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Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion
Thu,24 Nov 2011 04:08 PM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday. A study by Canadian scientists found that South Africa and Zimbabwe suffer the worst economic losses due to doctors emigrating, while Australia, Canada, Britain and the United States benefit the most from recruiting doctors trained abroad. ... Full Story | Top |
Trinidad PM says police thwarted assassination plot
Thu,24 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST
Reuters - PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said on Thursday the country's law enforcement officials foiled a plot involving army soldiers and police officers to assassinate her and other government officials. The prime minister, speaking during a nationally televised press conference, offered few specific details of the alleged plot. But she described it as a "reprisal" for a state of emergency she imposed three months ago to halt a surge in violent crime tied to the drug trade. ... Full Story | Top |
Several killed in central Nigeria religious violence
Thu,24 Nov 2011 03:19 PM PST
Reuters - JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Several people were killed in religious violence in central Nigeria on Thursday, prompting the military to impose a 24-hour curfew in one region at the border between the West African country's mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south. Christian and Muslim gangs fighting over ownership of cattle and fertile farmland clashed in Barkin Ladi, an area in the central city of Jos, the capital of Plateau state. Witnesses said they counted at least 10 dead bodies. "The STF (Special Task Force) has imposed 24 hour curfew in Barkin Ladi. ... Full Story | Top |
Italy's brightest look abroad for opportunity
Thu,24 Nov 2011 03:18 PM PST
Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - After working as an unpaid intern for 18 months in Italy, Massimo Fantini decided to try his chances abroad. Within five years he had a good job in a major multinational, had bought a house and had got married. "If I had stayed in Italy, none of this would have been possible," said Fantini, speaking by telephone from New York. "When I talk to my friends who stayed behind, I can hear their frustration. They are losing their energy and their dreams. That is the worst thing you can do to someone," added the 34-year-old accountant. ... Full Story | Top |
Syria faces Arab sanctions deadline over monitors
Thu,24 Nov 2011 03:16 PM PST
Reuters -  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria faces a Friday deadline to sign an Arab deal allowing monitors into the country or incur sanctions over its crackdown on protests including halting flights, curbing trade and stopping deals with the central bank. Arab foreign ministers warned in Cairo that unless Syria agreed to let the monitors in to assess progress of an Arab League plan to end eight months of bloodshed, officials would consider imposing sanctions on Saturday. ...
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Germany wakes up to festering neo-Nazi threat
Thu,24 Nov 2011 03:13 PM PST
Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - After 30 years living in eastern Germany, Mozambique-born Ibrahimo Alberto this summer decided he could endure no more daily racist abuse. He turned his back on his job, gave up on what had become his home and moved with his family to the west. The last straw for Alberto came when his son was playing in a soccer match and an opponent shouted: "Nigger swine. I'll beat you to death." "I had enough. I saw it was getting more and more," Alberto told German radio after he moved to Karlsruhe. ... Full Story | Top |
Egypt braces for fresh rally against army rule
Thu,24 Nov 2011 03:11 PM PST
Reuters -  CAIRO (Reuters) - Activists vowed to crank up pressure on Egypt's generals on Friday with an overwhelming show of people power to cap almost a week of protests against army rule that have left 41 people dead. State media said the army leaders picked a political veteran in his late 70s to form a national salvation government, a choice that was quickly snubbed by many of the young activists who have led the demonstrations in Tahrir Square. ...
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Hope builds for refugees as world turns on Assad
Thu,24 Nov 2011 02:49 PM PST
Reuters - YAYLADAG, Turkey (Reuters) - After months of despair that the international community would ever act to help them, Syrian refugees in Turkey say they are now optimistic that the world is ready to take action at last. "Before, people were frustrated that their camp stay would last too long, and felt it was no life in a camp, when the international community seemed paralyzed and hesitant," said Ibrahim Ali, a contractor from a Syrian village, now living in a tented camp in Yayladag on the Turkish side of the border. "But now it's different. People are staying here and morale is high. ... Full Story | Top |
Morocco's election leaves slum dwellers uninspired
Thu,24 Nov 2011 02:16 PM PST
Reuters -  RABAT (Reuters) - As a group of young men stood chatting in the Douar L'Koura slum in Morocco's capital, another man rushed up and warned them the police could soon be on their way. "I just assaulted someone with a knife," he said. Morocco votes Friday in a parliamentary election which the authorities say is a big step toward democracy and testimony that this north African kingdom is responding to the "Arab Spring" uprisings by embracing reform. ...
