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Japan's Azumi: government could run out of cash by October
Thu,5 Jul 2012 06:54 PM PDT
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government could run out of money to fund this fiscal year's budget by the end of October, the finance minister said, as a standoff in parliament over a deficit financing bill threatens to wreak havoc with the country's finances. The deficit financing bill, which would allow the government to sell bonds needed to fund almost half of the budget, has languished in parliament as the ruling Democratic Party tussles with opposition parties that can use their control of the upper house to reject legislation. ... Full Story | Top |
Mexico withdraws Argentina automobile-tariff accord
Thu,5 Jul 2012 06:19 PM PDT
Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has withdrawn a zero-tariff agreement with Argentina on autos in a tit-for-tat trade dispute after the Argentine government's decision to pull out of an auto trade pact between the two countries. Francisco de Rosenzweig, Mexican undersecretary for trade, said on Thursday the measure became effective on June 26. Mexico had said on June 25 that Argentina had pulled out of the auto trade pact over the deal's conditions. "Mexico is taking a reciprocal action," de Rosenzweig said. ... Full Story | Top |
Mexican vote recount confirms Pena Nieto win
Thu,5 Jul 2012 06:13 PM PDT
Reuters -  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A recount on Thursday showed Mexico's Enrique Pena Nieto as the clear winner of Sunday's presidential election, but the runner-up still refused to concede, alleging Pena Nieto's party bought millions of votes. The results set up a return to power for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which governed Mexico from 1929 to 2000, when it was frequently accused of vote-rigging. With 99 percent of polling stations counted or recounted, Pena Nieto held 38.2 percent of the vote, 6.7 points ahead of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. ...
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Key Argentine "Dirty War" figures jailed for baby thefts
Thu,5 Jul 2012 04:25 PM PDT
Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Three key figures from Argentina's "Dirty War" got hefty jail terms for the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, an Argentine court ruled on Thursday. The missing children - stolen from their parents and illegally adopted, often by military families - are one of the most painful legacies of the crackdown on leftist dissent in which rights groups say up to 30,000 people were killed. Just over 100 of the children have discovered their true identities, but many families are still searching more than three decades later. ... Full Story | Top |
Defection cheers anti-Assad coalition at Paris meet
Thu,5 Jul 2012 03:32 PM PDT
Reuters -  PARIS (Reuters) - Reports of the defection of a general and personal friend of Bashar al-Assad will cheer the Syrian leader's enemies at a meeting in Paris on Friday of the Western and Arab states that want to drive him from power. A source in the exiled opposition said Manaf Tlas, a brigade commander in Assad's Republican Guard, was en route to Paris where the "Friends of Syria" group of states opposed to Assad was due to meet. He has family there. ...
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Mexico withdraws Argentina auto-tariff accord
Thu,5 Jul 2012 03:24 PM PDT
Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has withdrawn a zero-tariff agreement with Argentina on autos in a tit-for-tat trade dispute after the Argentine government's decision to pull out of an auto trade pact between the two countries. Francisco de Rosenzweig, Mexican undersecretary for trade, said on Thursday the measure became effective on June 26. Mexico had said on June 25 that Argentina had pulled out of the auto trade pact over the deal's conditions. "Mexico is taking a reciprocal action," de Rosenzweig said. ... Full Story | Top |
Dry taps and open sewers: welcome to India's "Millennium City"
Thu,5 Jul 2012 02:19 PM PDT
Reuters -  GURGAON, India (Reuters) - Sarika Kapoor lives in a spacious home in one of the wealthiest cities in India. But something as simple as having a shower is fraught with problems. Most days there is just a trickle of water from the taps and sometimes even that dries up before noon. The 56-year-old has often had to scurry to a neighbor across a potholed road to borrow a bucket of water and haul it back to her rented $300,000 home, sweat rolling down her face. "Every morning I have to decide whether I want the upper half of my body clean or my lower half. ...
