Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: | | Scandal mars Obama's wooing of Latin America Sat,14 Apr 2012 08:27 PM PDT Reuters - CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - A prostitution scandal involving U.S. security personnel in Colombia and an unprecedented regional push to end the isolation of Cuba threatened on Saturday to eclipse President Barack Obama's charm offensive to Latin America. In a major embarrassment for Washington at the Summit of the Americas attended by more than 30 heads of state, 11 U.S. Secret Service agents were sent home and five military servicemen grounded over "misconduct" allegations in a hotel. Prostitutes were taken to the hotel, according to a Colombian police source. ... Full Story | Top | U.N. to send monitors to Syria as fighting rages Sat,14 Apr 2012 08:12 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations will send an advance team of observers to Syria on Sunday to start monitoring a shaky ceasefire, even as a surge in violence on the ground threatened to derail international efforts to end more than a year of bloodshed. Russia and China joined the rest of the Security Council to authorize the deployment of up to 30 unarmed observers in the first resolution on Syria the 15-nation council managed to approve unanimously since the uprising erupted in March 2011. ... Full Story | Top | Tornadoes pound U.S. Plains as residents hunker down Sat,14 Apr 2012 11:06 PM PDT Reuters - KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A spate of tornadoes tore through parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa on Saturday, churning through Wichita and other areas while causing property damage but no immediate reports of deaths or widespread injuries. Tornadoes skipped across the U.S. Central and Southern Plains and residents braced for the possibility of more, but the twisters primarily affected sparsely populated areas. ... Full Story | Top | Iran, big powers agree - to keep talking Sat,14 Apr 2012 05:05 PM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - After a year of sanctions and saber-rattling over Iran's nuclear program, negotiators from Tehran and six world powers finally resumed talks and found at least enough common ground to agree to meet again next month. With threats of war hanging over an already unsettled Middle East, U.S. and other Western diplomats welcomed their Iranian counterparts willingness in Istanbul on Saturday to discuss their nuclear activities - something they had refused since early last year. But though they will meet again, in Baghdad on May 23, they remained poles apart. ... Full Story | Top | Secure despite rocket fiasco, N.Korea's Kim lauds military Sat,14 Apr 2012 11:16 PM PDT Reuters - PYONGYANG (Reuters) - North Korea's new leader delivered his first major public speech on Sunday as the impoverished state celebrated the centenary of its founder's birth, calling for a push to "final victory" despite a failed rocket launch two days ago. A jowly Kim Jong-un, clad in black and the third of his line to rule North Korea, read monotonously from a script in Pyongyang's central square after goose-stepping soldiers and sailors showcased the North's military power in a parade in spring sunlight. ... Full Story | Top | Obama calls on Romney to release tax returns: Univision Sat,14 Apr 2012 05:24 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns, in an interview with Univision released on Saturday. Obama's campaign has been pushing Romney, a multi-millionaire former private equity executive, to release several years of his prior tax returns to shed light on how he amassed his wealth. In an interview conducted on Friday and released on Saturday, an anchor for the Spanish-language network noted Obama had released his tax returns for 12 years and asked him if Romney should do the same. ... Full Story | Top | IMF funds drive caught in global power shift Fri,13 Apr 2012 07:37 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tensions among some of the world's leading economies have boiled up over a plan to raise new resources for the International Monetary Fund to contain the euro zone debt crisis, and a quest by emerging economies to win more say in the global lender. World financial leaders gathering in Washington next week will focus on proposals for countries to contribute more money to the IMF so it is better prepared in case of fallout from any further escalation of Europe's debt problems. ... Full Story | Top | U.S. says China making progress on currency, urges more Sat,14 Apr 2012 04:05 PM PDT Reuters - CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - A senior White House aide said on Saturday that China had made some progress toward easing restrictions on its currency but stressed the United States wanted to see more actions taken. At a briefing with reporters in Colombia, where President Barack Obama is attending a summit with Latin American leaders, White House adviser Ben Rhodes said the Obama administration was closely reviewing Beijing's announcement that it was doubling the size of its yuan's trading band against the dollar. ... Full Story | Top | Argentina ex-dictator admits dirty war "disappeared" Sat,14 Apr 2012 08:53 PM PDT Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla has admitted for the first time that the country's brutal 1976-1983 dictatorship "disappeared" leftist opponents, a euphemism for kidnapped and murdered, and said babies were taken from their parents. Videla, 86, who was jailed for life in 2010 for murder, torture and kidnapping, has repeatedly justified the brutality of the military junta in the so-called Dirty War crackdown on left-wing opponents. Until now, he has also denied the forced disappearances. ... Full Story | Top | Ocampo ends World Bank bid, backs Nigerian Fri,13 Apr 2012 05:44 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo ended his bid to become World Bank president on Friday, leaving two candidates in an unprecedented challenge to U.S. control of the global development institution. With the board of the World Bank to meet on Monday to pick a new president, Ocampo said he hoped emerging-market nations would rally behind Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in a race that he said had turned highly political. ... Full Story | Top | Severe weather bears down on Midwest, Plains Sat,14 Apr 2012 10:33 PM PDT Associated Press - Tornadoes were spotted across the Midwest and Plains on Saturday as an outbreak of unusually strong weather seized the region, and forecasters sternly warned that "life-threatening" weather could intensify overnight. Full Story | Top | Secret Service scandal deepens; 11 placed on leave Sat,14 Apr 2012 10:51 PM PDT Associated Press - An embarrassing scandal involving prostitutes and Secret Service agents deepened Saturday as 11 agents were placed on leave, and the agency designed to protect President Barack Obama had to offer regret for the mess overshadowing his diplomatic mission to Latin America. Full Story | Top | Taliban attack Pakistan prison, free 380 prisoners Sat,14 Apr 2012 10:59 PM PDT Associated Press - Taliban militants battled their way into a prison in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, freeing close to 400 prisoners, including at least 20 described by police as "very dangerous" insurgents, authorities and the militants said. Full Story | Top | With new heart, Cheney speaks over an hour in Wyo. Sat,14 Apr 2012 05:39 PM PDT Associated Press - Former Vice President Dick Cheney walked onstage without any assistance and spoke for an hour and 15 minutes without seeming to tire in his first public engagement since he underwent a heart transplant three weeks ago. Full Story | Top | Biffle pulls away to give Roush another Texas win Sat,14 Apr 2012 09:37 PM PDT Associated Press - Greg Biffle regained the lead when he charged under Jimmie Johnson with 30 laps left Saturday night, then pulled away to end his 49-race winless streak while giving owner Jack Roush another NASCAR Sprint Cup victory in Texas. Full Story | Top | UN votes to send Syria monitors amid shaky truce Sat,14 Apr 2012 06:23 PM PDT Associated Press - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to dispatch a first team of monitors to Syria to shore up a brittle cease-fire as escalating fighting between regime and rebel forces threatened the truce at the heart of special envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan. Full Story | Top |
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