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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Hague court convicts Taylor of crimes in Sierra Leone

Hague court convicts Taylor of crimes in Sierra Leone

Hague court convicts Taylor of crimes in Sierra Leone

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Former Liberian President Taylor looks down as he waits for the start of a hearing to receive a verdict in a court room of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in LeidschendamTHE HAGUE (Reuters) - A United Nations-backed court convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the first time a head of state has been found guilty by an international tribunal since the Nazi trials at Nuremberg. The first African leader to stand trial for war crimes, Taylor had been charged with 11 counts of murder, rape, conscripting child soldiers and sexual slavery during intertwined wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, when more than 50,000 people were killed. ...

Starbucks profit up, but Europe shows weakness

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(Reuters) - Starbucks Corp reported higher quarterly profit but global sales at established coffee shops fell short of analysts' estimates view due to weakness in Europe. Net income at the world's biggest coffee chain was up almost 19 percent to $309.9 million, or 40 cents per share, for the second quarter ended April 1. Global sales at cafes open at least 13 months were up 7 percent. Analysts polled by Consensus Metrix expected those sales to rise 8.2 percent. (Reporting By Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by Bernard Orr)

Home sales sends stocks higher, but problems loom

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In an April 23, 2012 photo, trader Andrew Silverman, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, April 23, 2012. Wall Street appeared headed for a slightly higher open Thursday, April 26, 2012 with Dow Jones industrial futures rising 0.1 percent and S&P 500 futures up 0.1 percent (AP Photo/Richard Drew)U.S. stocks are closing higher on encouraging news about home sales and a batch of bright earnings reports.

Gasoline prices continue to creep lower

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Retail gasoline prices continued their surprising spring slide Thursday, dropping a penny to $3.83 per gallon.

Pakistan deports bin Laden family to Saudi Arabia

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Police officers escort a vehicle carrying the family of Osama bin Laden, in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, April 26, 2012. A minivan carrying the three widows and children of Bin Laden has left the house where they have been staying in Islamabad and is en route to the airport, from where they will be deported to Saudi Arabia, officials and witness said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)Pakistani authorities deported Osama bin Laden's three widows and his children to Saudi Arabia early Friday, less than a week before the first anniversary of the unilateral American raid that killed the al-Qaida leader in his hideout in a military town.

Feds prepare for another busy US fire season

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The chief of the U.S. Forest Service says he expects this year's fire season to be just as active as last year, when historic fires charred hundreds of square miles in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and elsewhere.

Latin Grammy awards show returns to Las Vegas

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The 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards are coming back to Las Vegas for the fifth time.

Watchdog expanding ethics probe at labor board

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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2012 file photo, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cummings says a government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe at the National Labor Relations Board after finding more inside information was leaked to an adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)A government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe of the National Labor Relations Board after finding that more inside information was leaked to a former adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a Democratic lawmaker said Thursday.

House moves ahead with cybersecurity bill

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday defended a cybersecurity bill as a common-sense approach to stopping electronic attacks on critical infrastructure and companies. He rejected the Obama administration's criticism that the measure could lead to invasion of Americans' privacy.

Secret Service investigating another overseas trip

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Secret Service prostitution scandal that embarrassed the White House and overshadowed the president's visit to a Latin American summit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Expanding the prostitution investigation, the Secret Service acknowledged Thursday it is checking whether its employees hired strippers and prostitutes in advance of President Barack Obama's visit last year to El Salvador.

Bomb kills 3 US service members in Afghanistan

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Officials say three American service members have been killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan.

Syria, rebels trade blame over fragile U.N. ceasefire

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Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in KafranbelBEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government and rebels traded blame on Thursday for a huge explosion which killed 16 people in the city of Hama, as a two-week-old U.N.-backed ceasefire looked increasingly fragile. Syria blamed "terrorist" bomb-makers for Wednesday's blast. Information Minister Adnan Mahmoud also accused rebel militiamen of repeated violations of the ceasefire and said Damascus was "reserving the right to respond to any violation or attack", state news agency SANA reported. ...

Drug-overdose antidote is put in addicts' hands

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In this Tuesday Feb. 27, 2012 photo, Kathy Deady holds up a tube of Naloxone Hydrochloride, also known as Narcan, in her Quincy, Mass., home. Narcan is a nasal spray used as an antidote for opiate drug overdoses. Deady twice had to use the drug on her son, who was suffering from an overdose of heroin. The drug counteracts the effects of heroin, OxyContin and other powerful painkillers and has been routinely used by ambulance crews and emergency rooms in the U.S. and other countries for decades. But in the past few years, public health officials across the nation have been distributing it free to addicts and their loved ones, as well as to some police and firefighters. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin.

US returns stolen, looted artifacts to Italy

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The United States returned seven stolen and looted artifacts to Italy on Thursday, including a rare Renaissance oil-on-copper painting and three pages ripped out of antique choir books.

