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Eleven still critical in Colorado "Batman" shooting
Fri,20 Jul 2012 06:42 PM PDT
Reuters - AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - Eleven of the 70 people injured in a shooting rampage at a suburban Denver movie theater during a midnight screening of the new "Batman" film remained in critical condition on Friday evening, police said. Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said that of the 70 casualties, 12 had died and 58 were injured. Of that number, 30 remained hospitalized, he said. (Reporting by Mary Slosson and Keith Coffman; Writing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Eric Walsh) Full Story | Top |
Denver rampage suspect bought guns, ammunition legally: police
Fri,20 Jul 2012 06:36 PM PDT
Reuters - AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - The suspected gunman who opened fire at a packed midnight showing of the new "Batman" film in a Denver suburb on Friday appeared to have obtained guns and ammunition legally in the two months leading up to the rampage, police said. "My understanding is all weapons he possessed, he possessed legally. All ammunition he possessed, he possessed legally," Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates told a news conference, adding that he had purchased four guns at local gun shops within the past 60 days and bought 6,000 rounds of ammunition. ... Full Story | Top |
Air Force instructor guilty in sex-abuse court-martial
Fri,20 Jul 2012 06:33 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A drill instructor accused of sexually assaulting and abusing 10 female trainees at Lackland Air Force Base was found guilty of all 28 charges against him on Friday. Staff Sergeant Luis Walker displayed no emotion when the court-martial panel of six men and one woman returned the verdict after about seven hours of deliberation. Walker now will be sentenced by the same panel that convicted him of rape, aggravated sexual contact and multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault. He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison and a dishonorable discharge from the Air Force. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. spy agency chief to meet with hackers at "Defcon"
Fri,20 Jul 2012 06:30 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Computer geeks attending the world's largest annual hacking party in Las Vegas next week will have a rare chance to rub shoulders with the head of the U.S. National Security Agency. General Keith Alexander, director of the spy agency, will speak at the Defcon conference, marking the highest-level visit to date by a U.S. government official to the colorful gathering. Organizers expect some 15,000 hackers this year as they celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first U.S. hacking event that was open to the public. The Pentagon disclosed the visit on Friday. ...
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Private firms tout Iran oil cheap to beat sanctions
Fri,20 Jul 2012 06:26 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Obscure private firms are offering Iranian crude oil at steep discounts to European oil traders as Tehran seeks ways to restore oil export flows hit by Western sanctions. Traders who buy crude for European refineries say they are getting daily calls offering Iranian crude, sometimes accompanied by the promise of fake paperwork to disguise it as oil from a different origin. Seeking to reverse a slump in exports caused by U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Gunman kills 12 in rampage at "Batman" premiere in Colorado
Fri,20 Jul 2012 06:12 PM PDT
Reuters -  AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - A gunman in a gas mask and body armor opened fire at a packed midnight showing of the new "Batman" film in a Denver suburb on Friday, killing 12 people after hurling a gas canister into the crowded multiplex theater. Armed with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, he wounded 59 others in the shooting rampage at a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" at a mall in Aurora, which turned into a chaotic scene of dead or bleeding victims, horrified screams and pleas for help, witnesses said. ...
