China’s Shenzhou-9 spacecraft with three astronauts on board has landed in a remote northern area after a successful mission to manually dock with an orbiting space station module. The three, including China’s first female astronaut, landed safely Friday morning in the country’s vast Inner Mongolia region. Rescue workers quickly surrounded the capsule as TV cameras […]
US Appeals Court Upholds 10 Year Prison Term for Lawyer in Terrorism Case
Posted June 28th, 2012 at 9:45 pm (UTC-5)
A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld a 10 year prison sentence for a disbarred lawyer who helped her jailed terrorist client smuggle messages to his followers. The three-judge panel in New York wrote Thursday that Lynne Stewart still refuses to understand the seriousness of her crime. Stewart was originally sentenced to 28 months in […]
US Contractor Pleads Guilty to Helping China Build Attack Helicopter
Posted June 28th, 2012 at 7:30 pm (UTC-5)
A subsidiary of U.S. defense contractor United Technologies Corporation, or UTC, pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal charges of selling China hardware to help it build a military attack helicopter. The Justice Department charged UTC’s Canadian subsidiary, Pratt & Whitney Canada, with selling China hardware for its Z-10 attack helicopter, violating the Arms Export Control Act. […]
EU Leaders Agree on Growth Pact; Italy, Spain Refuse to Sign On
Posted June 28th, 2012 at 7:10 pm (UTC-5)
European Union leaders meeting at a summit in Brussels Thursday have agreed to set aside about $150 billion to stimulate growth in the bloc’s weakest economies. European Council President Herman van Rompuy announced the so-called “growth pact” which was rejected by Italy and Spain. “The key element is that we boost the financing of the […]
US: Syria’s Assad Losing Control, Fueling Violence in Damascus
Posted June 28th, 2012 at 7:00 pm (UTC-5)
The United States says escalating violence in and around Damascus is a result of President Bashar al-Assad assaulting the Syrian people and a sign that he is losing control of the capital. A bomb exploded near Syria’s main judiciary complex, known as the Palace of Justice, in central Damascus on Thursday, wounding three people. A […]
House Holds Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress
Posted June 28th, 2012 at 6:05 pm (UTC-5)
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents about a failed gun running scheme between the United States and Mexico. The vote was along party lines, with 255 House members voting in favor and 67 opposing it. But most Democratic […]
Clinton Recommends Fewer Business Barriers For Young Latvians
Posted June 28th, 2012 at 5:50 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says fewer barriers to starting a new business in Latvia will enable more of its young people to engage in economic activity. Secretary Clinton arrived in Riga Latvia Thursday and after meEting with top officials she participated in a town hall meeting at the University of Latvia hosted by […]
House Holds Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress
Posted June 28th, 2012 at 5:00 pm (UTC-5)
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents about a failed gun running scheme. The vote was generally along party lines, with 255 House members voting in favor and 67 opposing it. But most Democratic House members walked out of […]
Europe Weighing Italian, Spanish Debt Relief
Posted June 28th, 2012 at 3:35 pm (UTC-5)
European leaders are weighing the possibility of using the eurozone’s financial rescue fund to make direct debt purchases from Italy and Spain as a way to ease the surging borrowing costs both countries are faced with on the world’s financial markets. European heads of state were engaged in sharp discussions Thursday in Brussels, their 20th […]
UN War Crimes Court Drops One Genocide Count Against Karadzic
Posted June 28th, 2012 at 3:05 pm (UTC-5)
Judges at the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia have dropped one of two genocide charges against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. A tribunal spokesperson said the court found that prosecutors did not present enough evidence to support the genocide count in relation to killings by Bosnian Serb forces in towns […]