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At least 26 bodies dumped in Guadalajara
Thu,24 Nov 2011 02:08 PM PST
Reuters -  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Suspected drug gang hitmen murdered at least 26 people and dumped their bodies in the center of Mexico's second city of Guadalajara on Thursday as a showdown between rival drug gangs intensified. The bodies were found in several vans abandoned around the western city's iconic Millennium Arches monument, together with a message from drug cartels. An official with the attorney-general's office said the death toll could rise beyond the 26 confirmed so far. ...
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Two French nationals abducted in Mali
Thu,24 Nov 2011 01:56 PM PST
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Two French nationals were kidnapped in northern Mali Wednesday, the French Foreign Ministry said Thursday. "We can confirm that two French nationals were kidnapped last night in the town of Hombori, about 200 km (125 miles) west of Gao," spokesman Bernard Valero said. A senior Malian army official told Reuters the two men, an engineer and technician who work for a local cement firm, were abducted at about 0100 GMT from their hotel. "They do regular field trips to Hombori in the north (and were taken) by turbaned men in 4x4s," the official said. ... Full Story | Top |
Libya leaders supported by "money, arms, PR": ex-premier
Thu,24 Nov 2011 01:53 PM PST
Reuters -  TRIPOLI (Reuters) - One of the most senior figures in Libya's outgoing government has denounced its leaders as an unelected elite, supported by "money, arms and PR," and warned that 90 percent of Libya is politically voiceless. Outgoing acting Prime Minister Ali Tarhouni's comments were the strongest criticism to date by a senior politician of the country's new rulers, who led the rebellion that ended Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule and have been in charge since his fall. ...
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Gaddafi son needs surgery on gangrenous fingers: doctor
Thu,24 Nov 2011 01:48 PM PST
Reuters -  ZINTAN/TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam needs surgery to remove gangrenous flesh from a severed thumb and finger which if not treated could make him seriously ill, a doctor who examined him told Reuters on Thursday. Saif al-Islam has been nursing injuries to his right hand which he says were sustained during a NATO airstrike weeks ago. No further details have been available on the state of his heavily bandaged thumb, index and middle fingers. ...
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Trinidad PM says police thwarted assassination plot
Thu,24 Nov 2011 01:41 PM PST
Reuters - PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - The prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar said Thursday the country's law enforcement officials thwarted a plot to assassinate her and other government officials. Nearly a dozen people have been arrested in the alleged plot, including members of the army and police force, Trinidad and Tobago Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs said. (Reporting by Linda Hutchinson-Jafar; writing by Kevin Gray; editing by Anthony Boadle) Full Story | Top |
Family of U.S. student freed in Egypt gives thanks
Thu,24 Nov 2011 11:07 AM PST
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joy Sweeney's Thanksgiving wishes were granted in a predawn email on Thursday notifying her that her son and two other American students arrested on suspicion of throwing gasoline bombs in Egypt would be freed. Sweeney said she was notified by email at 5:30 a.m. CST that Egyptian authorities would not appeal a judge's release order for her son Derrik Sweeney, 19 as well as Gregory Porter, 19, and Luke Gates, 21. They were detained this week during the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. ...
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Palestinians talk unity, no sign of progress
Thu,24 Nov 2011 11:02 AM PST
Reuters -  CAIRO (Reuters) - Leaders of Fatah and Hamas met for the first time in six months and hailed progress toward ending a rift that has led to separate governments in the West Bank and Gaza, but there was no sign of a breakthrough. The last meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Cairo in May yielded an agreement aimed at reuniting the Palestinian territories under a single government that would oversee new elections set for May 2012. There has been no progress toward implementation since then. ...
