Today's Reuters World News Headlines - Yahoo! News: | | Mali requests military assistance to free north: France Tue,4 Sep 2012 06:51 PM PDT Reuters - OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Mali's interim leader has made a formal request to west African regional body ECOWAS for military assistance to help free the country's north, which has been occupied since April by Islamists, France's special representative for the Sahel said on Tuesday. Jean Felix-Paganon said he was informed of the decision during a meeting with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, who chairs the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). ... Full Story | Top | Quebec separatists to form minority government: networks Tue,4 Sep 2012 06:38 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - The separatist Parti Quebecois won enough seats in a Quebec election on Tuesday to create a minority government in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province, the CTV and TVA networks predicted. If confirmed by final results, that would make it almost impossible for the new PQ government to hold a referendum on independence. The party defeated the Liberal government after nine years in power. CTV and TVA said the PQ would win 58 of the 125 seats in the provincial legislature, leaving it five short of a majority. ...
Full Story | Top | Mexico catches leader of Gulf Cartel drug gang Tue,4 Sep 2012 06:24 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has captured a leader of the country's Gulf Cartel in one of the highest-profile arrests in months in President Felipe Calderon's war on drug gangs. Mario Cardenas, alias "Fatso," was captured in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas on Monday by Mexican marines. He was paraded in front of the media in Mexico City on Tuesday. "The capture was carried out following an infantry operation yesterday in Altamira, Tamaulipas, as (Cardenas) brandished a large weapon in the entrance of a building," Navy spokesman Vice Admiral Jose Luis Vergarathe said. ...
Full Story | Top | Colombian 'Cocaine Queen' gunned down Tue,4 Sep 2012 05:56 PM PDT Reuters - BOGOTA (Reuters) - Griselda Blanco, a Colombian drug dealer known as the "Queen of cocaine," was gunned down by unidentified assailants, local media reported on Tuesday. The 69-year-old was shot twice in the head on Monday when she was walking out of a butcher shop in the north-central city of Medellin. "She was in a butcher's ... and was killed by two unidentified people on a motorbike," Police Colonel Mauricio Cartagena was quoted as saying by Colombian daily El Espectador. ... Full Story | Top | Japan to buy disputed East China Sea islands: media Tue,4 Sep 2012 05:46 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has agreed to buy disputed East China Sea islets, claimed by both Tokyo and Beijing, from their private Japanese owners, Japanese media said on Wednesday, a move likely to fuel tensions between Asia's two largest economies. The uninhabited islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, have long been a source of friction. Japan and China have competing territorial claims to the islets and surrounding fishing areas and potentially rich gas deposits. The Japanese government will buy the islets for 2.05 billion yen ($26. ... Full Story | Top | Oracle to continue Itanium server support for HP Tue,4 Sep 2012 05:45 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Oracle Corp said it would continue to support Hewlett-Packard Co's Itanium-based servers after it lost a bitter lawsuit in which it had argued that it was not obliged to make new versions of database software compatible with the servers. Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg wrote on August 1, that a contract exists between HP and Oracle, and that Oracle is required to continue to offer its product suite on HP's servers based on Intel Corp's Itanium chips. ...
Full Story | Top | World Bank chief pledges support for Ivory Coast, urges true peace Tue,4 Sep 2012 05:22 PM PDT Reuters - ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday expressed support for Ivory Coast in his first visit to the West African nation and said he was confident the country could successfully rebuild from post-election violence as long as there was lasting peace. "I am here to express my strong strong support for this country, its people, and the leadership," Kim told a joint news conference with President Alassane Ouattara. "We need Cote Ivoire to be successful and as long as Ivorians choose peace ... we are certain that Cote Ivoire will have great success in the ...
