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Search for survivors nearly over in Oklahoma as damage estimate is $2bn

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:06:51 -0400

MOORE, Oklahoma - Rescue workers were combing through the battered remains of buildings left behind in the path of the gigantic tornado that killed two dozen people, including nine children, in Oklahoma on Monday. Officials say the search for survivors is nearly over as efforts turn towards recovery. Gary Bird, fire chief of the badly hit Moore suburb, said he was "98% sure" there were no ...

Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects shot dead by FBI

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:03:15 -0400

MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida. The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, ...

Senate panel approves plan to ease hiring of foreign techies

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:41 -0400

WASHINGTON - A US Senate panel has cleared a proposed legislation that relaxes restrictions on IT companies to hire foreign techies, thus clearing one of the major hurdles to ushering changes in American immigration law in a generation. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill after its authors won a bipartisan support with three Republicans joining 10 Democrats in the 18-member ...

Eight candidates for Iranian presidential race

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:00:52 -0400

TEHRAN - Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of "oppression". He announced plans to take up the case with ...

Top North Korean official visits China

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:56:15 -0400

PYONGYANG, North Korea - In an indication that North Korea may give diplomacy a chance to end regional tension, its leader Kim Jong Un Wednesday sent a special envoy to China to win the confidence of its most important ally. The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers' Party official and the military's top political officer, comes after months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give ...

Bernanke says more positive signs needed before scaling back stimulus

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:25:11 -0400

WASHINGTON - Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke Wednesday said it was too soon to scale back the monetary stimulus and the central bank needs to see further signs of traction before taking a decision. A decision to scale back the $85 billion in bonds the Fed is buying each month could come at one of the central bank's "next few meetings" if the economy looked set to maintain ...

Higher exports fail to plug widening Japan trade deficit

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:52:11 -0400

TOKYO - Japan's trade deficit rose substantially more than expected in the month April to 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion), which is a 70% jump over the trade deficit during the corresponding month a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.. The deficit, for the tenth consecutive month, was wider than what many economists had forecast. A survey from the Nikkei business daily ...

Vitamin C offers hope of tackling drug resistant TB

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:56:35 -0400

WASHINGTON - Adding vitamin C to existing tuberculosis drugs regime could shorten the therapy for drug resistant TB, claims new research findings published in the online scientific journal Nature Communications. The striking discovery, by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria in laboratory ...

IMF warns UK against continuing austerity programme

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:53:31 -0400

LONDON - In a critique of the United Kingdom's austerity programme, the International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Europe's third largest economy to rebalance the policy to make the transition to a high-investment and more export-oriented economy. "The UK could boost growth by bringing forward measures already included in its fiscal plan, such as spending on infrastructure and job ...

Labour reforms to top US team agenda on Bangladesh visit

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:50:14 -0400

DHAKA - A high level US delegation led by the State Department's Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will visit Bangladesh this weekend to press for a major overhaul of labour safety regulations following the nation's deadliest industrial accident, an official said Wednesday. The collapse of a nine-storey factory complex housing several garment units outside the capital last ...

Barroro voices concern over estimated one trillion euro tax evasion

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:12:09 -0400

BRUSSELS - Voicing concern about tax evasion that is estimated at one trillion euros, European Commission President Jose-Manuel Barroso said Tuesday that EU leaders will meet at a one-day summit on Wednesday to negotiate solution. The European Union can't afford to let tax evasion go on the way it is. Such large amounts of money, currently sitting in tax havens, would be greatly beneficial ...

German central bank sees signals of economic pick up in Q2

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:04:27 -0400

FRANKFURT - Germany's central bank Deutsche Bundesbank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter relying on signals of pick up in industrial orders and likelihood of weather related downturn in construction sector no longer impacting investment sentiments a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of recession. "Overall ...

Mortgage lending in UK rises highest in four years

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:23:44 -0400

LONDON - The UK housing market seems to be picking up with gross mortgage lending up 4.3 per cent in April over previous month to 12.1 billion pounds, the highest in over four years, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). The mortgage lending was 21% higher than April 2012, but this data is skewed by the end of the stamp duty concession on 24 March, 2012. Under the stamp duty ...

U.S. for first time acknowledges role in deaths of Americans in drone strikes

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:10:20 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration confirmed for the first time on Wednesday that four Americans have died in U.S. drone strikes since 2009, but it sought to justify the killing of only one – a senior leader of al Qaida’s Yemen-based affiliate – and said nothing about the other three except to acknowledge indirectly that they’d been killed by accident. The ...

