mardi 28 mai 2013

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Train derails in Maryland, explosion reported

Posted: 28 May 2013 12:52 PM PDT

Train derailment near Baltimore

$6 billion global money laundering operation busted

Posted: 28 May 2013 12:22 PM PDT

Preet Bharara describes charges against Costa Rica-based Liberty Reserve, one of the worlds largest digital currency companies at a news conference in New YorkDigital currency exchange Liberty Reserve helped criminals distribute, store and launder the proceeds of their illegal activity, prosecutors say.

Suspected Oregon teen bomb plotter due in court

Posted: 28 May 2013 12:06 PM PDT

Albany Police and the Oregon State Police Explosives Unit remove explosives from home of a West Albany High School student in AlbanyThe 17-year-old was arrested on suspicion of planning a Columbine-style attack on his school.

First passengers back in U.S. after cruise ship fire

Posted: 28 May 2013 11:50 AM PDT

Passengers from the Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship, which caught fire during its voyage from Baltimore to the Bahamas, leave a security checkpoint after arriving on a charter flight at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in Linthicum, Md. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday and was extinguished after about two hours with no injuries reported. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Many praise the crew and say they'd be eager to take another Royal Caribbean cruise.

Obama, Christie rekindle their bromance

Posted: 28 May 2013 11:36 AM PDT

President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walk along the boardwalk during their visit to Point Pleasant, NJ., Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Obama traveled to New Jersey to join Christie to inspect and tour the Jersey Shore's recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)The president and N.J. governor share a moment on the Jersey shore.

More than a dozen die in Iraq bombings

Posted: 28 May 2013 10:18 AM PDT

An Iraqi walks by the site of a car bomb attack at al-Keefah street in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. A coordinated wave of car bombings tore through mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of people, as insurgents step up the bloodshed roiling Iraq. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings and gunfire in central and northern Iraq killed at least 15 people and wounded 35 others on Tuesday, officials said, in the latest bloody chapter of a wave of violence that has edged the country closer to all-out internal warfare.

Nike cuts ties to Livestrong

Posted: 28 May 2013 10:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2012 file photo, Lance Armstrong talks to reporters after his second-place finish in the Power of Four mountain bicycle race at the base of Aspen Mountain in Aspen, Colo. Nike Inc. is cutting ties with the Livestrong cancer charity founded by Armstrong. The move by the sports company is the latest fallout in the doping scandal surrounding the former cyclist, who now admits he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France seven times. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, FIle)It's latest fallout from the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.

NY indictment filed in $6B money-laundering case

Posted: 28 May 2013 09:17 AM PDT

Liberty Reserve is a Costa Rica-based website long favored by cybercrime scammers.

Judge limits texts, photos in Trayvon Martin case

Posted: 28 May 2013 08:46 AM PDT

Supporters gather to join candlelight vigil at exact moment when Martin was shot one year ago in SanfordAttorneys won't be able to mention Trayvon Martin's drug use, suspension from school and past fighting.

White House says it was aware of McCain's Syria trip

Posted: 28 May 2013 08:30 AM PDT

U.S. Senator John McCain is pictured with U.S. troops at a Patriot missile site in southern TurkeyON BOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The White House was aware in advance of Republican Senator John McCain's trip to Syria and looks forward to speaking to him upon his return, President Barack Obama's spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Tuesday. (Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Jeff Mason; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)

Judge: Jurors can't see crime scene in Martin case

Posted: 28 May 2013 08:14 AM PDT

Supporters gather to join candlelight vigil at exact moment when Martin was shot one year ago in SanfordJurors will not be able to travel to the crime scene during his trial.

Ferry capsizes in Malaysian river, 21 missing

Posted: 28 May 2013 07:44 AM PDT

Ferry capsizes in Malaysian river, 21 missingAn overloaded ferry capsized after hitting rocks in a remote river in Malaysia's part of tropical Borneo island on Tuesday, leaving 21 people missing and feared trapped inside the vessel, police said. ...

Obama and Christie, together again

Posted: 28 May 2013 07:28 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama is greeted by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon arrival at Atlantic City International Airport in Atlantic City, N.J., to visit areas damaged by Superstorm Sandy. Obama with Christie at his side, will visit the recovering coast on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in an effort to reinforce a message of effective government, bipartisanship and economic opportunity. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)President Barack Obama is looking to get his groove back — at the beach. A post-Hurricane Sandy tour of the New Jersey coast line on Tuesday, gives the president a chance for a three-point play that can ...

