center near Bishkek as of July 2014. The announcement of the decision appeared on the cabinet's official website on May 21. It says a draft of the decision will soon be given to the parliament for approval. The Transit Center at Manas International Airport has played a ...

Romanian journalist assaulted called ‘kike’

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:42:21 -0400

The prime minister of Romania this week instructed authorities to investigate an apparent anti-Semitic assault on a journalist in Bucharest.According to a statement by the MCA Romania, The Center for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism in Romania, Prime Minister Victor Ponta gave the order in connection with an incident which happened on May 17 to Mircea Marian, a journalist with the national ...

Syrian Forces and Hezbollah Fighters Press Assault in Key Town

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:35:42 -0400

BEIRUT, Lebanon ...

Video Oklahoma tornado survivor reunited with pet dog

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:30:09 -0400

One of the survivors of the devastating tornado, which ripped through the suburbs of Moore, Oklahoma City has been reunited with her pet ...

Best Buy profit tops estimates sales miss

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:19:31 -0400

(Reuters) - Best Buy Co Inc reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales on Tuesday and warned that a slew of investments to win back shoppers could squeeze profits in the near ...

Video School children amongst Okla. tornado casualties

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:17:51 -0400

Two elementary schools -- Briarwood Elementary and Plaza Towers Elementary -- were also hit by the tornado that leveled residential areas in Moore, Okla. "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell reports several children died as a result of the ...

Bombings continue across Iraq

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:15:01 -0400

Attacks in Iraq have killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens, officials have said, after a bloody day that claimed more than 70 lives across the country. A suicide bomber set off his explosives-laden vest on Tuesday at a military checkpoint in the town of Tarmiyah, 50km north of Baghdad. Fighters opened fire at the troops after the blasts, killing three soldiers and wounding nine, a police ...

Global Soccer Mourinho and Madrid Loving Loathing and Leaving

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:02:27 -0400

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40 more bodies expected half kids

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:59:20 -0400

For $221k July 4th Fireworks Show on National Mall in Washington Will Go On

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:42:49 -0400

The show will go on. Sequestration may have cost Washington D.C. tourists a chance to tour the White House, but the Independence Day fireworks will go off as planned. ...

Politkovskaya Case Sent To Court For Trial

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:38:15 -0400

The case of the 2006 killing of Russia's prominent investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya is set to be tried again in court. Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on May 21 that four men from Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, his nephews Rustam, Ibragim, and Dzhabrail Makhmudov, and former policeman Sergei Khadzhikurbanov ...

Suspect In Attack On Ukrainian Journalists Arrested

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:38:14 -0400

KYIV -- A man suspected of beating two journalists in Kyiv on May 18 has been arrested. Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko told parliament on May 21 that the suspect, Vadym Titushko, has been charged with hooliganism. Lawmakers requested he brief them on the situation. On May 18, a group of athletic men in tracksuits attacked opposition activists during the "Get Up, ...

Saakashvili Says Pacific Island No Longer Recognizes Abkhazia

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:38:14 -0400

TBILISI -- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has withdrawn its recognition of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. Saakashvili, who held talks with Vanuatu Prime Minister Moana Carcasses Kalosil this week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Thailand, announced on May 20 that Vanuatu authorities had "changed their ...

A Walk Down Washingtons Alley Of Russian Poets

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:38:12 -0400

The Alley of Russian Poets is the brainchild of Uli Zislin, a Russian-born poetry collector and songwriter whose idea fell on receptive ears in ...

Hezbollah Syrian army renew Qusair offensive

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:33:24 -0400

AMMAN - Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and Syrian soldiers, backed by air strikes and artillery, renewed an offensive aimed at driving Syrian rebels from the town of Qusair near the Lebanese border on Tuesday, opposition activists said.They said fighting was raging in Qusair, as well as in areas to the east where several army bases are located, and in the Hezbollah-held southern and western ...