Turkey translates Prophets sayings for 21st Century

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:08:46 -0400

ANKARA - Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date.Turkish religious leaders and theologians received anxious calls asking about Western media reports they would edit a "radical" new set of hadiths, ...

The groom who went back to loot own wedding venue... and as hes sent to jail heavily pregnant wife is standing by him

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:05:00 -0400

But he later returned to the venue, broke in and stole hundreds of bottles of spirits, wine, beer and alcopops as he went on ...

US tornado damage could cost $2bn

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:43:33 -0400

The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb killing 24 people and damaging as many as 13,000 homes may have caused $2bn in overall damage, officials said. Oklahoma Insurance Department spokeswoman Calley Herth told the AP news agency that the early damage tally is based on visual assessments of the disaster zone that stretches more than 27 kilometres and that Monday's tornado was ...

Washington Memo Torches and Pitchforks for I.R.S. but Cheers for Apple

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:35:05 -0400

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All are now accounted for

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:22:52 -0400

>Country star Toby Keith tours the damage in his hometown of Moore, Oklahoma on AC360 tonight, 8pm ET. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH.(CNN) -- With everyone missing now accounted for from this week's deadly tornado, the long and difficult work of recovery can begin. "We are, we hope, in the recovery stages now," ...

Amnesty Report Notes Worldwide Abuses As Well As Courage Of Activists

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:04:25 -0400

In a new report, the global rights group Amnesty International (AI) documents abuses in 159 countries and territories that it says were "inflicted by those in power on those who stand in the way of their vested interests." The findings were published on May 23 in Amnesty International's annual report, "The State of the World's Human Rights," for 2012. It ...

JA chairman Sharansky Independent probe needed

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:59:35 -0400

The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.As agency chairman, Sharansky has a seat on the board of the conference, which was established in 1951 to secure restitution for Holocaust survivors and their heirs from the German ...

Berman Claims Conference staff unaware of fraud

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:59:34 -0400

Claims Conference chairman Julius Berman continued to deny having any knowledge of fraud being conducted within his organization prior to 2009 - only hours before JTA reported on Wednesday that he and other senior executives had launched a probe into the matter in 2001.According to documents obtained by JTA, Berman's law firm, Kaye Scholer LLP, launched a 2001 probe that failed to ...

In China Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:56:03 -0400

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Grieving mother of the red balloon brother and sister murdered by their British father leads tearful procession through French village

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:55:53 -0400

Mother Stephanie Morlet, who was divorced from Julian Stevenson, wore sunglasses as she joined hundreds of school children and well-wishers in her home ...

Oklahoma tornado Safety experts claim school where seven children died WAS ready despite not having shelter

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:55:52 -0400

The elementary school in which seven children died after a monster tornado barreled through an Oklahoma City suburb was ready for the twister, despite not having a shelter, experts ...

US House panel backs stiff new Iran sanctions

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:54:44 -0400

Iran could face tightened sanctions within months after a US congressional panel Wednesday adopted a measure targeting the nation's auto and mining industries as well as its foreign currency ...

Victim of savage face-eating attack still recovering

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:48:04 -0400

Miami cannibal may have been high on 'bath salts' The Miami man who nearly had his face chewed off in a gruesome attack last May has a message for the public: "Just generally thanks for contributing and helping out. People in my predicament need to be helped out," Ronald Poppo says in a video posted by Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical Center. Poppo, 65, has been in hospital ...

Nations to boost aid to Syria rebels until Assad goes

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:46:43 -0400

AMMAN (AFP) - World powers urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to commit to peace, but warned Thursday that if he fails to negotiate a political transition they would boost their backing of the opposition.The stark warning came from a meeting of the Friends of Syria group, which held talks on Wednesday in Amman to try to agree the contours of a peace conference to end the war.The conflict, now ...

New Details Emerge in Aurora Theater Shootings

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:46:38 -0400

CENTENNIAL, Colo. ...

U.S. House votes to force approval of Keystone pipeline

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:09:52 -0400

WASHINGTON | Wed May 22, 2013 7:09pm EDT WASHINGTON May 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday declaring that a presidential permit was not needed to approve the Canada-to-Nebraska leg of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. The Republican-controlled House voted 241-175 with support from some Democrats. The bill, which would take authority for ...

Jordanian FM hopeful Kerry will relaunch talks

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:32 -0400

Nasser Judeh in Amman says US Secretary of State's round-the-clock-efforts may create "inducing environment" to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; Kerry scheduled to meet Netanyahu, Peres, Livni in ...

