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News: Greece's Venizelos says election could decide euro membership-report Mexico congress backs bill to support drug war victims UK lawmakers to give verdict on Murdochs Obama nudges China on rights, stays mum on Chen France holds Colombian FARC responsible for journalist U.N. panel prepares to expand North Korea sanctions: envoys Mali soldiers fight to reverse coup in capital Venezuela's Chavez reappears in public, back to Cuba China wants "drastic" U.S., Russia nuclear arms cuts Congo ex-rebels threaten AngloGold mining project White House: U.S. drone killings legal to combat threats Congo army clashes with wanted general, five dead Suu Kyi's party ends boycott of Myanmar's parliament U.N. chief condemns "terrorist bomb attacks" in Syria Lebanese skier shot by Syrian border guards Outgunned Syria rebels make shift to bombs Deadly bombs in Syria's Idlib target security Scandal talk clouds French campaign before TV debate Argentine envoy urges UK to "give peace a chance" on Falklands Islamist stakes claim to Egypt middle ground Ex-Arab League boss vows reform, dismisses Mubarak link Two horse race in final stretch for Egypt presidency Gaddafi-era Libyan oil chief drowned: Vienna police Merkel's old Volkswagen sold at auction, second time lucky UK's Cameron in crossfire as Murdoch pressure mounts Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike swells Outgunned Syria rebels make shift to bombs Overloaded Indian ferry capsizes killing 103, more missing Allies of Albanian president create new party Obama jabs at Romney at White House Correspondents' dinner South Sudan says Sudan bombs oil region 12 militants killed in Yemen battle, official says Tymoshenko's condition worsening, daughter says Mexico's Pena Nieto retains big lead in poll Analysis: Could domestic flak shoot down Netanyahu over Iran? France holds Colombian FARC responsible for journalist's life Iraq fugitive VP charged with murdering six judges Thirty dead, 200 missing as ferry capsizes in India Ukraine attacks soccer boycott as Cold War tactic UK military defends rooftop missile plans Greece's Venizelos says election could decide euro membership-report Mon,30 Apr 2012 06:08 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Greece's Evangelos Venizelos, who will lead the ruling Socialists into the May 6 election, said in a newspaper interview on Tuesday that euro membership is not a certainty regardless of the outcome. "There are certain misconceptions that worry me: for instance, the misconception that whatever happens we are not going to leave the euro," Venizelos is quoted as saying in the Guardian. Venizelos, 55, quit as finance minister to lead the PASOK party after spearheading the marathon debt talks that were concluded with the world's biggest debt restructuring in March. ... Full Story Top Mexico congress backs bill to support drug war victims Mon,30 Apr 2012 05:23 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's lower house of congress has approved a bill that will require the federal government to provide financial support to victims of the country's brutal gang violence. The lower house said congress unanimously backed the bill, known as the General Victims Act, which will provide financial, legal and medical aid to Mexicans caught up in the turf wars between drug gangs and their clashes with security forces. ... Full Story Top UK lawmakers to give verdict on Murdochs Mon,30 Apr 2012 05:02 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch and his son James will be in the firing line on Tuesday when a British parliamentary committee issues its verdict on a phone-hacking scandal that has made the family name politically toxic. Committee members have said they were obstructed and put under surveillance by Murdoch's News Corp during their five year investigation into the hacking of the phones of celebrities, murder victims, politicians and soldiers for newspaper stories. ... Full Story Top Obama nudges China on rights, stays mum on Chen Mon,30 Apr 2012 04:53 PM PDT Reuters - The United States faces a tense week in China as high-level talks on trade and global hot spots like Iran and North Korea open in the shadow of a blind Chinese activist's bold escape from house arrest to seek U.S. protection in Beijing. The trip to Beijing would have been challenging for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner even without a human rights dispute over Chen Guangcheng, who a U.S.-based group says is hiding in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. ... Full Story Top France holds Colombian FARC responsible for journalist Mon,30 Apr 2012 03:44 PM PDT Reuters - PARIS/BOGOTA (Reuters) - France on Monday said it held FARC rebels responsible for the life of a French journalist in Colombia, calling on the drug-funded group to release him immediately in line with a pledge it made to stop taking hostages for ransom. France believes Romeo Langlois, a freelance reporter for French news channel France 24, was taken captive by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia after being caught in crossfire between the Marxist guerrillas and government troops. ... Full Story Top U.N. panel prepares to expand North Korea sanctions: envoys Mon,30 Apr 2012 03:42 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, South Korea, Japan and European nations have submitted to the U.N. Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee lists of individuals and firms they want blacklisted after Pyongyang's recent rocket launch, envoys said on Monday. Earlier this month the 15-nation council strongly condemned North Korea's April 13 rocket launch, called for adding new names to the list of those hit by existing U.N. sanctions and warned Pyongyang of further consequences if it carried out another missile launch or nuclear test. ... Full Story Top Mali soldiers fight to reverse coup in capital Mon,30 Apr 2012 02:34 PM PDT Reuters - BAMAKO (Reuters) - Soldiers from Mali's presidential guard unit, loyal to the country's ousted president, battled junta forces on Monday in an bid to wrest back control of the capital Bamako a month after a coup, witnesses and a junta official said. Heavy gunfire rang out in the centre of the city near a military barracks, and the red beret presidential unit took up positions around the airport and entered the state broadcaster building, witnesses said. ... Full Story Top Venezuela's Chavez reappears in public, back to Cuba Mon,30 Apr 2012 01:43 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first live public appearance in two weeks on Monday to announce a new workers' law prior to his return to Cuba for more cancer radiation therapy. The 57-year-old socialist leader has been shuttling between Caracas and Havana for treatment on an unspecified cancer that is hampering his ability to campaign for an October 7 presidential election in the OPEC member nation. Chavez's last live public appearance had been on April 13, though he phoned state TV several times and was seen in a pre-recorded video from Havana. ... Full Story Top China wants "drastic" U.S., Russia nuclear arms cuts Mon,30 Apr 2012 01:28 PM PDT Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - China called on the United States and Russia - which hold the vast majority of the world's nuclear warheads - on Monday to make further "drastic" cuts in their atomic arsenals. A senior Chinese diplomat also told a meeting in Vienna that the development of missile defense systems which "disrupt" the global strategic balance should be abandoned, a possible reference to U.S. plans in Europe that have angered Russia. A new U.S. ... Full Story Top Congo ex-rebels threaten AngloGold mining project Mon,30 Apr 2012 01:11 PM PDT Reuters - MONGBWALU, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - AngloGold Ashanti said on Monday its Mongbwalu gold mine in Democratic Republic of Congo faces the obstacle of tens of thousands of ex-fighters already mining the area who do not want to leave. It plans to start Mongbwalu output late next year. "It's an immense challenge and we recognize that," Richard Peattie, general manager of the Mongbwalu project, told Reuters. ... Full Story Top White House: U.S. drone killings legal to combat threats Mon,30 Apr 2012 01:10 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. campaign of drone strikes to kill militants in other countries is legal under international law, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser insisted on Monday in a rare public admission and justification of the controversial tactic. John Brennan's speech, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan, was remarkable in that U.S. officials in public rarely discuss the drone program, which has for years been considered a covert CIA operation. ... Full Story Top Congo army clashes with wanted general, five dead Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:48 PM PDT Reuters - KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least five people have been killed in clashes between Democratic Republic of Congo's army and soldiers loyal to a renegade general wanted by the International Criminal court for war crimes, U.N. and military sources said on Monday. The fighting in the Masisi region of North Kivu began late on Sunday and forced thousands of residents to flee their homes, some of them into neighboring Rwanda, said aid groups. General Bosco Ntaganda fought the government as a rebel before he was integrated into the army alongside other insurgents as part of a 2009 peace deal. ... Full Story Top Suu Kyi's party ends boycott of Myanmar's parliament Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:42 PM PDT Reuters - YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi agreed on Monday to end her party's boycott of parliament, setting aside her first major dispute with the government since winning by-elections and clearing the way for what could be an acceleration of reforms. Suu Kyi and her party will make their historic debut in the assembly on Wednesday after backing down over the wording of an oath for new members of parliament. She agreed to swear to protect a constitution drafted under military control that she says is undemocratic and needs to be amended. ... Full Story Top U.N. chief condemns "terrorist bomb attacks" in Syria Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:41 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon condemned on Monday "terrorist bomb attacks" in the Syrian cities of Damascus and Idlib, and noted that while there had been security improvements in areas monitored by U.N. observers, he was "gravely concerned" by the continued violence. "The Secretary-General condemns the terrorist bomb attacks in the cities of Idlib and Damascus which took place today and on 27 April 2012, killing and injuring scores of people," Ban's press office said in a statement "While noting improvements in areas where U.N. ... Full Story Top Lebanese skier shot by Syrian border guards Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:41 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian soldiers fired at a group of one Swiss and three Lebanese skiers along the mountainous border on Monday, wounding