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Former rival Cain endorses Gingrich for president
Sat,28 Jan 2012 07:14 PM PST
Reuters -  PANAMA CITY/ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich received the endorsement of former rival Herman Cain on Saturday and vowed to fight until the end no matter what happens in Florida's upcoming primary vote. Cain, who ended his presidential campaign in December under the weight of sexual harassment allegations, made the endorsement at an event with Gingrich in West Palm Beach. It is unclear how much impact it will have for Gingrich in Florida, which has been trending toward rival Mitt Romney ahead of the state's vote on Tuesday. ...
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Arab League suspends Syria mission as violence rages
Sat,28 Jan 2012 06:09 PM PST
Reuters -  CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of worsening violence, a move Damascus said was an attempt to encourage foreign intervention as it struggles to quell a 10-month revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. The Arab League took the decision Saturday days after calling on Assad to step down and make way for a government of national unity. It will take an Arab peace plan to the U.N. Security Council next week. Instability is increasing inside Syria. ...
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Fire kills 26 patients at rehab center in Peru
Sat,28 Jan 2012 03:57 PM PST
Reuters -  LIMA (Reuters) - Fire swept through a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts and alcoholics in Peru on Saturday, killing 26 patients who were locked in to stop them from fleeing during treatment, local media and witnesses said. Several survivors said the blaze was started by two patients who wanted to break out of the private "Christ is Love" center in the capital Lima. "Some inmates wanted to escape and they set fire to some cloths and started throwing them at the manager's office, and then it caught fire inside," said patient Wilmer Garcia. ...
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Freed Egypt activist says will not stay silent
Sat,28 Jan 2012 03:24 PM PST
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian activist who became a symbol of resistance to the army's trials of civilians said on Saturday he would not be silenced and denounced the army for detaining and mistreating "prisoners of conscience". Maikel Nabil has been jailed twice since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled from power last February on charges of defaming the army, but was pardoned by the head of the ruling army council earlier this month along with almost 2,000 others. ... Full Story | Top |
Egyptians vote in Upper House elections on Sunday
Sat,28 Jan 2012 03:24 PM PST
Reuters -  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians vote Sunday in the first stage of elections for the upper house of parliament, with Islamists seeking to repeat the success they enjoyed in elections for the lower house. Voting for the Shura council will be held over two stages ending in the middle of February and follow a lower house election that was Egypt's most democratic since military officers overthrew the king in 1952. The series of elections for both houses of parliament are the first since Hosni Mubarak was toppled from the presidency on February 11 last year by a popular uprising. ...
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Freed Egypt activist says will not stay silent
Sat,28 Jan 2012 03:10 PM PST
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian activist who became a symbol of resistance to the army's trials of civilians said Saturday he would not be silenced and denounced the army for detaining and mistreating "prisoners of conscience." Maikel Nabil has been jailed twice since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled from power last February on charges of defaming the army, but was pardoned by the head of the ruling army council earlier this month along with almost 2,000 others. ... Full Story | Top |
Freed Egypt activist says will not stay silent
Sat,28 Jan 2012 03:08 PM PST
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian activist who became a symbol of resistance to the army's trials of civilians said Saturday he would not be silenced and denounced the army for detaining and mistreating "prisoners of conscience." Maikel Nabil has been jailed twice since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled from power last February on charges of defaming the army, but was pardoned by the head of the ruling army council earlier this month along with almost 2,000 others. ... Full Story | Top |
UK police arrest Murdoch tabloid staff, raid offices
Sat,28 Jan 2012 03:07 PM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested four current and former staff of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling Sun tabloid plus a policeman on Saturday as part of an investigation into suspected payments by journalists to officers, police and the newspaper's publisher said. Police also searched the paper's London offices at publisher News International, News Corp's British arm, in a corruption probe linked to a continuing investigation into phone hacking at its now closed News of the World weekly tabloid. ...