Shapira to investigate Netanyahu over foreign trips

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:30 -0400

investigate the financial controversies surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as well as other public officials relating to their foreign trips.It was unclear what the scope of the investigation would be and what aspects it would add to ongoing investigations, but it was expected to include all of the latest developments in everything from the "Bibi Tours" affair to the ...

Govt bulldozers demolish 2 east Jerusalem homes

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:28 -0400

Government bulldozers demolished two residential buildings in east Jerusalem on Tuesday morning for being illegally constructed on a national park, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.However, Meretz city councilman Dr. Meir Margalit, who holds the east Jerusalem portfolio, dismissed the ministry's claim as a "dirty trick" that the government was using to confiscate land from ...

High Court summons A-G over east Jlem property

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:26 -0400

In an unheard-of development, a seven-judge panel of the High Court of Justice ordered Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to appear personally to explain the state's position on using a 1950 property law to confiscate east Jerusalem properties from Arabs for the benefit of Jews and the state, the courts announced on Wednesday.Weinstein essentially never attends hearings; he sends ...

Prosor angered by UNRWA’s map of Arab Palestine

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:24 -0400

NEW YORK - Early this month, Ann Dismorr, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Lebanon, stood in front of cameras holding a map of Israel labeled "Arab Palestine." Framed in green and black and shoddily printed, the projected Palestinian state is shown surrounded by countries with modern borders: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.Israeli officials are well used to seeing maps of ...

Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:24 -0400

BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an economic boycott of it."In a statement ...

Neighbours View Sharif as Yoked to Personal National History

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:04 -0400

- Following on Nawaz Sharif's victory in the May 11 national elections in Pakistan, many analysts are indicating cautious optimism on the prospect that the new prime minister can strengthen bilateral relations with the country's neighbours, particularly ...

Insects from Delicacy to Tool against Hunger

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:04 -0400

MEXICO CITY, May 22 2013 (IPS) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s recommendation to consider using edible insects as a food source to combat hunger may have particular repercussions in Colombia and Mexico, two Latin American countries that have a tradition of eating insects and a high degree of ...

New Effort Targets the Leading Killers of Children

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:04 -0400

- PATH, a Seattle-based global health development organisation, is aiming to save two million lives by 2015 by jointly tackling diarrhea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children ...

Cuban Agriculture Needs Young People

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:03 -0400

She is not sure where her vocation came from, but she does know that this is what she wants to do. In Cuba, which is seeking to boost agricultural yields, there is a scarcity of young people working in the sector. Blanco, a petite 20-year-old, dropped her math studies after two years to try her hand at ...

Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangladesh

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:50:03 -0400

- Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water.On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh's arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of ...

Sweden riots Stockholm burns as rioters battle police after three days of violence in immigrant ghetto

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:56 -0400

It is Sweden's worst disorder in years and has shocked the country and provoked a debate on how Sweden is coping with youth unemployment and an influx of ...

Woolwich attack More than 100 English Defence League supporters gather near scene of killing

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:55 -0400

Officers formed a cordon and the men left the immediate area after the brief incident. Some of the EDL supporters gathered at The Queen's Arms pub locally, where they sang nationalistic ...

Third times a charm Angela Merkel named the most powerful woman in the world three years running

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:54 -0400

Third time lucky: German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for the third year ...

Captain Calamity Francesco Schettino faces 20 years in jail as he WILL stand trial over Costa Concordia shipwreck

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:53 -0400

Francesco Schettino was commanding the giant cruise liner when it ran aground and sank off the island of Giglio in January last year, killing 32 people. The tragedy is considered Italy’s worst maritime disaster since the Second World ...

Ten more years of Mugabe President of Zimbabwe 89 signs new constitution limiting power to two terms - unless youve been in office for 33 years

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:53 -0400

A beaming Mugabe, flanked by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, his main political rival, and Deputy President Joice Mujuru signed multiple copies of the charter at State House in the capital Harare to cheers and applause from ...

Dominique Venner Outrage as Femen protestor mocks Notre Dame suicide by posing with gun in her mouth a DAY after right-wing historian killed himself on altar

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:52 -0400

A topless Femen activist held a fake gun in her mouth on the altar of Notre Dame cathedral - a day after a right-wing historian shot himself dead inside the iconic Paris ...

Imran Khan leaves hospital in good spirits 2 weeks after plummeting 15 feet at political rally in Pakistan

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:46:51 -0400

Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan has left hospital two weeks after he received serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift truck at a campaign ...

