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After breaches Twitter beefs up security with two-step login
NEW YORK - Aiming to tackle recent high-profile breaches, popular micro-blogging site Twitter is introducing an optional two-step login for users to beef up security. The new system would try to ensure "it's really you" when a user signs in to Twitter, which transmits some 400 million messages a day. The move follows recent attacks into the twitter accounts of news organisations' such as ...
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Obama seeks more transparency in use of drones
WASHINGTON In a major counter-terrorism speech, President Barack Obama Thursday defended the covert US drone program and stressed that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save lives. He also said the use of lethal force extends to U.S. citizens as well. This disclosure comes a day after his administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that four US ...
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Taliban car bomb kills 13 in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan - At least 13 people, including two civilians, were killed in a car bomb targeting a police vehicle in western Pakistani city of Quetta Thursday, police officials said. The bombing also injured at least 20 people in the capital of Baluchistan province, riven by Islamist militancy and a violent separatist insurgency. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the ...
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Kerry begins efforts to restart Israeli and Palestinian peace talks
JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday separately began meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials but appeared doubtful about his success on getting the two warring sides back to peace negotiations. This is Kerry's fourth trip to the Middle East in as many months of his assuming the office of the top US diplomat. He was been trying to revive a peace process that has been ...
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Istanbul hosts meeting of Syrian opposition leaders
ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition leaders Thursday began their three-day meeting in this Turkish capital city to decide on their participation in talks aimed at end the civil war in the country. As the meeting began in Istanbul a prominent Syrian figure in the opposition proposed a transition plan for the country that requires President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to a senior aide and ...
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Canada threatens to retaliate against change in US meat labeling rules
OTTAWA - Canada has threatened "retaliatory measures" against the United States move changing the so-called country of origin labeling that would track beef and hogs through the meat processing and distribution systems, stating that it is discriminatory, a view shared by the World Trade Organisation. On Thursday, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a final modification to its ...
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Import alert by USFDA hits Wockhardt shares
MUMBAI - Shares of Wockhardt, one of the leading Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, witnessed a sharp fall of 20% to Rs. 1,315 ($23.61) on the Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) on Thursday after the US FDA published an import alert on one of its three manufacturing facilities near Aurangabad. The import alert, 'detention without physical examination of drugs from firms which have ...
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Ford Motor to shutdown 2 units in Australia
MELBOURNE Ford Motor Company Wednesday announced plans of closing its local manufacturing operations in Broadmeadows and Geelong in October 2016 thereby forcing 1,200 people out of work. Spelling the end of the iconic Ford Falcon in the country, Ford Australia president Bob Graziano announced that the carmaker would shut its Victorian facilities in October 2016, bringing an end to nearly ...
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IMF warns UK against continuing austerity programme
LONDON - In a critique of the United Kingdom's austerity programme, the International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Europe's third largest economy to rebalance the policy to make the transition to a high-investment and more export-oriented economy. "The UK could boost growth by bringing forward measures already included in its fiscal plan, such as spending on infrastructure and job ...
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Senators Call for Lois Lerner to Be Fired
We are writing to urge you to suspend immediately Lois Lerner from her office as Director of the Office of Exempt Organizations at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). We believe that Ms. Lerner failed to disclose crucial information concerning the IRS's inappropriate targeting of some conservative 501(c)(4) organizations during the course of a Subcommittee investigation into how the IRS ...
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Benghazi Investigation Deepens Lawmakers Seek Interviews of 13 Officials Involved
As the investigation into the Obama administration's handling of the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi intensifies, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to conduct transcribed interviews with thirteen top State Department officials in the coming weeks in order to learn more. Those named in the letter include a wide range of current and former State Department personnel, from senior ...
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Asif Ali Zardari likely will lose Pakistan’s presidency – and immunity from prosecution
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, will certainly lose his job in September – and like his predecessor, retired Gen. Pervez Musharraf, he’s likely to face criminal charges under the government of newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Zardari has lived with the virtual inevitability of facing charges of corruption since 2009, when Pakistan’s ...
