France's Sarkozy says 1,000 troops to leave Afghanistan
Mon,11 Jul 2011 11:09 PM PDT
Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said during a visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday that France will pull out 1,000 troops from its mission there by the end of 2012, as it speeds up its withdrawal with the United States. Full Story |
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 WASHINGTON/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has lost legitimacy and is "not indispensable," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday as tension soared over an assault by Assad loyalists on the U.S. and French embassies in Damascus. |
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Suspected U.S. missile strikes kill 30 militants in Pakistan
Mon,11 Jul 2011 09:31 PM PDT
Reuters - MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 30 militants were killed in less than 12 hours in a hail of missile strikes by suspected U.S. drone aircraft in Pakistan's northwest region on the Afghan border, a local intelligence official said Tuesday. Full Story |
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Tokyo Electric restarts third unit at quake-hit plant
Mon,11 Jul 2011 08:20 PM PDT
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co said it resumed generating electricity from the oil-fired 600 megawatt No.2 unit at its Hirono plant in northern Japan on Monday evening for the first time since the facility was rocked by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11. Full Story |
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Assailants blow up Egypt gas pipeline station
Mon,11 Jul 2011 07:42 PM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Saboteurs blew up an Egyptian pipeline distribution station in northern Sinai on Tuesday that supplies natural gas to Israel, the official MENA news agency said. Full Story |
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 LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Over tea in Lahore with the man who some see -- wrongly he says -- as a spokesman for the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, one subject dominates the conversation. It's not jihad, not Kashmir, but the economy. |
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Argentine heirs' 1st DNA tests come back negative
Mon,11 Jul 2011 05:12 PM PDT
Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - DNA from the adopted children of one of Argentina's richest women does not match samples from two families who suspected the siblings were stolen as babies from murdered political prisoners, legal sources said on Monday. Full Story |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said on Monday he would reshuffle his cabinet within a week, but crowds protesting at slow reforms and foot-dragging in prosecuting the ex-president said they were not satisfied. |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said on Monday he would reshuffle his cabinet within a week, but crowds protesting at slow reforms and foot-dragging in prosecuting the ex-president said they were not satisfied. |
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 LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will begin his appeal on Tuesday against his extradition from Britain to Sweden for questioning over allegations of sexual misconduct. |
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 MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Italy wants a political solution to the war in Libya that would see Muammar Gaddafi "leaving the stage," its foreign minister told an Algerian newspaper on Tuesday after a rebel campaign ran into resistance. |
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 SYUKEYEVO, Russia (Reuters) - Russia said there was little hope of finding any more people alive on Monday after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga River, killing 128 people in Russia's worst river accident in three decades. |
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Anger simmers after Cyprus blast
Mon,11 Jul 2011 01:39 PM PDT
Reuters - MARI, Cyprus (Reuters) - Residents of a village in southern Cyprus thought it was an earthquake before an orange cloud emerged over the hill and clumps of metal started falling from the sky. Full Story |
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Israel passes law punishing settlement boycotters
Mon,11 Jul 2011 01:22 PM PDT
Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Advocating a boycott of West Bank settlements could lead to financial penalties in Israel under a new law passed on Monday with the blessing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Full Story |
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 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Former media mogul Conrad Black has been ordered to report to prison on September 6 to serve out his prison sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice, according to U.S. court documents filed on Monday. |
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U.S. slams Syria for 'outrageous' embassy attack
Mon,11 Jul 2011 11:57 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday condemned Syria for refusing to protect the U.S. embassy in Damascus from an "outrageous" attack by government loyalists it said were seeking to divert attention from Syria's internal political crisis. Full Story |
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 AMMAN (Reuters) - Several loyalists of President Bashar al-Assad broke into the U.S. embassy in Damascus on Monday and security guards used live ammunition to prevent hundreds from storming the French embassy, diplomats said. |
