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• Santorum looks for rebound in Louisiana
• APNewsBreak: US says soldier split killing spree
• Few LA voters say Etch A Sketch flap important
• Louisiana's GOP voters committed, conservative
• Santorum looks for rebound in Louisiana
• EU names 17 Iranians sanctioned over human rights
• APNewsBreak: US says soldier split killing spree
• Few LA voters say Etch A Sketch flap important
• Scientist who coined 'Pink Slime' reluctant whistleblower
• U.S. seeks more interest in Alaska offshore drilling
• Egyptian MPs pick constitution-setting assembly
• Deadly clashes in Egypt after soccer club banned
• Rick Santorum Calls Unions 'Bullies'
• Man lives to tell of Florida "Shoot First" horror
• Shooter of Florida teen not a racist, lawyer says
• Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager
• US believes accused soldier split killing spree
• Syrian tanks enter northern town, Homs pounded again
• U.S. World Bank pick to win broad support: Geithner
• French gunman's brother quizzed at Paris intelligence HQ
• Venezuela says gas project output to begin in December
• Al Qaeda group claims German citizen kidnap
• South Sudan hopes to end oil row within "a month or two"
• U.N.-African delegation tells Mali junta to go
• Maldives ex-president says to back constitutional changes
• U.N.-African delegation tells Mali junta to go
• Breast cancer fundraising lags after abortion dispute
• Gingrich: Santorum Has to Win Pennsylvania
• Santorum: 'I didn't understand' voter frustration
• North Korea meetings set to boost young leader's power
• Palestinian PM says freed U.S. aid to help ease crisis
• Suburban tensions fester as France debates shooting
• Venezuela says gas project output to begin in December

Santorum looks for rebound in Louisiana Posted: Rick Santorum looked for a win in Louisiana's primary Saturday to boost his Republican presidential campaign while front-runner Mitt Romney braced for an expected loss.

APNewsBreak: US says soldier split killing spree Posted: U.S. investigators believe the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians split the slaughter into two episodes, returning to his base after the first attack and later slipping away to kill again, two American officials said Saturday.

Few LA voters say Etch A Sketch flap important Posted: Few voters in Louisiana's Republican presidential primary say they were influenced by a comment by a Mitt Romney aide likening his campaign's tactics to an Etch A Sketch toy, even though it was one of the week's big political stories.

Louisiana's GOP voters committed, conservative Posted: The preliminary results of exit polls of Louisiana Republican voters suggest the electorate there is about as conservative as in other Southern states. And as among Republican primary voters nationwide, the economy trumps other issues to voters there.

Santorum looks for rebound in Louisiana Posted: Rick Santorum looked for a win in Louisiana's primary Saturday to boost his Republican presidential campaign while front-runner Mitt Romney braced for an expected loss.

EU names 17 Iranians sanctioned over human rights Posted: BRUSSELS/DUBAI (Reuters) - The European Union has imposed sanctions on 17 Iranian officials, including prominent members of the government and the judiciary it says play a key role in serious human rights violations. Agreed by EU foreign ministers on Friday, the new sanctions list, published on Saturday, includes the minister of information and communication, Reza Taqipour, and the head of Iran's state broadcasting network (IRIB), Ezzatollah Zarghami. ...

APNewsBreak: US says soldier split killing spree Posted: U.S. investigators believe the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians split the slaughter into two episodes, returning to his base after the first attack and later slipping away to kill again, two American officials said Saturday.

Few LA voters say Etch A Sketch flap important Posted: Few voters in Louisiana's Republican presidential primary say they were influenced by a comment by a Mitt Romney aide likening his campaign's tactics to an Etch A Sketch toy, even though it was one of the week's big political stories.

Scientist who coined 'Pink Slime' reluctant whistleblower Posted: Kansas City (Reuters) - Every time someone calls former U.S. government scientist Gerald Zirnstein a whistleblower, he cringes a little. When he coined the term "Pink Slime" to describe the unlabeled and unappetizing bits of cartilage and other chemically-treated scrap meat going into U.S. ground beef, Zirnstein was a microbiologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He made the slime reference to a fellow scientist in an internal - and he thought private - email. But that email later became public, and with it came an explosion of outrage from consumer groups. ...

U.S. seeks more interest in Alaska offshore drilling Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Saturday said it would again gauge interest from the oil and gas industry to explore federal waters off the Alaska coast, another bid to expand domestic energy production as gas prices soar and political pressure grows. The Interior Department said it would again issue an official request for drilling interest in potential development leases in federal waters in Cook Inlet off the south-central coast of Alaska. A federal lease sale for that area a year ago was canceled because of lack of interest. ...

