Today's Reuters World News Headlines - Yahoo! News:
|
|
Evidence shows months of calculation ahead of Colorado shooting: police
Sat,21 Jul 2012 06:30 PM PDT
Reuters -  AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - The man accused in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area premiere of the new "Batman" film received a high volume of deliveries in recent months, police said on Saturday, parcels they believe contained ammunition and bomb-making materials and showed evidence of "calculation and deliberation. ...
Full Story | Top |
Rupert Murdoch quits boards of British papers
Sat,21 Jul 2012 05:17 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - News Corp's Rupert Murdoch has stepped down from a string of boards overseeing the Sun, Times and Sunday Times newspapers in Britain, the company said in an internal memo on Saturday. The company described the news as a "corporate housecleaning exercise" linked to the announcement in June that News Corp would split into two separate companies: a smaller publishing division and a much larger entertainment and TV group. ...
Full Story | Top |
Syrian forces fight rebels in Damascus, residents flee
Sat,21 Jul 2012 03:53 PM PDT
Reuters -  BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops backed by helicopters and tanks have struck back in Damascus against rebel fighters emboldened by a bomb attack against President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle. Assad's forces, who also pushed into a rebel-held district in the northerly commercial hub of Aleppo on Saturday, targeted pockets of lightly armed rebels, who moved about the streets on foot and attacked security installations and roadblocks. ...
Full Story | Top |
Shooting suspect got "high volume" of deliveries: police
Sat,21 Jul 2012 03:13 PM PDT
Reuters - AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - The man accused in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area premiere of the new "Batman" film received a high volume of deliveries at work and home over the past four months, police said, parcels they believe contained ammunition and possibly bomb-making materials. Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates revealed the shipments as local and federal authorities worked to make safe suspect James Holmes' apartment, which was found to be booby-trapped with sophisticated explosives following the massacre at a multiplex theater several miles away. ...
Full Story | Top |
Spanish protests swell as jobless march on Madrid
Sat,21 Jul 2012 03:02 PM PDT
Reuters -  MADRID (Reuters) - Hundreds of unemployed Spaniards who had walked hundreds of kilometers (miles) to Madrid joined protests on Saturday against Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government and its handling of an economic crisis. Demonstrations have swollen across Spain since the center-right government announced 65 billion euros ($79 billion) in new spending cuts two weeks ago to cut its deficit and avert a full-blown bailout, with firefighters and police joining a mass protest on Thursday. ...
Full Story | Top |
Damascus chaos strikes fear in Assad's Alawite bastion
Sat,21 Jul 2012 02:57 PM PDT
Reuters -  TARTOUS, Syria (Reuters) - Sunbathing and drinking at bars, men and women lived in a bubble on Syria's Mediterranean coast. They refused to believe their country was collapsing into chaos. Until now. A stunning bomb attack in Syria's capital this week that killed four from President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle has shaken the faith of Alawite supporters in his ability to stave off an armed rebellion that has now encroached on Damascus. ...
Full Story | Top |
U.S. Air Force staff sergeant gets 20 years for rape, sex assault
Sat,21 Jul 2012 02:44 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A drill instructor accused of raping and sexually assaulting 10 female trainees at Lackland Air Force Base was sentenced on Saturday to 20 years in prison, the stiffest jail term handed down yet in the biggest sex scandal to hit the U.S. military since the 1990s. Staff Sergeant Luis Walker, found guilty by a military jury on Friday of 28 charges, was ordered to be reduced to lowest rank in the Air Force, to forfeit all pay and allowances, and given a dishonorable discharge. He will also have to register as a sex offender. ... Full Story | Top |
Militant attacks kill 15 in Pakistan
Sat,21 Jul 2012 02:39 PM PDT
Reuters -  PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb exploded at a compound in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing nine people and wounding 20, local government and intelligence officials said. The bombing in the compound, used by a local militia and containing residential units and an office, occurred near the village of Spin Tal in the Orakzai tribal region. The Pakistan military has been conducting operations against militant groups in the area for months. ...
