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Syrians fleeing war start to trickle into Europe
Mon,3 Sep 2012 11:07 PM PDT
Reuters -  KOPINGEBRO, Sweden (Reuters) - Ali Jamal travelled thousands of miles on foot, by train and road to flee violence in Syria while Jomaah piled his family into a camper van to smuggle them north to Europe. They have now reached safety in Sweden, some of the growing thousands of Syrians who are evading the European Union's frontier controls to escape the turmoil of the past 18 months. That is raising calls for a more focused European response to a refugee crisis that has seen over 200,000 Syrians flee to Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and, especially, Turkey. ...
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Iran could strike U.S. bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah
Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:51 PM PDT
Reuters -  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday. "A decision has been taken to respond and the response will be very great," Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview with the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen television. ...
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Japan to set energy policy but "no stance" on nuclear: minister
Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:21 PM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is scheduled to set national energy policy early next week, Economics Minister Motohisa Furukawa said on Tuesday, although he said the government had not taken any particular position on the main question over the role of nuclear power. An anti-nuclear clamor has grown in Japan since an earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March last year, triggering the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years. ...
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Pro-settler graffiti found at torched monastery door
Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:19 PM PDT
Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vandals torched the wooden door of a monastery near Jerusalem on Tuesday and pro-settler graffiti daubed in Hebrew was discovered on the building's stone walls, Israeli police said. "Police have opened a special investigation into the incident," Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said of the arson that occurred at the Latrun Monastery. Rosenfeld said the name of an unauthorized settler outpost evacuated this week, called "Migron" and the words "Jesus is a monkey" were also scrawled at the holy site located inside Israel but not far from the occupied West Bank. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. nears deal for $1 billion in Egypt debt relief: source
Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:12 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is close to a deal with Egypt's new government for $1 billion in debt relief, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, as Washington seeks to help Cairo shore up its ailing economy in the aftermath of its pro-democracy uprising. U.S. diplomats and negotiators for Egypt's new Islamist president Mohamed Mursi - who took office in June after the country's first free elections - were working to finalize an agreement, the official said. ... Full Story | Top |
Venezuela, indigenous groups dispute whether Amazon massacre took place
Mon,3 Sep 2012 06:12 PM PDT
Reuters - RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Venezuela and indigenous groups are disputing whether an alleged massacre of Amazon villagers took place after Venezuela's government said it found no evidence of an attack. A group representing the Yanomami tribe last week said that Brazilian gold miners had crossed the border and attacked a village from a helicopter. It said the assault could have killed more than 70 people. ... Full Story | Top |
Nine police hurt in more Northern Ireland sectarian riots
Mon,3 Sep 2012 05:21 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Police in Northern Ireland fired plastic bullets and water cannon on rioters late on Monday in a second night of sectarian clashes between Catholics and Protestants that left nine police officers injured. Police fired plastic rounds for the first time during the disturbances after protesters threw petrol bombs, fireworks, bricks and stones at officers trying to separate rival groups in north Belfast. Rioters from the Protestant group hijacked a van at one point and pushed it at police lines. At least three of the injured officers were taken to a hospital. ... Full Story | Top |
Iran could strike US bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah
Mon,3 Sep 2012 03:35 PM PDT
Reuters -  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday. "A decision has been taken to respond and the response will be very great," Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview with the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen television. ...
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Analysis: Does history suggest China growth is about to rebound?
Mon,3 Sep 2012 03:24 PM PDT
Reuters -  BEIJING (Reuters) - The last time China's vast manufacturing sector had conditions like those in August it was March 2009 and the economy was about to rebound from the global financial crisis. This time around analysts are not so certain a clear recovery for the major global growth engine will come anytime soon. In fact, two purchasing managers' indexes showed new orders are falling, adding to other evidence that suggests a slide in economic growth for the world's second-biggest economy is deepening, pushing back expectations for when a rebound may occur. ...
