Today's Reuters World News Headlines - Yahoo! News: - Colombia volcano erupts, prompts evacuations
- China's Hu swears in Hong Kong leader, protests expected
- Tough, pro-Beijing Leung to lead wary Hong Kong
- ADB sees progress in resuming aid to Myanmar
- Senegal's Sall seeks to bolster rule in polls
- UK's Cameron attempts to woo eurosceptics on referendum
- Yitzhak Shamir, hawkish Israeli premier, dies
- Iceland's defiant president eyes record fifth term
- Assad's fate unclear in world powers' Syria plan
- Activists say Syrian troops fire on Damascus funeral, killing 30
- Maiden gay cruise to Muslim land hits Morocco snag
- Young Afghans seek solace from war in heavy metal rock
- Exclusive: Saudi dissident set to come off U.N. al Qaeda blacklist
- Georgian president names new PM as elections loom
- Tables turn as Egypt's Islamist president sworn in
- Russia's Lavrov delighted at Syria meeting outcome
- Four divers drown in Italian caving accident
- Mali Islamists destroy holy Timbuktu sites
- World powers agree on Syria unity government
- Belarus frees journalist, seen as gesture to Poland
- Palestinian leader Abbas postpones Israel meeting
- Russia offers to host next Syria meeting: agency
- Syrian forces push into Douma, residents flee
- Factbox: Timbuktu - heritage in danger
- France eyes computer screen tax to boost revenues
- Egypt's Mursi says army keeps pledge to cede power
- Raised on power, Assad risks all
- Merkel seen as big loser in euro zone showdown
- Germany denies Schaeuble talk of Greece euro exit
- Iran urges emergency OPEC meet as price drops
- Dozens killed by al Qaeda mines in Yemen
- Islamist president says Egypt won't reverse course
- Egypt president to encourage investment, tourism
- Sudan agrees to allow aid in rebel-held border areas
- Egypt to uphold treaties, help Syrian people: Mursi
- Turkey's AK Party moves to scrap coup trial courts
- Britain seeks Security Council sanctions on Syria
- EU's Ashton hopeful of deal at U.N. Syria talks
- Chants against Egypt army before president speaks
- Russia's Lavrov warns U.S. over human rights law: agency
| | Colombia volcano erupts, prompts evacuations Sat,30 Jun 2012 06:45 PM PDT Reuters - BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia began evacuating people from communities close to the Nevado del Ruiz volcano after an eruption on Saturday that spewed smoke and ash from its crater, bringing back memories of avalanches that in 1985 buried tens of thousands under rocks. President Juan Manuel Santos said on his Twitter account that the area around the Nevado del Ruiz, in the central spine of Colombia's Andean mountain range, had been put on red alert and people should leave the area. ... Full Story | Top | China's Hu swears in Hong Kong leader, protests expected Sat,30 Jun 2012 06:33 PM PDT Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - New Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying was sworn into office on Sunday by Chinese President Hu Jintao for a five-year term in which he will confront challenges ranging from human rights to democracy after a tumultuous year of transition and protest. Security was tight at the same harbourfront venue where the British handed Hong Kong to back to China exactly 15 years ago, with hundreds of police, some with dogs, making a solid ring fence to ensure the isolated protests were out of sight and earshot. ... Full Story | Top | Tough, pro-Beijing Leung to lead wary Hong Kong Sat,30 Jun 2012 06:29 PM PDT Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao swore in Beijing loyalist Leung Chun-ying as Hong Kong's leader on Sunday, the third chief executive to lead the former British colony since it reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. Leung, 57, is a self-made surveyor, former senior Hong Kong government adviser and known as a suave, and at times ruthless, political operator with close ties to China's Communist Party, particularly Hu's Youth League faction. ... Full Story | Top | ADB sees progress in resuming aid to Myanmar Sat,30 Jun 2012 05:39 PM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - When the Asian Development Bank cut off aid to Myanmar in 1988, troops had just crushed a pro-democracy movement, killing thousands. Today, Myanmar, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank are inching closer to a deal that would lead to a full-fledged resumption of aid, possibly within a year, a senior ADB official said on Saturday. ... Full Story | Top | Senegal's Sall seeks to bolster rule in polls Sat,30 Jun 2012 05:02 PM PDT Reuters - DAKAR (Reuters) - Party allies of Senegal's new President Macky Sall are tipped to win control of parliament in polls on Sunday, three months after Sall triumphed over veteran ex-leader Abdoulaye Wade in an election hailed as a success for African democracy. Victory for Sall's own Alliance for the Republic (APR) party and the Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition backing him would help Sall, 50, push on with reforms seeking to boost employment and cut the cost of living for the poor, notably through food subsidies. ... Full Story | Top | UK's Cameron attempts to woo eurosceptics on referendum Sat,30 Jun 2012 04:44 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron has raised the prospect of a possible referendum on Britain's future relationship with the European Union, potentially threatening trade with the bloc and opening up another front against the Conservatives' coalition partner. Britain has had a long and painful history of infighting and changes of heart over how closely to