Friend of Delhi gang-rape victim calls for protests to continue
Newstrack India
Newstrack India
Tweet New Delhi, Jan 5 (ANI): The male friend of the 23-year-old medical student, who was gang-raped and left unclothed and bleeding in the street and later died in hospital two weeks after she was attacked on December 16 on a private bus in New Delhi, has said that things would have gone...
‘Hugo Chavez can hold office without taking oath’
Zeenews
Zeenews
Zeenews Bureau Caracas: President Hugo Chavez can reportedly begin his fourth term after re-election even if he is unable to attend a swearing-in ceremony owing to his illness, Vice-President Nicolas Maduro said. After assuming the role of President, he could be sworn in later by the Supreme Court,...
Pakistani Girl Discharged from British Hospital
Chosunilbo
Chosunilbo
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban last year, has been temporarily discharged from a British hospital. According to the hospital, Yousafzai will spend the next few weeks rehabilitating at her parent's temporary house elsewhere in England. In the meantime,...
Congress passes $9.7 billion in Sandy aid, with some House GOP dissent
The Washington Post
The Washington Post
Congress has approved $9.7 billion in new aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy, with a face-saving quick move by the House taken three days after Speaker John A. Boehner earned scathing criticism from New York and New Jersey Republicans for canceling a late-night vote on the funds. The bill, which...
Argentina reasserts claim over Falklands
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has released a public letter urging the United Kingdom to relinquish its control over the disputed Falkland Islands. She accused Britain of taking part in an act of "blatant colonialism" in claiming the archipelago and called on UK Prime...
Boehner re-elected speaker in midst of public defections
CNN
CNN
Posted by CNN's Deirdre Walsh and Kevin Liptak Washington (CNN) – Rep. John Boehner was re-elected Speaker of the House Thursday. But after roughly a dozen of his own colleagues voted for someone else or withheld their vote to protest his leadership, the Ohio Republican begins his second term...
Connecticut governor orders review of gun laws; Sandy Hook resumes classes
CNN
CNN
January 3, 2013 -- Updated 2005 GMT (0405 HKT) (CNN) -- As Sandy Hook Elementary School students returned to class Thursday for the first time since last month's massacre, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy set a two-month deadline for a commission to address the state's gun laws, mental health policies...
Google settles US anti-trust probe
BBC News
BBC News
The US Federal Trade Commission has concluded a 20-month investigation into Google's business practises, saying it found no evidence that the search giant skewed search results. But it did accuse the firm of "unfair conduct" in the use of its Motorola patents and ordered it to allow...
Congo rebels demand government ceasefire before talks
Reuters
Reuters
BUNAGANA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Congolese rebels will attend peace talks with the government this week but will walk away if Kinshasa does not sign a ceasefire, the rebel political chief said on Thursday. Efforts last month to end the nine-month rebellion in Democratic Republic of...
US working hard to have support for Afghan reconciliation
Zeenews
Zeenews
Washington: Aiming to get cooperation through dialogue, the US said that it is working hard to create an environment within Afghanistan and also in the region to have support for Afghan-Afghan reconciliation. "We have been working hard to create an environment not only within Afghanistan, but also...
UN lifts Syria death toll over 60,000
NZ Herald
NZ Herald
The United Nations has estimated that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The UN human rights chief called the toll "truly shocking". Opposition activist groups had...
7 teachers, health workers gunned down in Pakistan
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
ISLAMABAD -- Continuing a militant campaign of violence against aid workers in Pakistan, gunmen Tuesday shot dead seven Pakistani teachers and health workers, six of them women, police officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But the shooting, in the Swabi district of the...
