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• U.S. slaps more sanctions on North Korea after Sony hack
• Search teams battle rough weather in hunt for AirAsia wreck
• Palestinians deliver to U.N. documents to join war crimes court
• Egyptian troops kill Palestinian youth infiltrating from Gaza: sources
• France wants action on Libya, stops short of African calls for intervention
• Artist Bruguera freed in Cuba after colleagues write in support
• PJ Harvey to record new album in public
• 10,000 apply for human paintball bullet tester job
• Mexican prisons are worsening and inmate control is growing: study
• NY defense lawyers seek leniency for London cleric
• Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT
• Palestinians submit documents to join ICC
• Firefighters find black box on still-burning ferry
• Former Greek PM to create new party ahead of snap election
• UN chief extends mandate of Hariri tribunal until March 2018
• Missing American found dead in Mexican mountains
• Biden, Venezuela leader discuss improving relations
• Gambian troops go door-to-door in search of failed coup plotters
• Congo threatens to attack Rwandan Hutu rebels as ultimatum expires
• Bid in New York to extend legal rights to chimps fails, again
• Ailing Guatemalan ex-dictator requests retrial absence
• US sanctions North Korea over Sony cyberattack
• IS seizes dozens in northern Iraq
• Sri Lanka wins toss, bowls in 2nd test vs. New Zealand
• Buckingham Palace denies sex claim against Prince Andrew
• US stocks end mixed as manufacturing growth slows
• Swedes rally in support of mosques after arson attacks
• Associating with drug cheats forbidden in 2015 code
• US slaps sanctions on North Korea after Sony hack
• 17 soldiers, 1 civilian, killed in southern Libya
• Palestinian officials: Egypt border police kill teenager
• Canadian hockey player tests positive in France
• Israel police say settlers attack US officials in West Bank
• Euro sinks after ECB chief gives stimulus hint
• Palestinian ICC move will have implications for aid: U.S. official
• Security on agenda as embattled Mexican president visits Obama
• American missing for 4 days in Mexican wilderness
• Suspected Islamists abduct 40 people in northeast Nigeria

U.S. slaps more sanctions on North Korea after Sony hack Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:46 PM PST By Julia Edwards and Jason Lange HONOLULU/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea was hit with more sanctions on Friday designed to impede access to the U.S. financial system in the wake of a cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, which the Obama Administration has said was supported by the reclusive country. The U.S. government named three entities, including North Korea's military intelligence agency, and sanctioned 10 people with links to weapons sales and proliferation. ...

Search teams battle rough weather in hunt for AirAsia wreck Posted: 02 Jan 2015 06:36 AM PST By Fergus Jensen and Gayatri Suroyo PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Ships and aircraft criss-crossed the seas off Borneo on Friday hunting for the wreck of an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet, but bad weather again hindered the search for the plane and the black box flight recorders that should reveal why it crashed. An official said 30 bodies had been recovered, along with pieces of the broken-up plane, in the Indonesian-led search for Flight QZ8501 that is concentrated on 1,575 square nautical miles of the northern Java Sea. ...

Palestinians deliver to U.N. documents to join war crimes court Posted: 02 Jan 2015 12:53 PM PST By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In a move that heightened tensions with Israel and could lead to cuts in U.S. aid, the Palestinians on Friday delivered to U.N. headquarters documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and other international treaties. The chief Palestinian observer at the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, and U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq confirmed handover of the diplomatic documents at the world body's headquarters. "This is a very significant step," Mansour said. ...

Egyptian troops kill Palestinian youth infiltrating from Gaza: sources Posted: 02 Jan 2015 11:56 AM PST GAZA (Reuters) - Egyptian border troops shot dead a Palestinian youth as he tried to cross illegally from the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said. Cairo has been clamping down on its Sinai frontier with Gaza, seeing a security threat in the Islamist Hamas-controlled enclave. But violence seldom flares up there. Palestinian medical officials and residents in southern Gaza said the dead youth was shot by Egyptian border troops as he tried to slip across the border with three other youths. ...

France wants action on Libya, stops short of African calls for intervention Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:07 PM PST NIAMEY (Reuters) - French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday world powers must tackle instability in Libya but he stopped short of openly backing the military intervention called for by regional powers in the Sahel. Speaking shortly after meeting Le Drian in Niamey, Niger's president, Mahamadou Issoufou, reiterated calls for an international military intervention in Libya, a position supported by several other African leaders concerned about the impact of the country's lawlessness on the region. ...

Artist Bruguera freed in Cuba after colleagues write in support Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:18 PM PST By Daniel Wallis and Rosa Tania Valdés HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera was freed on Friday after three back-to-back detentions in three days, and after more than a thousand artists worldwide signed an open letter to Cuban President Raul Castro calling for her release. The detention of the Cuban artist and other political opponents of the island's communist government over recent days has tested a new detente with the United States. ...

PJ Harvey to record new album in public Posted: 02 Jan 2015 04:02 PM PST London (AFP) - British singer PJ Harvey is to record her ninth studio album in public, the two-time Mercury Prize-winner announced on Friday, turning the recording process into an art installation.

