http://www.news24.com/Tags/Places/us Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:38:59 +0200 World leaders, including those of the US and Russia, say they are united in wanting a peaceful end to the Syrian conflict. http://www.news24.com/World/News/G-8-agrees-to-promote-Syrian-peace-talks-20130618 The director of the National Security Agency says the government's sweeping US surveillance programmes have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide. http://www.news24.com/World/News/US-surveillance-foiled-numerous-attacks-20130618 The government has welcomed a New York court's decision that South Africa be paid about R225.4m by three men convicted of importing illegally-harvested rock lobster into the US. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Govt-welcomes-US-restitution-decision-20130618 An ex-convict and confessed murdered will be back on the witness stand in the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger, accused of running Boston's "Winter Hill Gang" for decades. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Bulgers-partner-in-crime-in-court-20130618 Pesticides may kill off water insects and other small aquatic life by as much as 42%, an analysis has shown. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Pesticides-slash-water-life-by-42-study-20130617 Erin Brady, a 25-year-old accountant from Connecticut, has won the 2013 Miss USA contest in Las Vegas. http://www.channel24.co.za/News/International/Miss-Connecticut-crowned-Miss-USA-20130618 Yahoo said US law enforcement agencies made between 12 000 and 13 000 requests for data in the last six months. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Yahoo-had-13-000-US-data-requests-20130618 The family of an American scientist found hanged in Singapore last year have dismissed the city-state's findings that he committed suicide as "a sham and a cover-up" for a murder. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Family-slams-Singapore-suicide-inquest-20130618 US President Barack Obama’s security team is not taking any chances during his trip to Africa and will even be providing bulletproof trucks and fighter jets to patrol the air space for 24 hours. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Tip-top-security-for-Obamas-Africa-trip-20130618 A top Apple executive downplayed the theory of an e-book price-fixing conspiracy at an antitrust trial. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Apple-exec-challenges-e-book-conspiracy-20130617 The Pentagon has released the names of Guantanamo Bay's 46 "indefinite detainees", terror suspects considered too dangerous to transfer from the prison and who cannot be tried in court. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Pentagon-reveals-indefinite-detainees-list-20130618 President Barack Obama has defended top secret National Security Agency spying programmes as legal and called them transparent - even though they are authorised in secret. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Obama-Secret-data-gathering-transparent-20130618 South Africa, Russia and Turkey have expressed outrage over revelations that Britain and the United States spied on foreign delegates at G20 meetings in London in 2009. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/SA-demands-action-as-outrage-over-spy-claims-grow-20130617 A mysterious Facebook event has sparked buzz that the leading social network could be adding video to the Instagram smartphone picture-sharing service. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Mysterious-event-sparks-online-buzz-20130617 Confidence in US President Barack Obama has dropped below 50% to its lowest level in 19 months as Americans worry over broad government surveillance and other controversies, a poll shows. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Poll-shows-confidence-in-Obama-slipping-20130617 Germany's Merkel says US spies helped foil terror plot, but questions NSA surveillance scope http://www.news24.com/World/News/Merkel-US-helped-foil-terror-plot-20130617 The young intelligence technician who leaked details of the vast US programme to monitor private internet traffic has dismissed claims that he was working as a Chinese agent. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Snowden-dismisses-claim-he-is-Chinese-spy-20130617 Russia says it will not permit a no-fly zone to be implemented over Syria, following reports that plans for such a measure were being drawn up by the United States. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Russia-will-not-permit-Syria-no-fly-zone-20130617 Apple received over the last six months between 4 000 and 5 000 requests for customer data from US law enforcement authorities relating to criminal investigations and national security matters, the company says. http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Apple-gets-5K-US-data-requests-in-6-months-20130617 A United States court has ordered a Hout Bay businessman to pay nearly R295m restitution to South Africa for exporting illegal West Coast rock lobster. http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Cape-businessman-to-pay-SA-R295m-20130617