CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez saluted his people on their 200th anniversary of independence on Tuesday, looking pale but defiant after a triumphant return from cancer surgery in Cuba.
 BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's prime minister elect, Yingluck Shinawatra, said she would hold a strategy meeting Wednesday to review urgent action to revitalize the economy, but business leaders fear her populist wage policies will spark a surge in inflation. |
Somali man held two months faces charges in U.S.
Tue,5 Jul 2011 08:56 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Somali man suspected of assisting al Qaeda was held abroad on a U.S. Navy ship for questioning for over two months without being advised of any legal rights, an administration official said. Full Story1 |
 SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, beset by mass student protests over education standards and costs seen threatening his legislative agenda, proposed on Tuesday a $4 billion fund for higher education. |
 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council plans to discuss in July the possibility of Palestine becoming a United Nations member state, the Security Council president said on Tuesday. |
 TOKYO (Reuters) - Trade minister Banri Kaieda said the government would conduct safety checks on all nuclear reactors in Japan, Jiji news agency reported on Wednesday, as the country struggles to deal with a drawn-out crisis following meltdowns at an atomic plant. |
Send Syria to International Court, Amnesty says
Tue,5 Jul 2011 04:28 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces may have committed crimes against humanity when they crushed protests in the town of Tel Kelakh in May, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. Full Story1 |
 TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi is sounding out the possibility of handing over power, a Russian newspaper reported on Tuesday, but the Libyan government denied it was in talks about the veteran leader stepping down. |
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday said time was running short for Iraq to issue a request for U.S. troops to stay in the country beyond the end of this year. |
Ongoing violence may hurt Iraq investment: U.S. general
Tue,5 Jul 2011 03:52 PM PDT Reuters - BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Failure to curb bombings and attacks by militia groups and insurgents in Iraq could spark a flight of foreign investment from the war-battered country, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq said on Tuesday. Full Story1 |
Israel airstrike kills two Qaeda-linked Gaza gunmen
Tue,5 Jul 2011 03:51 PM PDT Reuters - GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli air force fired into the Gaza Strip Tuesday, killing two gunmen from an al Qaeda-affiliated Palestinian faction who approached the boundary fence, medical officials and militant sources said. Full Story1 |
 AMMAN (Reuters) - Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead 14 people on Tuesday in the Syrian city of Hama, activists said, and France called on the United Nations to adopt a firm stance in the face of "ferocious armed repression." |
 ORLANDO, Fla (Reuters) - After a televised trial that gripped many Americans, a jury on Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee, whose remains were found in woods near her Florida home. |
Myanmar envoy seeks asylum, U.S. pressure on rulers
Tue,5 Jul 2011 03:33 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The No. 2 diplomat in Myanmar's embassy in Washington is seeking asylum in the United States because the reports in which he outlined his government's failures have put him in danger, he said on Tuesday. Full Story1 |
U.S. has backup plan if Pakistan shuts drone base
Tue,5 Jul 2011 03:30 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States plans to keep using an airstrip inside Pakistan for non-lethal drone flights against militants near the Afghanistan border despite demands from some Pakistani officials that Washington vacate the base, three U.S. officials said. Full Story1 |
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez saluted his people on their 200th anniversary of independence on Tuesday, looking pale but defiant after a triumphant return from cancer surgery in Cuba. |
Gaddafi wants talks with rebels: chess official
Tue,5 Jul 2011 03:14 PM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's oldest son has said the Libyan leader is willing to negotiate with rebels to end the violence that has gripped the country since February, a Russian chess official said on Tuesday after a trip to Tripoli. Full Story1 |
Turkey hopes for quick progress to end Libya conflict
Tue,5 Jul 2011 01:46 PM PDT Reuters - ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Tuesday it was hopeful that Western and Arab governments working with Libyan rebels could forge the framework of a political solution by next month to help bring an end to the Libyan conflict. Full Story1 |
Boat sinks off Sudan coast, 197 killed: media
Tue,5 Jul 2011 01:36 PM PDT Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A boat packed with refugees bound for Saudi Arabia sunk off the Sudanese coast, killing 197 people, Sudanese media linked to the government said on Tuesday. Full Story1 |
EU policies key for Portugal rating outlook: Moody's
Tue,5 Jul 2011 01:31 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Portugal's credit-rating outlook depends a great deal on whether euro zone officials will require private sector participation when extending new financing to debt-ridden countries in the region, Moody's said on Tuesday. Full Story1 |
U.S. drones kill four militants in Pakistan's Waziristan