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Colorado shooting suspect: doctoral student who seemed like "normal dude"
Fri,20 Jul 2012 05:59 PM PDT
Reuters - AURORA, Colo./SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Soda bottles littered his apartment, the top-floor unit of a three-story red brick building in a run-down neighborhood, what seemed typical quarters for a 24-year-old doctoral student with one critical exception: Police now believe it to be booby-trapped. Just 4 miles away from his Aurora, Colorado, apartment, James Eagan Holmes became a national figure on Friday, identified by police as the gunman who opened fire in a movie theater, killing 12 people and wounding 59 others while dressed in body armor, black gloves and a gas mask. ... Full Story | Top |
Timeline: Gunman kills 12 in Denver shooting at "Batman" movie
Fri,20 Jul 2012 05:50 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gunman in a gas mask killed 12 people and injured dozens more at a midnight showing of the new "Batman" movie in a Denver, Colorado, suburb early on Friday. Here is a timeline of the events, based on the accounts of witnesses, police and a law enforcement source close to the investigation: * Just before midnight, hundreds of people packed into four sold-out screenings of the Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises," at the Century 16 Movie Theaters in Aurora, Colorado. ... Full Story | Top |
China in talks to build five new reactors in UK: paper
Fri,20 Jul 2012 05:09 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese nuclear firms are considering investing 35 billion pounds in building up to five new nuclear reactors in Britain, a newspaper reported on Saturday. A team from the Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute (SNERDI), an arm of the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), met senior British officials in the past week, the Guardian newspaper said on its website. ... Full Story | Top |
At least seven dead in attack on civilian camp in Ivory Coast
Fri,20 Jul 2012 04:54 PM PDT
Reuters - ABIDJAN (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed and dozens injured on Friday when angry mobs set fire to a U.N.-protected camp for civilians forced from their homes in western Ivory Coast, underscoring tensions in the zone. The United Nations said the attack on Nahibly camp - an apparent revenge attack for an overnight robbery in the nearby town of Duekoue that killed five - forced 5,000 people to flee. Those in the camp were Ivorians who fled their homes during last year's civil war. ... Full Story | Top |
George W. Bush will not attend Republican convention
Fri,20 Jul 2012 04:06 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President George W. Bush will not attend the Republican convention next month, his office said on Friday, skipping Mitt Romney's expected coronation as the party's White House nominee. Bush supports Romney and believes he would be a great president, "but he's still enjoying his time off the political stage and respectfully declined the invitation to go to Tampa," spokesman Freddy Ford said in an email first reported by Politico. ...
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Gunman kills 12, wounds 59 at 'Batman' premiere in Colorado
Fri,20 Jul 2012 03:42 PM PDT
Reuters -  AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - A gunman in a gas mask and body armor killed 12 people at a midnight premiere of the new "Batman" movie in a suburb of Denver early on Friday, opening fire on moviegoers after hurling a gas canister into the theater. Armed with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, he wounded 59 others with gunfire during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" at a mall in Aurora, which turned into a chaotic scene of bleeding victims, horrified screams and pleas for help, witnesses said. ...
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Israel: May act to stop Syria arms reaching Hezbollah
Fri,20 Jul 2012 03:35 PM PDT
Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Friday it would consider military action if needed to ensure Syrian missiles or chemical weapons did not reach President Bashar al-Assad's allies in Lebanon, the Shi'ite Islamist movement Hezbollah. "I have instructed the military to increase its intelligence preparations and prepare what is needed so that ... (if necessary) ... we will be able to consider carrying out an operation," Defence Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview on Channel 10 television. "We are following ... ... Full Story | Top |
New York bus system can't bar pro-Israel, 'defeat Jihad' ads
Fri,20 Jul 2012 03:28 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A pro-Israel group must be allowed to place a paid advertisement on New York City public buses that equates jihadists with savages, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday. The opinion by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan said a 1997 rule by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that barred demeaning language in advertisements was a violation of free speech. While the rule was well intentioned, the judge found, it had the effect of discriminating against certain advertisers based on the content of their proposed message. ... Full Story | Top |
Air Force instructor maintains innocence at court: martial
