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Colombia rail blast slows transport at Cerrejon coal mine: media
Sat,14 Jul 2012 06:32 PM PDT
Reuters - BOGOTA (Reuters) - An explosion on a railway line that feeds into Colombia's biggest coal miner, Cerrejon, slowed transport between the mine and a Caribbean port in northern La Guajira province, local media reported. The attack on Saturday, just as a coal train was passing by, was likely carried out by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Caracol Radio cited police commander Elver Velasco Garabito as saying. ... Full Story | Top |
Saudi Arabia condemns Russian comments on human rights
Sat,14 Jul 2012 05:21 PM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Saturday condemned comments by Russia's human rights envoy on the situation in the kingdom as "hostile" and an unjustified interference in the kingdom's internal affairs, the Saudi state news agency (SPA) reported. The rare public exchange appeared to reflect tensions over the 16-month-old uprising in Syria where Russia has resisted introduction of Western- and Arab-backed sanction against President Bashar al-Assad. ... Full Story | Top |
Sudans commit to talks as AU advances plan on Mali
Sat,14 Jul 2012 04:20 PM PDT
Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African leaders brought together the presidents of feuding neighbors Sudan and South Sudan on Saturday and fleshed out a plan for military intervention in northern Mali where they said al Qaeda-linked rebels threatened the continent's security. After attending a summit of the African Union's Peace and Security Council in Addis Ababa, Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir afterwards met for face to face talks at a hotel in the Ethiopian capital. ... Full Story | Top |
Leaders of Sudans meet in boost to oil, border talks
Sat,14 Jul 2012 04:06 PM PDT
Reuters -  ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan on Saturday held their first talks since their countries came close to war in April, raising hopes for a negotiated settlement of oil and border disputes before an August 2 U.N. Security Council deadline. The face to face encounter between Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir at the Sheraton hotel in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa followed an African Union session in which both men committed to peaceful negotiations over conflict. ...
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U.N. says Syria killings targeted opposition
Sat,14 Jul 2012 03:28 PM PDT
Reuters -  BEIRUT (Reuters) - United Nations observers found blood, burned homes and signs of artillery fire in the Syrian village of Tremseh on Saturday but were unable to confirm activists' reports that about 220 people were massacred in an attack that prompted international outrage. The United States has branded Syria's leaders murderers after the assault by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops, but there was no break in the deadlock among world powers over how to bring about an end to the bloodshed. ...
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Clinton backs Egypt army return to security role
Sat,14 Jul 2012 02:40 PM PDT
Reuters -  CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of people chanted anti-U.S. and anti-Islamist slogans outside Hillary Clinton's hotel on Saturday as the U.S. secretary of state urged Egypt's military and Muslim Brotherhood to complete a transition to full democratic rule. Clinton met Egypt's newly-elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday and was to see military chief Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi on Sunday, two of the central players in the power struggle playing out in the country. ...
