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Seven dead in shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
Sun,5 Aug 2012 05:51 PM PDT
Reuters -  OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple during Sunday services before police shot him dead in an attack that authorities are treating as an act of domestic terrorism. Witnesses said the gunman opened fire when he entered the kitchen at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee at about 10:30 a.m. CDT (11.30 a.m. EDT) as women prepared a Sunday meal, sending worshipers fleeing to escape the barrage. The witnesses described the shooter as a white man. Four people were shot dead inside the sprawling temple. ...
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Greek ATEbank chief admits sending savings abroad
Sun,5 Aug 2012 05:33 PM PDT
Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - The former head of ailing Greek lender ATEbank , which authorities deemed non-viable and split into good and bad parts, admitted to sending millions of euros of personal savings abroad but said the transfer did not violate any laws. Theodore Pantalakis, former chief executive of ATEbank, told Sunday's Realnews paper the money was sent abroad to buy assets. The country's central bank chief raised eyebrows at a parliamentary briefing on Friday, saying the monetary authority had given details of a high-level ATEbank official's money transfers abroad to the tax authorities. ... Full Story | Top |
Islamists kill 15 Egyptians, Israel strikes attackers
Sun,5 Aug 2012 05:31 PM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamist gunmen killed at least 15 Egyptian police on Sunday and seized two military vehicles to attack a crossing point into Israel, the deadliest incident in Egypt's tense Sinai border region in decades. Israeli aircraft destroyed one of the armored vehicles and four of the gunmen were killed, Egyptian security sources said. Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak called for "determined Egyptian action" to "prevent terror in Sinai". The attack is an early diplomatic test for Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, an Islamist who assumed office at the end of June after staunch U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Three armed men killed in Libya as violence escalates
Sun,5 Aug 2012 05:20 PM PDT
Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan security forces on Sunday killed three armed men suspected of being behind seven failed bomb plots, a government spokesman said, in the first incident of its kind since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in October. Several violent incidents have rocked Libya in recent days and on Sunday the International Committee of the Red Cross announced it was suspending its activity in the country's second biggest city after one of its compounds was attacked with grenades and rockets. ... Full Story | Top |
Red Cross attacked with rockets, grenades in Libya
Sun,5 Aug 2012 04:34 PM PDT
Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - Unknown assailants attacked a compound of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Libyan port of Misrata on Sunday with grenades and rockets, forcing it to suspend its work there and in the eastern city of Benghazi, the agency said. The ICRC said seven of its aid workers were inside their residence when it came under attack. No one was hurt, but damage to the building was extensive. It was the fifth time in less than three months that violence was directed against the independent aid agency in Libya, the ICRC said in a statement, which stressed its neutrality. ... Full Story | Top |
Seven dead, including gunman, in shooting at Wisconsin Sikh temple
Sun,5 Aug 2012 04:09 PM PDT
Reuters -  OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple during Sunday services before police shot him dead, and the attack is being treated as domestic terrorism, police said. The gunman opened fire when he entered the kitchen at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee at about 10:30 a.m. CDT (11.30 a.m. EDT) as women were preparing a Sunday meal, witnesses said. They described the shooter as a white man. ...
