Today's Reuters World News Headlines - Yahoo! News: | | Taiwan boats enter waters disputed by Japan and China Mon,24 Sep 2012 08:14 PM PDT Reuters - TOKYO (Reuters) - About 40 Taiwan fishing boats and eight Taiwan Coast Guard vessels entered waters that Japan considers its territory on Tuesday, the Japanese Coast Guard said, adding an unpredictable twist to a bitter row between Tokyo and Beijing. China's Ministry of Agriculture for its part said close to 200 Chinese boats have been fishing in seas around a group of rocky islands disputed with Japan. The brief Chinese statement did not specify whether the boats were all there at one time, nor did it say how close they were to the islands. ...
Full Story | Top | Venezuela's Capriles edges toward Chavez as vote nears Mon,24 Sep 2012 07:53 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles edged closer to President Hugo Chavez in an opinion poll but remained 10 percentage points behind the socialist leader in the run-up to the October 7 election, according to two sources who have seen the poll. Recent Datanalisis' polls show support for Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor, growing in the waning days of the campaign as he continues campaigning across the country. Capriles' has vowed to create a Brazilian-style "modern left" that balances free enterprise with social welfare programs. ...
Full Story | Top | Report shows most Mexican prisons controlled by inmates Mon,24 Sep 2012 07:05 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Six out of 10 Mexican prisons are "self-governed" by prison gangs or drug cartels, according to a report issued Monday by the country's human rights commission. Commission representative Andres Aguirre said at a news conference that Mexico's prisons also are plagued by overcrowding, a shortage of guards and corrupt employees who sometimes help with breakouts. Aguirre said 60 percent of the country's 430 prisons or jails are controlled by criminal elements. ... Full Story | Top | Clinton offers more U.S. help as Libya battles militias Mon,24 Sep 2012 06:16 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered Libya more help on Monday as it seeks to rein in militias, stressing that Washington will remain a firm partner despite this month's deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Clinton met Mohammed Magarief, who was elected to head Libya's ruling national assembly in August, and received his personal apology for the September 11 attack, which killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. "What happened on 11th of September towards these U.S. ...
Full Story | Top | Libyan government puts army in charge of Benghazi militias Mon,24 Sep 2012 06:15 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya's government, seeking to assert its authority over private militias following the killing of U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, placed two powerful freelance units in the city under the command of full-time army officers on Monday. Commanders of two units which have, with official sanction, been providing security since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi were ordered removed and the men of the February 17 Brigade and Rafallah al-Sahati militia put under army orders. A third unit, Libya's Shield, would also change leadership, an official said. ... Full Story | Top | Venezuela's Capriles edges toward Chavez as vote nears: poll Mon,24 Sep 2012 04:59 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles edged closer to President Hugo Chavez in an opinion poll but remained 10 percentage points behind the socialist leader in the run-up to the October 7 election, according to two sources who have seen the poll. Recent Datanalisis' polls show support for Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor, growing in the waning days of the campaign as he continues campaigning across the country. Capriles' has vowed to create a Brazilian-style "modern left" that balances free enterprise with social welfare programs. ...
Full Story | Top | Mali asks U.N. for "immediate" action on force to recapture north Mon,24 Sep 2012 04:50 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Mali has asked the United Nations to approve an "immediate" mandate for an international force to help it recover northern parts of the country controlled by Islamist militants and drug traffickers, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday. The West African country descended into chaos in March when soldiers toppled the president, leaving a power vacuum that enabled Tuareg rebels to seize nearly two-thirds of the country. But Islamist groups, some allied with al Qaeda, then hijacked the rebellion in the north to impose strict Islamic law. ... Full Story | Top | U.S. clears path for more sanctions on Iran oil deals Mon,24 Sep 2012 04:48 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government officially linked Iran's state oil company to the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Monday, a determination that enables Washington to apply new sanctions on foreign banks dealing with the company. The Treasury Department determined that the National Iranian Oil Company, one of the world's largest oil exporters, is "an agent or affiliate" of the IRGC, which the United States has long put under sanctions for terrorism and human rights abuses. The U.S. ... Full Story | Top | Victim of Guatemalan civil war massacre wins asylum in U.S. Mon,24 Sep 2012 04:27 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of two known survivors of a notorious Guatemalan civil war massacre of 250 men, women and children in his small farming village has been granted political asylum to stay in the United States, his lawyer said on Monday. Oscar Ramirez Casteneda, 33, who learned only last year that he had been kidnapped as a young boy by a Guatemalan army lieutenant during the 1982 bloodshed and raised by the man's family, was notified in a letter on Saturday that he had won asylum, attorney Scott Greathead said. ... Full Story | Top | Americas court tells Peru to scrap rule that could help Fujimori Mon,24 Sep 2012 04:16 PM PDT Reuters - LIMA (Reuters) - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights told Peru on Monday to annul a ruling by its Supreme Court that could have paved the way for an early release of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori. President Ollanta Humala's administration harshly criticized the Supreme Court in July for cutting the prison terms being served by members of an infamous death squad that Fujimori ran during his crackdown on leftist insurgents in the 1990s. ...