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Glitzy new AU headquarters a symbol of China-Africa ties
Sat,28 Jan 2012 02:26 PM PST
Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Standing on what was once Ethiopia's oldest maximum security prison, the new African Union headquarters funded by China is a symbol of the Asian giant's push to stay ahead in Africa and gain greater access to the continent's resources. Critics point to an imbalance in what they see as the new "Scramble for Africa." But the prospect of growing Chinese economic influence is welcomed by African leaders, who see Beijing as a partner to help build their economies at a time when Europe and the United States are mired in economic turmoil. ... Full Story | Top |
Yemen's Saleh heads for United States
Sat,28 Jan 2012 01:17 PM PST
Reuters -  ADEN (Reuters) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh was heading to the United States on Saturday, Yemen's state news agency said, a week after leaving for Oman under a plan for him to step down to end a year of protests against his rule. In London, a foreign office official said Saleh's plane had stopped at a British airport en route to the United States. The state news agency said he had left the Omani capital Muscat, his home for the past week, to receive medical treatment. ...
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Frenchman killed in armed robbery in Red Sea resort
Sat,28 Jan 2012 12:56 PM PST
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - A Frenchman was killed when armed men raided a currency exchange office Saturday in the Egyptian tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea, security officials and the French embassy said. South Sinai Governor General Khaled Fouda told Reuters that a German national had also been wounded but was in a stable condition in hospital. The French embassy confirmed a Frenchman had been killed without giving further details. Sharm el-Sheikh is on the Sinai Peninsula, home to many popular tourist resorts. ... Full Story | Top |
Burundi court jails 16 for bar killing of 36
Sat,28 Jan 2012 12:31 PM PST
Reuters - BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - A court in Burundi has sentenced 16 people to jail terms ranging from three years to life for killing 36 people in a bar, the most violent attack last year in the central African country, a defense lawyer said Saturday. Burundi has enjoyed relative peace since a Hutu rebel group, Forces for National Liberation, laid down its weapons and joined the government in 2009 after almost two decades of war. But violence has intensified since an opposition boycott of 2010 elections, raising fears of a fresh rebellion. ... Full Story | Top |
Thousands rally for Putin in Russian industrial belt
Sat,28 Jan 2012 10:25 AM PST
Reuters - YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rallied on Saturday to back his bid to return to the Kremlin, a week before what are likely to be far larger opposition protests to demand greater political choice. Police said around 10,000 people gathered in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest city, with many brought on buses and trains from outlying towns in the Urals industrial belt to back Putin before the March 4 presidential vote. ... Full Story | Top |
Slovenia parliament confirms Jansa as prime minister
Sat,28 Jan 2012 10:16 AM PST
Reuters -  LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - The Slovenian parliament confirmed conservative Janez Jansa as prime minister on Saturday, almost two months after an inconclusive December 4 election, parliamentary speaker Gregor Virant said. Jansa has 15 days to put forward a cabinet charged with driving economic growth and introducing reforms to stop the country's credit rating from being cut - but he has a corruption trial hanging over him, which could derail his premiership if he were found guilty. The cabinet must be confirmed by parliament, in which Jansa's five-party coalition has a solid majority. ...
