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| U.S. extends embassy closings, lawmakers say threat serious Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 05:23 PM PDT  By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States extended embassy closures by a week in the Middle East and Africa as a precaution on Sunday after an al Qaeda threat that U.S. lawmakers said was the most serious in years. The State Department said 19 U.S. embassies and consulates would be closed through Saturday "out of an abundance of caution" and that a number of them would have been closed anyway for most of the week due to the Eid celebration at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The United States initially closed 21 U.S. diplomatic posts for the day on Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Envoys in Egypt visit jailed Brotherhood leader: reports Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 08:50 PM PDT  CAIRO (Reuters) - Western and Arab envoys visited a high-ranking member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood in jail on Monday, the state news agency reported, to press an international bid to defuse the crisis ignited by President Mohamed Mursi's downfall. The envoys met deputy Brotherhood leader Khairat El-Shater just after midnight, having received permission from the prosecutor general to visit him at Tora prison, south of Cairo, the state news agency MENA reported. ... Full Story | Top |
| Two soldiers, militant killed in Tunisia turmoil Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 05:22 PM PDT  By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police shot dead an Islamist militant in Tunis and two soldiers were killed in a blast near the Algerian border on Sunday, as the government grappled with growing security and political crises. There has been a surge in Islamist militant attacks over the past two weeks in the North African country, and on Friday security forces launched heavy air and artillery strikes on militant hideouts in the Mount Chaambi area near the Algerian border. ... Full Story | Top |
| China HSBC services PMI shows some resilience Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 08:59 PM PDT  BEIJING (Reuters) - Activity in China's services sector defied the country's economic cool down to expand modestly in July, a private survey showed on Monday, as new business orders recovered from a multi-year low in a rare sign of resilience. But that was tempered by a fall in prices charged by companies to a nine-month low, suggesting demand was still too weak for them to raise prices, and as business expectations hovered near their lowest since 2005. The HSBC/Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the services industry stood at 51. ... Full Story | Top |
| Former U.S. ambassador to Syria considered for Egypt: sources Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 07:31 PM PDT  By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. envoy to Syria Robert Ford is being considered as Washington's next ambassador to Cairo, sources familiar with internal discussions said on Sunday as U.S. and European mediators sought a peaceful resolution to Egypt's crisis. Ford was described as a leading candidate for the post, according to two sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. The State Department declined to comment and Ford did not respond to emails. ... Full Story | Top |
| Republican Ryan wary of shutdown strategy on Obamacare Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 11:24 AM PDT  By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Influential Republican congressman Paul Ryan disagreed on Sunday with the idea of using the threat of a government shutdown as a means of trying to get rid of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law known as "Obamacare." Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee and a former vice presidential candidate, said he strongly backs the goal of repealing Obamacare but added there were other, more effective ways of achieving it than by refusing to approve any government funding bill that includes money for the program. ... Full Story | Top |
| Islamist militants attack Somali capital, plan more before Ramadan ends Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 01:14 PM PDT By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militants set off several explosions in the Somali capital on Sunday, their spokesman said, demonstrating the rebels' ability to attack the heart of government-controlled areas despite security gains. The guerilla-style attacks were typical of al Shabaab rebels who have waged a six-year campaign to impose their strict interpretation of Islamic law on the country. The militants had fired five mortar shells and hurled several grenades, wounding at least two women, senior police officer Abdiqadir Mohamud said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Police shoot dead armed 14-year-old boy in New York City Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 02:19 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A police officer shot an armed 14-year-old boy in New York City early on Sunday after he did not drop his gun when ordered, police said. After hearing gunshots, two officers came across the boy, whom police identified as Shaaliver Douse, chasing another male down a street in the South Bronx, shooting after him with a 9-millimeter semi-automatic handgun as he ran, police said. The uniformed officers identified themselves as police and ordered Douse to drop his gun, police said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Berlusconi backs government at rally against tax conviction Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 11:46 AM PDT  By Naomi O'Leary ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of Silvio Berlusconi protested in Rome on Sunday against a tax fraud conviction that has rocked Italy's fragile coalition, but the center-right leader said the government must continue. Addressing the 2,000-strong crowd, a subdued Berlusconi again bitterly attacked what he calls leftist judges and insisted he was innocent, but said he would continue to support the shaky coalition of his center-right People of Freedom (PDL) party with the center-left Democratic Party (PD) of Prime Minister Enrico Letta. ... Full Story | Top |
