 AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces killed at least 32 civilians on Friday, including 23 in the capital Damascus, in an intensifying crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said. |
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 CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he would return to ally Cuba for chemotherapy, raising doubts about his fitness to fight for re-election next year in the OPEC-member nation. |
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 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent drug war city, warned on Friday that cartels may be seeking U.S. targets in a possible escalation of violence. |
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 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Les Hinton, the top executive of Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones & Co, resigned on Friday after becoming a target of criticism for the phone-hacking scandal that occurred when he oversaw News Corp's British newspapers. |
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USGS reports 6.0 magnitude quake off Chilean coast
Fri,15 Jul 2011 06:15 PM PDT
Reuters - SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.0 magnitude earthquake on Friday just off the coast of Chile, 56 miles south-southwest of Valparaiso, at 20:26 local time (8:26 p.m. EDT). Full Story |
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U.N. sanctions panel delists 14 ex-Taliban figures
Fri,15 Jul 2011 06:12 PM PDT
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council Friday removed 14 former Taliban from its sanctions list as part of moves to induce the insurgent group into talks with Kabul on a peace deal in Afghanistan. Full Story |
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 NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch apologized to victims of criminal phone hacking by one of his tabloids and accepted the resignations of News Corp's top two newspaper executives, Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton. |
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 CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he plans to return to Cuba for more cancer treatment, in a move that will raise further concerns about his illness that has upended the OPEC nation's politics. |
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Israeli blast hurts 14; police suspect accident
Fri,15 Jul 2011 01:46 PM PDT
Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An explosion which ripped through a building in the Israeli city of Netanya north of Tel Aviv on Friday igniting a fire and injuring 14 people was likely caused by accident, police said. Full Story |
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World's top asylum spot South Africa plans crackdown
Fri,15 Jul 2011 10:00 AM PDT
Reuters - JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has set the stage for the mass deportation of more than one million Zimbabwean immigrants later this month in a move that could alter its status as the world's largest country of refuge. Full Story |
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Italy parliament passes austerity package
Fri,15 Jul 2011 09:24 AM PDT
Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Italy's lower house of parliament approved a 48 billion euro austerity package on Friday in a vote rushed through to try to calm a financial market storm which has sent Italian borrowing costs soaring in recent days. Full Story |
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 AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian police armed with batons clashed with hundreds of protesters shouting "the people want the reform of the regime" as the crowds attempted to march in downtown Amman on Friday, a Reuters witness said. |
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 CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's public battle with cancer has added to his global fame but it may also weaken his already waning influence in Latin America and beyond. |
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 (Reuters) - One of this week's deadly Mumbai blasts scattered diamonds, possibly worth millions of dollars, onto the street but has not convinced traders to abandon their hub in the heart of the city for a purpose-built diamond bourse in the suburbs. |
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U.N. envoy to present Gaddafi departure terms: Italian FM
Fri,15 Jul 2011 07:14 AM PDT
Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An international Libya contact group meeting will recognize the Benghazi-based opposition council as the representative of the Libyan people, leaving Muammar Gaddafi no option but to step down, Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Friday. Full Story |
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Military action against Gaddafi to intensify: Hague
Fri,15 Jul 2011 07:14 AM PDT
Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Military action against Muammar Gaddafi's government will be intensified while a U.N. envoy presses for negotiations to end the conflict in Libya, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Friday. Full Story |
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 ATHENS (Reuters) - The Greek Orthodox Church owns more land than anyone except the state, employs thousands on the public payroll, has a stake in the nation's biggest bank, but campaigners say its tax payments are derisory. |
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 KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's complex and often confusing business of talks with the Taliban took a surprisingly dramatic turn this week when a female lawmaker told a news conference she had recently met the militant group's leader, Mullah Omar, who agreed to make peace. |
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 WAJIR, Kenya (Reuters) - One-year-old Siad Abdikadir was so weak that he could not support his own head, resting it on his mother's heavily pregnant stomach. |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptians packed Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, keeping up pressure on the ruling generals to implement reforms more swiftly and to try ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his aides. |