Chinese hackers breach key weapon designs

Posted: 28 May 2013 07:12 AM PDT

Handout photo of three F-35 Joint Strike Fighters flying over Edwards Air Force BaseThe report comes days before Obama meets with China's president.

French man dies of SARS-related respiratory virus

Posted: 28 May 2013 06:58 AM PDT

Un hombre infectado con el coronavirus muere en FranciaThe coronavirus is related to an epidemic which killed some 800 people in 2003.

Fears grow of an arms race in Syria

Posted: 28 May 2013 06:11 AM PDT

In this photo released on Sunday, May 26, 2013, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad take their position during a clashes against Syrian rebels, in Aleppo, Syria. Syria's Information Ministry says rebels have killed a TV correspondent who was covering clashes near the border with Lebanon. (AP Photo/SANA)The E.U. lifted its embargo and Russia will provide missiles to the regime.

Pussy Riot member on hunger strike hospitalized

Posted: 28 May 2013 04:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Alekhina went on hunger strike Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in protest at not being allowed to attend her own parole hearing in Perm province. In letters dated Monday and posted online by the group's supporters, McCartney asks for parole to be granted to Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, currently serving two-year sentences for an impromptu protest in Moscow's main cathedral. The judge in Mordovia province to whom the Beatles frontman Paul McCartney addressed two letters in Pussy Riot support, denied Tolokonnikova parole last month. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, file)MOSCOW (AP) — A jailed member of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot was hospitalized Tuesday on the seventh day of a hunger strike to protest what she calls a persecution campaign against her.

Report: Plans for Australia spy HQ hacked by China

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:36 AM PDT

A warning sign hangs on a fence enclosing the Australian Security Intelligence Organization's new headquarters under construction in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Australian officials have refused to confirm or deny whether Chinese hackers had stolen the blueprints of the new spy agency building as a news report claims. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)Australian officials on Tuesday refused to confirm or deny whether Chinese hackers had stolen the blueprints of a new spy agency headquarters, as a news report claims.

Much of Red Cross fund for Sandy aid still unspent

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:04 AM PDT

In this May 7, 2013 photo, Yvonne Rankine, left, and her husband, Rev. Trevor Rankine, tour the basement of their home in New York. The home is faced with a growing mold problem, a development they say resulted in the aftermath of Sandy storm damage. Seven months after Superstorm Sandy, the Red Cross still hasn't spent more than a third of the $303 million it raised to assist victims of the storm, a strategy the organization says will help address needs that weren't immediately apparent in the disaster's wake. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)Seven months after Superstorm Sandy, the Red Cross still hasn't spent more than a third of the $303 million it raised to assist victims of the storm, a strategy the organization says will help address needs that weren't immediately apparent in the disaster's wake.

WHO suspends polio drive in Pakistani city after shooting

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:48 AM PDT

The World Health Organisation suspended its polio eradication campaign in a Pakistani city on Tuesday after two young workers were shot.

Passengers returning to U.S. after cruise ship fire

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:18 AM PDT

The fire-damaged exterior of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship is seen while docked in Freeport, Grand Bahama island, Monday, May 27, 2013. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday while on route from Baltimore to the Bahamas on the mooring area of deck 3 and was quickly extinguished. All 2,224 guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for. (AP Photo/The Freeport News, Jenneva Russell)For the second time this year, a fire at sea has aborted a cruise ship. This time, aboard Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas and the ship's 2,200 passengers were expected back in Baltimore on Tuesday after being flown on charter flights from the Bahamas.

SKorea idles 2 nuke plants after cable tests faked

Posted: 28 May 2013 01:48 AM PDT

South Korea has idled two nuclear power plants after finding test results for crucial control cables were falsified.

Report: Gunmen kill 3 Lebanese troops near Syria

Posted: 28 May 2013 01:33 AM PDT

Gunmen fired on a Lebanese government checkpoint near the Syrian border on Tuesday, killing three soldiers, the state-run National News Agency said. The attack comes amid escalating tensions in Lebanon linked to Syria's conflict, in which rival Lebanese groups have taken sides.

Several thousand campers flee Calif. wildfire

Posted: 28 May 2013 12:32 AM PDT

Thousands of Memorial Day campers were sent scampering out of the mountains by a wildfire that was fanned by the wind into an ominous spectacle hanging over nearby Santa Barbara.

Ferry capsizes in Malaysian river, some missing

Posted: 27 May 2013 11:46 PM PDT

An overloaded ferry capsized Tuesday when it hit rocks in a remote river in Malaysia's Borneo, leaving an unknown number of people missing, Malaysian police said. Some survivors swam ashore.
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