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Left, right criticize Humala over deadly Peru clashes
Thu,5 Jul 2012 02:02 PM PDT
Reuters -  LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian lawmakers on Thursday harshly criticized President Ollanta Humala's crackdown on protests against Newmont's $5 billion Conga mine, as deadly violence prompted calls for him to shuffle his Cabinet. A fifth protester died on Thursday after two days of clashes with police as left-wing leader Marco Arana, a soft-spoken former Roman Catholic priest who has rallied demonstrators to stop construction of the biggest mine in Peruvian history, was released from police custody a day after a video aired on local TV showed him being detained and beaten by police. ...
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Final Mexican results confirming Pena Nieto win
Thu,5 Jul 2012 01:58 PM PDT
Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Enrique Pena Nieto was a clear victor in Sunday's presidential election, according to a second tally of votes made after the runner-up refused to accept defeat. With 97 percent of polling stations counted by Thursday afternoon, Pena Nieto held 38.3 percent of the vote, nearly 7 points ahead of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. A win for Pena Nieto sets up a return to power by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico, at times ruthlessly, between 1929 and 2000. ...
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Drug war fury awaits Mexico's Pena Nieto
Thu,5 Jul 2012 01:42 PM PDT
Reuters -  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In the two days after Enrique Pena Nieto smiled under confetti to celebrate his presidential election win in Mexico, a car bomb killed two policemen, assailants opened fire on a wake near the U.S. border and rival gunmen left 10 dead near the capital. The carnage served as a grim reminder of the drug war the new leader will inherit when he takes office in December. Pena Nieto faces pressure from all sides over a drug war that has killed more than 55,000 people in President Felipe Calderon's six-year presidency. ...
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U.N. stops short of endorsing intervention in Mali
Thu,5 Jul 2012 01:34 PM PDT
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday endorsed West African political efforts to end unrest in Mali but stopped short of backing military intervention in the West African state where al Qaeda-linked militants control significant territory. Ansar Dine and its Salafist allies have hijacked a separatist Tuareg uprising in northern Mali and now control two-thirds of its desert north, which includes the regions of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu where historic and religious sites have been destroyed in recent days. ... Full Story | Top |
Northern Ireland police to investigate 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings
Thu,5 Jul 2012 01:07 PM PDT
Reuters -  BELFAST (Reuters) - A murder investigation is to be launched into the killings of 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers by British soldiers in Londonderry 40 years ago, Northern Ireland's police service said on Thursday. The announcement came a week after Britain's Queen Elizabeth for the first time shook the hand of former Irish Republican Army (IRA) guerrilla commander Martin McGuinness, who was there on the day, helping draw a line under a conflict that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians. ...
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Romania president accuses government of power grab
Thu,5 Jul 2012 12:58 PM PDT
Reuters - BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's president accused the government on Thursday of using an attempt to impeach him as a way of grabbing control of the judiciary and other state institutions. The leftist Social-Liberal Union (USL) government is set to use its parliamentary majority to vote on Friday to suspend right-winger Traian Basescu. A referendum would then be held on his impeachment within a month. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. sanctions Eritrean officials for aiding Somalia militants
Thu,5 Jul 2012 12:53 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on two Eritrean government officials on Thursday, saying they had assisted Islamist militants including the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab in the lawless neighboring state of Somalia. The U.S. Treasury included the two Eritreans on a list of six people newly placed under sanctions for their role in the Somalian conflict, which U.S. officials see as a growing threat to regional stability across East Africa. ... Full Story | Top |
Nervous Libyans ready for first taste of democracy
Thu,5 Jul 2012 12:26 PM PDT
Reuters -  TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyans will vote in their first free national poll in more than half a century on Saturday amid fears that violence could taint an election meant to usher in a temporary national assembly and draw a line under Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year autocratic reign. Voters will select a 200-member assembly that will choose a cabinet to replace the self-appointed interim government and also pick a new prime minister. Many of the 3,700 candidates have strong Islamic agendas. The chamber was also due to appoint a committee charged with drafting a new constitution. ...