Ex-wife of Julian Stevenson who killed his son and daughter regularly fought him having custody

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:24 -0400

Clutching a pink balloon and buying sweets, the children 'murdered by their father' hours later... as it emerges his ex-wife 'regularly fought against him having ...

Boris Johnsons secret lovechild daughter Stephanie and a victory for the publics right to know

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:23 -0400

It rejected claims by Helen Macintyre, with whom the married Mayor of London had an affair, that the birth of their daughter Stephanie must remain ...

Cameron fd things up on gay marriage Norman Tebbit blasts as he suggests he should now be able to marry his own son

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:22 -0400

Norman Tebbit has launched a foul-mouthed attack on David Cameron, claiming the Tory leader has ‘f***** things up’ buy pressing ahead with gay marriage ...

British climber Kenton Cool reaches peak of Everest for a record-breaking ELEVENTH time

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:21 -0400

The climbs have been described as a fitting tribute to Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay who reached the 29,035-foot summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, becoming the first people to stand atop the world's highest ...

Apple avoids BILLIONS in taxes with dummy headquarters in Ireland says Senate report

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:18 -0400

An investigation by a Senate committee said the tech giant sought the 'Holy Grail of tax avoidance' schemes by not declaring tax residency in any country, which could be unique among international ...

Now a Tory MP calls his own party swivel-eyed for obsessing about Europe as row over Camerons leadership intensifies

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:15 -0400

Gary Streeter, a former minister who served in in the dying days of John Major’s government, said he had seen ‘once more the familiar glint in the swivelled-eyes of the purists’ who are again risking electoral defeat by obsessing about ...

Cagefighter Vincent Graham who quit ring after losing leg took up new career as playboy drug baron

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:14 -0400

A cagefighter who quit the ring to lead a cocaine-dealing gang after losing his leg in a road accident has been ordered to pay ...

Children who live near a busy road are more likely to develop ADHD

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:13 -0400

The study suggest by the age of seven, children exposed to the substances are more likely to test positive for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and related symptoms, including lack of attentiveness, aggression, and behavioural ...

George Michael was lucky he didnt die says driver who nearly ran singer over on the M1

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:13 -0400

Katherine Fox, 23, was travelling behind a silver Range Rover when the singer tumbled out of the passenger door onto the third lane of the ...

G4S boss Nick Buckles quits after overseeing Olympic security humiliating shambles

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:12 -0400

The head of global security firm G4S has unexpectedly quit, just months after being heavily criticised for the handling of security at last year’s Olympic ...

British basejumpers terror as his parachute fails to open when he leaps off 1000ft cliff

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:11 -0400

At the end of the video the daredevil can be seen lying on the ground appearing shocked but conscious and not seriously hurt. His parachute is only partially ...

Half of stroke survivors feel abandoned on leaving hospital

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:08 -0400

Barely one in five receive any information or practical advice on the emotional impact of having a stroke – unlike the support given to cancer ...

Maria Stubbings family call for full inquiry into catalogue of police failings

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:28:07 -0400

The family of a woman strangled by her convicted murderer ex-boyfriend are calling for a Stephen Lawrence-style public inquiry to examine why domestic violence victims are not being properly protected by the ...

Six dead in Texas storms

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:26:58 -0400

Illustration. A powerful storm that may have spawned tornados ripped through northern Texas, killing six people and injuring more than 100, media reports said. (AFP/Don ...

Rescuers dig for life after US tornado killed dozens

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:26:57 -0400

Rescuers searched for survivors Tuesday after a massive tornado tore through a suburb in the US state of Oklahoma, destroying two schools and killing up to 91 people, including 20 ...

Cartoons that scare Syrias leader

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:23:21 -0400

>Editor's note: John D. Sutter is a columnist at CNN Opinion, covering human rights. E-mail him at CTL@CNN.com or follow him on Twitter (@jdsutter), Facebook or Google+. Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- The masked henchmen grabbed three fingers on each of the Syrian political cartoonist's hands and pulled them back all the way -- so far that they ...