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 KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan government chemists are carrying out tests on a birthday cake, sweets and mangoes that opposition activists tried to offer the president to see if they contained poison, police said. |
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 PARIS (Reuters) - French police interviewed a writer on Monday who accuses former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape in 2003, her lawyer and judicial sources said. |
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 MARI, Cyprus (Reuters) - The head of the Cypriot navy, a navy base commander and six firefighters were among 12 people killed early on Monday by a blast at a munitions dump which knocked out the island's biggest power station, police said. |
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Iran threatens to attack Iraq-based Kurdish rebels
Mon,11 Jul 2011 09:48 AM PDT
Reuters - TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran threatened Monday to take military action against the Iraq-based Kurdish rebel group PJAK, saying the head of Iraq's Kurdistan region had handed the group land without telling the government in Baghdad. Full Story |
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Berber culture reborn in Libya revolt
Mon,11 Jul 2011 09:39 AM PDT
Reuters - JADU, Libya (Reuters) - In a packed classroom on a cool evening near the front line in Libya's civil war, 15-year-old Mira is teaching children to spell out the names of animals in the ancient Berber script, an act that once could have landed her in one of Muammar Gaddafi's jails. Full Story |
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 CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A bus carrying scores of Bangladeshi schoolboys celebrating a soccer victory against another school plunged off a hill road on Monday killing at least 53, police said. |
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France impatient on Libya but denies Gaddafi talks
Mon,11 Jul 2011 06:11 AM PDT
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - France is growing impatient with the lack of progress on reaching a political solution to the crisis in Libya, but officials denied Paris is in talks with Gaddafi's government or could consider him not quitting power. Full Story |
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 BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is worried the security of its new 1.6-billion euro intelligence agency headquarters has been compromised, after blueprints of the high-tech building mysteriously disappeared. |
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Pakistan casualties risen since bin Laden death: ICRC
Mon,11 Jul 2011 04:53 AM PDT
Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - Casualties from violence across Pakistan since the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden in May have soared, with many more maimed and injured people going to humanitarian clinics, the ICRC said on Monday. Full Story |
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 LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - The death toll in a train accident in northern India climbed to 80 on Monday with more than 350 injured in one of the worst rail disasters to hit the country's troubled rail network in years. |
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Robinson Cano of the New York Yankees belted a record 12 home runs in the final round to overtake Adrian Gonzalez of the Boston Red Sox and win Monday's Home Run Derby on the eve of the 82nd All-Star Game.
AURILLAC, France (Reuters) - Sprinter Mark Cavendish has two days before the Pyrenees to score points in his quest for the Tour de France green jersey but Tuesday's 158-kms 10th stage to Carmaux could also favor main rival Philippe Gilbert.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legal teams in Roger Clemens' perjury trial exhausted the initial pool of 50 potential jury members on Monday but will proceed with whittling down the list of jurors anyway.
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Philadelphia Phillies ace Roy Halladay will start for the National League against Los Angeles Angels pitcher Jeff Weaver in Tuesday's Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the managers said on Monday.
MIAMI (Reuters) - Three-time Super Bowl-winning offensive linebacker Mike Vrabel announced on Monday he was retiring from the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs to join the coaching staff of Ohio State University.
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Major League Baseball could expand the number of teams able to qualify for the postseason but recent talk of realigning its divisional structure is premature, Commissioner Bud Selig said on Monday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, father of National Basketball Association standout Kobe Bryant, has been appointed head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks, the Women's National Basketball Association team said on Monday.
SANDWICH, England (Reuters) - It was a case of deja vu when Louis Oosthuizen, just like Graeme McDowell at the U.S. Open, said Monday he was feeling a sense of relief that he was about to hand back his British Open trophy.
SANDWICH, England (Reuters) - Ben Curtis, shock winner of the last British Open at Royal St. George in 2003, said Monday he had decided to walk the wild, wet and windy links course last year without his clubs.
LONDON (Reuters) - World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko promised on Monday to knock Briton David Haye to the floor if the pair ever meet in a world title fight.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (Reuters) - South Korea's Ryu So-yeon won her first major title by beating compatriot Seo Hee-kyung by three shots in a three-hole playoff for the weather-delayed U.S. Women's Open on Monday.