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Russia says U.S. imposes missile shield on Europe
Thu,24 Nov 2011 10:37 AM PST
Reuters -  PETROZAVODSK, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Washington on Thursday of imposing its plans to deploy a missile defense shield on European countries, a day after he threatened to retaliate if the United States pressed ahead with the project. On Wednesday Medvedev said he would arm Russia with missiles capable of countering the U.S. shield, deploy additional weapons in the west and south and set up an early-warning radar system in its Baltic enclave to counteract the U.S. system, which is not expected to be fully in place until 2020. ...
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Bombs in Iraq market kill 10, wound dozens
Thu,24 Nov 2011 09:59 AM PST
Reuters - BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three bombs exploded in a market in Iraq's southern oil city of Basra Thursday, killing at least ten people and wounding dozens, security sources said. Basra, 420 km (240 miles) southeast of Baghdad, is the largest city in the mainly Shi'ite south and the heart of Iraq's oil industry. It hosts a major conference for international oil executives and industry officials starting Friday. ... Full Story | Top |
Heating oil keeps flowing to Syria from Europe
Thu,24 Nov 2011 09:55 AM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Crucial heating oil is flowing to Syria, partly from a Swiss-based oil trader, lessening the chance fuel shortages will hurt the population this winter as cold sets in and various sanctions bite, traders said and shipping data showed. AOT Trading AG has provided a steady supply of gasoil to Syrian ports with the most recent shipment arriving only days ago, surprising rival European trading houses that have dropped trade with Syria's increasingly unpopular government. AOT declined to comment. ... Full Story | Top |
Arabs give Syria one day to avoid sanctions
Thu,24 Nov 2011 09:49 AM PST
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - The Arab League said on Thursday it was giving Syria 24 hours to sign a deal to accept Arab monitors under a plan to end an eight-month crackdown on protests, or risk sweeping economic sanctions. The League, which usually shies away from punishing member states, took the decision at a ministerial meeting after Damascus pursued violent measures against protesters, even though it said it had accepted an Arab peace plan this month. The pan-Arab body said in a statement it was informing the United Nations and urging it to take "necessary measures according to the U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
Factbox: Worst atrocities in Mexico's drug war
Thu,24 Nov 2011 09:37 AM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Mexican authorities found more than 20 bodies in cars left at a major traffic intersection in the western city of Guadalajara, local media and officials said on Thursday. Below are some of the worst attacks since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and declared war on powerful drug cartels. More than 45,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since then. ... Full Story | Top |
Six Afghan children killed in NATO air attack: officials
Thu,24 Nov 2011 09:08 AM PST
Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into an air attack by NATO forces in southern Afghanistan that killed six children and one adult, his office said on Thursday. NATO forces were chasing five insurgents they had spotted planting homemade roadside bombs in Zhari district of southern Kandahar province, said Zalmai Ayobi, a spokesman for the Kandahar governor. An airstrike killed one of them but four fled into a nearby village, and NATO forces attacked them from the air. Seven civilians including women and children were killed, Ayobi added. ... Full Story | Top |
Thousands of Portuguese workers protest against cuts
Thu,24 Nov 2011 09:07 AM PST
Reuters -  LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese workers' general strike halted public transport and some factories in many parts of the country on Thursday and thousands marched to protest against austerity measures imposed as the price of an EU/IMF bailout. The 78 billion euro ($100 billion) rescue fund is designed to keep Portugal afloat and help stem the euro zone's debt crisis, but the spending cuts have sent the country into its worst recession in decades. ...
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Insight: Switzerland looks good to Italians
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:51 AM PST
Reuters -  MILAN/LUGANO (Reuters) - Marco, a 31-year-old from southern Italy, has never set foot in neighboring Switzerland. Now he's thinking of moving his family's cheese-making business there. Growing fear about the impact of the eurozone crisis in Italy is making Switzerland -- traditional banking safe haven for the world's wealthy -- increasingly attractive to ordinary men and women nervous about the impact of austerity measures and even the possible collapse of the eurozone. Italians are among the keenest. ...
