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Syria mission "nearly impossible": U.N. envoy
Sun,2 Sep 2012 11:52 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Diplomatic attempts to end the Syrian conflict are "nearly impossible" and not enough is being done to end the fighting, the new U.N. and Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said in a BBC interview broadcast on Monday. "I know how difficult it is - how nearly impossible. I can't say impossible - nearly impossible," Brahimi, an Algerian diplomat, told the BBC. "And we are not doing much. That in itself is a terrible weight." Brahimi replaced Kofi Annan as the United Nations and Arab League joint special representative on Syria at the end of August. ... Full Story
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Cambodia considers Swedish request on Pirate Bay co-founder
Sun,2 Sep 2012 11:49 PM PDT
Reuters - PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian authorities have arrested a co-founder of Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing websites, and are considering a request from Sweden to send him there where he faces a jail sentence for breaching copyright laws. The Swedish man, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, has been living in Cambodia for some time. An appeals court in Sweden sentenced three others behind the site to between four months and 10 months in prison plus fines in 2010. Warg failed to attend that hearing due to illness and his sentencing was deferred. ... Full Story
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Australia, Kabul argue over deadly search for rogue Afghan killer
Sun,2 Sep 2012 11:47 PM PDT
Reuters - CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia contradicted Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday over a deadly weekend raid in Afghanistan in search of a "rogue" soldier who killed three Australian troops, adding new strains to an increasingly uneasy international coalition. Karzai's office condemned the raid by NATO-led and Afghan troops, during which a 70-year-old Afghan man and his son were killed, describing it as a "unilateral military operation" in breach of an agreement between Kabul and its foreign allies covering such actions. ... Full Story
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Suicide bomber kills five, including two Americans, in Pakistan
Sun,2 Sep 2012 11:36 PM PDT
Reuters - PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into another near a building occupied by the U.N. refugee agency in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, killing five people, including two Americans, a regional information minister and police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which left a crater along a busy street. Firemen extinguished flames of a vehicle that was mangled and blackened from the blast. The two Americans worked in the U.S. consulate, Regional Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told reporters. ... Full Story
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Two of three Austrians oppose more help to Greece: poll
Sun,2 Sep 2012 11:29 PM PDT
Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - Two out of three Austrians oppose more European Union aid to debt-strapped Greece, a poll published on Monday showed. The Karmasin poll of 500 people for the Heute newspaper found 39 percent were entirely against more aid while 26 percent tended to oppose the idea. Only 12 percent were absolutely in favor and 19 percent tended to support more EU help. The survey reflects mounting skepticism in relatively strong northern countries in the euro zone over continuing to spend taxpayers' money to prop up struggling southern members of the currency union. ... Full Story
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Analysis: Germany's triangulated opposition
Sun,2 Sep 2012 11:03 PM PDT
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German Chancellor Merkel smiles during her meeting with China's Vice President Xi at the Great Hall of the People in BeijingBERLIN (Reuters) - Bill Clinton may have been the first to use a strategy of "triangulation" to win an election, co-opting policies of his Republican rivals to win a second term as president in 1996. But it is Germany's Angela Merkel who seems to have turned the tactic, coined by controversial Clinton campaign guru Dick Morris, into an art form. With a year to go until Germans go to the polls, the country's leftist opposition parties are searching desperately for issues to throw at the conservative chancellor and finding the cupboard alarmingly bare. ...


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Germans want to cut Greece loose: poll
Sun,2 Sep 2012 06:08 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Only a quarter of Germans think Greece should stay in the euro zone or get more help from other countries, an opinion poll showed on Monday. German chancellor Angela Merkel is facing a domestic dilemma over whether or not to agree more time or money for Greece to get its 174 billion euro ($219.33 billion) second bailout back on track. German sentiment, detailed by a Financial Times/Harris poll, stands in marked contrast to that in Italy and Spain, where respondents were far more reluctant to cut Greece loose from the euro zone. ... Full Story
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Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus
Sun,2 Sep 2012 05:19 PM PDT
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Free Syrian Army fighters run for cover after Syrian forces fired a mortar in the El Amreeyeh neighborhood of AleppoAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army's General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising. Syrian state television said four people were wounded in what it called a terrorist attack on the General Staff compound in the highly guarded Abu Rummaneh district, where another bomb attack killed four of Assad's top lieutenants two months ago. ...


