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photoBELFAST, June 21 (Reuters) - A press photographer was shot in the leg and two other people were injured when riots broke out between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast for a second successive night on Tuesday.

India and Pakistan aim to nudge peace process forward
Tue,21 Jun 2011 09:45 PM PDT
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photoISLAMABAD (Reuters) - India and Pakistan begin peace talks on Thursday, an important safety valve between two nuclear-armed countries which the United States hopes will help stabilize the region as it prepares to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
PIMCO head predicts Greece, others will default
Tue,21 Jun 2011 08:11 PM PDT
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photoTAIPEI (Reuters) - The head of PIMCO, the world's biggest bond fund, predicted that Greece and other European economies would default on their debts to resolve their problems as the euro area faces a debt crisis.
Pimco chief: Default Greece's way out of debt problems
Tue,21 Jun 2011 08:07 PM PDT
Reuters - TAIPEI (Reuters) - Greece's way out of its current debt problems would be through default, according to Mohamed El-Erian, the head of the world's largest bond fund Pimco.Full Story1
Gaddafi rockets dent sense of security in Misrata
Tue,21 Jun 2011 05:39 PM PDT
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photoMISRATA, Libya, Jun 22 - Rockets have landed in rebel-held Misrata for the first time in several weeks, signaling that the coastal city remains within range of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's artillery fire.
Mexico captures "La Familia" drug boss
Tue,21 Jun 2011 04:14 PM PDT
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photoMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police captured the suspected leader of a cult-like drug cartel on Tuesday in the latest blow to a gang that was until recently one of the most notorious in the country.
Greek government survives vote as protesters chant insults
Tue,21 Jun 2011 03:41 PM PDT
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photoATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's embattled government survived a confidence vote on Wednesday that was crucial to avoiding a sovereign default, as thousands of protesters chanted insults outside parliament.
U.S. charges gunman in Germany shootings
Tue,21 Jun 2011 03:36 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors in New York on Tuesday announced murder charges against a Kosovan man who shot dead two U.S. airmen and wounded two others at Frankfurt airport in March. Full Story1
U.N. assembly approves second term for U.N. chief Ban
Tue,21 Jun 2011 03:29 PM PDT
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photoUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The 192-nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved a second five-year term for U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, who analysts and diplomats see as a solid ally of Washington.
Yemen says steps up fight against Islamists
Tue,21 Jun 2011 02:22 PM PDT
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photoADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Yemen's army has stepped up an offensive to dislodge Islamist militants holed up in a southern province, killing at least 10 in overnight attacks involving air strikes, a local official said Tuesday.
Gaddafi rockets dent sense of security in Misrata
Tue,21 Jun 2011 01:54 PM PDT
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photoMISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Four rockets landed in rebel-held Misrata for the first time in several weeks on Tuesday, signaling that the coastal city remains within range of Muammar Gaddafi's artillery fire.
Israel's Netanyahu reaches out to Turkey: official
Tue,21 Jun 2011 12:51 PM PDT
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photoJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu has written to Tayyip Erdogan in a bid to repair Israel's relations with Turkey, an Israeli official said on Tuesday, a year after a deadly Israeli raid on the high seas caused a crisis in ties.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood expels presidential hopeful
Tue,21 Jun 2011 12:38 PM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has expelled a senior member for saying he would run for president in defiance of the group's decision not to seek the post vacant since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in February. Full Story1
EU extends Syria sanctions: EU diplomat
Tue,21 Jun 2011 12:12 PM PDT
Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union states agreed on Tuesday to extend sanctions against Syria to four military-linked firms and more people connected with the violent suppression of anti-government protests, an EU diplomat said. Full Story1
Israel to let $100 million of building goods into Gaza
Tue,21 Jun 2011 10:59 AM PDT
Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has approved the building of $100 million worth of new houses and schools in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and U.N. officials said on Tuesday. Full Story1
Italy's Berlusconi defiant after parliamentary test
Tue,21 Jun 2011 09:26 AM PDT
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photoROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pledged on Tuesday to stay to the end of his term in 2013 after winning a confidence vote that was his first test in parliament since two crushing electoral losses in recent weeks.
Analysis: Assad offers no sign of easing grip over Syria
Tue,21 Jun 2011 09:20 AM PDT
Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's pledges of political reform offer little sign that he is prepared to ease his family's four-decade grip on power and deliver Syria from its most serious crisis in decades. Full Story1
South Sudan should halve army after independence: U.N.
Tue,21 Jun 2011 09:16 AM PDT
Reuters - JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - The United Nations on Tuesday called for southern Sudan to halve the size of its army after independence in July, saying its mix of conflicting loyalties and former rebels could lead to insecurity. Full Story1
Analysis: Home-grown frustration behind Nigeria bombing
Tue,21 Jun 2011 08:49 AM PDT
Reuters - LAGOS (Reuters) - Bad governance and poverty fueled the rise of an Islamist sect which claimed the bombing of Nigeria's police headquarters and politicians need to look closer to home before blaming foreign militants. Full Story1
Factbox: Latest developments in Libyan conflict
Tue,21 Jun 2011 08:42 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Following are the latest political and military developments in the Libyan crisis. Full Story1
Pakistan arrests brigadier over Islamist ties
Tue,21 Jun 2011 08:23 AM PDT
Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has detained a brigadier assigned to army headquarters over alleged links to a banned Islamist group, the army said Tuesday, the highest-ranking serving officer arrested in a decade. Full Story1
Seven protesters killed in Syria during rallies
Tue,21 Jun 2011 08:22 AM PDT
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photoAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces shot dead seven people on Tuesday during clashes in two cities between President Bashar al-Assad's loyalists and protesters demanding his removal, a leading activist said.