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Man self-immolates at Israel cost-of-living protest
Sat,14 Jul 2012 02:15 PM PDT
Reuters - TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A man sustained serious burns after he poured flammable liquid on himself and lit it, said police, at a protest on Saturday in Tel Aviv against the economic policies of Israel's conservative government. "From what I understand, he claimed money had been taken from him. Obviously he did it for financial reasons, though further details are not yet clear," said police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld. He said the man was aged around 40. ... Full Story | Top |
U.N. observers say Tremseh attack targeted army defectors, activists
Sat,14 Jul 2012 02:08 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - An attack in the Syrian village of Tremseh appeared to target the homes of army defectors and activists, and assailants used weapons including artillery and mortars, a statement by the spokesman for the U.N. observers in Syria said on Saturday. The observers entered the village on Saturday after activists said about 220 people had been killed there by President Bashar al-Assad's troops. The observers saw damaged houses and a burned school and planned to return to the village on Sunday, the statement said, adding the number of casualties was unclear. Full Story | Top |
States could avoid liability for banks under new ESM: Regling
Sat,14 Jul 2012 01:55 PM PDT
Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - Governments will not be liable for emergency loans given direct to banks if plans for pan-European banking supervision are implemented, the head of the euro zone's bailout fund, Klaus Regling, was reported on Saturday as saying. "If the European Central Bank does end up acting as Europe's unified banking supervisor, it would be possible for us to give loans directly to banks and not to hand them over via the government as we do at the moment," Regling was quoted as saying in an advance copy of an article to be published in Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
German court must decide on rescue fund by Sept: Juncker
Sat,14 Jul 2012 01:55 PM PDT
Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker does not expect Germany's top court to block the new version of the euro zone's ESM bailout fund and believes judges are aware of the need for a verdict before a new round of crisis meetings in September. The Constitutional Court agreed on Tuesday to examine complaints lodged against the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and financial markets have been unsettled by the prospect of it taking up to three months before it comes to a decision. ... Full Story | Top |
Former Sarkozy aide denies influence peddling
Sat,14 Jul 2012 01:34 PM PDT
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Senior Credit Agricole executive Xavier Musca said on Saturday he would take steps to fight back legally against accusations of influence-peddling during his time as a top official under former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The launch of a preliminary investigation into Musca on Friday followed a series of graft allegations in France that prompted President Francois Hollande to pledge in a Bastille Day interview to clean up and modernize politics. ... Full Story | Top |
Sudanese presidents hold first talks since April clashes
Sat,14 Jul 2012 01:27 PM PDT
Reuters - ADDIS ADABA (Reuters) - The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan held a face to face meeting at a hotel in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Adaba on Saturday, their first such meeting since the two countries came close to war in April over a border dispute and oil revenues. The encounter between Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir at the Sheraton hotel followed an African Union session in which both leaders committed to negotiating out their countries' differences peacefully. A member of the South Sudanese delegation said the two presidents had met at the hotel. ... Full Story | Top |
Exclusive: Red Cross ruling raises questions of Syrian war crimes
Sat,14 Jul 2012 12:42 PM PDT
Reuters -  GENEVA (Reuters) - The Red Cross now views fighting in Syria as an internal armed conflict - a civil war in layman's terms - crossing a threshold experts say can help lay the ground for future prosecutions for war crimes. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions setting down the rules of war, and as such is considered a reference in qualifying when violence has evolved into an armed conflict. ...
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Foreigner held in Cyprus, media see plot on Israelis
Sat,14 Jul 2012 12:18 PM PDT
Reuters - NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriot police are questioning a 24-year-old foreigner arrested last week who may have been plotting an attack on Israeli tourists visiting the Mediterranean island, media reported on Saturday. The man, thought to be a Swedish passport holder of Lebanese extraction, was arrested on July 7 and was being detained following remand hearings held behind closed doors, Sigma TV reported. He has not been charged with any offence. ... Full Story | Top |
Most Greeks want new govt to renegotiate bailout: poll
Sat,14 Jul 2012 12:13 PM PDT
Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Most Greeks want the government to renegotiate the terms of its EU/IMF bailout regardless of the impact this stance would have on the country's future in the euro zone, a poll showed on Saturday. Greece is dependent on the funds from Brussels and the IMF for day to day state spending but in exchange for a second, 130 billion-euro bailout it is implementing spending cuts that have pushed it into its worst recession since World War Two and put one in five out of work. An MRB poll for Sunday's Realnews showed that 73. ... Full Story | Top |
Greek funding hangs on troika mission: official
Sat,14 Jul 2012 12:13 PM PDT
Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - It is too early to say how Greece will meet its financing needs and discussions can only begin once a lenders' mission returns to Athens, two EU officials said on Saturday, but a senior policymaker has said there was no cause for concern. Prior to Greece's elections, the previous government said its cash reserves would be exhausted by the end of July, and a report on Saturday suggested the European Central Bank could consider allowing Greece to delay a bond payment in August. ... Full Story | Top |
Angolan police arrest 12 at anti-government rally
Sat,14 Jul 2012 12:08 PM PDT
Reuters - LISBON (Reuters) - Angolan police on Saturday arrested 10 youth protesters and two journalists at an anti-government demonstration in the capital Luanda, Portuguese state news agency Lusa reported, as tensions rise ahead of August's presidential election. A youth movement has staged several demonstrations since March last year calling for long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos to resign after 32 years at the helm of Africa's second-largest oil producer after Nigeria. ... Full Story | Top |
Chavez re-election team expands social media reach via Twitter
Sat,14 Jul 2012 11:30 AM PDT
Reuters -  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's verbose Hugo Chavez is reaching out to voters with tweets sent as text messages to even the most basic mobile phones as the socialist president fights a vigorous opposition campaign in the Twitter-mad country ahead of an October 7 election. Chavez has had three cancer operations in the last year and his delicate health means he has not been able to travel anywhere near as much as his younger rival, Henrique Capriles. ...
