TotalPaas Dynamic Platform (TPlatform-2.5.0.0) http://www.ramonavoices.com Sat, 25 May 2013 20:51:35 PDT Houston Chronicle
NEW DELHI (AP) — About 200 suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 17 people and wounding 24 others, police ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE3_Sww9a5Lih46dv6kvMex2-Rr9g&url=http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Suspected-rebels-kill-17-wound-24-in-east-India-4548717.php Sat, 25 May 2013 19:24:48 PDT fd58620e02bb1dd1f05bfe72900c668e New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Fifteen schoolchildren and a teacher were killed Saturday when their school van caught fire in eastern Punjab Province, rescue and government officials said. Seven other children were injured, two of them critically. World Twitter ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNF9WuoybZzjMvdOC4kCkqskp63dug&url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/world/asia/pakistan-van-accident-kills-children-and-teacher.html Sat, 25 May 2013 19:12:10 PDT f7aaec159d1356fb5570c8a5e8cf910a Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — The leader of the militant group Hezbollah on Saturday aligned his powerful movement squarely behind the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and vowed victory against Syrian rebels, whom he assailed as proxy warriors for the West ...]]> http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFL_S4CQ9iVVdAp00zR6_7cIly7fg&url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-fighting-hezbollah-20130526,0,7835258.story Sat, 25 May 2013 18:15:07 PDT a28a1007e669f3913ad0d70fac030948 His art may be forbidden in China and his name blocked as a search topic online, but Chinese artist and social activist Ai Weiwei still knows how to grab headlines.]]> http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/25/18399790-forbidden-artist-ai-weiwei-makes-massive-map-of-china-out-of-baby-formula?lite Sat, 25 May 2013 02:26:36 PDT f88afb7ac78c004640ea37332bd01dac At least 17 children were burned to death in eastern Pakistan on Saturday when a faulty gas cylinder exploded on the bus taking them to school, police said.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/25/18483717-17-children-burned-to-death-in-pakistan-school-bus-explosion?lite Sat, 25 May 2013 00:56:18 PDT aa9c75f8fb3ad6f50e38211f80f2d0b2 A British zoo worker who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park near Dalton-in-Furness has died, police said Friday. Sarah McClay, 24, from the Barrow area, was attacked by a tiger within its enclosure Friday afternoon, Cumbria police said.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18476056-zoo-worker-dies-after-tiger-attack?lite Fri, 24 May 2013 18:09:15 PDT 260fa5af0e59d09df00b557c75435c0c Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, under pressure to respond to allegations he was filmed using drugs, said on Friday that he does not smoke crack cocaine and could not comment on a video he had not seen or does not exist.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18474854-toronto-mayor-denies-finally-use-of-crack-cocaine?lite Fri, 24 May 2013 16:03:37 PDT 6da45a131d65350079789cd73c840eaa More than a thousand people died because of one man - as an official inquiry into last month's garment factory collapse in Bangladesh blamed the owner for violating building codes. Many of the victims are now seeking compensation. But some workers might not receive a penny. It's been reported that their ID cards were confiscated when they got their final pay packets.  ITV’s Jonathan Rugman reports. (Nightly News)]]> http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/51993879/ Fri, 24 May 2013 13:56:38 PDT e61e9ac404f532982886f0986e3cd574 Five climbers including two Hungarians and a South Korean are missing on the world's third-highest mountain and feared dead, a mountaineering official said Friday.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18472084-5-climbers-feared-dead-on-worlds-3rd-highest-peak?lite Fri, 24 May 2013 11:23:52 PDT 9ac7908d790d6332c710c1f2a41f0cc6 LONDON – The horrific public slaying of a soldier in London, five weeks after the Boston Marathon bombings, illustrates the possible emergence of a new terror trend towards unsophisticated attacks that are practically impossible to prevent, intelligence experts warned.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18471226-are-lone-wolf-attacks-the-new-path-to-terror?lite Fri, 24 May 2013 10:49:50 PDT 0c151029c36c946a3442efcf43b366e0 U.S. authorities have arrested a man wanted in the murder of four members of a family in the Czech Republic, Czech police said on Friday.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18470532-american-accused-of-killing-4-in-czech-republic?lite Fri, 24 May 2013 09:25:24 PDT 659366cb0a58804df3f2b140d25a4b36 A car bomb explodes in Pakistan, missing the intended target but killing the Islamic religious school leader's guard instead. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports. (NBCNews.com)]]> http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/51990449/ Fri, 24 May 2013 08:08:23 PDT b9992d17c5da9fe9bde2e261141ed072 The wife of a British soldier murdered in London said Friday she thought he was safe in England, as video footage emerged showing the moments that police shot two men later arrested over the killing.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18468267-wife-of-slain-british-solder-says-she-thought-he-was-safe-back-in-uk?lite Fri, 24 May 2013 07:58:52 PDT c12e0691576ac6d36f44369d18ce8437 Europe’s busiest airport was disrupted for several hours Friday after a British Airways plane made an emergency landing at Heathrow with a fire in at least one engine.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18462757-delays-after-passenger-jet-lands-at-heathrow-with-engine-fire?lite Fri, 24 May 2013 07:32:45 PDT 54cffb4fa0f090b5d4f92f31fecff15d A passenger jet heading from Pakistan to England was intercepted by U.K. fighter jets after an "angry passenger" made a bomb threat Friday, an airline official said.