IRS official refuses to testify before Congress

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:45:46 -0400

The IRS official who oversees non-profit applications refused to testify Wednesday at a congressional panel probing abuse at the US tax agency but defiantly insisted she had done nothing ...

Friends of Syria demands withdrawal of Hezbollah Iran fighters

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:29:15 -0400

AMMAN (Reuters) - The Friends of Syrian alliance called on Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally on Thursday to withdraw fighters immediately from Syrian territory and described their armed presence in the country as a threat to regional stability. In a communiquÃ© issued after a meeting in Amman, the alliance said any transitional government in Syria being proposed as a core of a U.S. ...

Graphic video Man dead in truly shocking London attack

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:44 -0400

Warning: graphic video. A man with bloodied hands and knives appears in amateur video that shows the immediate aftermath of an attack in southeast London in which a man was killed. Jessica ...

Sergio Garcia apologizes to Tiger Woods for fried chicken remark

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:43 -0400

In this photo made May 12, 2013, Sergio Garcia, of Spain, left, shakes hands with Tiger Woods at the end of the third round of The Players championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, ...

Chicago Board of Ed votes to shut down 50 schools

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:28:42 -0400

Protesters of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's plan to close dozens of city schools rally in the rotunda at the Illinois State Capitol Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Springfield ...

US admits drones killed four Americans

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:09 -0400

The United States has killed four of its own citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, the Barack Obama administration has formally acknowledged. Eric Holder, the US attorney general, ...

Art Basel Hong Kong Opens on Thursday

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:53:58 -0400

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Doctors save Ohio boy by printing an airway tube

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:43:39 -0400

In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab.In the case of Kaiba (KEYE'-buh) Gionfriddo, doctors didn't have a moment to spare. Because of a birth ...

Pickering agrees to be questioned over State Department’s Benghazi probe

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:43:28 -0400

WASHINGTON - The retired U.S. diplomat who co-chaired an internal State Department review of the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday ended his refusal to submit to a closed-door interview with a Republican-led House committee that is investigating the assault. No date was set for the private deposition of retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering by staff of ...

U.S. U.N. urge Gulf states to donate more for Syrian refugees

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:43:27 -0400

WASHINGTON - With its neat rows of carpeted cabins, security monitors and on-site hospital and school, the Mrigb al Fuhud camp in Jordan is opulent compared with the squalid tent cities that house other Syrian refugees. Humanitarian workers, however, privately deride it as a five-star hotel or the Stepford camp. Built by the United Arab Emirates for nearly $10 million, the camp holds ...

Soldier killed in Golan mine accident to be buried

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:13 -0400

killed in a minefield accident on Wednesday as Roee Yisrael Alfi, 18, of Gan Yavne, and promoted him posthumously to the rank of corporal.Alfi, who had been in training and was tasked with clearing a minefield on the Golan Heights, died after one of the mines, which had been exposed and marked ahead of its clearance, went off for an unknown ...

Non-Orthodox Jews can use mikvaot for conversion

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:11 -0400

Deputy Religious Services Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said on Wednesday that ritual baths, or mikvaot, could be used by Conservative and Reform groups for their conversion process, even though the Chief Rabbinate does not recognize conversions conducted by non-Orthodox Jewish denominations.Ben-Dahan was speaking during a hearing of the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee, which was reviewing the ...

Labor faction chairman Herzog forms lobby for IBA

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:09 -0400

Labor Party faction chairman Isaac Herzog has set up a Knesset lobby to protect the interests of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, for which he was responsible when he served as welfare and social services minister.Herzog formed the lobby in response to a report in ...

J’lem to offer free checkups for hearing awareness

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:05 -0400

Jerusalem's Hadassah Academic College will conduct free hearing tests for the general public, performed by Hadassah University Medical Center ear-nose-and-throat specialists along with the college's clinical-communications students on Tuesday as part of National Hearing Awareness Day events.Events will be held on Tuesday, May 28 at starting at 8 a.m. in cooperation with various ...

Jordan Red Cross tours J’lem women’s health clinic

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:03 -0400

A delegation from the Jordanian Red Cross came to Jerusalem on Wednesday to tour Bishvilaych, a nonprofit medical clinic for haredi and Modern Orthodox Jewish women in the capital's Givat Shaul neighborhood.Many traditionally religious women feel uncomfortable about being examined by male doctors and discussing intimate matters with them - and according to the heads of the clinic, ...

Shalom Gas exports to be capped at 40

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:42:01 -0400

Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom intends to set the maximum natural gas export allocation at 40 percent rather than the expected 53% figure, he told Channel 2 on Wednesday night. As companies continue to explore and drill through Israel's eastern Mediterranean waters, export allowances have become a topic of contention across the country. The 282-billion cubic meter Tamar ...