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Boeing sweetens Brazil fighter jet offer: report
Sat,14 Jul 2012 11:23 AM PDT
Reuters - SAO PAULO (Reuters) - U.S. aerospace company Boeing Co has offered to transfer more technology to Brazil if the government upgraded its Air Force fighter fleet with the firm's F-18 Super Hornet jet, a local paper reported on Saturday. Boeing vice president of the F/A-18 program, Mike Gibbons, said his company would offer Brazilian "companies the opportunity to construct components for the new Super Hornets and other future projects of Boeing," according to O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper. ... Full Story | Top |
Cuba says cholera outbreak not spreading
Sat,14 Jul 2012 11:09 AM PDT
Reuters - Havana (Reuters) - Cuba said on Saturday that a cholera outbreak in eastern Cuba is diminishing and has not spread to other parts of the country. A Public Health Ministry statement said there were 158 confirmed cholera cases and three people had died since the illness was first detected in Manzanillo, a city of 130,000 residents located on the southern coast of Granma province. "The outbreak of cases transmitted through water is diminishing, with no indication the illness has spread through food or other means," Saturday's Health Ministry statement said. ... Full Story | Top |
France's Hollande vows to fight job cuts, graft
Sat,14 Jul 2012 11:03 AM PDT
Reuters -  PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande marked Bastille day celebrations on Saturday with a pledge to fight industrial layoffs and clean up French politics, after watching troops parade down the Champs Elysees as jets streamed the national colors overhead. The Socialist leader's first National Day since winning office in May was overshadowed by outcry at mass job cuts announced by carmaker Peugeot and a scandal over his private life threatening to undermine his image as "Mr. Normal". ...
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Turkish police and Kurds clash, bomb wounds 12
Sat,14 Jul 2012 10:29 AM PDT
Reuters - DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Riot police fired water cannon and teargas as they clashed with stone-throwing Kurdish protesters in south-east Turkey on Saturday, and militants elsewhere in the region detonated a bomb that wounded 12 police officers. Kurdish members of parliament were caught up in the rioting as police and demonstrators battled on the streets of the main south-eastern city of Diyarbakir, where the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) had sought to hold a rally. ... Full Story | Top |
Anti-graft activist kidnapped for 2 days in South Sudan
Sat,14 Jul 2012 09:21 AM PDT
Reuters - JUBA (Reuters) - A South Sudanese anti-corruption activist said he had been kidnapped and beaten for two days by unknown assailants angry at his campaign to expose officials suspected of stealing $4 billion of government funds. Deng Athuai Mawiir, chairman of the South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, said he had been abducted outside his hotel in the capital Juba on July 4. His ordeal underscores the challenges facing South Sudan, which became the world's youngest nation when it seceded from Sudan last year after two decades of civil war. ... Full Story | Top |
Cyprus police question suspect in security probe
Sat,14 Jul 2012 09:14 AM PDT
Reuters - NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriot police are questioning a 24-year-old man arrested last week who may have been plotting an attack on Israeli tourists visiting the Mediterranean island, media reported on Saturday. The man, thought to be a Swedish passport holder of Lebanese extraction, was arrested on July 7 and was being detained following remand hearings held behind closed doors, Sigma TV reported. He has not been charged with any offence. ... Full Story | Top |
Manchester United's U.S. IPO may be a tough sell
Sat,14 Jul 2012 08:35 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Manchester United may be one of the most supported sports teams in the world but that doesn't mean the soccer club is going to find many investors with an appetite for its planned initial public offering in the United States. Fund managers who have looked at its preliminary prospectus have been either negative or lukewarm on the prospect of buying shares in the club, which is controlled by the Florida-based Glazer family. ...
