EU bid to label Hezbollah wing terror group
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BRUSSELS — Two officials say Britain has launched a bid to formally have the European Union declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization.
Target's 1Q profit drops 26 pct on weak sales
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
NEW YORK — Target Corp. reported a 26 percent drop in first-quarter profit as cool temperatures and financial pressures limited customers' appetite for spending.
Trial for captain in deadly shipwreck in Italy
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
ROME — A judge in Italy has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia to stand trial in the shipwreck of the cruise liner, which struck a reef off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people.
FEMA Chief: Feds won't go 'when the cameras leave'
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
WASHINGTON — The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says U.S. officials are "going neighborhood to neighborhood" to make sure Oklahoma gets the help it needs.
Mortar lands in Congo as UN chief arrives
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
GOMA, Congo — A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel group. The explosion comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Congo's distant capital for a two-day visit that is expected to take him to Goma.
