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U.S. sees China launch as test of anti-satellite muscle -source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government believes a Chinese missile launch this week was the first test of a new interceptor that could be used to destroy a satellite in orbit, one U.S. defense official told Reuters on Wednesday. #Yahoo! #content #wcntn #typeof-social #undefined #cookie #values #rco #aut #rch #typeof-registered
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UK's Cameron survives humbling EU revolt in parliament
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron suffered an embarrassing blow in parliament on Wednesday when more than a third of his Conservative lawmakers voted against him in protest at his stance on Britain's membership of the European Union. Though the revolt was defeated, it could undermine Cameron's leadership, as scores of his own party's lawmakers took the highly unusual step of voting to criticise his government's legislative plans, a week after they were first put before parliament. The rebels are angry that the government's policy proposals did not include steps to make Cameron's promise of a referendum on Britain's EU membership legally binding. #Yahoo! #content #wcntn #typeof-social #cookie #values #rco #aut #rch #typeof-registered #cnt
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Egypt militants planned to hit U.S. and French embassies - MENA
CAIRO (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked militant cell detained in Egypt was planning suicide attacks on the French and U.S. #Yahoo! #wcnts #wcntn #undefined #aut #rch #typeof-registered #cnt
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Bombs kill more than 35 people across Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb attacks in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed more than 35 people on Wednesday, following weeks of violence by Sunni Islamist insurgents determined to unleash sectarian confrontation. Tensions between minority Sunni Muslims and the Shi'ites who now lead Iraq are at their highest since U.S. #content #typeof-social #cookie #values #rco #aut #rch #typeof-registered #cnt
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U.N. condemns Assad forces, but unease grows about rebels
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and praised the opposition on Wednesday, but a decline in support for the resolution suggested growing unease about extremism among Syria's fractious rebels. #content #wcnts #wcntn #typeof-social #cookie #values #rco #typeof-registered #cnt
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U.N. nuclear talks with Iran fail to end deadlock
VIENNA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The United Nations' nuclear agency failed to persuade Iran on Wednesday to let it resume an investigation into suspected atomic bomb research, leaving the high-stakes diplomacy in deadlock. #content #wcnts #typeof-social #undefined #cookie #values #rco #rch #typeof-registered #cnt
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Bombs kill more than 30 people across Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb attacks in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed more than 30 people on Wednesday, following weeks of violence by Sunni Islamist insurgents determined to spark sectarian confrontation. #content #wcntn #undefined #cookie #values #rco #aut #typeof-registered
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U.N. urges support for Syria opposition; Russia opposed
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and praised the opposition, but a decline in support for the Gulf Arab-drafted resolution suggested growing uneasiness about Syria's fractious rebels. While the non-binding text has no legal force, resolutions of the 193-nation assembly can carry significant moral and political weight #Yahoo! #content #wcnts #wcntn #typeof-social #cookie #values #rco #aut #rch #typeof-registered #cnt
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Scientists create human stem cells through cloning
NEW YORK (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own DNA had been removed. #Yahoo! #content #wcntn #typeof-social #undefined #aut #typeof-registered #cnt