Full Story | Top | Colombian peace talks to begin in October in Norway Tue,4 Sep 2012 05:18 PM PDT Reuters - BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's peace talks with leftist FARC guerrillas to try and end Latin America's longest-running insurgency will begin next month in Norway before moving to Cuba, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday. Unlike past failed negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebels, however, there will be no ceasefire this time, Santos said in a national TV address. "I ask the Colombian people for patience and strength," Santos said, announcing the talks would start in the first half of October. "There's no doubt it's time to turn the page. ... Full Story | Top | French judges investigating Arafat's death seek exhumation Tue,4 Sep 2012 05:03 PM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Three French judges are preparing to travel to Ramallah to seek the exhumation Yasser Arafat's body as part of an investigation into whether he was murdered by poison, a judicial source told Reuters on Wednesday. The investigating magistrates will need approval from both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has already expressed his government's willingness to exhume the body from a limestone sepulchre in Ramallah. ...
Full Story | Top | Pena Nieto unveils transition team Tue,4 Sep 2012 05:01 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday unveiled his transition team for the next government, throwing in a mix of mostly young, trusted aides with heavyweights closer to his party's old guard. Pena Nieto's win for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in July returned the presidency to the group that governed Mexico for 71 consecutive years until 2000, a rule one author memorably described as the "perfect dictatorship. ...
Full Story | Top | North Korea rubberstamp assembly to hold rare second session: KCNA Tue,4 Sep 2012 04:59 PM PDT Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has called a rare second session of parliament five months after holding the first meeting under its new leader, Kim Jong-un, after the impoverished state had been sending signals in recent weeks of plans to repair its broken economy. Delegates to the rubberstamp assembly meet annually to adopt formally the state budget, and to approve important appointments and legal amendments, but is also used to make formal announcements of decisions by the state leadership. ... Full Story | Top | UK watchdog to take aim at bank sales rewards Tue,4 Sep 2012 04:02 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The way British banks reward their sales staff has encouraged mis-selling of products to customers, and reforming the rules won't work without cultural change at the top, Britain's financial regulator will say on Wednesday. UK banks have been hit by a series of scandals for more than 20 years over sales of unsuitable products, ranging from home loans to pensions, to customers who often did not need them. Compensation for mis-sold loan insurance alone will cost the banks nine billion pounds. ...
Full Story | Top | Ban Ki-moon says Syria arms suppliers spreading misery Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:39 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria's conflict has taken a brutal turn with other countries arming both sides, spreading misery and risking "unintended consequences as the fighting intensifies and spreads," U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. The United Nations and Western officials have accused Iran of supplying weapons to Syria's pro-government forces, while Damascus has accused Qatar and Saudi Arabia of arming rebels determined to topple President Bashar al-Assad. "This conflict has taken a particularly brutal turn," Ban said of the 17-month crisis. ... Full Story | Top | Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:39 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army's General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising. Syrian state television said four people were wounded in what it called a terrorist attack on the General Staff compound in the highly guarded Abu Rummaneh district, where another bomb attack killed four of Assad's top lieutenants two months ago. ...
Full Story | Top | Iraq wary over sectarian pull of Syria crisis Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:36 PM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Wary of its own fragile security and sectarian make-up, Iraq wants to avoid getting dragged deeper into Syria's crisis, seeking a tricky balance in the regional power struggle evolving over its neighbor, Iraq's foreign minister said. Iraq's Shi'ite leaders fear a collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government could splinter Syria along sectarian lines, and eventually lead to the rise of a hardline Sunni regime hostile to Baghdad. ...
Full Story | Top | Last brother from Mexico's Arellano Felix cartel pleads not guilty Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:27 PM PDT Reuters - SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Accused Mexican drug kingpin Eduardo Arellano Felix, whose Tijuana-based cartel was dramatized in the Oscar-winning film "Traffic," pleaded not guilty to federal drug charges on Tuesday in his first court appearance since extradition to the United States. Arellano Felix, 55, the fourth brother from the reputed crime family to be taken into U.S. custody, arrived in California on Friday to face charges of racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy to distribute and import marijuana and cocaine. During a brief hearing in U.S. ...