Egyptian MPs pick constitution-setting assembly Posted: CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new Islamist-dominated parliament voted on Saturday to select members for a body that will draft a new constitution but liberal and leftist MPs withdrew, protesting that the nation's diversity would not be properly represented. The document could decide which branch of state will effectively rule the Arab world's most populous state for years to come after decades of autocracy that ended with Hosni Mubarak's fall to a popular revolt a year ago. ...

Deadly clashes in Egypt after soccer club banned Posted: CAIRO (Reuters) - One person was shot dead and at least 65 injured when security forces clashed with angry soccer fans in Egypt's Port Said protesting against an order to suspend their club over the country's worst stadium disaster, a medical source said. The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) banned the club, al-Masry, for two seasons on Friday for a pitch invasion that killed 74 fans last month, the most deadly incident since the protests that toppled President Hosni Mubarak last year. ...

Rick Santorum Calls Unions 'Bullies' Posted: MILWAUKEE — Rick Santorum took on the unions today, calling them "bullies" as he pledged solidarity with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in his fight to strip public employee unions of much of their bargaining power. "Look, I come from southwestern Pennsylvania, I grew up in...

Man lives to tell of Florida "Shoot First" horror Posted: MIAMI (Reuters) - On June 5, 2006, not long after Florida enacted the first "Stand Your Ground" law in the United States, unarmed Jason Rosenbloom was shot in the stomach and chest by his next-door neighbor after a shouting match over trash. Exactly what happened that day in Clearwater, Florida, is still open to dispute. Kenneth Allen, a retired police officer, said he shot Rosenbloom because he was trying to storm into his house. ...

Shooter of Florida teen not a racist, lawyer says Posted: ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Florida (Reuters) - The lawyer representing the man who shot dead a black Florida teenager said the public image of his client is almost completely wrong and that he acted out of self-defense, not racial bigotry. Craig Sonner, a previously little known defense lawyer from Altamonte Springs, Florida, suddenly finds himself thrust into the spotlight as the attorney representing George Zimmerman, who remains free and uncharged over the incident in the town of Sanford, just north of Orlando. ...

Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager Posted: WASHINGTON/SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama weighed into the controversial killing of a black teenager in Florida in very personal terms on Friday, comparing the boy to a son he doesn't have and calling for American "soul searching" over how the incident occurred. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, dressed in a "hoodie" hooded sweatshirt, was shot dead a month ago in Sanford, Florida by a 28-year-old white Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer who said he was acting in self-defense. ...

US believes accused soldier split killing spree Posted: American officials say U.S. investigators now believe the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians split the slaughter into two episodes, returning to his base after the first attack and later slipping away to kill again.

Syrian tanks enter northern town, Homs pounded again Posted: Syrian forces pounded the central city of Homs with mortar fire while troops backed by heavy armor stormed rebellious towns across the country on Saturday, leaving six civilians and four soldiers dead, opposition activists said. Ignoring a U.N. Security Council call for an end to hostilities, President Bashar al-Assad's forces clashed with rebel fighters and bombarded several towns and cities, aiming to crush a year-long uprising against the government. ...

U.S. World Bank pick to win broad support: Geithner Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jim Yong Kim, the U.S. nominee to lead the World Bank, will win broad international support despite an unprecedented challenge by candidates from emerging economies, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in an interview. Washington's hold on the World Bank presidency is being contested for the first time by candidates from emerging economies. Two respected economists and diplomats, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo, have been nominated. ...

French gunman's brother quizzed at Paris intelligence HQ Posted: The brother of an al Qaeda-inspired gunman who murdered seven people was whisked to Paris on Saturday for further questioning and a police source disclosed he had said he was "proud" of his late sibling's killing spree. President Nicolas Sarkozy summoned ministers and police chiefs to a meeting on Saturday to discuss the consequences of Mohamed Merah's massacre, which has raised troubling national security questions four weeks ahead of a presidential election. ...

Venezuela says gas project output to begin in December Posted: GUIRIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's Mariscal Sucre offshore gas project will begin production in December after years of delays and difficulties in attracting foreign partners, the South American country's energy minister said. President Hugo Chavez's government wants to develop natural gas production to meet growing domestic demand that has forced Venezuela, despite sitting on some of the world's biggest gas reserves, to import supplies from neighboring Colombia. ...