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Costa Rica arrests suspected Mexican drug trafficker
Thu,5 Jul 2012 12:21 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rican authorities arrested a 37-year-old Mexican on Thursday, accusing him of running drug trafficking operations in Central America for Mexico's Gulf Cartel. Judicial police arrested Juan Manuel Garcia in a hotel in downtown San Jose along with Francisco Gonzalez Rangel, 57, also Mexican and suspected of belonging to the same criminal group, officials said. "This is a major suspect in the trafficking operations of this cartel," Francisco Segura, head of Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Organism, told a news conference. ... Full Story | Top |
Greece admits veering from bailout obligations
Thu,5 Jul 2012 12:14 PM PDT
Reuters -  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece conceded on Thursday it had slipped "in some respects" in implementing the cuts and reforms demanded by lenders in exchange for saving Athens from bankruptcy, and tried to persuade them to cut the country some slack. Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras made the admission after meeting senior officials from Greece's "troika" of lenders from the EU, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, whose inspectors have begun picking through the country's books after weeks of political paralysis. ...
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Egypt army salutes Mursi, both strive for control
Thu,5 Jul 2012 12:12 PM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Sat between Egypt's two top generals, newly elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi oversaw a passing-out ceremony of military recruits on Thursday in a rigidly choreographed scene that could almost have been taken from the era of Hosni Mubarak. Yet beneath the formalities, a more subtle game is at play as two long-time adversaries size each other up for what is likely to be an Islamist war of attrition to scale back the influence of an army that has ruled the nation for 60 years. ... Full Story | Top |
Greek finance minister says Athens must get program on track: FT
Thu,5 Jul 2012 11:59 AM PDT
Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's new finance minister Yannis Stournaras said Athens had to get its fiscal reform program back on track before seeking an easing of austerity measures, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. "The program is off-track and we can't ask for anything from our creditors before we get it back on course," Stournaras was quoted as saying by the Financial Times. An official at Greece's Finance Ministry told Reuters that Stournaras's statement did not mean the Greek government had dropped its demand for a change in some terms of its international bailout. ... Full Story | Top |
Long road ahead in U.S.-Pakistan ties after NATO deal
Thu,5 Jul 2012 11:53 AM PDT
Reuters -  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and the United States are set to resume broader talks on security cooperation, militant threats, aid and other issues in the wake of an agreement to reopen supply routes into Afghanistan, Pakistan's envoy to Washington said on Thursday. But bridging underlying differences that strained U.S.-Pakistani ties close to the breaking point will be daunting as the allies remain at odds over how to handle the twin threats of the Taliban in Afghanistan and militants in Pakistani tribal areas. ...
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Bahrain boy held over protests to be monitored
Thu,5 Jul 2012 11:28 AM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - An 11-year-old boy arrested on charges of taking part in street unrest in Bahrain must be monitored by authorities for a year, a juvenile court ruled on Thursday, in a case criticized by rights groups. The Gulf island state, dominated by the ruling Al Khalifa family, has been in turmoil since an uprising calling for democratic reforms in February last year, inspired by successful movements in Egypt and Tunisia. The government put down the uprising - led by Bahrain's Shi'ite Muslim majority - after one month, imposing a period of martial law, but protests soon returned. ... Full Story | Top |
Japan's atomic disaster due to "collusion:" panel report
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:55 AM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from "collusion" among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said on Thursday, wrapping up an inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in 25 years. Damage from the huge March 11, 2011, earthquake, and not just the ensuing tsunami, could not be ruled out as a cause of the accident, the panel added, a finding with serious potential implications as Japan seeks to bring idled reactors on line. ...
