 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tea Party conservatives scored their biggest political triumph with a debt-ceiling deal that cuts federal spending, but their hardline tactics could risk a voter backlash in the 2012 elections. | |
| Suicide bombers storm Afghan guesthouse, four killed Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:00 PM PDT Reuters - KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Three suicide bombers attacked a guesthouse frequented by foreigners in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz Tuesday, killing four Afghan security guards employed by a German company, a senior police detective said. Full Story | |
| China police shoot dead two suspects in Xinjiang attacks Mon,1 Aug 2011 08:17 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have shot dead two suspects being hunted for a deadly attack in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which an exiled regional leader blamed on Beijing's hardline policies toward her people. Full Story | |
| Australia uses YouTube to deter boatpeople Mon,1 Aug 2011 08:05 PM PDT Reuters - SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will film boatpeople being sent to Malaysia under a new refugee swap deal and post the video on YouTube in an effort to deter future boatpeople, the immigration department said on Tuesday. Full Story | |
 TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Libyans entered the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Monday with no let-up in the five-month conflict after Muammar Gaddafi sought to divide a rebellion threatening him on several fronts. | |
| Slain Libyan rebel's family demand progress on probe Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:36 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The family of the Libyan rebels' slain military commander said on Monday little effort was being made to find out who had killed him in what they called an act involving conspiracy, treason and betrayal. Full Story | |
| Gaddafi thanks Chavez for support Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:36 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday read excerpts of a letter sent to him by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi expressing gratitude for strong support during the NATO-backed rebellion against his government. Full Story | |
| Syria opposition leader Seif held at Damascus airport Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:36 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security agents briefly detained opposition leader Riad Seif at Damascus airport on Monday and prevented him from traveling to Germany to seek treatment for cancer, opposition sources said. Full Story | |
| Hillary Clinton to meet Syrian activists as violence spikes Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:36 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet expatriate Syrian political activists on Tuesday as Washington struggles to craft an effective response to President Bashar al-Assad's bloody crackdown. Full Story | |
 HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will revise its travel and immigration rules as part of a broader reform of its economic and social policies, Cuban President Raul Castro said on Monday. | |
| Analysis: Storms ahead as debt deal sets up tax fight Mon,1 Aug 2011 05:38 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Congress passes the debt ceiling deal by Tuesday, as expected, it could trigger a battle over tax reform within weeks and turn Washington once again into a dateline for deadlock. Full Story | |
 TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Libyans entered the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Monday with no let-up in the five-month conflict after Muammar Gaddafi sought to divide a rebellion threatening him on several fronts. | |
| Gaddafi thanks Chavez for support Mon,1 Aug 2011 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday read excerpts of a letter sent to him by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi expressing gratitude for strong support during the NATO-backed rebellion against his government. Full Story | |
| Italy finds 25 dead bodies on Libya refugee boat Mon,1 Aug 2011 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - The Italian coast guard found the bodies of 25 men who were apparently asphyxiated by motor fumes on a small boat crammed with African migrants that arrived on an Italian island from Libya on Monday, officials said. Full Story | |
| Slain Libyan rebel's family demand progress on probe Mon,1 Aug 2011 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The family of the Libyan rebels' slain military commander said on Monday little effort was being made to find out who had killed him in what they called an act involving conspiracy, treason and betrayal. Full Story | |
| Cuba revising travel policies: Raul Castro Mon,1 Aug 2011 03:36 PM PDT Reuters - HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will revise its travel and immigration rules as part of a broader reform of its economic and social policies, Cuban President Raul Castro said on Monday. Full Story | |
| Security Council meets on Syria Mon,1 Aug 2011 03:19 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Reacting to new bloodshed in Syria, European powers relaunched a dormant draft U.N. resolution to condemn Damascus for its crackdown on protesters, circulating a revised text to the Security Council at a meeting on Monday, diplomats said. Full Story | |
 CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez appeared on television on Monday with his head closely shaved and bald patches from hair loss caused by chemotherapy for a cancer that has slowed him ahead of a re-election bid. | |