Full Story | Top | In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be "eliminated" Mon,24 Sep 2012 03:51 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be "eliminated," ignoring a U.N. warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric ahead of the annual General Assembly session. Ahmadinejad also said he did not take seriously the threat that Israel could launch a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, denied sending arms to Syria, and alluded to Iran's threats to the life of British author Salman Rushdie. The United States quickly dismissed the Iranian president's comments as "disgusting, offensive and outrageous. ...
Full Story | Top | Sudan, South Sudan leaders make another push for border deal Mon,24 Sep 2012 03:47 PM PDT Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan leaders will try again on Tuesday to seal a border security deal after failing to achieve a breakthrough in the previous two days, officials said on Monday as both sides disagreed over whether progress had been made. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and southern counterpart Salva Kiir have been meeting in Ethiopia since Sunday in hopes of wrapping up peace talks after coming close to all-out war in April. ... Full Story | Top | Kuwaitis protest ahead of electoral law ruling Mon,24 Sep 2012 03:31 PM PDT Reuters - KUWAIT (Reuters) - Thousands of Kuwaitis held a protest rally late on Monday ahead of a court decision on an electoral law they fear could weaken the chances of opposition candidates in the next parliamentary vote in the major oil-producing state. The Gulf Arab country has not witnessed the kind of mass popular uprisings that have buffeted the Arab world. But tension has escalated between the government, which is dominated by the ruling family, and the elected parliament. ... Full Story | Top | Nigeria military says kills 35 Boko Haram Islamists Mon,24 Sep 2012 03:16 PM PDT Reuters - ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's military said on Monday it killed 35 members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram and arrested several during an overnight gunbattle in Damaturu, capital of northeastern Yobe state. Boko Haram, which wants to carve out an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has been blamed for more than 1,000 deaths since its insurgency intensified in 2010. The United States has designated three of Boko Haram's senior members as terrorists. ... Full Story | Top | G20 deputies say central bank fix not enough for ailing economy Mon,24 Sep 2012 03:15 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Central bank stimulus is not enough to fix the ailing global economy and governments must increase their efforts to boost growth, Group of 20 officials agreed on Monday. Deputy finance ministers and central bankers of the G20, which is made up of wealthy nations and leading emerging economies, met in Mexico City on Sunday and Monday amid a deepening sense of doom around the global economic outlook. ... Full Story | Top | Christian Copt to face trial in Egypt for blasphemy Mon,24 Sep 2012 03:09 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian Copt arrested on suspicion of posting an anti-Islam video online that ignited Muslim protests around the world will stand trial next Wednesday on charges of insulting religions, the state news agency MENA said on Monday. Computer science graduate Alber Saber, 27, was arrested at his Cairo home on September 13 after neighbors accused him of uploading sections of the film "Innocence of Muslims" and making another movie mocking all religions. ... Full Story | Top | Mexico's Ferrari urges U.S. not to tear up tomato pact Mon,24 Sep 2012 02:15 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department should renegotiate a 16-year-old tomato trade agreement with Mexico rather than give in to election-year demands from Florida growers to tear up the pact, Mexico's Economy Minister Bruno Ferrari said on Monday. Under the agreement, Washington suspended anti-dumping action against Mexico in 1996 and negotiated a minimum price at which Mexican tomatoes can be sold in the United States. Florida tomato growers complain the agreement fails to protect them against Mexican tomatoes sold below the cost of production. ...