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Three Kazakh activists detained after rally for change
Sat,28 Jan 2012 09:52 AM PST
Reuters - ALMATY (Reuters) - A Kazakh court ordered the arrest and detention of three opposition activists Saturday for holding an unauthorised rally, at which protesters condemned the recent election as fraudulent and demanded the release of jailed colleagues. The three were arrested hours after about 300 people, opposed to long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev, gathered in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, calling for democratic change. ... Full Story | Top |
Senegal opposition urges more "resistance" after riots
Sat,28 Jan 2012 09:31 AM PST
Reuters - DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's opposition said on Saturday it would make the country "ungovernable" if President Abdoulaye Wade insisted on running for a third term in elections next month, raising the spectre of renewed riots in West Africa's most peaceful nation. One policeman was killed during protests late on Friday, in which demonstrators threw rocks, overturned cars and burned tyres and security forces fired tear gas, after the country's top court said Wade had the right to seek a new term. ... Full Story | Top |
Myanmar shift to democracy not over, more reform ahead: minister
Sat,28 Jan 2012 08:13 AM PST
Reuters - DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Myanmar has already done a lot to reconnect with the international community and win investment, but the return to democracy is not complete and more political and economic reforms are needed, its trade minister said on Saturday. The southeast Asian nation has opened up to the outside world with astonishing speed since a civilian government took office last March after five decades of army rule, releasing political prisoners and launching democratic reforms. ... Full Story | Top |
Salvage crews suspend work on capsized cruise ship
Sat,28 Jan 2012 06:19 AM PST
Reuters -  GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - Salvage crews preparing to pump thousands of tonnes of diesel fuel and oil from the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian coast suspended work on Saturday because of bad weather that could last into next week, officials said. With heavy seas and strong winds set to continue, work on removing more than 2,300 tonnes of diesel may be held up for days, according to a spokesman for SMIT, the Dutch company that is managing the operation. "Starting operations depends on the weather conditions," Martijn Schuttevaer told reporters. ...
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Bodies of 17 prisoners found in Syrian city
Sat,28 Jan 2012 05:20 AM PST
Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - The bodies of 17 men arrested by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces during an armoured assault this week on the city of Hama were found dumped in the streets after being shot in the head, activists said on Saturday. The reported killings mark an escalation in a five-month military crackdown on Hama, 240 km (150 miles) north of Damascus, where armed rebels are now backing protesters after tanks stormed the conservative Sunni Muslim city in August. "They were killed execution style, mostly with one bullet to the head. ... Full Story | Top |
Putin's Russia set against regime change in Syria
Sat,28 Jan 2012 05:20 AM PST
Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian warnings to the West and its Arab allies to keep their hands off Syria hide a slight chance for compromise on a U.N. resolution aimed at halting bloodshed in the country, but a demand for President Bashar al-Assad to step aside could be a deal-breaker. With Prime Minister Vladimir Putin facing the biggest protests of his 12-year rule and planning to return to the Kremlin in a March presidential vote, Russia wants to avoid stamping its approval on any regime change engineered from outside. ... Full Story | Top |
IAEA team heads to Iran to seek nuclear answers
Sat,28 Jan 2012 05:09 AM PST
Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - Senior United Nations nuclear inspectors headed to Tehran on Saturday to press Iranian officials to address suspicions that the Islamic state is seeking atomic weapons. The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency hopes Iran, which has indicated readiness to discuss the issue for the first time since 2008, will end years of stonewalling on intelligence pointing to an intention to develop nuclear arms technology. "We are trying ... ... Full Story | Top |
Yemen says kills Islamist fighters
Sat,28 Jan 2012 05:00 AM PST
Reuters - ADEN (Reuters) - Yemeni troops killed four Islamist fighters in a southern town they seized from government control, a local official said Saturday, but a spokesman for the Islamists denied his side had suffered any casualties. The fighting in Zinjibar, capital of the southern Abyan province where Islamist bands have taken control of swathes of territory in the last seven months, underlines erosion of central authority which fans U.S. and Saudi fears the state may collapse and give al Qaeda a foothold near oil shipping routes. ... Full Story | Top |
In cruise ship disaster, an SOS for lawyers
Sat,28 Jan 2012 03:52 AM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Soon after Mitchell Proner, a New York personal-injury lawyer, heard about the capsizing of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy, he sprang into action. Proner, who specializes in motorcycle-accident lawsuits, has never litigated a maritime case. But he has at least one advantage over other U.S. lawyers who might want to sue over the disaster: He speaks Italian. Within days of the accident, he hopped a flight to Italy. ... Full Story | Top |
Senegal opposition urges more "resistance" after riots
Sat,28 Jan 2012 03:45 AM PST
Reuters -  DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal's opposition called on Saturday for more "resistance" against President Abdoulaye Wade, after a night of riots over his plans to run for a third term in elections next month. Local media reported that one policeman was killed during the riots, in which protesters threw rocks, overturned cars and burned tyres and security forces fired tear gas, raising worries of growing instability in West Africa's most peaceful nation. Calm had returned to the capital Dakar by morning and security boosted around the presidential palace. ...