Pakistani activist urges civilians to challenge army
Tue,21 Jun 2011 08:09 AM PDT
Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's civilian leaders should capitalize on public anger with the military and try to ease its grip on power, a leading human rights activist and lawyer said on Tuesday. Full Story1
U.N. urges countries to extend permits for Haitians
Tue,21 Jun 2011 08:04 AM PDT
Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations urged all governments on Tuesday to refrain from sending back Haitians to their country, which is still reeling from an earthquake 18 months ago. Full Story1
Northern Ireland inquiry blames IRA for 1976 minibus killings
Tue,21 Jun 2011 08:03 AM PDT
Reuters - BESSBROOK, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - The Irish Republican Army was behind the shooting dead of 10 Protestant textile workers in 1976 in one of the deadliest of three decades of sectarian attacks in Northern Ireland, a state inquiry told relatives Tuesday. Full Story1
Bombs kill 25 at local Iraqi governor's house
Tue,21 Jun 2011 07:54 AM PDT
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photoBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two bombs killed at least 25 people at a checkpoint outside a provincial Iraqi governor's house on Tuesday in the latest in a series of attacks against local government and security forces.
China urges solution to Libya crisis, hosts rebel leader
Tue,21 Jun 2011 07:46 AM PDT
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday that a meeting with the Libyan rebels' diplomatic chief, who is in Beijing for a two-day visit, was an effort to seek a quick solution to the crisis in the North African nation, a situation it said could not go on. Full Story1
Iran invites U.N. atom chief to see its nuclear sites
Tue,21 Jun 2011 07:40 AM PDT
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photoVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear energy chief said on Tuesday he had held "very good" and "transparent" talks with the head of the U.N. atomic agency and had invited him to visit the Islamic state's nuclear facilities.
Russia says plane crash kills 44, eight injured
Tue,21 Jun 2011 07:19 AM PDT
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photoBESOVETS, Russia (Reuters) - A passenger jet slammed into the ground and caught fire while trying to land on a foggy night in northwestern Russia, killing 44 people and leaving eight survivors badly hurt, officials said on Tuesday.
photoRABAT, June 21 (Reuters) - Morocco's King Mohammed, at the helm of the Arab world's longest-serving dynasty, has take a timid step toward a democratic transition with a constitutional reform plan he wants voters to approve in a July 1 referendum.
Thai "yellow shirts" seek to disband pro-Thaksin party
Tue,21 Jun 2011 06:54 AM PDT
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photoBANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's "yellow shirts" protest movement targeted the political opposition on Tuesday over its links to ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, urging the nation's election watchdog to disband the party as it races ahead in opinion polls. ...
UK teenager arrested in global hacking probe
Tue,21 Jun 2011 06:48 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - British police investigating with America's FBI a series of computer hacking attacks on international companies said on Tuesday they had arrested a 19-year-old man in eastern England. Full Story1
Chinese man gets death in pollution protest case
Tue,21 Jun 2011 06:07 AM PDT
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in China's vast northern region of Inner Mongolia has sentenced to death a coal mine worker for killing a resident who had complained about pollution, state media said on Tuesday. Full Story1
Hurricane Beatriz hits Mexico's Pacific coast
Tue,21 Jun 2011 05:59 AM PDT
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photoMANZANILLO, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Beatriz bore down on Mexico's Pacific coast on Tuesday, putting tourist areas and major ports on alert for heavy rainfall and flash floods, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Shots fired in Northern Ireland sectarian riot
Tue,21 Jun 2011 05:48 AM PDT
Reuters - BELFAST, Jun (Reuters) - Shots were fired during sectarian rioting between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast overnight, police said, in what local politicians described as the worst violence of its kind in the area for a decade. Full Story1
Italy's Berlusconi overcomes parliamentary test
Tue,21 Jun 2011 05:11 AM PDT
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photoROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday overcame coalition infighting to win a vote of confidence, his first parliamentary test since suffering two stinging electoral losses.
Pakistan arrests brigadier on suspected militant ties
Tue,21 Jun 2011 05:07 AM PDT
Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistan army brigadier assigned to military headquarters in the garrison town of Rawalpindi has been arrested for suspected ties to a banned group, a military spokesman said on Tuesday. Full Story1
Conflict in Cambodia Court as Pol Pot henchmen face trial
Tue,21 Jun 2011 01:35 AM PDT
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photoPHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A United Nations-backed court trying the masterminds of Cambodia's bloody Khmer Rouge "Killing Fields" revolution is embroiled in a conflict of its own as it prepares to hear its most complex and high-profile case next week.
Q+A: Row casts cloud over Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal
Tue,21 Jun 2011 01:35 AM PDT
Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - The United Nations-backed court trying those "most responsible" for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians under the 1970s Khmer Rogue regime is embroiled in controversy in the run up to its most high-profile case next week. Full Story1
Ash cloud grounds Australian flights into Wednesday
Tue,21 Jun 2011 01:10 AM PDT
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photoMELBOURNE (Reuters) - An ash cloud from a volcano in Chile has wreaked havoc on Australian flights and prompted the country's leading airline Qantas to cancel flights to and from the nation's biggest airports on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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