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8-year-old Brooklyn boy is killed and dismembered

Jul 14, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) _ An 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who got lost while walking home alone from day camp in his Orthodox Jewish neighborhood was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had asked for directions, and his remains were found stuffed in a trash bin and the man's refrigerator, police said Wednesday.The gruesome killing of Leiby Kletzky shocked the tight-knit Hasidic community in Borough Park, in
U.S. cautious about N. Korea's growing ties with western media

Jul 14, 2011

With North Korea seen as opening its door wider to western media, the United States government maintained a cautious view Wednesday on the reclusive communist nation's latest gesture.The London-based news agency Reuters announced earlier this week that it was planning a video news service in North Korea in partnership with its propaganda news agency, KCNA.The move comes a couple of weeks after the
Japan P.M.’s ratings at record low 15 percent

Jul 13, 2011

TOKYO (AFP) ― Support for the cabinet of Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan has plunged to 15 percent, the lowest level since his center-left party took power in 2009, a newspaper poll said Tuesday.Seventy percent of voters want Kan ― under pressure over his handling of the March 11 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ― to resign before parliament enters a recess late next month, said the Asahi Shim
Syria slams ‘provocative’ Clinton comments

Jul 13, 2011

Beirut says Assad’s legitimacy is from Syrian people’s willBEIRUT (AP) ― Syria accused Washington of provocation Tuesday after the U.S. said President Bashar Assad had lost legitimacy and the American administration had nothing invested in him remaining in power.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued her strongest condemnation yet of Assad late Monday after mobs of hundreds of regim
Cyprus protesters enter presidential palace grounds

Jul 13, 2011

NICOSIA (AP) ― Hundreds of angry marchers forced their way into the grounds of the Cypriot presidential palace in Nicosia late Tuesday, during a protest over a fatal blast at a naval base that killed 12, wrecked a key power plant and forced the resignations of the defense minister and top military chief.Protesters chanting “the people demand that the murderers are thrown in jail” were stopped at a
Cameron weakened by phone hacking scandal

Jul 13, 2011

P.M.’s apparent closeness with News Corp. staff leads to doubts on leadershipLONDON (AP) ― He’s looked defensive. He’s looked outraged. He’s looked scared. But recently, Prime Minister David Cameron has rarely looked like he’s in charge.The British leader has lost his confident aura as his friendships with figures central to the tabloid hacking scandal hand his government its biggest crisis since
Three children stuck in a car at 40℃ while mother goes shopping

Jul 13, 2011

A British mother has been accused of leaving her three children unattended in a sweltering car for 45 minutes while she went shopping, the Daily Mail reported.Kelly Langham, 26, abandoned her three kids aged two, five and eight to go to a Cash Converter store as the temperature inside the car rose to 40 degrees Celsius.A witness reported that the youngest child was strapped into a car seat and was
Syria’s Assad has lost legitimacy, Clinton says

Jul 12, 2011
Chinese general blasts U.S. military

Jul 12, 2011

BEIJING (AFP) ― China’s top military officer said Monday the timing of U.S. naval exercises in the South China Sea was “inappropriate,” after talks with his American counterpart aimed at cooling the territorial dispute.General Chen Bingde urged the United States to be “more modest and prudent in words and deeds”, amid growing tensions over China’s claims in the strategic and potentially resource-r
‘Iranian weapons used against U.S. troops’

Jul 12, 2011

Panetta urges Iraq’s decision on whether it wants American soldiers to stayBAGHDAD (AP) ― A blunt and frustrated U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed exasperation Monday with Iraqi indecision on whether it wants U.S. troops to stay next year. He threatened stronger U.S. action to stop Iranian-supplied weapons from killing Americans as they prepare to depart.To reinforce the message of con
Brown was victim of phone-hacks: report

Jul 12, 2011

British police under scrutiny as scandal grows biggerLONDON (AFP) ― British lawmakers were to grill police chiefs Tuesday amid reports that royalty and ex-prime minister Gordon Brown were targeted in a phone-hacking scandal that felled Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World.Four past and present senior Scotland Yard officers were due to appear before a home affairs committee as the scandal spiraled an
Julian Assange back in court to fight extradition

Jul 12, 2011

LONDON (AP) ― WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was due back in court Tuesday for the latest installation of his fight against extradition to Sweden, where the 40-year-old Australian is accused of rape and molestation.Assange’s disclosures of classified U.S. documents has infuriated the Pentagon, embarrassed State Department diplomats and energized critics of American foreign policy, but allegation
Whoa, baby! Texas mom delivers 16-pound newborn

Jul 12, 2011

LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) -- A Texas mom expected a big baby, but nothing like this: 16 pounds, 1 ounce (7.3 kilograms).Janet Johnson on Monday remained in an East Texas hospital after giving birth to what her doctors called one of the biggest newborns they've ever seen. She was awaiting word on whether her son, JaMichael Brown, ranked among the biggest births in state history.This photo provided by Go
High levels of caesium found in Fukushima beef

Jul 12, 2011

This file photo shows a Japanese woman browsing for beef in a food hall in Tokyo. (Bloomberg)More than six times the legal limit of radioactive caesium has been found in beef from Fukushima prefecture, home to Japan's crippled nuclear plant, an official statement said Saturday.The meat came from one of 11 cows shipped this month to Tokyo from a farmer in Minamisoma city, according to the statement
Chinese 13 years of runway murderer caught after appearing on TV

Jul 12, 2011

A Chinese murderer was caught after 13 years as the man in his forties appeared on a television dating program only to reveal his real identity and past crime.The man surnamed Wu, was finally arrested after having committed a murder during a fight at a pub in 1998, and running from the Chinese police for 13 years, the People’s Daily reported.Wu changed his name to Liu Hao and lived with a new iden