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Sudan, South Sudan resume border talks with eye to oil
Mon,3 Sep 2012 03:23 PM PDT
Reuters - KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Former civil war foes Sudan and South Sudan are to resume talks on Tuesday in Ethiopia that mediators hope will produce a deal to secure the volatile joint border and clear the way for the two countries to resume oil exports. The countries have been locked in a series of disputes since South Sudan split from its northern neighbor over a year ago under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of war. Fighting along the 1,800-km (1,200-mile) border threatened to boil over into a full-scale war in April when South Sudan seized an oil-producing region long held by Sudan. ... Full Story | Top |
Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: polls
Mon,3 Sep 2012 02:37 PM PDT
Reuters -  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Liberal Party has widened his lead over Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer in the run up to an election on September 12 that has been dominated by the euro zone crisis, two surveys showed on Monday. However, with no single party set to win more than about a quarter of the seats in parliament, the Netherlands still faces the prospect of months of coalition talks and political uncertainty. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member and is one of the few that still has a triple-A credit rating. ...
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Algeria appoints new PM after months of delay
Mon,3 Sep 2012 02:16 PM PDT
Reuters - ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's president named Abdelmalek Sellal as the country's new prime minister on Monday, ending some political uncertainty almost four months after parliamentary elections. A new government was expected to be appointed immediately after the May 10 poll but a clash among decision makers delayed the decision. According to convention, Ahmed Ouyahia should have stepped down as prime minister following the poll, after which President Abdelaziz Bouteflika should have either invited Ouyahia back or named a new person for the job. ... Full Story | Top |
South Africa police fire teargas as mine unrest spreads
Mon,3 Sep 2012 01:58 PM PDT
Reuters -  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near Johannesburg on Monday, the latest outbreak in a wave of labor militancy spreading from platinum mining into other parts of the sector. The unrest occurred less than three weeks after police shot dead 34 striking miners at Lonmin's Marikana mine, the bloodiest security incident since the end of white-minority rule in 1994. ...
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UK's Prince Harry happy to joke about naked Vegas pics
Mon,3 Sep 2012 01:41 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry was happy to poke fun at himself on Monday when he made his first official public appearance since pictures of him cavorting naked while on holiday in Las Vegas were published. The 27-year-old prince, third-in-line to the British throne, made news around the world two weeks ago when the pictures of him naked with a young woman in his hotel suite were printed in newspapers and on websites. ...
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Villagers kill dozens of cattle thieves in Madagascar
Mon,3 Sep 2012 01:27 PM PDT
Reuters - ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Malagasy villagers killed at least 67 cattle thieves when they attacked a number of villages at the weekend, the gendarmarie of the Indian Ocean island said on Monday. General Bruno Razafindrakoto said about 100 cattle rustlers simultaneously attacked three villages in the southern region of the world's fourth largest island, prompting villagers to kill the rustlers with spades, spears and machetes. "We counted 67 dead on the side of the dahalo (cattle thieves). People were acting in self defense to defend their property," he told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
OSCE says Azeri soldier pardon sets back peace process
Mon,3 Sep 2012 01:17 PM PDT
Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - International mediators from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe said on Monday that Azerbaijan's decision to pardon an Azeri soldier who killed an Armenian officer had damaged the peace process in the region. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been at odds since the war between ethnic Azeris and Armenians that erupted in 1991 over the mainly Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. A ceasefire was signed in 1994 but new cross-border clashes this year have prompted worries of a resumption of fighting. ... Full Story | Top |
Argentine judge orders arrest of Credit Suisse executive
Mon,3 Sep 2012 01:05 PM PDT
Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A judge in Argentina has ordered the arrest of Credit Suisse executive and former U.S. Treasury Undersecretary David Mulford because he failed to testify over a 2001 Argentine debt swap, the state news agency reported on Monday. Federal Judge Marcelo Martinez de Giorgi will ask Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant seeking Mulford's extradition for questioning over the bond exchange carried out by the government in an unsuccessful bid to avoid default. ... Full Story | Top |