10,000 apply for human paintball bullet tester job Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:57 PM PST London (AFP) - Some 10,000 people from around the world have applied to be shot at as a paintball bullet tester, the British company posting the job advert said Friday.

Mexican prisons are worsening and inmate control is growing: study Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:54 PM PST MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Conditions have worsened in Mexico's dangerous and overcrowded prisons, with many of them falling increasingly under control of inmates, Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) said on Friday. The latest annual report by the CNDH showed that the state of Mexican prisons deteriorated in 2013 compared with the previous two years, a spokesman for the commission said. ...

NY defense lawyers seek leniency for London cleric Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:33 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — An Islamic cleric convicted of terrorism charges should be sent to a prison medical facility because of severe disabilities instead of spending life in prison at a high-security federal prison in Colorado, according to his lawyers.

Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:32 PM PST HONOLULU (AP) — The United States imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday, targeting the North's defense industry and spy service in an attempt to punish Pyongyang for a crippling cyberattack against Sony. The sanctions marked the first public act of retribution by the U.S. for North Korea's alleged involvement. Although it was unclear how painful the blow would be, as North Korea already is under tough U.S. sanctions for its nuclear program, the move signaled that that the U.S. was not backing away from its insistence that North Korea is responsible for the cyberattack. North Korea has denied involvement, and some cybersecurity experts say it's possible the North wasn't to blame.

Palestinians submit documents to join ICC Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:29 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians took the last formal step Friday to join the International Criminal Court, seeking to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel over the recent conflict in Gaza and Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories.

Firefighters find black box on still-burning ferry Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:07 PM PST BRINDISI, Italy (AP) — Wearing gas masks against the smoke, Italian firefighters and investigators boarded the charred Norman Atlantic ferry on Friday and retrieved a data recorder they hope will help them discover what caused a deadly blaze.

Former Greek PM to create new party ahead of snap election Posted: 02 Jan 2015 03:02 PM PST Former Greek prime minister Georges Papandreou announced on Friday he was creating a new political party just weeks before snap elections this month, sparking anger in his own Socialist party. The move, described as "absurd" by the Socialist Pasok party of which Papandreou is still a lawmaker, is likely to complicate the potential outcome of the January 25 election. New start," Papandreou wrote on his website.

UN chief extends mandate of Hariri tribunal until March 2018 Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:54 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon authorized a three-year extension Friday of the mandate for the U.N.-backed tribunal prosecuting suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Missing American found dead in Mexican mountains Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:45 PM PST MEXICO CITY (AP) — Searchers on Friday found the body of an American man who had been missing in the rugged mountains in central Mexico since going on a hike four days ago.

Biden, Venezuela leader discuss improving relations Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:19 PM PST CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Last year saw a rapid deterioration of relations between their countries, but on New Year's Day, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro shook hands and expressed their desire for restored ties.

Gambian troops go door-to-door in search of failed coup plotters Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:14 PM PST Gambian security forces went door-to-door in the capital Banjul on Friday in search of participants in a failed coup against the west African country's strongman President Yahya Jammeh, residents said. The attack, which was repelled by the security forces, took place while Jammeh was on a private visit to Dubai, diplomatic and military sources said. "Gambian soldiers carrying guns are conducting a house-to-house," a woman living in Banjul told AFP, asking not to be identified.

Congo threatens to attack Rwandan Hutu rebels as ultimatum expires Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:07 PM PST KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's government said on Friday it was ready to launch military operations against Rwandan Hutu rebels in its east after most missed a deadline to disarm and return home or go into exile. A six-month ultimatum set by regional leaders expires at midnight and just 300 of the estimated 1,5000 rebels have disarmed, according to Congo's government. ...

Bid in New York to extend legal rights to chimps fails, again Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:59 PM PST By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - Less than a month after a New York state appeals court ruled that chimpanzees do not have legal rights and cannot be released from captivity, a case involving a second chimp has been dismissed. Attorney and animal rights activist Steven Wise in 2013 filed a habeas corpus petition - traditionally employed by prison inmates who claim they have been illegally detained - on behalf of a chimp named Kiko. ...

Ailing Guatemalan ex-dictator requests retrial absence Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:56 PM PST Lawyers for Guatemalan ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday he is too sick to attend court next week, when he faces a retrial for genocide over the killings of indigenous people in the 1980s. "The health condition of General Rios (Montt) has been deteriorating during the past year and doctors are watching him very closely to see if he's in good enough shape to attend on Monday," Luis Rosales, a lawyer for Rios Montt, told AFP. The lawyer had asked the court if Rios Montt could be absent. Rios Montt "is being treated with absolute rest, and doctors say he is only allowed to move to go to the bathroom, nothing else," Rosales said, noting that the military continues to keep his client under house arrest in an upscale part of the capital.

US sanctions North Korea over Sony cyberattack Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:51 PM PST HONOLULU (AP) — The United States imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday, targeting the North's defense industry and spy service in an attempt to punish Pyongyang for a crippling cyberattack against Sony. The sanctions marked the first public act of retribution by the U.S. for North Korea's alleged involvement.