Full Story | Top |
Glimmers of growth on Florida's Space Coast after shuttle shutdown
Sat,21 Jul 2012 01:57 PM PDT
Reuters -  CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttles Bar & Grill, a once-popular roadside diner a few miles south of the Kennedy Space Center, is shuttered, and a "For Rent" sign is taped to the window of a bagel shop that used to serve space center workers an early bird breakfast. But a year after the United States ended NASA's space shuttle program, crippling communities around Cape Canaveral that had grown dependent on government contracts, private spaceflight and other ventures are starting to fill the void. ...
Full Story | Top |
"Vatileaks" butler wanted to help the pope: lawyer
Sat,21 Jul 2012 01:34 PM PDT
Reuters -  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Paolo Gabriele, the papal butler held on suspicion of leaking documents alleging corruption in the Vatican, was driven by a desire to help the pope, his lawyer said on Saturday, adding that his ultimate aim may have been to clean up the Church. The lawyer, Carlo Fusco, told a news conference that Gabriele had acted alone in the so-called "Vatileaks" scandal and was not part of any wider plot, saying he expected a Vatican magistrate to order a trial for him soon. ...
Full Story | Top |
Pentagon eyes drones for Kenya to fight militants nearby
Sat,21 Jul 2012 11:55 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is seeking to send hand-launched drones to Kenya as part of a $40 million-plus military aid package designed to help four African countries fight al Qaeda and al Shabaab militants, notably in Somalia, the Wall Street Journal reported. Kenya would get eight "Raven" unmanned aerial systems - an unarmed drone that can be used to identify targets for strikes by ground forces or other aircraft. ... Full Story | Top |
Two killed in Homs prison mutiny: Syrian activists
Sat,21 Jul 2012 11:11 AM PDT
Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least two people were killed in a prison mutiny in Syria's central city of Homs on Saturday, opposition activists said. They said some guards had joined in the mutiny, which broke out shortly after midnight, but that government forces from a nearby intelligence base had arrived to crush the rebellion. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human rights, which monitors violence in Syria, said two prisoners were killed. Other activists put the death toll at four and said the mutiny was continuing, although the prison was surrounded. ... Full Story | Top |
Spain's WWF dumps King as patron over African hunting trip
Sat,21 Jul 2012 10:09 AM PDT
Reuters -  MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) voted to remove King Juan Carlos as the organization's honorary patron on Saturday after he went on an elephant-hunting safari in Botswana. Members of the Spanish chapter of the WWF charity voted overwhelmingly to scrap the position of honorary patron, which has been occupied by Juan Carlos since the group was created in Spain in 1968. ...
Full Story | Top |
Egyptians throng former spy chief Suleiman's funeral
Sat,21 Jul 2012 09:21 AM PDT
Reuters -  CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of well-wishers and Egypt's military brass gathered on Saturday for the funeral of the country's former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, a key figure in the fallen Mubarak regime who died this week in hospital in the United States. Supporters of Suleiman chanted "God is great" and "in the name of God," as his casket was hoisted atop a horse-drawn cart after a ceremony at the Al Rashdan Mosque in Cairo's Heliopolis district. ...