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Greek PM sings in tune, now must hit the hard notes
Sun,2 Sep 2012 05:04 PM PDT
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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras arrives for a cabinet meeting at the parliament in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - When Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the euro zone's finance ministers, arrived in Athens last week, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras ran down red-carpeted steps to envelope him in a warm embrace. In front of the man representing Greece's biggest creditor, the governments of the euro zone, Samaras was understandably eager to make an impression, and duly pledged to do his utmost to win back Europe's trust. The conservative leader was not always so keen. ...


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Quebec separatists maintain lead ahead of September 4 election: poll
Sun,2 Sep 2012 04:17 PM PDT
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CAQ leader Legault does a superman pose after donning a cape while campaigning at a Family Day Festival in Laval(Reuters) - A separatist party is still in the lead ahead of an election on Tuesday in the Canadian province of Quebec but the number of voters who say they might change their minds means a result is hard to predict, according to a poll released on Sunday. The Leger survey for the QMI agency put the opposition Parti Quebecois (PQ) -- which wants to hold a referendum eventually on independence for the province -- at 33 percent public support, unchanged from a poll released by the same firm on Aug 24. ...


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U.S. suspends training of Afghan local police force
Sun,2 Sep 2012 03:05 PM PDT
Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Forces in Afghanistan said on Sunday they have suspended training new recruits to the Afghan Local Police (ALP) amid a spike in the number of insider attacks which are damaging trust between Afghans and their allies. The ALP is a militia, set up two years ago by U.S. Forces, in villages where the national police force -- a separate body trained by NATO -- is weak. The ALP has been beset by allegations of abuse and widespread corruption. ... Full Story
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Thirteen police injured in Northern Ireland sectarian clashes
Sun,2 Sep 2012 02:53 PM PDT
Reuters - BELFAST (Reuters) - At least 13 police were injured in clashes between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland on Sunday in a dispute over the rights of the two communities to hold parades in the area. Police fired water cannon after protesters from both sides threw bottles and stones at officers trying to separate the rival groups in north Belfast. At least three officers were taken to hospital, a police spokeswoman said. The disturbances followed a march by a Catholic Irish nationalist band in an area where pro-British Protestant groups were recently barred from marching. ... Full Story
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Unification Church head Sun Myung Moon dies in South Korea
Sun,2 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT
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File photo of evangelist Reverend Moon blessing newlyweds during a mass wedding ceremony at Sun Moon University in AsanSEOUL (Reuters) - Sun Myung Moon, the founder and head of the Unification Church which has millions of followers around the world, died at a retreat near the South Korean capital Seoul on Monday, church officials said. Moon was 92 and had suffered complications from pneumonia, the officials said. Moon had been hospitalized in Seoul in mid-August and was moved to the retreat last week when his family and church believed there was little chance of recovery. ...


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Questioning Rio's boom - a contrarian in Brazil
Sun,2 Sep 2012 02:38 PM PDT
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Marcelo Freixo, a 45-year-old state assemblyman and Rio's Mayor candidate speaks during a rally campaign in Rio de JaneiroRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - To many in this coastal metropolis, Rio de Janeiro has never had it so good. After decades of decay, crippling crime rates, and a loss of big business to rival São Paulo, Rio is on the rise. A recent boom in Brazil's economy, the discovery of massive offshore oilfields nearby, and Rio's planned hosting of the World Cup and Olympics in the next four years have restored some of the splendor to the tropical city of 6.5 million people. But one local official is tired of the exuberance. ...


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Massacre trial exposes inconvenient truth for India's BJP
Sun,2 Sep 2012 02:21 PM PDT
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File photo of smoke pouring from the carriage of a train on fire in Godhra, in the western Indian state of GujaratAHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Ten years on, Abdul Sheikh can still hardly believe that the doctor who had performed an ultrasound scan on his pregnant wife turned out to be a ringleader in the orgy of violence that killed both the mother and her unborn child. "I remember hearing the commotion and I rushed out to find Dr. Kodnani inciting a mob of thousands, screaming 'kill those bastards!'," said Sheikh, one of the witnesses whose testimony led last week to the jailing of 31 people for hunting down and slaughtering dozens of Muslims in 2002. ...