Smartphone app updates bus proximity in real time

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:41:59 -0400

Rather than pacing at a bus stop wondering why the 8 a.m. line still has yet to show up at 8:15, Israeli travelers are now able to take advantage of a smartphone application that provides updates about their bus's proximity in real time.The iPhone and Android app NetBus is the brainchild of four young men who came up with the idea during their army service and are equal partners in the ...

Claims Conference leaders must resign now

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:41:57 -0400

Over the past few days, there have been additional mind-boggling exposures of further scandals, lack of transparency, cover-ups and ethical failures at the highest possible levels of the Claims Conference leadership and management. Unless these latest reports appearing ...

Mothers anger after officials only grant one of her disabled identical twin sons disability benefit

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:37:56 -0400

A couple have spoken of their disbelief after just one of their disabled identical twin sons, who both have Downs Syndrome, was granted vital disability benefits while the other was ...

Woolwich attack Shocking video taken by eyewitnesses to slaughter of soldier in which killer blames British Government and apologises to women who saw it

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:37:55 -0400

Shocking footage emerged this evening of one of the suspected Woolwich attackers, covered in blood and saying: 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a ...

We will never buckle to terror Cameron spreads defiant message online that Britain will face down threat from extremists

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:37:54 -0400

David Cameron tonight issued a defiant message that Britain will ’never buckle’ to terrorists in the wake of the horrific knife attack in ...

Jodi Arias death penalty jury in deadlock

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:30:20 -0400

Jodi Arias looks at her family during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Rob Schumacher/Arizona ...

London attack

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:25:38 -0400

>Are you there? Send us your photos, videosLondon (CNN) -- They first hit the man, thought to be a British soldier, with a car in broad daylight. Then the two attackers hacked him to death and dumped his body in the middle of a southeastern London road. As the victim -- dressed in what appeared to be a T-shirt for Help for Heroes, a charity that helps military veterans -- lay prone, one of the ...

London attack

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:25:38 -0400

London attack

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HP profit down 32 percent shares up as results beat estimates

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:20:52 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co's quarterly profit slid 32 percent but the world's largest personal computer maker raised the lower end of its full-year outlook after earnings per share beat forecasts, sending its stock 10 percent ...

Graphic video knife-wielding suspect talks to camera

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:19:07 -0400

Warning: graphic video. A man with bloodied hands and knives appears in amateur video that shows the immediate aftermath of an attack in southeast London in which a man was ...

Fed uncertainty extinguishes rally

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:19:05 -0400

NEW YORK Stocks fell today on news that several Federal Reserve policymakers in a meeting earlier this month favored cutting back on stimulus programs as early as June if the economy continued to improve. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 80 points to 15,307, a loss of a half a percent. The release of minutes of the April 30-May 1 meeting reversed a 154 point surge in early trading after ...

AG Holder Drones killed 4 Americans since 2009

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:19:05 -0400

Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009. The attorney general said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda and its associated forces, the government has targeted and killed one American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki. Awlaki, a senior al Qaeda operative, has been connected to the 2009 Christmas Day ...

3-D printer helps save dying baby

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:13:11 -0400

>Editor's note: "Life's Work" features innovators and pioneers who are making a difference in the world of medicine.(CNN) -- When he was 6 weeks old, Kaiba Gionfriddo lay flat on a restaurant table, his skin turning blue. He had stopped breathing. His father, Bryan, was furiously pumping his chest, trying to get air into his son's lungs. Within 30 minutes, Kaiba was admitted to a local ...

Immigration agent unions go rogue

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:05:28 -0400

>Editor's note: Ruben Navarrette is a CNN contributor and a nationally syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Follow him on Twitter: @rubennavarrette. San Diego (CNN) -- Welcome to the chaotic Department of Homeland Security. Two unions -- representing nearly 20,000 DHS employees -- recently joined forces to publicly oppose the Senate immigration reform bill from the ...

London attack

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:43:19 -0400

A Glimmer of Hope for the Illinois GOP

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:02 -0400

After a decade of the Democratic party dominating all levers in government the state of Illinois is a mess. Its government pension debt is far and away the largest of the 50 states and its dismal credit rating reflects it. Unlike neighboring states Illinois is hemorrhaging jobs and dancing around its myriad problems, apparently hoping they'll go away on their ...

Yahoos Insane Purchase of Tumblr

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:02 -0400

This week we have entry #5,740,412 in the ledger documenting "Why Not Every Market-Based Outcome Is Optimal." And that's the Yahoo purchase of ...

