| Senior North Korean diplomat set to visit U.S.: report Sat,23 Jul 2011 11:51 PM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - A high-ranking North Korean diplomat plans to visit New York later this week for talks with United States officials, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Sunday. Full Story | |
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress will struggle Sunday to hammer out a deficit deal and assure investors before Asian markets open that America can avert a catastrophic default and hold onto its prized credit rating. | |
 CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela on Saturday a week after leaving for chemotherapy in Cuba, saying no malignant cells were found and that he was arriving home in better health than when he left. | |
| Workers search for survivors after China train crash kills 35 Sat,23 Jul 2011 08:37 PM PDT Reuters -  WENZHOU, China (Reuters) - Rescue workers on Sunday dug through the tangled wreckage of two trains that crashed in eastern China, killing at least 35 and injuring 210 in China's deadliest train disaster since 2008. | |
 SUNDVOLLEN, Norway (Reuters) - A suspected right-wing fanatic accused of killing at least 92 people deemed his acts "atrocious" yet "necessary" as Norway mourned victims of the nation's worst attacks since World War Two. | |
| Snapshot: Developments in debt talks Sat,23 Jul 2011 06:27 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here is what is happening on Saturday in negotiations to raise the government's $14.3 trillion debt limit by August 2 and avoid a credit default: Full Story | |
| YouTube video apparently shows Norway killer with gun Sat,23 Jul 2011 05:56 PM PDT Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - A video on the YouTube website promoting a fight against Islam apparently shows pictures of the man suspected of a gun and bomb attack in Norway, wearing a wetsuit and pointing an automatic weapon. Full Story | |
 RENA, Norway (Reuters) Police forensic teams on Saturday searched an idyllic small farm leased by a Norwegian man suspected of killing at least 92 people in a bomb blast and a shooting rampage Friday. | |
 TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Explosions rocked the Libyan capital early on Sunday, Reuters witnesses said, sending a giant plume of smoke into the air. | |
| Norway massacre suspect driven by "crusade" Sat,23 Jul 2011 05:08 PM PDT Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - The man suspected of Norway's gun and bomb massacre had belonged to an anti-immigration party and opposed multi-culturalism, Islam and the "cultural Marxists" of the establishment, web postings, acquaintances and officials said Saturday.Full Story | |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scolded by President Barack Obama, Congress scrambled on Saturday to produce a deficit plan within 48 hours that keeps the United States from a catastrophic debt default now days away. | |
| Gunmen kill two Mexican cops who guarded U.S. diplomats Sat,23 Jul 2011 03:26 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two Mexican police officers who acted as guards for diplomats at the U.S. consulate in the northern city of Monterrey were killed while off duty, a U.S. official said on Saturday. Full Story | |
| Bomb rocks troubled northeastern Nigerian city Sat,23 Jul 2011 03:23 PM PDT Reuters - MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Several people were wounded in a bomb blast in Maiduguri on Saturday, a city in remote northeastern Nigeria which has been plagued by almost daily attacks from a radical Islamist sect. Full Story | |
 SUNDVOLLEN, Norway (Reuters) - Norwegian police searched for more victims and a possible second gunman on Saturday after a suspected right-wing zealot killed up to 98 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack. | |
| Norway massacre suspect calls deed necessary: lawyer Sat,23 Jul 2011 02:48 PM PDT Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - The man suspected of a gun and bomb attack in Norway has called his deeds atrocious yet necessary, his defense lawyer said on Saturday. Full Story | |
 CAIRO (Reuters) - Scores of people were injured in Cairo on Saturday when thousands of demonstrators fought opponents with stones on their march to the Defense Ministry to urge their military rulers to speed up reforms, witnesses said. | |
| Snapshot: Developments in debt talks Sat,23 Jul 2011 02:01 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here is what is happening on Saturday in negotiations to raise the U.S. government's $14.3 trillion debt limit by August 2 and avoid a credit default:Full Story | |
 BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 32 people died when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in China's eastern Zhejiang province Saturday, state media said, raising new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network. | |
| Fringe group barred suspected Norway killer from forum Sat,23 Jul 2011 01:40 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A fringe European anti-Islamist lobby group said Saturday the man suspected of Norway's gun and bomb massacre had tried to join their Facebook group on the Internet but had been rejected over his apparent neo-Nazi links. Full Story | |
 OSLO (Reuters) - A video on the YouTube website promoting a fight against Islam apparently shows pictures of the man suspected of a gun and bomb attack in Norway, wearing a wetsuit and pointing an automatic weapon. | |