integrate with the EU ever since it joined its precursor four decades ago. It has often proven divisive both within and among Britain's main political parties as well as the public. ... Full Story | Top | Yitzhak Shamir, hawkish Israeli premier, dies Sat,30 Jun 2012 04:43 PM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Yitzhak Shamir, the hawkish Israeli leader who two decades ago first balked at U.S. calls to trade occupied land for Middle East peace, died on Saturday after a long illness. He was 96. The second longest-serving prime minister after Israel's founder, David Ben-Gurion, Shamir clung to the status quo. Admirers saw strength and resolve in his position, while critics called him an intransigent naysayer who allowed Arabs to cast Israel as obstructing reconciliation. ... Full Story | Top | Iceland's defiant president eyes record fifth term Sat,30 Jun 2012 04:40 PM PDT Reuters - REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland's president Olafur Grimsson looks set to win a record fifth term in office, riding a wave of support for his defiance of Britain and the Netherlands over massive debts from a bank crash, initial election results showed on Saturday. Grimsson, 69, who also opposes joining the European Union, had led in recent opinion polls in the run-up to the elections, ahead of Thora Arnorsdottir, 37, a local television journalist. A first tally of 20 percent of the votes showed Grimsson with 52.5 percent while Arnorsdottir, got 33.2 percent. ... Full Story | Top | Assad's fate unclear in world powers' Syria plan Sat,30 Jun 2012 03:59 PM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - World powers struck an agreement that a transitional government should be set up in Syria to end the conflict there but they remained at odds over what part President Bashar al-Assad might play in the process. Peace envoy Kofi Annan said after the talks in Geneva on Saturday the government should include members of Assad's administration and the Syrian opposition and that it should arrange free elections. "Time is running out. The conflict must be resolved through peaceful dialogue and negotiations," Annan told reporters. ... Full Story | Top | Activists say Syrian troops fire on Damascus funeral, killing 30 Sat,30 Jun 2012 03:48 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Opposition activists said Syrian forces killed more than 30 people on Saturday when they fired a mortar bomb into a funeral procession in Damascus for a man who died in shelling 24 hours earlier. They said amateur video footage, posted on a website, showed the moment the bomb hit the crowd. Another video showed the aftermath - grey smoke filling the air before clearing to show bodies. The body of the man who activists said was killed a day before lay wrapped in a white shroud on the ground. ... Full Story | Top | Maiden gay cruise to Muslim land hits Morocco snag Sat,30 Jun 2012 03:07 PM PDT Reuters - RABAT (Reuters) - Organizers of an all-gay cruise on Saturday blamed Moroccan officials for the cancellation of what would have been the first visit of its kind to a Muslim country, but the tourism minister denied the ship was banned and said its passengers were welcome. Cruise liner Holland America Line and trip organizer RSVP Vacations told the 2,100 holiday-makers aboard the MS Nieuw Amsterdam ship that the July 1 visit to Casablanca had been cancelled. ... Full Story | Top | Young Afghans seek solace from war in heavy metal rock Sat,30 Jun 2012 03:06 PM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - On a dimly lit stage the godfather of Afghan rock prepares for the next song, as images of the French movie La Haine (Hate) flicker above and his audience is asked what song would they sing if they were lying in the gutter dying. For "District Unknown", Afghanistan's first heavy metal band, the answer could be "Two Seconds After the Blast", from their soon-to-be recorded first album, "A 24-hour life time". ... Full Story | Top | Exclusive: Saudi dissident set to come off U.N. al Qaeda blacklist Sat,30 Jun 2012 02:08 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. Security Council committee is set to remove Saudi dissident Saad al-Faqih from the United Nations' al Qaeda sanctions list this weekend if no council member demands that the 15-nation body intervene, U.N. diplomats said on Saturday. The London-based Faqih was added to the U.N. al Qaeda sanctions list in December 2004, days after the U.S. Treasury Department hit him with U.S. sanctions for suspected links to the late Osama bin Laden's militant network, which was responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. ... Full Story | Top | Georgian president names new PM as elections loom Sat,30 Jun 2012 12:27 PM PDT Reuters - TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili named his close ally, Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, as the new prime minister on Saturday ahead of parliamentary elections due in October. Saakashvili, who faces growing competition from a newly-created opposition group ahead of the elections, said he wanted Merabishvili to tackle Georgia's 16 percent unemployment and implement agricultural and health care reforms. "It's important for our people to know what are and will be the government's priorities ahead and after the upcoming election," Saakashvili said. ... Full Story | Top | Tables turn as Egypt's Islamist president sworn in Sat,30 Jun 2012 12:00 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - In a day full of memorable images, none on Saturday was more powerful than that of Egypt's first Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, flanked by generals at a military parade where he was formally handed authority to govern the nation. For six decades, Mursi's seat had been filled by presidents drawn from the ranks of the military. And for half that time, it was occupied by one man, Hosni Mubarak, a former air force chief who hounded and jailed members of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood. ... Full Story | Top | Russia's Lavrov delighted at Syria meeting outcome Sat,30 Jun 2012 11:57 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was "delighted" at the outcome of crisis talks on Syria held in Geneva on Saturday and that the document agreed on did not imply Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should step down. Lavrov told a news conference there were no preconditions to Syria's transition process and no attempt to exclude any group from a proposed national unity government. The key point was that the agreement did not attempt to impose a process on Syria, he said. (Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Angus MacSwan) Full Story | Top | Four divers drown in Italian caving accident Sat,30 Jun 2012 11:46 AM PDT Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Four divers were killed on Saturday while exploring an underwater cave system at Palinuro near Salerno in southern Italy, authorities said. The four, three men and a woman, were part of a larger group of divers exploring a site known as the Cave of Blood, due to the red color of its walls, when they apparently became disoriented. "We have already questioned the survivors of this tragedy but it's still too early to say exactly what happened," Andrea Agostinelli, an official with the regional Salerno coastguard, told SkyTG24 television. ... Full Story | Top | Mali Islamists destroy holy Timbuktu sites Sat,30 Jun 2012 11:11 AM PDT Reuters - BAMAKO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked Mali Islamists armed with Kalashnikovs and pick-axes destroyed centuries-old mausoleums of saints in the UNESCO-listed city of Timbuktu on Saturday in front of shocked locals, witnesses said. The Islamist Ansar Dine group backs strict sharia, Islamic law, and considers the shrines of the local Sufi version of Islam to be idolatrous. Sufi shrines have also been attacked by hardline Salafists in Egypt and Libya in the past year. ... Full Story | Top | World powers agree on Syria unity government Sat,30 Jun 2012 10:50 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - International powers agreed on Saturday that a national unity government should be set up in Syria to resolve the conflict between President Bashar al-Assad and opposition forces trying to oust him. Peace envoy Kofi Annan said after the talks in Geneva that the government should include members of Assad's administration and the opposition. But it was not immediately clear what role, if any, was envisaged for Assad. "It is for the people to come to a political agreement but time is running out," Annan said. "We need rapid steps to reach agreement. ... Full Story | Top | Belarus frees journalist, seen as gesture to Poland Sat,30 Jun 2012 10:05 AM PDT Reuters - MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus officials conditionally released a Polish newspaper correspondent from jail on Saturday in a move seen as easing tensions before a likely meeting between Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko and his Polish counterpart at the Euro 2012 soccer final. Andrzej Poczobut, a Belarussian citizen who works for Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza and is a prominent activist for the rights of the Polish minority in Belarus, was arrested a week ago in his hometown of Grodno. ... Full Story | Top | Palestinian leader Abbas postpones Israel meeting Sat,30 Jun 2012 09:32 AM PDT Reuters - RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has postponed a controversial meeting with Israeli Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz that had been scheduled for Sunday, Palestinian officials said on Saturday. The officials did not say when a new date might be set for what would be the highest-level meeting between the sides since peace talks broke down in 2010. "We know that Mofaz will bring nothing new," said Wasl Abu Yosef, a member of Abbas' Palestine Liberation Organization, who told reporters of the postponement. ... Full Story | Top | Russia offers to host next Syria meeting: agency Sat,30 Jun 2012 09:27 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will propose a new international meeting on the Syrian crisis in Moscow and that Syria should be represented, Interfax news agency quoted an unidentified source close to this weekend's talks in Geneva as saying on Saturday. Russia and Western powers are at loggerheads over the international community's role in Syria, with foreign ministers and international diplomats trying to reach common grounds in Geneva for a peace deal in the country. "The Russian side will propose to hold such a meeting in Moscow. ... Full Story | Top | Syrian forces push into Douma, residents flee Sat,30 Jun 2012 09:16 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces pushed their way into Douma on Saturday after weeks of siege and shelling, and fleeing residents spoke of corpses in the streets of the town near the capital Damascus. The residents said hundreds of people were fleeing the town as government forces swept the streets in search of rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. They reported many bodies buried