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Obama told situation at Sikh temple is "under control"
Sun,5 Aug 2012 03:55 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior officials told President Barack Obama that the situation at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was "under control" after a shooting rampage there on Sunday and the killing by police of the lone gunman. Obama was briefed by counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, FBI director Bob Mueller and White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew. He later called Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Oak Creek Mayor Steve Scaffidi and the trustee of the Sikh temple, Charanjeet Singh, to express condolences for the lives lost, the White House said. ... Full Story | Top |
Egypt says border attack undertaken by Gaza, Sinai militants
Sun,5 Aug 2012 02:48 PM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - The attack on an Egyptian police station on the Israeli border on Sunday was staged by militants who infiltrated from Gaza through tunnels and others from the Sinai region, an Egyptian security official was quoted as saying by the state news agency. At least 15 Egyptian policemen were killed in the attack. "Jihadist elements who infiltrated from Gaza through tunnels, in collaboration with jihadist elements from the regions of Al-Mahdia and Jebel El Halal, attacked a border point on the eastern border," the official was quoted as saying by the MENA news agency. ... Full Story | Top |
Israel calls on Egypt to tighten security in Sinai
Sun,5 Aug 2012 02:48 PM PDT
Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's defense minister called on Cairo to assert control over the Sinai peninsula after militants attacked an Egyptian border post on Sunday, killing about 15 people, and drove two vehicles through a border-crossing with Israel. "The terrorists' actions again show the need for determined Egyptian action to impose security and prevent terror in Sinai," Ehud Barak said in a statement. (Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Ralph Gowling) Full Story | Top |
Egypt's Rafah crossing with Gaza closed after attack: agency
Sun,5 Aug 2012 02:48 PM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian security source said on Sunday the Rafah border crossing with Gaza had been closed indefinitely, the state news agency MENA reported, after an attack on a police station in Sinai killed at least 15 officers. "A security official announced on Sunday evening that the Rafah land port had been closed for cases of travel and arrivals indefinitely. This comes in the wake of the attack by gunmen on a border checkpoint in Rafah in Sinai," MENA said. Full Story | Top |
Hamas condemns deadly attack on Egyptian border post
Sun,5 Aug 2012 02:48 PM PDT
Reuters - GAZA (Reuters) - The Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers condemned an attack on an Egyptian border post that killed about 15 people on Sunday. The attack took place near the border crossing where the Egyptian, Israeli and Gazan frontiers converge. "Hamas condemns this ugly crime which killed a number of Egyptian soldiers and extends its deep condolences to the families of the victims and to the leadership and the people of Egypt," the Islamist group said in a statement. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Andrew Osborn) Full Story | Top |
Police see Sikh shooting as "domestic terrorist" incident
Sun,5 Aug 2012 02:36 PM PDT
Reuters - OAK CREEK, Wisc. (Reuters) - Police dealing with the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin said they believe only one gunman was involved in what they called an act of "domestic terrorism" in which seven people died, including the shooter. "The best information is that there was only one gunman," Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards told a news conference, discounting reports of the involvement of multiple shooters. The police said the temple complex has been cleared, but they are still methodically searching the area. (Reporting by Ian Simpson and Anthony Boadle; Editing by Jackie Frank) Full Story | Top |
Obama pledges support for probe of Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting
Sun,5 Aug 2012 02:08 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he was "deeply saddened" by the deadly shooting spree at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Sunday and his administration would provide whatever support was needed to respond to the incident and investigate it. "Our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who were killed and wounded," Obama said in statement released by the White House. "As we mourn this loss which took place at a house of worship, we are reminded how much our country has been enriched by Sikhs, who are a part of our broader American family. ... Full Story | Top |
Assad's forces pound rebel stronghold in Aleppo
Sun,5 Aug 2012 02:07 PM PDT
Reuters -  ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian army tanks shelled Aleppo and a helicopter gunship strafed rebel positions with heavy machinegun fire as they fought into early Monday for control of the country's biggest city and key battleground of the 17-month uprising. After U.N. Security Council paralysis on Syria forced peace envoy Kofi Annan to resign last week, and with his ceasefire plan a distant memory, rebels have been battered by a government onslaught in Aleppo and the capital Damascus. The main focus of fighting in Aleppo has been the Salaheddine district, a gateway into the city of 2. ...