Fri,20 Jul 2012 03:27 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Lawyers for a male Air Force drill instructor accused of serial sexual assault of women said on Friday there was no evidence to convict their client as arguments ended in the first court-martial stemming from a widening military sex scandal. Staff Sergeant Luis Walker is charged with 28 counts, including rape and attempted assault, for allegedly having inappropriate sexual relationships with 10 women at Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio, the home of Air Force basic training. ... Full Story | Top |
Voting Rights Act petitions reach Supreme Court
Fri,20 Jul 2012 03:25 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two legal challenges to the Voting Rights Act, a landmark law adopted in 1965 that barred racial discrimination in voting practices, reached the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. The appeals target a part of the law, known as pre-clearance, that says that states with a history of discrimination must get permission from the federal government before changing election procedures. The first challenge was filed by supporters of a 2008 Kinston, North Carolina, measure that would omit candidates' party affiliations from ballots. ... Full Story | Top |
Florida man killed in police mix-up
Fri,20 Jul 2012 03:23 PM PDT
Reuters - ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The death of a man shot inside his home, by a sheriff's deputy who went to the wrong apartment looking for a criminal suspect, has sparked protests this week over police procedures in the central Florida city of Leesburg. Andrew "Drew" Scott, 26, a pizza delivery driver, was shot dead at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday when deputies knocked on his apartment door without identifying themselves as law enforcement officers. Scott opened his door holding a gun, according to Lake County Sheriff spokesman Lieutenant John Herrell. ... Full Story | Top |
Police to detonate devices in Colorado shooting suspect's home
Fri,20 Jul 2012 03:23 PM PDT
Reuters - AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - The apartment of the man suspected of shooting 71 people at a Denver-area movie theater on Friday, killing 12 of them, has been so extensively booby-trapped that police have determined they cannot safely defuse the devices, a police source said Friday. Police now plan to detonate the devices using a robot, the source familiar with the matter told Reuters, but that may not occur for several hours. Before performing any detonation, which they believe would likely be small in size, they plan to close down traffic on nearby streets, the source said. ... Full Story | Top |
Boeing sues US Air Force for rocket refund
Fri,20 Jul 2012 03:15 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co is suing the U.S. Air Force, its biggest client, for $385 million it says it is owed for Delta IV rocket launch services. Boeing and the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture with Lockheed Martin Corp , filed a joint complaint on June 14 "to preserve their rights to recover these costs," Boeing said in a statement made available Friday. At issue are "legitimate, allowable costs of the Delta IV program that Boeing incurred prior to the creation of ULA in 2006," said Jenna McMullin, a company spokeswoman. ...
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U.S. municipal bond market still unclear on advisers
Fri,20 Jul 2012 03:04 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Regulators, lawmakers, municipal bond dealers and state and local governments are growing anxious about the U.S. government's delays in carrying out a key part of the financial regulatory overhaul known as Dodd-Frank, two years after the law was signed. The law requires those who counsel states, cities and authorities on bond sales to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, subjecting them to the same regulation as brokers and dealers in the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market. ... Full Story | Top |
Syrian forces attempt fightback after rebel surge
Fri,20 Jul 2012 02:38 PM PDT
Reuters -  BAB AL-HAWA, Syria/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army helicopters pounded Damascus with rockets and heavy machine guns overnight, and tanks bombarded the capital from the ring road, to try to reverse relentless gains by rebels since much of President Bashar al-Assad's entourage was assassinated. The unprecedented rebel momentum of the past few days has fighters boasting that Assad's grip is being pried from the country his family has ruled since his father seized power in a coup 42 years ago. But he remains a fearsome foe. "The regime has been rudderless for last three days. ...
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Analysis: Colorado shooting unlikely to spur changes in gun laws
Fri,20 Jul 2012 02:32 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is a member of a coalition called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, but when he issued a statement expressing shock and horror on Friday after a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater, he had nothing to say about gun control. Neither did President Barack Obama nor his Republican rival Mitt Romney, though both canceled campaign speeches on Friday and expressed sorrow for the victims of the shooting rampage. ...
