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Today's Reuters World News Headlines - Yahoo! News: China audit uncovers misuse of affordable housing program China's Wen signals doubt inflation goal can be met China studying accounting issues, stock fall: regulator Scenarios: Trouble in store for Thailand after the election? Khmer Rouge leaders go on trial in Cambodia Factbox: Facts about Thailand's election Factbox: Main parties contesting Thailand's election Most Japanese oppose nuclear reactor restarts: poll At heart of Thai election, a fugitive rallies China says local govt debt at $1.65 trillion, plans clean-up Typhoon batters Korean peninsula, at least 9 dead Bombs kill 25 at Nigerian drinking spot: sources Gaddafi's future not up for debate:Libyan government Mauritania says 17 died in al Qaeda operation Rival groups march over king's reforms in Morocco Factbox: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Venezuela tells foes "stop dreaming" of Chavez death Protesters demand French nuclear plant closure Italy government tensions rise over austerity plans Somalia frees UK, American ransom couriers Syrian activists to meet to chart way out of crisis Yemen's Saleh to reappear as violence grips south Russia faces elections with budget woes U.N. says sending human rights team to Yemen Iraq court gives al Qaeda leader's wife life sentence Young girl carrying bag of explosives killed in Afghanistan Analysis: Turkey loses patience over Syria Israel warns journalists not to board Gaza flotilla Exclusive: Yemen's Saleh was injured by planted bomb: source Japanese parents fume over Fukushima radiation impact Azerbaijan leader warns of army buildup at huge parade LulzSec hackers disband after last data dump Yemen president to appear in media within 48 hours Prominent Chinese dissident freed from jail Twelve wounded after suicide bomber hits Iraq police station Egyptians stone police cars at former minister's trial Taliban militant and wife staged attack on Pakistani police Earthquake hits China's Yushu again Earthquke hits China's Yushu again Minister plays down Mubarak cancer claims: report China audit uncovers misuse of affordable housing program Sun,26 Jun 2011 11:13 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Improper allocation of housing units, misuse of funds and an insufficient supply of land are undermining China's massive affordable housing program, a report by the State Audit Office said on Monday. Full Story1 Top China's Wen signals doubt inflation goal can be met Sun,26 Jun 2011 11:12 PM PDT Reuters - HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao signaled for the first time that China would struggle to meet its 4 percent inflation target this year, underlining expectations that interest rates will rise further even as economic growth slows down. Full Story1 Top China studying accounting issues, stock fall: regulator Sun,26 Jun 2011 11:12 PM PDT Reuters - SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is paying close attention to the slump in shares of overseas-listed Chinese companies in the wake of a string of accounting problems and is studying ways to address the issue, an official from the country's securities regulator said. Full Story1 Top Scenarios: Trouble in store for Thailand after the election? Sun,26 Jun 2011 11:06 PM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand holds a general election on July 3 that might be a step on the road to stability after five years of political turbulence. But it could just as easily prolong the crisis, especially if there is no clear-cut winner. Full Story1 Top Khmer Rouge leaders go on trial in Cambodia Sun,26 Jun 2011 10:56 PM PDT Reuters - PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The four most senior surviving members of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime went on trial for war crimes on Monday, three decades after its "year zero" revolution marked one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Full Story1 Top Factbox: Facts about Thailand's election Sun,26 Jun 2011 10:52 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Thais will go to the polls on July 3 for a general election Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva hopes will settle a long-running political conflict in the deeply divided country. Full Story1 Top Factbox: Main parties contesting Thailand's election Sun,26 Jun 2011 10:52 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Forty-two parties will contest a July 3 general election in Thailand, with the ruling Democrat Party and opposition Puea Thai Party jostling for first place and others vying for stakes in what is expected to be a coalition government. Full Story1 Top Most Japanese oppose nuclear reactor restarts: poll Sun,26 Jun 2011 10:46 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly 70 percent of Japanese oppose the restart of nuclear reactors halted for maintenance work, a poll showed on Monday, even though keeping them shut could mean power blackouts this summer and higher electricity bills. Full Story1 Top At heart of Thai election, a fugitive rallies Sun,26 Jun 2011 10:35 PM PDT Reuters - SUAN MON, Thailand (Reuters) - Saffron-robed monks chanted and young women in silk sarongs stretched out their arms in traditional Thai dance moves, but the big event was the voice on a scratchy telephone line from another continent. Full Story1 Top China says local govt debt at $1.65 