Miami Face-Eating Victim Photos To Be Released

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:19:23 -0400

New pictures of a homeless man whose face was virtually chewed off in a horrifying attack in Miami last year are to be released. Doctors and care workers who are treating Ronald Poppo in Jackson will also give an update on his recovery from his gruesome injuries. They will play a taped message from the victim and show new photos of his face, which continues to heal after the attack on the ...

Church Minibus Flips Over Killing Five

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:19:23 -0400

A minivan carrying church members has rolled off the road in southern Illinois, killing five people and injuring six others. The group was returning from a religious gathering in California when it careened of Interstate 70 near Vandalia, about 70 miles northeast of St Louis, and turned over several times. Fayette County Sheriff's Department Deputy Shawn Carter said the van had ...

EU mission seeks to rebuild Mali army after U.S. faltered

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:18:44 -0400

By David Lewis KOULIKORO, Mali (Reuters) - Under a blazing sun and the critical gaze of British and Irish instructors, a line of 11 Malian soldiers lie prone in the dust firing AK-47 rounds at targets, one-by-one. "One out of 10 - not very good," Captain Ibrahim Soumassa, commander of the Malian unit, tells one of the men. "We're at 25 metres. When we're at 100, ...

IRS scandal highlights leadership vacancies

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:09:24 -0400

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday hears from two men it could attempt to hold accountable for possible political discrimination carried out by the IRS: outgoing acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller and former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman. Neither of them, however, will be of any help as the IRS attempts to right its ship and restore public trust in the agency. That job will -- for now ...

Germany Justin Bieber were keeping your monkey

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:09:21 -0400

BERLIN Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He had until midnight Friday to produce those ...

Searching continues after huge Okla. twister

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:09:20 -0400

A giant tornado tore through the middle of Moore, Okla., killing at least 51 people, 20 of them children. Charlie Rose, Norah O'Donnell and Anna Werner ...

Chinese fishermen freed by N Korea captors

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:06:50 -0400

A Chinese boat and 16 fishermen seized for ransom by armed North Koreans two weeks ago have been released, easing the latest irritant in relations between the traditional allies. Yu Xuejun, the owner of the captured boat who was not onboard when it was seized on May 5, wrote on his official microblog on Tuesday that his captain had called him to say the crew and boat were set free and that they ...

Bolivia law lets Morales run for third term

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:06:49 -0400

The Bolivian vice president has signed into law a controversial constitutional amendment to allow President Evo Morales to run for a third ...

Exchange Of Fire On Israeli-Syrian Border

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:29:22 -0400

The Israeli military has said one of its patrols has been hit by gunfire from Syria on the Golan Heights. The military said in a statement that the attack damaged a vehicle, but caused no injuries. The statement said the Israeli patrol "returned precise fire at the source and reported a direct hit." The incident happened overnight May 20-21. However, Syria's army ...

Deadly Attacks Claim More Iraqi Lives

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:29:22 -0400

Security officials say new attacks in Iraq have killed at least seven people and injured dozens. Three people were killed and more than 40 injured on May 21 in two car bombings in the city of Tuz Khormato, in Salaheddin Province, some 170 kilometers north of Baghdad. The cars were parked near the city's market and exploded as stores were opening. A suicide blast at a checkpoint, ...

Israel restores Gaza fishing area to six miles

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:24:50 -0400

Israel is restoring the Gazan fishing area to six miles (11km), the IDF said Tuesday, after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon had confirmed the decision.The announcement came two days before ...

IDF denies Syrian claim Israeli vehicle destroyed in Golan

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:24:50 -0400

Syrian military leadership says on state TV that its armed forces destroyed an Israel vehicle, but the IDF says it was just lightly damaged; soldiers return fire; defense source: "The fire was directed at ...