| Envoys to meet jailed Islamist Shater: report Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 02:52 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - A group of Western and Arab envoys will visit jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat El-Shater as they seek to mediate an end to Egypt's crisis, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday. The channel gave no further details on the meeting. The envoys from the United States, the European Union, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have been meeting allies of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and the army-backed administration that replaced him in a bid to defuse the crisis. Shater is deputy leader of the Brotherhood and its main political strategist. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insight: Libya's turmoil revealed in feud for custody of Gaddafi's son Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 02:21 AM PDT  By Marie-Louise Gumuchian ZINTAN, Libya (Reuters) - To his captors, the fate of Libya's most prominent prisoner, the son of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi, can be sealed only in one place - in the small straggling mountain town where they have kept him locked up for nearly two years. The prize of former rebel fighters who triumphed in catching him as he tried to flee the country, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is being kept in a secret location somewhere among Zintan's sandstone and concrete buildings. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. extends closure of some embassies through August 10 Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 04:38 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States extended the closures of some embassies and consulates in the Middle East - which had been closed Sunday due to an al Qaeda threat - through August 10 due to caution but not the emergence of any new threat, the State Department said. Other U.S. diplomatic posts, including in Kabul, Baghdad and Algiers, that had been closed on Sunday, will reopen on Monday, the State Department said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt mediation gathers pace but Brotherhood leaders face trial Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 03:43 PM PDT  By Angus MacSwan and Shadia Nasralla CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's army-installed government said on Sunday it would give mediation a chance to resolve the crisis brought on by the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, but warned that time was limited. At the same time, a Cairo court announced that the leader of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood and two other top officials will face trial in three weeks' time for crimes including incitement to murder during protests in the days before he was toppled. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. extends embassy closings, lawmakers say threat serious Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 03:40 PM PDT  By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States extended embassy closures by a week in the Middle East and Africa as a precaution on Sunday after an al Qaeda threat that U.S. lawmakers said was the most serious in years. The State Department said 19 U.S. embassies and consulates would be closed through Saturday "out of an abundance of caution" and that a number of them would have been closed anyway for most of the week due to the Eid celebration at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The United States initially closed 21 U.S. diplomatic posts for the day on Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Two soldiers, militant killed in Tunisia turmoil Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 04:10 PM PDT By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police shot dead an Islamist militant in Tunis and two soldiers were killed in a blast near the Algerian border on Sunday, as the government grappled with growing security and political crises. There has been a surge in Islamist militant attacks over the past two weeks in the North African country, and on Friday security forces launched heavy air and artillery strikes on militant hideouts in the Mount Chaambi area near the Algerian border. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Mexico bets on reforms to boost wages, but no quick fix Saturday, Aug 03, 2013 10:22 PM PDT  By Alexandra Alper and Pablo Garibian MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans hoping their president will make good on a campaign promise to boost wages may be in for a long wait, as the country aims to dodge Brazil's mistakes by betting on economic reforms that will take years to translate into labor gains. President Enrique Pena Nieto came to office in December promising to boost productivity and raise low wages in Latin America's No. 2 economy, which have changed little in over a decade, averaging $21 a day in the formal sector. ... Full Story | Top |
| Africa and West at odds over disputed Zimbabwe election Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 04:17 AM PDT  By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Sunday congratulated Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe on his re-election, in sharp contrast to Western governments which questioned the credibility of a rushed, disputed vote. African monitors broadly approved the conduct of the election but Mugabe's main rival, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai, has said he will challenge the results in court with evidence of massive vote-rigging, irregularities and intimidation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested after woman killed in California boardwalk hit-and-run rampage Sunday, Aug 04, 2013 04:05 PM PDT  By Dana Feldman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a driver plowed his car into pedestrians on the popular Venice Beach boardwalk, killing an Italian woman on her honeymoon and injuring 11 other people, police said on Sunday. Witnesses said it appeared the car's driver had been aiming for pedestrians on Saturday while driving down the popular oceanside walkway at speeds up to 20 miles per hour while people screamed and scrambled to get out of the way. "Bodies were flying in the air and people were screaming. ... Full Story | Top |
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