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New Jersey police launch manhunt after shooter…
By Barbara Goldberg PARAMUS, New Jersey | Tue Nov 5, 2013 (Reuters) - Police backed by dozens of cruisers evacuated a New Jersey shopping mall and launched a manhunt shortly before closing time on…
Westgate siege: Four charged over Nairobi attack
Four people have been charged over the siege at the Westgate shopping centre in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, in which at least 67 were killed, police say. The four foreigners have been charged with…
Airport struggles to return to normal after…
PENNSVILLE, N.J. (AP): The father of the young man suspected of carrying out a fatal shooting at Los Angeles International Airport last Friday called his local police chief around the time of the…
Pakistan Taliban secretly bury leader, vow bombs…
By Saud Mehsud and Hafiz Wazir DERA ISMAIL KHAN/WANA, Pakistan | Sat Nov 2, 2013 (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban fighters secretly buried their leader early on Saturday after he was killed by a U.S.…
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford refuses to resign over…
BBC NEWS Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has refused to quit after Canadian police said they recovered a video appearing to show him smoking from a crack pipe. Mr Ford, who has denied smoking crack, said he…
US Congressional Black Caucus 'deeply…
WASHINGTON, USA -- Members of the US Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have released the following statement regarding ruling TC/0168/13 by the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal. As a result of the…
Immigration Releases 11 Detainees, Deports One
EL PASO, Texas (AP): United States immigration officials on Tuesday night released 11 of 25 people who were still detained after surrendering last month at the Texas-Mexico border to protest…
European banks pay heavy price for scandals
By Sara Webb and Katharina Bart AMSTERDAM/ZURICH | Tue Oct 29, 2013 (Reuters) - Four European banks paid a heavy price on Tuesday in a clean-up of the financial industry, with Rabobank fined $1…
Apple’s results disappoint ahead of holiday…
By Bill Rigby Mon Oct 28, 2013 (Reuters) - Apple Inc's profit and margins slid despite selling 33.8 million iPhones in its September quarter, and greater China revenue climbed just 6 percent even…
Cousin fatally stabs mom, 4 children
NEW YORK (AP): A Chinese immigrant was arrested yesterday on five counts of murder in the deaths of his cousin's wife and her four children in a stabbing rampage in their Brooklyn home. The New York…
Data center glitch is latest problem in…
By David Morgan and Sharon Begley WASHINGTON/NEW YORK | Sun Oct 27, 2013 Reuters) - A data center critical for allowing uninsured Americans to buy health coverage under President Barack Obama's…
White House buys time for Obamacare website fix
By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON | Sat Oct 26, 2013 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promised on Saturday that his troubled healthcare website was just weeks away from a cure as he…
Financier George Soros backs Hillary Clinton for…
By Gabriel Debenedetti WASHINGTON | Thu Oct 24, 2013 (Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros, a major Democratic donor, is backing an effort to persuade former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary…
Germany says U.S. may have monitored…
By Noah Barkin BERLIN | Wed Oct 23, 2013 (Reuters) - The German government has obtained information that the United States may have monitored the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel and she…
Analysis: Little evidence yet that Obamacare…
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON | Tue Oct 22, 2013 (Reuters) - There is little evidence that employers are sacrificing full-time jobs by hiring more part-timers or reducing existing employee hours because…