Jewish terrorist Tytell appeals murder conviction

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:24:50 -0400

conviction and his two life sentences for murdering two Palestinians to the Supreme Court.On April 9, the Jerusalem District Court sentenced Tytell to two life sentences and an additional 30 years in prison for the murder of two Palestinians and an assortment of other ...

Torture Victims Body Is Found Near U.S. Base Afghans Say

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:20:14 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan ...

Oklahoma tornado 2013 Twister is worst in recent memory including one that hit same town in 1999

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:19:24 -0400

The catastrophic storm that tore through Moore, Oklahoma on Monday bears striking similarities to other powerful tornadoes that have killed hundreds of people and caused billions in ...

Susan Powell Mystery Case Closed By Police

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:11:04 -0400

The case has been closed on missing Utah mum Susan Powell, whose husband became prime suspect for her disappearance before he then killed himself and their two sons. The West Valley City Police Department said it could not solve the investigation, which has gripped the US for almost four years, but revealed several new details. They include reports that Josh Powell had an affair just months ...

Mahatma Gandhi blood sample up for auction in London

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:08:32 -0400

Two microscope slides bearing the blood of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi are to go on sale in London on Tuesday and are expected to fetch from 10,000 pounds to 15,000 pounds.The slides were obtained in 1924 when the father of the Indian independence movement was recovering from an appendectomy near Mumbai. He was thought to have donated the blood to the family he was staying with at the ...

91 killed as massive US tornado devastates Oklahoma suburb

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:07:45 -0400

Washington: A powerful tornado swept through an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday, tearing down blocks of homes, two schools and leaving at least 91 people dead, including 20 children, local officials said.The state medical examiner's office released the latest death toll but the number was climbing rapidly, as emergency crews combed through smashed homes and the collapsed remains of an ...

Moore Oklahoma tornado rescuers search for survivors – video

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:04:05 -0400

Rescuers search among the debris in Moore, Oklahoma, after a huge tornado ripped through the town on Monday. Fifty dead bodies, 20 of them children, have been discovered, and rescue workers expect 41 more. President Barack Obama has declared a state of emergency and ordered federal aid to supplement the recovery ...

FBI gives detail on agents death in training exercise

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:01:36 -0400

NORFOLK, Va. Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday night. Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw were killed in the incident Friday. Both were members of the bureau's elite hostage rescue team, a group known ...

Toby Keith Moore Oklahoma will persevere post-tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:01:36 -0400

OKLAHOMA CITY Country music performer Toby Keith says he was raised up in the area near Oklahoma City that was hit by a devastating tornado. Keith issued a statement saying Monday's tornado in Moore, Okla., devastated the community in which he grew up. The city has embraced Keith's celebrity, and his name is on the Moore water ...

Official expecting 40 more bodies

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:01:19 -0400

>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKI. Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Clinging to the hope of finding more survivors, rescue workers scoured mountains of rubble Tuesday where houses and schools once ...

Seven Afghan police killed amid fresh attacks

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:59:06 -0400

A powerful roadside bomb has killed seven policemen in western Afghanistan as forces were engaged in a deadly battle with up to 1,000 Taliban fighters who attacked police checkpoints in the south, officials have said. Police said that the Afghan National Army policemen died when their vehicle hit the explosive device planted in the road in the Chishti Sharif district of Herat province on Tuesday ...

In New Delhi Chinese Leader Promotes Trade Ties

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:42:17 -0400

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Four Georgian Men Arrested Over Antigay Violence

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:23:38 -0400

Georgian Orthodox Christian activists shout antigay slogan, before clashes with gay rights activists on the International Day Against Homophobia in Tbilisi on May ...

Beersheba killer told court needed gun for defense

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:18:49 -0400

shot and killed four people in a Beersheba bank on Monday, had a weapon despite an earlier police request to confiscate his weapon, the courts sent out a copy of the transcript of the hearing over confiscating his weapon.The court transcript from August 8, 2011 reveals that Alon's "winning argument" for keeping his weapon appeared to be that his life was in danger and he needed the ...