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Buoyed by unrest report, Bahrainis confront police
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:47 AM PST
Reuters -  MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrainis, emboldened by a rights enquiry that found evidence of systematic abuse during the crushing of pro-democracy protests this year, clashed with police on Thursday after the funeral of a Shi'ite man who died a day earlier. Some 10,000 people from the majority Shi'ite community in the Gulf Arab state took to the streets of the town of Aali, chanting slogans that were taken from the inquiry led by international rights lawyer Cherif Bassiouni. ...
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Factbox: Morocco holds parliamentary election
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:37 AM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Here are some facts about Morocco, which is holding parliamentary elections on November 25. *THE ECONOMY: -- Morocco's economic growth probably slowed to an annual rate of 4.1 percent in the third quarter, below the country's full-year target, after a slowdown in mining and tourism, the planning authority said at the beginning of November. -- The central bank last month said hotel and restaurant activity recorded a 3.8 percent drop in the second quarter, its worst quarterly performance since the first quarter of 2009. ... Full Story | Top |
Timeline: Morocco's path toward reform under King Mohammed
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:37 AM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Morocco holds parliamentary elections on Friday. Here is a timeline on Morocco since King Mohammed came to the throne: July 23, 1999 - King Hassan II dies from a heart attack and his son Mohammed VI ascends the throne. November 30, 2001 - The king leads Friday prayers in Smara, the spiritual capital of Western Sahara, to help cement ties to the disputed desert territory. Morocco has controlled the former Spanish colony since 1976 despite opposition from the Algerian-backed pro-independence Polisario Front. May 16, 2003 - Suicide bombers set off at least five blasts in Casablanca. ... Full Story | Top |
Morocco election tests depth of king's reforms
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:37 AM PST
Reuters -  RABAT (Reuters) - A parliamentary election on Friday could produce Morocco's most representative government to date after King Mohammed responded to Arab Spring uprisings by giving up some of his powers, but many Moroccans doubt the vote will bring profound change. The election will be closely watched as a test case for the ability of Arab monarchies to craft gradual reforms that satisfy demands for greater democracy without revolts of the kinds seen in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria. ...
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Belarus jails rights activist for tax evasion
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:28 AM PST
Reuters -  MINSK (Reuters) - A Belarussian court jailed leading human rights activist Ales Belyatsky for 4-1/2 years for tax evasion on Thursday, sparking an outcry in the European Union, particularly in neighboring EU countries which unwittingly aided his prosecution. Belyatsky, 49, heads Vesna-96, the best-known rights group in the former Soviet republic, which has campaigned for scores of opposition activists prosecuted by the government of President Alexander Lukashenko. ...
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Yemen gunmen kill five in Sanaa, 17 dead in south
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:20 AM PST
Reuters -  SANAA (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least five people protesting against a deal to end the rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen's capital on Thursday, a day after the president bowed to pressure and agreed to step down, while the army killed 17 Islamists in the south. If the deal goes according to plan, Saleh will become the fourth Arab ruler brought down by mass demonstrations that have reshaped the political landscape of the Middle East. ...
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Analysis: Saleh, quitting or dancing on the heads of snakes
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:15 AM PST
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - After months of evasion, procrastination and defiance, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh had one more surprise up his sleeve: he signed a Gulf accord which, on paper at least, stripped him of his powers. Yemenis now turn to just how the deal will be implemented to secure the dismantling of the rule of the 69-year-old whose iron grip enmeshed his family, friends and allies in the nation's military, business and economy. ... Full Story | Top |
Greek police detain union leader in tax protest
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:15 AM PST
Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek riot police detained a union leader and 14 other activists on Thursday during a protest against a property tax, the first such arrests since the formation of a national unity government to stave off bankruptcy. Dozens of members of the GENOP labor union clashed with around 80 riot police outside an office of Greece's biggest power producer PPC in an Athens suburb. The company is charged with collecting the property tax via electricity bills. "We will not back down in our struggle. This fight is about the whole of Greek society. ... Full Story | Top |
Palestinian PM, Norway decry Israeli fund freeze
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:07 AM PST
Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority is "fast approaching the point of being completely incapacitated" by Israel's refusal to hand over tax revenues belonging to the authority, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said. Israel's freeze on the taxes and fees it collects for the Palestinian Authority at borders has deprived the government of two-thirds of its normal revenue since November 1, making it hard to pay salaries and fix infrastructure, Fayyad said. "This is our money," he said. "It has nothing to do with donor assistance or anything like that. ... Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Saleh, quitting or dancing on the heads of snakes
Thu,24 Nov 2011 07:43 AM PST
Reuters -  DUBAI (Reuters) - After months of evasion, procrastination and defiance, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh had one more surprise up his sleeve: he signed a Gulf accord which, on paper at least, stripped him of his powers. Yemenis now turn to just how the deal will be implemented to secure the dismantling of the rule of the 69-year-old whose iron grip enmeshed his family, friends and allies in the nation's military, business and economy. ...