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Colorado rampage claims woman who narrowly missed Toronto shooting
Fri,20 Jul 2012 02:20 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Among the victims of Friday's mass shooting at a midnight screening of the latest "Batman" movie was an aspiring sportscaster from Texas who missed by minutes being on the scene of another shooting rampage just a month before in Toronto. Jessica Ghawi, who used the name Jessica Redfield, was killed when a gunman opened fire in a crowded theater in Aurora, Colorado, during the opening moments of the "The Dark Knight Rises," her mother confirmed to Reuters by phone. Her brother, Jordan Ghawi, also said on his website that she had been killed. ... Full Story | Top |
Family of suspected Colorado gunman releases statement
Fri,20 Jul 2012 02:20 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The family of suspected gunman James Eagan Holmes said on Friday their hearts go out to those involved in the Colorado movie shooting and asked for their privacy to be respected. Twelve people were killed and 59 injured early on Friday when a gunman in a gas mask hurled a gas canister into the midnight showing of the new "Batman" movie in Aurora, a Denver suburb, and started shooting. The 24-year-old suspect, who was taken into custody, was in the process of withdrawing from the graduate program in neurosciences at the University of Colorado Denver, a school spokesman said. ... Full Story | Top |
WHO endorses use of HIV medicines for prevention
Fri,20 Jul 2012 02:18 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The World Health Organization has endorsed using HIV medicines among people who do not have the infection but are at high risk of getting it and suggested that poor and wealthy countries alike set up pilot projects to better understand the benefits. The United Nations agency made its suggestion on Friday, four days after U.S. regulators approved use of Gilead Sciences Inc's Truvada for people who are not infected but may engage in sexual activity with HIV-positive partners. The concept is known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. ... Full Story | Top |
Exclusive: Kim plans economic change in North Korea
Fri,20 Jul 2012 02:12 PM PDT
Reuters -  BEIJING (Reuters) - Impoverished North Korea is gearing up to experiment with agricultural and economic reforms after young leader Kim Jong-un and his powerful uncle purged the country's top general for opposing change, a source with ties to both Pyongyang and Beijing said. The source added that the cabinet had created a special bureau to take control of the decaying economy from the military, one of the world's largest, which under Kim's father was given pride of place in running the country. ...
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House to vote on Fed audit bill on Tuesday
Fri,20 Jul 2012 01:59 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives is expected to vote on Tuesday on a bill that would allow for a congressional audit of Federal Reserve monetary policy decisions, a senior House aide said on Friday. The legislation proposed by Republican Representative Ron Paul, a long-time critic of the U.S. central bank and author of the book "End the Fed," has already gathered 274 co-sponsors, virtually guaranteeing passage. ... Full Story | Top |
What might be hiding in Romney's tax returns?
Fri,20 Jul 2012 01:36 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney tried again on Thursday to shift the campaign conversation away from his refusal to disclose more of his tax returns, raising questions about what may be in them. While Romney accused President Barack Obama of demonizing business success by hounding the Republican challenger over the issue, tax experts were speculating about what might be in Romney's undisclosed returns. So far he has released only his 2010 return and a draft of his 2011 return. He has pledged to release the full 2011 return when it is ready. ...
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FDA OKs Onyx's Kyprolis for multiple myeloma
Fri,20 Jul 2012 01:22 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. drug regulators approved Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc's Kyprolis for people with a type of blood cancer that has failed to respond to other medicines. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday the intravenous drug was approved for treating multiple myeloma in people who have tried at least two other medicines, including Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd's Velcade and Celgene Corp's Revlimid or Thalomid. Multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that affects the plasma cells in bone marrow, is relatively rare in the United States but often deadly. ... Full Story | Top |
U.N. approves 30-day extension for Syria monitors
Fri,20 Jul 2012 01:21 PM PDT
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to briefly extend a monitoring mission in Syria for 30 days, keeping alive a key part of international envoy Kofi Annan's faltering plan to end the 16-month conflict that has killed thousands of people. Despite deep divisions over how to deal with the crisis in Syria, the Security Council backed Annan's peace plan and agreed in April to deploy 300 unarmed observers for an initial 90 days to help implement his six-point strategy to end the fighting. ... Full Story | Top |
Obama, Romney mourn Colorado shooting tragedy
Fri,20 Jul 2012 01:15 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and his rival Mitt Romney on Friday canceled campaign speeches and some ads attacking each other, replacing them with expressions of sorrow for the victims of a deadly shooting rampage in Colorado. Obama, briefed by aides early in the morning, returned to Washington after talking about the shooting during remarks at an event in Fort Myers, Florida. He ordered U.S. flags on all federal buildings and grounds to be flown at half-staff through Wednesday. ...
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Chinese court upholds Ai Weiwei tax fine
Fri,20 Jul 2012 12:31 PM PDT
Reuters -  BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Friday upheld a $2.4 million fine for tax evasion against the country's most famous dissident, Ai Weiwei, after barring him from attending the hearing, in a case that critics accuse Beijing of using to muzzle the outspoken artist. Ai had asked the Chaoyang District court to overturn the city tax office's rejection of his appeal against the tax evasion penalty imposed on the company he works for, Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd, which produces his art and designs. ...
