White House scandals could Obama lose his mojo

SINA - Saturday 18th May, 2013

A tsunami of scandals threatens to distract Barack Obama from his second-term agenda as U.S. media and Republicans turn up the heat on the embattled U.S. president. "The recent rash of scandals does complicate the life of the administration. It takes them off-message and distracts from the broader narrative of an improving economy,"Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Washington-based ...

Obama and Erdogan agree Assad must go

albawaba - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Obama admitted: "There is no magic formula for dealing with an extraordinarily violent and difficult situation like Syria's." The talks came a day before another key player, Russian President Vladimir Putin, was to meet U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and one day after U.N. members voted to condemn an "escalation" by Assad's forces.And even as Obama and Erdogan ...

Growing camaraderie Manmohan Singh to visit Barack Obama again

India Today - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to travel to Washington in a few months at the invitation of US President Barack Obama.Obama's invitation to Singh was delivered by US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns during his recent visit here, sources said.Singh has accepted the invitation and will be travelling to Washington, the sources said.The Prime Minister's visit to ...

Why the Liberals were able to predict their victory in B.C. while public election polls missed the mark

National Post - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Late last week, four days before ';E-Day,'; pollster Dimitri Pantazopoulos met senior members of the B.C. Liberal Party’s campaign team, including former MLA and finance minister Colin Hansen. ';We’ve got 48 seats,'; Mr. Pantazopoulos told them. Popular support was in their party’s favour, enough to win a fourth consecutive Liberal majority government. ...

U.S. Russia and Canada failed to share information from investigations into Canadian jihadi Boston bomber

National Post - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Set among auto shops on an industrial backstreet, the Imdadul Islamic Centre occupies a low building that housed a furniture business before it was converted into a mosque with a shiny silver dome. Founded by Guyanese Muslims, it has been a federally regulated charity in good standing since 1986. The mosque secretary, Osman Khan, co-chairs Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair's Muslim ...

Canada’s NDP denounces China signals support for Obama’s “Asia Pivot”

wsws.org - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Canada's Official Opposition, the trade union-backed New Democratic Party (NDP), brought forward a motion last month to scuttle the recently negotiated Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA).Though their motion was doomed to be overwhelmingly defeated and quickly forgotten, the social democrats used the occasion to repeatedly denounce the ...

Notorious dictator Videla dies in prison

Independent.ie - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Michael Warren Buenos Aires - 18 May 2013 Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens, has died in his sleep while serving life in prison for crimes against ...

Internet star is charged with murder of lawyer

Independent.ie - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Tim Walker Los Angeles - 18 May 2013 An internet celebrity known as "Kai the hatchet-wielding hitcher" has been charged with murder, after he allegedly bludgeoned a 73-year-old man to ...

Suspect in Tim Bosma’s death was always ‘a little different’ and did ‘odd stuff’ at private school classmate says

National Post - Saturday 18th May, 2013

More than the record-breaking flight as a prodigy pilot or his family's notable history or wealth, schoolmates of Dellen Millard, who is charged with first-degree murder in a shocking kidnapping case of an Ontario father, remember his dog biscuits. In grades 6 and 7, Mr. Millard walked the corridors of his elite private school carrying a box of dog treats, drawing out one bone-shaped ...

Missing woman contacted murder suspect Dellen Millard shortly before her disappearance

National Post - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Police are revisiting a months-old missing persons case after receiving information of a possible connection between the missing woman and the man accused with murdering Tim Bosma. Sgt. Stephen Woodhouse -- who was the lead detective in the search for Laura Babcock almost a year ago -- was informed earlier this week that Hamilton and Toronto police were looking into the stagnant ...

Obama’s goals on thin ice

Boston Herald - Saturday 18th May, 2013

It’s impossible to predict the lasting impact of the controversies now besetting the Obama administration, but the risks to the president’s agenda are sizable.On the legislative front, they could doom the already cloudy prospects for comprehensive immigration reform. The implementation of President Obama’s health care law is also likely to be a bit more challenging. It’s ...

Obama talks economy jobs in Baltimore

Baltimore Sun - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Barack Obama found himself sitting near a 29-year-old man who was uncertain how to reset his life after being released from prison two years ago. In one of the few spontaneous moments of the president's visit, Marcus Dixon - father of two boys - told Obama how he connected in 2011 with a workforce development group called the Center for Urban Families, put his life back together and began ...

Liga MX Wrap Monterrey share spoils with America

soccerway - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Aldo de Nigris has scored a crucial equaliser for Monterrey to salvage a 2-2 draw against America in their Liga MX semi-final first leg.Ecuadorian striker Christian Benitez struck two vital away goals for America to put the visitors ahead in the second half at Monterrey's Estadio Tecnologico but the hosts recovered soon after through de Nigris to stay alive in the two-legged ...

Ingalls President We are Americas Shipyard

WLOX - Saturday 18th May, 2013

PASCAGOULA, MS (WLOX) - "We are America's Shipyard." Ingalls Shipbuilding delivered that message at keel laying ceremony for a United States Coast Guard security cutter on Friday. Ingalls officials took the opportunity to let the world know the Pascagoula shipyard is ready go up against any competition. Charlene Benoit is proud a Coast Guard cutter will carry the legacy of her ...

Canadian PM to Visit Peru Next Week

Prensa Latina - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Lima, May 18 (Prensa Latina) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will officially visit Peru on next Tuesday as announced by the Peruvian Foreign Ministry. The report said that Harper will be received in the Palace of Government by Peruvian President Ollanta Humala. The objective of the Canadian Prime ...

Plea offer in Delaware waterboarding case

The Miami Herald - Saturday 18th May, 2013

DOVER, Del. -- A woman who lived with a Delaware pediatrician accused of waterboarding her 11-year-old daughter has agreed to plead guilty to child endangerment charges and testify against him.In accepting a plea offer from prosecutors, Pauline Morse agreed Friday to plead guilty to three misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child and to cooperate with prosecutors and testify ...

Obama to deliver speech on drones Gitmo

MSNBC - Friday 17th May, 2013

Newsweek's Daniel Klaidman is reporting that President Obama is getting ready to deliver a big speech on drones, Guantanamo, counterterrorism and the administration's national security agenda. Chris Hayes talks with Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California, the only member of either house who voted against the Authorization to Use Military ...

Congress Answers Obama Plan With Smaller Food Aid Changes

New York Times - Friday 17th May, 2013

WASHINGTON -- In response to the Obama administration's plans to overhaul the nation's international food aid program, which provides food to disaster-stricken regions, Congress this week began laying the groundwork for its own ...

Manmohan Singh to visit US on Obamas invitation

Times of India - Friday 17th May, 2013

William Burns during his recent visit here, sources said. Singh has accepted the invitation and will be travelling to Washington, the sources said. The Prime Minister's visit to Washington could be clubbed with his tour to New York when he travels there to attend ...

Treasury IG says Obama administration officials knew of IRS targeting during 2012 campaign

Deseret News - Friday 17th May, 2013

Ousted IRS chief Steve Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political ...

Obama Burmese President to Discuss Reform Progress Challenges

VOA - Friday 17th May, 2013

WHITE HOUSE -- Obama, Burmese President to Discuss Reform Progress, Challenges Burma's President Thein Sein holds talks on Monday with President Obama at the White House. The discussions will focus on progress in reforms, barriers toward greater democratization and next steps in the changing U.S. - Burma relationship. November 2012. Barack Obama becomes the first serving U.S. president ...

Possible tornado surprises north Alabama city

The Miami Herald - Friday 17th May, 2013

Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start cleaning up, authorities said ...