Full Story | Top | Factbox: Economic policies of the main parties in Quebec election Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:24 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Following are key economic policies of the three main parties contesting Tuesday's election in the Canadian province of Quebec. Polls show the governing Liberals, who have been in power since 2003, are trailing the separatist Parti Quebecois and the newly founded, right-leaning Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ). THE LIBERAL PARTY Premier Jean Charest's Liberals have made the economy and jobs the main themes of their campaign. ... Full Story | Top | Factbox: Leaders of three main parties contesting Quebec election Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:24 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Here are brief biographies of the three leaders of the main political parties contesting Tuesday's election in the Canadian province of Quebec. Liberal Premier Jean Charest Charest, 54, a lawyer by training, has been premier of Quebec since winning the April 2003 election. Polls show he is unlikely to hang on to power, in part because voters are tired of his party and also because he resisted calls for an investigation into alleged corruption in the construction industry. ... Full Story | Top | Quebec separatists set to take power, tackle Ottawa Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:24 PM PDT Reuters - QUEBEC CITY, Quebec (Reuters) - Quebecers were voting on Tuesday in an election that looked set to hand victory to the separatist Parti Quebecois, which wants the resource-rich French-speaking province to break away from Canada. Polls show that the left-leaning Parti Quebecois, which has twice held unsuccessful referendums on independence, will end nine years of rule by the federalist Liberals of Premier Jean Charest. Although PQ leader Pauline Marois is promising another independence referendum when the time is right, that could be years away. ...
Full Story | Top | Scotland paves way for vote on independence from Britain Tue,4 Sep 2012 02:22 PM PDT Reuters - EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland will introduce a bill within nine months on holding a referendum on independence, First Minister Alex Salmond said on Tuesday, paving the way for a vote that could result in the eventual breakup of Britain. Salmond, aiming to end the 305-year-old union with England, wants a vote on independence in the second half of 2014, though he has yet to thrash out an agreement with the United Kingdom government in London on how the question will be worded. ... Full Story | Top | Qatar's Al Jazeera website hacked by Syria's Assad loyalists Tue,4 Sep 2012 01:55 PM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - The website of Qatar-based satellite news network Al Jazeera was apparently hacked on Tuesday by Syrian government loyalists for what they said was the television channel's support for the "armed terrorist groups and spreading lies and fabricated news". A Syrian flag and statement denouncing Al Jazeera's "positions against the Syrian people and government" were posted on the Arabic site of the channel in response to its coverage of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad which began in March last year. ... Full Story | Top | Algeria's energy minister keeps job in reshuffle - official Tue,4 Sep 2012 01:47 PM PDT Reuters - ALGIERS (Reuters) - Energy Minister Youcef Yousfi kept his job in Algeria's new government, appointed by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Tuesday, an official source who asked not to be named told Reuters. Bouteflika on Monday named technocrat Abdelmalek Sellal as prime minister, almost four months after a parliamentary election. Algeria is a top energy supplier to Europe and a U.S. ally in its fights against al Qaeda in the region. ... Full Story | Top | Dutch Liberals lead, Labour gains in poll Tue,4 Sep 2012 01:32 PM PDT Reuters - AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch voters are shifting back towards pro-European parties, two opinion polls showed on Tuesday, before an election that will decide whether the Netherlands remains an ally of Germany in the fight for euro zone budget discipline. The two polls, by TNS Nipo and Maurice de Hond, showed the Liberal Party of caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte would win 34 seats in next week's parliamentary election, making it the largest party in the 150-seat chamber. ...
Full Story | Top | Police tear gas activists attacking Syrian embassy in Cairo Tue,4 Sep 2012 01:24 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired tear gas to scatter about 100 activists who tried to storm the Syrian embassy in Cairo on Tuesday to replace the national flag there with a Syrian rebel one, a Reuters journalist said. Activists and police also threw stones at each other, inflicting minor injuries on both sides, a security source said. Security forces arrested about five of the demonstrators. ... Full Story | Top | Egypt president takes steady steps in new foreign policy Tue,4 Sep 2012 12:56 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - A newcomer to international affairs, Egypt's Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, has so far shown skill in moving Egypt back towards the centre of regional diplomacy and setting out his own foreign policy, without upsetting the Americans or Gulf states. His trip to Iran, the first by an Egyptian leader since the 1979 Islamic revolution, could have upset ties with Washington and Gulf Arab capitals, yet seems to have reassured them because Mursi criticized Iran's ally Syria robustly when in Tehran. ...
