| Politicians Settle in for Sequestration Long Haul Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:34 PM PST  The White House and congressional leaders are giving no indication that the $85 billion in mandatory across-the-board federal spending cuts known as the sequester will be lifted any time soon. Two days have passed since President Obama signed the order to reduce the budget of...
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| Biden: Selma beatings shaped him, nation Posted: 03 Mar 2013 11:45 AM PST SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans' votes haven't stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act added millions to Southern voter rolls. |
| UK: Queen hospitalized over stomach illness Posted: 03 Mar 2013 11:13 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was hospitalized Sunday over an apparent stomach infection that has ailed her for days, a rare instance of ill health sidelining the long-reigning monarch. Elizabeth will have to cancel a visit to Rome and other engagements as she recovers, and outside experts said she may have to be rehydrated intravenously.
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| Syrian opposition head visits rebel areas in north Posted: 03 Mar 2013 10:57 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition chief visited rebel-held suburbs of the embattled city of Aleppo for the first time Sunday as fighters trying to oust President Bashar Assad made significant strategic advances in the heavily contested northeast.
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| Rodman: Kim Jong Un wants President Obama to 'call him' Posted: 03 Mar 2013 10:41 AM PST  In his first interview since returning to the U.S. from an unprecedented visit to the North Korea last week, former NBA star Dennis Rodman said he bears a message for President Obama from the country's oppressive leader, Kim Jong Un. "He wants Obama to do...
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| Sen. Ayotte: Door open for 'big agreement' on budget Posted: 03 Mar 2013 10:24 AM PST  While the White House and Congress failed to reach an agreement to avoid automatic spending cuts that began taking effect on March 1, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said she is still open to the idea of a "big agreement" to address the country's long-term fiscal...
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| Rodman: Kim Jong Un wants Obama to 'call him' Posted: 03 Mar 2013 09:35 AM PST In his first interview since returning to the U.S. from an unprecedented visit to the North Korea last week, former NBA star Dennis Rodman said he bears a message for President Obama from the country's oppressive leader, Kim Jong Un. "He wants Obama to do... |
| Queen Elizabeth in hospital with apparent stomach bug Posted: 03 Mar 2013 09:03 AM PST  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has been admitted to hospital with symptoms of gastroenteritis, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said on Sunday.
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| Kerry says US releasing millions in aid to Egypt Posted: 03 Mar 2013 08:47 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the Obama administration is rewarding the Egyptian government with financial aid because of Cairo's promises of economic and political reforms.
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| Russian police delay play about female punk rockers Posted: 03 Mar 2013 08:31 AM PST  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow police interrupted a play featuring the trial of punk rockers Pussy Riot on Sunday and warned its Swiss director for violating visa rules, in what a government critic said was part of an anti-Western campaign. Federal Migration Service officers delayed the performance of "Moscow Trials" at a theatre at Moscow's Sakharov center for an hour as they issued a verbal warning to director Milo Rau, according to news agency Interfax and website Publicpost.ru . ...
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| Rodman: Kim Jong Un wants Obama to 'call him' Posted: 03 Mar 2013 07:09 AM PST In his first interview since returning to the U.S. from an unprecedented visit to the North Korea last week, former NBA star Dennis Rodman said he bears a message for President Obama from the country's oppressive leader, Kim Jong Un. "He wants Obama to do... |
| Upstart parties frustrate Netanyahu's coalition-building Posted: 03 Mar 2013 06:20 AM PST  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A surprise alliance between far-right and centrist Israeli political stars who reject privileges for ultra-orthodox Jews is frustrating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to form a new government. More than a month after Israel's election, Netanyahu is still without a new coalition, his hopes of enlisting traditionally loyal ultra-Orthodox cabinet partners challenged by a pact between newcomers Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett. ...
