San Jose Mercury News: World
- Lecture from American teen roils Liberian parliament
Friday - 04/25/2014 - 12:42 PMMONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- The speaker rose before the members of parliament, whose West African country has a nascent oil industry, to give advice on how profits from production should be managed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Afghanistan shooting leaves Chicago doctor, two other Americans dead
Thursday - 04/24/2014 - 05:29 PMFrom Chicago to Afghanistan, Dr. Jerry Umanos dedicated his service to poor children. The pediatrician was among three Americans killed when an Afghan security guard opened fire Thursday at a Kabul hospital.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Vladimir Putin: Internet is a 'CIA project'
Thursday - 04/24/2014 - 03:11 PMPresident Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Internet a CIA project and made comments about Russia's biggest search engine Yandex, sending the company's shares plummeting.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russian foreign minister vows firm response if interests in Ukraine are attacked
Wednesday - 04/23/2014 - 01:24 PMRussia's foreign minister on Wednesday promised a firm response if its citizens or interests come under attack in Ukraine -- a vow that came after Ukraine announced a renewal of its 'anti-terror' campaign against those occupying buildings in its troubled east.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Brazil passes an Internet 'Bill of Rights'
Wednesday - 04/23/2014 - 01:20 PMBrazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday ratified a bill guaranteeing Internet privacy and enshrining access to the Web during a major conference in Sao Paulo on the future of Internet governance.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Musk saysTesla will have Chinese production within 4 years
Monday - 04/21/2014 - 06:55 PMTesla Motors Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who's preparing to begin deliveries of the Model S electric vehicle in China, said he expects to be making cars in the country in the next three to four years.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Korean ferry families face horror of teens' bodies pulled from water
Monday - 04/21/2014 - 01:05 PMPresident Park Geun-hye called the actions of the captain and crew as 'unforgivable, murderous behavior.'
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - GM South Africa Apartheid lawsuit given another chance in U.S.
Friday - 04/18/2014 - 06:59 PMGeneral Motors, Ford Motor and IBM lost a bid to stop victims from suing them in the U.S. for allegedly aiding the former apartheid regime in South Africa.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Submarine looking for missing plane tries again after aborted mission
Tuesday - 04/15/2014 - 02:51 PMA robotic submarine looking for the lost Malaysian jet began its second mission Tuesday after cutting short its first because the ocean waters where it was sent were too deep, officials said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ukraine asks for UN peacekeepers among pro-Russian rampage in east
Monday - 04/14/2014 - 01:03 PMUkraine's acting president urged the United Nations on Monday to send peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian gunmen kept up their rampage of storming and occupying local government offices, police stations and airports.
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- N. Korea detains apparently irrational U.S. tourist, 24
Friday - 04/25/2014 - 01:43 PMNorth Korea says it has detained a 24-year-old American man for what it called improper behavior while he was being processed to enter the country as a tourist.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obama headed to South Korea amid grief and rage over ferry disaster
Thursday - 04/24/2014 - 03:08 PMWhen President Barack Obama arrives in South Korea on Friday, he will be thrust anew into the role of consoler in chief in a time of crisis, a responsibility he has become all too accustomed to in the United States.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 6.7 quake near Vancouver Island
Thursday - 04/24/2014 - 01:16 AMPORT ALICE, British Columbia (AP) -- The U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center says a magnitude 6.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - S. Korean ferry toll hits 156; divers now must search closed cabins
Wednesday - 04/23/2014 - 02:01 PMAs the 156th body was pulled from waters where the ferry Sewol sank a week ago, relatives of the nearly 150 still missing pressed the government Wednesday to finish the grim task of recovery soon.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- S. Korea ferry toll tops 100
Tuesday - 04/22/2014 - 03:17 PMThe families who line up here to view the decomposing bodies have not known for nearly a week whether they should grieve or not. Now that they know, they sound like they're being torn apart.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nepal Sherpas consider strike after Everest deaths, small compensation
Monday - 04/21/2014 - 01:25 PMBuddhist monks cremated the remains of Sherpa guides who were buried in the deadliest avalanche to hit Mount Everest, a disaster that has prompted calls for a climbing boycott by Nepal's ethnic Sherpa community.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Magnitude-7.2 earthquake shakes Mexican capital
Friday - 04/18/2014 - 02:59 PMA powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Friday, sending panicked people into the streets, where broken windows and debris fell, but there were no early reports of major damage or casualties.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Magnitude-7.2 earthquake shakes Mexican capital
Saturday - 04/19/2014 - 02:47 AMA powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Friday, sending panicked people into the streets, where broken windows and debris fell, but there were no early reports of major damage or casualties.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ukraine military recaptures eastern airport; Russia reports up to 11 killed
Tuesday - 04/15/2014 - 01:43 PMIn the first Ukrainian military action against a pro-Russian uprising in the east, special forces on Tuesday recaptured a small airport that had been occupied by militiamen, the government said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Politics test Silicon Valley's Russian ties
Sunday - 04/13/2014 - 10:18 AMEntrepreneurs and investors say Silicon Valley's fast-growing financial ties with Russia's tech sector are being slowed down by current political tensions between the White House and the Kremlin.