Many kids among 91 feared dead in US tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:18:49 -0400

MOORE, Okla. - At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed.President Barack Obama declared a major disaster area in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in Moore after the ...

Anti-Semitism on the rise - Kerry

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:18:03 -0400

American Secretary of State John Kerry, at the launch of a State Department report on religious freedom worldwide, voiced concern on Monday over rising anti-Semitism and laws used to target religious ...

Obama approves aid for Oklahoma

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:18:02 -0400

Moore, Oklahoma - At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a three-kilometre-wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was ...

Man scales St Peter’s in political protest

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:18:00 -0400

Italian businessman Marcello Di Finizio displays a banner to protest against austerity measures, on the dome of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 20, 2013. The banner reads, "Stop this massacre, the political horror show is continuing... Pope Francis help us". REUTERS/Alessandro ...

Brain-boosting Mediterranean diet could slow down the onset of dementia more effectively than low-fat alternative

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:12:45 -0400

The diet enjoyed by countries in southern Europe has long been thought to combat heart disease and cancer because it is rich in fruit, vegetables, fish, nuts, whole grains and olive ...

Video emerges of Pope Francis reportedly performing an exorcism

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:05:56 -0400

The astonishing footage, taken immediately after Pentecostal mass on Sunday 19th May, shows the Pontiff approach the second of two wheelchair bound people, whose face is pixelled out. After a priest leans across the boy or young man to tell Francis something, the Pope's expression becomes more serious, the voice-over notes. He then grips the top of the subject's head firmly and is seen ...

Anger as Barack Obama rewards Burmese President Thein Sein with White House visit despite recent claims of violence

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:02:19 -0400

Welcoming the first Burmese head of state to visit the White House in nearly 50 years yesterday, President Obama said "the leadership of President [Thein] Sein" had "allowed this shift" in the ...

Official Roadside bomb kills 6 policemen in western Afghanistan

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:55:14 -0400

KABUL - A powerful roadside bomb killed six policemen in western Afghanistan on Tuesday when their vehicle hit the explosives buried in the road, an Afghan official said. Insurgents often use makeshift land mines to target both Afghan government officials and international forces in Afghanistan. The explosives often kill civilians as well, accounting for a large percentage of Afghan civilian ...

Disney pulls show that makes fun of gluten-free child

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:54:33 -0400

Outrage by some parents over what they deem derogatory statements about children who need gluten-free diets that were made on the Disney Channel show "Jessie" has led the company to pull the episode off the air. "To our viewers, we received your feedback about tonight's 'Jessie' episode which some of you accessed early on Video-on-Demand," Disney said in a ...

Syrian opposition continue talks in Madrid

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:52:03 -0400

Syrian opposition groups are meeting in Madrid to compile a draft political solution to the conflict. The talks, which entered a second day on Tuesday, include Moaz al-Khatib, who resigned last week as leader of the Syrian National Coalition. Khatib cited the failure of the international community to stop the conflict as the reason he stepped down. The Spanish foreign ministry said ...

Obama Says More Reforms Planned In Burma

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:14:39 -0400

President Barack Obama says Burmese President Thein Sein has pledged to release more political prisoners and institutionalize democratic reforms in that southeast Asian country. Obama met with Thein Sein at the White House on May 20 in what was seen as a gesture of U.S. support for Burma’s moves toward democracy after decades of repressive military rule. It the first visit to the U.S. ...

Livni PA must know peace talks are the only game in town

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:10:15 -0400

Israeli is continuing an intense dialogue on the peace process with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said Tuesday during the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting. The common goal, she said, is re-starting direct talks between the Israelis and Palestinians: "We want the Palestinian Authority to know that peace talks are the only game in ...