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Egypt's Mursi wants meeting with army council after Sinai attack
Sun,5 Aug 2012 01:31 PM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi called for an urgent meeting with the country's military council on Sunday, the Muslim Brotherhood's party said on its Facebook page, after an attack on a police station in North Sinai killed at least 15 policemen. Egyptian security sources said the attackers had used a stolen police vehicle to launch the assault - which took place on the border between Egypt and Israel - and had fired live ammunition at police officers at the station. ... Full Story | Top |
West Bank summit scrapped after Israel bars envoys
Sun,5 Aug 2012 01:30 PM PDT
Reuters - RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A meeting of envoys from the Non-Aligned Movement due to convene in the Israeli-occupied West Bank was scrapped on Sunday after Israel refused to admit four attendees from states with which it has no diplomatic relations, Palestinian officials said. The envoys were due to sign a declaration backing the Palestinians ahead of their planned campaign to win recognition as a state at the United Nations next month. ... Full Story | Top |
Israel says "group of terrorists" attack Egypt border post
Sun,5 Aug 2012 01:24 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Israel said a group of militants who tried to storm its border on Sunday had commandeered two Egyptian vehicles and driven them through a crossing on the Egyptian-Israeli border. One of the vehicles exploded and the second was targeted by Israeli aircraft, military spokeswoman Avital Leibovich said, adding that about 15 people had been killed in the attack. (Editing by Andrew Osborn) Full Story | Top |
Factbox: Sikh temple shooting strikes heart of religious community
Sun,5 Aug 2012 01:23 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - A shooting at a Sikh temple outside Milwaukee on Sunday left at least seven people dead, including a gunman, police said. The Sikh Temple of Wisconsin is located in the suburb of Oak Creek. Following are some facts about the temple and the Sikh religion: - The Sikh Temple of Wisconsin was founded in October 1997 with a community of 20 to 25 families, according to its website. It currently has 350 to 400 people in its congregation and has grown rapidly, the group says. - The congregation started in rental facilities in Milwaukee and established its first dedicated facility in 1999. ... Full Story | Top |
IMF mission to discuss loans in Egypt this month
Sun,5 Aug 2012 01:11 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will send a mission to Cairo this month to hold talks on loans to the new government of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, a spokesman for the fund said on Sunday. The mission, to include Masood Ahmed, the IMF's director for the Middle East and Central Asia, will discuss "possible financial support for a homegrown economic program," the spokesman said. "The IMF stands ready to support Egypt and work closely with the authorities," added the spokesman, who did not give a specific date for the trip. ...
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Five soldiers killed in Ivory Coast attacks
Sun,5 Aug 2012 01:03 PM PDT
Reuters - ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least five soldiers in attacks on a police station and an army checkpoint in Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abidjan, early on Sunday, police and government officials said. The pre-dawn attacks occurred in the Yopougon neighborhood, scene of some of the fiercest fighting during a brief post-election civil war last year, after a group of men were brought to the station following a police raid nearby. ... Full Story | Top |
UAE probes plot against state security, says has foreign links
Sun,5 Aug 2012 01:03 PM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Initial findings of a probe into a group plotting "crimes against state security" in the United Arab Emirates have confirmed links with suspicious foreign parties, the Attorney General said on Sunday. About 35 activists have been detained since July 15, when the UAE said it had uncovered the plot. Many of those are affiliated with Islamist group Islah (Reform). ... Full Story | Top |
Obama was informed of Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting: White House
Sun,5 Aug 2012 01:02 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was informed of the deadly shooting spree at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, on Sunday, a White House official said. John Brennan, Obama's counterterrorism adviser, notified him of the shooting and the president was continuing to receive updates on the incident in suburban Milwaukee, the official said. At least seven people were dead, including a gunman, and at least three critically wounded, local police and hospital officials said. (Reporting by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Jackie Frank) Full Story | Top |
Thirteen Egyptian police killed in Sinai border attack
Sun,5 Aug 2012 12:11 PM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 13 policemen were killed and seven wounded in an armed attack on a police station in North Sinai on the border between Egypt and Israel on Sunday, medical and security sources said. Egyptian state television reported that an Islamist militant group was behind the attack. The attackers used a stolen police vehicle to launch the attack, security sources said, and fired live ammunition at police officers at the station. (Reporting by Shaimaa Fayed; Editing by Andrew Osborn) Full Story | Top |
Global Economy: No rabbits hidden in China's hat this time
