 LONDON (Reuters) - Rioters throwing petrol bombs battled police in north London overnight, setting patrol cars, buildings and a double-decker bus on fire in some of the worst disorder seen in the British capital in recent years. | |
 KABUL (Reuters) - Foreign forces in Afghanistan were investigating on Sunday the crash of a helicopter believed to have been shot down, killing 30 U.S. soldiers, seven Afghans and an interpreter in the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in a decade of war. | |
| Power, petrol shortages in Tripoli irk Libyans Sat,6 Aug 2011 07:36 PM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Power and petrol shortages are gripping the Libyan capital Tripoli, giving rise to frustration as the months of conflict with NATO-backed rebels take their toll on a city that is the seat of embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi's power. Full Story | |
 BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels on Saturday said they had launched a push to capture the coastal oil town of Brega, but were advancing slowly because Muammar Gaddafi's forces had sown minefields across its approaches. | |
| Analysis: Somalia fighters quit capital but remain a threat Sat,6 Aug 2011 06:05 PM PDT Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - African peacekeepers have forced Somalia's al Shabaab Islamists to abandon their campaign to hold the capital Mogadishu, but the fighters' retreat hardly ends the country's bloodshed and could herald a wave of al Qaeda-style suicide attacks. Full Story | |
 MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said on Saturday his military had defeated Islamist rebels battling to overthrow his Western-backed government after the al Shabaab group began withdrawing fighters from the capital Mogadishu. | |
 PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global leaders on Saturday arranged a round of emergency calls to discuss the twin debt crises in Europe and the United States that are causing turmoil in financial markets. | |
 KABUL (Reuters) - A NATO helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 30 U.S. soldiers, an interpreter and seven Afghans, the Afghan president said on Saturday, the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in 10 years of war. | |
| UN to Assad: Military force on civilians must stop Sat,6 Aug 2011 03:59 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. chief told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday that he was alarmed by the escalating violence in Syria and demanded that Assad stop deploying the military against civilians. Full Story | |
 AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian tanks and armored vehicles deployed throughout Hama Saturday, a resident said, after a week-long assault which one activist group said had killed 300 civilians in the symbolic center of protest against President Bashar al-Assad. | |
 SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's president Ali Abdullah Saleh will leave hospital soon, a government source said on Saturday, as clashes between his loyalists and opponents flared in the capital he left when protests against his rule turned into open warfare. | |
| Factbox:Israel's cost of living demonstrators, and their demands Sat,6 Aug 2011 02:14 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - A quarter-million Israelis marched for lower living costs on Saturday in a swelling protest that has thrust the economy onto the political agenda and put pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Full Story | |
 TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A quarter-million Israelis marched on Saturday for lower living costs in an escalating protest that has catapulted the economy onto the political agenda and put pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | |
 RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will soon leave the Saudi hospital where he has been recuperating from wounds suffered in an attack on his palace, but will remain in Riyadh for the time being, a Yemeni government source said on Saturday. | |
| Syrian forces arrest opposition leader Bunni: group Sat,6 Aug 2011 12:45 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces arrested Saturday a veteran opposition leader who had called for a national conference to seek a peaceful transition of power after a five-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, a rights group said. Full Story | |
 ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Saturday ruled out calling early elections to stem market panic that has pounded Italian assets and forced his government to bring forward austerity measures. | |
 BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels Saturday said they had launched a push to capture the coastal oil town of Brega, but were advancing slowly because Muammar Gaddafi's forces had sown minefields across its approaches. | |
| Qatari plane supplies ammunition to Libya rebels Sat,6 Aug 2011 09:44 AM PDT Reuters - MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - A Qatari plane made a quick stop in the rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata on Saturday to offload ammunition destined for rebel fighters, sources with knowledge of the flight said. Full Story | |
| Saudi says draft anti-terrorism law being amended Sat,6 Aug 2011 08:18 AM PDT Reuters - JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has revised an anti-terrorism law and made it less severe than a leaked version that was heavily criticised by human rights groups, a Shura Council spokesman said Saturday. Full Story | |
 TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister said on Saturday he hoped two Americans jailed for more than two years on spying charges would be freed, the most positive signal yet that their ordeal may soon end. | |
 KABUL (Reuters) - The global community has failed to create a politically stable and economically viable Afghanistan despite pouring billions of dollars into the South Asian nation during a decade-long war against the Taliban, says the International Crisis Group. | |
 PARIS (Reuters) - The European Union's top economic official praised Italy's decision to accelerate budget-balancing measures and structural economic reforms on Saturday and said swift implementation would now be crucial. | |
| Gunman killed near Saudi interior minister's palace Sat,6 Aug 2011 02:56 AM PDT Reuters - JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi security forces killed a gunman early on Saturday after he fired at a checkpoint near the Interior Minister's palace in Jeddah, the state news agency said. Full Story | |
| Japan PM Naoto Kan brings his nuclear-free vision to Hiroshima Sat,6 Aug 2011 02:30 AM PDT Reuters -  HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Saturday took his campaign against nuclear energy in Japan to Hiroshima which 66 years ago became the world's first victim of an atomic bomb. | |
 DOLO ADO, Ethiopia (Reuters) - When Somali mother Eblah Sheikh Aden gathered her seven children and set off walking for Ethiopia to find food, she never imagined she would end up sending some of her brood back into the heart of famine. | |
| China's Zhejiang province evacuates 200,000 for Typhoon Muifa Fri,5 Aug 2011 08:58 PM PDT Reuters - SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's eastern Zhejiang province has evacuated over 200,000 residents as it braces itself for a powerful typhoon that could be the worst in the area in years, the provincial government said on its website. Full Story | |
 CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he will return to Cuba for a second session of chemotherapy to treat a cancer that has forced him to slow his pace ahead of a re-election bid next year. | |
 MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Emily killed four people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, authorities said on Friday, as remnants of the storm drifted over the Caribbean with a "high chance" of restrengthening into a tropical cyclone. | |
| Venezuela frees more than 2,000 prisoners Fri,5 Aug 2011 05:14 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela freed more than 2,000 inmates to improve conditions in its violent and overcrowded prisons at the start of what could be a much larger amnesty across the South American nation, state media said on Friday. Full Story | |
 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's calculations on a possible downgrade of U.S. credit ratings were off by "trillions," CNBC quoted sources as saying on Friday. | |
 AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces killed at least 16 civilians in attacks on tens of thousands of protesters demonstrating against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad on the first Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, activists said. | |
 HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's Supreme Court has upheld the 15-year prison sentence of jailed American aid contractor Alan Gross for trying to set up Internet networks in Cuba, in a damaging decision for U.S.-Cuba relations. | |
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At a press conference on Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at length about the Syrian government's brutal crackdown on protesters. But she was suddenly reticent when a reporter asked directly whether Syria's leader should leave power. | |
 TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto stocks plunged for a second straight session on Friday, touching their weakest point since August 2010, as fears of a global recession hammered the resource-heavy market. | |
 COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - Feted as superstars after surviving months trapped deep in the earth's bowels, Chile's 33 rescued miners are fighting ghosts and hardships a year on -- and some are struggling to adjust to life back on the surface. | |
| Sudan denies delaying Medivac for dying U.N. troops Fri,5 Aug 2011 01:53 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan's U.N. envoy on Friday vehemently rejected allegations from a top U.N. official who accused Khartoum of delaying a Medivac helicopter trying to evacuate three dying Ethiopian peacekeepers. Full Story | |
 KIEV (Reuters) - Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the country's leading opposition politician, was detained during her trial on Friday after the judge ruled that she was "systematically" disrupting courtroom proceedings. | |
 TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The government of Muammar Gaddafi denied a rebel report Friday that a NATO air strike had killed the Libyan leader's son Khamis, commander of one of the government's most loyal and best-equipped units. | |
| Sudan halts southern oil shipment Fri,5 Aug 2011 01:10 PM PDT Reuters - KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - North Sudan has halted an oil shipment from landlocked South Sudan in a dispute over customs fees, it said on Friday, signaling a rise in tensions that could disrupt supplies from one of Africa's largest producers. Full Story | |
 WARSAW (Reuters) - Andrzej Lepper, a former Polish deputy prime minister and leader of the small, populist Self-Defense Party, died on Friday, police said, and local media said he may have committed suicide. |
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