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Five dead in poll violence in India's Manipur state
Sat,28 Jan 2012 01:39 AM PST
Reuters - GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Five people were killed in election related violence in India's isolated, northeastern state of Manipur, police said on Saturday. Among those who died were a woman, a security guard and three election duty staff, when suspected tribal rebels attacked a polling booth in the state's Chandel district. "The militants are suspected to be from the National Socialist Council of Nagaland faction," a police officer said. No group, however, has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. ... Full Story | Top |
Russia ready to engage on U.N. Syria draft resolution
Fri,27 Jan 2012 04:28 PM PST
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said a European-Arab draft resolution on Syria circulated to the U.N. Security Council on Friday was unacceptable in parts, but Russia was ready to "engage" on it. Churkin spoke to reporters after Morocco presented the council with the draft, aimed at supporting an Arab League plan for resolving the crisis in Syria. The United Nations says more than 5,000 people have been killed in a 10-month crackdown on anti-government protesters. "We the Russian delegation do not see that draft as a basis on which we can agree," Churkin ... Full Story | Top |
Cuban Communists to consider term limits for leaders
Fri,27 Jan 2012 03:53 PM PST
Reuters - HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's Communist Party will consider reforms this weekend that could impose term limits on its leaders in what would be a striking change on an island that Fidel Castro ruled for 49 years and was succeeded by his brother. President Raul Castro said in an April Communist Party congress that this conference, which starts on Saturday and is the first in the party's history, would consider limiting Cuban leaders to two five-year terms. The party has said it was also pondering age limits for high-ranking officials as it tries to bring younger people into its aging leadership. ... Full Story | Top |
Egypt plans to send delegation to U.S. as NGO furor mounts
Fri,27 Jan 2012 03:52 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Egyptian military team plans to visit the United States next week as Cairo's crackdown on pro-democracy organizations has called into question the future of U.S. aid to Egypt, American officials said on Friday. The Egyptian delegation hopes to meet with officials at the State Department and the Pentagon. It will also hold talks on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers will soon consider a new request for aid to Egypt's military, which now runs about $1.3 billion per year, one official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... Full Story | Top |
Demonstrations erupt in Syria's 2nd city, 10 killed
Fri,27 Jan 2012 03:51 PM PST
Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 10 people on Friday in Syria's main commercial and industrial hub of Aleppo after pro-democracy demonstrations erupted in the city and broke months of quiet, activists said. The killings, the deadliest in the city during the 10-month uprising against 41 years of Assad family rule, occurred in the tribal Marjeh neighborhood after security forces fired at a rally demanding Assad's removal, they said. ... Full Story | Top |
Strong quake jolts eastern Japan, no tsunami warning
Fri,27 Jan 2012 03:28 PM PST
Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 jolted eastern Japan on Saturday morning, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage and no tsunami warning was issued. The focus of the tremor was 20 km (12 miles) below the surface of the earth, in Yamanashi prefecture, west of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The quake, at 7:43 a.m., was also felt in the capital. Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world's most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater. ... Full Story | Top |
Libyan commander says will retake Bani Walid
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:44 PM PST
Reuters -  SADADA, Libya (Reuters) - A militia commander whose troops were driven out of the Libyan tribal stronghold of Bani Walid this week said on Friday that his forces were massing to recapture the town but were holding back at the government's request. "It is our right to reenter Bani Walid and nobody can prevent us," Imbarak al-Futmani said in an interview with Reuters at his desert camp near Sadada, 30 miles east of Bani Walid. ...
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Iran hits back at EU with own oil embargo threat
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:20 PM PST
Reuters -  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Fighting sanctions with sanctions in a test of strength with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran warned on Friday it may halt oil exports to Europe next week in a move calculated to hurt ailing European economies. The Tehran government grappling with its own economic crisis under Western trade and banking embargoes, will host a rare visit on Sunday by U.N. nuclear inspectors for talks that the ruling clergy may hope can relieve diplomatic pressure as they struggle to bolster public support. Since the U.N. ...
