WORLD News, Jul 04, 2011

Myanmar's Suu Kyi travels for first time since release Sun,3 Jul 2011 11:36 PM PDT Reuters - BAGAN, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi ventured outside her home city on Monday for the first time since her release from house arrest in November, making a low-key visit to the ancient city of Bagan amid tight security. Full Story1

Greece needs Herculean reforms to secure bailout Sun,3 Jul 2011 11:15 PM PDT Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece is set for an uphill struggle this week launching sell-offs and tax system reforms to meet European Union and IMF conditions for bailing it out. Full Story1

South Korean marine kills 3 soldiers in shooting spree Sun,3 Jul 2011 10:10 PM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean marine went on a shooting spree Monday at a base near the tensely guarded border with North Korea, killing three soldiers in an incident unrelated to the rivals' ongoing conflict, an official said. Full Story1

Fidel Castro predicts Chavez will beat cancer Sun,3 Jul 2011 09:23 PM PDT Reuters - HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro predicted on Sunday that his leftist ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would win his battle against cancer, for which he is being treated in a Cuban hospital. Full Story1

Mexico's former ruling party hammers Calderon in vote Sun,3 Jul 2011 07:48 PM PDT Reuters - TOLUCA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's main opposition party swept to victory in a key state election on Sunday, strengthening its bid to retake the presidency and handing a major defeat to President Felipe Calderon's conservatives. Full Story1

Thaksin sister prepares to lead Thailand after stunning win Sun,3 Jul 2011 06:54 PM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai opposition leader Yingluck Shinawatra, a political newcomer, prepared to lead her country after a stunning weekend election victory but huge challenges lie ahead, including how quickly to bring home her brother, exiled ex-premier Thaksin. Full Story1

Colombia rebel head narrowly eludes capture: Santos Sun,3 Jul 2011 06:44 PM PDT Reuters - BOGOTA (Reuters) - The leader of Colombia's largest guerrilla group narrowly eluded capture, fleeing hours before the army seized his jungle hideout, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Sunday. Full Story1

Egypt gas pipeline to Israel hit by explosion Sun,3 Jul 2011 06:12 PM PDT Reuters - ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Saboteurs blew up a pipeline carrying gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan Monday, forcing a shutdown in the flow of gas, Egyptian security sources said. Full Story1

Tanks pull back from Hama, 2 killed in Damascus suburb Sun,3 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN, Jul (Reuters) - Syrian tanks deployed at the entrances to the city of Hama Sunday but later pulled back, residents said, two days after it saw the largest protest against President Bashar al-Assad since an uprising began three months ago. Full Story1

Thousands of Moroccans protest, unmoved by reforms Sun,3 Jul 2011 04:33 PM PDT Reuters - TANGIER, Morocco (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Morocco on Sunday over constitutional reforms they said did not go far enough, but an official said they were out-numbered by people demonstrating in support of the changes. Full Story1

Gaddafi can stay in Libya if he quits: rebel chief Sun,3 Jul 2011 04:27 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi is welcome to live out his retirement inside Libya as long as he gives up all power, Libya's rebel chief said in the clearest concession the rebels have so far offered. Full Story1

Mexico's PRI party to win key state vote: exit poll Sun,3 Jul 2011 04:12 PM PDT Reuters - TOLUCA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, is set to win the race for governor in the populous State of Mexico, a Milenio TV exit poll showed on Sunday. Full Story1

Greece offers humanitarian aid to Gaza with U.N. assist Sun,3 Jul 2011 03:24 PM PDT Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece offered to ferry humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday after banning a pro-Palestinian flotilla bound for Gaza from departing from its ports and arresting the captain of one of the boats. Full Story1

Mladic to boycott war crimes court Sun,3 Jul 2011 03:14 PM PDT Reuters - THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic plans to boycott the U.N. war crimes court on Monday, when he is scheduled to enter a plea against charges of genocide during the Bosnian war. Full Story1

Hundreds injured in Italy rail protests Sun,3 Jul 2011 03:07 PM PDT Reuters - TURIN, Italy (Reuters) - More than 180 police and protesters were injured on Sunday during demonstrations against a high-speed railway tunnel linking Italy to France. Full Story1

Syrian tanks pull back from Hama as security tightens Sun,3 Jul 2011 03:03 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN, Jul (Reuters) - Syrian tanks deployed at the entrances to the city of Hama on Sunday but later pulled back, residents said, two days after it saw the largest protest against President Bashar al-Assad since an uprising began three months ago. Full Story1

Thaksin party wins Thai election by a landslide Sun,3 Jul 2011 02:51 PM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's opposition won a landslide election victory on Sunday, led by the sister of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a triumph for red-shirt protesters who clashed with the army last year. Full Story1

Son of Libya's Gaddafi tells West: "You cannot win" Sun,3 Jul 2011 02:40 PM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Western powers are doomed to lose their military campaign to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, one of his sons said in an interview with French television, and their air strikes against government forces had made them "legitimate targets." Full Story1

Turkey pledges $200 million for Libyan rebels Sun,3 Jul 2011 01:20 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Turkey pledged $200 million in aid for Libya's rebel Transitional National Council and said it was time for leader Muammar Gaddafi to leave Libya. Full Story1

Southern party warns of civil war over border tensions Sun,3 Jul 2011 01:15 PM PDT Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan's ruling party on Sunday said a full-blown civil war could erupt if talks failed to defuse tensions along the border that will divide the two halves of Sudan when it separates this week. Full Story1