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Syrians' support saves me from Shah's fate: Assad
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT
Reuters - ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Thursday that he would have been toppled long ago like the shah of Iran if his people did not support him. "Everybody was calculating that I would fall in a small amount of time. They all miscalculated," Assad told the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, which has published excerpts from its interview with the Syrian leader over the past three days. ... Full Story | Top |
Newsmaker: Syrian general breaks from Assad's inner circle
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT
Reuters - ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) - He is a Republican Guard brigadier and son of Syria's longest-serving defense minister. But most of all Manaf Tlas is a friend of President Bashar al-Assad, a member of his inner circle and a prominent figure in the Damascus "young guard". Or he was. Rebels and a news website with links to the Syrian security apparatus said on Thursday that Tlas had fled to Turkey. If confirmed, he would be the first real insider to defect from the embattled elite fighting off a revolt against the Assad clan. ... Full Story | Top |
Russia says no plan to offer Syria's Assad asylum
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT
Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia dismissed suggestions on Thursday that it was planning to offer political asylum to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and said two prominent opposition leaders were coming to Moscow for talks next week. Russia, along with China, has shielded Assad from Western-sponsored U.N. action beyond verbal condemnation of the violence - a stance that Assad's foes say gives him a free hand to pursue his crackdown against protesters. Last week Russia also watered down an international agreement brokered by U.N. mediator Kofi Annan in Geneva. ... Full Story | Top |
Syria troops and helicopters advance on northern town
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT
Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops backed up by helicopters advanced on Thursday into the rebellious northern town of Khan Sheikhoun, activist residents said, one of many fronts being contested by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and pro-democracy rebels. "(Syrian forces) have entered the town from the southern side. They are burning houses and farms," activist Abu al-Ghaith al-Khani said by Skype, adding that 80 percent of the town's residents had fled. ... Full Story | Top |
Syrian general defects to Turkey, website says
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT
Reuters - ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) - A general in the elite Syrian Republican Guards has defected to Turkey, a news website said on Thursday, in the first such reported loss of a high-ranking military supporter of President Bashar al-Assad since the rebellion against him started 16 months ago. "A high-level security source has confirmed the fleeing of General (Manaf) Tlas to Turkey," the Syriasteps website, which has links to the Syrian security apparatus, said. It quoted a security official as saying: "His escape does not mean anything. ... Full Story | Top |
Pilot bodies from downed Turkish jet retrieved
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT
Reuters - ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's armed forces command said on Thursday it had retrieved the bodies of two pilots of a jet shot down by Syria last month, recovering them from the seabed 8.6 nautical miles from the Syrian coast. It said the bodies were found at a depth of 1,260 meters near the wreckage of the jet which had broken up into eight pieces. It said the bodies had been flown to the eastern city of Malatya where the jet had taken off from on June 22. (Writing by Jonathon Burch; Editing by Jon Hemming and Andrew Osborn) Full Story | Top |
Iraq says al Qaeda members crossing into Syria
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT
Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has "solid information" that al Qaeda militants are crossing from Iraq into Syria to carry out attacks and has sent reinforcements to the border, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Hoshiyar Zebari said al Qaeda "operational officers" appeared to be moving through old smuggling routes carrying weapons. "We have solid information and intelligence that members of al Qaeda terrorist networks have gone in the other direction, to Syria, to help, to liaise, to carry out terrorist attacks," he told a news conference in Baghdad. ... Full Story | Top |
WikiLeaks says starts releasing hacked Syria emails
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The WikiLeaks website said on Thursday it had begun publishing more than 2 million emails from Syrian government officials that would embarrass not only Damascus, which is trying to crush a 16-month rebellion, but also its opponents. WikiLeaks spokeswoman Sarah Harrison told a news conference the emails were from Syrian political figures, government ministries and companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. ... Full Story | Top |
Training flaws exposed in Rio-Paris crash report
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:50 AM PDT
Reuters -  PARIS (Reuters) - Pilot error, defective sensors, inadequate training and insufficient oversight combined to send an Air France passenger plane plunging into the south Atlantic in 2009 in the airline's worst disaster, French investigators said on Thursday. The final report on the Rio-Paris Airbus A330 crash that killed 228 people went further than expected in castigating the air safety establishment, saying France's flag carrier was subject to less inspection than smaller rivals. ...