Full Story | Top |
U.S. says closely monitoring Syria chemical weapons
Sat,21 Jul 2012 09:19 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is closely monitoring Syria's chemical weapons stockpile and is "actively consulting" Damascus's neighbors to stress concerns over the security of those weapons and Syria's responsibility to safeguard them, the White House said on Saturday. "We believe Syria's chemical weapons stockpile remains under Syrian government control," White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said. "Given the escalation of violence in Syria and the regime's increasing attacks on their people, we remain very concerned about these weapons. ... Full Story | Top |
South Sudan accuses Sudan of bombing, suspends direct talks
Sat,21 Jul 2012 08:43 AM PDT
Reuters - ADDIS ABABA/JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan accused Sudan on Saturday of bombing its territory along a disputed borderland and suspended direct talks with its neighbor over oil and security issues, but Khartoum denied the charge. The two countries split peacefully last year under a 2005 agreement that ended decades of civil war. But many issues remain unsolved, and the two old foes came close to all-out war in April after border clashes escalated. ... Full Story | Top |
Austrian mudslides kill one, cut off villages
Sat,21 Jul 2012 08:12 AM PDT
Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - Mudslides unleashed by torrential rains killed one man, wrecked houses and cut off villages in the Austrian province of Styria, authorities said on Saturday. Police in the southeastern province said they had found the body of a 47-year-old local man swept away by a mudslide on Friday night in the town of Thoerl. Several small communities near Liezen were stranded by blocked roads. Austrian broadcaster ORF said helicopters evacuated around 20 people from the area after mudslides up to 10 meters (30 feet) high made travel by road impossible. ... Full Story | Top |
Russia's Putin signs law on WTO accession
Sat,21 Jul 2012 08:03 AM PDT
Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has signed Russia's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) into law, completing an 18-year campaign to join the trade rules club, the Kremlin press office said on Saturday. Russia's upper house of parliament ratified the country's WTO entry earlier this month. The $1.9 trillion Russian economy, the world's ninth largest, will become the WTO's 156th member 30 days after ratification. (Writing by Andrey Ostroukh; Editing by Mark Heinrich) Full Story | Top |
Sixteen dead in South Africa bus crash
Sat,21 Jul 2012 08:01 AM PDT
Reuters - JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Sixteen people were killed in a collision between two buses in South Africa's remote Eastern Cape province on Saturday, the latest in a string of public transport tragedies in the continent's biggest economy. SAPA news agency said four people were seriously injured. One of the buses was carrying schoolchildren to an event near the town of Cradock, 700 km (440 miles) south of Johannesburg. It was not known how many of the dead were youngsters. ... Full Story | Top |
U.S. cuts military aid to Rwanda over Congo rebel support
Sat,21 Jul 2012 06:51 AM PDT
Reuters - ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The U.S. government said Saturday it will cut military aid to Rwanda for this year, citing evidence Kigali is supporting rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a significant step by one of Rwanda's staunchest allies. Rwanda has denied reports by United Nations experts and rights groups that it is backing eastern Congolese rebels, including the M23 group, which has seized parts of North Kivu province in fighting that has displaced over 260,000 people since April. The U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Italy shipwreck hearing postponed to October 15
Sat,21 Jul 2012 06:24 AM PDT
Reuters -  GROSSETO, Italy (Reuters) - Experts investigating the Costa Concordia shipwreck, which killed as many as 32 people, need more time to gather evidence and will present their findings at a pre-trial hearing on October 15, lawyers said on Saturday. The panel of experts investigating the January 13 cruise line disaster off the Italian coast are expected to complete their work by September. Saturday's pre-trial hearing, which considers evidence ahead of a full trial, was postponed after the experts asked for more time to answer some 50 requests from information by the prosecutors, lawyers said. ...
Full Story | Top |
U.N. chief to send envoy to assess situation in Syria
Sat,21 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT
Reuters - BRIJUNI, Croatia (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday he was sending an envoy to Syria to assess the situation as government forces and rebels battle for control of the country. "I am sending my Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping Operations (Hervé Ladsous) to Syria to assess the situation as well as the top U.N. military advisor (Gen. Babacar Gaye) to lead UNSMIS (mission) in this critical phase," Ban said after meeting Croatian officials in the Adriatic resort of Brijuni. Ban's remarks came a day after the U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
Syria moves chemical weapons before wider offensive: defector
Sat,21 Jul 2012 05:32 AM PDT
Reuters - HACIPASA, Turkey (Reuters) - A senior Syrian military defector said President Bashar al-Assad's forces were moving chemical weapons across the country for possible use in a military retaliation for the killing of four top security officials. "The regime has started moving its chemical stockpile and redistributing it to prepare for its use," said General Mustafa Sheikh, citing rebel intelligence obtained in recent days. "They are moving it from warehouses to new locations," he told Reuters in an interview in southern Turkey, close to the Syrian border. "They want to burn the country. ... Full Story | Top |