trillion, plans clean-up Sun,26 Jun 2011 10:04 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Local governments in China had incurred about 10.7 trillion yuan ($1.65 trillion) in debt as of the end of 2010, about half of which was held by financing vehicles, the national audit office said on Monday in its first-ever audit of local government finances. Full Story1 Top Typhoon batters Korean peninsula, at least 9 dead Sun,26 Jun 2011 07:14 PM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - At least nine people have been killed, mostly drowned in flooding, after a typhoon battered South Korea, a disaster official said on Monday, while impoverished North Korea braced for huge waves and torrential rain. Full Story1 Top Bombs kill 25 at Nigerian drinking spot: sources Sun,26 Jun 2011 04:37 PM PDT Reuters - MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect threw bombs at a drinking spot in Nigeria's northeastern town of Maiduguri on Sunday, killing around 25 people, witnesses and military sources said. Full Story1 Top Gaddafi's future not up for debate:Libyan government Sun,26 Jun 2011 04:31 PM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi is the historical choice of the Libyan people and cannot be moved aside, his government said on Sunday, stepping back from earlier statements offering an election on his future role. Full Story1 Top Mauritania says 17 died in al Qaeda operation Sun,26 Jun 2011 02:53 PM PDT Reuters - NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania said on Sunday that 17 people were killed in a joint attack carried out with Mali on an al Qaeda in North Africa's (AQIM) camp in the Wagadou forest region near Mauritania's border on Friday. Full Story1 Top Rival groups march over king's reforms in Morocco Sun,26 Jun 2011 02:29 PM PDT Reuters - CASABLANCA, Morocco (Reuters) - Thousands of rival demonstrators marched through cities in Morocco on Sunday over constitutional reforms proposed by King Mohammed after unrest inspired by "Arab Spring" uprisings in the Arab world. Full Story1 Top Factbox: Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Sun,26 Jun 2011 01:08 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has not been seen in public for more than two weeks following an operation in Cuba to remove a pelvic swelling. Full Story1 Top Venezuela tells foes "stop dreaming" of Chavez death Sun,26 Jun 2011 12:56 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Senior allies of Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez have dismissed reports he is sicker than the government has admitted, telling his enemies to "stop dreaming" of his death. Full Story1 Top Protesters demand French nuclear plant closure Sun,26 Jun 2011 12:21 PM PDT Reuters - FESSENHEIM, France (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain outside France's oldest nuclear power plant on Sunday to demand the site be closed as the government mulls whether to extend its life by a decade. Full Story1 Top Italy government tensions rise over austerity plans Sun,26 Jun 2011 11:48 AM PDT Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Tensions increased in Italy's government on Sunday over an austerity plan to be approved next week, with one senior coalition member accusing Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti of trying to cause the government's collapse. Full Story1 Top Somalia frees UK, American ransom couriers Sun,26 Jun 2011 11:31 AM PDT Reuters - MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia has pardoned six foreigners convicted of illegally carrying millions of dollars into the country with the intention of paying pirate ransoms, a government spokesman and presidency officials said. Full Story1 Top Syrian activists to meet to chart way out of crisis Sun,26 Jun 2011 11:27 AM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Some of Syria's most prominent intellectuals will meet in Damascus on Monday to seek a way out of the country's crisis, but anti-government activists said the meeting could give political cover to President Bashar al-Assad. Full Story1 Top Yemen's Saleh to reappear as violence grips south Sun,26 Jun 2011 11:25 AM PDT Reuters - RIYADH/SANAA (Reuters) - Wounded Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, not seen in public since an attack on his palace in early June, is well enough to return soon to Yemen and will make a media appearance within the next couple of days. Full Story1 Top Russia faces elections with budget woes Sun,26 Jun 2011 09:47 AM PDT Reuters - STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Russia's government has promised voters more social spending than it can muster without threatening the country's fiscal stability as elections approach, a deputy finance minister warned on Sunday. Full Story1 Top U.N. says sending human rights team to Yemen Sun,26 Jun 2011 08:22 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - A team of United Nations human rights investigators will travel to Yemen next week to assess the situation after months of unrest, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday. Full Story1 Top Iraq court gives al Qaeda leader's wife life sentence Sun,26 Jun 2011 07:27 AM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi court has sentenced the wife of a slain al-Qaeda leader to life in prison for her role in aiding insurgents' activities, a spokesman for the country's judicial council said Sunday. Full Story1 Top