Tue,5 Jul 2011 12:51 PM PDT Reuters - MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two U.S. drone aircraft fired three missiles into a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing at least four militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. Full Story1 |
France's Juppe says Russia questioning Syria stance
Tue,5 Jul 2011 12:04 PM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign minister, who held talks in Moscow last week, said Tuesday there were signs Russia was beginning to question its Syrian stance after seeing President Bashar al-Assad continue a bloody crackdown on protesters. Full Story1 |
 SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - Yemeni warplanes bombed southern cities held by militants on Tuesday, while a top general called in a television interview for foreign intervention to help avert a regional security crisis. |
 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican prisoner hoped to take a trip to freedom by packing himself into his girlfriend's suitcase. |
Misrata shelling kills 11 Libyan rebels: source
Tue,5 Jul 2011 10:26 AM PDT Reuters - MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - At least 11 Libyan rebels were killed on Tuesday when forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi shelled rebel positions near the city of Misrata, according to a local hospital source. Full Story1 |
Q+A: Chavez home, but leadership questions remain
Tue,5 Jul 2011 10:13 AM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez has brought his magnetic leadership style back to Venezuela, yet questions linger over the state of his health and ability to manage the often unruly South American OPEC nation. Full Story1 |
Analysis: Syria's Assad faces dilemma in Hama
Tue,5 Jul 2011 10:04 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faces a dilemma over the city of Hama, crushed by his father a generation ago and now slipping beyond his control.Full Story1 |
New accounting rule would ease Greek pain: IASB
Tue,5 Jul 2011 09:42 AM PDT Reuters - ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - European Union banks would have more breathing space from losses on Greek bonds if the bloc adopted a new international accounting rule, a top standard setter said on Tuesday. Full Story1 |
Analysis: Chavez foes see Venezuela's cure in 2012 vote
Tue,5 Jul 2011 09:40 AM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition says the ballot box, not the clutch of cancer, offers the best chance to unseat the president who has mocked its leaders for years. Full Story1 |
 KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's state security service SBU said on Tuesday it had launched a criminal case linked to the affairs of an energy company once run by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. |
 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Alejandro Espinoza knew his brother and nephew were dead when he saw the photo in the newspaper, their bloodied bodies slumped in a pile of 72 migrants massacred in northern Mexico by the Zetas drug gang. |
Analysis: Gaza flotilla a foretaste of future diplomatic furor
Tue,5 Jul 2011 09:10 AM PDT Reuters -  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pro-Palestinian activists hoping to sail to Gaza this week fully expected their flotilla to be blocked by Israeli marines. Instead, to their shock, the mission was holed even before they put to sea -- by Greece. |
Benghazi to receive fuel shipment on Tuesday: sources
Tue,5 Jul 2011 09:09 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Rebels in east Libya will receive a fuels tanker on Tuesday into Benghazi, trade sources said, indicating the rebel government is still able to secure vital fuel supplies despite a lack of financing. Full Story1 |
 GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli air force fired into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing two gunmen from an al Qaeda-affiliated Palestinian faction who approached the boundary fence, medical officials and militant sources said. |
No suicide bombers in handover of dead: Israel
Tue,5 Jul 2011 08:35 AM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The remains of Hamas suicide bombers and commanders will not be included in a planned handover of bodies of Palestinian militants to the Palestinian Authority, Israel said Tuesday. Full Story1 |
Yemen president in "generally good health": Saudi minister
Tue,5 Jul 2011 08:12 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, recovering from an assassination attempt in Riyadh, is in "generally good health," Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Tuesday. Full Story1 |
Factbox: Key political risks to watch in Argentina
Tue,5 Jul 2011 08:09 AM PDT Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - President Cristina Fernandez is seeking re-election and polls show she could take victory in the first round on October 23, helped by brisk economic growth and the absence of a strong opposition challenger. Full Story1 |
 ATHENS (Reuters) - The captain of a U.S. ship arrested for trying to sail to Gaza as part of a flotilla aiming to deliver aid to Palestinians despite a Greek ban was freed on Tuesday, but three other activists were still in custody. |
 BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez is betting her future on a pro-government youth movement founded by her son, challenging old allegiances inside the ruling Peronist party as she seeks re-election. |
 KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's security forces will not respond with military force to weeks of cross-border shelling from Pakistan, President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday, as the Afghan parliament called on him to sever ties with Islamabad over the issue. |
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