 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Hosni Mubarak flew to Cairo on Wednesday where he will be tried for conspiring to kill protesters, the first Arab ruler to appear in court since uprisings swept the region. |
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Hosni Mubarak flew to Cairo on Wednesday where he will be tried for conspiring to kill protesters, the first Arab ruler to be put in the dock since uprisings swept the region. |
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 HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - A strike by Chinese cab drivers in the eastern tourist city of Hangzhou stretched into a third day on Wednesday, in the latest unrest highlighting frustration among migrant workers struggling with rising costs and burdensome fees. |
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New setback for Haiti's pop star turned president
Tue,2 Aug 2011 09:20 PM PDT
Reuters - PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Lawmakers rejected Haitian President Michel Martelly's new choice for prime minister on Tuesday, blocking his efforts to install a government and move ahead with rebuilding a country shattered by last year's earthquake. Full Story |
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 AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces kept up attacks on Hama for a third day, residents said, while senators called on the Obama administration to impose tough new sanctions on Syria's energy sector. |
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U.S. weighs Syria sanctions, boosts opposition contact
Tue,2 Aug 2011 05:27 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senators on Tuesday called on the Obama administration to impose tough new sanctions on Syria's energy sector as Washington sought to put muscle behind its demand that President Bashar al-Assad halt his lethal crackdown on unarmed protesters. Full Story |
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 GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala on Tuesday sentenced four soldiers to 6,060 years of prison each, in the first conviction for a massacre during the country's brutal 36-year civil war. |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will be held to account by the people he ruled for three decades in a trial starting Wednesday that will rattle Arab rulers facing unrest across the Middle East. |
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian tanks shelled the city of Hama after Ramadan prayers on Tuesday, residents said, on the third day of an armored assault to crush some of the largest street protests against President Bashar al-Assad in a five-month uprising. |
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 MISRATA, Libya, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's forces counter-attacked rebels in a strategic town on Tuesday, killing seven insurgents, as the Libyan leader vowed to crush a Western-backed uprising. |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - In his last address to the nation as president, Hosni Mubarak vowed he would never leave his homeland and would die on its soil. His decision not to flee Egypt may carry a heavy price. |
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 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is working to get more relief into famine-ravaged southern Somalia and is reassuring aid agencies they will not be penalized for programs in regions controlled by al Shabaab rebels, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. |
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Slain Libyan commander's tribe warns rebels over probe
Tue,2 Aug 2011 01:52 PM PDT
Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The powerful tribe of the Libyan rebels' slain military commander vowed Tuesday to find justice themselves for his suspicious killing last week if rebel leaders failed to investigate it fully. Full Story |
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Canadian HIV murderer faces indefinite prison term
Tue,2 Aug 2011 12:59 PM PDT
Reuters - TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian man convicted of murder for knowingly transmitting the virus that causes AIDS could stay in jail indefinitely after an Ontario ruled him a "dangerous offender" who is likely to reoffend if freed. Full Story |
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 ROME (Reuters) - Financial market pressure on Italy intensified on Tuesday, sucking Europe's second biggest debtor nation deeper into the euro area danger zone and prompting emergency consultations in Rome and among European capitals. |
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 BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian authorities have captured two leaders of a 20-ton-per-year cocaine operation that sent drug-laden submarines to the world's top drug consumer, the United States, local police said Tuesday. |
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 LONDON (Reuters) - Stuart Kuttner, managing editor of the News of the World for 22 years, was arrested and later freed on bail on Tuesday over a phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct tabloid that has rattled Britain's establishment, a source close to the case said. |
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 LONDON (Reuters) - A protester who threw a paper plate of foam at Rupert Murdoch during a parliamentary hearing into the News Corp phone-hacking scandal last month was given a six-week jail sentence on Tuesday. |
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 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States and Pakistan are working to smooth over travel curbs which Islamabad has imposed on U.S. diplomats, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, the latest strain in ties that have worsened since the killing of Osama bin Laden. |
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 RENA, Norway (Reuters) - On a taxi ride to his farmhouse the day before he killed 77 people, Anders Behring Breivik talked easily of a future he must have known would never come. |
