WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and Republicans waged a new spat over spending cuts Tuesday, as time ran short and little progress was evident towards ending a vexing year-end austerity and tax crisis.After days dueling over Obama's demand for higher taxes on the rich, each side accused the other of failing to lay out specific spending cuts, digging in to familiar positions on the...
BJP may dissolve Karnataka assembly to counter Yeddyurrappa
Label: Lifestyle NEW DELHI: BJP's troubles in Karnataka are clearly growing by the day. The party's core group is scheduled to meet here on Wednesday to review the Karnataka crisis that has further deepened after former CM and Lingayat strongman B S Yeddyurrappa held a show of strength rally on Sunday to announce the launch of his breakaway outfit, the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP), in Belgaum.The BJP top brass...
APNewsBreak: DA investigating Texas cancer agency
Label: HealthAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas prosecutor responsible for investigating public corruption among state officials said Tuesday that he has opened an investigation into the state's troubled $3 billion cancer-fighting agency.Gregg Cox, director of the Travis County district attorney's public integrity unit, told The Associated Press that an investigation has begun into the Cancer Prevention and Research...
Dec
10
New Evidence Suggests Biblical Flood Happened
Label: Business The story of Noah's Ark and the Great Flood is one of the most famous from the Bible, and now an acclaimed underwater archaeologist thinks he has found proof that the biblical flood was actually based on real events.In an interview with Christiane Amanpour for ABC News, Robert Ballard, one of the world's best-known underwater archaeologists, talked about his findings. His team...
Egypt army given temporary power to arrest civilians
Label: WorldCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist president has given the army temporary power to arrest civilians during a constitutional referendum he is determined to push through despite the risk of bloodshed between his supporters and opponents accusing him of a power grab. Seven people were killed and hundreds wounded last week in clashes between the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and their critics besieging...
US report faults Pakistan over Afghan war
Label: Technology WASHINGTON: Despite an easing of tensions with the United States, Pakistan is persistently undermining security in Afghanistan by permitting safe havens for insurgents, a Pentagon report said Monday.In a twice-a-year war assessment mandated by Congress, the Defense Department said that the 68,000 US troops in Afghanistan and their allies had succeeded in preventing Taliban advances while...
Shinde to examine Afzal's mercy plea after Parliament session
Label: LifestyleNEW DELHI: Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will start examining mercy petition files, sent back to the MHA recently by the President, after the winter session of Parliament concludes on December 20.Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's file is among the seven files returned by President Pranab Mukherjee to the home ministry. Mukherjee has asked Shinde, who took charge of the home ministry...
Surprise: New insurance fee in health overhaul law
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It's a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.The charge, buried in a recent regulation, works out to tens of millions of dollars for the largest companies, employers say. Most of that is likely to be passed...
Dec
09
Banda Superstar Jenni Rivera's Plane Missing
Label: Business Mexican officials have confirmed the disappearance of a private jet carrying regional Mexican music superstar Jenni Rivera that took off from the northern Mexican city of Monterrey at 3:15 a.m. local time on Sunday and fell off the radar 10 minutes or 62 miles after take-off.The Learjet 25 jet is believed to have been carrying 7 people – 5 passengers and 2 pilots. It was headed...
Egypt's opposition rejects constitutional referendum
Label: WorldCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's main opposition coalition rejected on Sunday Islamist President Mohamed Mursi's plan for a constitutional referendum this week, saying it risked dragging the country into "violent confrontation". Mursi's decision on Saturday to retract a decree awarding himself wide powers failed to placate opponents who accused him of plunging Egypt deeper into crisis by refusing...
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