Top Stories: SANA'A, Yemen - After a year of violent protests against the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh, people in Yemen Tuesday voted to elect a new president - though there is only one candidate in the poll. Big News Network.com Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:22:34 -0500KABUL - Hundreds of angry demonstrators gathered outside the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan Tuesday to protest the alleged burning of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, by soldiers at the base. The US co... Big News Network.com Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:16:20 -0500PARIS - Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was Tuesday questioned by French police in Lille, northern France, as a suspect in a prostitution ring inquiry. Big News Network.com Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:11:44 -0500DAMASCUS - China joined Russia Tuesday in declining to participate in an international meet on Syria on a day at least 21 people were killed, a majority of them in the Homs neighbourhood of Bab Amr in... Big News Network.com Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:59:51 -0500TEL AVIV - Top Israel officials have strongly objected and conveyed to the US that its statements over an attack on Iran had "served" Tehran's interests. Big News Network.com Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:52:25 -0500NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, Tuesday reported a 15 per cent drop in fourth-quarter profit despite a turnaround in the US sales and continued strong performance at overseas... Big News Network.com Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:48:13 -0500LONDON - Businesses and charities in the country have been invited by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to participate in a new 126 million pounds scheme aimed at getting teenagers of 16 and above age... Big News Network.com Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:41:21 -0500BRUSSELS - After months swinging from yes to no amid hectic negotiations, eurozone finance ministers have finally agreed to save Greece from bankruptcy and approved a new bailout of $172 billion for t... Big News Network.com Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:20:25 -0500TOKYO - Japan Tuesday said it had come closer to the US on sanctions against Iran but denied any final agreement regarding the embargo even as a newspaper reported that Tokyo had proposed 11 per cent... Big News Network.com Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:12:08 -0500LONDON - A combination of a rise in tax receipts and a drop in local government borrowings has helped the UK's public finances record a surplus of 7.75 billion pounds in January, the biggest monthly s... Big News Network.com Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:04:22 -0500Two people were confirmed dead after a small plane crashed in Texas state in the US, authorities said. IANS Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:50:03 -0500The Weekly Standard reserves the right to use your email for internal use only. Occasionally, we may send you special offers or communications from carefully selected advertisers we believe may be ... Weekly Standard Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:16:45 -0500In Michigan - which has turned into a make-or-break contest for Romney - the former Massachusetts governor gets the support of 37 percent of likely GOP primary voters, including those who are ... Weekly Standard Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:16:42 -0500Serbia plans to open its first shelter for gays and lesbians, local media report. Dusica Davidovic, an official in the southern city of Nis told the"Juzna Srbija" (Southern Serbia) ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:03:49 -0500The Fitch international ratings agency has cut its long-term rating on Greek debt bonds by two notches -- from "triple C" to "C." Fitch says it now considers a Greek debt ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:03:43 -0500To get best possible experiance using our website we recommend that you upgrade to a newer version or other web browser. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:03:38 -0500The European Commission is suspending efforts to ratify an international anticounterfeiting agreement and instead referring it to Europe's highest court to see whether it violates EU rights. ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:03:33 -0500Serbs need to let kosovo go. If they wanted it so bad they should have fought harder for it. Instead the Serb army folded after a light NATO bombing ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:03:30 -0500The European Commission is threatening to withhold $655 million in EU development funds from Hungary because the Hungarian government has failed to reduce its deficit. EU Economy Commissioner ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:03:26 -0500To get best possible experiance using our website we recommend that you upgrade to a newer version or other web browser. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:03:21 -0500MINSK -- Belarusian opposition activist Paval Vinahradau, who was sentenced on February 22 to 10 days in jail for holding an unsanctioned "toy protest" in Minsk, says he is beginning a ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:03:17 -0500VITSEBSK, Belarus -- The trial of Belarusian opposition activist Syarhey Kavalenka in the eastern city of Vitebsk has been adjourned until February 23 after he went through an additional medical ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:03:12 -0500MIAMI - Foreign diplomats, influential business leaders and top Haitian politicians have been scrambling this week to prevent a political confrontation that could lead to the ouster of Prime ... McClatchy Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:52:53 -0500BOGOTA, Colombia - After weeks of intensive campaigning and marathon speeches, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday acknowledged he's not as healthy as he seems. During a televised ... McClatchy Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:52:50 -0500MADRID - Spain's Prado Museum on Tuesday revealed a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, also known as "La Gioconda," describing it as the most important known copy of the ... McClatchy Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:52:48 -0500Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz says Iran investing billion of dollars to develop inter-continental ballistic missiles, that they hope to pose "direct nuclear ballistic threat" to Europe, ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:36 -0500The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Wednesday it was pursuing contact with anyone wielding "influence" in Syria to clinch an immediate ceasefire to enable life-saving ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:34 -0500Natan Eshel scandal engulfing his office, saying that he should not have had to learn about it from the press.Asked at a press conference dealing with economic issues why he did not publicly back up ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:26 -0500Israel Beiteinu will propose an alternative to the Tal Law by which "everyone will serve the state," Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Wednesday. His comments came after the High ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:22 -0500Iranian investors are have expressed interest in Egypt's industrial sector especially amid tensions between Cairo and Washington over the detention of foreigners working in NGOs in Egypt, ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:19 -0500WASHINGTON - At least seven of the Obama campaign's 35 co-chairs are Jewish, including Alan Solow, a leading figure in the organized community.Solow is identified on the list released early ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:14 -0500Tel Aviv Municipal Council decision to seek permission from the Transportation Ministry to operate buses in the city on Shabbat.Despite criticism, there will be public transport in Tel Aviv on ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:06 -0500BOYNUYOGUN, Turkey - A man lies on the street, bleeding from a gunshot wound to his chest, clutching a single red rose. In the foreground, a soldier fires a shot from the hatch of his tank, a red ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:04 -0500The only thing bleaker than Betar Jerusalem's present is its future.It's hard not to feel sorry for the poor souls who spent their hard earned money on a ticket to watch Betar's 0-0 ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:01 -0500The issue of administrative detention for terrorism suspects has resurfaced in the headlines recently, following the two-month hunger strike launched by Islamic Jihad member Khader Adnan against his ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:58 -0500Jerusalem Cinematheque The Cinemateque screens a large selection of films: classical and modern, famous and off-beat, international and local. It also serves as a cultural institution with the ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:57 -0500Amman - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, trying to hammer the city of Homs into submission, on Wednesday killed 19 more people including two Western journalists in an onslaught that ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:47 -0500Germany should do away with the practice of surgical castration of sex offenders, the Council of Europe's anti-torture committee recommended Wednesday, calling the procedure degrading to the ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:44 -0500Journalist Marie Colvin is seen in this undated handout photograph released in London February 22, 2012. Colvin, an American who worked for Britain's Sunday Times and Remi Ochlik, a French ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:41 -0500Lille, France - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn spent the night in a seven-square-metre cell before French police questioned him for a second day on Wednesday over what he knew about about ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:38 -0500';The next minute he had stopped and was lying face down. The firemen arrived with the police and I said ‘He’s only been there five or ten minutes so if you hurry you might save ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:33 -0500The judge said Cairns should be ';thoroughly ashamed'; for putting her daughter in this position, before giving her a suspended ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:29 -0500';I felt I was being discriminated against because I was white. I was frustrated, angry and upset. They were treating me in a manner which was clearly ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:26 -0500A phone scam in which callers in India posed as debt collectors bilked millions of dollars out of more than 10 000 US residents by using threats of arrest or the loss of their jobs, US authorities ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:20 -0500Amman - Troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 27 young men when they raided villages in a northern Syrian province, an opposition activists' group said on ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:16 -0500Romney's future hangs in the balance, as in a week's time he could either be restored as the frontrunner in the Republican presidential race or be left staring into a political ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:07 -0500A two-year-old suffered an agonising death after drinking toxic liquid his mother was using to help grow cannabis in his bedroom, a British court heard on ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:47:02 -0500Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang on Wednesday denied he had breached bribery laws, after he admitted taking a luxury yacht trip offered by a tycoon during a private visit to the gambling hub of ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:46:58 -0500The United States and North Korea reopen nuclear talks this week that will provide a glimpse into whether a political transition to Kim Jong Il's young son