Greece offers aid after Gaza flotilla ban Sun,3 Jul 2011 12:40 PM PDT Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece offered to ferry humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday after banning a pro-Palestinian flotilla bound for Gaza from departing from its ports and arresting the captain of one of the boats. Full Story1

Blast kills five at northeast Nigeria bar Sun,3 Jul 2011 12:13 PM PDT Reuters - MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - An explosion killed at least five people and injured 10 more on Sunday at a bar near a police barracks in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, the latest apparent attack by radical Islamist sect Boko Haram. Full Story1

Belarus police arrest protesters Sun,3 Jul 2011 11:50 AM PDT Reuters - MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus police arrested scores of people holding "clapping" protests in central Minsk against President Alexander Lukashenko, who told an open-air rally on Sunday that a plot was afoot to end his long rule. Full Story1

Insurgents "bought" suicide bomber - Afghan spy agency Sun,3 Jul 2011 11:20 AM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's intelligence agency said on Sunday that a senior commander from the Pakistani Taliban sold a suicide bomber to an Afghan militant network, to carry out an attack on a local commander in eastern Afghanistan. Full Story1

Iraq military cracks down on militias, arms smuggling Sun,3 Jul 2011 09:27 AM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has launched a military crackdown on smuggling gangs, al Qaeda militants and Shi'ite militias responsible for recent attacks U.S. forces, security officials said on Sunday. Full Story1

Saleh clings to power while unrest rises in south Sun,3 Jul 2011 08:47 AM PDT Reuters - RIYADH/SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's president, in hospital in Riyadh, will not cede power until he returns to oversee a transition, a Yemeni cabinet official said Sunday, extending a period of political limbo. Full Story1

Financial crisis forces Palestinian wage cuts Sun,3 Jul 2011 08:40 AM PDT Reuters - RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority can only pay employees half their salaries this month because of a shortfall in foreign aid which it needs for its financial survival, the prime minister said on Sunday. Full Story1

Italy expels Algerian jailed for planning attacks Sun,3 Jul 2011 07:57 AM PDT Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Italy deported Algerian Yamine Bouhrama on Sunday after his prison term ended, saying he had been part of a group that tried to commit acts of terrorism on a scale exceeding the London and Madrid bombings. Full Story1

Thai red shirts predict peace after election win Sun,3 Jul 2011 07:40 AM PDT Reuters - UDON THANI, Thailand (Reuters) - The message from Thailand's rural heartlands, a bastion of red-shirt protesters who paralyzed Bangkok last year, was simple. Full Story1

Gaddafi welcome to retire in Libya: Rebel chief Sun,3 Jul 2011 06:03 AM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya, Jul (Reuters) - Libya's rebel chief told Reuters on Sunday Muammar Gaddafi was welcome to retire on Libyan soil as long as he resigns formally and agrees to international supervision of his movements. Full Story1

Spain ETA-linked party says Basque peace deal real Sun,3 Jul 2011 06:00 AM PDT Reuters - SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain (Reuters) - A political group linked to separatists ETA won unprecedented control of city halls in the Basque Country in recent elections and now says it wants to work for peace even though it has not called on ETA to disband. Full Story1

Yemen to repair oil pipe soon: acting president Sun,3 Jul 2011 05:45 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen will repair a damaged oil pipeline in coming days, the country's acting president was quoted as saying by the state news agency on Sunday. Full Story1

French leftists want Strauss-Kahn return to politics: poll Sun,3 Jul 2011 04:27 AM PDT Reuters - PARIS, July 3 - Sixty percent of left-leaning French voters want former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose high-profile trial on sexual assault charges could now collapse, to return to French politics, a poll released on Sunday showed. Full Story1

Treasure trove found in Indian temple, said to be worth billions Sun,3 Jul 2011 04:21 AM PDT Reuters - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - A treasure trove of gold, diamonds and precious stones hidden for centuries was discovered in the underground vaults of a temple in southern India, a temple official said Sunday, as authorities scrambled armed police to guard the shrine. Full Story1

Besieged South Yemen brigade appeals for help Sun,3 Jul 2011 04:19 AM PDT Reuters - ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - An army brigade in south Yemen, trapped on its base since Islamist militants seized a nearby town, appealed for help on Sunday and said it needed troop reinforcements, weapons and water. Full Story1

Afghanistan detains eight people over Kabulbank scandal Sun,3 Jul 2011 04:15 AM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan authorities detained eight people in a relation to Afghanistan's Kabulbank scandal, a top Afghan prosecutor said on Sunday, including three Indian nationals who their embassy said were released hours after being taken in. Full Story1

Spain government trails opposition by 14 points: poll Sun,3 Jul 2011 02:35 AM PDT Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - Spaniards fed up with high unemployment and a sluggish economy would elect the center-right Popular Party (PP) with a lead of more than 14 percentage points over the governing Socialists, an opinion poll showed on Sunday. Full Story1

Thaksin "will wait for right moment" to return to Thailand Sun,3 Jul 2011 02:28 AM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - Exiled former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose sister appears to have won a landslide in the general election on Sunday, said he would wait for the right moment to return to Thailand from Dubai. Full Story1

Analyst view: Thai opposition wins in landslide, polls show Sun,3 Jul 2011 02:27 AM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - The opposition won Thailand's general election by a landslide on Sunday, exit polls showed, paving the way for Yingluck Shinawatra to become the country's first female prime minister in a victory for a red-shirted political movement. Full Story1

South Korea to submit claim on East China Sea shelf to U.N. Sun,3 Jul 2011 01:07 AM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will submit a claim to an extended portion of seabed beyond its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea to a United Nations body this year, media reported Sunday, a move that could rekindle territorial disputes with China and Japan. Full Story1

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