Colombian rebels welcome peace talks "without hatred"
Mon,3 Sep 2012 12:48 PM PDT
Reuters - BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC rebel leader said on Monday the group would join peace talks with the government "without hatred or arrogance" in its first response to President Juan Manuel Santos' announcement of imminent negotiations. The prospect of talks, likely to take place in Norway and Cuba, has raised Colombians' hopes of an end to five decades of bloodshed - though past governments' failures to end Latin America's longest-running insurgency show the path is not easy. ... Full Story | Top |
Algeria appoints new PM, reshuffle expected
Mon,3 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT
Reuters - ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's president named Abdelmalek Sellal as the country's new prime minister on Monday, the first appointment in a cabinet reshuffle, and other ministers were due to be named later in the day, a senior government official said. "I confirm that Sellal is our new prime minster," he told Reuters. Sellal, a technocrat, has served for more than a decade as minister for various departments and was President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's campaign director for the 2004 presidential election. ... Full Story | Top |
Dutch Liberals widen lead over Socialists: poll
Mon,3 Sep 2012 12:06 PM PDT
Reuters -  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Liberal Party has widened his lead over Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer in the run up to an election on September 12 that has been dominated by the euro zone crisis, a survey showed on Monday. However, with no single party set to win more than about a quarter of the seats in parliament, the Netherlands still faces the prospect of months of coalition talks and political uncertainty. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member and is one of the few that still has a triple-A credit rating. ...
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NATO chief: rogue Afghan attacks will not hasten pullout
Mon,3 Sep 2012 11:40 AM PDT
Reuters -  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A surge in attacks against NATO-led foreign troops by rogue members of the Afghan security forces threatens to erode trust between the international force and Afghans, but will not cause NATO allies to pull out early, the alliance's chief said. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance's plans to gradually hand over security to Afghan forces and pull out most troops by end-2014 would not be disrupted by the attacks. "These insider attacks are a matter of strong concern. ...
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LRA rebels capture dozens in raid in Central African Republic
Mon,3 Sep 2012 11:20 AM PDT
Reuters - BANGUI (Reuters) - Ugandan Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels kidnapped 55 people, half of them girls, in a raid on two villages in a remote eastern corner of Central African Republic, a local gendarme and a witness said on Monday. The September 1 attack highlights the challenges facing Ugandan and U.S. Special Forces who are trying to help stretched local militaries end one of Africa's longest-running insurgencies that is blamed for killing thousands of civilians in several nations. ... Full Story | Top |
Red Cross chief to urge Syria's Assad to help aid effort
Mon,3 Sep 2012 11:18 AM PDT
Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - The new head of the Red Cross will urge Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to improve humanitarian access to civilians in the war-torn country, the aid agency said on Monday as he arrived in Syria for a three-day visit. Peter Maurer said he would also continue efforts to gain access for his agency to Syria's detention centers - which rights groups say hold tens of thousands of people rounded up during the 17-month-old conflict, including teenagers. ... Full Story | Top |
Navy SEAL bin Laden book out-selling '50 Shades' on Amazon
Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:50 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - "No Easy Day," the controversial book by a former U.S. Navy SEAL about the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden, has stormed to the top of U.S. book sales on online retailer Amazon.com. The unauthorized book, which has caused the U.S. Government to threaten legal action on the grounds of non-disclosure of government secrets, is already out-selling the hugely popular Fifty Shades erotica book series. The hardcover edition of "No Easy Day" officially becomes available in the United States on Tuesday, September 4. Amazon.com's best-seller list includes pre-orders. ... Full Story | Top |
Britain's Hague urges Ecuador to resume Assange talks quickly
Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:49 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and Ecuador should resume talks over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, as early as possible, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday. Assange has been living in the embassy's cramped quarters since fleeing there in June to avoid extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations. Ecuador has granted asylum to Assange, but the former computer hacker faces arrest if he leaves the embassy in central London. ...
