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Cyber Threat Top Concern for NATO

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By Al Pessin - LONDON — The departing top NATO military commander has listed cyber security as the number one challenge for the coming years. Cyber attacks on corporations and governments are no longer unusual. Suspects and their computers are hauled away on a regular basis. That's why Admiral James Stavridis sees cyber security as the [...]

May 13th, 2013 | Posted in Today in our Nation and World | Read More »

Memorial to Fallen Journalists Rededicated

VOA reporter Mukarram Khan Aatif shown in northwest Pakistan in January 2012. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for killing Aatif in a mosque in Shabqadar, some 35 kilometers from Peshawar.

VOA News - On May 13, the Newseum, a popular museum in Washington D.C. will rededicate its Journalist Memorial, which honors journalists who died or were killed while on the job. The Newseum is dedicated to championing the value of a free press and the men and women who dedicate their lives to journalism. The names [...]

May 13th, 2013 | Posted in Today in our Nation and World | Read More »

Philippines Holds Elections Crucial for Aquino Reforms

Residents look for their names on polling lists outside a voting center before casting their votes in the midterm elections in Taguig, Metro Manila, May 13, 2013.

By Simone Orendain - MANILA — The Philippines held midterm legislative elections Monday that are seen as a test of President Benigno Aquino’s influence in both houses of Congress. Aquino will need the support of the legislature to continue his so-called "straight path" agenda of fighting corruption and poverty, and fostering peace in the restive south. Half [...]

May 13th, 2013 | Posted in Today in our Nation and World | Read More »

South Korea President Apologizes for Scandal

South Korean President Park Geun-hye's spokesman Yoon Chang-jung surrounded by journalists leaves after a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, May 11, 2013.

By Steve Herman - SEOUL — A scandal embroiling South Korean President Park Geun-hye's administration is threatening the jobs of some of her senior officials. South Korean President Park Geun-hye, in her first comment on the scandal involving her press office senior staff,  apologized Monday amid growing public outrage that could result in the ouster of additional senior [...]

May 13th, 2013 | Posted in Today in our Nation and World | Read More »

Official: Federal Agencies Didn't Share Information Before Boston Bombings

Explosion in boston after marathon

CAPITOL HILL — The House of Representatives' Homeland Security Committee held a hearing to examine whether the Boston Marathon bombings, which left three people dead and more than 260 injured, could have been prevented and to look at ways to prevent future attacks. Some Republican lawmakers criticized the Obama administration for not stating clearly that [...]

May 10th, 2013 | Posted in Today in our Nation and World | Read More »

Spire Installed Atop One World Trade Center

The silver spire topping One World Trade Center in New York is lifted as it is fully installed on the building's roof, bringing the structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet on May 10, 2013 .

VOA News - Installation of a silver spire atop New York's new One World Trade Center skyscraper has been completed, a symbolic rebirth of America's biggest city after terrorists destroyed twin towers at the same site in 2001. With the last work on the spire Friday, the new building reaches a height of 1,776 feet or [...]

May 10th, 2013 | Posted in Today in our Nation and World | Read More »

US And Britain Withdraw Some Diplomats From Libya

Protesters wave a Libyan flag as they demonstrate in Martyrs' Square demanding that Gadhafi-era officials be banned from taking up political posts, in Tripoli, Libya, May 5, 2013.

By Jamie Dettmer - The United States and Britain are withdrawing some of the staff from their embassies in Tripoli, Libya because of a standoff between the government and heavily armed militias blockading parts of the capital, embassy officials said Friday. The move to evacuate non-essential diplomatic personnel comes after a bombing at the French Embassy last month [...]

May 10th, 2013 | Posted in Today in our Nation and World | Read More »

Online sales tax bill provides shelter to big businesses, more cash for governments

ALL SMILES: Amazon.com might be smiling about the new online sales tax passed by the U.S. Senate, but it’s bad news for taxpayers.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A push for online sales tax “fairness” is more about protectionism than equal protection. Some have drawn that conclusion from after the U.S. Senate OK’d of the Marketplace Fairness Act earlier this week.  The bill — if it becomes law — would allow states to collect sales taxes from online transactions, even if the companies conducting [...]

May 10th, 2013 | Posted in Today in our Nation and World | Read More »

S. Korea's Park: 'No North Korean Provocation Can Succeed'

President Barack Obama and South Korea President Park Geun-Hye shake hands at the end of a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 7, 2013.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye says President Barack Obama's vision of a world without nuclear weapons must start on the Korean peninsula, where the South lives in fear of a nuclear attack from the north. President Park addressed a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday in Washington. "The republic of Korea will never [...]

May 8th, 2013 | Posted in Today in our Nation and World | Read More »

Jury Convicts US Woman in Sensational Murder Case

Jodi Arias reacts during reading of verdict May 8, 2013

By Reuters - PHOENIX, ARIZONA — An Arizona jury found Jodi Arias guilty on Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of her ex-boyfriend in a capital trial that riveted America for months with graphic sexual evidence and bizarre testimony. Arias, who could face the death penalty as her case goes into the penalty phase of the [...]

May 8th, 2013 | Posted in Today in our Nation and World | Read More »

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