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PM IAEA reports shows Iran’s expanding its nuclear program
Following release of IAEA report, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells British Foreign Minister William Hague economic, diplomatic pressure has failed to stop Iran, presenting the "biggest challenge of our ...
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Obama tackles drones Guantanamo in reset of war on terror
President Barack Obama Thursday laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a new bid to close Guantanamo Bay, warning that a "perpetual" US war on terror would be ...
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Police make 2 new arrests in London soldier killing
British police investigating the brutal murder of a soldier by suspected Islamists in London said on Thursday they had arrested two alleged ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Young Survivors Begin To Heal
Children from two schools destroyed by the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma have been reunited with their classmates and teachers as other schools welcomed them with special events. Large banners at the entrance to Wayland Bonds Elementary welcomed pupils from Briarwood - which was all but flattened by Monday's ferocious twister. On what would have been the last day of term, the event was a ...
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Obama limits U.S. drone strikes in shift from constant war footing
1 of 3. An X-47B pilot-less drone combat aircraft is launched for the first time off an aircraft carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia, May 14, ...
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First funeral held for young Oklahoma tornado victim
OKLAHOMA CITY Friends and family are attended the funeral services for a 9-year-old girl killed by Monday's tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb. Thursday's funeral for Antonia Candelaria was the first since the storm that killed 24 people. Ten of the victims were ...
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Tornado damage numbers significantly downgraded
Lightning strikes during a thunderstorm as tornado survivors search for salvageable belongings at their devastated home May 23, 2013, in Moore, ...
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The Donald prevails in fraud suit
CHICAGO An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday she lost. Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch scheme. The federal jury in Chicago returned with a finding in Trump's favor. Goldberg, of Evanston, had sought various ...
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Watch Director Alex Gibney on Wikileaks Assange and Manning
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney talks to CBSNews.com about his latest documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," which recounts the rise and fall of Julian Assange, and the saga of Army SPC. Bradley Manning, who is facing trial for leaking classified material that cast a critical light on actions by the U.S. government and ...
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We Steal Secrets Alex Gibney and the war on WikiLeaks
(CBS News) "When I started this story I thought it was about a leaking 'machine,' and about the United States' surveillance machine," said filmmaker Alex Gibney about his latest documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks." "But it turns out that all that surveillance and all that electronic drop-box leaking, it pales in comparison to the ...
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Obama U.S. at a crossroads in terrorism fight
Updated: 4:03 p.m. ETIn a sweeping speech addressing the nation's counterterrorism strategy, President Obama on Thursday unveiled new restrictions on the nation's controversial targeted killing policy, and - despite repeated interruptions from a heckler -- officially outlined plans to restart transfers of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to third countries. During an hour-long speech at the ...
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Obama defends drone strikes says they arent cure-all
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are no "cure-all" and said he is haunted by the civilians unintentionally ...
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Obama to Heckler Part of Free Speech Is ... You Listening
"Ma'am, let me finish. Let me finish ma'am," said Obama. "This is part of free speech is you being able to speak but also you listening. And me being able to speak. All ...
Middle East Focus
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Israel and Palestine as one country?
Peace in the Middle East, it’s as illusive now as it was ten years ago and ten years before that. For many commentators, peace in the Middle East has become a myth, something local and international governments strive for or claim to support without any real hope of realization of the goal. With the current impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ongoing, an old theme is being kicked around again, that of a single state that incorporates Israel and Palestine.
A single state solution is an idea that grew up in the 1920s and then died with the Six-Day War when divisions between the newly-founded Israeli state and the rest of the region were too entrenched for the idea to retain any traction. The political landscape after the war and even today is what many Jewish groups feared when Jewish Zionists were calling for a return to the biblical homeland to develop a Jewish state. Read more
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