Attack on Turkey-Iraq pipeline knocks out oil flows
Sat,21 Jul 2012 05:18 AM PDT
Reuters - DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Firefighters in southeast Turkey on Saturday put out a fire on a pipeline carrying about a quarter of Iraq's oil exports, but it was unclear when oil would resume flowing, security sources said. They blamed sabotage by Kurdish separatists for the explosion on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline. The fire broke out at 11 p.m. (1700 EDT) on Friday near the town of Midyat in Mardin province, near the Syrian border. ... Full Story | Top |
Iran introduces tiered exchange rates for imports
Sat,21 Jul 2012 04:40 AM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will introduce a three-tiered exchange rate system to purchase different classes of imports, state media reported on Saturday, in an indication that the government's stores of hard currency are coming under pressure from Western sanctions. The Iranian rial has lost nearly half its value in the last year, after the West tightened sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program. ... Full Story | Top |
South Sudan accuses Sudan of bombing its territory
Sat,21 Jul 2012 04:02 AM PDT
Reuters - KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan on Saturday accused Sudan of launching an aerial bombardment on its side of their disputed border, but the Sudanese army denied the charge. The two countries came close to all-out war in April following border clashes, the worst violence since South Sudan seceded and declared its independence from Khartoum a year ago under a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war. South Sudanese military spokesman Philip Aguer said Sudanese war planes had bombed the area of Rumaker in the Northern Bahr al Ghazal border state on Friday morning. ... Full Story | Top |
Russia's Putin signs NGO "foreign agents" law
Sat,21 Jul 2012 03:41 AM PDT
Reuters -  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a law which will tighten controls on civil rights groups funded from abroad, the his press office said on Saturday, a step opponents say is part of a campaign to suppress dissent. The law, which was cleared by the upper house of parliament earlier in July, will force non-governmental organizations (NGOs) engaging in "political activity" to register with the Justice Ministry as "foreign agents" and to file a report to officials every quarter. ...
Full Story | Top |
Brunei air force helicopter crash kills 12; two survive
Sat,21 Jul 2012 03:04 AM PDT
Reuters - KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying military personnel, mostly cadets, after jungle training crashed in Brunei, killing 12 people, the oil rich-sultunate's defense ministry said on Saturday. Two people survived the crash of the Royal Brunei Air Force helicopter on Friday in the sultunate on the north coast of Borneo island. The ministry's Internet site said the Bell 212 helicopter came down near Kuala Belait, west of the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. ... Full Story | Top |
Japan probes under-reporting of Fukushima radiation dosage
Sat,21 Jul 2012 02:16 AM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's health ministry said it would investigate reports that workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant were urged by a subcontractor to place lead around radiation detection devices in order to stay under a safety threshold for exposure. The Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on Saturday that an executive from Build-Up, a subcontractor to plant owner Tokyo Electric Power, told workers to cover the devices called dosimeters when working in high-radiation areas. ...
Full Story | Top |
In Israel, Romney to provide contrast with Obama
Fri,20 Jul 2012 11:59 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will soon do something Barack Obama has yet to do as president - visit U.S. ally Israel, where he will try to present himself to voters back home as a credible replacement to Obama on the world stage. In the midst of a presidential campaign that is too close to call, Romney leaves on Wednesday for a week-long trip to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in London and visit Israel and Poland. ...
Full Story | Top |
Chinese court upholds Ai Weiwei tax fine
Fri,20 Jul 2012 10:52 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. ...
Full Story | Top |
IMF economist accuses Fund of suppressing information
Fri,20 Jul 2012 09:34 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A veteran economist at the International Monetary Fund has accused the global lender of suppressing information on difficulties in dealing with the global financial meltdown and euro zone crisis. In a resignation letter to the IMF's board and senior staff, dated June 18, Peter Doyle said the IMF's failures in issuing timely warnings for both the 2007-2009 global financial crisis and the euro zone crisis were a "failing in the first order" and "are, if anything, becoming more deeply entrenched. ...
Full Story | Top |
Second Japan nuclear unit resumes power generation
Fri,20 Jul 2012 07:08 PM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Kansai Electric Power Co said its 1,180-megawatt No. 4 reactor at its Ohi nuclear plant resumed supplying electricity to the grid on Saturday, Japan's second nuclear unit to regain power since last year's Fukushima crisis led to the shutdown of all units. The move came three days after the unit was restarted, and the reactor is set to begin full-capacity power generation around July 25-28. Japan ended two months without nuclear power on July 5, when the Ohi No. ...
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 |
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. ...
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. ...
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 |
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 |
| |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment