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Afghan insurgents target safest province Bamiyan
Mon,28 May 2012 10:21 PM PDT
Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Insurgents have stepped up attacks in the area thought to be Afghanistan's safest, the rugged central province of Bamiyan, moving into the region in a bid to undermine security ahead of the end-2014 exit from the country of most foreign combat troops. Around 20 Taliban fighters from neighboring Baghlan province have crossed into Bamiyan and launched attacks in several districts, Bamiyan Police Chief General Juma Guldi Yardem told Reuters on Tuesday. ... Full Story | Top |
Exclusive: Pakistan doctor in bin Laden case called corrupt, womanizer
Mon,28 May 2012 06:38 PM PDT
Reuters -  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden faced accusations of corruption and other wrongdoing long before he was captured by Pakistani intelligence agents and then jailed for 33 years for treason. In interviews over the weekend, several current and former Pakistani officials described the doctor, Shakil Afridi, as a hard-drinking womanizer who had faced accusations of sexual assault, harassment and stealing. They said his main obsession was making easy money. ...
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Mexico state arrests four after attacks on PepsiCo brand
Mon,28 May 2012 05:21 PM PDT
Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The central Mexican state of Guanajuato has arrested four members of a drug cartel after a series of attacks that set fire to warehouses and trucks belonging to PepsiCo's Sabritas brand of potato chips over the weekend. Similar attacks against Sabritas, which caused no injuries, also took place in the western state of Michoacan, the company said. In total, the attacks and fires at five distribution centers across the two states damaged infrastructure, trucks and goods. PepsiCo has not yet calculated the cost of the damage, the company said in a statement late on Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
Drug war victims' families blast Mexican candidates
Mon,28 May 2012 05:20 PM PDT
Reuters -  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential candidates on Monday faced the families of people murdered, mutilated, and kidnapped in drug violence in a meeting that was marked by strong condemnations of corrupt police and politicians. In a stark reminder of the rampant crime facing Mexico's next president, distraught family members burst into tears and shouted at the four candidates sitting at the table opposite them in Mexico City's elegant Chapultepec Castle. ...
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Egyptians torch Shafiq headquarters as vote triggers violence
Mon,28 May 2012 04:40 PM PDT
Reuters -  CAIRO/ALEXANDRIA (Reuters) - Demonstrators furious that Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister made it into the run-off for the country's presidential election set ablaze his campaign headquarters on Monday, underscoring the divisive outcome of the nation's historic vote. The campaign offices of Ahmed Shafiq, viewed as a symbol of Mubarak's rule, were set on fire after a group of protesters broke into and vandalized the premises, the state news agency reported. An official in the fire service confirmed the blaze had been extinguished without causing any casualties. ...
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Fire kills 19, mostly children, in upscale Qatar mall
Mon,28 May 2012 04:11 PM PDT
Reuters -  DOHA (Reuters) - At least 19 foreign nationals, including 13 children, were killed in a fire that ripped through an upscale shopping mall in Qatar on Monday, the country's interior ministry said. The children were from New Zealand, Spain, Japan, the Philippines, and Benin, among other countries. A Spanish diplomatic source in Madrid told Reuters that four of the dead children were Spanish. It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, which media reports said broke out at a childcare area at the Villagio Mall in Doha's west. ...
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Blair says feared fight with Britain's media barons
Mon,28 May 2012 04:05 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - British leaders have no choice but to court powerful media barons such as Rupert Murdoch or risk savage press attacks which are "full on, full frontal, day in, day out," former Prime Minister Tony Blair told an inquiry on Monday. Interrupted by a heckler who accused him of being a war criminal for supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Blair paused briefly before continuing calmly to justify his ties to Murdoch with whom he developed a close friendship. ...
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Assad faces new international pressure after massacre
Mon,28 May 2012 03:47 PM PDT
Reuters -  AMMAN (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad faces renewed international pressure to end the bloodshed in Syria but, with peace envoy Kofi Annan visiting Damascus, his government blamed Islamist militants for a massacre in which U.N. observers had implicated his army. Annan, on a mission from the United Nations and Arab League, is scheduled to meet Assad on Tuesday, when he can be expected to urge compliance with the tattered ceasefire deal which he brokered between government and rebels nearly seven weeks ago. ...
