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Nadal beats Wawrinka in Madrid Open final

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:50am

MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal won his fifth title since returning from a knee injury by beating Stanislas Wawrinka 6-2, 6-4 Sunday for the Madrid Open championship.


Sierra Leone: Opposition politician arrested

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:43am
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A Sierra Leonean police official says that a prominent opposition politician has been arrested for making statements to undermine state security.

Senator: Obama should apologize for IRS targeting

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:43am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans said Sunday that the Internal Revenue Service's heightened scrutiny of conservative political groups was "chilling" and further eroded public trust in government.


Republicans demand probe of tax scrutiny of conservative groups

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:37am

By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers called on Sunday for a broad investigation of the tax agency's acknowledgement that its agents had singled out conservative political groups for more scrutiny, and demanded that President Barack Obama make clear the action was unacceptable. "This is something we cannot let stand. It needs to have a full investigation," House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, said on "Fox News Sunday. ...


Serena Williams beats Sharapova to win Madrid Open

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:22am

MADRID (AP) — Serena Williams is still No. 1, and has No. 50 to go along with it.


Police memorial wall comes with some tough calls

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:22am

DETROIT (AP) — Deciding which police officers killed in the line of duty belong on a national memorial usually is driven by facts and presents few obstacles. But this year, two cases show that it isn't always so black-and-white to honor the nation's fallen men and women in blue.


Snowe presses for bipartisanship in new book

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:14am

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe describes a scene out of a Rockwell painting: With Washington crippled by a blizzard, President Barack Obama worked the week before Christmas with a fire roaring in the fireplace in the Oval Office. Outside the window, his daughters played in the snow with their dog.


BP withdraws staff from Libya due to security concerns

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:12am
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - British oil company BP said it is withdrawing some non-essential staff from Libya after Britain's government warned about deteriorating security in the capital Tripoli. "We are taking some non-Libyan staff out of the office in Tripoli following advice by the foreign office," the spokesman said. The foreign office advises against all travel to parts of Libya. ...

India IT watchdog investigating breach in ATM heist

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:11am

By Swati Pandey and Supantha Mukherjee MUMBAI/BANGALORE (Reuters) - The Indian government's cyber watchdog is investigating how security at two companies that are part of the country's vast IT services industry was breached in a global ATM heist that saw $45 million stolen from two banks in the Middle East. EnStage Inc, which operates from Bangalore, and ElectraCard Services, based in the Indian city of Pune, processed card payments for the two banks that were hit in the theft, several people familiar with the situation said. ...


9 detained in car bombings in Turkish border town

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:01am

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish citizens believed to have links to the Syrian intelligence agency have been detained in connection with twin car bombings that shattered a Turkish border town, officials said Sunday. Turkey's prime minister insisted the country wouldn't fall for a "dirty scenario" and be dragged into its neighbor's civil war.


Officials: Gunfire attacks kill 4, wound 3 in Iraq

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 9:59am
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say two gunfire attacks in and near Baghdad have killed four people and wounded three.

Look at major issues facing Pakistan's new leader

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 9:23am

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The winner of Pakistan's historic national election, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, faces a host of problems, including faltering economic growth, worsening energy shortages and continued attacks by militants.


Rapes on rise in Somaliland, say medical officials

Sun, 05/12/2013 - 9:21am
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — An upsurge of gang rapes has hit the breakaway region of Somaliland — a normally peaceful enclave considered by many to be a sanctuary from Somalia's decades of violence.

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.