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Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:05 AM PDT

Today's Reuters World News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Analysis: Revolt or summer fever? Israel ponders tent protest China defends carrier plans, neighbors worry about Chinese railway institute takes blame for train crash Lawmakers seek compromise on debt deal Army drafted in as storms batter Seoul; 53 dead or missing Air Canada plane returns safely to Sydney after smoke Violence in north Kosovo draws EU warning Norway police detonate explosives at killer's farm Norway PM says commission to review bombing, shooting Strauss-Kahn accuser meets with prosecutors New pressure on Gaddafi on foreign, rebel fronts Treasury to lay out post August 2 plan soon if no debt deal Hugo Chavez mocks succession talk Egypt's army head blames foreign intervention Sudan carries out air strikes in Darfur: UNAMID Snapshot: Developments in U.S. debt talks China boosts naval power with carrier program: sources Russia's Putin considering Kremlin return: sources Rival debt plans in doubt, alternatives sought Israeli army charges border lookouts with shirking duties Suicide blast kills mayor of Kandahar Cyprus president to ask cabinet to resign Ethnic Serbs fire at NATO troops in Kosovo Norway intelligence boss reckons Breivik a lone wolf Missile shield will spark nuclear arms race: North Korea Analysis: Culture shields sluggish Norway police from critics German police search homes in raid on far-right China protests U.S. spy flights near its coast With Layton sick, NDP says will fight on Analysis: Peru's Humala dares to go where Lula never went U.N. flies food into famine-hit Somali capital Al Shabaab recruited dozens of Americans: U.S. report Yemen president won't give up power by force: minister Russia denies parole to partner of jailed ex-tycoon Yemen president won't give up power by force: official Analysis: Like Al Qaeda, Norwegian killer aimed at publicity Norway killer raised hands high in surrender: police Norway PM says commission to review bombing, shooting Factbox: British politicians' meetings with News Corp Trichet: Bet on Greece default and you'll lose Analysis: Revolt or summer fever? Israel ponders tent protest Wed,27 Jul 2011 11:57 PM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined emergency housing reforms in a televised address, many of the protesters who had prompted the measures by camping out in Israeli cities twirled their hands in derision. Full Story Top China defends carrier plans, neighbors worry about Wed,27 Jul 2011 10:32 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China's neighbors are worried its aircraft carrier program may in time intimidate regional rivals but its military on Thursday defended the plan as vital for maritime security. Full Story Top Chinese railway institute takes blame for train crash Wed,27 Jul 2011 09:54 PM PDT Reuters - WENZHOU, China (Reuters) - A Chinese railway research institute took responsibility on Thursday for a flaw in signaling equipment which led to a train crash that killed 39 people and has shaken public confidence in the government's high-speed rail program. Full Story Top Lawmakers seek compromise on debt deal Wed,27 Jul 2011 09:25 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Republicans and Democrats worked behind the scenes on Wednesday on a compromise to avert a crippling U.S. default, looking to salvage a last-minute deal from rival debt plans that have little chance of winning congressional approval on their own. Full Story Top Army drafted in as storms batter Seoul; 53 dead or missing Wed,27 Jul 2011 09:01 PM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - At least 53 people are dead or missing after the heaviest rains in a century lashed the South Korean capital Seoul and surrounding areas, officials said on Thursday, with damage expected to run into hundreds of millions of dollars. Full Story Top Air Canada plane returns safely to Sydney after smoke Wed,27 Jul 2011 08:32 PM PDT Reuters - SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Air Canada plane bound for Vancouver was forced to dump fuel and return to Sydney on Thursday after crew reported smoke coming from an oven in the galley, the airline said. Full Story Top Violence in north Kosovo draws EU warning Wed,27 Jul 2011 06:51 PM PDT Reuters - PRISTINA/BELGRADE (Reuters) - A deadly flare-up of violence in Kosovo's Serbian-populated north has sent tensions with Belgrade soaring and prompted a stern intervention from the European Union. Full Story Top Norway police detonate explosives at killer's farm Wed,27 Jul 2011 05:13 PM PDT Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police detonated on Tuesday night a cache of explosives found at a farm leased by Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 76 people last week. Full Story Top Norway PM says commission to review bombing, shooting Wed,27 Jul 2011 05:13 PM PDT Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that Norway will set up an independent commission to review events surrounding the bombing and shootings on July 22, which killed at least 76 people. Full Story Top Strauss-Kahn accuser meets with prosecutors Wed,27 Jul 2011 04:57 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The