RFERLs Turkmen Correspondent Released From Custody

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:36:25 -0400

was released today under circumstances that have yielded little information about his ordeal. Acting RFE/RL President and CEO Kevin Klose welcomed Yazmuhamedov's release, saying, "We're very happy he's safe, and I thank the governments, international organizations, media outlets and NGOs that challenged his detention and pressed for his release." ...

With Hezbollah coffins Syria now exporting conflict

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:47 -0400

HERMEL, Lebanon - On a country road in Lebanon's northeast, traffic is heavy; ambulances screech by, sirens blaring, and cars packed with mourners follow coffins as Hezbollah brings wounded fighters home from Syria, and its dead.With the bodies from the battle over the border at Qusair, comes the violence, as civil conflict between Syria's Iranian-backed ruler and Sunni rebels ...

‘I won’t let Bikur Cholim close’ says Gamzu

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:47 -0400

After years of financial trouble, Jerusalem's Bikur Cholim Hospital is now being run "impressively" by the capital's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Health Ministry director-general Ronni Gamzu ...

US Jewish groups help out after Oklahoma tornado

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:45 -0400

"Unfortunately, this isn't the first nor will it be the last disaster to hit Oklahoma, so we're setting up a fund to reflect that," says Rabbi Vered ...

LA elects first Jewish mayor since 1878

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:44 -0400

LOS ANGELES - This city chose Eric Garcetti as its first elected Jewish mayor in one a number of political contests on Tuesday that reflected the city's diversity, as well as its numerous variations of Jewishness.Garcetti, 42, and a veteran city councilman, defeated City Controller Wendy Greuel by eight points according to final results announced on Wednesday morning. He will take ...

A crisis over parking

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:43 -0400

Israel isn't the only Western country debating the relationship between religion and the state. In fact, this is becoming one of the hottest issues across Europe and North America, brought to the forefront by changing demographics in the West: its social make-up becoming more and more multicultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious.Canada is certainly not immune, especially its ...

Forget ‘Start-up Nation’ please

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:43 -0400

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Media Comment The IBA’s ‘reformation

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:42 -0400

This past Tuesday, the Knesset Economics Committee, chaired by Professor Avishai Braverman (Labor) discussed rehabilitating the Israel Broadcasting Authority.The IBA's leadership, chairman Dr. Amir Gilat and executive director Yoni Ben-Menachem, are to be complimented for having brought to almost full fruition a process that began almost a decade ago and was considered by many to be ...

Washington Watch Is Hillary inevitable

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:41 -0400

It seems all we're hearing from the political mavens these days is how Hillary Clinton is not only the inevitable 2016 Democratic nominee but a shoo-in as the next president.That may be good news to Jewish Democrats - Clinton remains a popular figure among Jewish voters despite virulent efforts by the far Right to portray her as anti-Israel - but it is already producing mudslinging that ...

Encountering Peace Who is not a peace partner

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:39 -0400

On Monday the Knesset Caucus for Israeli- Arab peace was launched, attended by about one-third of the Knesset Members and with more than 250 citizen supporters in the audience.This caucus of MKs strives to be the largest in the 19th Knesset based on support of what is believed to be the official position of the government and the prime minister. Two states for two peoples is the central ...

Another battle of hearts and minds

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:38 -0400

The al-Dura incident was the defining moment of the second intifada. It occurred on September 30, 2000, which is considered the first day of the second intifada.Although the process leading up to it was long and included political milestones such as Camp David, and violent incidents such as Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount, the large-scale fighting only began immediately ...

U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:23 -0400

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Icelands new eurosceptic government vows EU referendum

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:26:34 -0400

The two parties that emerged victorious from Iceland's general election in April announced Wednesday they had agreed to form a government and vowed to hold a referendum on EU ...

Oklahoma twister that hit Moore ‘more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb’

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:20:49 -0400

The vast tornado that struck an Oklahoma suburb on Monday afternoon dwarfed even the Hiroshima atomic bomb in its destructive power, according to ...

3 in Europe Now Oppose Hezbollah

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:11:15 -0400

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Germany and Britain Push to List Hezbollah as a Terror Group

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:11:15 -0400

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Man hacked to death in London street in suspected militant attack

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:10:17 -0400

1 of 2. Police officers guard a cordon set up around a crime scene where one man was killed was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, ...

Shocking attack in England

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:32 -0400

Police forensics tents and officers are seen in Woolwich, east London, May 22, 2013. British police shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron called "truly shocking." In a dramatic move, the government's emergency response committee was being summoned following the killing ...

