A defiant North Korea has launched a long range rocket, and says it has successfully placed a satellite in orbit. South Korean defense officials say the rocket was fired from a west coast launch site at 9:50 a.m. Wednesday local time. Japanese authorities said the missile overflew Okinawa about 12 minutes after liftoff, and said […]
North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 9:35 pm (UTC-5)
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2 Dead in Oregon Shopping Mall Shooting
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 9:00 pm (UTC-5)
A gunman opened fire on customers at a shopping mall near Portland, Oregon Tuesday, killing two people and wounding an unknown number of victims. Police say the gunman is also dead, but it is not clear if he was shot by police or took his own life. More than 100 police officers were searching the […]
North Korea Launches Lo9ng-Range Rocket
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 8:55 pm (UTC-5)
A defiant North Korea has launched a long range rocket, despite warnings from the international community against doing so. South Korean defense officials say the rocket was fired from a west coast launch site at 9:50 a.m. Wednesday local time. Japanese authorities said the missile overflew Okinawa about 12 minutes after liftoff, and said the […]
North Korea Launches Lo9ng-Range Rocket
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 8:30 pm (UTC-5)
The South Korean defense ministry says North Korea has launched a long range rocket, despite warnings from the international community against doing so. In the runup to the early Wednesday launch, many analysts said the rocket is a disguised ballistic missile, in violation of international regulations. Pyongyang has vowed to proceed with the launch, despite […]
US Launches Spaceplane in Secretive Military Program
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 3:55 pm (UTC-5)
The United States has launched a high-tech, experimental spaceplane for the third such flight in a secretive military test program. The nearly eight-meter-long X-37B craft blasted off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an Atlas V rocket. The unmanned shuttle made the first flight of its kind in 2010 and spent seven months circling Earth. […]
Russia Raids Homes of 3 Opposition Activists
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 2:30 pm (UTC-5)
Russian federal investigators have raided the homes of several opposition activists Moscow accuses of attending seminars in Lithuania on organizing protests aimed at toppling President Vladimir Putin. Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said investigators raided the homes of Taisia Alexandrova, Anna Kornilova and Yuri Nabutovsky on Tuesday morning, seizing computer files and other documents. […]
Congo Peace Talks Continue After Boycott
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 2:20 pm (UTC-5)
The foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has called for the “neutralization” of M-23 rebels after a day of contentious peace talks in Kampala. Delegations from the government and from the rebel forces met Tuesday after the rebels boycotted the talks on Monday. Afterward, Foreign Minister Raymond Tshibanda called the rebel movement “a […]
Britain Outlines Plan for Gay Marriage
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 12:40 pm (UTC-5)
The British government is considering a proposal to allow gay couples to wed in civil ceremonies but bar the Churches of England and Wales from offering same-sex weddings. Culture Secretary Maria Miller told parliament Tuesday that under the new plan it will remain illegal for the Church of England and its Church in Wales to […]
China Sentences 3 Muslim Uighurs to Death
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 12:05 pm (UTC-5)
Chinese state media say three Muslim Uighurs have been sentenced to death after they were found guilty of trying to hijack a plane earlier this year. The official Xinhua news agency reported a Chinese court sentenced a fourth man to life in prison Tuesday over the attempted hijacking in June in the restive northwestern region […]
US Turning Big Profit on Controversial AIG Rescue
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 10:55 am (UTC-5)
The U.S. is ending up with a sizeable profit on its controversial bailout of one of the world’s largest insurers during the worst days of the global economic downturn. The Treasury Department said it is selling 234 million shares in American International Group (AIG) on Tuesday at a profit of $7.6 billion, bringing its overall […]