Small and Large Steps towards Equality for Gays in Cuba

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:09:55 -0400

CIEGO DE VILA, Cuba , May 20 2013 (IPS) - The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Cuba has won advances on issues like the change of name of pre-operative transgender persons, while they continue to fight for the right to same-sex civil ...

Cameron survives vote on gay marriage

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:09:46 -0400

British Prime Minister David Cameron headed off another Conservative rebellion on Monday after the opposition Labour Party helped him see off a ';wrecking amendment'; which had threatened his gay marriage ...

Pentagon takes over some drone operations

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:09:44 -0400

Washington - President Barack Obama's administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA, several US government sources said on ...

Hezbollah ‘plays growing role in Syria’

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:09:42 -0400

Supporters of Hezbollah and relatives of Hasan Faisal Sheker, an 18-year-old Hezbollah member, carry the coffin during his funeral in Nabi Sheet near Baalbeck on Monday. About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on ...

Woman told to make funeral plans after contracting rare form of pneumonia defies the doctors to walk down the aisle on prosthetic legs

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:06:01 -0400

Debbie, from Gilberdyke, East Yorks, managed to pull through, despite falling into a coma - but doctors were forced to amputate both her legs, and part of her right ...

Video Tornado rips through Oklahoma

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:59:28 -0400

A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs yesterday, flattening entire neighbourhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 91 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and officials said the death toll was expected to ...

Former IRS head Shulman to give first public testimony

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:58:38 -0400

Former U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Washington in this October 8, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang/Files WASHINGTON - A U.S. Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and former officials of the Internal Revenue Service about the agency’s targeting of conservative ...

Obama opponents target Sebelius solicitations for group

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:58:37 -0400

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (R) and Attorney General Eric Holder (2nd R) lead a news conference to announce Medicare Fraud Strike Force law enforcement actions at the Justice Department in Washington, May 14, 2013. Also pictured is FBI Assistant Director Ron Hosko (L). REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON - With the White House already reeling from three major ...

Monstrous tornado devastates Oklahoma suburbs

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:51:19 -0400

Oklahoma City, flattening entire neighbourhoods and destroying a primary school with winds up to 200mph (320 kph). At least 51 people have been killed, including at least 20 children, and officials say the death toll is expected to rise to 91.The Oklahoma medical examiner's office said it has not yet received the 40 more bodies that had been retrieved from the rubble in Moore, but has been ...

Russia says two rebels killed in North Caucasus

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:26 -0400

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian security forces killed two suspected militants in the North Caucasus during a night-time sweep in the region plagued by an Islamist insurgency, investigators said on ...

Mammoth Okla. twister kills at least 51 including 20 kids

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:48:49 -0400

OKLAHOMA CITY The Oklahoma state medical examiner's office says 20 children are among the dead in the tornado that ripped through Oklahoma City suburbs. The twister killed at least 51 people, and officials fear the death toll will rise. Medical examiner spokeswoman Amy Elliott confirmed the children's deaths Monday night. The tornado made a direct hit on an elementary school in Moore, ...

Deadly tornado rips through Oklahoma City

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:46:26 -0400

US President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma after a 3km-wide tornado packing winds of up to 320kph tore through the state capital killing at least 51 people, including 20 children, and injuring at least 230. The Oklahoma medical examiner's office said it was expecting the death toll to rise to 91 people. Officials in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore said that many ...

Senior killed by donkeys after being dragged from scooter

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:34:56 -0400

(Fotolia) A pair of donkeys will be put down after they chased down a pensioner on his motor scooter, dragged him off and killed him. Sandor Horvath, 65, a retired firefighter, was visiting a pal's farm in Magyarszecsod, Hungary, last week when he was attacked by killer donkeys Muki and Szamoca. The animals bit and trampled him to death after dragging him about 50 ...