one, after they mistook them for smugglers, Lebanese security sources said. The group of four were skiing on Mount Herman in Lebanon's east when one of the Lebanese men, Antoine Hajj, was shot in the shoulder, they said. "Once they came under fire from the Syrian army post, the skiers started screaming to them to hold fire," the security source said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the press. ... Full Story Top Outgunned Syria rebels make shift to bombs Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:41 PM PDT Reuters - * Bombs give rebels more bang for buck * Tactical switch in response to army strength * Price of guns in region has soared BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad say they are shifting tactics towards homemade bombs, hoping to even the odds between their outgunned forces and his powerful army. A series of deadly blasts in the past week suggests they are getting better at it. Suicide bombs, booby-trapped cars and roadside explosions, including blasts in Idlib on Monday and the capital Damascus last week, have rocked the Arab state. ... Full Story Top Deadly bombs in Syria's Idlib target security Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:41 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Explosions blew the fronts off buildings in the Syrian town of Idlib on Monday, with state TV reporting nine people killed and 100 wounded including security services personnel targeted by an intensifying rebel bombing campaign. Images on state television showed flattened cars and mangled bodies lying under tarpaulins near the site of a pair of bombings. Craters had been blasted in the road. "My wife and I were asleep in bed and then there was a loud explosion. It rocked the whole house and woke us all up," said one man, standing amid rubble. ... Full Story Top Scandal talk clouds French campaign before TV debate Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:15 PM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Allegations of scandal and dirty tricks, and a presidential lawsuit, clouded France's election race as it entered the final week on Monday with both sides preparing for rival May Day rallies and a crucial television debate. The developments, along with a new opinion poll showing Socialist challenger Francois Hollande's lead over Conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy has narrowed slightly, raised the temperature on the eve of the rallies and Wednesday's sole TV debate before Sunday's decisive runoff. ... Full Story Top Argentine envoy urges UK to "give peace a chance" on Falklands Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:11 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Argentina's new ambassador to London ambushed Britain's foreign minister over the disputed Falklands Islands on Monday, asking him at a public meeting whether he was ready to "give peace a chance" by opening talks on the islands' future. Alicia Castro, formerly Argentina's ambassador to Venezuela, took up her post in London in March, just as tensions escalated between Britain and Argentina 30 years after they went to war over the South Atlantic islands, known in Spanish as Las Malvinas. ... Full Story Top Islamist stakes claim to Egypt middle ground Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:05 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh was jailed by Hosni Mubarak but has emerged as a front-runner for his old job as president of Egypt, staking claim to the political centre in this nascent democracy with a moderate Islamist platform that has found broad appeal. A senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood until he parted ways with the group last year, he is part of the generation of Islamist activists that spawned al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Both doctors, they spent time in adjoining jail cells in 1981. For the most part, that's where the similarities end. ... Full Story Top Ex-Arab League boss vows reform, dismisses Mubarak link Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:05 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - The 75-year-old former head of the Arab League has vowed to serve just one four-year term if elected Egypt's president, but Amr Moussa's Islamist rivals, who see him as a relic from Hosni Mubarak's era, say he doesn't even deserve that long. Moussa, who became popular with ordinary Egyptians as head of the Cairo-based League, is tipped as a front-runner in next month's election. Many Egyptians fondly remember how he regularly slammed Israeli policies and in 2003 warned against the U.S-led invasion of Iraq, saying it would "open the gates of hell". ... Full Story Top Two horse race in final stretch for Egypt presidency Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:02 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt enters the last stage of its first democratic presidential race on Monday with its field narrowing to a two-horse race between the urbane former head of the Arab League and a charismatic Islamist medic jailed for years under Hosni Mubarak. A poll published in state-run al-Ahram daily on Monday showed veteran diplomat Amr Moussa in the lead, followed by Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, who has emerged in recent days as the leading Islamist candidate after securing the support of the ultra-conservative Salafist movement. ... Full Story Top Gaddafi-era Libyan oil chief drowned: Vienna police Mon,30 Apr 2012 12:00 PM PDT Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - Viennese police insisted on Monday that a former Libyan premier