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| Mozambique says Renamo ambush kills one, injures 10 Sunday, Oct 27, 2013 12:52 AM PDT  By Manuel Mucari MAPUTO (Reuters) - Suspected Renamo guerrillas ambushed a passenger minibus in central Mozambique on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 10 more in an attack condemned by President Armando Guebuza, state media said. Fears of hit-and-run attacks by armed partisans of Renamo opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama have increased after the army overran Dhlakama's base in central Sofala province on Monday, forcing him to flee into the bush. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tullow Oil suspends work at two Kenya exploration blocks Sunday, Oct 27, 2013 12:47 AM PDT  By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tullow Oil said on Saturday it had suspended drilling operations on two blocks in northwest Kenya due to security concerns, after local residents held protests demanding for more jobs at the sites. "Tullow confirms that there have been a number of demonstrations at Tullow operated sites in Northern Kenya today regarding local concerns around employment," Tullow said in a statement. "We have temporarily suspended our operations across Block 10BB and Block 13T in Turkana East and Turkana South sub-counties. ... Full Story | Top |
| REFILE-Libya says US firm Marathon to stay, eyes Algeria gas deal Sunday, Oct 27, 2013 12:45 AM PDT  By Ulf Laessing TRIPOLI (Reuters) - U.S. firm Marathon Oil will continue operating in Libya after giving up plans to sell its stake in Waha Oil Company, Oil Minister Abdelbari Arusi said on Saturday. Two years of turmoil after the overthrow of leader Muammar Gaddafi, as well as tough contract terms, have prompted oil companies to reassess their role in the North African country, but the government has been keen to keep them. Sources told Reuters this week that Marathon was blocked from selling its stake in Waha by the government which has first refusal on such a deal. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Soviet Georgia votes for president, enters new era Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 10:23 PM PDT  By Margarita Antidze and Timothy Heritage TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia voted for a new president on Sunday in an election that will bring the curtain down on Mikheil Saakashvili's decade-long rule but is unlikely to end political uncertainty in the former Soviet republic. The front-runner to replace Saakashvili, a pro-U.S. leader who has served the maximum two terms, is Georgy Margvelashvili, a member of the Georgian Dream coalition which ousted the president's cabinet in an election a year ago. ... Full Story | Top |
| Key U.S. official faces grilling over how Obamacare website became fiasco Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 10:08 PM PDT  By David Morgan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two months before the troubled October 1 launch of Obamacare exchanges, a key administration official overseeing the program assured a congressional oversight panel that work was on track to roll out a tested website that would make it easy for Americans to enroll in affordable health insurance coverage. ... Full Story | Top |
| Argentina's ailing president faces tough midterm congressional election Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 10:04 PM PDT  By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is expected to lose some of her congressional clout in Sunday's midterm election as the ailing leader faces complaints over galloping inflation and a weakening currency. Re-elected in 2011 on promises of increasing state control of Latin America's No. 3 economy, Fernandez's political coattails have been shortened by inflation, clocked by private economists at 25 percent, while heavy-handed currency controls and falling central bank reserves dent confidence. ... Full Story | Top |
| Celgene arthritis drug appears effective, safe after one year: study Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 01:36 PM PDT By Bill Berkrot (Reuters) - Previously untreated patients experienced significant and lasting reductions in signs and symptoms of psoriatic arthritis when given Celgene Corp's experimental oral drug, apremilast, according to data from a late stage clinical trial. Patients taking either the 20 milligrams or 30 mg dose of apremilast twice a day had a statistically significant improvement in symptoms, such as painful, swollen joints, after 16 weeks of treatment compared with those who received a placebo, researchers said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Soviet Georgia enters new era with presidential poll Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 01:35 PM PDT  By Margarita Antidze and Timothy Heritage TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia elects a new president on Sunday in a vote that will end Mikheil Saakashvili's decade-long rule and test confidence in the ruling Georgian Dream coalition led by billionaire Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. The front-runner to replace Saakashvili, a pro-U.S. leader who fought a war with Russia and has served the maximum two terms, is Georgy Margvelashvili, a member of the coalition which ousted the president's cabinet in an election a year ago. ... Full Story | Top |
| Libya says U.S. firm Marathon to stay, eyes Algeria gas deal Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 12:55 PM PDT  By Ulf Laessing TRIPOLI (Reuters) - U.S. firm Marathon Oil will continue operating in Libya after giving up plans to sell its stake in Waha Oil Company, Oil Minister Abdelbari Arusi said on Saturday. Two years of turmoil after the overthrow of leader Muammar Gaddafi, as well as tough contract terms, have prompted oil companies to reassess their role in the North African country, but the government has been keen to keep them. Sources told Reuters this week that Marathon was blocked from selling its stake in Waha by the government which has first refusal on such a deal. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tiny 'crazy ants' are a giant nuisance for U.S. Gulf Coast Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 11:08 AM PDT By Andrea Lorenz HOUSTON (Reuters) - Every few days, Joe Stuckey unleashes chemicals on the legions of tiny ants that invade his home and swarm over his 40-acre property south of Houston. Once they die, he scoops up them up by the shovel-full. Then he repeats the ritual. "It's literally a huge problem," said Stuckey, a Houston environmental attorney. Stuckey is one of several landowners who allow researchers to use their property to learn more about tawny crazy ants, a nuisance spreading rapidly across the U.S. Gulf Coast. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ethiopia opens Africa's largest wind farm to boost power production Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 06:33 AM PDT By Aaron Maasho ASHEGODA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Africa's biggest wind farm began production in Ethiopia on Saturday, aiding efforts to diversify electricity generation from hydropower plants and help the country become a major regional exporter of energy. The Horn of Africa country - plagued by frequent blackouts - plans to boost generating capacity from 2,000 MW to 10,000 MW within the next three to five years, much of it coming from the 6,000 MW Grand Renaissance Dam under construction on the Nile. ... Full Story | Top |
| Greenpeace activist dangles from Eiffel Tower in Russia protest Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 03:39 AM PDT  PARIS (Reuters) - A Greenpeace activist suspended himself from the Eiffel Tower on Saturday to call for the release of 30 people who have spent more than a month in a Russian jail over a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic After lowering himself from the second tier of the Paris landmark, the man unfurled a large yellow sign saying: "Free the Arctic 30." He was brought down about two hours later by firemen without incident. ... Full Story | Top |
| Back to the bush: Dhlakama's high-risk gamble in Mozambique Saturday, Oct 26, 2013 02:32 AM PDT  By Pascal Fletcher JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At the age of 60, Mozambique's former rebel leader Afonso Dhlakama is hiding out in the bush again, not backing down in a struggle between old foes that has donors and investors fretting about stability in the budding energy producer. A year ago, the leader of the country's biggest opposition party Renamo quit his life in the city and returned to the remote Gorongosa forest from where he once directed a 16-year civil war fought by his guerrillas which ended in 1992. Dhlakama says he does not want another war. ... Full Story | Top |
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