| Syria truce collapse shows limits of diplomacy Posted: 28 Oct 2012 12:12 PM PDT  Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions Sunday, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold.
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| Wall Street makes plans to open Monday even as Sandy bears down Posted: 28 Oct 2012 11:07 AM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock exchanges and Wall Street banks are sending employees into Manhattan on Sunday to stay in hotels and coworkers' homes, as markets prepare to open for business on Monday even as Hurricane Sandy brings public transportation to a halt. Hurricane Sandy is expected to slam into the East Coast on Monday night, bringing torrential rains, high winds, severe flooding and power outages, forecasters said. The rare "super storm," created by an Arctic jetstream wrapping itself around a tropical storm, could be the biggest to hit the U.S. mainland. ...
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| 2,000 sheep led through streets of Spain's capital Posted: 28 Oct 2012 10:17 AM PDT  Spanish shepherds led a flock of more than 2,000 sheep through central Madrid on Sunday in defense of ancient grazing, migration and droving rights threatened by urban sprawl and modern agricultural practices.Many ...
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| Official: Iraq searches Syria-bound Iranian plane Posted: 28 Oct 2012 10:01 AM PDT  Iraqi authorities forced an Iranian cargo plane heading to Syria to land for inspection in Baghdad to ensure it was not carrying weapons, an Iraqi official said Sunday.
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| Sandy: East Coast braces for epic hurricane, ‘life-threatening’ storm surge Posted: 28 Oct 2012 08:23 AM PDT  "Superstorm." "The Perfect Storm." "Frankenstorm." Whatever you want to call it, the East Coast is bracing for Hurricane Sandy, an epic, "rare hybrid storm" that is expected to bring "a life-threatening storm surge" to the mid-Atlantic coast, Long Island Sound and New York harbor, forecasters said early Sunday, with winds expected to be at or [...]
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| Suicide bomber kills eight, injures 100 in Nigerian church Posted: 28 Oct 2012 07:34 AM PDT  KADUNA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a jeep packed with explosives into a Catholic church in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least eight people, injuring more than 100 and triggering reprisal attacks that killed at least two more, officials said. The bomber drove right into the packed St Rita's church in the Malali area of Kaduna, a volatile ethnically and religiously mixed city, in the morning, witnesses said. A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Yushua Shuaib said eight people had been confirmed killed and more than 100 injured. ...
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| Supreme Court weighs new look at voting rights law Posted: 28 Oct 2012 06:29 AM PDT  Supreme Court to decide whether to take a new look at key part of landmark voting rights law
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| Big storm scrambles presidential campaign schedules Posted: 28 Oct 2012 06:12 AM PDT  The big storm taking aim at the East Coast a little more than a week before the election has scrambled campaign plans, with Mitt Romney ditching Virginia to campaign Sunday with running mate Paul Ryan in Ohio and President Barack Obama moving up his departure for Florida.
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| Magnitude 7.7 quake strikes off Canadian coast Posted: 28 Oct 2012 05:56 AM PDT  A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada, but there were no reports of major damage. Residents in parts of British Columbia were evacuated, but the province appeared to escape the biggest quake in Canada since 1949 largely unscathed.
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| New England shapes up as Dem firewall for Senate Posted: 28 Oct 2012 05:40 AM PDT Democrats are counting on their New England friends to help them pick up Republican-held Senate seats on Nov. 6 and construct a barrier against losses in Nebraska and elsewhere that could erase their majority. |
| High court weighs new look at voting rights law Posted: 28 Oct 2012 05:23 AM PDT Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to millions of African-Americans. Now, opponents of a key part of the Voting Rights Act are asking the high court to finish off that provision. |
| Tsunami warning in Hawaii downgraded to advisory Posted: 28 Oct 2012 05:07 AM PDT  A Hawaii tsunami warning that spurred coastal evacuations statewide was downgraded to a tsunami advisory early Sunday, ending the threat of serious damage less than three hours after the first waves hit the islands.
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| Madonna booed after touting Obama in La. Concert Posted: 28 Oct 2012 04:35 AM PDT  Madonna drew boos and triggered a walkout by several concertgoers after she touted President Barack Obama on her "MDNA Tour" in New Orleans.