Okla. Medical examiner expecting more bodies

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:06:41 -0400

The vicious tornado that tore across central Oklahoma on Monday has killed at least 51 people -- with about 40 more bodies expected to arrive at the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office, Amy Elliott of the coroner's office said. The official death toll will gradually rise as the bodies are ...

Gay man’s murder sparks public anger

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:04:50 -0400

Thousands of New Yorkers - including mayoral candidate Christine Quinn - marched on Monday to protest the fatal shooting of a gay man in the neighbourhood that was the cradle of the modern US gay rights ...

Oklahoma tornado tears through school

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:04:49 -0400

Two girls stand in the rubble of their home after the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. A three-kilometre-wide twister tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes and trapping two dozen school children beneath ...

Konys LRA has killed more than 100000 UN

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:58:38 -0400

The Lord's Resistance Army has killed more than 100,000 people during a reign of terror in Central Africa over the past 25 years, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said on ...

Israeli troops in Golan return fire from Syria army

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:58:37 -0400

Israeli soldiers patrolling the disputed Golan Heights along the border with Syria fired back after coming under fire overnight, an Israeli Defence Forces statement said ...

5 things to know

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:45:36 -0400

>Editor's note: CNN's Thom Patterson boards the 787 Dreamliner Monday for its first commercial US domestic flight after it was grounded for battery problems. Watch for his report this afternoon on CNN.com and follow his progress on Twitter. Houston (CNN) -- Aviation fans have already named it Dreamliner 2.0. No longer grounded for safety concerns, Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner now has a ...

5 things to know

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:45:36 -0400

Analysis Some Republicans see new scandal in Sebelius fundraising

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:43:03 -0400

President Barack Obama makes a statement next to Secretary of HHS Kathleen Sebelius about contraceptive care funding in the press room of the White House in Washington, February 10, ...

Israel fires back at Syria after gunshots at its troops

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:43:03 -0400

Israeli soldiers walk together during a training close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights May 7, ...

IRS officials back on Capitol Hill hot seat over targeting

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:43:02 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and former officials of the Internal Revenue Service about the agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they sought tax-exempt ...

Devastating tornado kills at least 51 in Oklahoma City

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:07:58 -0400

On Monday afternoon a massive tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, leaving behind a mile-wide swath of devastation. As of this writing, 51 people have been confirmed dead, including some children from an elementary school that was in the path of the storm. Many remain missing, including an unknown number of children in the elementary school. At least 120 residents are being ...

20 children among victims of deadly Oklahoma tornado

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:58:25 -0400

OKLAHOMA CITY - A 2 mile-wide tornado that chewed through the Oklahoma City area on Monday is blamed for at least 51 deaths including 20 children, according to a CNN report. Officials at two hospitals say they've been treating more than 140 patients, including about 70 children, since the massive tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City. Spokeswoman Brooke Cayot says nine of 57 patients who are ...

6.0-magnitude quake hits Russias far-east Kamchatka coastline USGS

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:54:00 -0400

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula early Tuesday, followed by a series of strong aftershocks, the US Geological Survey ...

JPMorgan investors on edge over vote on Dimon what if they win

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:38:54 -0400

JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon testifies before the House Financial Services hearing on ''Examining Bank Supervision and Risk Management in Light of JPMorgan Chase's Trading Loss'' on Capitol Hill in Washington June 19, ...

Guatemalas top court overturns ex-dictators genocide conviction orders trial to resume

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:37:46 -0400

FILE - In this Friday, May 10, 2013 file photo, Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt wears headphones as he listens to the verdict in his genocide trial in Guatemala City. Guatemala's top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's and ordered his trial to resume. Constitutional Court secretary Martin Guzman says the trial needs ...

CBS takes Mike Molly tornado-themed finale off air

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:37:21 -0400

NEW YORK CBS has taken the scheduled season-ending episode of "Mike & Molly" off the air because its plot line revolved around a tornado threatening the couple. The network said it replaced the comedy with a rerun on Monday out of sensitivity to victims of ...

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