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Thousands attend Milan funeral of leading reformist cardinal
Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:39 AM PDT
Reuters - MILAN (Reuters) - Thousands attended the funeral in Milan cathedral on Monday of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, an outspoken progressive whose last testament was a scathing attack on the Roman Catholic Church, which he called 200 years out of date. More than 200,000 people filed past Martini's body lying in state in the soaring gothic cathedral over the weekend, underling the love and respect in which he was held in Italy's business capital,where he was archbishop for more than 20 years. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. denies Israeli newspaper report of secret Iran contacts
Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:23 AM PDT
Reuters - TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - The White House on Monday denied an Israeli newspaper report that accused Washington of secretly negotiating with Tehran to keep the United States out of a future Israel-Iran war. The Jewish state also played down the front-page report in its biggest-selling daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, which followed unusually public disagreement between the allies about how to tackle Iran's controversial nuclear program. "It's incorrect, completely incorrect," White House spokesman Jay Carney told Reuters while accompanying President Barack Obama on a campaign trip in Ohio. ... Full Story | Top |
Former rebel group declares war against Burundi government
Mon,3 Sep 2012 10:15 AM PDT
Reuters - BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - A former Burundian Hutu rebel group declared war against the country's government on Monday and its leader called on the president to step down, raising fears of a renewed outbreak of violence in the poor country. The Forces for National Liberation (FNL) group had laid down its weapons and joined the government in 2009 after almost two decades of civil war that killed 300,000 people. ... Full Story | Top |
Coal mine occupation ends after Italy rules out shutdown
Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:52 AM PDT
Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Miners ended a week-long occupation of Italy's only coal mine on Monday after the regional government promised not to close it at the end of the year. About 100 miners had blockaded themselves in a chamber 370 meters (1,200 feet) underground with explosives to demand that the Carbosulcis mine on the island of Sardinia remain open. "We have decided to abandon the occupation," miner Stefano Meletti said. ... Full Story | Top |
Russia says will retaliate if Britain has blacklisted officials
Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:34 AM PDT
Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it would retaliate if Britain confirmed a media report that it could ban dozens of Russian officials from entering the country for their alleged roles in the 2009 prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Russia's Foreign Ministry said it had asked Britain whether it had blacklisted 60 people including judges, intelligence officers and prosecutors, as a newspaper reported. The ministry did not say what a Russian diplomatic response could entail. ... Full Story | Top |
Syria army destroys houses in "collective punishment"
Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:07 AM PDT
Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army bulldozers razed houses in western Damascus on Monday, pursuing what activists called the first campaign of collective punishment targeting people's property in areas of the capital hostile to President Bashar al-Assad. In northern Syria, 18 bodies were found in the rubble of a house bombed by a Syrian warplane in the rebel-held town of al-Bab and 13 more are missing, an opposition watchdog group said. Bulldozers backed by combat troops demolished buildings in the poor Tawahin district, near the Damascus-Beirut highway, activists and residents said. ... Full Story | Top |
Argentina's latest trade dispute challenges U.S. over lemons
Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:04 AM PDT
Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - Argentina has filed its third trade dispute in two weeks, the World Trade Organization said on Monday, challenging U.S. laws that it says have blocked imports of fresh lemons from the northwestern region of Argentina. The United States, Japan and Mexico filed trade complaints about Argentina's import licensing policies two weeks ago, prompting Argentina to say it would hit back with disputes over U.S. beef and lemons. It filed the complaint about beef on August 30. The United States must try to settle the dispute in bilateral talks with Argentina. ... Full Story | Top |
South Africa frees miners after murder charges shelved
Mon,3 Sep 2012 09:04 AM PDT
Reuters - GA-RANKUWA, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa released on Monday the first of 270 miners detained more than two weeks ago after police shot dead 34 of their colleagues in a bid to break up a wildcat strike at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine. The men were charged last week under an obscure apartheid-era security law with murdering their fellow miners, although state prosecutors withdrew the charges at the weekend following a public outcry. The August 16 shootings were the deadliest security incident since the end of white-minority rule in 1994. ... Full Story | Top |
Clinton warns against coercion in South China Sea dispute
Mon,3 Sep 2012 08:57 AM PDT
Reuters -  JAKARTA (Reuters) - China and its neighbors in Southeast Asia must move to draw up a code of conduct in coming months to help resolve disputes in the South China Sea, and should refrain from threats and coercion that have sent tension skyrocketing, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday. Clinton, visiting Indonesia ahead of a trip to China this week, said she would tell Beijing and other claimants that it was essential to get faltering diplomacy back on track and move toward a deal. ...