under the rubble of houses in the town of half a million people, 15 km (10 miles) from Damascus. ... Full Story | Top | Factbox: Timbuktu - heritage in danger Sat,30 Jun 2012 08:54 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Armed fighters of Mail's al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine Islamist group on Saturday destroyed mausoleums of saints in the ancient trading city of Timbuktu, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage site, witnesses said. Ansar Dine, which experts say has links to local al Qaeda factions, has gained the upper hand over its erstwhile rebel allies, the secular MNLA group, since the two routed government forces and seized control of Mali's desert north in April. Timbuktu has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988, but tourism has suffered from years of security problems. ... Full Story | Top | France eyes computer screen tax to boost revenues Sat,30 Jun 2012 08:40 AM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is considering extending the television license fee to include computer screen owners to boost revenues for public-sector broadcasting operations, the culture minister said on Saturday. President Francois Hollande's Socialist government already aims to raise an extra 7.5 billion euros this year through tax rises included in an amended budget bill to be unveiled next week. ... Full Story | Top | Egypt's Mursi says army keeps pledge to cede power Sat,30 Jun 2012 08:35 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new President Mohamed Mursi said on Saturday the military that took charge when Hosni Mubarak was overthrown last year had kept its promise to hand over power, speaking at a ceremony to mark the formal transfer of authority. Mursi's comments followed a speech by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who heads the military council. In his remarks, Tantawi also said the army had kept its pledge to oversee the nation until a president was elected. ... Full Story | Top | Raised on power, Assad risks all Sat,30 Jun 2012 08:10 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - His father had a face of stone and a hard glare. He has a mild gaze and a weak chin. But there the dissimilarity ends. Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has proved himself as uncompromising as the late Hafez, who ran the Arab republic with an iron fist for 29 years and bequeathed a formidable, police-state dynasty to his son in 2000. Bashar was only 16 when Assad senior ordered one of the bloodiest atrocities in modern Arab history: the 1982 massacre of at least 10,000 Syrians in Hama to crush a revolt by Sunni Muslims. The repression worked. The lesson may have been ... Full Story | Top | Merkel seen as big loser in euro zone showdown Sat,30 Jun 2012 07:50 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - Angela Merkel was portrayed across Europe as the big loser of a euro zone showdown in Brussels after the German chancellor was forced to accept the crisis-fighting measures championed by countries struggling with their debts. Newspapers in Spain, Italy and France on Saturday toasted the triumph of their leaders - Mario Monti, Mariano Rajoy and Francois Hollande - in pushing Merkel into a U-turn that would long have been unthinkable. ... Full Story | Top | Germany denies Schaeuble talk of Greece euro exit Sat,30 Jun 2012 07:42 AM PDT Reuters - KREFELD, Germany (Reuters) - A deputy German Finance Minister dismissed a magazine report saying Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble had told conservative members of parliament on Friday to prepare for a looming Greek bankruptcy and euro zone exit. "This report is nonsense," Deputy Finance Minister Steffen Kampeter told Reuters on Saturday on the sidelines of a regional meeting of Christian Democrats in the western town of Krefeld. Kampeter said that Schaeuble had spoken to the conservative MPs on Friday about the need for the austerity and reform measures in Greece to be implemented. ... Full Story | Top | Iran urges emergency OPEC meet as price drops Sat,30 Jun 2012 07:35 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi urged OPEC's secretary general to call for an extraordinary meeting amid falling oil prices, Iranian Oil Ministry's website SHANA said on Saturday. "In 161st meeting of OPEC it was agreed if oil prices fall below $100 per barrel it means that prices are in crisis, so we have urged secretary general of OPEC...to make preparations for holding an emergency meeting," Qasemi told SHANA. International crude benchmarks Brent and U.S. ... Full Story | Top | Dozens killed by al Qaeda mines in Yemen Sat,30 Jun 2012 07:13 AM PDT Reuters - SANAA (Reuters) - More than 50 Yemenis were killed by mines planted by al Qaeda-linked fighters as they fled two of their main strongholds in Yemen's restive south this month, the defense ministry said on Saturday. Ansar al-Sharia, a group which swears allegiance to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, seized control of several cities in Abyan province last year during a wave of protests that forced former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. Yemen's army drove the militants out of the provincial capital Zinjibar and strategic city Jaar this month, a major breakthrough in a U.S. ... Full Story | Top | Islamist president says Egypt won't reverse course Sat,30 Jun 2012 06:22 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi opened his first public address after his inauguration on Saturday with the words "God is greatest, above everyone" and pledged to keep