IS seizes dozens in northern Iraq Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:49 PM PST The Islamic State jihadist group seized dozens of men from two villages in northern Iraq on Friday while searching for people who burned its flag, officials and residents said. An intelligence officer said that a total of 170 men were taken from the villages of Al-Shajara and Gharib in Kirkuk province, after two IS flags were burned in the area, an account confirmed by other officials from the province. It is not the first time IS has turned to mass detentions as it seeks to quell resistence in the swathes of territory in Iraq that it has overrun since June. It seized 50 people in Kirkuk province after residents burned one of their positions and flag in September, and 20 more the following week for allegedly forming a resistance group.

Sri Lanka wins toss, bowls in 2nd test vs. New Zealand Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:48 PM PST WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews won the toss and chose to bowl on a greenish pitch Saturday on the first day of the second cricket test against new Zealand.

Buckingham Palace denies sex claim against Prince Andrew Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:43 PM PST LONDON (AP) — Royal officials on Friday denied that Britain's Prince Andrew engaged in any "impropriety with underage minors" after he was named in U.S. court documents related to a lengthy lawsuit against American financier Jeffrey Epstein.

US stocks end mixed as manufacturing growth slows Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:41 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks got off to a sluggish start on the first day of trading in the New Year, ending the day mixed as a report showed that manufacturing growth slowed in December.

Swedes rally in support of mosques after arson attacks Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:36 PM PST HELSINKI (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators in three major Swedish cities have rallied in support of Muslims, condemning recent arson attacks against mosques in which at least five people were injured.

Associating with drug cheats forbidden in 2015 code Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:35 PM PST Beginning this year, athletes in Olympic sports who work with trainers, coaches or agents who have been banned for doping will be in jeopardy of receiving a ban, as well.

US slaps sanctions on North Korea after Sony hack Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:18 PM PST The United States imposed new sanctions Friday on North Korea in retaliation for a cyber attack on Hollywood studio Sony Pictures. In an executive order President Barack Obama authorized the US Treasury to place on its blacklist three top North Korean intelligence and arms operations, as well as 10 government officials, most of them involved in Pyongyang's arms exports.

17 soldiers, 1 civilian, killed in southern Libya Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:13 PM PST CAIRO (AP) — A Libyan army spokesman says armed militants have shot and killed 17 soldiers and one civilian at a checkpoint.

Palestinian officials: Egypt border police kill teenager Posted: 02 Jan 2015 01:11 PM PST GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian official says that Egyptian forces have shot and killed a Palestinian youth at the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

Canadian hockey player tests positive in France Posted: 02 Jan 2015 12:54 PM PST GAP, France (AP) — Canadian forward Matt Carter has been provisionally suspended by the French ice hockey federation after testing positive for the banned stimulant ephedrine.

Israel police say settlers attack US officials in West Bank Posted: 02 Jan 2015 12:45 PM PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Jewish settlers attacked American consular officials Friday during a visit the officials made to the West Bank as part of an investigation into claims of damage to Palestinian agricultural property, Israeli police and Palestinian witnesses say.

Euro sinks after ECB chief gives stimulus hint Posted: 02 Jan 2015 12:40 PM PST LONDON (AP) — The euro slid to a 4-1/2 year low against the dollar on Friday after the head of the European Central Bank hinted at plans to fight alarmingly low inflation across Europe.

Palestinian ICC move will have implications for aid: U.S. official Posted: 02 Jan 2015 12:38 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Further steps by the Palestinians on Friday to deliver to the U.N. documents on joining the International Criminal Court will have implications for U.S. aid, a senior State Department official said. "It should come as no surprise that there will be implications for this step, but we continue to review," the official told Reuters. "U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority has played a valuable role in promoting stability and prosperity not just for the Palestinians, but also for Israel as well," the official added. ...

Security on agenda as embattled Mexican president visits Obama Posted: 02 Jan 2015 12:26 PM PST By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's embattled President Enrique Pena Nieto will discuss security and justice with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington next week amid public anger about how he has handled a probe into the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers. Pena Nieto's standing has been battered by a string of massive street protests following the abduction and likely murder of 43 students by a drug gang working with corrupt police in the southwestern city of Iguala on the night of Sept. 26. On Monday, Pena Nieto flies to the U.S. ...

American missing for 4 days in Mexican wilderness Posted: 02 Jan 2015 12:25 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — An American has been missing in rugged mountains in central Mexico for four days after going on a hike wearing only a T-shirt and shorts and with little food and water, according to his wife and a Mexican official.

Suspected Islamists abduct 40 people in northeast Nigeria Posted: 02 Jan 2015 12:25 PM PST MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Gunmen abducted 40 boys and young men from a remote village in northeast Nigeria in a raid that residents and a security source blamed on Boko Haram, the Islamist group that has gained worldwide notoriety for mass kidnappings. Witness Mohammed Zarami said the gunmen arrived at the village of Malari around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, heavily armed but did not fire shots or kill anyone. "People ran out of their houses in fear but they warned no one should disobey them," Zarami told Reuters in the northeast city of Maiduguri, where he had fled to on foot. ...

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