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German finance minister confident of court response to bailout
Sat,14 Jul 2012 07:22 AM PDT
Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is confident Germany's top court will rule that the EU's bailout fund and fiscal pact are compatible with national law, he said in a newspaper interview on Saturday. The Constitutional Court agreed on Tuesday to examine complaints lodged against the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and new budget rules but gave no date for its verdict. ... Full Story | Top |
French aid worker released in Yemen, ICRC says
Sat,14 Jul 2012 06:44 AM PDT
Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - A French aid worker kidnapped in northern Yemen nearly three months ago by armed men has been released and is in good health, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday. Benjamin Malbrancke was abducted on April 21 near the town of Hodeida. Referring to an al Qaeda-linked cell, ICRC spokesman Hicham Hassan told Reuters in Geneva: "He was handed over to ICRC representatives by Ansar al-Sharia on Friday. We don't know who the abductors were." Ansar al-Sharia swears allegiance to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
North Mali "terrorist" haven threatens Africa -leaders
Sat,14 Jul 2012 06:31 AM PDT
Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Africa faces a serious threat from al Qaeda and its allies trying to set up a sanctuary in northern Mali, African leaders said on Saturday as they pondered political and military strategies aimed at reuniting the divided West African state. The leaders meeting at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa are seeking to resolve messy aftermaths of military coups this year in Mali and Guinea-Bissau which have put blots on the continent's democratic credentials after advances in stability and governance in recent years. ... Full Story | Top |
Iran issues new oil blockade warning
Sat,14 Jul 2012 06:22 AM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran could prevent even "a single drop of oil" passing through the Strait of Hormuz if its security is threatened, a naval chief said on Saturday, as tensions simmer over Tehran's nuclear program. Tehran will increase its military presence in international waters, said Ali Fadavi, naval commander in Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). "If they (the U.S.) do not obey international laws and the IRGC's warnings, it will have very bad consequences for them," Fadavi said, according to Iran's Fars News Agency. ... Full Story | Top |
France's Hollande: still time to avoid Syrian civil war
Sat,14 Jul 2012 05:15 AM PDT
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday there was still time to find a political solution to avoid a civil war in Syria, but urged Russia to stop blocking efforts for a resolution at the United Nations Security Council. "I told (Russian President) Vladimir Putin that the worst thing that could happen is a civil war in Syria so let's work together to find a political solution to avoid civil war. There is still time," Hollande said during an interview marking France's national day. (Reporting By John Irish and Daniel Flynn) Full Story | Top |
Russian forces say kill 8 militants in Caucasus
Sat,14 Jul 2012 05:06 AM PDT
Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian special forces have killed eight militants, including two regional commanders of insurgent groups, in the country's turbulent North Caucasus region, officials said on Saturday. More than a decade after federal forces drove separatists from power in a war in Chechnya, Russia is still struggling to contain an Islamic insurgency across the mainly Muslim Caucasus region. Islamist insurgents claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport that killed 37 people in January 2011 and twin bombings that killed 40 people in the Moscow metro in 2010. ... Full Story | Top |
U.N. observers heading for site of Syria massacre
Sat,14 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT
Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - United Nations observers are on their way to the central Syrian village of Tremseh, a U.N. spokeswoman in Damascus said on Saturday, two days after activists said some 220 people had been killed there by helicopter gunships and militiamen. "We were informed yesterday that a ceasefire was granted in Tremseh. So we sent a patrol on a reconnaissance mission. The patrol assessed the situation," Sausan Ghosheh said in an email. "We have sent a large integrated patrol today to seek verification of the facts," she said, adding that it consisted of both civilian and military ... Full Story | Top |
South African truck driver charged with murder
Sat,14 Jul 2012 03:34 AM PDT
Reuters - JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The driver of a farm truck that was ripped in half by a coal train at a level crossing in South Africa as he took fruit-pickers to work has been charged with 25 counts of murder. South African police said on Saturday that its investigation suggested the driver ignored clear signage, taking his vehicle into the path of the train that dragged the truck 200 meters (660 feet) down the track, dismembering its occupants. "He was negligent," Mapumalanga police spokesperson Col Leonard Hlathi told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