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Jewish leaders protest after Vienna rabbi reports abuse
Mon,3 Sep 2012 08:47 AM PDT
Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - Jewish leaders warned on Monday against what they called creeping tolerance of anti-Semitism in Austria after a rabbi said he was verbally abused by neo-Nazi soccer fans while police stood by doing nothing to stop them. The rabbi said a few fans had shouted "Jews out!" and other abuse and raised their arms in a Hitler salute - a crime in the Alpine republic - but that police showed no interest and told him to calm down, saying it was "only soccer". ... Full Story | Top |
Egypt's veiled news anchor stirs debate
Mon,3 Sep 2012 08:39 AM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's first veiled newsreader on state television has drawn support from many viewers for ending an unwritten rule under ousted Hosni Mubarak that kept covered women out of the top job, although some fretted it could herald social restrictions. Fatma Nabil appeared on television on Sunday evening wearing make-up, a smart black jacket and a beige "hijab" or veil covering her hair, the same kind of covering most women wear in Egypt but never seen on a news anchor on state TV. ... Full Story | Top |
Kenya charges Muslim cleric with inciting Mombasa riots
Mon,3 Sep 2012 08:37 AM PDT
Reuters - MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan Muslim cleric accused by Washington of supporting al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia was charged on Monday with inciting violent protests that rocked the port city of Mombasa last week. Abubaker Sharif allegedly urged protesters to burn down churches and kill police officers in Kenya's second-biggest city during riots that killed five people, including three police. ... Full Story | Top |
Gaza teenager burns himself to death in poverty protest
Mon,3 Sep 2012 08:14 AM PDT
Reuters - GAZA (Reuters) - A young man has died after setting himself on fire in the Gaza Strip, apparently in protest at economic hardship in the Palestinian enclave, the man's family and police said on Monday. Ehab Abu Nada, 18, left his home on Thursday after an argument with his father, who had urged him to find work to help feed his poor family. Frustrated in his job hunt, Abu Nada doused himself in petrol and set himself alight inside Gaza's main Shifa hospital. ... Full Story | Top |
Swazi virgins dance in unity, defy criticism
Mon,3 Sep 2012 07:52 AM PDT
Reuters - LUDZIDZINI ROYAL VILLAGE, Swaziland (Reuters) - Thousands of bare-breasted young Swazi women paraded in front of their king to celebrate chastity and unity, dismissing criticism of the lavish ceremony in one of Africa's poorest countries for its last absolute monarch. Clad in beaded mini-skirts and clutching machetes and mobile phones, women and girls as young as five danced and sang tributes on Sunday and Monday to the king and queen mother, also known as the Great She-Elephant, in a traditional Umhlanga Reed Dance meant to celebrate womanhood and virginity. ... Full Story | Top |
Two U.S. consulate employees wounded in Pakistan bomb attack
Mon,3 Sep 2012 07:46 AM PDT
Reuters -  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two Americans working for the U.S. consulate were wounded on Monday in a bomb attack on their vehicle in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, the American embassy said. The blast also wounded two Pakistani employees of the consulate, the embassy in Islamabad said in a statement. Earlier, regional Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told reporters at least four people, including two Americans, were killed in an attack by a suicide bomber in a vehicle. "We can confirm that a vehicle belonging to the U.S. ...
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