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Moon, self-declared messiah of Unification Church
Sun,2 Sep 2012 02:07 PM PDT
Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - Sun Myung Moon, a self-declared messiah and founder of the Unification Church, died aged 92 on Monday leaving millions of followers and a South Korean-based global empire of religious and business interests. Moon believed he was chosen by Jesus Christ to continue the work of establishing an ideal world of peace and harmony. From 1961 until recently, he oversaw mass weddings at which thousands were matched with spouses they sometimes had just met and who, in some cases, did not even speak the same language. ... Full Story
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French PM warns vote vs fiscal pact would weaken Hollande
Sun,2 Sep 2012 12:34 PM PDT
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France's Prime Minister Ayrault attends the French employers' body MEDEF union summer forum on the campus of the HEC School of Management in Jouy-en-Josas,PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault sought to rally a divided left behind the European Union's fiscal compact, arguing that anything but a strong endorsement would weaken President Francois Hollande and France itself. The Socialists have a majority in both houses of parliament, so the treaty, which ties governments to deficit-cutting plans and is a condition of further steps to resolve the euro zone debt crisis, should pass. ...


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Russia to quiz Britain over Magnitsky list: report
Sun,2 Sep 2012 11:54 AM PDT
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Friends and relatives follow the coffin of Magnitsky during his funeral at a cemetery in MoscowMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's ambassador to Britain will demand a response from the Foreign Office after reports that London might have blacklisted Russian officials for their alleged role in the prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, RIA news agency said on Sunday. The Sunday Times reported that British Home Secretary Theresa May had sent a list of 60 Russians, including judges, intelligence officers and prosecutors, to the British embassy in Moscow and that they could be banned from entering the country. ...


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Gulf Arab ministers say integration plan needs more discussion
Sun,2 Sep 2012 11:36 AM PDT
Reuters - JEDDAH (Reuters) - Gulf Arab foreign ministers said a plan to integrate their six countries, proposed by Saudi Arabia last year as a response to Middle East turmoil, needed more discussion after they met in Jeddah on Sunday. Saudi King Abdullah had urged the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to move "to the stage of unity in a single entity" at the end of a speech in December that focused on last year's Arab uprisings and a perceived threat from Shi'ite Muslim power Iran. ... Full Story
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Mali Islamists retake town of Douentza
Sun,2 Sep 2012 10:19 AM PDT
Reuters - BAMAKO (Reuters) - Islamists in Mali have retaken the northern town of Douentza, disarming without a fight a local militia trying to wrest back control of the rebel-held north, fighters on both sides said on Sunday. A mix of Islamists control the northern two-thirds of Mali, having hijacked a rebellion initially launched in January by secular Tuareg rebels seeking independence. Meanwhile, regional military powerhouse Algeria said it was checking reports of the execution of one of its diplomats held by the same Islamist group, MUJWA, which has strong links with al Qaeda in the region. ... Full Story
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Sudan, South Sudan to resume flights between capitals
Sun,2 Sep 2012 09:59 AM PDT
Reuters - KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume direct flights between their capital cities nearly five months after they were halted during a dispute over the status of South Sudanese living in the north, both sides said on Sunday. The two countries have been at loggerheads over a variety of issues since South Sudan split away from Sudan a year ago under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war. ... Full Story
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U.S. drone kills five suspected militants in Yemen
Sun,2 Sep 2012 09:33 AM PDT
Reuters - SANAA (Reuters) - Five suspected militants linked to al Qaeda were killed by a U.S. drone attack on Sunday in central Yemen, in what appears to be stepped up strikes by unmanned aircraft on Islamists. The strike took place in the city of Radaa on a vehicle which was believed to be carrying militants, officials said. "Five were killed and eight injured and we are still investigating who these men are and in what way they were linked to al Qaeda," one official said. ... Full Story
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Recalling 1812 battle, Putin calls for unity in Russia
Sun,2 Sep 2012 09:19 AM PDT
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Russian President Putin speaks during an event to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino at the Borodino museum-reserve outside MoscowBORODINO, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin made a rousing call for unity among Russia's diverse ethnic and religious groups on Sunday as he led commemorations of a battle 200 years ago that led to the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. Standing by a monument at the scene of the 1812 Battle of Borodino, 120 km (75 miles) west of Moscow, Putin delivered a speech extolling the virtues of patriotism that enabled Russia to repel the French army in 1812. ...