Callenbach, 'Ecotopia' author, dies in Calif at 83

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The film scholar who wrote the 1975 cult novel "Ecotopia" that inspired generations of environmentalists and readers yearning for an ecologically sustainable society has died in California. Ernest "Chick" Callenbach was 83.

George Jones postpones more shows due to health

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FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2008 file photo, George Jones arrives for the Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Doctors have ordered Jones to postpone all tour dates through May 20 to continue recovering from an upper respiratory infection. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)Doctors are ordering George Jones to postpone all tour dates through May 20 to recover from an upper respiratory infection.

Officials: Libya's ruling council fires Cabinet, citing incompetence, 2 months before election

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TRIPOLI, Libya - Two senior officials say Libya's interim ruling council has fired the Cabinet, citing incompetence.

Lesbian Scout leader ousted in Ohio; parents upset

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This Wednesday, April 25, 2012 photo shows Jennifer Tyrrell and her son Cruz Burns, 7, during a visit to New York. Tyrrell traveled to New York from her home in Bridgeport, Ohio, to build momentum for a petition to overturn what she says are Ohio Boy Scout's anti-gay policies, after she was removed as den leader for her son's cub scout troop. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)at least not until the Boy Scouts of America threw her out over the organization's ban on gays.

Syrian regime, rebels trade blame for deadly blast

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In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Wednesday, April 25, 2012, purports to show Syrians standing in rubble of damaged buildings from Syrian forces shelling in Hama, Syria. Syrian state media said Thursday that anti-regime bomb-makers accidentally set off blasts a day earlier that flattened parts of a residential area in the central city of Hama and killed several people. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALU.N. observers on Thursday inspected the site of an explosion that flattened a block of houses in the central Syrian city of Hama and killed at least 16 people, while the government and the opposition traded blame over the cause of the blast

Top al-Qaida bomb maker in Yemen resurfaces

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U.S. counterterrorism officials are concerned about al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen because of increased intelligence chatter in the past several months. And in recent weeks, the group's top bomb maker — once thought to be dead — has resurfaced, The Associated Press has learned.

No series hangover: Texas has majors' best record

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Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington (38) shakes hands with Yu Darvish, of Japan, after pulling him in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers won 2-0. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)The Texas Rangers are sending a clear message to anyone wondering how they would recover from that crushing World Series loss.

Bin Laden family leaving Pakistan

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Police officers escort a vehicle carrying the family of Osama bin Laden, in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, April 26, 2012. A minivan carrying the three widows and children of Bin Laden has left the house where they have been staying in Islamabad and is en route to the airport, from where they will be deported to Saudi Arabia, officials and witness said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)Pakistan's government says Osama bin Laden's three widows and his children have been deported to Saudi Arabia.

Computer glitches worsen United Airlines 1Q loss

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FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2011, file photo, United Continental Airlines jets sit on the tarmac at Cleveland Hopkins Airport in Cleveland. The parent of United Continental Holdings Inc. said Thursday, April 26, 2012, that it lost $448 million in the first quarter as it dealt with higher fuel prices and hiccups in its integration with Continental Airlines. The loss amounted to $1.36 per share_not counting integration costs, it would have lost $286 million, or 87 cents per share. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)Sorry for the inconvenience. United Airlines is experiencing technical difficulties.

Fans let loose with racist comments after loss

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Washington Capitals right wing Joel Ward, center, is congratulated by teammates after his game-winning goal against the Boston Bruins during overtime of Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series in Boston, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. The Capitals won 2-1. From left with Ward are Karl Alzner, John Carlson and Nicklas Backstrom. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)The Boston Bruins and the owner of the Washington Capitals are scolding hockey fans who let loose with a burst of racist comments directed at Joel Ward after the black Canadian player scored an overtime goal that won their playoff series for the Caps late Wednesday.

Deal on Senate vote on violence against women bill

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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2010 file photo, then-Rep.-elect Kristi Noem, R-S.D. speaks during a Republican news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans determined to show women voters that they have their interests at heart on Wednesday announced plans to renew the Violence Against Women Act, the federal government's main domestic violence program. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)Senate leaders on Thursday overcame the gender politics that had roiled debate over the government's main domestic violence program and agreed to a vote on renewing it before heading home for a week's vacation.

New York Fed sells portion of AIG's bad assets

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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says it has sold a portion of the toxic mortgage securities it assumed in 2008 from American International Group as part of the massive taxpayer bailout of the big insurer.

Syria opposition wants UN meet, Russia blames rebels

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Residents search for survivors after shelling by government forces in HamaSyria's main opposition group called on Thursday for an emergency UN meeting after the reported killing of more than 100 people in the city of Hama, as Russia blamed rebels for stoking the unrest.

