The Group of Eight world leaders has warned North Korea that it faces more sanctions if it continues to threaten the stability of the region with provocative acts such as its failed long-range rocket launch in April.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T06:47:51Z
Men accused of plotting attacks around NATO summit

This combo made from undated photos released Saturday, May 19, 2012 by the Chicago Police Department shows from left, Brent Vincent Betterly, 24, of Oakland Park, Fla., Jared Chase, 24, of Keene, N.H., and Brian Church, 20, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The three men arrested Wednesday, May 16, 2012, in Chicago, accused of making Molotov cocktails with plans to attack President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home and other targets during this weekend's NATO summit, according to prosecutors at a court hearing Saturday. The three were arrested in a nighttime raid of an apartment in the city's South Side Bridgeport neighborhood ahead of the two-day meeting. (AP Photo/Chicago Police Department)

Three activists who traveled to Chicago for a NATO summit were accused Saturday of manufacturing Molotov cocktails in a plot to attack President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home and other targets.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T06:39:11Z
Reports: 3 dead in quake near Bologna
A magnitude-5.9 earthquake shook northern Italy early Sunday, killing at least three people and toppling some buildings, emergency services and news reports said.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T06:31:07Z
Sri Lanka set to release jailed ex-army chief

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo, defeated presidential candidate and former army chief Sarath Fonseka attempts to give a sound bite to television reporters as he is forcibly escorted by prison guards out of a court room in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A presidential spokesman says Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed papers ordering the release of Sarath Fonseka on Saturday, May 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Chamila Karunarathne, File)

Sri Lanka's president has ordered authorities to free the country's jailed former army chief, a man credited with ending the country's long civil war but who later was imprisoned after challenging the president in elections.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T06:23:39Z
Gunmen shoot dead jail warden in Pakistan: police

Hundreds of people have been killed since separatist Baluch rebels rose up in 2004

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot dead a senior prison official in Pakistan's troubled southwestern city of Quetta, according to police.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T07:01:54Z
Fake testicles and facials, new ways of pet pampering

Mid-facial, Hops ejected a tiny puddle of vomit, but otherwise did seem to enjoy the attention

People and their pets often end up resembling each other, but image-obsessed Americans are taking that age-old relationship a step further, treating their four-legged friends to everything from spa facials to testicle implants.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T06:53:14Z
APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight

FILE - Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock is seen at an event in which he announced the start of his 2012 gubernatorial campaign on in this Sept. 7, 2011 file photo taken in Billings, Mont. Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending. Bullock argues that political corruption in the Copper King era led to the state ban on corporate campaign spending. A clarification of Citizens United is needed to make clear that states can block certain political spending in the interest of limiting corruption, he said. On Friday, May 18, 2012 Montana's case was given a boost when U.S. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-D-R.I., signed on in support. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T07:31:47Z

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