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Timeline : Egypt since revolt against Hosni Mubarak
Mon,28 May 2012 03:31 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Here is a timeline of events in Egypt since protests against former President Hosni Mubarak began. January 25, 2011 - Anti-government protests begin across Egypt following the January 14 overthrow of Tunisia's president in the first of a series of Arab uprisings. January 28 - Mubarak orders troops and tanks into cities to quell demonstrations. Thousands cheer at news of intervention of the army, which is widely seen as a neutral force in politics, unlike police who are regularly deployed to stifle dissent. January 31 - New government is sworn in. ... Full Story | Top |
Mexico state arrests four after attacks on PepsiCo brand
Mon,28 May 2012 03:27 PM PDT
Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The central Mexican state of Guanajuato has arrested four members of a drug cartel after a series of attacks that set fire to warehouses and trucks belonging to PepsiCo's Sabritas brand of potato chips over the weekend. Similar attacks against Sabritas, which caused no injuries, also took place in the western state of Michoacan, the company said. In total, the attacks and fires at five distribution centers across the two states damaged infrastructure, trucks and goods. PepsiCo has not yet calculated the cost of the damage, the company said in a statement late on Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
Beryl cuts soggy path across U.S. southeast
Mon,28 May 2012 03:24 PM PDT
Reuters - ATLANTA (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Beryl cut a soggy path across the U.S. southeast on Monday after swirling ashore in Florida at near hurricane strength. The second named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season lashed the East Coast from north Florida to southern parts of North Carolina, and created a risk of flooding inland, even after it was downgraded to a tropical depression late Monday morning. ... Full Story | Top |
Egypt protesters set fire to Shafiq headquarters: media
Mon,28 May 2012 02:09 PM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - A group of Egyptian protesters set fire to the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq in Cairo on Monday, the state news agency reported, after the ex-prime minister made it into the second round of the vote. The privately-owned Al-Hayat channel broadcast images of a the fire at Shafiq's campaign office in the Cairo district of Dokki, saying it had been caused by a group of protesters. It said there were no injuries. ... Full Story | Top |
Congo probes alleged Rwandan support for rebels
Mon,28 May 2012 02:01 PM PDT
Reuters - GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo are investigating allegations that neighboring Rwanda is recruiting and training fighters in support of a new armed movement in its troubled eastern borderlands, a government spokesman said on Monday. The British Broadcasting Corporation, citing a confidential United Nations document, reported earlier on Monday that among the defectors from the newly formed militia were at least 11 Rwandan nationals who claimed to have been recruited in Rwanda. ... Full Story | Top |
Colombia rebels release proof of life for kidnapped Frenchman
Mon,28 May 2012 01:14 PM PDT
Reuters -  BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian FARC rebels on Monday released a proof of life video in which a kidnapped French journalist appeared relaxed while chatting with the guerrilla fighters that took him hostage a month ago. French reporter Romeo Langlois was seized on April 28 by heavily armed members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia during a clash with troops carrying out an anti-drug raid in Caqueta, a rebel-stronghold in Colombia's south. The FARC have vowed to free Langlois on Wednesday. "Go ahead, ask me more questions if you like. ... ...
