BitGou: Morning Digest: North Korea demands recognition as nuclear arms state

2013年4月23日星期二

Morning Digest: North Korea demands recognition as nuclear arms state

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04/23/2013

Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between

North Korea demands recognition as nuclear arms state

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea demanded on Tuesday that it be recognized as a nuclear weapons state, rejecting a U.S. condition that it agree to give up its nuclear arms program before talks can begin..

Irate Italian president begins talks on new coalition

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's president launched urgent talks on Tuesday that could lead to a prime minister quickly being named after two months of post-electoral stalemate that has weighed on a stagnant economy and alarmed Rome's partners in the euro zone..

Stock index futures signal mixed open

PARIS (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.07 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.02 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.04 percent at 0935 GMT (5.35 am EDT).

Backstreet Boys get Hollywood star ahead of world tour

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Boy band the Backstreet Boys - now all grown men - on Monday marked their 20th anniversary and their upcoming world tour by getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame..

Bahrain says thwarted attacks, found petrol bombs before F1 race

DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain security forces thwarted attacks and found caches of weapons including 1,000 petrol bombs in the run-up to last weekend's Formula One race, state media said as protests and sectarian tensions continued to simmer in the island kingdom..

Israel's Babylon in four-year Internet deal with Yahoo

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli translation software provider Babylon has signed a four-year cooperation agreement with Yahoo Inc in the Internet sector, including on mobile devices..

New U.S. rocket blasts off from Virginia launch pad

(Reuters) - A privately owned rocket built in partnership with NASA to haul cargo to the International Space Station blasted off on Sunday for a debut test flight from a new commercial spaceport in Virginia..

"Penmanship" is now 'handwriting' as Washington state removes gender bias in statutes

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state's governor signed into law on Monday the final piece of a six-year effort to rewrite state laws using gender-neutral vocabulary, replacing terms such as "fisherman" and "freshman" with "fisher" and "first-year student.".