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| Death toll rises to nine from Oklahoma tornadoes Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 08:59 PM PDT  By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Nine people were killed in tornadoes that swept through central Oklahoma on Friday, part of a storm system that caused widespread flooding in Oklahoma City and its suburbs, the state's chief medical examiner said on Saturday. Among the dead were two children and seven adults, said Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office. Two of the victims remain unidentified and officials said the names of those killed would not be released until their next of kin were notified. Severe storms also swept into neighboring Missouri. ... Full Story | Top |
| Protesters defiant as Turkey unrest goes into third day Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 05:13 PM PDT  By Can Sezer and Parisa Hafezi ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Protesters lit fires and scuffled with police in parts of Istanbul and Ankara early on Sunday, but the streets were generally quieter after two days of Turkey's fiercest anti-government demonstrations for years. Hundreds of protesters set fires in the Tunali district of the capital Ankara, while riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray to hold back groups of stone-throwing youths near Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office in Istanbul. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fighting in Syria's Qusair, U.N. says world watching Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 08:58 AM PDT  By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops and Hezbollah guerrillas besieging the border town of Qusair fought with rebels on Saturday as the United Nations warned all sides they would be held accountable for the suffering of trapped civilians. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighting was taking place inside Qusair and in villages around it, largely controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's forces who have cut off access to the town. ... Full Story | Top |
| Frankfurt 'Blockupy' protesters clash with police Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 02:48 PM PDT  By Eva Kuehnen FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German police used pepper spray and batons against thousands of anti-capitalist demonstrators from the Blockupy movement on Saturday during a second day of protests in Frankfurt against Europe's austerity policies. Planned rallies in struggling euro zone members Spain and Portugal drew fewer people than expected, but in Germany's financial capital around 7,000 protesters marched with signs reading "Make love, not war" and "IMF - get out of Greece". ... Full Story | Top |
| Insight: Presidency beckons for Jakarta's rags-to-riches governor Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 05:17 PM PDT  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Andrew R.C. Marshall JAKARTA (Reuters) - Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, might well be the future of Indonesian democracy. Here's why. On a recent afternoon he visited Tambora, a densely populated area of west Jakarta, to inspect the aftermath of a slum fire. Within minutes, the narrow streets were a moshpit of jostling well-wishers. Women embraced him. Men kissed his hand. ... Full Story | Top |
| China accuses U.S. of 'prejudice' over 1989 protest comments Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 10:13 AM PDT  BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States of "prejudice" on Saturday after the U.S. State Department renewed a call for Beijing to fully account for its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in June 1989. The United States should "immediately rectify its wrongdoings and stop interfering in China's internal affairs so as not to sabotage China-U.S. relations", Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in an English-language statement released via the official Xinhua news agency. China has already reached a "clear conclusion" about the events of 1989, Hong said. The U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| London police contain rival protests over soldier's killing Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 11:23 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - Police intervened to separate about 150 far-right protesters from a much larger anti-racism crowd in London on Saturday to stop them from coming to blows over the killing of a British soldier on a busy street last week. A number of protests and counter-protests have taken place in the wake of the May 22 killing of Lee Rigby, a serving soldier and veteran of the war in Afghanistan, which the authorities are treating as a terrorist incident. Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo are now in custody on suspicion of killing Rigby. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cyber hacking to overshadow summit between Obama and China's Xi Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 07:34 PM PDT  By Steve Holland and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A shirt-sleeves summit between the world's two top economic powers is shaping up as anything but relaxing, with an assertive new Chinese leadership seeking a bigger place at the global table and the United States pushing back, especially in the battle over cyberspace. U.S. President Barack Obama and newly installed Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on Friday in Southern California at a relatively informal retreat aimed at allowing the pair to get to know each other away from the spotlight of Washington. High-level U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence in May Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 01:51 PM PDT  By Patrick Markey BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people were killed in violence in Iraq in May, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07, the United Nations said on Saturday, as fears mounted of a return to civil war. Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in the last two months as al Qaeda and Sunni Islamist insurgents, invigorated by the Sunni-led revolt in Syria and by Sunni discontent at home, seek to revive the kind of all-out inter-communal conflict that killed tens of thousands five years ago. "That is a sad record," Martin Kobler, the U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. soldier at center of WikiLeaks case set to go on trial Monday Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 04:01 AM PDT  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American soldier accused of the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history, which prosecutors say put lives at risk, goes on trial on Monday in a case that raises questions about the limits of secrecy and openness in the Internet era. Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, is charged with providing more than 700,000 documents to WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy website. He said the move was intended to spark renewed debate on U.S. military action. But the government says the leaks damaged national security and endangered American lives. ... Full Story | Top |
| Death toll rises to nine from Oklahoma tornadoes Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 10:21 AM PDT  By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Nine people were killed in tornadoes that swept through central Oklahoma on Friday, part of a storm system that caused widespread flooding in Oklahoma City and its suburbs, the state's chief medical examiner said on Saturday. The dead included two children and seven adults, said Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office. The death toll earlier had been reported as five. The tornadoes struck just 11 days after a twister ranked as EF5, the most powerful ranking, tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore and killed 24 people. ... Full Story | Top |
| DirecTV, two others bid over $1 billion for Hulu: source Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 05:23 AM PDT  By Ronald Grover and Liana B. Baker (Reuters) - Satellite operator DirecTV and two other bidders have offered more than $1 billion apiece to buy Hulu, a source with knowledge of the bidding process said on Friday, increasing the likelihood that owners News Corp and Walt Disney Co will be able to shed the video streaming service they failed to sell in 2011. Hulu board members, who are being advised by Guggenheim Partners on the auction, fielded at least seven buyout offers last week, the source said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: As hurricanes loom, Florida insurance lives on borrowed time Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 05:10 AM PDT  By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - Mother Nature has been kind to Florida's coastline lately with a record run of seven years without a hurricane making landfall, allowing property insurers time to re-stock their depleted coffers. As a result, when the new six-month hurricane season gets underway on Saturday, state insurance officials say the industry is ready to withstand a major storm. "We are better positioned today than I have seen in 10 years," Kevin McCarty, who heads the state's Office of Insurance Regulation, told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
| Turkish PM Erdogan calls for end to protests as clashes flare Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 01:23 PM PDT  By Nick Tattersall and Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan made a defiant call for an end to the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years on Saturday as authorities arrested almost a thousand people in protests across the country. Riot police backed by armored vehicles and helicopters fired tear gas and water cannons in Istanbul and Ankara for a second day. Interior Minister Muammer Guler said 939 arrests had been made in more than 90 separate demonstrations. ... Full Story | Top |
| Russia tries to kick habit with anti-smoking law Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 04:42 AM PDT  By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tobacco restrictions came into force in Russia on Saturday which President Vladimir Putin hopes will create a healthier workforce and help reverse a population decline, but they face stiff opposition in a country where four in ten people smoke. The measures, part of a law Putin signed in February, include a ban on smoking at schools and universities, museums, sports facilities, hospitals and on public transport - in many cases places where it is already prohibited. ... Full Story | Top |
| Spain PM flags encouraging jobless figures before protests Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 07:45 AM PDT  By Clare Kane MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish jobless data next week is likely to be encouraging, the country's prime minister said on Saturday, hours before the start of protests in Madrid and other European cities against austerity imposed to tackle the debt crisis. Mariano Rajoy told an economic conference the figures would show the economy has begun to turn a corner after slipping in and out of recession for five years. "I'm not counting chickens here, however I recommend that you pay attention to unemployment and social security numbers on Tuesday the 4th ... ... Full Story | Top |
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