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Some 800,000 people to need food aid in Niger: UN

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 9:14am

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Some 800,000 people will require food aid in Niger in the coming months despite a good harvest last year due to problems supplying cereals to markets, which have pushed up prices, and an influx of Malian refugees, the United Nations said. The U.N. office for humanitarian coordination (OCHA) said they would need food from now until the start of the rainy season, which is usually in July, July and August. It said the situation was critical in 13 regions surveyed by the government in March, where 84,000 people needed emergency food aid. ...


U.S. broadcast TV ratings slide pressures ad rates at 'upfronts'

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 9:06am

By Lisa Richwine and Liana B. Baker (Reuters) - U.S. broadcast networks head into their biggest ad-selling season this week, competing with streaming services like Netflix, battling online players for ad dollars, and fending off hits starring zombies and duck hunters on cable. The increased competition will force ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC to settle for their lowest average rate hikes in three years during the "upfront" selling season, Wall Street analysts say. ...


Ohio suspect's brothers deny knowing of captives

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:57am

CLEVELAND (AP) — Two brothers of the Cleveland kidnapping suspect say they fear people still believe they had something to do with the three missing women found in his home.


Union organiser shot dead in S.Africa's restive platinum belt

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:56am
By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A militant South African union said on Sunday that one of its organisers had been shot dead in the platinum belt city of Rustenburg, a potential flashpoint at a time when tensions are running high with job cuts and wage talks looming. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which poached tens of thousands of disgruntled workers last year from the dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), said the unnamed organiser had been killed on Saturday. ...

Calif. struggles with experiment to shift inmates

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:53am
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In response to a federal court order, Gov. Jerry Brown pushed a novel approach through the Legislature two years ago to dramatically reduce California's prison population.

For banks in cyber heist, how to get their money back?

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:49am

By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Because the sums were large and such attacks are relatively new, the two Middle East banks hit in a $45 million ATM heist face an uncertain path in trying to recover their losses, financial, insurance and legal experts say. Oman-based Bank of Muscat lost $40 million and United Arab Emirates-based National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah PSC (RAKBANK) lost $5 million in the global heist, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday. Computer hackers broke into third-party companies that processed transactions for prepaid debit cards issued by the banks, the prosecutors said. ...


Issa seeks deposition from Benghazi review chairs

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:49am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of a House panel looking into the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, wants to take depositions from the leaders of an earlier review board.

Afghanistan accuses Iran of holding 21 laborers

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:43am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan has accused Iran of holding as many as 21 migrant Afghan workers following a border shooting incident over the weekend and has filed a formal complaint to Tehran, an official said Sunday.

Benghazi police bombed for second time in three days

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:33am

BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Two more police stations were attacked in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi in the early hours of Sunday morning, the local council said, after two others were bombed on Friday. The attacks are the latest signs of insecurity in Libya's second city, birthplace of the uprising that toppled the dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Nearly two years after his fall, rebel groups that helped to overthrow him are still refusing to disband and remain a more visible presence on the streets than the state security forces. ...


Woods tied with Garcia, Lingmerth at Players

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:29am

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia are part of a three-way tie for the lead at The Players Championship, both going after golf's richest prize without the pleasure of being in the same group for the final round at the TPC Sawgrass.


Egyptian lawyer denies that Mubarak spoke to paper

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:19am

CAIRO (Reuters) - A lawyer representing former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak denied on Sunday that his client had spoken to a newspaper, describing as a fabrication reports that he had said it was too early to judge Mohamed Mursi's performance as president. Sunday's edition of El-Watan said its journalist had broken through security lines to speak to Mubarak on Saturday before his retrial on charges of complicity in the death of protesters killed in the uprising that swept him from office. ...


Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:15am

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square.


Turkey says it is time for nations to act against Assad

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:13am
BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday it was time for the international community to take action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with the security risks in Turkey and Syria's other neighbors mounting. Davutoglu was speaking at a news conference in Berlin a day after twin car bombs ripped through the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, killing 46 people - an attack that Turkish officials blamed on fighters with links to Assad's administration. ...

Gates worries about escalation of Korean tension

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:06am
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Pentagon chief says he worries that North Korea's young leader and his generals don't realize there's been a "dramatic change" in public opinion in South Korea in how to respond to belligerent actions by the North.

Gates: No to direct military involvement in Syria

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 8:03am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he thinks direct U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war — particularly direct military involvement — would be a mistake.

Rain disrupts salvage work in Bangladesh collapse

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 7:58am

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Search teams resumed their rain-interrupted work Sunday as the death toll from the collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory building continued to climb past 1,100.


A look at new saints canonized by Pope Francis

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 7:58am

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has made hundreds of new saints at his first canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square. Here is a look at the people receiving the Catholic Church's highest honor:


Egyptian Christian who stabbed wife kills himself

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 7:45am
ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials say a Coptic Christian who stabbed his wife for converting to Islam has killed himself by jumping out of a fourth-story courthouse window.

ElectraCard: data in fraud compromised outside its environment

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 7:38am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's ElectraCard Services said on Sunday that a data breach in a series of ATM fraud attacks in December appears to have happened outside of its "processing environment." According to a U.S. official and a bank employee, who both spoke on condition of anonymity, ElectraCard Services was the company that processed prepaid travel cards for National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah PSC (RAKBANK). RAKBANK suffered a $5 million coordinated heist at ATMs around the world on December 21 last year, according to the U.S. indictment. ...

Sheriff: Body found, believed to be missing girl

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 7:38am

OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) — A body recovered amid an intensive search is believed to be that of a missing 18-month-old girl whose mother was found dead along with two men on a Kansas farm days ago, authorities said Sunday.