China to invest $5 billion to renovate rural houses: Xinhua
Sat,14 Jul 2012 03:25 AM PDT
Reuters - SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will provide 31.87 billion yuan ($5 billion) in subsidies for the renovation of rural households this year, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said on Saturday. The pilot scheme will cover 4 million poor rural homes, the agency cited a joint statement by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Finance and the National Development & Reform Commission. Each dilapidated house will be given 7,500 yuan on average, while 130,000 poverty-stricken rural households located in the border areas will be granted another 2,500 yuan in subsidies each. ... Full Story | Top |
Suicide bomber kills top official, 22 more at Afghan wedding
Sat,14 Jul 2012 02:50 AM PDT
Reuters -  MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed a prominent anti-Taliban politician and 22 other guests at a wedding reception in the northern Afghan province of Samangan on Saturday, officials said. The bomber blew himself up as he hugged lawmaker Ahmad Khan Samangani, who was celebrating his daughter's marriage, police said. The blast also killed the provincial intelligence chief and a senior police commander. Samangani was close to Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, and commanded thousands of men in the area. ...
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Saudi security forces kill oil province attacker: SPA
Sat,14 Jul 2012 02:24 AM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi security forces shot and killed a man who was among a group that opened fire and hurled a fire-bomb at a police station in the oil-rich Eastern province, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said on Saturday. The agency also quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman as saying that four members of the security forces were wounded in a separate attack by masked gunmen on motor-bikes who fired at two patrols in the village of Sehat, also in Eastern Province, early on Saturday. ... Full Story | Top |
Calgary Stampede horse deaths anger animal rights activists
Fri,13 Jul 2012 09:49 PM PDT
Reuters -  CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The debate between cowboy tradition and animal rights at the Calgary Stampede was reignited late Thursday when three horses were killed and a fourth seriously injured during a chuckwagon race at the huge annual rodeo and exhibition of Western Canadian culture Chuckwagon racing, the marquee event of Calgary's famous 10-day festival, is inspired by pioneering cowboys' practice of breaking camp and racing away. The thrilling sport is a Stampede symbol but it has claimed dozens of animals over the years. ...
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Chavez: Venezuela is no threat, Obama is a "good guy"
Fri,13 Jul 2012 06:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez denied on Friday that Venezuela was a threat to anyone, after U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney criticized Barack Obama for playing down the risk posed by the socialist leader. Obama told a Spanish-language television station in an interview screened this week that Chavez's actions over recent years had not had a serious impact on the national security of the United States. Romney said Obama's comments were "stunning and shocking" and showed a pattern of weakness in the Democratic president's foreign policy. ...
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Romania government pursues campaign to remove president
Fri,13 Jul 2012 03:48 PM PDT
Reuters -  BUCHAREST/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Romania's ruling party plans to extend voting in a referendum on whether to impeach the president to two days from one, a senior politician said on Friday, seeking to boost voter turnout and minimize the risk of failure in its efforts to drive him out. Leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta's campaign against conservative President Traian Basescu, his long-time political rival, has drawn criticism from the European Union which sees a threat to democratic rule of law in the Balkan state. ...
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World outrage at Syria "massacre", but no action
Fri,13 Jul 2012 03:46 PM PDT
Reuters -  AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States has branded Syria's leaders murderers after an attack on a village by President Bashar al-Assad's troops left dozens dead, but there was no break in the deadlock among world powers over how to bring about an end to the bloodshed. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also condemned what his monitors on the ground had seen as an "indiscriminate" bombardment that included rocket-firing helicopters of the town of Tremseh in rebellious Hama province, and he questioned Assad's commitment to a U.N.-sponsored peace plan for Syria. But at U.N. ...
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