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Japan prepares defenses against N. Korean rocket
Japan on Friday readied its missile defence systems to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it threatens the country, as the UN chief warned that next month’s launch could jeopardise food aid. “I have ordered officials to prepare to deploy the PAC-3 and Aegis warships,” Japan’s Defence Minister Naoki…
New Zealand police seize marijuana vending machine
WELLINGTON — New Zealand police said Friday that they seized a marijuana vending machine during a raid on a “cannabis club” in Auckland which campaigns for the drug’s legalisation. The vending machine at The Daktory in suburban New Lynn had been set up to dispense one gram (0.035 ounce) bags…
23 states that have sweeping self-defense laws just like Florida’s
By Cora Currier, ProPublica “Stand Your Ground,” “Shoot First,” “Make My Day” — state laws asserting an expansive right to self-defense — have come into focus after last month’s killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. While local prosecutors have not arrested the shooter, George Zimmerman, the case is now being investigated…
Nuclear watchdog chief accused of pro-western bias over Iran
Former senior officials warn of parallels between IAEA approach to Iran and mistakes over Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear watchdog at the heart of the growing Iranian crisis, has been accused by several former senior officials of pro-western…
Students’ experiments to play out in space
SAN FRANCISCO — Science experiments devised by teenage students, one from Egypt and two from the United States, will be conducted in space as part of a move by YouTube and Lenovo to inspire young minds. Winners of a global YouTube Space Lab competition were announced Thursday, with 18-year-old Amr…
Whitney Houston drowned after taking cocaine
LOS ANGELES — Grammy-winning singer Whitney Houston died from accidental drowning after taking cocaine which exacerbated her heart disease, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said Thursday. Houston, who died at age 48 in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel room last month, likely had some kind of heart…
U.S. soldier to be charged with 17 Afghan murders
WASHINGTON — A US soldier will be charged with 17 counts of murder stemming from the killings of civilians in a rampage in southern Afghanistan, a US official said Thursday. The official, confirming the murder charges on condition of anonymity, also said Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales would be charged…
House votes to repeal part of Obama health care law
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House of Representatives voted Thursday to repeal a key measure of US President Barack Obama’s health care reform, a symbolic move on the historic law’s second anniversary. The bill, adopted by lawmakers 223-181, including seven Democrats, would scrap a 15-member panel established to control costs for…
HHS: Health reform to provide coverage for 13 million uninsured women
Data released Thursday by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius showed that 13 million uninsured women will gain coverage by 2016 thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Even though millions more women will have insurance coverage, an estimated 14.7 million women will remain uninsured. In addition, insurance…
300,000 Quebec students protest tuition hike
MONTREAL — Tens of thousands of students protested Thursday against a 75 percent tuition hike at universities in Canada’s mostly French-speaking Quebec province, bringing downtown Montreal to a standstill. “We want to study, not go into debt,” shouted the demonstrators, who converged on the metropolis from across the province, packing…
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