TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp will recall 752,0 00 Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles in the United States over airbag problems, the automaker said on Wednesday. Separately, Toyota will also recall 270,000 Lexus IS vehicles in the United States over wiper problems, the company said in a statement. (Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Daniel Magnowski) SKorea launches rocket weeks after NKorea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea says it has successfully launched a satellite into orbit from its own soil for the first time.
Australian PM announces Sept. 14 polls, giving opposition months of notice
CANBERRA, Australia – Prime Minister Julia Gillard surprised Australians on Wednesday by announcing that elections will be held Sept. 14, in a country where governments have traditionally given the opposition little more than a month’s notice to keep a strategic advantage.
Mali secures recaptured towns, donors pledge funds
DOUENTZA/GAO, Mali (Reuters) – French-backed Malian troops searched house-to-house in Gao and Timbuktu on Tuesday, uncovering arms and explosives abandoned by Islamist fighters, and France said it aimed to hand over longer-term security op erations in Mali to an African force. An 18-day offensive in France's former West African colony has pushed the militants out of major towns and into desert and mountain hideouts to head off the risk of Mali being used as a springboard for jihadist attacks in the wider region or Europe. … Nightclub fire highlights Brazil's safety laws
SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) -- Flammable and toxic foam soundproofing on the ceiling. Just one exit for a large club that could hold hundreds of people. Not a ceiling water sprinkler system in sight. South Korea launches rocket in its 3rd attempt to place satellite in space from own soil
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea launches rocket in its 3rd attempt to place satellite in space from own soil.
Israel to give Palestinians $100 million in withheld funds
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will give Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s administration around $100 million in tax revenues that had been withheld in retaliation for his statehood bid in the United Nations, Israeli officials said on Wednesday. They described the handover as a one-time deal, signaling rightist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had not formally scrapped sanctions that have hurt the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank and worried world powers. …
Russia scraps law enforcement agreement with Washington
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said it was ending an agreement with Washington to cooperate on law enforcement and narcotics control, in another sign of the deterioration in ties between the Cold War-era foes since Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin last year. The order, signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and posted on the government website on Wednesday, said the agreement, which came into force in 2002, “does not address current realities and has exhausted its potential”. …
California man accused of hacking computers, coercing women to get naked on Internet
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A man’s unusually complicated hunt for nudity on the Internet may land him in prison for more than 100 years after federal prosecutors say he hacked into hundreds of social media and email accounts to coerce more than 350 women into showing him their naked bodies.
South Korea attempts rocket launch weeks after archrival North Korea put satellite into space
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea is attempting to launch a satellite from its own soil for the first time, a feat that archrival North Korea accomplished last month to the surprise of the world.
Sixty-five people executed in Syria's Aleppo: activists
BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least 65 people were found shot dead with their hands bound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday in a "new massacre" in the near two-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said. Opposition campaigners blamed the governme nt but it was impossible to confirm who was responsible. Assad's forces and rebels have been battling in Syria's commercial hub since July and both have been accused of carrying out summary executions. U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi told the U.N. … Pakistan says militant bases broken up near Afghan border
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani security officials broke up more than a dozen militant sanctuaries in the Khyber tribal region this week and killed 23 fighters, they said, while tribal sources said pro-Taliban groups killed 20 pro-government militants. The Lashkar-e-Islam and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant groups attacked villages in the Tirah region and killed residents when they tried to stop them entering the area, the security officials said, requesting anonymity. Tirah is a maze of valleys on a route from Afghanistan to the Pakistani city of Peshawar. …
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