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Zimbabwe mining chamber criticises minerals proposals

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:23 AM

By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's mining chamber said tighter proposed state control over the sale of minerals would hit Anglo American Platinum and Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd, slow down foreign investment and stunt growth in the industry. Zimbabwe's mines ministry in March produced a draft Minerals Policy, which seeks to increase state participation in exploration, mining and the selling of metals and minerals. ...

Court: woman can seek lawyer fees in vaccine case

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:21 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says a woman can seek lawyers' fees from the government even though her lawsuit over damage she said was caused by a vaccine was ruled untimely.

Chinese, Indian leaders call for cooperation

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:20 AM

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves at the media in front of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his ceremonial reception at the Indian President's palace in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Li said Monday he chose India for his first foreign visit because cooperation between the world's two most populous nations is crucial to world stability and economic growth. He was visiting India just weeks after the two nations resolved a tense standoff between their troops over the disputed Himalayan border between their two countries. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)NEW DELHI (AP) — The leaders of India and China played down their recent border dispute and other tensions Monday, pledging to work together for regional stability and the economic growth of the world's two most populous nations.


Saudi women teachers demanding full time jobs

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:20 AM

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — About 30 Saudi women teachers have demonstrated outside the kingdom's Education Ministry, demanding full time jobs.

US: Pakistan moves to curb dangerous fertilizers

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:18 AM

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top American military officer says Pakistan has taken steps to prevent fertilizers made in Pakistan from being used for roadside bombs targeting American troops in Afghanistan.

More severe storms, tornadoes expected in central U.S.

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:15 AM

(Reuters) - The central United States braced for violent thunderstorms on Monday that could bring more hail, heavy rain and tornadoes to the region stricken by a deadly twister over the weekend. The National Weather Service said severe storms would likely pummel the Ozarks and the middle Mississippi Valley, with northwest Arkansas, far southeast Kansas, southern Missouri, most of Oklahoma and northern Texas facing the greatest risk. "A very moist atmosphere will become quite unstable again today," the forecasters said. ...

'Apple of my Eye' star turns to first love: music

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:14 AM

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013 file photo, Taiwanese singer-actress Michelle Chen smiles at a promotional event for her new song album "Me, Myself and I" in Hong Kong. Fans know her as the sweet schoolgirl in the 2011 blockbuster “You Are the Apple of My Eye.” Now, they can take a closer look at Michelle Chen through her first love: music. The 29-year-old actress said she poured her heart and soul into her first studio album, “Me Myself and I.” (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)HONG KONG (AP) — Fans know her as the sweet schoolgirl in the 2011 blockbuster "You Are the Apple of My Eye." Now, they can take a closer look at Michelle Chen through her first love: music.


Split-second choice ended with NY student dead

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:10 AM

CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School)NEW YORK (AP) — The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer.


Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:10 AM

A tornado touches down southwest of Wichita, Kan. near the town of Viola on Sunday, May 19, 2013. The tornado was part of a line of storms that past through the central plains on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Travis Heying)By Chris Francescani (Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had died. By 9:30 p.m. Central Standard Time, more than two dozen tornadoes had been spotted in parts of Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and local news reports. ...


Seamless and GrubHub to combine, no terms revealed

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:09 AM

CHICAGO (AP) — Seamless North America and GrubHub on Monday announced plans to combine and create an online food ordering service covering more than 20,000 restaurants in 500 cities across the U.S.

Wave of attacks kills at least 79 in Iraq

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:08 AM

An Iraqi woman passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed and wounded dozens of people, police said. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of attacks killed at least 79 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 200 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.


Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, vows not to screw it up

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:08 AM

The Yahoo logo is shown at the company's headquarters in SunnyvaleBy Jennifer Saba and Alexei Oreskovic (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said it is buying blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the struggling Internet pioneer a much-needed platform in social media to reach a younger generation of users. The deal, announced on Monday, is a bold bet by Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer to revitalize the company by co-opting a Web property with strong visitor traffic but little revenue. The acquisition, which will use up about a fifth of Yahoo's $5. ...


North Korea fires sixth missile in three days

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:06 AM

A North Korean soldier stands guard on the banks of Yalu River, near SinuijuBy Chookyung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired two short-range missiles on Monday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticizing what it said were its legitimate military drills. South Korea's Defense Ministry said North Korea had fired one missile on Monday morning and a second one in the afternoon. Both were fired into the sea off North Korea's east coast, a ministry official said. ...