is going smoothly two months after ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:46:53 -0500Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to ramp up diplomatic efforts against President Bashar Assad's regime on a trip to North Africa this week, as some countries begin to explore ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:46:48 -0500He said he only decided to have it killed when a customer asked him for cat meat. He intended to sell the meat at a price of 41 dollars per kilogram. The animal weighed 3.5 ... IOL Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:46:42 -0500ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - An inflammatory call by an American congressman for the secession of Pakistan's largest province has sparked uproar in the country, injecting fresh complications into stalled ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:39:54 -0500JERUSALEM: An Israeli committee was on Wednesday to approve construction of 500 new homes in the West Bank settlement of Shilo and retroactively legalise more than 200 built without permits, a ... Channel News Asia Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:29:46 -0500KABUL, Afghanistan - Protests against the burning by NATO personnel of an undisclosed number of Korans spilled into a second day on Wednesday and seemed poised to widen as the American Embassy here ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:17:17 -0500The UN nuclear agency acknowledged renewed failure today after a trip to probe suspicions of covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, in a statement issued just hours after an Iranian general warned of ... The Independent Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:12:11 -0500Afghan police killed at least three people today after opening fire to disperse thousands of protesters in several cities on a second day of demonstrations against the burning of Muslim holy books ... The Independent Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:12:05 -0500After Christopher Rochester, 24, died from internal injuries following a balcony fall on the island of Rhodes in 2000, his body was returned to the UK missing ... The Independent Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:11:59 -0500Italy's civil protection agency, which is managing the removal of the wreck, confirmed the bodies had been found adding it will take some time before they can be ... The Independent Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:11:55 -0500As families of the 185 people killed in the Christchurch earthquake marked the one-year anniversary of the disaster today, signs of a city still broken were all around ... The Independent Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:11:37 -0500Foreign minister Kevin Rudd announced his resignation during an early morning news conference today in Washington, where he is visiting on official business. His decision comes amid relentless ... The Independent Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:11:30 -0500The home ministry said Peter Mayle's Where Did I Come From? contains "elements that undermine societal morals and public interests". The book contains cartoons that narrate the ... The Independent Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:11:15 -0500A new circular from the prime minister's office orders officials to phase out the use of mademoiselle on administrative documents. Until now, a woman has been required to identify herself as a ... The Independent Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:11:08 -0500US authorities allege Dotcom facilitated millions of illegal downloads through his company. He had been in custody since his arrest on 20 January. A smiling Dotcom spoke to reporters briefly ... The Independent Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:11:02 -0500A view of the front of a commuter train that crashed into the Once train station during rush hour in Buenos Aires, February 22, 2012. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian A commuter train crash during rush ... C News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:09:20 -0500The oil tanker Elba (R) and the oil recovery sea platform Meloria (C) are seen near the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island ... C News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:09:17 -0500The Vita, which sells in the UK at 219 for the most basic model, features a touchscreen similar to those on many smartphones, as well as touch-sensitive panels on the back of the device for ... Sky News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:03:31 -0500Gary May, 43, is named in a federal information, a document that signals a defendant is cooperating with prosecutors. Reached at his home Wednesday morning, May declined comment. US Attorney Booth ... USA Today Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:51:54 -0500PARIS - General Motors is in talks about a possible tie-up with the French automaker P. S. A. Peugeot Citroën, a French government official said ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:51:15 -0500MOSCOW - Unidentified assassins tried on Wednesday to kill the president of Abkhazia, a Russian-backed rebel Georgian enclave, employing automatic rifles, grenade launchers and a powerful roadside ... International Herald Tribune Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:45:41 -0500SINGAPORE (Reuters) - About 55 of Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner jets could have a recently discovered flaw in the fuselage, the company said on Wednesday, while reiterating that the world's ... Reuters Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:40:14 -05001 of 2. Herman Nackaerts (R), head of a delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), arrives from Iran next to delegates Raphael Grossi (L) and Laura Rockwook at the airport in ... Reuters Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:40:10 -0500(CBS News) The Obama administration is set to propose an overhaul of the federal tax code for corporations, cutting both their tax rates and the loopholes available to them. Under the current tax ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:34:35 -0500(CBS/AP) KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan officials say seven people have been killed in clashes between Afghan security forces and protesters demonstrating over what the U.S. has said was the ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:34:34 -0500(AP) SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's administration has "fought against religion" and sought to ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:34:29 -0500A view of El Paso (in the background) in the state of Texas in the U.S. and Ciudad Juarez (foreground), state of Chihuahua, north Mexico, on May 28, 2008. (ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:34:25 -0500(CBS/AP/WGCL) NORCROSS, Ga. - Police in Georgia are describing a mass shooting at a spa outside Atlanta as a murder-suicide that was "probably domestic related." Police say that ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:34:19 -0500(Credit: CBS/AP) The race for the Republican presidential nomination is about to turn national, and the candidates Wednesday night have their last, best opportunity to make their case to the ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:34:10 -0500(AP) FLINT, Mich. - The mother of a former U.S. Marine sentenced to death in Iran on a spying conviction has visited her son in an Iranian prison, a spokesman for the Michigan family said Tuesday. ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:34:05 -0500(CBS News) Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch says President Barack Obama is moving in the right direction on corporate taxes and there's "no question the economy is picking up," ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:34:00 -0500Quarterbacks Brady Quinn #9 and Tim Tebow #15 of the Denver Broncos stand on the sideline during the NFL game against the Arizona Cardinals at the University of Phoenix Stadium on December 12, 2010 ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:33:56 -0500An image taken from video posted by Syrian opposition activists on Youtube allegedly shows the dead body of activist and blogger Rami al-Said, said to have been killed by shelling in Homs on Feb. ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:33:52 -0500Anti-American protests explode in Afghanistan. Also, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum targets his Republican rivals on the eve of another GOP debate. All that and more, in ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:33:46 -0500(Livescience.com) The world's oldest elephant tracks have now been revealed, 7-million-year-old footprints in the Arabian Desert, researchers say. These prehistoric footsteps, likely the work ... CBS News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:33:44 -0500A former nightclub bouncer has been jailed for a minimum of 35 years for murdering a pregnant teenager two weeks before she was due to give birth. Carl Whant, 27, of Bettws, Newport, raped and ... BBC Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:29:18 -0500Force India's Nico Hulkenberg set the early pace on the second day of the second pre-season test. At lunch, the German was 0.040 seconds ahead of Sauber's Sergio Perez with Red ... BBC Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:29:13 -0500Australia's government faces a mounting crisis after Kevin Rudd, the country's foreign minister, said he was resigning from his post over a widening rift with Julia Gillard, the prime ... Al Jazeera Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:26:07 -0500A packed train has crashed into the end of the track in a Buenos Aires railway station, injuring at least 340 morning commuters, according to Argentina's transportation secretary. The commuter ... Al Jazeera Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:26:03 -0500Vote counting is under way in Yemen, a day after a presidential election that was expected to confirm Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the current vice-president, as the country's new leader. Electoral ... Al Jazeera Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:26:00 -0500The leader of Abkhazia, a Russia-backed breakaway region that claims independence from Georgia, has narrowly survived an assassination attempt that killed two people and badly wounded another. ... Al Jazeera Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:25:55 -0500>Editor's note: Timothy Stanley is a historian at Oxford University and blogs for The Daily Telegraph. He is the author of the new book "The Crusader: The Life and Times of Pat Buchanan. "(CNN) ... CNN Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:40:28 -0500This evening, speaking at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said that folks getting and spending unemployment checks is a ... Weekly Standard Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:39:22 -0500Early voting is taking place in remote areas of Russia ahead of the March 4 presidential election. Members of the local election commissions of the autonomous Nenets district have visited ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:27:39 -0500');me.before(before);before.height($(document).height()); me.css('top', ($(window).scrollTop() + Math.round($(window).height()/2 - me.height()/2)) + 'px'); $('object, ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:27:33 -0500Reporters Without Borders has strongly criticized Kyrgyzstan for denying access to the website of a news organization. The Paris-based media monitoring organization said it was ... RadioFreeEurope Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:27:31 -0500UN nuclear watchdog disappointed with second round of talks with Tehran, says it was not allowed to enter Parchin; follows Iranian promise to continue ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:12:27 -0500Republican US presidential candidate Rick Santorum is essentially tied with rival Mitt Romney in Arizona, according to an opinion poll released on Tuesday that points to another possible surprise in ... Jerusalem Post Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:12:20 -0500 | 
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