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 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military has delivered two of Saddam Hussein's half-brothers and his former defense minister into Iraqi custody along with nearly 200 other inmates at a Baghdad prison, a deputy justice minister said on Friday. |
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Iran installing advanced nuclear machines for testing
Fri,15 Jul 2011 03:21 AM PDT
Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is stepping up centrifuge development work aimed at making its nuclear enrichment more efficient, diplomats say, signaling a possible advance in the Islamic Republic's disputed atomic program. Full Story |
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 RABWAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - At the office of what claims to be one of Pakistan's oldest newspapers, workers scan copy for words it is not allowed to use -- words like Muslim and Islam. |
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 DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) - Three U.S. navy ships arrived in Vietnam on Friday for scheduled port calls with the Vietnamese military, the U.S. embassy said, as tension mounts in the South China Sea between China and several Southeast Asian nations. |
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 MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh vowed on Thursday to bring to justice those behind triple bomb attacks on India's financial capital Mumbai, and police questioned members of a home-grown Islamist militant group. |
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 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The General Assembly admitted South Sudan on Thursday as the 193rd member of the United Nations, sealing the new African country's independence after decades of conflict. |
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Pakistan spy chief visit to U.S. "went very well"
Thu,14 Jul 2011 06:49 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Pakistani spy chiefs made progress in mending rifts in a relationship that had soured over the U.S. raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during meetings at CIA headquarters, U.S. and Pakistani officials said on Thursday. Full Story |
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In Ahmadis' desert city, Pakistan closes in
Thu,14 Jul 2011 06:34 PM PDT
Reuters - RABWAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - At the office of what claims to be one of Pakistan's oldest newspapers, workers scan copy for words it is not allowed to use -- words like Muslim and Islam. "The government is constantly monitoring this publication to make sure none of these words are published," explains our guide during a visit to the offices of al Fazl, the newspaper of the Ahmadiyya sect in Pakistan. ... Full Story |
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 BRASILIA/CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will travel to Brazil for cancer treatment, a Brazilian government source told Reuters on Thursday, the latest sign that the socialist leader is still battling the illness after undergoing surgery in Cuba. |
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UK's Top cop under fire after hacking probe arrest
Thu,14 Jul 2011 04:55 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's senior police chief came under fire on Thursday after his force said a former News of the World deputy editor, arrested by officers investigating phone hacking by the paper's reporters, had been hired as a consultant by the police. Full Story |
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U.N. nuclear agency brings Syria to Security Council
Thu,14 Jul 2011 04:46 PM PDT
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog brought allegations of covert atomic work by Syria before the Security Council on Thursday, but the 15-nation body took no immediate action amid divisions among key powers. Full Story |
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Crackdown escalates in east Syria, protesters killed
Thu,14 Jul 2011 04:43 PM PDT
Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces shot dead two pro-democracy protesters on Thursday in eastern provincial capital Deir al-Zoran, residents said, as a crackdown escalated against dissent in the tribal region bordering Iraq's Sunni heartland. Full Story |
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Libya meeting seeks Gaddafi exit to end war
Thu,14 Jul 2011 04:17 PM PDT
Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Western and Arab powers begin talks in Turkey on Friday aimed at finding a political solution for Libya that would persuade Muammar Gaddafi to give up power and end a conflict that could otherwise drag on interminably. Full Story |
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Pakistan spy chief visit to U.S. "went very well"
Thu,14 Jul 2011 04:01 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Pakistani spy chiefs, trying to mend rifts in a relationship that has grown increasingly sour, met at the CIA and agreed on steps to improve national security, a U.S. official said on Thursday. Full Story |
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 AL-QAWALISH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebel fighters prepared for a new offensive south of Tripoli on Thursday but tactical errors raised new questions about whether they will be able to march on the capital. |
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Israel targets Gaza after rocket fire: witnesses
Thu,14 Jul 2011 02:35 PM PDT
Reuters - GAZA (Reuters) - Israel carried out a series of air strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses and Hamas officials said, after Palestinian militants from the territory fired rockets into southern Israel. Full Story |
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