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Turkey approves indictment of Israeli commanders: report
Mon,28 May 2012 12:44 PM PDT
Reuters - ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court has approved an indictment seeking multiple life sentences for four former Israeli military commanders over their alleged involvement in the 2010 killing of nine Turks on a Gaza-bound aid ship, state media reported on Monday. The indictment, prepared by Istanbul state prosecutor Mehmet Akif Ekinci, was submitted to the court last week and its approval effectively marks the start of a trial in absentia against the four men. ... Full Story | Top |
Top Pentagon officer urges non-military pressure on Assad
Mon,28 May 2012 12:27 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer deplored the weekend massacre in Syria on Monday and urged the international community to use diplomatic and economic pressure to end the violence there. "The events in Syria over the weekend are just horrific, atrocious really," General Martin Dempsey said on "CBS This Morning" television program. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he expected international pressure to mount on Syria, where the massacre in Houla of 108 civilians, many of them children, drew U.N. National Security Council condemnation on Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
Syrian government: Islamists behind Houla massacre
Mon,28 May 2012 12:25 PM PDT
Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian authorities on Monday blamed Islamist militants for the massacre of 108 men, women and children in the town of Houla and denied U.N. and witness accounts that army tanks were in the area at the time. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council published by state media, the Foreign Ministry said the Syrian army had clashed with hundreds of armed men who it said committed Friday's massacre. The ministry said the killers used knives, which it called a "signature" of Islamist militant attacks. ... Full Story | Top |
Suu Kyi set for overseas venture after 24 years in Myanmar
Mon,28 May 2012 12:22 PM PDT
Reuters -  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi ventures outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years on Tuesday in an unmistakable display of confidence in the liberalisation taking shape in her country after five decades of military rule. The bright lights of Bangkok will greet Suu Kyi when she arrives in the Thai capital late on Tuesday, a stark contrast to her dimly lit home city of Yangon, where daily power outages have sparked protests by people testing the limits of freedom under a new quasi-civilian government. ...
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Leading Bahraini dissident Khawaja ends hunger strike
Mon,28 May 2012 12:13 PM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Jailed Bahraini activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja ended a more than three-month-long hunger strike on Monday after what he described as his success in drawing attention to the issue of imprisoned activists, his wife and lawyer said. Bahrain, a U.S. ally and home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, has been in turmoil since pro-democracy protests led by its majority Shi'ites erupted last year after revolts in Egypt and Tunisia. ... Full Story | Top |
Milan court cuts sentences on 11 Red Brigades members
Mon,28 May 2012 11:20 AM PDT
Reuters - MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan appeals court on Monday cut jail sentences on 11 people who claim to be part of the radical left-wing Red Brigades even as concern builds in Italy about the possibility of a return to 1970s-style political violence. The appeals court upheld an earlier conviction that the 11 belonged to an armed band and subversive group, but struck down a charge that they were terrorists, a move which cut their jail terms by between one and three years. The defendants have regularly said that they do not recognize the "bourgeois" court that was judging them. ... Full Story | Top |
Vatican says trust in Church hurt by scandal
Mon,28 May 2012 11:05 AM PDT
Reuters -  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican, engulfed in the worst crisis in Pope Benedict's papacy, on Monday denied Italian media reports that cardinals were suspects in an investigation into leaks of sensitive documents that led to the arrest of the pope's butler. But while denying the reports, which said the butler was merely a courier in a behind-the-scenes struggle for power in the Holy See, the Vatican acknowledged that the often sordid affair would test the faith of Catholics in their Church. ...
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Sudan's army says to withdraw from Abyei
Mon,28 May 2012 10:55 AM PDT
Reuters - KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan will withdraw all its troops from the disputed border region of Abyei, its army spokesman said on Monday, removing a major obstacle to peace talks with its arch foe South Sudan. But with talks due to resume in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, South Sudan accused its northern neighbor of bombing its territory and killing 10 people. Sudan denied the charge. ... Full Story | Top |
Spanish debt costs spiral as crisis deepens
Mon,28 May 2012 10:08 AM PDT
Reuters -  MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish 10-year borrowing costs neared the 7 percent danger level and Bankia shares hit record lows on Monday after the government, struggling to sort out its finances, proposed putting sovereign debt into the struggling lender. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pinned the blame for the rising borrowing costs - the spread over Germany reached the highest since the euro's launch - on concern about the future of the single currency. He again ruled out seeking outside aid to revive a banking sector laid low by a property boom that has long since bust. ...