Full Story | Top | UK unblocks Rwandan aid frozen over Congo rebel row Tue,4 Sep 2012 12:23 PM PDT Reuters - KINSHASA (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday it would unblock about half its $25 million aid to Rwanda after the central African state made constructive efforts to solve a conflict in Congo. Officials in Congo and rights groups criticized the move, saying Rwanda had fuelled the bloodshed in its much larger neighbor. ... Full Story | Top | Egypt replaces tanks with armored vehicles in Sinai Tue,4 Sep 2012 12:17 PM PDT Reuters - ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt's military is deploying light armored vehicles in Sinai to replace some heavy tanks whose presence at the border area had raised concerns in Israel, security sources said on Tuesday. A source said last week the army had begun withdrawing some of the tanks, after they had been deployed as part of an operation against militants who attacked and killed 16 border guards on August 5. Disorder has spread in Sinai since former President Hosni Mubarak's overthrow last year. ...
Full Story | Top | Bahrain court upholds sentences on uprising leaders Tue,4 Sep 2012 11:59 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - A Bahraini civilian court on Tuesday upheld jail sentences of between five and 25 years against leaders of last year's pro-democracy uprising, a decision that could further ignite unrest in the small Gulf Arab state. Bahrain's main opposition bloc condemned the ruling: "These are invalid verdicts that are worthless. They are an example of the regime's despotism," Al Wefaq said in a statement. Opposition activists fear Bahraini authorities want to prolong the case and hold onto the men as bargaining chips in an eventual resolution to the internal conflict. ... Full Story | Top | Hungarians protest against release of Azeri officer Tue,4 Sep 2012 11:51 AM PDT Reuters - BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Almost 2,000 Hungarians protested in Budapest on Tuesday against the government's decision to allow an Azeri soldier who had killed an Armenian officer in 2004 to return home, leading to heightened tensions between the neighboring countries. Last week Hungary released soldier Ramil Safarov to Baku, where Azeri President Ilham Aliyev pardoned him on arrival. Safarov had served eight years of his life sentence for killing an Armenian officer during a NATO training in Hungary. ...
Full Story | Top | Mexican President-elect Pena Nieto unveils transition team Tue,4 Sep 2012 11:48 AM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto unveiled his transition team on Tuesday, and named his election campaign manager, Luis Videgaray, viewed as a possible pick for finance minister, as its head. Centrist Pena Nieto, 46, will be sworn in on December 1 and has pledged a raft of reforms to the labor market, the tax system and state oil monopoly Pemex, which he hopes will help boost economic growth to about 6 percent a year. Pena Nieto wants to encourage more private investment in Pemex, which became a symbol of Mexican self-sufficiency, and soften labor laws. ...
Full Story | Top | Ruling party MP named as India "coalgate" scandal widens Tue,4 Sep 2012 11:24 AM PDT Reuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Federal law enforcement officials have named an MP from India's ruling Congress party in an investigation into irregularities in the award of coalfield concessions, piling more pressure on the government firefighting the latest in a series of scandals. The news emerged on the same day as officials raided the offices and homes of five companies, also in connection with the scandal that has sparked a political crisis at a time when the government is struggling to revive India's slowing economy. ...
Full Story | Top | Murdoch UK papers' scrutiny could last three more years Tue,4 Sep 2012 10:57 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper business could face scrutiny for three more years after the officer heading a police inquiry into phone-hacking and illegal payments to public officials said she expected it to last that long. The police investigation into criminal activities at Murdoch's News International unit has already forced him to close the News of the World tabloid and end a deal to acquire the whole of the pay-TV group BSkyB, which would have been the biggest deal in News Corp's history. ...