| Arabs angry over Syria crackdown but governments silent Mon,1 Aug 2011 02:48 PM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Arabs reacted strongly on Monday to the deaths of dozens of Syrians in Hama at the hands of the Syrian army but most Arab governments kept silent, apparently fearing the power of protest movements that have spread throughout the region this year. Full Story | |
| Hillary Clinton to meet Syrian activists as violence spikes Mon,1 Aug 2011 02:48 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet expatriate Syrian political activists on Tuesday as Washington struggles to craft an effective response to President Bashar al-Assad's bloody crackdown. Full Story | |
 LAKE SELIGER, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets. | |
| Air Canada reaches tentative pact with union Mon,1 Aug 2011 01:54 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Air Canada said it has reached a tentative agreement relating to compensation and benefits with the union that represents its flight attendants. Full Story | |
| Efforts in Congress to end FAA shutdown: LaHood Mon,1 Aug 2011 01:21 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Key members of the Congress sought ways on Monday to end a partial shutdown of federal aviation programs that has disrupted thousands of jobs but the outcome of that effort was uncertain. Full Story | |
| Snapshot: Lawmakers to vote on debt deal Mon,1 Aug 2011 12:35 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here is what is happening on Monday as lawmakers prepare to vote on a deal to raise the $14.3 trillion limit on U.S. borrowing, just a day before the deadline to avert an unprecedented default. Full Story | |
 SEOUL (Reuters) - Isolated North Korea said on Monday it had agreed to further dialogue with the United States and repeated it was willing to resume regional nuclear disarmament talks at an early date, without preconditions. | |
| Syrian tanks shell Hama, heaviest barrage of assault: witnesses Mon,1 Aug 2011 11:51 AM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian tanks shelled residential neighborhoods all over Hama on Monday in the heaviest barrage of a two-day attack on the city to crush street demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses said. Full Story | |
 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) The famine in the Horn of Africa is spreading and may soon engulf as many as six more regions of the lawless nation of Somalia, the U.N. humanitarian aid chief said Monday. | |
| Yemen air raid kills 13 militants: local official Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:57 AM PDT Reuters - ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Yemeni war planes bombed a village in south Yemen Monday, killing at least 13 people who a local official said were Islamist militants challenging army control in the flashpoint province of Abyan. Full Story | |
| U.S. sees dramatic drop in Iran-backed attacks in Iraq Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:53 AM PDT Reuters - MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq by Iran-backed militia have fallen sharply thanks to U.S. and Iraqi military operations and diplomatic engagement with Tehran by Baghdad, top U.S. military officials said Monday. Full Story | |
 OSLO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg urged parliament Monday to preserve the democratic values of Norway as public pressure grew for stiffer sentences for serious crimes after an anti-immigration zealot's bloody rampage. | |
 London (Reuters)- - By sending tanks to crush dissent in the city of Hama, where memories of a bloodbath in 1982 that killed 20,000 people are still vivid, embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has chosen a path of no return. | |
| Ex-military leader to run as Sierra Leone president Mon,1 Aug 2011 09:59 AM PDT Reuters - * Bio took power in 1996 coup before stepping down Full Story | |
 PARIS (Reuters) - France will place $259 million at the disposal of Libya's National Transition Council (NTC) after un-freezing Libyan assets in the country, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Monday. | |
| Favored general to lead Turk military through Mon,1 Aug 2011 09:28 AM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - When the head of Turkey's military quit in protest along with the commanders of the army, navy and air force, it left one man standing in Turkey's high command - General Necdet Ozel. Full Story | |
 CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian army moved into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday and cleared away a few hundred protesters who remained camped there after the main groups suspended a three-week demonstration held to advance demands for faster democratic reforms. | |
 ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan worked to tighten civilian control of the military on Monday by choosing generals he can trust after the top four commanders resigned over the detention of comrades facing coup conspiracy charges. | |
| Strong quake jolts central Japan, no tsunami alert Mon,1 Aug 2011 08:42 AM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted central and eastern Japan on Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, but it did not issue a tsunami alert. Full Story | |
| Three Turkish soldiers killed in rebel clash Mon,1 Aug 2011 08:11 AM PDT Reuters - DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish guerrillas fired on a military convoy in eastern Turkey Monday, killing three soldiers and wounding three others, security sources said. Full Story | |
| Iraq civilian deaths in July match highest for 2011 Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:54 AM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq rose to 159 in July from 155 in June, matching January with the highest toll so far for 2011, according to health ministry figures released Monday. Full Story | |
 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq rose to 159 in July from 155 in June, matching January with the highest toll so far for 2011, according to health ministry figures released Monday. |
