Palestinian teen stabs to death an Israeli soldier Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:55:41 -0800 JERUSALEM, Israel - A Palestinian teenager allegedly stabbed to death 19-year-old Israeli soldier in northern Israel Wednesday, police here said, triggering an outrage in Israel. The latest incident has raised by a notch the uncertainty about the peace process that is already ridden in crisis over Israeli settlement plans in the disputed West Bank. Police said the soldier was stabbed ...
Boston mobster Bulger faces life in prison Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:50:39 -0800 BOSTON, Massachusetts - In a courtroom, they said he was a "rat", a "punk" a coward and one even went on to express his wish to kill the convicted Boston mobster, James "Whitey" Bulger who appeared before a judge Wednesday for his sentencing. Bulger is set to be locked up till he is alive as prosecutors have called for his life imprisonment for the 84-year-old convicted criminal who has been ...
US names Boko Haram and Ansaru groups as terrorists Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:47:45 -0800 WASHINGTON The United States has named Nigerian-based militant groups Boko Haram and Ansaru as foreign terrorist organizations. In a statement Wednesday, U.S. counterterrorism official Lisa Monaco said the two groups have been responsible for thousands of deaths in northeast and central Nigeria in recent years. The state department described the move as "an important" step to help Nigeria ...
Morsi warns of instability without reinstatement Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:58:45 -0800 CAIRO - Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi said the country will not see stability until the coup is reversed and those responsible for driving him out of power are held accountable. In a letter read by one of his lawyers Wednesday, Morsi praised his supporters for protesting his July ouster and accused military leader General Abdel Fatah el-Sissi of treason. He said he had been ...
23 people killed in escalated Iraq violence Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:56:30 -0800 BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least 23 people were killed Wednesday in bombings across Iraq mostly targeted at religious processions by Shia Muslims, officials said. The dead included two children who were killed in the attack targeting a group of Shia Muslims marking Ashoura the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussain over 1400 years ago in the eastern city of Baqouba, a former Al Qaida ...
Starbucks to pay $2.76bn fine to Kraft Foods Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:29:29 -0800 WASHINGTON - An independent US arbitrator has ordered Starbucks Coffee Company to pay $2.76bn in damages and other costs to giant food company Kraft Foods Group for cancelling a contract for distribution and marketing of packaged coffee which was due to run until March 2014. The dispute centered on an agreement Starbucks, led by Chairman Howard Schultz, entered with Kraft in 1998 to ...
Cultivation of opium in Afghanistan reaches record high Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:50:31 -0800 KABUL - Opium production in Afghanistan has increase almost 50 percent while poppy cultivation has risen 36percent this year to a record high of 209,000 hectares for the first time, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) said Wednesday Releasing the 2013 Afghanistan Opium Survey, conducted jointly with the Afghanistan Ministry of Counter Narcotics, the UN body said opium ...
Germany under review over economic role in EU Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:23:29 -0800 BRUSSELS The European Commission told Germany, the EU's most powerful member, that its export success may harm the grouping's EU economic recovery even as it does little to cut soaring unemployment. Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said it wanted to see if Germany "could do more" to help rebalance the European economy. The Commission is also scrutinising 15 other European countries ...
Carney upgrades growth forecast as recovery takes hold Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:18:27 -0800 LONDON - Bank of England governor Mark Carney says the UK recovery has "taken hold" but a return to normality would possibly take another two years as nearly one million more people are out of work than in the years before the financial crisis. Expressing optimism that unemployment will fall sooner than it had forecast to the desired level of 7 percent, Carney said, "We judge there to be a ...
CNPC acquires oil and gas assets in Peru for $2.6bn Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:40:51 -0800 HONG KONG China National Petroleum Corp, China's state-owned largest integrated-oil and natural-gas producer, and its subsidiary PetroChina Co have entered into an agreement with Brazilian state oil company Petrleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) to acquire its oil and gas assets in Peru for $2.6 billion. The deal marks yet another foray by a Chinese state-owned oil firm into Latin America. CNPC will ...