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 OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian police are still investigating whether an anti-immigration zealot who killed 77 people in central Oslo and on a nearby wooded island was acting alone or with others. |
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Snapshot: Senate to vote on debt deal
Tue,2 Aug 2011 08:24 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here is a rundown of the final actions in Congress on Tuesday as lawmakers try to rush to the White House a deficit reduction deal that also will raise the $14.3 trillion limit on U.S. government borrowing. Full Story |
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 OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada praised the Italian government's austerity plans on Tuesday while calling on Europe to come up with a continent-wide solution to its debt problems. |
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Egyptian security told to move Mubarak for trial: report
Tue,2 Aug 2011 07:14 AM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's security authorities have received notice to move Hosni Mubarak to Cairo for trial, Al Arabiya television said Tuesday, but a senior security source denied this, adding to the fevered speculation about whether the ousted leader will attend. Full Story |
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Egyptian security told to move Mubarak for trial: report
Tue,2 Aug 2011 07:14 AM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's security authorities have received notice to move Hosni Mubarak to Cairo for trial, Al Arabiya television said Tuesday, but a senior security source denied this, adding to the fevered speculation about whether the ousted leader will attend. Full Story |
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 RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal unveiled plans Tuesday to build the world's tallest tower in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, signing a 4.6 billion riyal ($1.23 billion) contract with Bin Laden Group. |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's fallen leader, Hosni Mubarak, goes on trial Wednesday over his role in killing protesters, in a stark message to Arab rulers elsewhere that they too may one day be held to account. |
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 (Reuters) - Israel's supreme court ordered the evacuation of a hilltop outpost where some 250 Jewish settlers live without further delay Tuesday, upholding a petition made by Palestinians and an anti-settler group over five years ago. |
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 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States and Pakistan were working to smooth over curbs on diplomats' travels in the country on Tuesday, officials from both sides said, as U.S., Pakistani and Afghan officials met to coordinate efforts to end violence in Afghanistan. |
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Uganda could be next hit by malnutrition, U.N. warns
Tue,2 Aug 2011 05:38 AM PDT
Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - Uganda could be the next country hit by alarming malnutrition rates due to drought which has already sparked famine in southern Somalia and hunger in Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. Full Story |
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Parcel bomb found in Bosnia court mail
Tue,2 Aug 2011 05:21 AM PDT
Reuters - SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A parcel bomb was sent to the Bosnian state court president on Tuesday in what a court official said was another move reflecting the ongoing pressure on the Balkan country's judiciary. Full Story |
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 KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded near a Catholic Church in northern Iraq on Tuesday, injuring at least 16 people in part of a coordinated attack on Christian places of worship in the ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk, a senior police official said. |
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 PRISTINA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO will send hundreds more troops to Kosovo after an escalation of violence there between ethnic Albanians and Serbs last week, NATO officials said Tuesday. |
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 TOKYO (Reuters) - China's naval forces are likely to step up their activities in waters around Japan, Tokyo's annual defense report said Tuesday, the latest expression of regional security concerns about China's military buildup. |
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Factbox: Egypt's former president Mubarak faces trial
Tue,2 Aug 2011 04:40 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 83, will start on Wednesday in Cairo, a case that will reverberate across the Arab world where other longtime leaders are facing protests and unrest. Full Story |
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 MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's battle to avoid being drawn deeper into the debt crisis will be helped by a bump in summer employment, but the knock-on effect may be a weakening of more fundamental reforms after November elections. |
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 KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's interior minister warned of stern action against militants and criminals on Tuesday in Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi, with unabated violence killing another 26 people over the past 24 hours. |
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 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Any agreement for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq beyond a year-end deadline for their withdrawal would require the Iraqi parliament to agree to grant American soldiers legal immunity, the top U.S. military officer said on Tuesday. |
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