International community hails Taylor conviction

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A victim in Freetown watches the trial of Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor in the HagueThe international community roundly cheered Thursday's conviction of former Liberian president Charles Taylor as a historic precedent that paves the way for future trials against criminal heads of state.

Radical Islamist sect claims Nigeria bombings

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People gather front of the bombed office of ThisDay, an influential daily newspaper in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, April. 26, 2012, A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives Thursday at the office of the major Nigerian newspaper in the country's capital and another man threw a bomb near another newspaper office in Kaduna, killing at least six people in the attacks, witnesses said. (AP Photos/Gbemiga Olamikan)A radical Islamist sect has claimed responsibility for two bombings that killed at least seven people at the offices of a major Nigerian newspaper.

Syrian wants to form 'government' in exile

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Nofal al-Dawalibi, the son of a former Syrian prime minister, reacts prior to a meeting in Paris, France, Thursday April, 26, 2012. Nofal al-Dawalibi wants to form a government in exile aimed at bolstering Syrian rebels and encouraging international military intervention and only highlights divisions among those trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime from outside the country. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)Syria's fractured opposition is showing further signs of cracking, even as international powers build the pressure on President Bashar Assad to end his regime's bloody repression of dissent.

Arab League condemns South Sudan 'aggression'

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The Arab League on Thursday condemned South Sudan's "military aggression" against Heglig, saying the oil-rich border region belongs to Sudan.

Taylor conviction sends warning to tyrants

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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor looks down as he waits for the start of a hearing to deliver verdict in the court room of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, near The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday April 26, 2012. Judges were expected to deliver landmark judgements in the trial against the former president who is charged with supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)Former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday became the first head of state since World War II convicted by an international war crimes court, a legal landmark observers say sent a clear message to tyrants around the world that their days of impunity are numbered.

Syria blames rebels for blast that killed 16

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In this image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Wednesday, April 25, 2012, purports to show Syrians standing in rubble of damaged buildings from Syrian forces shelling in Hama, Syria. Syrian state media said Thursday that anti-regime bomb-makers accidentally set off blasts a day earlier that flattened parts of a residential area in the central city of Hama and killed several people. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALU.N. observers on Thursday inspected the site of an explosion that flattened a block of houses in the central Syrian city of Hama and killed at least 16 people, while the government and the opposition traded blame over the cause of the blast

Edwards attorney attacks ex-aide's credibility

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FILE - In this April 23, 2012, file photo, former U.S. Sen. and presidential candidate John Edwards arrives at federal court in Greensboro, N.C. for his criminal trial for allegedly violating campaign finance laws. Andrew Young, once an aide and good friend to Edwards, testified on Wednesday, April 25, that the former senator stopped returning his calls in January 2008, as Edwards was ending his White House bid. The next month, Edwards' child, Frances Quinn Hunter, was born to his mistress, Reille Hunter. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)John Edwards' defense lawyer on Thursday picked apart ex-aide Andrew Young's story that he was asked to conceal Edwards' affair with a mistress with campaign money, accusing him of making up stories about the former presidential contender to make money off of the scandal.

APNewsBreak: Donor says he offered internship

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A member of a Los Angeles temple apologized Thursday for offering an internship in a U.S. senator's office as part of a charity auction that the founder of "Girls Gone Wild" says he won.

In speech, Biden attacks Romney on foreign policy

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FILE - In this March 15, 2012, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden in Toledo, Ohio. Biden has issued a strong defense of President Barack Obama's foreign policy record and suggested that Republican Mitt Romney doesn't understand the role of contemporary commander in chief. Biden delivered a campaign foreign policy speech Thursday at New York University. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero, File)Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney's foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a Cold War mentality and is uninformed about the current challenges facing the U.S. abroad.

5 die in helicopter crash in Romania

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A helicopter crashed in eastern Romania on Thursday, killing all five people it was carrying, officials said.

SEC begins probe of Chesapeake CEO's well stakes

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File photo of Aubrey McClendon in New OrleansNEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an informal inquiry into Chesapeake Energy Corp's controversial program that granted Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon a share in each of the natural gas producer's wells, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. That inquiry, being led by the SEC's office in Fort Worth, Texas, comes after Reuters reported about loans McClendon had obtained on those wells that raised concerns about a potential conflict of interest by the company's CEO. Chesapeake said it would end the program that gives McClendon a 2. ...

Minnesota Vikings on the clock, sort of

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, second from right, addresses the crowd during the NFL Play 60 Youth Football Festival, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, in New York. In the background are NFL prospects, from left, Robert Griffin III, Nick Perry, Melvin Ingram, Shea McClelin and Michael Floyd. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Minnesota, you are on the clock.

US: Mexico seized 68,000 guns from US since 2006

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FILE - In this April 2, 2012 file photo, Mexican President Felipe Calderon participates in a joint news conference with President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States.
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