hotel maid who accused former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her met with prosecutors on Wednesday for several hours to discuss details of the case. Full Story Top New pressure on Gaddafi on foreign, rebel fronts Wed,27 Jul 2011 04:54 PM PDT Reuters - NALUT, Libya (Reuters) - Rebels fighting in Libya's western mountains prepared on Thursday for a new offensive against Muammar Gaddafi's troops, raising pressure on the Libyan leader a day after Britain granted diplomatic recognition to the opposition. Full Story Top Treasury to lay out post August 2 plan soon if no debt deal Wed,27 Jul 2011 04:23 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury will lay out a plan in the next few days about how the government will operate if it appears Congress may miss an August 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling, officials said on Wednesday. Full Story Top Hugo Chavez mocks succession talk Wed,27 Jul 2011 04:11 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's convalescing President Hugo Chavez laughed off talk of succession on Wednesday and lashed out at speculation his cancer diagnosis was made up to boost his popularity. Full Story Top Egypt's army head blames foreign intervention Wed,27 Jul 2011 03:39 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Foreign groups are meddling in Egypt and stirring up unrest, Egypt's army chief said on Wednesday, days after protesters marched to the defense ministry to urge their military rulers to speed up reforms. Full Story Top Sudan carries out air strikes in Darfur: UNAMID Wed,27 Jul 2011 03:38 PM PDT Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan carried out air strikes on a village in Darfur, killing one civilian, peacekeepers UNAMID said on Wednesday, in the first confirmed strike since Khartoum signed a peace deal with small rebel group Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) two weeks ago. Full Story Top Snapshot: Developments in U.S. debt talks Wed,27 Jul 2011 03:32 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here is the situation on Wednesday as lawmakers try to close in on a deal for Congress to raise the U.S. government's $14.3 trillion borrowing limit by an August 2 deadline and avoid a debt default: Full Story Top China boosts naval power with carrier program: sources Wed,27 Jul 2011 02:13 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China is building two aircraft carriers as part of a military modernization program that is causing concern among other Asian countries, sources said on Wednesday. Full Story Top Russia's Putin considering Kremlin return: sources Wed,27 Jul 2011 02:01 PM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is close to a decision to bid for the presidency in an election next year because he has doubts about his protege, President Dmitry Medvedev, senior political sources say. Full Story Top Rival debt plans in doubt, alternatives sought Wed,27 Jul 2011 01:46 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Republicans and Democrats worked behind the scenes on Wednesday on a compromise to avert a crippling U.S. default even as they publicly pressed ahead with rival debt plans that have little chance of winning broad congressional approval. Full Story Top Israeli army charges border lookouts with shirking duties Wed,27 Jul 2011 01:35 PM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel court-martialed three intelligence soldiers on Wednesday for shirking surveillance duties on the volatile northern front with Lebanon and Syria, saying they had endangered national security. Full Story Top Suicide blast kills mayor of Kandahar Wed,27 Jul 2011 01:31 PM PDT Reuters - KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed the mayor of Afghanistan's Kandahar Wednesday, a further blow to stability in the southern city still reeling from the assassination two weeks ago of President Hamid Karzai's powerbroker half-brother. Full Story Top Cyprus president to ask cabinet to resign Wed,27 Jul 2011 01:29 PM PDT Reuters - NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriot President Demetris Christofias will ask his cabinet to resign on Thursday as he attempts to hold together a fragile governing coalition in the face of growing public anger over a munitions blast which triggered Cyprus's worst peacetime disaster. Full Story Top Ethnic Serbs fire at NATO troops in Kosovo Wed,27 Jul 2011 01:13 PM PDT Reuters - PRISTINA (Reuters) - Armed ethnic Serbs, who attacked and burned down a border post, fired at NATO peacekeeping forces in Kosovo on Wednesday in the ethnic-Serb dominated northern part of the country. Full Story Top Norway intelligence boss reckons Breivik a lone wolf Wed,27 Jul 2011 12:45 PM PDT Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - Norway has no indication that the confessed killer behind Norway's July 22 attacks had accomplices or was part of a wider network, the head of the Norwegian Police Security Service said Wednesday. Full Story Top Missile shield will spark nuclear arms race: North Korea Wed,27 Jul 2011 12:42 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - If U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield to protect Europe against a possible attack by Iran are realized, it will spark a new