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Morality killing triggers fears and debate in Egypt
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:47 AM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - The fatal stabbing by men identified as Islamists of a young man as he walked with his fiancee has stirred fears among some Egyptians that zealots emboldened by the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power will seek to impose their customs on society. The couple were out in the port city of Suez, known as a bastion of hardline Islamism, when Ahmed Eid 20, was set upon and stabbed on June 25, dying later of his wounds. ... Full Story | Top |
UN stops short of endorsing intervention in Mali
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:36 AM PDT
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday endorsed West African political efforts to end unrest in Mali but stopped short of backing military intervention in the West African state, where al Qaeda-linked militants control significant territory. Mali's neighbors have been seeking U.N. backing for armed intervention to stabilize the country. In June, the Security Council asked the African Union and West African group ECOWAS to explain more precisely what kind of resolution they want. ... Full Story | Top |
Egyptian Islamist faces trial for indecent act
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:29 AM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian Islamist politician will face trial on public indecency charges after being caught in a compromising sexual act with a young woman in a parked car, the state news agency said on Thursday. Ali Wanees is a member of the now dissolved parliament for the Salafi al-Nour party, which advocates a strict interpretation of Islam and prohibits sex outside marriage. He was briefly detained in June after being found in the car with a university student on a deserted road in the Nile Delta, state news agency MENA said. ... Full Story | Top |
Merkel's popularity up, backing over euro firm: poll
Thu,5 Jul 2012 10:26 AM PDT
Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity among German voters is at its highest level in three years, according to a poll published on Thursday that also confirmed strong support for her stance in the euro zone debt crisis. But the Infratest-ARD survey suggested Merkel's coalition partner, the Free Democrats (FDP), would fail to get elected to the lower house Bundestag after next year's election, complicating her hopes of securing a third term. ... Full Story | Top |
Turkey warms to France as genocide law abandoned
Thu,5 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister hailed the opening of a warmer phase in relations with France on Thursday as a French law on the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 was abandoned, but he received no support for a Turkish bid to join the European Union. Ahmet Davutoglu was visiting France for the first time since the election in May of President Francois Hollande, who Turkish officials hoped might be more open to the prospect of Ankara's EU bid than predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy. ... Full Story | Top |
Cameron: UK will get value for money from Games
Thu,5 Jul 2012 09:47 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The Olympics will bring more than 13 billion pounds into the British economy over the next few years, more than offsetting money spent for the Games, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday. Cameron sees the Games in London as a once in a generation opportunity to showcase Britain as a place to do business. The government is running a series of industry summits during the Games to back its sales drive. "I am confident that we can derive over 13 billion pounds benefit to the UK economy over the next four years as a result of hosting the Games," Cameron said. ... Full Story | Top |
Honduran moonshine kills 10 people
Thu,5 Jul 2012 09:25 AM PDT
Reuters - TEGUCIGALPA, July 5 - At least 10 people died earlier this week in central Honduras after drinking adulterated alcohol, an official said on Thursday. The victims came from a rural area around Siguatepeque, a city 90 kilometers north of the capital, Tegucigalpa, Tomas Guevara, a health ministry official, told Reuters. Most died on Monday, probably after drinking the methanol-spiked moonshine over the weekend, Guevara said. "We are continuing to look for other victims in the region and we also have more patients recovering in local hospitals," Guevara added. ... Full Story | Top |
Vatican posts 2011 loss, but donations up
Thu,5 Jul 2012 09:18 AM PDT
Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church lost 14.9 million euros last year as "the negative trend of global financial markets did not allow targets to be met," the Church said, but donations from the faithful around the world were up. The donations, known as Peter's Pence, rose 3 percent to 69.7 billion euros in 2011. Donations from dioceses to support the central structure of the Church also rose, gaining 17 percent to $32.1 million. The Vatican has posted annual losses in four out of the five past years - all but 2010. ... Full Story | Top |
Europe's A400M troop plane hits new engine glitch
Thu,5 Jul 2012 09:00 AM PDT
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus has grounded Europe's flagship army plane at next week's high-profile Farnborough Airshow as France's Senate voiced concern on Thursday over engine problems and spares shortages on the A400M military transport aircraft. Confirming an exclusive Reuters story, Airbus said it had dropped the A400M's wheeling and steeply slanted flying display for the second year in a row after engine problems. ... Full Story | Top |
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