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Panama Seizes North Korea-Flagged Ship for Weapons

Panama Seizes North Korea-Flagged Ship for Weapons


Panama Seizes North Korea-Flagged Ship for Weapons

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 01:03 AM PDT

The ship was apparently headed from Cuba to North Korea and officials said the illicit cargo was hidden behind sugar.
    


Panama Detains North Korean-Flagged Ship, Seizes Weapons

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:19 PM PDT

Panama has detained a North Korean-flagged ship coming from Cuba as it approached the Panama Canal with undeclared weapons, President Ricardo Martinelli said.
    


Australian Leader Scraps Tax on Carbon Emissions

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:16 PM PDT

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia announced a plan to replace a deeply unpopular tax on carbon emissions with a market-based trading system a year ahead of schedule.
    


Agent Blames Trainer for Sprinters’ Failed Drug Tests

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 09:57 PM PDT

An agent for the sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson said he believed their positive tests for a banned stimulant were attributable to a Canadian trainer working with the team.
    


DealBook: Baidu to Pay $1.9 Billion for Chinese App Store Operator

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 09:39 PM PDT

Baidu, China's leading search engine company, said Tuesday it reached a preliminary deal to acquire 91 Wireless, a major mobile app developer and app store operator in China.
    


Drug Kingpin Is Captured in Mexico Near Border

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 08:58 PM PDT

The capture of Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, the leader of the Zetas drug cartel, was a retort from Mexico's government to questions over whether it would go after top organized crime leaders.
    


Zimmerman Juror Discusses How Verdict Was Reached

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 07:54 PM PDT

George Zimmerman was guilty of nothing more than "bad judgment," one of six jurors to find the neighborhood watchman not guilty said Monday night.
    

Parliament Votes to Indict Ex-Official in Greece

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 07:33 PM PDT

Greek lawmakers voted to indict former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou over the way he handled a list of Greeks with Swiss accounts, a possible source of tax-revenue.
    

Brain Test to Diagnose A.D.H.D. Is Approved

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 06:48 PM PDT

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first brain wave test to help diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children.
    

Looking for Ways to Beat the Weeds

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 06:45 PM PDT

Scientists want to learn from undesirable plants and their tool kit of rapid adaptive skills.
    


Male-Only Membership at Muirfield Encounters Headwinds

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 06:13 PM PDT

The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield has a male-only membership, resurrecting the debate that Augusta National put to rest this year.
    

Merkel Urges Europe to Tighten Internet Safeguards

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 06:08 PM PDT

The remarks by Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, reflected the anger in Europe over accounts of government surveillance by the United States National Security Agency, leaked by Edward J. Snowden.
    

787 Fire Inquiry Focuses on Transmitter

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 05:18 PM PDT

British safety investigators are examining whether a malfunction in an emergency transmitter caused a plane to catch fire at London's Heathrow Airport on Friday.
    


Myanmar Admits to Political Prisoners, Pledging Their Freedom

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 04:34 PM PDT

President U Thein Sein promised to free political prisoners that remained incarcerated as Myanmar emerges from a prolonged era of isolation and repression.
    


DealBook: Strauss-Kahn Re-emerges in Finance, in Russia

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 04:24 PM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund whose career unraveled in a series of sex scandals, was named a board member of a banking subsidiary of Rosneft.
    


Mayfair Is a Mecca for Art Dealers and Collectors

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:41 PM PDT

The elegant Mayfair area of London is luring top American art dealers, who are opening branches there.
    

ArtsBeat: Hopi Artifact Is Returned

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:32 PM PDT

A French lawyer who represented the Hopi tribe when it tried to halt a Paris auction of 70 sacred artifacts returned one of the masklike objects to tribal elders on Monday.
    

Books Of the Times: ‘The Panopticon,’ a Debut Novel by Jenni Fagan

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:25 PM PDT

"The Panopticon" by Jenni Fagan centers on a fierce 15-year-old who forges bonds with other girls yearning to escape confinement.
    

Hobbits’ Size Not Likely Linked to Growth Disorders

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:17 PM PDT

A new study suggests that the extinct little people known as hobbits were not just modern Homo sapiens with growth disorders but members of a distinct species.
    

Spain’s Premier Refuses to Resign in Fraud Scandal

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:13 PM PDT

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has been forced to confront a rising tide of fraud accusations and calls from the opposition for him to resign.
    


The Pour: Reclaiming the Earthy Grapes of St.-Joseph

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:31 PM PDT

St.-Joseph, with its impossibly steep granite-laced hillsides, produces wines with stories to tell and so much to offer.
    

Iran’s President-Elect Describes a Bleak Economy, Blaming Ahmadinejad’s Team

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:09 PM PDT

Hassan Rowhani, who will succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president, blamed the departing administration for the economy's troubles, saying it "has left much work to be done."
    

Putin Says U.S. Trapped Snowden in Russia

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:59 AM PDT

President Vladimir V. Putin said that the United States had frightened other countries that might have accepted Edward J. Snowden.
    


Observatory: New Coating Technique for Microscopic Objects

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:54 AM PDT

Researchers in Australia say they have developed a coating technique that is quick, cheap and natural and can be used on a diverse range of substances.
    


Books: ‘Frankenstein’s Cat’ Explores Genetic Manipulation of Animals

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:40 AM PDT

Even before cloning and genetic tinkering, scientists have long meddled with animals, and it appears the benefits may outweigh the ethical quandaries.
    

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