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18467987-pakistan-jet-intercepted-by-fighters-over-uk-after-passenger-bomb-threat-officials?lite Fri, 24 May 2013 07:03:21 PDT 17e3d1307a2f06bf8b604056925e75b5 Rebecca Rigby, the widow of the British soldier who was murdered in London, fights back tears to talk about the “devoted father” she never expected to die while on UK soil. “You think they’re safe,” she says alongside their family spokesman. (NBC News)]]> http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/51988120/ Fri, 24 May 2013 05:47:43 PDT 620568af5b83b18b749ef4d88723250c Stockholm police are to seek reinforcements after youths in the Swedish capital rioted for a fifth night, officials said Friday. The U.S. Embassy has warned U.S. citizens not to go to the affected areas.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/24/18466766-sweden-riots-cops-seek-reinforcements-us-citizens-warned?lite Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:56 PDT 81e95b214e77701ffb1dc8f0499df7c0 In a counterterrorism speech on Thursday, President Obama focused on narrowrt guidelines for deadly drone strikes, arguing they are legal and effective, and announced an end to the ban on transferring detainees from Guantanamo back to Yemen. NBC’s Peter Alexander reports. (TODAY)]]> http://www.today.com/video/today/51987755/ Fri, 24 May 2013 04:38:56 PDT 130945a8f0c3bde8bbfb76bc72a3b6c6 The Prime Minister of the UK, David Cameron said, the best way to defeat terrorism is to go about our normal lives. In Woolwich, the locals have been doing their best to do just that.   TV’s Penny Marshall reports.    (Nightly News)]]> http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/51982202/ Thu, 23 May 2013 13:38:08 PDT 4f7bb2747c33d7cc6aba521e81254f9a The British soldier brutally killed in London in a suspected terror attack was a drummer in a military band who had served in Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18447209-slain-london-soldier-was-loving-father-who-served-in-afghanistan?lite Thu, 23 May 2013 09:52:41 PDT 16890d2ddcab9bfcb63f393361bf2cd5 A retired couple in Colombia has turned their plant eaters into a thriving business that exports four tons of snail meat a month to Europe. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports. (NBCNews.com)]]> http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/51977746/ Thu, 23 May 2013 07:50:48 PDT 7c160ee24b0b0234f73599a7b0bf5f3f The alert level was raised to green after the Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica spewed ash for e third day. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports. (NBCNews.com)]]> http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/51977747/ Thu, 23 May 2013 07:31:41 PDT e81de8a6b5a797885c0ffef126bea11f A mom who confronted a blood-soaked, knife-carrying man moments after the apparently ideologically motivated murder of a British soldier said she did so in order to protect onlookers.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18439090-uk-mom-calms-man-with-blood-soaked-knife-after-suspected-deadly-terror-attack?lite Thu, 23 May 2013 06:44:38 PDT 6e6923fd231ca626c8fc8c3b91f7b564 Suicide bombers struck a mine run by French nuclear group Areva and a military barracks in Niger on Thursday, killing and wounding several people in separate attacks.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18441000-uranium-mine-military-barracks-attacked-by-suicide-bombers-in-niger?lite Thu, 23 May 2013 04:20:36 PDT 290851108bfd5bc0ebed37ee598aee5b An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest, a Nepali official and Miura's Tokyo-based support team said.]]> http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/51973724/ns/sports-other_sports/ Wed, 22 May 2013 21:19:23 PDT 92a0c38959c3ed52921635c83d4f0c07 The Obama administration publicly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that U.S.drone strikes have killed four American citizens since 2009, including the previously undisclosed death of a North Carolina resident who left the United States for Pakistan and was later indicted on federal terrorism charges.]]> http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/22/18429089-in-first-public-acknowledgement-holder-says-4-americans-died-in-us-drone-strikes?lite Wed, 22 May 2013 17:51:01 PDT a944281239b1b98ac9c57a45ea4ff058 An American tourist underwent emergency surgery after being stabbed in the Italian city of Florence on Tuesday, a hospital doctor and media reports said.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/22/18421528-american-tourist-68-stabbed-in-main-square-of-florence-italy?lite Wed, 22 May 2013 11:59:10 PDT 1a01a9f099cb70128dfe5e4286641177 Iranian authorities have barred two potentially powerful and disruptive candidates from running in next month's presidential election, ensuring a contest largely among hardliners loyal to the clerical supreme leader.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/22/18418204-iran-bars-two-leading-candidates-from-presidential-election?lite Wed, 22 May 2013 09:45:36 PDT fa35c5e5c324e637ddbfe2155a0930da He was judged guilty by public opinion after his cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, capsized off the tiny Italian island of Giglio last year, killing 32 people and leaving thousands traumatized. Now Captain Francesco Schettino will face justice in a court of law.]]> http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/22/18420669-captain-of-luxury-costa-concordia-cruise-ship-to-face-trial-over-deadly-wreck?lite Wed, 22 May 2013 07:06:08 PDT 892d928ff55b2136ef097ddd0bdfeebd China’s Ai Weiwei on Wednesday released a profanity-laced heavy-metal single based on the 81 days the firebrand artist and activist spent in detention.]]> http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/22/18417855-artist-ai-weiweis-answer-to-81-days-in-china-prison-profanity-laced-heavy-metal?lite Wed, 22 May 2013 05:51:20 PDT 1b714e64b9db4b6b8e268b375deee50f