Should allies be worried?

October 25, 2013 - Daily News Briefing

Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United States have shared a common concern about Iran.

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Eight states, including California and New York, pledged Thursday to work together to dramatically multiply the number of zero-emission cars on the nation’s roads by speeding the construction of charging stations and other infrastructure. The goal is to put 3.3 million battery-powered cars, plug-in hybrids, and other clean-burning vehicles on the roads in those states by 2025. Maryland, Oregon, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Massachusetts are the other participants.

Pirates kidnapped two Americans working on a commercial ship near the coast of Nigeria, US officials said Thursday. The Nigerian Navy ordered its forces to mount a rescue operation. The captain and an engineer were taken from an offshore supply vessel during an attack Wednesday in international waters off the Gulf of Guinea, said a US defense official.

A Roma woman in Bulgaria has undergone DNA testing and faces preliminary charges of child selling as authorities investigate if she is the mother of a young girl found living with an unrelated couple in Greece, authorities said Thursday. Though the tests have yet to prove Sasha Ruseva is the biological mother of the girl known as Maria, the woman’s admission that she once left a baby behind in Greece opened her up to a formal investigation.

The US violent crime rate went up 15 percent last year, and the property crime rate rose 12 percent, the government said Thursday, signs that the nation may be seeing the last of the substantial declines in crime of the past two decades.

Russia on Thursday angrily dismissed espionage accusations against a Russian cultural exchange official in Washington, saying the US claims were unfounded. The FBI is looking into whether Yury Zaytsev, the head of a Russian government-run cultural exchange program, tried to recruit young Americans as intelligence assets, a US intelligence official told The Associated Press.

Voting on its first big bill since the end of a 16-day partial government shutdown, House Republicans and Democrats acted in near unison, voting 417 to 3 to pass an $8.2 billion bill that sketches out plans for dams, harbors, river navigation, and other water projects for the coming decade.

North Korea plans to allow six detained South Koreans to return home, officials in Seoul said Thursday, an unusual move that accompanied Pyongyang’s separate approval of a visit by South Korean lawmakers to a recently restarted factory park both Koreas run in the North.

President Obama called on Congress Thursday to finish finish work on an immigration overhaul by the end of the year, a lofty goal that will be difficult to meet given the staunch opposition of many House Republicans. The Senate passed sweeping legislation this summer that would provide an eventual path to citizenship for some 11 million immigrants living here illegally, but the measure has languished in the GOP-led House.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

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