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Sri Lanka will act on evidence of atrocities by troops
Thu,24 Nov 2011 06:43 AM PST
Reuters -  COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military will act against any soldiers who may have committed war crimes or other excesses in the last months of its 25-year civil war, the island nation's influential defense secretary said Thursday. Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa's comments come as President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his elder brother, prepares to make public next month the findings of a commission that probed the end of the separatist war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which Sri Lanka won in May 2009. Sri Lanka is facing Western calls for an external investigation. ...
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Saudi Arabia says two killed in clash in eastern province
Thu,24 Nov 2011 05:12 AM PST
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Two people have been killed and three wounded in an exchange of gunfire in oil-producing eastern Saudi Arabia between security forces and what the government called gunmen serving a foreign power. The shooting on Wednesday night raised the death toll to at least four in Eastern Province since Sunday. It broke out during the funeral of one of two people killed in what the government has described as a string of attacks this week on security checkpoints. ... Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Post-Gaddafi era casts shadow over Sahara-Sahel
Thu,24 Nov 2011 04:31 AM PST
Reuters - DAKAR (Reuters) - A complex mosaic of nations, tribes and militants is hampering strategies by African and Western nations to staunch the flow of weapons and fighters south from the civil war in Libya into the Sahara-Sahel region. Libya's civil war and the end of Muammar Gaddafi's rule has pumped more weapons and men into an already volatile mix of local rebels, cross-border criminals and Islamists in the remote desert regions of Mali, Niger and Mauritania. Diplomacy and military cooperation has made some progress toward intercepting arms and fighters but much needs to be done. ... Full Story | Top |
Libya will try Gaddafi's son fairly: ICC prosecutor
Thu,24 Nov 2011 04:31 AM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Libya will make a point of giving Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam a fair trial to show the world it is no longer a tinpot dictatorship, the International Criminal Court's prosecutor said on Thursday. Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said he will not demand that Saif al-Islam be handed over to the Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity even though he has no guarantee that a Libyan trial would be fully fair. In a Reuters interview, he said he believed Libya would still put together a convincing trial and not a whitewash. ... Full Story | Top |
Kenyan soldier killed in blast near Somalia border
Thu,24 Nov 2011 03:49 AM PST
Reuters - GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan soldier was killed after an improvised bomb struck a military truck near the Somali border Thursday, the army said, the latest in a spate of attacks near the frontier since Kenya sent troops into Somalia. Army spokesman Emmanuel Chirchir said four other soldiers were wounded when the truck was hit after driving over the device while on patrol in the frontier town of Mandera. ... Full Story | Top |
Provincial autonomy risks sectarian rift in Iraq
Thu,24 Nov 2011 03:33 AM PST
Reuters -  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Moves by some of Iraq's mainly Sunni Muslim provinces toward increased autonomy threaten to heighten sectarian tensions and put pressure on Iraq's already frail central government as U.S. troops depart at the end of the year. Just weeks before the last American troops leave, growing appeals for local control mark disenchantment with the Shi'ite Muslim-led government and could widen rifts between the country's Sunni and Shi'ite communities. Desire for provincial power has simmered for years in Iraq, a maelstrom of ethnic, sectarian and tribal conflict. ...
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