Weird pirate ant comes with an eye patch

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:31 -0400

Scientists have discovered a strangely patterned new insect in the Philippines, dubbing it the "pirate ant" because of a dark stripe over its eyes that makes it look like it's wearing an eye patch. The formal name of the newfound creature is Cardiocondyla pirata, and belongs to a group of species that are found from Thailand across the whole Indonesian-Malaysian region. "On a ...

Kate wears sunny yellow for palace garden party

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:30 -0400

Prince Charles, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, attend a garden party on the grounds of Buckingham Palace in London on May 22, ...

Tsarnaev friend implicates dead brother self in murders

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:30 -0400

Mugshot photos of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, and Ibragim Todashev, was fatally shot in Orlando, Fla. May 22, 2013 when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials ...

Jodi Arias jury We cant decide sentence

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:30 -0400

(CBS/AP) -- After launching deliberations Tuesday afternoon, a jury weighing whether or not Jodi Arias will be sentenced to death has announced they are unable to reach a unanimous decision. After briefly entering the courtroom just before noon on Wednesday, a judge ordered them to continue ...

Suspect shot after talking on camera

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:56:04 -0400

>Are you there? Send us your photos, videosLondon (CNN) -- A man thought to be a serving British soldier was killed by two armed men in a frenzied attack on a London street Wednesday, in what the government is treating as a suspected act of terrorism. Witnesses told of a gruesome scene in which the man was hit by a car, then hacked with cleavers and his body dumped in the middle of the road in ...

Report on Bangladesh Building Collapse Finds Widespread Blame

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:52:10 -0400

DHAKA, Bangladesh ...

How to help kids recover from twister

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:40:55 -0400

>Editor's note: Melissa J. Brymer is the director of the Terrorism and Disaster Programs at the UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress.(CNN) -- Many of the Oklahoma families whose lives were devastated by the tornado will recover over time, especially with the help and support of family and community. But children need special attention as they struggle with what ...

Congressman Worries About Chilling Effect of Scandal -- On IRS

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:32 -0400

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Another IRS Scandal Two ‘Sentenced for Unemployment Insurance Fraud’

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:32 -0400

Congressional hearings over the last two weeks have been filled with stories of misconduct due to incompetence and inexperience among certain IRS employees. Both Republicans and Democrats have leveled the accusations, and Internal Revenue officials testifying before Congress have admitted as much. At the same time, all parties have stressed that the vast majority of IRS employees are hard ...

Former politician called B.C.’s ‘flying MLA’ perishes in plane crash

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:28:22 -0400

Former B.C. MLA Harold Long has died in a plane crash, the B.C. coroner's office confirmed Wednesday morning.Mr. Long, 72, first served as an MLA for McKenzie from 1986 to 1991, and then for Powell River-Sunshine Coast from 2001 to 2005.The coroner's office said Mr. Long was the sole occupant of a DHC-2 Beaver float plane that was spotted overturned in Bute Inlet on the west side of ...

FBI Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:26:51 -0400

Investigators stand outside an apartment complex in Orlando, Fla., where a man was fatally shot when a team of FBI agents swarmed his home early on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The FBI says the man, being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation. (AP Photo/John ...

Cameron Says Attack In London Could Be Terrorist Incident

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:25:22 -0400

British Prime Minister David Cameron says there are strong indications that an attack in London could be a "terrorist incident." Speaking at a press conference in Paris, Cameron said the attack was "absolutely sickening" and announced he was cutting short his trip to return to London. British police on May 22 said they shot and wounded two suspected attackers after a man ...

Detained RFERL Turkmen Correspondent Released

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:25:20 -0400

TURKMENABAT, Turkmenistan -- A Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondent based in Turkmenistan has been freed after being detained by police earlier this month. Rovshen Yazmuhamedov told RFE/RL that he was released on May 22 after spending two weeks in custody. It is still unclear why he was detained in the northeastern city of Turkmenabat. Yazmuhamedov, 30, has worked for ...

Brutal London attack leaves one dead near barracks

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:25:16 -0400

In a brutal daylight attack which raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks before police wounded them in a shootout. In a shocking video broadcast on British TV, one man gestured with bloodied hands, waving a butcher knife in the air and shouting political statements against the British government as ...

