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Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:04 PM PST | Top |
South Korea parliament expected to approve budget on Monday Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 07:58 PM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's parliament was expected to pass next year's government budget on Monday after slightly expanding welfare spending programs in line with President-elect Park Geun-hye's campaign pledges. Media cited officials at the ruling and main opposition parties as saying they now aimed to put their agreed version up for vote later in the day after winding up debate on minor issues at sub-committee meetings. The value of the 2013 budget bill is expected to rise to about 342.7 trillion won ($320.11 billion) from 342. ... Full Story | Top |
Senate, House agriculture committees in deal to avert milk price spike Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 07:19 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Farm-state lawmakers have agreed to a one-year extension of the expiring U.S. farm law that, if enacted, would head off a possible doubling of retail milk prices to $7 or more a gallon in early 2013. The extension would end a 32-month attempt to update farm subsidies dating from the Depression era, when farmers were crushed by low prices and huge crop surpluses, to meet today's high-wire challenges of tight food supplies, high operating costs and volatile markets. ... Full Story | Top |
Chavez suffers new post-surgery complications Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 07:03 PM PST | Top |
Senate approves Baer to head Justice Department's antitrust team Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 06:13 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Sunday approved prominent antitrust attorney William Baer to head the Justice Department's Antitrust Division 10 months after he was tapped by President Barack Obama. The Senate voted 64-26 to approve Baer's nomination, which ran into problems with some Republicans because of secret information in an FBI background report. Baer, an antitrust and white collar criminal defense attorney with the law firm Arnold & Porter LLP, has worked in the past for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). ... Full Story | Top |
Chinese fishing boat detained in Japan: Xinhua Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 05:32 PM PST | Top |
Washington pushes United States to edge of "fiscal cliff" Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 05:24 PM PST | Top |
Stock futures edge higher as "cliff" talks continue Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 04:57 PM PST | Top |
Senate adjourns as "fiscal cliff" talks continue Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 04:56 PM PST (Reuters) - The Senate adjourned for the day on Sunday as Republicans and Democrats remained at odds over a deal to prevent taxes for all Americans from rising on New Year's Day. Senator Richard Durbin said the Senate would reconvene at 1100 EST/1600 GMT on Monday. (Editing by Christopher Wilson) Full Story | Top |
Parking dispute may have led to Maine shooting deaths: police Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 04:11 PM PST CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A dispute between neighbors over street parking may have led to the shooting deaths of two Maine teenagers, authorities said on Sunday after charging a 74-year-old man with murder in connection with the incident. Derrick Thompson, 19, and his girlfriend, Alivia Welch, 18, were killed on Saturday night in their apartment inside a two-unit home in Biddeford, Maine, about 15 miles southwest of Portland, state police spokesman Steve McCausland said. Thompson's mother, Susan Johnson, 44, who reported the shootings to authorities shortly after 7 p.m. ... Full Story | Top |
"Significant differences" stand in way of fiscal cliff deal: Reid Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 04:09 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Democrats and Republicans need to resolve significant differences to reach a deal to averting the "fiscal cliff" of looming tax hikes and spending cuts. "There are still significant differences between the two sides," Reid said on the Senate floor, adding that negotiations were continuing. "There is still time left to reach an agreement and we intend to continue negotiations," he added. (Reporting by David Lawder; editing by Christopher Wilson) Full Story | Top |
Obama endorses gay marriage proposal in Illinois Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:43 PM PST | Top |
Equity futures rise, but "cliff" stalemate suggests more losses Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:37 PM PST | Top |
Exclusive: Huawei partner offered embargoed HP gear to Iran Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:06 PM PST | Top |
Fiscal deal stalls as clock ticks to deadline Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:04 PM PST | Top |
Merkel says euro zone crisis far from over Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 03:02 PM PST | Top |
Pro-marijuana campaign looks ahead after 2012 victories Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 02:14 PM PST | Top |
Senate confirms Galante as FHA chief despite losses Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 02:02 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Sunday confirmed the head of the Federal Housing Administration in her position despite mounting losses the mortgage funding agency that some fear could eventually lead to a taxpayer bailout. In a 69-24 vote, the Senate confirmed Carol Galante as an assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Galante, a former affordable housing developer in San Francisco, had been running the FHA in an acting capacity since July 2011. The FHA, a key source of mortgage funding for first-time home buyers and those with modest incomes, backs $1. ... Full Story | Top |
Immigration, economic revival head Obama's second-term checklist Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 01:30 PM PST | Top |
Sunni protesters attack Iraq official's convoy, guards wound two Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:07 PM PST RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Bodyguards for Iraq's deputy prime minister wounded two people when they fired warning shots at Sunni protesters who pelted his convoy with bottles and stones on Sunday, witnesses said. The incident took place in the city of Ramadi in the western province of Anbar, to where Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq had travelled to address people in an attempt to defuse sectarian tensions. ... Full Story | Top |
Attack on Libyan church building kills two Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:00 PM PST TRIPOLI (Reuters) - An explosion on Sunday at a building belonging to a Coptic church in western Libya killed two Egyptian men and wounded two others, a military spokesman said. Attackers threw a homemade bomb at an administration building belonging to the Egyptian Coptic church in Dafniya, close to the western city of Misrata, said Ibrahim Rajab of Misrata military council. The Egyptian consul in the city, Tareq Dahrouj, said he had visited the church and the building where the two church workers were killed early on Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