 PARIS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy's approval rating continued to rebound ahead of a 2012 election, a new poll found on Saturday, vaulting France's center-right leader to his highest popularity rating since last August. | |
 ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict expressed sympathy Saturday for the victims of a suspected right-wing zealot who killed up to 98 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack and urged Norwegians to reject hatred and violence. | |
 SUNDVOLLEN, Norway (Reuters) - "I heard screams. I heard people begging for their lives and I heard shots. He just blew them away. I was certain I was going to die." | |
| Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran: report Sat,23 Jul 2011 10:42 AM PDT Reuters - TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian physicist was shot dead by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Saturday and Iran's student news agency ISNA quoted an unnamed police official as saying the man was a nuclear scientist. Full Story | |
 OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police have not recommended raising the terrorism threat level despite a lack of clarity after shootings and a bomb attack that killed at least 92 people, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday. | |
 DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) - Aid agencies cannot reach more than two million Somalis facing starvation in the famine-struck country where Islamist militants control much of the worst-hit areas, the U.N.'s food agency said Saturday. | |
 OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police said they were focusing their investigation on whether a gunman acted alone or with others in a shooting and bombing that they said may have claimed up to 98 lives. | |
 ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Normal ties between Turkey and Israel are "unthinkable" until Israel apologizes for the nine Turks killed when Israeli troops stormed a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Prime Miniser Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. | |
 OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian charged with killing at least 92 people in a gun and bomb massacre had belonged to an anti-immigration party and wrote blogs attacking multi-culturalism and Islam. | |
 SUNDVOLLEN, Norway (Reuters) - "I heard screams. I heard people begging for their lives and I heard shots. He just blew them away. I was certain I was going to die." | |
 LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's leftist President-elect, Ollanta Humala, aims to keep economic growth rates above 6 percent and reduce poverty by reforming social programs, the incoming finance minister said on Saturday. | |
| China train crash kills 11 people and 89 hospitalized Sat,23 Jul 2011 08:35 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 11 people have died after two high-speed trains crashed into each other in China's eastern province of Zhejiang on Saturday, causing two carriages to fall off a bridge, state news agency Xinhua said. Full Story | |
| Senegalese take to streets urging leader to quit Sat,23 Jul 2011 08:14 AM PDT Reuters - DAKAR (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Senegal on Saturday to urge President Abdoulaye Wade to abandon plans to stand for re-election next year, hours ahead of a planned rally by his supporters. Full Story | |
 TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya is ready to hold more talks with the United States and with rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, but the Libyan leader will not bow to demands he quit, a government spokesman said. | |
| Factbox: Comments from world leaders on Norway attacks Sat,23 Jul 2011 07:32 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Here are some comments made by politicians and world leaders about the attack on a Norwegian youth summer camp by a suspected far-right gunman which killed 85 people, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo. Full Story | |
| Sri Lanka's war-weary north votes amid intimidation, mistrust Sat,23 Jul 2011 06:39 AM PDT Reuters -  JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Citizens in Sri Lanka's old war zone voted for local leaders for the first time in at least a dozen years, in a poll marked by intimidation, vote-buying and skepticism by the mostly Tamil electorate of any kind of post-war political change. | |
 OSLO (Reuters) - The Norwegian charged with going on a killing spree in which at least 91 people died is a former member of a populist anti-immigration party who wrote blogs attacking multiculturalism and Islam. | |
| PM says Norway cooperating with foreign intelligence Sat,23 Jul 2011 05:45 AM PDT Reuters - SUNDVOLLEN, Norway (Reuters) - Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said Norwegian officials are working with foreign intelligence agencies to see if there was any international involvement in the bomb and shooting that together have killed 91 people. Full Story | |
| Woman, girl killed in Yemen government-opposition fighting Sat,23 Jul 2011 05:27 AM PDT Reuters - SANAA (Reuters) - A young woman and a girl were killed in Yemen during fighting between forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his opponents Saturday, with both sides blaming the other. Full Story | |
 OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said the whole world was thinking of victims of a shooting and bomb blast in Norway after meeting survivors and relatives of the dead. |
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