Noticias de Hoy

Should veterans deemed too mentally incompetent to handle their own financial affairs be prevented from buying a gun?

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s opposition Liberal Democratic Party’s lead has shrunk in the polls ahead of a December 16 election, suggesting the conservative party and its partner may need help to make up a majority and threatening more policy confusion for the world’s third-biggest economy. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s LDP is expected to win the biggest number of seats in parliament’s powerful lower house, putting Abe in pole position to form the next government, most likely with long-term LDP ally, the smaller New Komeito. . . .

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Republicans have to stop using "political math" and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said in an interview that aired Sunday.

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The partisan political divide over the potential nomination of U. N. Ambassador Susan Rice to be secretary of state intensified Sunday with Republicans questioning her fitness for the job and Democrats defending her.

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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Ghaus worked in Iran for five years but has nothing to show for it. All he has are memories of being jailed, beaten and sent home to Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s oil-rich western neighbor has for years been a destination for Afghans seeking work or fleeing war. Afghanistan and Iran share a language, and cultural and historical links. But hostility to the U. S. role in Afghanistan, regional ambitions and an economy choked by Western sanctions have persuaded Iran to cast out Afghan migrants, to the dismay of those forced home and their government. . . .

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KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) – A Russian-made Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Saturday and placed into orbit an Earth observation satellite for France, space officials said. It is the fourth time that Soyuz, which first flew in 1966 and traces its roots back even further to the earliest Cold War intercontinental ballistic missiles, has been launched from outside its former Soviet bases. The rocket lifted off at 11:02 p. m. (0202 GMT on Sunday) from a launch pad at Europe’s space base near Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America. . . .

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President Barack Obama says it’s unacceptable for some congressional Republicans to "hold middle-class tax cuts hostage" because they don’t want tax rates to rise on the wealthy.

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Mitt Romney’s shadow looms over a Republican Party in disarray.

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Embarking on a second term, President Barack Obama faces mounting pressure on a decision he had put off during his re-election campaign: whether to approve the $7 billion proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline between the U. S. and Canada.

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President Barack Obama is urging Congress to pass an extension of tax cuts for middle class families, saying a tax increase for them would be like a “lump of coal” for Christmas.

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