European Union Leaders Meet on Tax Evasion

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:23:30 -0400

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Police release portion of bank shooting video

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:19:59 -0400

Mourners bid farewell to victim of bank shooting In the video, shooter Itamar Alon can be seen entering the bank branch at 11:34, hours after he visited the bank earlier in the day. He had come in and been turned down when he tried to take money out of his account, which was NIS 6,000 in the overdraft.At 12:50, Alon is shown speaking to a bank employee who is on the other side of the door, though ...

Thanks to Kuperwasser al-Dura report truth is on its way

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:19:55 -0400

For over 10 years, I've been fighting, along with many friends, to get out the truth about the al-Dura blood libel.For many years, the strongest argument of our opponents has been the silence of the State of Israel when my efforts were sometimes undermined by Israeli diplomats. So getting the support of Israeli public diplomacy was an important objective.On Sunday, Prime Minister ...

Saudi Qaeda plotters get long jail terms

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:19:16 -0400

Riyadh - A Saudi court sentenced eight citizens to jail terms of between 10 and 25 years on Wednesday after convicting them of plotting for Al-Qaeda, state news agency SPA ...

Woolwich latest Shocked eyewitness tells of horrific machete attack on soldier

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:15:45 -0400

An eyewitness who watched a man brutally killed with a machete-style knife and dumped in a street tonight dramatically revealed how he watched the two attackers behave like 'crazed ...

The joke’s on me – Chechen leader is double the trouble in online hoax

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:08:28 -0400

As if one Ramzan Kadyrov were not trouble enough, for a while this week it appeared that the world might have to deal with two of them. Chechnya's controversial president posted a number of photographs on his Instagram account laughing and joking with a body double. Both men were dressed in the same outfits and bore such a close resemblance to each other that it was impossible to tell which ...

Former B.C. MLA Harold Long dies in float-plane crash off Stuart Island

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:07:43 -0400

A former member of B.C. legislative assembly, Harold Long, has been identified as the victim in a float plane crash off Stuart Island.The BC Coroners Service says Long was the pilot and sole occupant of a Beaver float plane that overturned in Bute Inlet off Stuart Island, northeast of Campbell River, yesterday afternoon.Long died at the scene and his body was recovered later in the day.Long, who ...

Topless protest at church after historians suicide

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:07:22 -0400

Topless protest at church A Femen activist protested in Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral on Wednesday, one day after far-right historian Dominique Venner committed suicide inside. Venner shot himself at the altar in front of around 1,500 visitors. Venner condemned both same-sex marriage and Islamist influence in France in writings before his death. The now infamous topless protesters released ...

Helen Clark ranked 21st most powerful woman

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:05 -0400

Helen Clark has been ranked as the 21st most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. The head of the UN's development programme is the only New Zealander in the list of 100 women - and moves up from number 50 two years ago and 61 two years before that. It is the ninth time she has featured on the list. Helen Clark is in charge of a budget of almost $6 billion and a staff of 8000 in 177 ...

Obama to view Oklahoma tornado damage Sunday

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:37 -0400

President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla., on Sunday. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the president will view the tornado damage first-hand. He also plans to meet with victims and first responders. The monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday afternoon, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of rubble. State ...

People cling to car in sidewalk skiing stunt

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:36 -0400

A plane carrying 140 people caught on fire when landing at an airport in Moscow, Russia. No one was injured. Video shows passengers fleeing the aircraft via emergency exits, then jumping from the wing, while firefighters attempt to extinguish the ...

Triple homicide focus of questioning before FBI shooting

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:35 -0400

Christie Keep politics out of Oklahoma disaster relief

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:35 -0400

BELMAR, N.J. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says now is "not a time for political retribution" against the people of Oklahoma victimized by a powerful tornado. The Republican governor on Wednesday urged lawmakers in Washington to support "swift and immediate" aid to tornado victims, even though Oklahoma's two GOP senators voted against bills sending $60 billion in federal ...

Experimental asthma drug helps untreatable patients in study

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:33 -0400

Asthma suffers who aren't helped by existing medications may have reason to breathe a sigh of relief. An experimental drug called dupilumab was shown to reduce asthma attacks and helped boost lung function for people with moderate to severe asthma who can't control their symptoms with conventional medicine like ...

Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her We want to start a war in London tonight

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:50:24 -0400

A mother-of-two has described how she put her own life on the line by trying to persuade a British soldier's murderers to hand over their weapons. Cub scout leader Ingrid Loyau-Kennett selflessly engaged the terrorists in conversation and kept her nerve as one of them told her: "We want to start a war in London tonight. "Mrs Loyau-Kennett, 48, from Cornwall, was one of the first people on the ...

Officials Meet After Brutal Attack in Southeast London

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:49:51 -0400

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