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| Defense minister claims Iran has advanced drone technology Posted: 28 Oct 2012 04:18 AM PDT  DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran possesses drones that are far more advanced than the unmanned aircraft Iranian-backed Hezbollah launched into Israeli airspace this month, Iran's defense minister was quoted as saying on Sunday. Iran's military regularly announces defense and engineering developments though some analysts are skeptical of the reliability of such reports. Earlier this month, Israel shot down a drone after it flew 25 miles into the Jewish state. Lebanese militant group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the aircraft, saying its parts had been manufactured in Iran and assembled in Lebanon. ...
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| Close race makes up for waning zeal in expat vote Posted: 28 Oct 2012 03:46 AM PDT  BERLIN (Reuters) - With the presidential election too close to call, hundreds of thousands of Americans living in Europe have been posting their absentee ballots with a sense that they could truly make a difference on November 6. From Berlin to Paris and London to Madrid, they have closely tracked the battle between Democrat President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, though the emotional temperature is several degrees lower than four years ago, when most expats rallied behind Obama after two terms of George W. Bush, whom many thought had tarnished the U.S. image abroad. ...
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| Former British pop star Gary Glitter arrested Posted: 28 Oct 2012 03:29 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - Former British pop star Gary Glitter was arrested on Sunday in connection with an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, the BBC said. A police statement said a man in his 60s had been picked up just after 7 am (0700 GMT) on suspicion of sexual offences in the investigation into "Savile and others". The statement did not name the man and a spokesman declined further comment. ...
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| Tsunami hits Hawaii after Canada earthquake Posted: 28 Oct 2012 02:57 AM PDT  HONOLULU (Reuters) - Hawaii was hit by a tsunami on Saturday night prompting the authorities to order at least 100,000 people on the island state to move to higher ground. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the first tsunami wave was three feet high and less forceful than expected. Some forecasts had predicted a wave of up to six feet high. "The tsunami arrived about when we expected it should," Senior Geophysicist Gerard Fryer told reporters at a news conference, saying: "I was expecting it to be a little bigger." Other waves were expected. ...
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| Tsunami warning for Hawaii, downgraded for Alaska Posted: 28 Oct 2012 01:03 AM PDT Emergency sirens sounded around Hawaii late Saturday warning about an oncoming tsunami, after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Canada. |
| Superstorm could impact 60 million people; coastal evacuations under way Posted: 28 Oct 2012 12:31 AM PDT  SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. - Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern U.S. will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way.
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| Tsunami warning for Hawaii after Canadian quake Posted: 27 Oct 2012 11:42 PM PDT A tsunami warning has been issued for Hawaii after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked an island off the west coast of Canada Saturday. |
| Obama trims campaign stops to monitor storm Posted: 27 Oct 2012 11:25 PM PDT  The White House has announced President Obama is cancelling some of his campaign travel Monday as Hurricane Sandy is expected to veer on to the East Coast. The president is getting out of Washington, D.C., Sunday, earlier than planned, to beat the disruptions expected in...
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| Tsunami warning issued for southern Alaska Posted: 27 Oct 2012 10:53 PM PDT The U.S. Coast Guard is warning people in far southern Alaska to take precautions after a tsunami warning was issued for coastal areas of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. |
| Obama cancels stops in Virginia, Colorado because of storm Posted: 27 Oct 2012 10:04 PM PDT  President Barack Obama is cancelling campaign stops in Virginia and Colorado early next week because of the impending landfall of Hurricane Sandy and will instead monitor the storm from the White House, his spokesman said on Saturday. Obama was to have campaigned with former President Bill Clinton in Virginia on Monday as part of a three-state swing through political battlegrounds including Ohio and Florida. The Virginia stop has been canceled along with a trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Tuesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement. ...
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| New Pakistan outreach could aid Afghan peace deal Posted: 27 Oct 2012 09:16 PM PDT  Pakistan has increased efforts to reach out to some of its biggest enemies in Afghanistan, a significant policy shift that could prove crucial to U.S.-backed efforts to strike a peace deal in the neighboring country.
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| Threat of superstorm launches mass evacuations in coastal areas Posted: 27 Oct 2012 08:43 PM PDT  Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern U.S. will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way.
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