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Accused Letterman extortionist pleads guilty

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A television producer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from U.S. talk show host David Letterman by threatening to reveal his affairs with women who worked on his late-night program on CBS.

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U.S. and Russia in final push to clinch new START treaty

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian arms control officials begin on Tuesday what both sides hope will be a final push to clinch a treaty cutting their strategic nuclear arsenals, officials said.

Nigeria urged to end impunity after village massacre

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - U.S.-based Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged Nigeria to prosecute those behind what it called a massacre of at least 200 Christian villagers and end a cycle of impunity which has allowed instability to persist.

New poll spells potential trouble for Democrats

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new poll on Monday found signs of trouble ahead for President Barack Obama and his Democrats on national security issues such as the handling of terrorism suspects.

Israel weighing construction of nuclear power plant

JERUSALEM/PARIS (Reuters) - Israel will this week unveil plans to produce nuclear-generated electricity, officials said on Monday, a move that could draw fresh international attention toward its assumed atomic arsenal.

Bomb attack on Pakistani police kills 13

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb attack on a police intelligence unit in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore killed at least eight people and wounded 45 on Monday during the morning rush hour, officials said.

Toyota finds no flaw with safety electronics

DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said it had found no flaw with its throttle controls as it seeks to dismiss an external study critical of its electronic safety systems.

Votes uncertain as healthcare endgame looms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's top healthcare official on Sunday urged quick passage of stalled healthcare reform legislation, but a top Democrat said they did not yet have the votes in Congress.

Gunfire at Yemen hospital, clashes in south

SANAA (Reuters) - An al Qaeda suspect tried to shoot his way out of hospital in Yemen's capital where he was being treated under guard on Sunday, while security forces and separatists clashed in the south of the country.

Cablevision gets ABC back in time for Oscars

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers were in suspense on Sunday afternoon over whether they would get to watch the 2010 Oscars telecast as Cablevision Systems Corp and Walt Disney Co's ABC had not yet agreed on a new contract.

Toyota could start new U.S. plant in June 2011: report

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp will start operating its new plant in Mississippi as early as June 2011, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper said on Sunday, as the Japanese automaker works to regain trust in the United States.

Firms get U.S. money despite Iran work: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government, while pushing for tougher sanctions against Tehran, has given $107 billion in the last 10 years to U.S. and foreign companies doing business in Iran, much of it in the energy sector, the New York Times reported ...

Iditarod mushers get festive send-off for Nome trek

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Seventy-one mushers and their powerful sled dog teams got a festive send-off in downtown Anchorage on Saturday for a 10-mile ceremonial run that launched the fabled Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

China seen opening soon to U.S. pork: report

KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - Pork producers attending their annual meeting here are looking for China to be the next major market to open fully to U.S. pork following word this week that certificate problems with Russia have been solved and exports could start ...

Icelanders reject deal to repay British and Dutch

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Icelanders voted in a referendum on Saturday on a $5 billion deal to repay Anglo-Dutch loans, with an expected resounding "No" set to further delay foreign aid and hopes for economic recovery.

Bomb kills 4 near Shi'ite shrine before Iraq poll

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb killed four Iranian pilgrims near Iraq's holiest Shi'ite shrine on Saturday, a day before a parliamentary election that Sunni Islamist militants have vowed to wreck.

German choir abuse predates Pope's brother: Vatican

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday that two cases of sexual abuse linked to a renowned cathedral choir in Germany did not coincide with the thirty-year period it was run by Pope Benedict's brother.

Portugal follows Greece down austerity path

LISBON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Portugal became the latest euro zone country to announce austerity measures to rein in a ballooning budget deficit as bond markets eased pressure on debt-stricken Greece on Monday after a French pledge of EU help.

Some Chile quake areas awaiting aid a week later

CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) - Some survivors were still waiting for government aid on Saturday in south-central Chile, a week after one of the strongest earthquakes on record killed hundreds and repeated aftershocks rattled nerves.

Britain heads for inconclusive election: poll

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is heading for a hung parliament after an election expected on May 6, opinion polls indicated on Tuesday.

China says Iran sanctions no cure

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Minister said on Sunday new sanctions on Iran will not solve the standoff over its nuclear program, while chiding the United States after two months of tensions between the big powers.

Haiti rebuilding plan expected this week

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Government planners and international experts are racing to produce a blueprint this week to reconstruct Haiti's economy after the earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people and devastated its infrastructure.

Obama targets insurers, sells reform plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama launched a sharp attack on health insurers on Monday and called on his fellow Democrats to rise above politics and pass a healthcare overhaul in the next few weeks.

U.S. envoy seeks Mideast talks deal, tension rises

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy began a round of meetings on Saturday aimed at relaunching negotiations, while the Palestinian leader said he feared the 20-year-old peace process with Israel was close to collapse.

North Korea warns U.S. and South of nuclear build-up

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Sunday it will bolster its atomic arsenal and was no longer bound by the cease fire that ended the Korean War due to joint U.S.-South Korean military drills, which start this week.

Suspect arrested in Pakistan not Gadahn: officials

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani security agents denied on Monday that an American al Qaeda spokesman wanted in the United States for treason had been arrested, saying there had been confusion over the identity of a detained suspect.

Top Pakistani Taliban leader may be dead: minister

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said a senior Pakistani Taliban commander with al Qaeda links may have been killed when helicopter gunships attacked a building he was in, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday.

China foreign minister says U.S. ties "disrupted"

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Sunday that relations with the United States had been "seriously disrupted," after a rise in friction between the two big powers.

Greece won't need aid, central bank chief tells paper

BERLIN (Reuters) - Greece will not need foreign help to deal with its debt problems, central bank governor George Provopoulos said in a German newspaper interview released Monday.

 

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