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| Crews begin demolition of Fla. home over sinkhole Posted: 03 Mar 2013 05:48 AM PST  SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — Crews with heavy equipment on Sunday began the demolition of a Florida home over a huge sinkhole where a man is presumed dead after being swallowed by the earth.
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| McConnell Readying for Tough Re-Election Fight Posted: 03 Mar 2013 05:15 AM PST  Senate GOP leader McConnell bracing for hard re-election race, unless he can prevent it
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| Italy's Grillo says he supports non-binding online vote on euro Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:44 AM PST  ROME (Reuters) - The leader of the 5-Star Movement has said he wants an online vote on Italy's membership of the euro, in an interview with a German magazine published on Sunday. "I am a strong advocate of Europe. I am in favor of an online referendum on the euro," Beppe Grillo told Bild am Sonntag. Such a vote would not be legally binding in Italy, where referendums can only be used to repeal laws or parts of laws, but would carry political weight. Grillo has said in the past that membership of the euro should be up to the Italian people. ...
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| Lech Walesa shocks Poland with anti-gay words Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:27 AM PST  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying that gays have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to "adjust to smaller things."
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| Crews to raze Fla. home over sinkhole; man missing Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:38 AM PST SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — Crews planned to begin demolishing a Florida home Sunday that is perched over a huge sinkhole, deeming it too dangerous to keep searching for the man swallowed into the earth from his bedroom. |
| UN calls for clampdown on illegal wildlife trade Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:22 AM PST  BANGKOK (AP) — The world must clamp down hard on the illegal global wildlife trade, the head of the United Nations environment agency warned Sunday, calling it a multibillion-dollar criminal business that is threatening to wipe out some of the planet's most iconic species.
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| MLB Commissioner Selig calls for tougher drug penalties Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:06 AM PST  FILE- In this Oct. 27, 2012, file photo, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig talks at a news conference before Game 3 of baseball's World Series between the Detroit Tigers and the San Francisco in Detroit. Selig said Saturday, March 2, 2013, that he wants tougher penalties for major league players who violate the sport's drug agreement. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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| Analysis: Long haul ahead for Britain's struggling economy Posted: 03 Mar 2013 02:10 AM PST  LONDON (Reuters) - When the financial crisis began to spread five years ago, British coffee machine-maker Fracino raced to get ahead of it. From the firm's base in Birmingham, it carved out new markets in the Middle East, Asia and even Italy for its cappuccino and espresso machines which it proudly stamps with the British flag. Last year Fracino generated 25 percent of its turnover abroad, up from just 2 percent before the crisis. ...
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| Expectant parents die in NY crash; baby survives Posted: 03 Mar 2013 01:10 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — A young Jewish Orthodox couple en route to a New York hospital to have their first child have been killed in a car crash, but their child has survived. |
| Kerry presses Egypt president, military on reform Posted: 02 Mar 2013 11:15 PM PST  CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is wrapping up a visit to deeply divided Egypt with an appeal for unity and reform to the country's president and military chief.
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| China's Xi rides high hopes ahead of presidency Posted: 02 Mar 2013 10:11 PM PST  China's fawning state media, jaded social media commentators and even poor farmers agree: new Communist Party chief Xi Jinping is off to a good start.
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| Sequester showdown threatens Obama's agenda Posted: 02 Mar 2013 09:22 PM PST  The failure by Obama and Republicans to agree to halt the $85 billion "sequester" cuts virtually guaranteed that fiscal issues would remain center stage in Washington for weeks.
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| Chad says it killed Algeria hostage mastermind in Mali Posted: 02 Mar 2013 08:17 PM PST  Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda commander who masterminded a bloody hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Chad's military said on Saturday. The death of one of the world's most wanted jihadists would be a major blow to al Qaeda in the region and to Islamist rebels already forced to flee towns they had seized in northern Mali by an offensive by French and African troops. "On Saturday, March 2, at noon, Chadian armed forces operating in northern Mali completely destroyed a terrorist base. ... ...
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