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Iraq set to auction new oil, gas blocks
Mon,28 May 2012 09:52 AM PDT
Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq will auction 12 new oil and gas exploration blocks this week in a fourth energy bidding round, as it seeks the rapid expansion of a sector vital to its economy, but tough contract terms mean Baghdad may struggle to drum up major interest. The country, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has the world's fourth largest oil reserves and can offer some of the last potentially rich unexplored territories after its energy sector was left under-developed by decades of war and economic sanctions. ... Full Story | Top |
Blast rocks Kenyan capital, more than 30 hurt
Mon,28 May 2012 09:50 AM PDT
Reuters -  NAIROBI (Reuters) - An explosion tore through a shopping complex in Nairobi's business district during Monday's lunch hour, wounding more than 30 people, and police said they were investigating whether it was a bomb attack. Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said anti-terrorism police were combing the blast site in the city centre for clues, appearing to row back on an earlier suggestion by the police commissioner that a massive electrical fault might be to blame. ...
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Sudan's army says to withdraw from Abyei
Mon,28 May 2012 09:27 AM PDT
Reuters - KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan will withdraw all its troops from the disputed border region of Abyei, its army spokesman said on Monday, removing a major obstacle to peace talks with its arch foe South Sudan. But with talks due to resume at the African Union in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, South Sudan accused its northern neighbor of bombing its territory and killing 10 people. Sudan denied the charge. ... Full Story | Top |
Yemen army tightens grip on militant-held town
Mon,28 May 2012 09:11 AM PDT
Reuters - ADEN (Reuters) - Yemeni troops clashed with Islamist militants in a southern town largely controlled by an al-Qaeda-linked group as they fought to dislodge them in a new U.S.-backed offensive. Six militants were killed in the clashes on the eastern edge of Zinjibar, the Defence Ministry said on Monday. Several militants were also killed on Monday in air strikes in other areas of southern Yemen. Local officials and militants said one of the attacks was carried out by a U.S. drone. ... Full Story | Top |
Libya NTC leader says election could be delayed
Mon,28 May 2012 09:03 AM PDT
Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) -The head of Libya's National Transitional Council said on Friday the national assembly election could be delayed. The election, for an assembly that will draw up a new constitution, is a milestone in shaping the country's new institutions after the revolt. "All depends on the appeal process for the election candidates," Mustafa Abdel Jalil told Reuters. "This appeal process will perhaps result in a postponement of the elections." Candidates wishing to run in the election must first pass a vetting process which they may appeal in court. ... Full Story | Top |
Five Kazakh policemen jailed over oil town clashes
Mon,28 May 2012 08:51 AM PDT
Reuters - ALMATY (Reuters) - Five Kazakh policemen were jailed for between five and seven years on Monday for abusing their power during clashes between armed officers and striking oil workers in the country's worst violence in decades. At least 14 people were killed in the fighting that erupted in the western oil town of Zhanaozen on December 16 after a seven-month strike by oilmen demanding higher wages spun out of control. The violence spread the next day to the nearby village of Shetpe, where another protester was killed. Kazakhstan, an oil-exporting nation of 16. ... Full Story | Top |
Vatican says trust in church hurt by leaks scandal
Mon,28 May 2012 08:34 AM PDT
Reuters - VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The faith of Roman Catholics in their Church has been damaged by a scandal over leaked documents in which the pope's butler has been arrested, the Vatican said on Monday. "This is naturally something that can hurt the Church, and put trust in it and the Holy See to the test," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told reporters. (Reporting By Philip Pullella) Full Story | Top |
Vatican denies any Cardinal a suspect in leaks scandal
Mon,28 May 2012 08:34 AM PDT
Reuters - VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Monday denied Italian press reports that a cardinal was among those being investigated in a scandal over leaked documents that has shaken the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church. Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi also told a news conference the Holy See would not allow media pressure to rush an investigation which has led to the arrest of Pope Benedict's butler over the leaks. Lombardi said the pope was following the case closely but calmly and that talk of an internal power struggle behind the case had been exaggerated. ... Full Story | Top |
Brotherhood, Mubarak's last PM in Egypt run-off vote