Young girl carrying bag of explosives killed in Afghanistan Sun,26 Jun 2011 06:20 AM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - An eight-year-old Afghan girl was killed when a bag of explosives given to her by Taliban insurgents exploded as she approached a police outpost in southern Afghanistan, the government said Sunday. Full Story1 Top Analysis: Turkey loses patience over Syria Sun,26 Jun 2011 06:11 AM PDT Reuters - ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey faces a growing danger Syrian economic and social disruption could spill onto its soil, with some fearing an influx of refugees could draw its troops into border operations uncomfortably close to Syrian forces. Full Story1 Top Israel warns journalists not to board Gaza flotilla Sun,26 Jun 2011 05:46 AM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel warned foreign journalists on Sunday they could be barred from the country for 10 years if they board a new flotilla that plans to challenge an Israeli naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Full Story1 Top Exclusive: Yemen's Saleh was injured by planted bomb: source Sun,26 Jun 2011 05:23 AM PDT Reuters - RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh was injured earlier this month by a bomb planted in a mosque within the presidential palace, but he is recovering and will return to Yemen soon, a source close to Saleh told Reuters. Full Story1 Top Japanese parents fume over Fukushima radiation impact Sun,26 Jun 2011 05:11 AM PDT Reuters - FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Angry parents of children in Japan's Fukushima city marched along with hundreds of people on Sunday to demand protection for their children from radiation more than three months after a massive quake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. Full Story1 Top Azerbaijan leader warns of army buildup at huge parade Sun,26 Jun 2011 05:03 AM PDT Reuters - BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, speaking during the biggest military parade in Baku since the fall of the Soviet Union, promised to boost army spending and gain control of the territories disputed with Armenia. Full Story1 Top LulzSec hackers disband after last data dump Sun,26 Jun 2011 04:56 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Lulz Security group of rogue hackers announced it was disbanding on Saturday with one last data dump, which included internal AOL Inc and AT&T documents. Full Story1 Top Yemen president to appear in media within 48 hours Sun,26 Jun 2011 04:50 AM PDT Reuters - SANAA (Reuters) - Wounded Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has not been seen in public since an attack on his palace earlier this month, will make a media appearance within 48 hours, his media secretary said on Sunday. Full Story1 Top Prominent Chinese dissident freed from jail Sun,26 Jun 2011 04:40 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING, Jun (Reuters) - One of China's most prominent dissidents, Hu Jia, was reunited with his family early on Sunday after serving three-and-a-half-years in jail on subversion charges, but he needed rest and was not ready to speak in public, his wife said. Full Story1 Top Twelve wounded after suicide bomber hits Iraq police station Sun,26 Jun 2011 04:35 AM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 12 people were wounded when a suicide bomber in a wheelchair blew himself up at a police station in the northern outskirts of Iraq's capital on Sunday, a spokesman for the Baghdad operations command said. Full Story1 Top Egyptians stone police cars at former minister's trial Sun,26 Jun 2011 03:11 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Families of Egyptians killed and injured in protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak hurled stones at police vehicles outside the court where the former interior minister was being tried Sunday, witnesses said. Full Story1 Top Taliban militant and wife staged attack on Pakistani police Sun,26 Jun 2011 02:58 AM PDT Reuters - DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Taliban militant and his wife carried out a suicide bombing on a police station in Pakistan on Saturday that killed 12 policemen, a Taliban spokesman said on Sunday. Full Story1 Top Earthquake hits China's Yushu again Sun,26 Jun 2011 02:15 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING, Jun (Reuters) - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake rocked a largely Tibetan region in northwest China Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, more than a year after a 7.1 magnitude tremor killed 2,700 people in the same area. Full Story1 Top Earthquke hits China's Yushu again Sun,26 Jun 2011 02:15 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING, Jun (Reuters) - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake rocked a largely Tibetan region in northwest China Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, more than a year after a 7.1 magnitude tremor killed 2,700 people in the same area. Full Story1 Top Minister plays down Mubarak cancer claims: report Sun,26 Jun 2011 01:41 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's health ministry has no official documentation confirming former President Hosni Mubarak has cancer, newspapers quoted Sunday a deputy minister as saying, casting doubt on comments by Mubarak's lawyer. Full Story1 Top

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