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Karachi's ethnic, political violence kills 70 in three days Thu,7 Jul 2011 11:07 PM PDT Reuters - KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani police and paramilitary troops were ordered on Friday to shoot on sight in its largest city Karachi after 70 people were killed in three days of ethnic and political violence. Full Story1 |
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 AMMAN
(Reuters) - Syrian security forces stormed the northern Damascus suburb
of Harasta, injuring two people, residents and a human rights group said
on Friday, ahead of further protests against President Bashar al-Assad's
rule. |
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Japan's Shikoku Electric delays restart of nuke reactor
Thu,7 Jul 2011 09:09 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - A power company in western Japan delayed on Friday the restart of an idled nuclear reactor as confusion spreads over the safety of nuclear power and the future course of the country's energy policy. Full Story1 |
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Special Report: Can Malaysia reform and discriminate?
Thu,7 Jul 2011 08:53 PM PDT Reuters - PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Dr. Mahathir Mohamad sits at a vast desk cluttered with work, hands clasped before him and looking at his visitors with a slight smile.Full Story1 |
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Syrian forces storm suburb, hospital: rights group
Thu,7 Jul 2011 07:38 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces stormed the northern Damascus suburb of Harasta overnight, injuring at least two people, residents and a human rights group said on Friday, after growing demonstrations in outlying areas of the capital against President Bashar al-Assad's rule. Full Story1 |
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 TORONTO
(Reuters) - After spending much of his career as an anonymous member of
the supporting cast, Jose Bautista steps into the spotlight next week as
the unlikely headliner of Major League Baseball's (MLB) glitziest show -
the Mid-Summer Classic. |
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Shrapnel, high security in Turkmen town after blasts
Thu,7 Jul 2011 06:17 PM PDT Reuters - ABADAN, Turkmenistan (Reuters) - Army and police units patrolled Abadan on Friday after several explosions were heard in the town close to the Turkmen capital. Full Story1 |
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U.N. chief, Libya PM discuss need to solve fighting
Thu,7 Jul 2011 05:52 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke with Libya's prime minister by telephone on Thursday about the need to end the current fighting in the North African nation, according to a statement from Ban's spokesperson's office. Full Story1 |
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U.N. should stay in volatile parts of Sudan: U.S.
Thu,7 Jul 2011 05:10 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers should be able to stay in the volatile areas of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile after South Sudan secedes from the north, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. said on Thursday, days before the United Nations' mission is set to end. Full Story1 |
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 CARACAS
(Reuters) - Venezuela's convalescing President Hugo Chavez dismissed
rumors of a reshuffle on Thursday and kept all his ministers in their
jobs, thanking them for their work while he underwent cancer surgery in
Cuba. |
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 WASHINGTON/NEW
YORK (Reuters) - New York prosecutors have no current plans to drop
charges against former International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique
Strauss-Kahn and they sought no plea deal at a meeting on Wednesday with
his defense lawyers, a person close to the case said. |
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Blasts, blackouts rock Turkmen capital
Thu,7 Jul 2011 04:09 PM PDT Reuters - ASHGABAT (Reuters) - Several explosions were heard in the Turkmen capital on Thursday afternoon and electricity supplies were intermittent, which authorities attributed to a blast in a firework storage facility. Full Story1 |
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 PARIS
(Reuters) - A French court will decide on Friday whether to launch a
legal inquiry into the role of IMF chief Christine Lagarde in a 2008
arbitration payout, a move that could cloud her debut at the
international lender. |
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U.S. seeks to boost South Sudan, keep pressing Khartoum
Thu,7 Jul 2011 03:46 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will drop sanctions on South Sudan after its independence on Saturday but expects more concrete steps from Khartoum to win its way off the U.S. terror blacklist, senior officials said on Thursday. Full Story1 |
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BEIRUT
(Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Syria toured Hama on Thursday to show
solidarity with residents facing a security crackdown after weeks of
demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad. |
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As Egypt change drags on, some praise Mubarak
Thu,7 Jul 2011 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Five months ago, the worldwatched in awe as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians demonstrated in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square, demanding the departure of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak. Full Story1 |
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 TRIPOLI
(Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Thursday he
was against NATO intervention in Libya but had to go along with it, an
admission that exposed the fragility of the alliance trying to unseat
Muammar Gaddafi. |
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 SANAA/ADEN
(Reuters) - Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared on television
on Thursday for the first time since an assassination attempt a month
ago and said he was ready to share power within the constitution's
framework. |
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Any force deal with Iraq must address Iran: Mullen
Thu,7 Jul 2011 01:14 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran is directly supporting extremist Shi'ite groups that are killing U.S. troops in Iraq and any agreement to keep American forces there beyond the end of the year would have to address the problem, the top U.S. military officer said on Thursday. Full Story1 |
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 SANTIAGO
(Reuters) - A growing wave of protests against Chilean President
Sebastian Pinera's policies risks hampering his legislative agenda
though investment in Latin America's model economy is seen safe for now. |
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Q+A: How might a colon cancer diagnosis affect Chavez?