Full Story | Top | Sudan, South Sudan resume border talks with eye to oil Tue,4 Sep 2012 10:48 AM PDT Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Former civil war foes Sudan and South Sudan resumed talks on Tuesday in Ethiopia that mediators hope will produce a deal to secure the volatile joint border and clear the way for the two countries to resume oil exports. The countries have been locked in a series of disputes since South Sudan split from its northern neighbor over a year ago under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of war. Fighting along the 1,800-km (1,200-mile) border threatened to boil over into a full-scale war in April when South Sudan seized an oil-producing region long held by Sudan. ... Full Story | Top | Lufthansa cabin crew to extend strikes on Friday Tue,4 Sep 2012 10:46 AM PDT Reuters - FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lufthansa cabin crew will strike throughout Germany on Friday for a full 24 hours, upping the stakes in a row over pay and conditions that threatens to drag on for weeks and cost Germany's biggest airline tens of millions of euros. Cabin crews walked out at Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin airports on Tuesday, forcing Lufthansa to cancel hundreds more flights following strike action on Friday that left 26,000 passengers stranded. ...
Full Story | Top | Britain held responsible for 1948 mass killing in Malaya Tue,4 Sep 2012 10:10 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain was responsible for the 1948 killing of 24 unarmed Malayan civilians who were shot dead by British troops during a campaign against Communist insurgents, a London court ruled on Tuesday, contradicting the official government position. The mass killing in the rubber plantation village of Batang Kali, in what was then the British Protected State of Selangor, has caused six decades of controversy and remains an issue in Malaysia where many believe it was a cold-blooded massacre. ... Full Story | Top | UK's Cameron keeps Osborne in shuffle of ministers Tue,4 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron kept unpopular finance minister George Osborne in place on Tuesday in a reshuffle he hopes will revive the Conservative-led government's fortunes halfway through a term dominated by recession and austerity. Cameron's office billed his first cabinet rejig as a game changer for a government finding it increasingly difficult to heal the economy, but heavyweights such as Foreign Secretary William Hague stayed put and few changes are expected in policy. ...
Full Story | Top | Venezuela's Chavez sees no political harm from refinery disaster Tue,4 Sep 2012 09:46 AM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez boasted on Tuesday he had a "mathematically irreversible" lead ahead of next month's vote and that a refinery disaster had not damaged his re-election campaign as some forecast. The 58-year-old socialist leader had a tough month in August: The blast at Amuay refinery killed 42 people in Venezuela's worst oil industry accident; steel workers heckled him at a rally; and there was fury and road chaos when a major bridge collapsed. ...
Full Story | Top | Egypt's ex-culture minister to stand trial on graft charges Tue,4 Sep 2012 09:26 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's former culture minister Farouk Hosni, once a candidate for the top job at the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO, is to stand trial on charges of making illicit gains, an official said on Tuesday. Hosni, an abstract painter, had served as culture minister for 23 years under former President Hosni Mubarak. Dozens of legal cases have been filed against Mubarak's associates since he was ousted in an uprising on February 11, 2011. The former president, 84, his sons and other former ministers are in prison facing corruption charges. ... Full Story | Top | U.S. nears deal for $1 billion in Egypt debt relief: source Tue,4 Sep 2012 09:26 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is close to a deal with Egypt's new government for $1 billion in debt relief, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, as Washington seeks to help Cairo shore up its ailing economy in the aftermath of its pro-democracy uprising. U.S. diplomats and negotiators for Egypt's new Islamist president Mohamed Mursi - who took office in June after the country's first free elections - were working to finalize an agreement, the official said. ...
Full Story | Top | Activists go on hunger strike over Syria Tue,4 Sep 2012 09:23 AM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Activists have gone on hunger strike to denounce what they say is the international paralysis over Syria and the inability of President Bashar al-Assad's opponents to unite. The group, made up of Syrians and other nationalities, began the hunger strike in Turkey at the end of August. The movement has since spread to countries including France, the United States and Jordan. About 40 are on hunger strike, with a further 12 suspending their action until later this month, the group said. ... Full Story | Top |
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