the country on a democratic course after Hosni Mubarak's fall. He spoke at Cairo University to ordinary people, politicians and generals. He told the latter they were now free to take their troops back to barracks to focus on national security. ... Full Story | Top | Egypt president to encourage investment, tourism Sat,30 Jun 2012 06:10 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi promised on Saturday to work to attract investment in all areas of the economy and to revive tourism, both areas severely damaged by the turmoil that followed the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak last year. "We will work together to encourage investment in all sectors and restore tourism to its place, bringing benefit to the Egyptian economy and all citizens in Egypt," he said in his first public address, broadcast on state television. (Reporting by Omar Fahmy and Yasmine Saleh; Writing by Edmund Blair) Full Story | Top | Sudan agrees to allow aid in rebel-held border areas Sat,30 Jun 2012 06:06 AM PDT Reuters - ADDIS ABABA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has agreed to allow humanitarian aid to civilians in rebel-controlled areas of two war-torn border states where aid groups have warned of an impending famine, the African Union and Sudanese state media said on Saturday. Fighting in South Kordofan and Blue Nile has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes since last year, the United Nations and aid groups say. The clashes broke out between government forces and rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) around the time South Sudan declared independence last year. ... Full Story | Top | Egypt to uphold treaties, help Syrian people: Mursi Sat,30 Jun 2012 05:59 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamist President Mohamed Mursi said on Saturday that Egypt would work to end bloodshed in Syria and pledged to uphold international agreements, in a nod to Israel which is worried about the future of its 33-year-old peace treaty. "We carry a message of peace to the world," Mursi said in his first public address as president, broadcast on state television. "We emphasize the state of Egypt's commitment to international treaties and agreements." "Egypt today is a supporter of the Palestinian and Syrian people. Spilling the Syrian people's blood has to stop. ... Full Story | Top | Turkey's AK Party moves to scrap coup trial courts Sat,30 Jun 2012 05:40 AM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling party is pushing through parliament a reform abolishing the special courts used in coup conspiracy cases against hundreds of military officers, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Saturday. "The proposal is ready and will be submitted today," said Bozdag, of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), state-run Anatolia agency reported. The change in regulation was expected to take place late on Saturday. However, the reform is not expected to affect the ongoing trials of hundreds of people accused of links to coup plots or to Kurdish militants. ... Full Story | Top | Britain seeks Security Council sanctions on Syria Sat,30 Jun 2012 05:27 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague called on Saturday for the United Nations Security Council to start drafting a resolution next week setting out sanctions against Syria. Hague, in a speech to a ministerial meeting in Geneva, obtained by Reuters, also said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his close associates could not lead a transition. Accountability for crimes must be part of such a process, he said. "The steps that we agree today and here I disagree with my (Russian) colleague Sergei Lavrov, will require swift endorsement from the U.N. ... Full Story | Top | EU's Ashton hopeful of deal at U.N. Syria talks Sat,30 Jun 2012 05:25 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is hopeful that crisis talks on Syria will reach a good solution, she told reporters as the meeting broke for lunch after a first two hour-session on Saturday. When asked if he was optimistic, another participant, Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari, said: "Yes". (Reporting by Emma Farge) Full Story | Top | Chants against Egypt army before president speaks Sat,30 Jun 2012 05:14 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Just before Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi gave his first public speech after his inauguration on Saturday, some in the audience at Cairo University chanted slogans against the army. "Down, down with military rule," some chanted after the head of the ruling army council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, entered the hall. An official using a loudspeaker urged them to chant, "The army and people are one hand", which many did. ... Full Story | Top | Russia's Lavrov warns U.S. over human rights law: agency Sat,30 Jun 2012 04:42 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has warned the United States that their relations would suffer "serious damage" if Washington adopts a bill to penalize Russian officials for human rights abuses, a state news agency reported on Saturday. Itar-Tass said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at talks on Friday in St Petersburg that "the possible endorsement in the United States of the 'Magnitsky law' will bring serious damage to relations between our countries." The Russian Foreign Ministry had no comment on the report. The U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
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