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Amnesty says Syria committing crimes against humanity
Syria is committing crimes against humanity as part of state policy to exact revenge against communities suspected of supporting rebels, Amnesty International said in a report. The London-based rights group called for an international response after claiming it had fresh evidence that victims, including children, had been dragged from their…
British PM says politicians and press ‘too close’
British Prime Minister David Cameron said ties between politicians and the media had become “too close” as he began giving evidence on Thursday to a public inquiry into press ethics. “It has been too close and I think we need to try and get it on a better footing,” Cameron…
Nokia to cut up to 10,000 jobs globally by end of 2013
Finland’s Nokia, one of the world’s biggest mobile phone makers, on Thursday cut its outlook and said it planned 10,000 job cuts by the end of 2013 amid massive additional cost-saving measures. “These planned reductions are a difficult consequence of the intended actions we believe we must take to ensure…
Shell scraps biofuels plan over Brazil native land
RIO DE JANEIRO — A Shell subsidiary that makes biodiesel in Brazil has dropped controversial plans to buy sugar cane grown on land taken from indigenous people, according to Survival International. The company, Raizen, was set up in 2010 by Shell and Brazil’s biofuels giant Cosan to make biofuel from…
Man awarded $25 million for workplace racial harassment
NEW YORK — A US jury has awarded $25 million in damages to an employee of ArcelorMittal, a Luxembourg-based steel company, who for years endured racial harassment at his workplace, his lawyer said. Elijah Turley, an African-American, had testified in a three-week trial that racial slurs and other incidents from…
Twitter widens window to links in tweets
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter added Wednesday to the array of online content people could preview in messages without having to click on links included in tweets. People who access the one-to-many text messaging service online at twitter.com or mobile.twitter.com were provided more opportunities to “expand tweets” with looks at pictures,…
Australia to create world’s largest marine parks
SYDNEY — Australia has announced plans to create the world’s largest network of marine parks to protect ocean life, with limits placed on fishing and oil and gas exploration off the coast. The new reserves would cover 3.1 million square kilometres (1.9 million square miles), or more than one-third of…
U.S. boxer Mayweather to remain in jail
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Boxer Floyd Mayweather must serve the rest of his jail sentence, a judge ruled, denying an emergency motion seeking to put him under house arrest. Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa disagreed with Mayweather’s complaints that he didn’t have enough to drink or eat and couldn’t…
U.S. drone ‘kills three militants’ in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan — A US drone attack killed at least three militants early Thursday in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region, known as a hotbed of Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants, security officials said. The drone fired two missiles on a building in the central market of Miranshah, the main town in North…
UN environment summit opens, but prospects grim
RIO DE JANEIRO — Twenty years after the first Earth Summit, a renewed bid to rally the world behind a common environmental blueprint opened Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro against a backdrop of discord and economic gloom. Kicking off the so-called Rio+20 summit, Dilma Rousseff, president of host nation Brazil,…
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