Sun,5 Aug 2012 12:08 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Investors will be looking to a data deluge from China this week to give the global economy a further lift after Friday's strong U.S. jobs report. They risk being disappointed. Figures for July, starting on Thursday and covering everything from trade to bank loans and investment, are likely to show the world's second-largest economy is, at best, stabilizing rather than recovering briskly. ... Full Story | Top |
Suicide bomb attack on Nigeria checkpoint kills eight
Sun,5 Aug 2012 12:01 PM PDT
Reuters - MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber attacked a military checkpoint in Nigeria's northeastern city of Damaturu on Sunday, killing six soldiers and two civilians, police said. Suspicion is likely to fall on Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is waging a bloody insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan's government across the north. The sect is seeking to carve out an Islamic state in Africa's top energy producer and most populous country, which is split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims. ... Full Story | Top |
Al Qaeda prisoners try to tunnel out of Iraqi jail
Sun,5 Aug 2012 11:51 AM PDT
Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A group of al Qaeda prisoners was caught trying to tunnel out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, an official said on Sunday, after the militants said they would step up their fight against the government. Iraq's Shi'ite-led government is concerned that Sunni Muslim militants will get a boost from the insurgency in neighboring Syria, where mainly Sunni rebels are battling President Bashar al-Assad. ... Full Story | Top |
Tunisia blogger detained for drinking alcohol during Ramadan
Sun,5 Aug 2012 10:56 AM PDT
Reuters - TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian secular activist and blogger was arrested on Sunday for drinking alcohol during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a move set to anger the opposition which is suspicious of the Islamist-led government's policies on public morality. Soufiene Chourabi made a name for himself criticising former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's policies before the start of a revolt that later toppled the autocrat and sparked a wave of popular protests that came to be known as the "Arab Spring". ... Full Story | Top |
Sudan to allow aid into rebel-held border areas
Sun,5 Aug 2012 10:38 AM PDT
Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan agreed on Sunday to allow aid into two rebel-held southern border states where humanitarian groups say fighting has left civilians facing an impending famine. The move came a day after Sudan reached a deal with South Sudan over oil transit fees, a first step to ending a dispute which had brought the hostile neighbours close to war in April. Both countries still need to mark their disputed frontier and improve security in the violent borderland, one of several issues left over when South Sudan seceded a year ago under a 2005 agreement that ended decades of civil war. ... Full Story | Top |
Key Republicans accuse top Democrat of lying on Romney tax charge
Sun,5 Aug 2012 10:28 AM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. presidential campaign's war of words turned increasingly bitter on Sunday with two influential Republicans accusing the top Senate Democrat of lying when he said their party's presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, had not paid income taxes for 10 years. Reince Priebus, the Republican Party's national chairman, called Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "a dirty liar" for his accusation, based on a source that Reid has not named. ...
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Tehran seeks help to free Iranians held in Syria
Sun,5 Aug 2012 10:26 AM PDT
Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has asked Turkey and Qatar to help secure the release of 48 Iranians seized by rebels in Syria on suspicion of being military personnel but who Tehran says are pilgrims. Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad accuse Iran of sending fighters from its Revolutionary Guard to help Assad's forces put down the 17-month uprising. Tehran denies the charge and says the group was on a religious pilgrimage to Syria. ... Full Story | Top |
Senior Damascus intelligence officer defects to Jordan: TV
Sun,5 Aug 2012 10:19 AM PDT
Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - A senior Syrian intelligence officer has defected to Jordan, Al Arabiya television reported on Sunday. It said Colonel Yarub Shara was head of the Damascus branch of Political Security, an intelligence organization responsible for monitoring and suppressing dissent. Jordanian officials were not immediately available to comment on the report. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, fighting a 17-month-old uprising against his rule, named his former intelligence chief in Lebanon, Rustum Ghazaleh, to head Political Security last month. ... Full Story | Top |
Judge in Colorado shooting must decide fair trial versus transparency
Sun,5 Aug 2012 10:02 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - The proceedings against accused Colorado shooter James Holmes will run into a tough question this week, one faced in many high-profile criminal cases: How do you balance the defendant's right to a fair trial with the public's right to know? Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" movie in a Denver suburb last month in one of the worst outbursts of U.S. gun violence in recent years. He is charged with 24 counts of first-degree murder and 116 counts of attempted murder. ...