found dead in the river Danube had drowned but a Libyan security source suggested he could have been murdered by political enemies. Libya's former prime minister and oil minister Shokri Ghanem's fully-clothed body was found in the Danube in Vienna on Sunday, a few hundred meters (yards) from his home. According to a preliminary autopsy there were no indications of foul play or suicide, spokesman Roman Hahslinger told reporters. ... Full Story Top Merkel's old Volkswagen sold at auction, second time lucky Mon,30 Apr 2012 11:54 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's old Volkswagen wasn't worth the 130,000 euros ($172,100) bogus online bidders kited it to earlier this month, but the first woman chancellor's 1990 Golf finally went to the highest bidder on Monday for 10,165 euros. Successful bidder Dirk Fricke, who bought the car for his company Frisch-Licht, told Reuters he was happy with what he saw as a low price tag, though he wasn't a fan of Merkel's. "We're politically totally neutral," he said by telephone. "It was just about keeping the car in Germany. ... Full Story Top UK's Cameron in crossfire as Murdoch pressure mounts Mon,30 Apr 2012 10:58 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron defended his embattled culture minister on Monday, saying he had seen no evidence he had acted improperly in a scandal over News Corp's failed attempt to take over British pay television operator BSkyB. Cameron has resisted opposition demands for an immediate inquiry into the conduct of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt after allegations emerged of his close contacts with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media empire. ... Full Story Top Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike swells Mon,30 Apr 2012 10:55 AM PDT Reuters - JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - A hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners against Israel's jail policies has swollen in weeks from a protest by a handful to a national movement with around 1,400 participants. Several are at risk of dying, including Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahlah, both on their 64th day without food, their Palestinian lawyer said. Eight other detainees have been hospitalized. ... Full Story Top Outgunned Syria rebels make shift to bombs Mon,30 Apr 2012 10:51 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad say they are shifting tactics towards homemade bombs, hoping to even the odds between their outgunned forces and his powerful army. A series of deadly blasts in the past week suggests they are getting better at it. Suicide bombs, booby-trapped cars and roadside explosions, including blasts in Idlib on Monday and the capital Damascus last week, have rocked the Arab state. The attacks threaten to sour the UN-brokered two-week truce and have killed many from Assad's security agencies. ... Full Story Top Overloaded Indian ferry capsizes killing 103, more missing Mon,30 Apr 2012 10:47 AM PDT Reuters - GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Rescue workers fought heavy wind and rain to search for survivors after at least 103 people drowned on an overloaded ferry carrying about 300 people that sank at night on one of India's largest rivers on Monday, police said. About 100 people were rescued, said Jayanta Narayan Choudhury, police chief of the state of Assam where the boat sank. The accident was the worst of its kind in recent memory in India's northeastern region. ... Full Story Top Allies of Albanian president create new party Mon,30 Apr 2012 10:45 AM PDT Reuters - TIRANA (Reuters) - Allies of Albanian President Bamir Topi announced the creation of a new party on Monday, threatening to shake up the Balkan country's polarized political scene and challenge Prime Minister Sali Berisha. Topi's five-year term as president is due to end in July and he is expected to take charge of the new centre-right party, New Democratic Spirit (NDS), when members elect a leader in September. Since the fall of communism two decades ago, politics in Albania has been dominated by Berisha's Democratic Party and the Socialist Party, currently in opposition. ... Full Story Top Obama jabs at Romney at White House Correspondents' dinner Mon,30 Apr 2012 10:23 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama poked fun at his likely presidential rival Mitt Romney and Republican opponents in Congress on Saturday night, including a dig at Romney's treatment of a pet dog, at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. The black-tie dinner, informally billed as the "nerd prom," is the biggest social event of the year for Washington media and gives presidents a chance to show a lighter side. "I'm not going to attack any of the Republican candidates. ... Full Story Top South Sudan says Sudan bombs oil region Mon,30 Apr 2012 09:56 AM PDT Reuters - JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan said on Monday Sudanese war planes bombed an oil region in the newly independent state, a day after Khartoum declared a state of emergency in some border areas as tensions showed no signs of abating. Weeks of border fighting have raised fears Sudan and South Sudan could return to all-out war, after failing to resolve a string of disputes over oil revenues and border demarcation. Philip Aguer, spokesman for South Sudan's army, the SPLA, said Sudanese forces had bombed Panakuach in Unity State. "There was bombing in Panakuach yesterday. ... Full Story Top 12 militants killed in Yemen battle, official says Mon,30 Apr 2012 09:38 AM PDT Reuters - ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen said it killed 12 militants linked to al Qaeda in the country's restive south on Monday, while insurgents reported killing seven soldiers in the same battle. Soldiers backed by tribal fighters killed eight militants outside the town of Lawdar, where clashes have taken place for several weeks, a local government official said. An air force plane bombed a vehicle nearby, killing four militants inside. The official said one soldier and a tribal fighter died in the battle. ... Full Story Top Tymoshenko's condition worsening, daughter says Mon,30 Apr 2012 09:30 AM PDT Reuters - PRAGUE (Reuters) - Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko's health has deteriorated during her hunger strike and her family is hoping the government will take action so she will stop the protest, Tymoshenko's daughter said on Monday. Yevgenia Tymoshenko told reporters in Prague the family now believed Yulia, serving a seven-year jail sentence on charges of abuse of office, needed treatment for her back outside Ukraine. Tymoshenko's jailing has soured Ukraine's ties with the European Union and risks becoming an embarrassment when it co-hosts the European soccer championship in June. ... Full Story Top Mexico's Pena Nieto retains big lead in poll Mon,30 Apr 2012 09:06 AM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto retains a large lead over his rivals with two months to go until the July 1 elections, the latest voter survey by polling firm BGC for newspaper Excelsior showed on Monday. Support for Pena Nieto, of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), dipped three percentage points to 47 percent from a poll published two weeks earlier. Meanwhile, backing for Josefina Vazquez Mota of President Felipe Calderon's conservative National Action Party (PAN) dropped one point to 28 percent, the data showed. ... Full Story Top Analysis: Could domestic flak shoot down Netanyahu over Iran? Mon,30 Apr 2012 08:51 AM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - He may be ready to brave Iranian air defenses, retaliatory missiles and Western diplomatic blowback in tackling Tehran's nuclear program, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will find it hard to fly past flak from his own senior staff. Remarks by recently retired security chiefs and the current military commander questioning the views of Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Iran have opened a rare rift in a Jewish state that usually puts up a united front against regional enemies. ... Full Story Top France holds Colombian FARC responsible for journalist's life Mon,30 Apr 2012 08:47 AM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Monday it held FARC rebels responsible for the life of a French journalist in Colombia, calling on them to release him immediately in line with a pledge the group has made to stop taking hostages for ransom. Romeo Langlois, a freelance reporter for French news channel France 24, is believed to have been taken prisoner on Saturday by the Marxist guerrillas. "We have indicated to the FARC that they are responsible for his life," Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told reporters on Monday. ... Full Story Top Iraq fugitive VP charged with murdering six judges Mon,30 Apr 2012 08:44 AM PDT Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and some of his bodyguards have been charged with murdering six judges and a series of other killings, a judiciary spokesman said on Monday. Hashemi, one of Iraq's top Sunni Muslim politicians, fled Baghdad in December when the Shi'ite-led central government issued an arrest warrant for him, accusing him of running death squads. He is now in Istanbul in Turkey and is not expected to attend the trial when it begins on Thursday. ... Full Story Top Thirty dead, 200 missing as ferry capsizes in India Mon,30 Apr 2012 08:44 AM PDT Reuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least 30 people died on Monday when a ferry carrying around 300 passengers capsized in a storm and heavy rain in a river in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, police said. A dozen people were rescued after the ship capsized in the Brahmaputra River but more than 200 people were still missing, police said. (Reporting by Biswajyoti Das in Guwahati; Editing by Michael Roddy) Full Story Top Ukraine attacks soccer boycott as Cold War tactic Mon,30 Apr 2012 08:37 AM PDT Reuters - KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine described threats by European powers to shun the Euro soccer championship it will host in June as a return to Cold War tactics on Monday, after several leaders called off their visits over the treatment of a leading opposition politician. Relations between Ukraine and the European Union have been strained by the conviction of Yulia Tymoshenko - the main political rival of President Viktor Yanukovich - last October, a case her supporters say was politically driven. ... Full Story Top UK military defends rooftop missile plans Mon,30 Apr 2012 08:30 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - British military chiefs defended plans on Monday to put missile batteries on top of apartment blocks to help protect London from a 9/11-style attack during this summer's Olympic Games, after appalled residents said it could make them a target. With 88 days to go before the Games start, soldiers will start testing missile defenses this week at six sites around the Olympic park as part of a training exercise in the run-up to Britain's biggest peacetime security operation. ... Full Story Top

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