Mon,28 May 2012 07:13 AM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - The body overseeing Egypt's presidential election said on Monday the June run-off would pit the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi against Ahmed Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, confirming the results of last week's first round of voting. The electoral commission, in a televised news conference, said the turnout was 46.2 percent in the first round of the vote. (Writing by Edmund Blair) Full Story | Top |
Egypt run-off between Mursi, Shafiq: state agency
Mon,28 May 2012 07:05 AM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - The run-off in Egypt's presidential election will pit the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi against Ahmed Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister and a former air force commander, Egypt's state news agency MENA reported on Monday. Quoting an unnamed source, MENA said all appeals had been rejected by the committee overseeing the election, which was due to announce the official results later in the day. Full Story | Top |
All aboard! Double-decker bus makes Baghdad comeback
Mon,28 May 2012 06:53 AM PDT
Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More often seen speeding past Trafalgar Square, British-style double-decker buses are making a comeback in Baghdad, the latest sign that Iraq's capital is on the road to recovery after years of war and sanctions. Once a common sight during Saddam Hussein's rule before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Iraq's old red double-deckers all but disappeared from use when looting, sectarian violence, and attacks engulfed the Iraqi capital at the height of the war. ... Full Story | Top |
Insight: Hedge funds find ways to trade euro misery
Mon,28 May 2012 06:38 AM PDT
Reuters -  BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two decades ago, George Soros rose to fame and fortune on his now-historic trade in which he took on the Bank of England and shrewdly wagered on a devaluation of the British pound. But it's unlikely the current European monetary crisis and worries about Greece's potential exit from the euro zone will give rise to an investing legend like Soros, who made $1 billion in 1992 by betting on a decline in the price of the pound. Instead, there are a multitude of strategies to play Europe's troubles, and many different participants, hedge fund managers say. ...
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South Sudan accuses Sudan of bombings ahead of talks
Mon,28 May 2012 06:36 AM PDT
Reuters - JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan accused Sudan on Monday of flying warplanes over the southern capital Juba and bombing other parts of its territory, one day before the resumption of negotiations between the two foes. The two Sudans have been at loggerheads over a long list of disputes since the southern nation declared independence in July last year. Fierce clashes on the disputed border raised fears of an all-out war last in April. ... Full Story | Top |
Bahrain's Khawaja to end hunger strike Monday - lawyer
Mon,28 May 2012 06:29 AM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Jailed Bahraini activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja will end a more than three-month-long hunger strike on Monday evening as he had succeeded in drawing attention to the issue of imprisoned activists, his lawyer said. Khawaja, who is also a Danish citizen, is a leading figure in Shi'ite Muslim-led pro-democracy protests that erupted last year in Bahrain as a wave of uprisings swept through the region. "Starting this evening he will stop his hunger strike ... ... Full Story | Top |
Insight: South Sudan independence still comes at a price
Mon,28 May 2012 06:20 AM PDT
Reuters - JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's citizens who paid in blood for their independence in a long liberation war are being told freedom carries its own price - in hardship. An oil shutdown from January by the former bush rebels who now run the world's newest nation has strangled the flow of dollars into an economy that produces almost nothing else, and sent the South Sudanese pound tumbling against the greenback. This has hiked the costs of everything from fuel to cooking oil, rice, charcoal and bananas. ... Full Story | Top |
France arrests suspected Basque separatist leader
Mon,28 May 2012 06:05 AM PDT
Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - The suspected military leader of Basque separatist group ETA was arrested in southwestern France on Sunday, along with an alleged accomplice, Spain's Interior Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said Oroitz Gurruchaga Gogorza, along with his partner Xabier Aramburu, was recruiting new members to join the armed militant group that is responsible for killing more than 850 people in shootings and bombings over the past half century. ... Full Story | Top |
Odds lengthen on Osborne's UK debt reduction gamble
Mon,28 May 2012 05:40 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - In George Osborne's office, a framed cartoon shows Britain's finance minister being crushed by an elephant labeled debt. The irony may be choking for Osborne: his bet on Britain growing out of its debt addiction is in doubt and the $2.5 trillion economy is bracing for the what Prime Minister David Cameron has warned could be the break up of the euro zone. On inheriting Britain's biggest peacetime deficit, Osborne gambled he could charm bond investors by slashing spending, but that growth rates of between 2.0 and 3. ...
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