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French PM to meet Peugeot CEO on Monday
Fri,20 Jul 2012 12:23 PM PDT
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault will meet PSA Peugeot Citroen's Chief Executive Philippe Varin on Monday ahead of a government plan for the car sector due next week, the prime minister's office said on Friday. The meeting follows Peugeot's announcement last week that it would cut 8,000 jobs in France and close an assembly plant at Aulnay near Paris in 2014 as part of an effort to stem operating losses of 200 million euros ($244 million) a month at its manufacturing division. ... Full Story | Top |
Funeral held for Syria officials killed in bombing
Fri,20 Jul 2012 12:12 PM PDT
Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - A funeral ceremony was held on Friday for three of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's senior security officials who were killed in a bomb attack, but the Syrian leader stayed away from the sombre procession. Assad was represented by Vice President Farouq al-Shara at the ceremony, shown on state television news. The attack on a meeting of Assad's inner circle on Wednesday killed his brother-in-law Assef Shawkat, Defense Minister Daoud Rajha and veteran army general Hassan Turkmani. ... Full Story | Top |
Explosions, gunfire heard near Syria-Iraq border post
Fri,20 Jul 2012 12:12 PM PDT
Reuters - OUTSIDE QAIM, Iraq (Reuters) - A series of explosions and bursts of gunfire were heard on Friday at the Syrian-Iraqi Abu Kamal border post that Iraqi officials said was captured by Syrian rebels a day earlier. The fighting appeared to be on the Syrian side of the border, a Reuters photographer on the Iraqi side said. The Iraqi army sealed off the border gate with concrete blast walls earlier on Friday. (Reporting by Saad Salash; Writing by Sylvia Westall; Editing by Alison Williams) Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Egyptian leader looks abroad to win influence at home
Fri,20 Jul 2012 12:04 PM PDT
Reuters -  CAIRO (Reuters) - An early diplomatic offensive by Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's new Islamist president, makes it harder for an army-led establishment to portray him on the international stage as a threat to foreign powers. At home though, it may do little to curb the influence of the generals and help Mursi assert himself as head of state. Egypt's long-standing allies Saudi Arabia and the United States are unwilling to challenge the army's role as self-appointed protector of Egypt, which it uses to justify continued control over national security and a future constitution. ...
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Russia extends jailing of Pussy Riot activists
Fri,20 Jul 2012 11:57 AM PDT
Reuters -  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three members of female punk group Pussy Riot who derided President Vladimir Putin in a protest in Moscow's main cathedral had their spell in jail extended by six months on Friday in what their lawyers called a show trial dictated by the Kremlin. ...
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Russia detains 5 over attacks on Muslim leaders
Fri,20 Jul 2012 11:42 AM PDT
Reuters -  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities said they detained five suspects on Friday over attacks that wounded the top Islamic official in the mostly Muslim Tatarstan region, killed his deputy and raised fears of the spread of militancy to Russia's heartland. President Vladimir Putin and top security officials called at the weekly meeting of his Security Council for tough measures against extremism after the attacks in an area previously held up as a model of religious tolerance. ...
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How "Damascus Volcano" erupted in Assad's stronghold
Fri,20 Jul 2012 11:37 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - As darkness descended over Damascus last Saturday, few of its 1.7 million residents could have had any inkling that a decisive battle to wrest the city from the grasp of President Bashar al-Assad was about to begin. Insurgents gave the operation a name that reflected their hopes of a successful surprise attack on a city long regarded as an impregnable fortress for the Assad family: "Damascus Volcano and Syrian Earthquake". ... Full Story | Top |
Alberta to probe pipelines amid oil spill furor
Fri,20 Jul 2012 11:34 AM PDT
Reuters - CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Alberta, the largest source of U.S. oil imports, plans to review the safety of its massive pipeline network after a number of high-profile oil spills prompted calls for action, Ken Hughes, the Canadian province's energy minister, said on Friday. Following consultations with the oil and pipeline industries, Hughes said he directed the provincial energy regulator to retain an independent third party to review how pipeline integrity is managed, how safe water crossings are and what plans are in place for responding to spills. ... Full Story | Top |
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