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Arab League chief, Qatar PM to go to U.N. over Syria
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:14 PM PST
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Arab League chief and the Qatari prime minister will present an Arab peace plan for Syria to ambassadors in the U.N. Security Council in New York early next week, the council president said on Thursday. South Africa's U.N. Ambassador Baso Sangqu told reporters in New York that the meeting is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, who heads the League's Syria committee, will brief the 15-nation council. ... Full Story | Top |
Oman: Syria crisis must be resolved through peace plan
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:14 PM PST
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Arabs will not agree to foreign military intervention in Syria, Omani Foreign Minister Yousef bin Alawi said in an interview broadcast on Friday, stressing that the only way to end the crisis was through an Arab League peace plan. Earlier the Arab League chief said he and the Qatari prime minister would present a peace plan to end Syria's crackdown on months of anti-government protests to ambassadors at the U.N. Security Council in New York early next week. "The Arab League will not allow foreign military intervention in Syria. ... Full Story | Top |
UNICEF says 384 children killed so far in Syria
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:14 PM PST
Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - At least 384 children have been killed during Syria's 10-month uprising and virtually the same number have been jailed, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado told Reuters the figures were based on reports by human rights organizations which it judged to be credible. "As of January 7, 384 children have been killed, most are boys. Some 380 children have been detained, some less than 14 years old," Rima Salah, acting UNICEF deputy executive director, told reporters in Geneva. ... Full Story | Top |
Russia will not back UN call for Assad to go: Ifax
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:14 PM PST
Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will not support any U.N. Security Council resolution demanding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad resign, a senior Russian diplomat was quoted as saying on Friday. He stopped short of saying Moscow would veto a Western-Arab draft if the call for Assad to step aside was not removed. "Any decision about a future political settlement in Syria must be made during the political process without ... preliminary conditions, and the demand for Assad's resignation is a preliminary condition," Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov as saying. ... Full Story | Top |
Syrian rebels say they hold seven Iranians hostage
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:14 PM PST
Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian insurgents say they are holding seven Iranians hostage and will not release them until the government frees a rebel army officer and stops military operations in Homs, a centre of revolt in Syria's 10-month-old uprising. A video released by the Farouq Battalion, part of the loosely organized rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), shows the seven Iranians, unshaven and wearing black shirts. They were sitting against a wall, a rifle propped up beside them. ... Full Story | Top |
Russia won't back U.N. call for Syria's Assad to go
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:14 PM PST
Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia signaled on Friday it could veto any U.N. Security Council resolution demanding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad resign and said an attempt to rush such a proposal to a vote is doomed to fail. Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov's comments were a strong indication that Russia would be ready to block a new Western-Arab draft resolution that is intended to halt months of bloodshed in Syria and could be voted on next week. "Any decision about a future political settlement in Syria must be made during the political process without ... ... Full Story | Top |
Syrian opposition abroad to boost aid to rebel army
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:14 PM PST
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - A leading Syrian opposition group based abroad is ready to give money and equipment to rebels in Syria fighting President Bashar al-Assad as they work towards creating an organized command structure, a senior group member said on Friday. After months of distant relations, the Syrian National Council (SNC) and rebel Free Syria Army (FSA) struck a deal earlier this month to reorganize loosely-structured units fighting under the FSA umbrella. ... Full Story | Top |
Syrian rebels defiant on Damascus outskirts
Fri,27 Jan 2012 02:14 PM PST
Reuters - SAQBA, Syria (Reuters) - A small green, white and black rebel flag waving at the entrance to the Damascus suburb of Saqba showed it was no longer under the control of President Bashar al-Assad's forces. "Assad's thugs are not here. We kicked them out three days ago," said a masked fighter. His comrades in the Free Syrian Army were the only forces in the town of 95,000 and nearby suburbs of Harasta, Hamoureya, Kfarbatna and Ain Tarma, he said. ... Full Story | Top |
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