ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek workers walked off the job on Wednesday in a nationwide protest against wage cuts and high taxes, keeping ferries docked in ports, shutting state schools and leaving hospitals working with emergency staff. Greece's two biggest labor unions brought much of the near-bankrupt country to a standstill during a 24-hour strike over the cuts, which they say only deepen the plight of a people struggling to get through the country's worst peacetime downturn. Representing about 2. … Sudden heavy snow slams highway, strands hundreds of drivers north of Los Angeles
SAN FRANCISCO – Hundreds of drivers have been stranded on a mountain highway between Los Angeles and Bakersfield as heavy and sudden snow hit the area.
In big name Italian election, a little-known politician with a stern streak leads the pack
ROME – If opinion polls are right, he’s the man headed to win Italy’s elections this month.
Commercial cyber spying offers rich payoff
BEIJING (AP) -- For state-backed cyber spies such as a Chinese military unit implicated by a U.S. security firm in a computer crime wave, hacking foreign companies can produce high-value secrets ranging from details on oil fields to advanced manufacturing technology.
Big name Italy elex produce surprise frontrunner
ROME (AP) -- If opinion polls are right, he's the man headed to win Italy's elections this month. Insight: Rome will burn, regardless of Italian election result
ROME (Reuters) – Regardless of who wins next weekend's parliamentary election, Italy's long economic decline is likely to continue because the next government won't be strong enough to pursue the tough reforms needed to make its economy competitive again. Bankers, diplomats and industrialists in Rome and Milan despair at how Italians are shifting allegiances ahead of the February 24-25 vote to favor anti-establishment upstarts and show disgust with the established parties. … Insight: Battle for Damascus: frozen but bloody
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Rebel fighters in Damascus are disciplined, skilled and brave. In a month on the frontline, I saw them defend a swathe of suburbs in the Syrian capital, mount complex mass attacks, manage logistics, treat their wounded – and die before my eyes. But as constant, punishingly accurate, mortar, tank and sniper fire attested, President Bashar al-Assad's soldiers on the other side, often just a room or a grenade toss away, are also well drilled, courageous – and much better armed. … Strike by Indian unions over prices hits transport, banking
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Many Indian banks were closed and public transport disrupted on Wednesday because of a strike by trade unions protesting against high p rices but the capital, New Delhi, and business centre, Mumbai, were mostly unaffected and financial markets were open. Violence erupted in some places on the first day of a two-day strike as workers, angry about high fuel prices in particular, tried to keep vehicles off the roads. One union member was killed in the northern city of Ambala, media said. … Activists: Japanese whaling boat collides with 2 anti-whaling ships, tanker
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – An activist group says a Japanese whaling boat has collided with two anti-whaling ships and a refuelling boat near Antarctica.
China's Defence Ministry attacks hacking report, saying it is deeply flawed
BEIJING, China – China’s military says a study accusing it of sponsoring massive hacking attacks on U.S. targets is deeply flawed.
Official: Cadaver dogs search scene after gas explosion, fire levels Kansas City restaurant
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Cadaver dogs were searching through the smouldering rubble of a Kansas City restaurant after a gas explosion sparked a massive blaze in an upscale shopping district.
Peru's dynamic first lady has presidential aura
LIMA (Reuters) – Humble crowds adore her populist gestures. Fans and critics alike call her the co-president. Her husband, a rebellious army officer turned moderate leader, says people who think his wife is too influential are sexist. Peru's first lady, Nadine Heredia, is a potent political force. A telegenic 36-year-old mother of three who started the Nationalist Party along with President Ollanta Humala, she weighs in on a range of policy issues behind the scenes and, in public, often serves as the government's messenger. … 
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