Uganda police raid newspaper over general's letter

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:06 AM

Ugandan Police surround the offices of the Daily Monitor newspaper, preventing all journalists from leaving according to the paper's political editor, in Kampala, Uganda Monday, May 20, 2013. Ugandan police forcibly entered the premises of the independent newspaper to look for evidence against an army general who recently questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed him, witnesses said Monday. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan police disabled an independent newspaper's printing press after forcibly entering its premises to look for evidence against an army general who recently questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed him, witnesses said Monday.


German FM criticizes remarks by Hungarian PM

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:05 AM

BERLIN (AP) — Tensions between Germany and Hungary have flared over remarks by the two countries' leaders, including references to Hitler's occupation of the eastern European country in 1944 and an irritated German government response condemning Hungary's allusion to the Nazi era as "deplorable derailment" on Monday.

Tornadoes slam Plains, Midwest; 1 dead in Okla.

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:03 AM

A flag flies in the debris of a mobile home after a tornado struck a mobile home park near Dale, Okla., Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo Sue Ogrocki)SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — When Lindsay Carter heard on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, she gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community Carter had called home.


Super Bowl 50 site to be decided Tuesday

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:01 AM

BOSTON (AP) — NFL owners will vote on the sites of the 50th and 51st Super Bowls on Tuesday at their spring meetings.

Court: Should whistleblower protection be wider?

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide if government whistleblower protection applies to employees of a privately-held contractor or the subcontractor of a publicly-held company.

Commutes long, slow after Conn. train derailment

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:00 AM

Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to buses Monday, May 20, 2012, after a train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut commuters endured slow trips to work Monday following last week's train collision that that injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City.


Iran election overseers may bar former president

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:56 AM

FILE -- In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 file photo, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, waves to media, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran. Iran’s election overseers say they will bar physically weak hopefuls from running in next month presidential election, a direct hint at Rafsanjani. Iran's Constitution doesn't set any age limit for presidential candidates. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's election overseers say they will bar candidates who are physically weak from running in next month's presidential election, a clear nod toward a former president.


Egypt: Security beefed up in Sinai after abduction

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:56 AM

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 file photo, army trucks carry Egyptian tanks in a military convoy in El Arish, Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula. On Monday, May 20, 2013 Egyptian officials said dozens of military and police armored vehicles have crossed into Sinai, beefing up the security presence in the volatile peninsula five days after suspected militants kidnapped six policemen and a border guard there. (AP Photo, File)CAIRO (AP) — Dozens of Egyptian military and police armored vehicles crossed into Sinai on Monday, beefing up the security presence in the volatile peninsula five days after suspected militants kidnapped six policemen and a border guard there.


High court to weigh in on legislative prayers

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:53 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings.

Car bombs kill at least two in Russia's Dagestan

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:52 AM

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least two people on Monday in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. Car bombs, suicide bombings and firefights are common in Dagestan, at the center of an insurgency rooted in two post-Soviet wars against separatist rebels in neighboring Chechnya. ...

Stocks open slightly lower on Wall Street

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:49 AM

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2013, photo, specialist Charles Boeddinghaus works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push world stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street as the stock market comes off of four straight weeks of gains.


Ugandan police raid newspaper over Museveni succession letter

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:44 AM

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Police raided a leading Ugandan newspaper and disabled its printing press and website on Monday after it published a letter about a purported plot to stifle allegations President Yoweri Museveni is grooming his son for power, a senior editor said. Speculation is growing that Museveni, in office since 1986, is lining up his son Kainerugaba Muhoozi to take power, a move that would likely test loyalties in Uganda's ruling elite. ...

Jordan: Arab Spring paved way for press freedoms

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:44 AM

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's prime minister says the Arab Spring has forced governments in the region to allow more freedom of expression and of the press.

Israel gunman shoots 4 dead at bank, kills self

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:42 AM

JERUSALEM (AP) — A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police said.

AP Interview: Soderbergh on quitting movies

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:35 AM

File - In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 file photo, director Steven Soderbergh speaks to journalists during the press conference in Berlin. Soderbergh has said that Behind the Candelabra, a $23 million HBO movie starring Michael Douglas as the flamboyant pianist and Matt Damon as his lover, Scott Thorson, will be his last film, at least for now. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Soderbergh is working on a new currency.


Large earthquake strikes off coast of Chile

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:16 AM

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but Chilean officials said it was not felt on land and discarded the possibility that it might unleash a tsunami.