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Libyan intelligence officer killed in car bombing
Sun,2 Sep 2012 09:12 AM PDT
Reuters - BENGHAZI (Reuters) - A Libyan intelligence officer was killed and another wounded on Sunday when their car exploded in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, a security spokesman said. A bomb planted in the car, which belonged to one of the officers, was remotely detonated when the two got into the vehicle in a busy shopping district in Benghazi, Supreme Security Committee spokesman Abdel Moneim al-Hurr told Reuters. Hurr had earlier said that a bomb had exploded killing the driver of a car who was carrying the device and that a passenger was wounded and taken to hospital. ... Full Story
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South Africa withdraws miners' murder charges for now
Sun,2 Sep 2012 08:18 AM PDT
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Striking platinum mineworkers gather for a report back on negotiations at Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa's North West ProvinceJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African prosecutors provisionally withdrew murder charges on Sunday against 270 miners who had been accused of killing 34 striking colleagues shot dead by police, but said they could be recharged when investigations are complete. Public anger had been mounting at the charges, made under an apartheid-era law under which the miners were deemed to have had a "common purpose" in the murder of their co-workers. ...


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Ethiopians, heads of state pay respects at Meles funeral
Sun,2 Sep 2012 07:50 AM PDT
Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Ethiopians and at least 15 heads of state turned out on Sunday to pay their respects at the funeral of Meles Zenawi, the guerrilla leader turned economic reformer who died last month after more than two decades in power. The prime minister's coffin, draped in the national flag and placed on a black carriage, moved slowly from his residence to the vast Meskel Square, in a procession that included a military band and religious dignitaries. ... Full Story
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Netanyahu urges international "red lines" to stop Iran
Sun,2 Sep 2012 07:48 AM PDT
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Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in JerusalemJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers on Sunday to set a "clear red line" for Tehran's atomic program that would convince Iran they were determined to prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms. Netanyahu's remarks suggested a growing impatience with Israel's main ally, the United States, and other countries that have been pressing him to give diplomacy and sanctions more time to work and hold off on any go-it-alone strike on Iran. Recent heightened Israeli rhetoric has stoked speculation that Israel might attack Iran before the U.S. ...


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Israel evicts settlers from Migron outpost in West Bank
Sun,2 Sep 2012 07:33 AM PDT
Reuters - MIGRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli settler families were on Sunday evicted from an outpost in the occupied West Bank after a court ruled that it had been built illegally on Palestinian land. Police said the settlers left the site quietly for temporary housing at another settlement, but eight youths who came to the Migron outpost to protest against the eviction were arrested. The Supreme Court had ruled that Migron, home to 50 families, had been built illegally on privately-owned Palestinian land. The United Nations deems all Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal. ... Full Story
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Four wounded in attack in Damascus: state TV
Sun,2 Sep 2012 07:13 AM PDT
Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Four people were wounded in an explosion on Sunday near an army and airforce barracks in the Syrian capital Damascus and a rebel group said it had carried out the attack. Damascus residents said the explosion occurred near the army and air force barracks in Mahdi bin Barakeh neighborhood in the Abu Rummaneh district. Video footage from activists showed plumes of white smoke rising from the area. The Grandsons of the Prophet brigade, a unit of the Free Syrian Army rebel group, claimed responsibility for the attack in a video statement broadcast on Arab satellite channels. ... Full Story
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Imam arrested in Pakistan blasphemy case, stirring tensions
Sun,2 Sep 2012 06:06 AM PDT
Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Christian girl who was arrested under Pakistan's controversial anti-blasphemy law may have moved a step closer to freedom on Sunday after police detained a Muslim cleric on suspicion of planting evidence to frame her. Still, Rimsha Masih, whose arrest last month angered religious and secular groups worldwide, may be in danger if she returns from jail to her village. Some Muslim neighbors insist she should still be punished, and said the detained imam was a victim. Under Muslim Pakistan's anti-blasphemy law, the mere allegation of causing offence to Islam can mean death. ... Full Story
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Chaos, demands for answers after Venezuela refinery blast
Sun,2 Sep 2012 06:01 AM PDT
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Fuel storage tanks are seen on fire at Amuay oil refinery in Punto Fijo in the Peninsula of ParaguanaPARAGUANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Against a smoke-blackened skyline of blazing fuel storage tanks, residents who lived alongside Venezuela's biggest oil refinery wandered through what looked like a war zone for days. As a gas leak seeped around the tanks soon after midnight last Friday, shimmering slightly in the dark, people in the slum across the street from the Amuay facility were either asleep, or outside chatting with neighbors. Then the sky split open. ...


