MP, top Karzai aide feared killed: police official
Sun,17 Jul 2011 11:54 PM PDT
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 KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a top advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a member of the country's parliament in a residential district of Kabul on Sunday, just days after the president's brother was gunned down at home, officials said.
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 BEIJING (Reuters) - China stepped up its criticism of Washington on Monday after President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama, but stopped short of threatening retaliation, indicating Beijing was keen to avoid escalating tensions between the world's biggest economies.
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 LONDON (Reuters) - A phone-hacking scandal centered on Rupert Murdoch's News Corp cost Britain's top policeman his job and renewed questions on Monday about Prime Minister David Cameron's judgment.
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 LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's leftist President-elect Ollanta Humala surprised the country late on Sunday by saying he will reappoint central bank chief Julio Velarde, who is highly respected by investors on Wall Street.
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Japanese contaminated beef "sold in and around Tokyo"
Sun,17 Jul 2011 07:53 PM PDT
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's second-biggest retailer said on Sunday it had sold beef from cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed, the latest in a series of health scares from radiation leaking from a quake-crippled nuclear power plant. Full Story
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 AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian tanks surrounded a town near the border with Iraq's Sunni heartland on Sunday after thousands of people, emboldened by defections among security forces, took to the streets there denouncing President Bashar al-Assad, residents said.
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 LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - A phone-hacking scandal centered on Rupert Murdoch's News Corp cost Britain's top policeman his job and renewed questions on Monday about Prime Minister David Cameron's judgment.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top police chief resigned and the former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper business was arrested Sunday over a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked pillars of the establishment.
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Thousands rally in Morocco over reform plan
Sun,17 Jul 2011 04:40 PM PDT
Reuters - RABAT (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters and opponents of constitutional changes offered by Morocco's king protested Sunday, indicating debate over the country's future sparked by the "Arab Spring" uprisings has not ended. Full Story
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Argentina welcomes Iran overture on 1994 bombing
Sun,17 Jul 2011 03:59 PM PDT
Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina on Sunday welcomed an offer from Iran to help investigate the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center that killed 85 people and which local prosecutors blame on Iranian officials. Full Story
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt picked a new finance minister Sunday as part of a broad cabinet reshuffle demanded by protesters camped out in central Cairo, and the outgoing minister said policy making had become "confused."
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 AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian tanks surrounded a town near the border with Iraq's Sunni heartland on Sunday after thousands of people, emboldened by defections among security forces, took to the streets there denouncing President Bashar al-Assad, residents said.
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Fresh Afghan killings mar quiet transition
Sun,17 Jul 2011 01:39 PM PDT
Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen killed an adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a gunbattle in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, hours after a long-promised transition process from foreign troops to Afghan control began under a shroud of secrecy. Full Story
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Dow Jones panel concerned about hacking scandal
Sun,17 Jul 2011 12:53 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A special committee formed to oversee the integrity of Dow Jones & Co under parent News Corp is very concerned about the British phone hacking scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Full Story
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 TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police fired into the air to disperse rioters in the capital early on Sunday and were attacked by crowds throwing petrol bombs in another city, in the most violent clashes yet involving Islamists.
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak,hospitalised since April and due to stand trial in August, is in a coma, his lawyer said on Sunday, although the state news agency MENA cited a hospital official as denying the report.
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 MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebel forces on Sunday entered the oil town of Brega and fought street battles there with forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, a rebel spokesman said, in the biggest offensive in eastern Libya in weeks.
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MP, top Karzai aide feared killed: police official
Sun,17 Jul 2011 11:21 AM PDT
Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a top advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a member of the country's parliament in a residential district of Kabul on Sunday, just days after the president's brother was gunned down at home, officials said. Full Story
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 PARIS (Reuters) - France's two top Socialist leaders cast themselves as tough on public finances and the euro-zone debt crisis Sunday, in a challenge to President Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of an election next year.
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 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A forest fire in Jerusalem forced the evacuation of visitors and workers from the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Sunday as firefighters battled to bring the blaze under control, a police spokesman said.
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Bahrain's main opposition quits national dialogue
Sun,17 Jul 2011 06:44 AM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain's largest Shi'ite opposition group Wefaq said on Sunday it planned to pull out of a national dialogue set up by the government, which aims to heal divisions and offer reforms after mass pro-democracy protests rocked the Gulf island kingdom earlier this year. Full Story
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Syrian forces arrest leading writer Ali Abdallah
Sun,17 Jul 2011 05:47 AM PDT
Reuters - - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops on Sunday arrested prominent writer Ali Abdallah, a fierce critic of the state's use of violence against a four-month uprising against four decades of autocratic rule, his son said. Full Story
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Sao Tome votes for new president
Sun,17 Jul 2011 04:47 AM PDT
Reuters - SAO TOME (Reuters) - Voters in the tiny Gulf of Guinea state of Sao Tome went to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president whose main task will be to find ways to improve the local economy after the failure of the oil sector to produce major finds. Full Story
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Factbox: Key facts about Sao Tome and Principe
Sun,17 Jul 2011 04:47 AM PDT
Reuters - SAO TOME (Reuters) - The twin island archipelago of Sao Tome and Principe voted on Sunday for a new president who will have to find ways of boosting economic growth after the failure of the oil sector to produce major finds. Full Story
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 NICOSIA (Reuters) - One-third of Greek Cypriots believe Cypriot President Demetris Christofias should resign, blaming him for a deadly munitions blast which plunged Cyprus into an energy crisis last week.
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Factbox: Military deaths in Afghanistan
Sun,17 Jul 2011 01:18 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - A British soldier was killed by small-arms fire in Afghanistan on Saturday in the Nahr-e Saraj District of Helmand Province, the Ministry of Defense said. Full Story
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 CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez headed to Cuba Saturday for an unknown period of time for chemotherapy after giving up some powers and saying doctors had found no malignant cells in his body after cancer surgery last month.
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 ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syria's fractured opposition elected a National Salvation Council to present a united challenge to President Bashar al-Assad's rule as he intensified a military campaign to crush an uprising against his rule.
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 FRONT LINE NEAR BIR GHANAM, Libya (Reuters) - Ten Libyan rebels were reported killed and 172 wounded in an attack on the eastern oil port of Brega on Saturday, while insurgents drove back forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in the west.
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 ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian opposition factions meeting in Istanbul on Saturday formed a broad-based council in the hope of creating a government-in-waiting to fill a void if street protests succeed in toppling President Bashar al-Assad.
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