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Unrest may spread across Europe warns Red Cross chief
Rocketing unemployment and poverty in some areas of Europe could lead to widespread civil unrest, unless governments take measures to address the humanitarian consequences of austerity measures, the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has ...
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Key witness against Lebedev cant testify
Mr Lebedev is charged with hooliganism motivated by political hatred for punching the property tycoon Sergei Polonsky during a 2011 television show.He faces up to five years in jail if found guilty. Mr Lebedev's lawyer, Genri Reznik, said Mr Polonsky's claim that he could not attend was "laughing in the face of justice" and noted that legally, if he is not seriously ill or ...
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Depardieu faces fine and ban in drink driving case
The actor Grard Depardieu faces a EUR4,000 (3,400) fine and a 10-month driving ban after a long-delayed drink driving case finally came to court in Paris ...
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Irans clerical leaders cut presidency down to size
"I think it is not possible to run the country worse than this," said the former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, right, after he became one of 700 candidates barred from standing in the election this week. He is normally reticent in criticising the Iranian authorities. There has frequently between tension between Iranian presidents and Iran's supreme spiritual leader ...
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Assad regime agrees to attend first peace conference with rebels
The Syrian government will attend a US and Russian-sponsored peace conference next month, despite President Bashar al-Assad publicly doubting the prospects of success for such a ...
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Dont let talks over two-state solution drift warns Hague
William Hague has warned the Israelis and Palestinians that the prospect of a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict is slipping away and that the region faces a bleak future if the latest US-sponsored push for talks is not capitalised ...
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Best U.S. beaches 2013
Main Beach took first place on this year's list of top-10 beaches produced annually by coastal expert Stephen P. Leatherman, also known as "Dr. Beach," director of Florida International University's Laboratory for Coastal Research. Read ...
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Amid military sexual assault crisis Obama urges Navy grads to uphold honor
As the Obama administration and Congress attempt to respond to the sexual assault crisis plaguing the military, President Obama on Friday urged the graduating class of the U.S. Naval Academy to "uphold the highest standards of integrity and character." "It's no secret that in recent decades Americans have lost confidence in the institutions that shape our society," Mr. ...
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GOP Rep. Obama elected because of Reagans immigration reforms
President Obama sits in the White House today because President Reagan brought so many Hispanic voters into the nation's fold with the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, Rep. Steven King, R-Iowa, postulated on the House floor Thursday. King, one of the House's staunchest opponents to a comprehensive immigration reform bill, reached that conclusion by connecting two disparate ...
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Bridge collapse blamed on tractor-trailer
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. A truck hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span into a river below as the driver watched the structure collapse in his rearview mirror. Two other vehicles plunged into the Skagit River, but all three occupants escaped with only minor ...
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What would an end to the war on terror look like
Flash Points: President Obama declared that the war on terror, "like all wars, must end," during a speech on Thursday, and CBS News Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate talks with CBS News National Security Correspondent Bob Orr about what the president meant when he said that and why any adjustments in counterterrorism policy must reflect a changing - but still perilous - ...
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UK security criticised after death of soldier
Britain's security services have faced questions over whether they could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier who was hacked to death in London. It has emerged that the suspected killers of 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby were already known to intelligence officers before they hacked the Afghan war veteran to death on Wednesday near the Woolwich army barracks. The two suspects, ...
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N Korea willing to take positive steps
A North Korean envoy has told China's president that his reclusive country was willing to take "positive actions" to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back to talks. But Choe Ryong-hae, a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, made no offer to abandon North Korea's nuclear programme on ...
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Nigeria military rescues kidnapped group
Nigeria's military said it has rescued women and children taken hostage by the rebel group Boko Haram after an attack on a police barracks. The claim on Friday by the country's defence department could not be independently confirmed. "Nigerian troops have rescued three women and six children from Boko Haram in the Sambisa forest in Borno state, in northern Nigeria," said a ...
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Two held after flight diverted in London
>Editor's note: Are you there? Share your photos and videos. London (CNN) -- Police arrested two men Friday on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after a flight from Pakistan to the United Kingdom was diverted to Stansted Airport, outside of London. A UK fighter jet was scrambled to escort Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK709 from Lahore as it was diverted from northwestern ...
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Podcast Kremlin Cold War Heats Up
They’re as different as night and day. One’s a cerebral economist with a talent for balancing budgets even amid mind-bending corruption. The other is a suave, flamboyant political operator whose hand was behind much of the political intrigue over the past decade. Both were key inside players during Vladimir Putin’s first stint in the Kremlin and each played a major role in ...
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In Moldova’s Breakaway Transdniester A Tale Of Two Cities
CHISINAU -- When Ukraine took on the rotating chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) this year, it pledged to use the post to resolve one of the region’s most intractable issues -- Moldova’s breakaway region of Transdniester. But as negotiators conclude a second day of talks in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, hopes of a breakthrough appear ...
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Despite word of split over al Qaida Nusra Front still key in Syria fighting
BAGHDAD - Jabhat al Nusra, the al Qaida-allied Syrian rebel group that’s also known as the Nusra Front, remains integral to efforts to topple the government of President Bashar Assad despite reported rifts within the group over its terrorist ties and claims by other rebels that Nusra’s assassinated rebel leaders in eastern Syria to consolidate its hold on oil fields and other ...
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Suspicious vehicle on the M6 causes long tailbacks and Bank Holiday getaway misery as police close motorway in both directions
At around 6.40pm Warwickshire Police tweeted: 'Motorway incident coming to an end. Hoping to open the motorway soon. More details will be posted ...
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Zoo worker seriously injured after being mauled by tiger while feeding it in the big cat enclosure
Until recently the park was the only zoo in the UK to hold both Siberian or Amur tigers and Sumatran tigers - breeds which represent both the world’s smallest and largest ...
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Two arrests after UK fighter jets escort Pakistani plane
British police arrested two men on a Pakistan International Airlines plane after British fighter jets were scrambled to escort it to a London airport on Friday, officials ...
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Who will win Frances culture war Ask Frigide Barjot
But the French humourist is not laughing. She's scared. "No," she corrects herself. "I'm not scared. I'm very scared. Look at this..."From somewhere in the indescribable chaos of her apartment in central Paris, Barjot, the unconventional leader of the French movement against gay marriage, produces an envelope. Inside, there is a paper handkerchief stained with ...
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Toronto mayor clings on as crack video scandal grows
Toronto's citizens are struggling to make sense of the events surrounding their mayor, Rob Ford, who has spent the last seven days ducking a media storm surrounding a video that allegedly shows him partaking of ...
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U.K. fighters escort Pakistan plane to airport 2 arrests
A Pakistan International Airlines is surrounded by emergency vehicles on the tarmac at Stansted Airport, southern England, May 24, 2013. British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft. (REUTERS/ Paul Hackett) LONDON - British fighter ...
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Amanda Bynes charged in alleged bong toss
Actress Amanda Bynes appeared in a criminal court Friday disheveled in a long blond wig and sweats where she was charged with reckless endangerment after police said she heaved a marijuana bong out of her Manhattan apartment ...
Mexico Feature
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Mexico has more to it than drugs and immigration
As Mexico’s image suffers damage abroad due to increasing levels of violence related to the drug crack-down by government, it may be helpful for Mexicans to remember that there is more to their country than drugs and immigration problems with the US. Some facts may be surprising and even shocking, especially to foreigners.
Mexico has been in the news frequently of late as the government carries out a crack-down on drug cartels and organized crime, the country’s murder rate is up, journalists have been killed for investigative reporting on drug gangs and our image internationally has generally been diminished by the tunnel vision of international news providers. Read more
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