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Aug 2, 2011

WORLD News, Aug 02, 2011

Analysis: Tea Party proves clout, but at what cost?
Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:07 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoWASHINGTON (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

Libyans start Ramadan fast amid conflict, divisions
Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:36 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoTRIPOLI/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

Cuba revising travel policies: Raul Castro
Mon,1 Aug 2011 06:53 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoHAVANA (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

Libyans start Ramadan fast amid conflict, divisions
Mon,1 Aug 2011 04:34 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoTRIPOLI/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

Venezuela's Chavez loses hair from chemotherapy
Mon,1 Aug 2011 02:51 PM PDT
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photoCARACAS (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

Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy
Mon,1 Aug 2011 02:45 PM PDT
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photoLAKE 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

North Korea says agrees to more U.S. talks
Mon,1 Aug 2011 12:07 PM PDT
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photoSEOUL (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

Up to six more Somalia regions may face famine: U.N.
Mon,1 Aug 2011 11:46 AM PDT
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photoUNITED 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

Norway soul-searches on crime after rampage
Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:35 AM PDT
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photoOSLO (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.

Analysis: Syria's Assad embarks on path of no return
Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:33 AM PDT
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photoLondon (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

France hands Libya rebels $259 million in unfrozen funds
Mon,1 Aug 2011 09:52 AM PDT
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photoPARIS (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

Egypt army breaks up protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square
Mon,1 Aug 2011 09:20 AM PDT
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photoCAIRO (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.

Turkish PM eyes chance to pick military high command
Mon,1 Aug 2011 09:15 AM PDT
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photoANKARA (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

Iraq civilian deaths in July match highest for 2011
Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:53 AM PDT
Reuters -
photoBAGHDAD (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.

TECHNOLOGY News, Aug 02, 2011

Samsung: Apple agreement not to affect tablet sales outside
Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:25 PM PDT
Reuters - SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said it will not sell its current version of its flagship Galaxy Tablet in Australia after reaching an agreement with Apple following a patent lawsuit filed by the U.S. company. Full Story

Huawei hires ex-UK info chief as global cyber security
Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:08 PM PDT
Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies Co Ltd said it has appointed a former British government information official as global cyber-security officer, as the world's second-largest network equipment maker aims to expand its footprint with more global hires.Full Story

Government hankers for hackers
Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:03 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Security Agency has a challenge for hackers who think they're hot stuff: prove it by working on the "hardest problems on Earth."

photoSEOUL/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics has delayed the Australian launch of its latest Galaxy tablet due to a patent lawsuit filed by Apple Inc, Bloomberg reported, as both technology companies defend their market share in the booming tablet market.

Slim's America Movil takes final consolidation step
Mon,1 Aug 2011 06:02 PM PDT
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photoMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Billionaire Carlos Slim moved on Monday to bring his whole telecommunications empire under one roof when America Movil launched an offer to buy the rest of fixed-line phone subsidiary Telefonos de Mexico.

Expert: networking defendant challenges wiretap
Mon,1 Aug 2011 05:39 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former expert-networking executive arrested as part of a government insider trading probe asked a New York judge on Monday to throw out wiretap evidence four weeks before his trial is to begin. Full Story

Synchronoss Q2 beats Wall Street, ups FY11 outlook
Mon,1 Aug 2011 03:29 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Communication software maker Synchronoss Technologies Inc posted better-than-expected quarterly results, helped by a 13 percent jump in revenue at its largest customer, AT&T Inc, and raised its full-year outlook. Full Story

Slim's America Movil takes final consolidation step
Mon,1 Aug 2011 03:09 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Billionaire Carlos Slim moved on Monday to bring his whole telecommunications empire under one roof when America Movil launched an offer to buy the rest of fixed-line phone subsidiary Telefonos de Mexico.

Google buys daily deal aggregator The Dealmap
Mon,1 Aug 2011 12:51 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has bought The Dealmap, expanding further into a potentially lucrative daily deals market now dominated by the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial. Full Story

Tech firm says News International deleted emails
Mon,1 Aug 2011 12:51 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A technology firm has told British legislators it was aware of the deletion of hundreds of thousands of emails at the request of News Corp unit News International between April 2010 and last month, parliamentarian Keith Vaz said on Monday.Full Story

Dragon Go! app enables voice-powered search
Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:54 AM PDT
Reuters - TORONTO (Reuters) - Looking for directions to the nearest supermarket, bank or cafe? Don't approach a stranger for information, just ask your smartphone. Full Story

Android conquers almost 50 percent of smartphone market
Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:49 AM PDT
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photoFRANKFURT (Reuters) - Google's Android platform has taken almost 50 percent of the global smartphone market, dominating in the Asia-Pacific region, research firm Canalys said on Monday

Samsung to halt tablet sales in Australia: report
Mon,1 Aug 2011 10:15 AM PDT
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photoSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics has agreed to halt sales of the newest version of its Galaxy tablet in Australia until a patent lawsuit brought by Apple Inc in the country is resolved, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

UK teen cyber activist bailed without Internet access
Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:49 AM PDT
Reuters -
photoLONDON (Reuters) - A British teenager charged with hacking offences and believed to be a leading member of the Anonymous and LulzSec online activist groups was released on bail in a London court on Monday on condition he did not use the Internet.

Google's Chrome overtakes Firefox in UK
Mon,1 Aug 2011 07:35 AM PDT
Reuters -
photoLONDON (Reuters) - Google's Chrome overtook Mozilla Firefox in July to become Britain's second-most popular Web browser after Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Web analytics firm StatCounter said on Monday.