Al Qaeda group claims German citizen kidnap Posted: DUBAI (Reuters) - A group claiming to be al Qaeda's north African wing said it had kidnapped a German man and demanded the release of a Muslim woman imprisoned in Germany in exchange for his freedom. In a statement posted on Islamist Internet forums, the group, which called itself al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), named its German hostage as Edgar Fritz Raupach, without saying where he had been seized or where he was being held. ...

South Sudan hopes to end oil row within "a month or two" Posted: JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan hopes to resolve a row over oil and other outstanding issues with Sudan within a month or two, South Sudan's top negotiator said on Saturday, pointing to an easing of tensions between the two old civil war foes. The new nation also said it would not arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of genocide and other crimes, when he visits the southern capital Juba next month. ...

U.N.-African delegation tells Mali junta to go Posted: BAMAKO (Reuters) - A delegation of U.N. and African officials has told the military junta that seized power in Mali on Wednesday night to hand back power, saying its plan to fix Mali's problems and restore security before stepping down will not work. The message was delivered on Friday during a lightning visit by U.N. and African Union officials and the head of the regional ECOWAS Commission, the U.N. Secretary General's special representative for West Africa, Said Djinnit, told Reuters by phone on Saturday. ...

Maldives ex-president says to back constitutional changes Posted: COLOMBO (Reuters) - The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, ousted last month in what he said was a bloodless coup, said on Saturday his party was willing to work with the new administration to make the constitutional changes needed to hold an early election. Nasheed, who says he was forced out of power at gunpoint on February 7, does not recognize the current government as legitimate. His party has staged weeks of mostly peaceful protests against it and blocked parliament sessions. ...

U.N.-African delegation tells Mali junta to go Posted: BAMAKO (Reuters) - A delegation of U.N. and African officials has told the military junta that seized power in Mali on Wednesday night to hand back power, saying its plan to fix Mali's problems and restore security before stepping down will not work. The message was delivered on Friday during a lightning visit by U.N. and African Union officials and the head of the regional ECOWAS Commission, the U.N. Secretary General's special representative for West Africa, Said Djinnit, told Reuters by phone on Saturday. ...

Breast cancer fundraising lags after abortion dispute Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure is feeling a pinch on donations following a controversy over its funding for Planned Parenthood, a leading provider of birth-control and abortion services. A few of the group's flagship "Race for the Cure" fundraising events have failed to meet targets, a Komen spokeswoman said on Friday. Separately, at least five of the group's leaders have stepped down in recent weeks. ...

Gingrich: Santorum Has to Win Pennsylvania Posted: CAMP HILL, Pa. – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich asserted Saturday that Republican rival Rick Santorum needs to win his home state of Pennsylvania to keep his campaign alive.

Santorum: 'I didn't understand' voter frustration Posted: Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum says he didn't always understand conservatives' frustration with Washington but says he comprehends it now.

North Korea meetings set to boost young leader's power Posted: North Korea said on Saturday it will hold a special parliamentary session next month during which the reclusive country's new young leader, Kim Jong-un, is expected to be given a top title aimed at consolidating his grip on power. The North has planned a series of events next month to mark the centenary of the birth of the state's founder, Kim Il-sung, including a rare ruling party conference and the controversial launch of a ballistic rocket it says will carry a satellite. ...

Palestinian PM says freed U.S. aid to help ease crisis Posted: RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Saturday the release of $88.6 million in development funds by U.S. lawmakers would help ease a fiscal crisis in the aid-dependant Palestinian economy. "This is very important in order to help us deal with the economic crisis," Fayyad told reporters in Ramallah. In August Republican lawmakers put a hold on $147 million in U.S. assistance because they objected to a Palestinian push for recognition at the United Nations, arguing that Palestinian statehood should be achieved through peace talks with Israel. ...

Suburban tensions fester as France debates shooting Posted: TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - In the aftermath of a killing spree that shocked the nation, France's Paris-based politicians and national media are deep in debate about its impact on the upcoming presidential election and the need for tighter security. In the drab Toulouse suburbs where gunman Mohamed Merah killed seven people before being cut down by police commandos, the talk is more of bubbling tensions between ethnic and religious communities and how solutions are nowhere in sight. The gap is not just between the capital to the north and Toulouse in the southwest. ...

Venezuela says gas project output to begin in December Posted: LA GUIRA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's Mariscal Sucre offshore gas project will begin production in December after years of delays and difficulties in attracting foreign partners, the South American country's energy minister said. President Hugo Chavez's government wants to develop natural gas production to meet growing domestic demand that has forced Venezuela, despite sitting on some of the world's biggest gas reserves, to import supplies from neighboring Colombia. ...

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