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- Obama threatens N. Korea with more sanctions if it tests nukes again
Friday - 04/25/2014 - 01:37 PMIn a display of unity against North Korea's provocations, President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye warned Pyongyang on Friday that it could face tougher sanctions if it follows through with threats to launch a fourth nuclear test.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China finds the sin in Sina, cracks down on porn
Thursday - 04/24/2014 - 03:09 PMChina plans to revoke two crucial publication licenses for Sina.com, which might partially ban the web giant's operations, because obscene content was found during an anti-pornography crackdown, state media said Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Israel breaks off peace talks after Palestinian factions reconcile
Thursday - 04/24/2014 - 03:45 PMIsrael broke off Mideast peace talks and brought the U.S.-brokered process to the brink of collapse Thursday, protesting a reconciliation agreement between the Western-backed Palestinian Authority and the militant group Hamas, the Jewish state's sworn enemy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obama opens Japan trip eating pricey sushi with Abe
Wednesday - 04/23/2014 - 01:15 PMPresident Barack Obama on Wednesday opened a four-country Asia tour aimed at reassuring allies in the region that the U.S. remains a committed economic, military and political partner that can serve as a counterweight to China's growing influence.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ukraine: 'Anti-terror' ops ordered after bodies found, plane fired on
Tuesday - 04/22/2014 - 04:28 PMUkraine's acting president ordered security forces to resume 'anti-terror' operations in the country's east Tuesday after the bodies of two people allegedly abducted by pro-Russia insurgents were found and a military aircraft was reported to be hit by gunfire.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Northern California man says he was on Everest during fatal avalanche
Monday - 04/21/2014 - 01:43 PMA California man said he was on Mount Everest when an avalanche struck that killed at least 13 people.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yemen says 55 al-Qaida militants killed in strikes on camp
Monday - 04/21/2014 - 01:18 PMYemen's interior ministry says 55 al-Qaida militants were killed in an hours-long series of strikes on a training camp operated by the group in the country's south.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ukrainians rally in eastern cities to denounce Russian intervention
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 03:51 PMUkrainian unity was on display Thursday night as peaceful demonstrations were held in at least four eastern cities condemning Russia for its perceived meddling in Ukrainian affairs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pistorius questioning ends with prosecutor's challenge to take responsibility
Tuesday - 04/15/2014 - 01:43 PMWrapping up five days of relentless cross-examination of Oscar Pistorius at his murder trial, the chief prosecutor insisted Tuesday that he intentionally shot his girlfriend to death after they argued and -- in a final exchange -- urged the Olympic athlete to take responsibility for the Valentine's Day killing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ukraine crisis: Uniformed men occupy two police headquarters
Saturday - 04/12/2014 - 11:30 AMMen in the uniforms of Ukraine's now-defunct riot police on Saturday occupied police headquarters in Donetsk, the eastern city that is one of the flashpoints of a wave of pro-Russia protests, hours after armed men seized local police headquarters in Slovyansk.
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