Car bomb attempt on Northern Irish policeman foiled Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:47 AM PST BELFAST (Reuters) - An attempt by militant nationalists to kill a Northern Irish policeman was foiled when a booby trap bomb was found under his car, police said on Sunday. The attack was the latest by splinter groups of Irish republicans opposed to British rule of the province and a 1998 peace agreement that ended 30 years of sectarian conflict. It came two months after the first murder of a prison officer in almost 20 years and followed two weeks of rioting by pro-British loyalists protesting against restrictions on the flying of Britain's union flag from Belfast City Hall. ... Full Story | Top |
Democrats, Republicans apart on key "fiscal cliff" issues: Reid Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 11:27 AM PST | Top |
Bahrain policemen jailed for beating opposition member to death Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 10:33 AM PST DUBAI (Reuters) - Two Bahraini policemen were sentenced to jail for seven years each on Sunday for beating to death a Shi'ite opposition activist in custody during last year's crackdown on protesters. The sentences, reported by state news agency BNA, were criticized as too lenient by critics and may do little to blunt international criticism of human rights abuses since Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers quelled a Shi'ite-led uprising last year. ... Full Story | Top |
Senate leaders still have no fiscal cliff deal, time running out: senior aide Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 10:29 AM PST (Reuters) - Senate leaders have not yet been able to reach a deal to a avert a "fiscal cliff," and with time running out, it is uncertain if they will get one, a senior Senate aide said on Sunday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have been aiming to reach an agreement by 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) so that they can present it to previously scheduled closed-door meetings of their respective Democratic and Republican colleagues in an attempt to beat a New Year's Day deadline. ... Full Story | Top |
Italian Nobel scientist Montalcini dies at 103 Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 10:13 AM PST | Top |
Sudanese police block protest at human rights commission Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 09:58 AM PST KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces on Sunday blocked activists trying to deliver a petition criticizing the government to the country's human rights commission, drawing a rare rebuke from the state-appointed body. Sudan has avoided mass "Arab Spring" protests that unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia, but President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who seized power in 1989, has faced dissent over a severe economic crisis and corruption. ... Full Story | Top |
Court to rule on legality of Egyptian parliament Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 09:26 AM PST | Top |
No end to Syria war if sides refuse to talk -envoy Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 09:23 AM PST AZAZ, Syria/CAIRO (Reuters) - The international peace negotiator for Syria pleaded with outside countries on Sunday to push the warring parties to the table for talks, warning that the country would become a failed state ruled by warlords unless diplomacy is given a chance. Lakhdar Brahimi, who inherited the seemingly impossible task of bringing an end to the war after his predecessor Kofi Annan resigned in frustration in July, has launched an intensified diplomatic campaign to win backing for a peace plan. He spent five days this week in Damascus, where he met President Bashar al-Assad. ... Full Story | Top |
CAR president says ready to share power with rebels Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 09:23 AM PST | Top |
Obama touts Hagel, says no decision on defense secretary job Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 09:11 AM PST | Top |
Obama skeptical of NRA proposal to put more guns in schools Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:57 AM PST | Top |
Republican Senator says chances very good for limited "fiscal cliff" deal Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:49 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that chances for a limited "fiscal cliff" deal in the next 48 hours were "exceedingly good," as talks to avoid tax increases and spending cuts on New Year's Day went down to the wire. "I think people don't want to go over the cliff if we can avoid it," Graham, a leading conservative, said on Fox News Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
Turkey's Erdogan tells refugees Syrian rebirth near Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:41 AM PST ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told a crowd of thousands of Syrian refugees on Sunday their country was preparing for a "sacred birth" that would replace President Bashar al-Assad with the will of the Syrian people. Refugee camps in Turkey host 150,000 Syrians who have fled the conflict across the border, and Erdogan visited one of them on Sunday, telling the people there they should regard Turkey as their "second home" and that help was at hand. "We can see very clearly that God's help is close. ... Full Story | Top |
Central African Republic president says ready to share power with rebels Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:40 AM PST | Top |
Pakistan militants kill 41 in mass execution, attack on Shi'ites Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:36 AM PST | Top |
Central African Republic president says ready to form coalition government with rebels Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:35 AM PST BANGUI (Reuters) - Central African Republic President Francois Bozize said on Sunday he was ready to form a coalition government with the Seleka rebel alliance and would not stand for re-election in 2016. He told a news conference following a meeting with African Union Chairman Thomas Yayi Boni in the capital Bangui that he was ready for peace talks in Gabon, without conditions. A three-week-old Seleka rebellion has advanced to within 75 km (45 miles) of Bangui, posing the most serious threat yet to Bozize's nearly 10 years in charge of the turbulent and resource-rich former French colony. ... Full Story | Top |
Central African Republic rebels say aim is not to join government Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:35 AM PST PARIS (Reuters) - The Seleka rebel alliance in the Central African Republic will consider an offer by President Francois Bozize on Sunday to form a coalition government, but the group's aim is not to join the existing government, a spokesman said. "I take note of his proposals. We need to meet to study them," Seleka spokesman Eric Massi told France 24 television. He said that the rebels also wanted to see what guarantees would be made to them. ... Full Story | Top |
Obama says failure to reach fiscal deal would hurt markets Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 08:05 AM PST | Top |
CAR president says ready to form unity govt with rebels Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 07:50 AM PST BANGUI (Reuters) - Central African Republic President Francois Bozize said on Sunday he was ready to form a coalition government with the Seleka rebel alliance and would step down after his term ends in 2016. "I am ready to form a government of national unity with Seleka to run the country together, because I am a democrat," Bozize told a news conference following a meeting with African Union Chairman Thomas Yayi Boni in the capital Bangui. He added that he was ready to attend peace talks being organised by regional leaders in Libreville, Gabon, "without condition and without delay". ... Full Story | Top |
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