Egyptian army boosts forces in Sinai after kidnapping

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:11 AM

(Blank Headline Received)By Yousri Mohamed EL-ARISH, Egypt (Reuters) - The Egyptian army sent reinforcements into the Sinai Peninsula on Monday after President Mohamed Mursi said there would be no talks with militant Islamists who abducted seven members of the security forces last week. Radical Islamists have expanded into a security vacuum in Sinai that the state has struggled to fill since an uprising swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power in 2011. The groups have launched attacks on Israel and targets in North Sinai. ...


Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:11 AM

FILE - In this April 18, 2011 file photo, the Yahoo logo is displayed outside of the offices in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.


Wave of attacks kills at least 70 in Iraq

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:09 AM

BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombs and shootings killed at least 70 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting in the country.

Pakistan's MQM denounces Imran Khan in Karachi protest

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:08 AM

Khan, Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician and chairman of political party PTI, addresses his supporters during an election campaign in KarachiBy Syed Raza Hussan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Supporters of an influential Pakistani political party took to the streets of Karachi on Monday to protest against cricket-hero-turned-politician Imran Khan, who has accused it of killing one of his senior staff a week after a general election. Furious members of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) have denied responsibility for the killing of Zara Shahid Hussain on Saturday outside her home in the upscale Defence area of Karachi, capping a bloody election in which about 150 people were killed nationwide. ...


Chesapeake names Anadarko executive as new CEO

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:06 AM

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Chesapeake Energy has named Anadarko Petroleum executive Robert Douglas Lawler as its new CEO.

Car bomb blast kills at least 12 in Iraqi capital

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:04 AM

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a Shi'ite neighborhood of the Iraqi capital Baghdad killing at least 12 people on Monday, police and hospital sources said. The blast, near a crowded market in the northern Shaab district of Baghdad, wounded 26. Earlier on Monday, at least 43 people were killed in a wave of car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims in Baghdad and the southern oil hub of Basra, police and medics said. (Reporting by Kareem Raheem; Writing by Ahmed rasheed; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

51 die in 2 South Sudan clashes; army retakes town

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 09:03 AM

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Twenty-four people died in a battle between South Sudan's military and rebel fighters the government believes to be supported by neighboring Sudan, while a tribe-on-tribe cattle-raiding attack elsewhere in the country killed 27 people, officials said Monday.

Suicide bomber kills 14 at Afghan province council

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 08:57 AM

Afghan policemen evacuate a wounded person after a suicide bomber struck outside a provincial council headquarters in Pul-i-Khumri, Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan, Monday, May 20, 2013, killing the council chief and at least more than a dozen others, authorities said. Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the bombing saying the killing of civilians shows the “true nature” of the Taliban, who seek to re-establish the strict interpretation of Islamic law they imposed for five years before being ousted in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion over its sheltering of al-Qaida’s terrorist leadership. (AP Photo/Jawed Basharat)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform killed 14 people including a prominent provincial council chief Monday in northern Afghanistan in an attack outside the council headquarters, authorities said. The Taliban insurgency quickly claimed responsibility.


Baghdad car bomb kills 13, raises death toll to 70

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 08:54 AM

Iraqi security force members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Two car bombings in the southern city of Basra, killing and wounding dozens of people, police said. Iraq has seen a spike of attacks, including bombings hitting both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the last week. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a car bomb in another Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad has killed 13 people.


Report: 23 Hezbollah members killed in Syria

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 08:48 AM

In this Saturday, May 18, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians inspecting the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria. The town of Qusair has been besieged for weeks by regime troops and pro-government gunmen backed by the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group. The siege is part of a withering offensives forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have been pushing in recent weeks to regain control of the towns and villages along the Lebanese frontier. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces pushed deeper into a strategic opposition-held town near the Lebanese border Monday, battling rebels in fierce street fighting, state-media reported. An activist group said at least 23 elite fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group fighting alongside regime troops have been killed in the clashes.


S_47P::::10 Things to Know for Today

Published: Monday, May 20, 2013 08:41 AM

FILE - In a Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 file photo, gun violence protesters participate in a lie-in during an anti-gun rally at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. Nearly six in 10 Americans want stricter gun laws in the aftermath of last month's deadly school shooting in Connecticut, with majorities favoring a nationwide ban on military-style, rapid-fire weapons and limits on gun violence depicted in video games and movies and on TV, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. A lopsided 84 percent of adults would like to see the establishment of a federal standard for background checks for people buying guns at gun shows, the poll showed. President Barack Obama was set Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 to unveil a wide-ranging package of steps for reducing gun violence expected to include a proposed ban on assault weapons, limits on the capacity of ammunition magazines and universal background checks for gun sales. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:


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