Israel commentators unfazed by Hagel nomination

JERUSALEM: Israeli commentators played down the impact on relations with the United States of Monday's nomination as Pentagon chief of Republican former senator Chuck Hagel, criticised by heavyweights in his own party for being anti-Israel."Barack Obama did not choose Chuck Hagel because of his views on Israel and the president will not base his Israel policy on the views of Chuck Hagel",...

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At CES, Panasonic leads with Viera smart TVs

Though Panasonic's CES press conference was short, it featured a long lineup of new TVs.(Credit:CNET)LAS VEGAS--It was short and sweet, and if you blinked, you might have missed it. We're talking about Panasonic's press conference at CES today.The star of the show, unsurprisingly, was Panasonic's 2013 line of Viera TVs. But the consumer electronics giant also showed off a range of other new products,...

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Newtown seen as factor in Ala. teen's bomb plot

PHENIX CITY, Ala. An Alabama teenager teen who described himself as a white supremacist made journal entries about a plot to bomb classmates three days after the Newtown school massacre and began building small homemade explosives, a sheriff said Monday. Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor told The Associated Press that he believed the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary was a factor because the first...

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Accused Shooter Was 'Relaxed' After Massacre

Two veteran police officers broke down on the stand today during a preliminary hearing for accused movie theater gunman James Holmes, with one officer choking up when he described finding the body of a 6-year-old girl inside the theater.Sgt. Gerald Jonsgaard needed a moment to compose himself as he described finding the little girl, Veronica Moser Sullivan, in the blood splattered...

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Five accused in India rape case charged in court

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Five men accused of raping and murdering an Indian student were read the charges in a near-empty courtroom on Monday after the judge cleared out lawyers for bickering over whether the men deserved a defense. The 23-year-old physiotherapy student died two weeks after being gang-raped and beaten on a moving bus in New Delhi, then thrown bleeding onto the street. Protests...

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Global regulator eases liquidity rules for banks

BASEL: The world's top banking regulatory body on Sunday eased the first global liquidity rules scheduled to start applying to banks in 2015 and aimed at improving their ability to survive financial crises.The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said at a press conference that it had widened the definition of the easy-to-sell assets that banks will have to hold to survive periods of...

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Cisco at CES 2013: Join us Monday, 2 p.m. PT (live blog)

What does Cisco have in store for CES 2013? We'll find out starting at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) on Monday, January 7, and CNET will be there to cover it live. We'll have a live blog full of news and analysis, unfolding as it happens.You can tune in to the blog and video stream here:CNET's live coverage of Cisco's 2013 CES press conference Expect Cisco to have a lot to say about television on Monday....

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Kuwaitis defy government ban, stage protest

Kuwaiti opposition protestors take cover from tear gas fired by riot police during a demonstration demanding that the new parliament be dissolved and controversial legislation be scrapped, in Kuwait City, January 6, 2013. / YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images KUWAIT CITY Riot police in Kuwait have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse more than 1,000 anti-government protesters, defying...

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GOP Leader McConnell: 'Tax Issue Is Finished'

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Assad "peace plan" greeted with scorn by foes

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejected peace talks with his enemies on Sunday in a defiant speech that his opponents described as a renewed declaration of war. Although the speech was billed as the unveiling of a new peace plan, Assad offered no concessions and even appeared to harden many of his positions. He rallied Syrians for "a war to defend the nation" and...

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