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Romney says more Fed stimulus would not help US economy
Sun,5 Aug 2012 09:54 AM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Sunday that a fresh round of monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve would not help the fragile U.S. economy. A stream of disappointing economic reports has underpinned expectations that the U.S. central bank will do more to stimulate growth with a third round of billions of dollars of bond purchases, also known as quantitative easing, or QE3. ...
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West Bank conference scrapped after Israel bars envoys
Sun,5 Aug 2012 09:32 AM PDT
Reuters -  RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A meeting of international envoys due to be held in the West Bank to show support for the Palestinian leadership was scrapped on Sunday after Israel refused to admit attendees from four countries, Palestinian officials said. The meeting involved high-level representatives from the Non-Aligned Movement, a group of states that aims to represent the interests of the developing world. They were due to sign a declaration backing the Palestinians ahead of their fresh campaign to win recognition as a state at the United Nations next month. ...
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Kurdish rebels attack troops in Turkey, 19 dead
Sun,5 Aug 2012 08:46 AM PDT
Reuters - TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Six Turkish soldiers, two state militiamen and 11 Kurdish militants were killed when the rebels attacked military outposts in southeast Turkey, security sources said on Sunday. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused unnamed foreign countries of backing the fighters who attacked at least three military bases. The sources said 16 other soldiers and six civilians were wounded in the overnight attacks on the bases near the town of Cukurca in Hakkari province, which borders Iraq. Erdogan called the attack "dastardly". ... Full Story | Top |
China calls in U.S. diplomat over South China Sea
Sun,5 Aug 2012 08:24 AM PDT
Reuters -  BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry has called in a senior U.S. diplomat to protest against remarks by the U.S. State Department raising concerns over tensions in the contested South China Sea, further intensifying an already fraught territorial dispute. In a statement released late on Saturday, China's Foreign Ministry said Assistant Foreign Minister Zhang Kunsheng summoned the U.S. Embassy's Deputy Chief of Mission Robert Wang to make "serious representations" about the issue. ...
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Troika inspectors conclude Greek visit, back in September
Sun,5 Aug 2012 07:48 AM PDT
Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece has made progress in finding budget cuts needed to continue its bailout program but not all work is done and international inspectors will return in September for a final verdict, officials said on Sunday. Inspectors from the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank - known as the troika - concluded a visit to Greece on Sunday saying the talks with the new coalition government were productive. "Talks went well, we made good progress. ... Full Story | Top |
Greece's new pledges will take epic battle to implement
Sun,5 Aug 2012 07:48 AM PDT
Reuters -  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's latest fiscal and reform pledges may be enough to convince international lenders weary after years of broken promises to keep Athens hooked to a 130 billion euro lifeline, but the battle to implement it will be epic. Few question the new coalition government's resolve but many doubt whether the cantankerous public sector can or will implement the measures or the Greek public, reeling from years of austerity, can take much more without putting up a fight. ...
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Victory closer, divisions deepen in Syria opposition
Sun,5 Aug 2012 07:48 AM PDT
Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Three separate Syrian opposition groups have floated proposals for a transitional government in the past week, a sign that differences among the many factions opposing President Bashar al-Assad are deepening even as victory seems closer. With fighting reaching Damascus and Aleppo in the past month, Western countries are increasingly anxious to see the disparate groups agree on a credible plan for a transitional government should Assad fall. ... Full Story | Top |
Israeli strike hits Gaza gunman linked to Egypt raid
Sun,5 Aug 2012 06:52 AM PDT
Reuters - GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian gunman from a radical Islamist group and wounded another on Sunday as they rode a motorbike in southern Gaza, near the Egyptian border. The Israeli military said one of those targeted, Ahmed Said Ismail, was behind an attack on June 18 along the Israel-Egypt border in which an Israeli civilian was killed. Palestinian hospital officials said Ismail was critically wounded and a second militant was killed. ... Full Story | Top |
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