| Suicide blast kills mayor of Afghanistan's Kandahar Tue,26 Jul 2011 11:40 PM PDT Reuters - KANDAHAR (Reuters) - The mayor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar city was killed in a suicide bomb attack on Wednesday, officials said, just two weeks after the controversial and powerful brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was assassinated in the same city. Full Story | |
| Oslo station partly evacuated due suspicious suitcase Tue,26 Jul 2011 11:38 PM PDT Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - Parts of Oslo's central train station were evacuated early on Wednesday after a suspicious suitcase was discovered, and police were investigating, Norwegian news agency NTB said. Full Story | |
 CHUNCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - A landslide caused by torrential rain crashed into a South Korean mountain resort east of Seoul early on Wednesday, destroying four buildings, including two small hotels, and killing at least 10 people, officials said. | |
 CIUDAD JUAREZ (Reuters) - Seventeen people were killed in a prison gunfight in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, authorities said on Tuesday. | |
| Riot in south China after death of fruit vendor Tue,26 Jul 2011 11:03 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Angry residents in a southern Chinese city went on the rampage after officials apparently beat to death a disabled fruit vendor, a state media said on Wednesday, in the latest incident of social unrest in the world's second-largest economy.Full Story | |
 LONDON (Reuters) - There may be a point at which global investors get indigestion from U.S. money printing. | |
| China rescues dozens of infants from human traffickers Tue,26 Jul 2011 10:50 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police rescued 89 infants kidnapped for sale and arrested 369 people they said were linked to two human trafficking rings this month, state media reported Wednesday. Full Story | |
| Factbox: How the next Thai government will be formed Tue,26 Jul 2011 09:29 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Thailand held a general election on July 3. The Puea Thai Party won a majority of the seats in parliament and will lead the next government. Full Story | |
| Thai election body races to endorse new lawmakers Tue,26 Jul 2011 09:13 PM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's election authority was racing on Wednesday to endorse dozens of winning candidates from the July 3 general election to pave the way for a new parliament to convene and select a prime minister, tentatively expected in early August.Full Story | |
| China protests against U.S. spy flights near its coast Tue,26 Jul 2011 08:38 PM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned that recent U.S. surveillance flights near the Chinese coast have severely harmed strategic mutual trust and were a major obstacle hindering military ties between the two countries, state media reported on Wednesday. Full Story | |
| Credit rating execs to face congressional heat Tue,26 Jul 2011 05:04 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Executives from credit rating agencies are expected to face sharp congressional scrutiny on Wednesday for their companies' roles in the financial crisis and the U.S. debt ceiling debate. Full Story | |
 OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian cabinet minister will make a symbolic return on Wednesday to her bomb-damaged office as the nation tries to restore some normality after the massacre perpetrated by a right-winger who his lawyer believes is insane. | |
 CIUDAD JUAREZ (Reuters) - Seventeen people were killed in a prison gunfight in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, authorities said on Tuesday. | |
| Syria cabinet okays new election law, arrests continue Tue,26 Jul 2011 03:23 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian cabinet approved on Tuesday a new election law as part of a package of democratic reforms, the national news agency said, prompted by four months of street protests demanding the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad. Full Story | |
| African land grab threatens food security: study Tue,26 Jul 2011 03:04 PM PDT Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Rich countries grabbing farmland in Africa to feed their growing populations can leave rural populations there without land or jobs and make the continent's hunger problem more severe, an environmental think tank said on Tuesday. Full Story | |
 KIEV (Reuters) - Russia's Orthodox Christian Church will not claim clerical authority over Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Russian and Georgian church leaders said on Tuesday. | |
 TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A U.N envoy trying to find a way to end the war in Libya said after talks with the prime minister in Tripoli on Tuesday that the government and the rebels remained far apart in the drive for an end to the crisis. | |
| S&P says no comment on deficit reduction plans Tue,26 Jul 2011 02:15 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ratings agency Standard and Poor's on Tuesday said it will not comment on the "many and varying" plans to reduce the deficit that are currently under discussion in Washington. Full Story | |
 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A court in Mexico on Tuesday sentenced a 14-year-old U.S. citizen and drug gang hitman to three years in a juvenile prison for murder, kidnapping and trafficking cocaine. | |
| Italy, Libya rebels agree to security cooperation Tue,26 Jul 2011 01:26 PM PDT Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Italy has agreed to help Libya's rebel government develop its security apparatus, Italian interior minister Roberto Maroni said Tuesday after meeting his counterpart from the rebel movement. Full Story | |
| Misrata struggles to clean up unexploded ordnance Tue,26 Jul 2011 01:12 PM PDT Reuters - MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Street fighting in Libya's third city of Misrata ended months ago with rebel victory, but those battles are still claiming fresh victims. Full Story | |
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Striking the United States remains a "significant goal" for al Qaeda and its affiliates nearly a decade after the September 11 attacks, the president's nominee to head the National Counterterrorism Center said on Tuesday. | |
 BEIRUT (Reuters) - A roadside bomb blew up a United Nations vehicle near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on Tuesday, wounding six French peacekeepers. | |
| Magnitude 6.0 earthquake off Baja California, Mexico: USGS Tue,26 Jul 2011 11:17 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strong 6.0 magnitude earthquake occurred in the Sea of Cortez off Baja California, 60 miles east of La Paz, Mexico, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Tuesday. Full Story | |
| Spain busts Colombian drug cartel's money-laundering Tue,26 Jul 2011 11:14 AM PDT Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have broken up the money-laundering operation of one of Latin America's biggest drug cartels and arrested the wife of Colombia's top drug baron, police said Tuesday. Full Story | |
 VOINJAMA, Liberia (Reuters) - Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf pledged on Tuesday to step up the fight against unemployment in her West African nation if re-elected later this year, saying in an interview she was confident of securing a second term. | |
| The Knights Templar Europe: Far-right fact or fiction? Tue,26 Jul 2011 09:55 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - At a secret location in London in April 2002, nine far-right extremists gathered together to form "The Knights Templar Europe," a small pan-European group which pledged to seize political power and drive Islam from the continent. Full Story | |
 PARIS (Reuters) - Two French rights groups will file legal complaints against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and members of his entourage in an attempt to push the government to determine whether they hold assets in France. | |
| Explosion targets UNIFIL in South Lebanon, 3 hurt: witnesses Tue,26 Jul 2011 09:38 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - An explosion on a bridge in Lebanon's southern city of Sidon targeted a UNIFIL vehicle, witnesses and Lebanese security said on Tuesday. Full Story | |
 CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba (Reuters) - Cuba is pressing ahead with plans to revamp its economy and fine tune its one party political system, but it will take time, Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura said on Tuesday in a nationally televised address. | |
 MADRID/ROME (Reuters) - Spain and Italy paid a high price to sell short-term debt on Tuesday, compounding investors' concern that last week's bailout package for Greece left the euro zone's debt crisis unresolved. | |
 BLANTYRE (Reuters) - The United States has placed on hold a $350 million aid package for Malawi after the southern African country launched a deadly crackdown on protests against President Bingu wa Mutharika. | |
| Libyan PM says airstrikes must stop before talks Tue,26 Jul 2011 09:17 AM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya will not begin talks on ending a conflict with rebels before NATO air strikes stop, and Muammar Gaddafi's leadership is not up for negotiation, the prime minister said on Tuesday. Full Story | |
 SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea agreed on Tuesday to a third round of talks with South Korea aimed at resolving a long-running row over a shuttered joint tourist resort in the North. | |
| More Gaddafi forces hiding in civilian areas: NATO Tue,26 Jul 2011 08:47 AM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO accused Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday of hiding army installations in civilian areas making those locations valid military targets and misleading international journalists by showing them bogus strike areas. Full Story | |
| Three U.N. peacekeepers wounded in south Lebanon blast Tue,26 Jul 2011 08:44 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - A roadside bomb blew up a U.N. vehicle near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on Monday, wounding at least three peacekeepers, Lebanese security and witnesses said. Full Story | |
| Three U.N. peacekeepers wounded in south Lebanon blast Tue,26 Jul 2011 08:43 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - A roadside bomb blew up a U.N. vehicle near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on Monday, wounding at least three peacekeepers, Lebanese security and witnesses said. Full Story | |
| Moroccan military plane crash kills 78: military Tue,26 Jul 2011 07:27 AM PDT Reuters - RABAT (Reuters) - At least 78 people were killed on Tuesday when a Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the military said in a statement carried by the state news agency. Full Story | |
| Number of Kenyans in need of food aid to jump: U.N. Tue,26 Jul 2011 06:50 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - The number of Kenyans who will need food aid due to drought will rise to 3.5 million by September, the United Nations said Tuesday, while European officials warned such crises would flare up again unless more money was directed at prevention efforts. Full Story | |
| Afghan security forces say foiled Kabul airport plot Tue,26 Jul 2011 06:22 AM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces foiled a plot by insurgents to attack Kabul International Airport after finding a cache of weapons and five Afghan army uniforms just days after a deadly attack on the city's Intercontinental hotel, officials said Tuesday.Full Story |