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World's newest nation South Sudan names U.N. ambassador
Sun,2 Sep 2012 05:45 AM PDT
Reuters - JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan has appointed its first ambassador to the United Nations, bolstering a small and inexperienced diplomatic corps which has been struggling to make the new nation's case in disputes with Sudan over oil and the shared border. South Sudan seceded from its northern neighbor in July last year under a 2005 peace deal, and has been trying to build up state institutions after decades of devastating civil war. ... Full Story
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Al Qaeda-linked militants killed in south Yemen
Sun,2 Sep 2012 05:22 AM PDT
Reuters - SANAA (Reuters) - Two al Qaeda-linked militants and a pro-government tribesman were killed in clashes in Yemen's restive south on Sunday, a local official and a tribesman said. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has made its base in the impoverished state, which slid into chaos last year after protests that eventually forced veteran ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. The group has mounted operations in neighboring Saudi Arabia as well as attempting to launch attacks against the United States. The Yemeni army helped by local tribes launched a U.S. ... Full Story
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Sudan seizes two newspaper Sunday editions: editors
Sun,2 Sep 2012 04:29 AM PDT
Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces have confiscated the Sunday editions of two newspapers, editors said, the latest in a crackdown that has hobbled the country's independent media. Censorship was officially abolished in Sudan in 2009, but the secession of South Sudan a year ago, border tensions, and a spate of small anti-government demonstrations have worsened the situation for press freedom. Authorities confiscated copies of the independent al-Sahafa, one of Sudan's oldest dailies, after it had been printed, the newspaper's editor Alnoor Ahmed Alnoor said. ... Full Story
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Bahrain criticizes Iran over Mursi speech mistranslation
Sun,2 Sep 2012 03:45 AM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain has criticized Iranian officials over a mistranslation of a speech by Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, which replaced the word "Syria" with "Bahrain" when he listed Arab states that had experienced revolts since last year. The reference was diplomatically sensitive because Iran, a Shi'ite Muslim power and an ally of the Syrian government, has expressed sympathy with a Shi'ite-led democratic protest movement in Bahrain against the ruling Al Khalifa family. The Khalifas, backed by Washington, are Sunni Muslim. ... Full Story
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Analysis: Kenya Muslim riots expose political, economic rifts
Sun,2 Sep 2012 01:01 AM PDT
Reuters - MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - The assassination of a Muslim cleric in Kenya's port of Mombasa and deadly riots that followed have exposed deep social, political and sectarian divides that could unleash more violence ahead of a presidential election next year. Unidentified gunmen sprayed bullets into the car of Aboud Rogo on Monday, killing a man accused by both the Kenyan government and the United States of helping al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants in Somalia. ... Full Story
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Asian giants seek better ties; China's defense minister in India
Sat,1 Sep 2012 10:27 PM PDT
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Chinese Minister of National Defense General Liang Guanglie visits U.S. Military Academy in West Point New YorkNEW DELHI (Reuters) - A rare visit to India by China's defense minister should help avoid flare-ups along the border between the nuclear-armed Asian giants at a time when Beijing is grappling with a change of leadership and friction in the South China Sea. But General Liang Guanglie's trip -- the first by a Chinese defense minister in eight years -- also highlights growing competition between the two emerging powers as they jostle for influence and resources across Asia. ...


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Migron settlers begin leaving homes: Israeli army
Sat,1 Sep 2012 10:24 PM PDT
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To match Insight ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN/SETTLEMENTS-MIGRONJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jewish settlers began leaving the unauthorized outpost of Migron in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the military said, obeying an Israeli supreme court order to vacate their homes by Tuesday. A number of families began moving out of their homes in the hilltop settlement of about 50 families in an orderly fashion, a spokeswoman said, although a few said they would remain and would not go voluntarily, an Israel Radio report added. A police spokesman said officers had started handing eviction orders to the families before dawn. ...


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Mexico's Calderon makes new push for reform of labor laws
Sat,1 Sep 2012 07:24 PM PDT
Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent a new proposal to liberalize the country's antiquated labor laws to lawmakers on Saturday as he seeks to fast-track the legislation before leaving office at the end of November. Calderon's draft bill, submitted at the start of the new Congress by Interior Minister Alejandro Poire, is aimed at helping spur stronger growth in Latin America's second biggest economy. ... Full Story
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Sudan says repulses rebel attack in border area
Sat,1 Sep 2012 03:31 PM PDT
Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army repulsed a rebel attack in the oil-producing border state of South Kordofan, state news agency SUNA said on Saturday, in clashes just days before Sudan and South Sudan are set to resume talks on securing their disputed border. South Sudan split away from Sudan last year under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war, but the two have remained at odds over a range of issues and conflict has continued to plague their borderlands. ... Full Story
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