nuclear arms race, North Korea's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday. Full Story Top Analysis: Culture shields sluggish Norway police from critics Wed,27 Jul 2011 12:07 PM PDT Reuters - OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) - In many countries there would be a public outcry if police had allowed a gunman to slaughter scores of people for an hour before being stopped, but Norwegian police have mostly escaped censure, at least for now. Full Story Top German police search homes in raid on far-right Wed,27 Jul 2011 12:06 PM PDT Reuters - STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - Police raided 21 homes and properties linked to suspected right-wing extremists in southern Germany Wednesday, the prosecutor's office in the state capital Stuttgart said. Full Story Top China protests U.S. spy flights near its coast Wed,27 Jul 2011 12:01 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned that recent U.S. surveillance flights near its coast have severely harmed mutual trust and were a major obstacle to better military ties between the two countries, state media reported Wednesday. Full Story Top With Layton sick, NDP says will fight on Wed,27 Jul 2011 11:39 AM PDT Reuters - OTTAWA (Reuters) - The main opposition party in Canada, stunned by its leader's serious illness, elected an interim chief on Wednesday and dismissed speculation that the party could start to break up. Full Story Top Analysis: Peru's Humala dares to go where Lula never went Wed,27 Jul 2011 11:13 AM PDT Reuters - LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's leftist President-elect Ollanta Humala, who takes office on Thursday, has dared to move further toward the center, if not the right, than the man he emulated during his campaign -- Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Full Story Top U.N. flies food into famine-hit Somali capital Wed,27 Jul 2011 10:50 AM PDT Reuters - MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The United Nations airlifted emergency food for starving children into the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday as aid groups warned of a growing influx of hungry families from the famine-hit south of the country. Full Story Top Al Shabaab recruited dozens of Americans: U.S. report Wed,27 Jul 2011 10:43 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia, al Shabaab, has recruited more than 40 Muslim Americans to its battle in the war-ravaged country and at least 15 have been killed, a congressional report said on Wednesday. Full Story Top Yemen president won't give up power by force: minister Wed,27 Jul 2011 10:37 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who escaped an attempt on his life by opponents, will only cede power through the ballot box and the country will descend into civil war if he is forced from office, his foreign minister said. Full Story Top Russia denies parole to partner of jailed ex-tycoon Wed,27 Jul 2011 10:02 AM PDT Reuters - VELSK, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian court denied parole Wednesday to Platon Lebedev, the business partner of jailed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, keeping him in prison until the end of his sentence in 2016. Full Story Top Yemen president won't give up power by force: official Wed,27 Jul 2011 09:45 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who escaped an attempt on his life by opponents, will only cede power through the ballot box and the country will descend into civil war if he is forced from office, his foreign minister said. Full Story Top Analysis: Like Al Qaeda, Norwegian killer aimed at publicity Wed,27 Jul 2011 09:36 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Much remains unknown about what sparked Anders Behring Breivik's killing spree in Norway on July 22, whether he acted alone or was part of a wider organization. Full Story Top Norway killer raised hands high in surrender: police Wed,27 Jul 2011 09:23 AM PDT Reuters - HOENEFOSS, Norway (Reuters) - Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik threw down his gun and put up his hands in surrender when police approached him on the island where he shot dead 68 people, one of the officers involved said on Wednesday. Full Story Top Norway PM says commission to review bombing, shooting Wed,27 Jul 2011 09:02 AM PDT Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that Norway will set up an independent commission to review events surrounding the bombing and shootings on July 22, which killed at least 76 people. Full Story Top Factbox: British politicians' meetings with News Corp Wed,27 Jul 2011 08:45 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - British finance minister George Osborne met executives from Rupert Murdoch-owned companies 16 times since the parliamentary election in May 2010, information released by the British government this week showed. Full Story Top Trichet: Bet on Greece default and you'll lose Wed,27 Jul 2011 08:35 AM PDT Reuters - FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Speculating on Greece defaulting is a sure way to lose money, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet was quoted as saying in remarks released on Wednesday. Full Story Top

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