Thu,7 Jul 2011 12:50 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who underwent surgery for a cancerous tumor last month, is making public appearances in an apparent attempt to show he is still fully in charge of his South American nation. Full Story1 |
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 BAGHDAD
(Reuters) - Secession by any group in Iraq will lead to bloodshed, Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Thursday. |
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 TEL
AVIV (Reuters) - A U.N. report on Israel's bloody seizure of a Turkish
ship trying to carry aid to Gaza will be published on July 27 after
delays to enable talks between Israel and Turkey, an Israeli official
said on Thursday. |
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Cuba sets appeal hearing for jailed American
Thu,7 Jul 2011 11:21 AM PDT Reuters - HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's highest court will hold an appeal hearing on July 22 in the case of a jailed U.S. aid contractor found guilty of committing crimes against the Cuban state, official media reported on Thursday. Full Story1 |
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Survivors of Syria's Hama massacre watch and hope
Thu,7 Jul 2011 10:50 AM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Three decades after Syrian troops ruthlessly crushed an uprising in Hama, Umm Yasseen is still haunted by the memory of her teenage son being shot dead on her doorstep. Full Story1 |
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U.N. chief calls for access to Syria for aid workers
Thu,7 Jul 2011 10:26 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA, Jul (Reuters) - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called on Syria on Thursday to give U.N. aid workers immediate access to evaluate the needs of civilians caught up in a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests. Full Story1 |
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 ORLANDO,
Fla (Reuters) - A Florida judge on Thursday sentenced Casey Anthony to
four years in jail for lying to police after her daughter disappeared,
but she will be released from custody next week after getting credit for
time served and good behavior. |
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Georgian photojournalists arrested for spying
Thu,7 Jul 2011 09:52 AM PDT Reuters - TBILISI (Reuters) - The personal photographer of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and three other photojournalists were arrested Thursday and accused of spying for a foreign country. Full Story1 |
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 KHARTOUM
(Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir vowed to fight
northern rebels and boycott future international peace talks on
Thursday, two days before the secession of the south of his country. |
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 WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - U.S. counter-terrorism agencies have concluded that a senior
al Qaeda leader implicated in terrorist plots in South Asia and Europe
is dead, a U.S. official said, following weeks of conflicting reports on
his fate. |
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 CARACAS
(Reuters) - When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was briefly deposed in
a 2002 coup, it was Cuban leader Fidel Castro who roused foreign
ambassadors to lobby for his return and helped organize his rescue by
loyal troops. |
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Afghan election body to review poll dispute: Karzai
Thu,7 Jul 2011 09:17 AM PDT Reuters - KABUL, Jul (Reuters) - Afghanistan's independent election body will review the ruling of a special court set up by President Hamid Karzai that overturned results for a quarter of the seats in the country's parliament, Karzai's palace said on Thursday. Full Story1 |
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Special Report: Murdoch row - why UK tabloids bin-dive and blag
Thu,7 Jul 2011 09:11 AM PDT Reuters -  LONDON
(Reuters) - Benjamin Pell made a second career out of digging through
the contents of people's rubbish bags and selling it to the British
press. The office cleaner, or 'Benji the Binman' as he was known to his
clients on Fleet Street, regularly passed journalists the discarded
papers of lawyers, celebrities and business executives. Benji's low-tech
operations in the late 1990s fed stories on a high-profile libel case
and even Elton John's flower bill. |
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 CAIRO
(Reuters) - Arab governments were swift to condemn Libya's Muammar
Gaddafi in February when he tried to crush a popular uprising with
machineguns and heavy artillery. |
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 MUAR,
Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysian police stormed a preschool on Thursday to
free 30 children and four teachers held hostage by a man armed with a
hammer and a machete. |
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 BEIJING
(Reuters) - Chinese state media denied rum ours on Thursday that former
president Jiang Zemin had died after a Hong Kong television station said
he had, sparking a wave of speculation about a leadership transition due
next year. |
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 LONDON
(Reuters) - More battlefield gains in rural areas will help raise
flagging morale among Libyan rebels impatient for victory but won't
shift the military balance decisively against Muammar Gaddafi soon. |
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 BANGKOK
(Reuters) - Support for the red-shirt protest movement that rallied
behind Thai Prime minister-elect Yingluck Shinawatra, helping her win
elections by a landslide, could splinter if demands for justice over
deadly protests last year are not met, its leader said. |
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Greece stops Gaza-bound boat, immobilizes flotilla
Thu,7 Jul 2011 06:58 AM PDT Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - The Greek coastguard intercepted a small French boat with Pro-Palestinian activists aboard on Thursday, the third flotilla ship to be prevented from sailing to Gaza to challenge an Israeli blockade. Full Story1 |
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U.N.'s Ban tells Cypriots wants progress by October
Thu,7 Jul 2011 06:58 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called on leaders of divided Cyprus to overcome their differences by October with a view to ending a conflict harming Turkey's bid to join the European Union. Full Story1 |
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