Full Story | Top | Pakistan's top court struggles to deliver justice Mon,24 Sep 2012 02:01 PM PDT Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Each day, the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court confronts a stack of blue folders stuffed with desperate pleas from residents claiming that corrupt police, inept prosecutors or moribund lower courts have failed them. The files detail heinous crimes, of newlyweds axed to death, children kidnapped and even an unsolved case of a young woman burned alive. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has won acclaim for punishing wrong-doers or delivering justice in a few well-publicized cases. ...
Full Story | Top | Wang Yang: reformist credentials tested by Chinese system Mon,24 Sep 2012 01:51 PM PDT Reuters - GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Wang Yang, Communist Party chief of China's southern Guangdong province and seen by many in the West as a beacon of political reform, encouraged journalists earlier this year to expose the problem of pirated goods - part of his "Three Strikes" campaign against those hawking fake products. But several reporters who heeded his call were sacked. Others had their stories killed. The pattern, a familiar one in Guangdong, is a reminder of the limits of reform in China. ...
Full Story | Top | Court paves way for UK-based cleric's extradition to U.S. Mon,24 Sep 2012 01:40 PM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights gave final approval on Monday for the extradition of one of Britain's most radical Islamist clerics and four others to the United States, where they face terrorism charges. The decision caps a long legal battle and means Abu Hamza al-Masri could be extradited within weeks. Britain's Home Office, or interior ministry, said it would hand over the suspects "as quickly as possible". ...
Full Story | Top | Yemeni intelligence official shot dead in Sanaa Mon,24 Sep 2012 12:57 PM PDT Reuters - SANAA (Reuters) - Masked gunmen shot dead a senior intelligence official in Sanaa on Monday, a security source said, the latest in a series of assassinations in Yemen as the U.S.-allied government battles al Qaeda militants. Abdulilah Al-Ashwal, a colonel in the Political Security Office, the domestic intelligence service, was leaving a mosque in the Safiya district of Sanaa when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on him, the source said. ... Full Story | Top | Mexico arrests 35 police for suspected links to drug gang Mon,24 Sep 2012 12:55 PM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican navy has arrested 35 members of the federal police force on suspicion of working for one of the country's most notorious drug gangs, the Zetas. The navy said on Monday the suspects had been arrested in the eastern state of Veracruz and neighboring San Luis Potosi, areas where the Zetas have established a strong foothold. Four of those arrested were women and all belonged to the federal police in Veracruz, a state which President Felipe Calderon last year said had been "left in the hands" of the Zetas. ... Full Story | Top | Graft scandal forces out head of Italy's Lazio region Mon,24 Sep 2012 12:54 PM PDT Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - The governor of Italy's Lazio region resigned on Monday over a corruption scandal that could increase political instability in debt-plagued Italy before elections due next year. Italy's regions, which largely control significant areas of spending including health, are under scrutiny as the government of Prime Minister Mario Monti tries to enforce spending cuts to ease one of the major debt crises afflicting the euro zone. ... Full Story | Top | Marines face criminal charges over Afghan urination video Mon,24 Sep 2012 11:57 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Marines are facing criminal charges for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, actions caught on a video that was widely circulated on the Internet, the Marine Corps said on Monday. The criminal charges are the first faced by anyone over the incident. The video triggered widespread anger in Afghanistan early this year, with Afghan President Hamid Karzai calling the Marines' actions "inhuman." Staff Sergeants Joseph W. Chamblin and Edward W. ... Full Story | Top | Syria mediator tells U.N. he has "a few ideas" but no plan Mon,24 Sep 2012 11:36 AM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The international mediator on Syria said on Monday he has "a few ideas" but not a full plan on how to end the country's 18-month conflict, which he described as "extremely bad and getting worse." Lakhdar Brahimi offered that assessment after his first briefing to the U.N. Security Council since replacing Kofi Annan as the U.N.-Arab League mediator on September 1. In his first month on the job, Brahimi met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus and visited refugee camps in Turkey and Jordan. ...
Full Story | Top | Iran tests home-built anti-aircraft system: report Mon,24 Sep 2012 11:33 AM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran successfully tested a domestically made anti-aircraft system, its English-language Press TV said on Monday, the latest in a series of military exercises Tehran has trumpeted in the face of hints that its nuclear sites could be attacked. "The mid-range system ... is capable of intercepting targets at a range of 50 km (30 miles) and can fly at an altitude of 75,000 feet," state-run Press TV's website said. ... Full Story | Top | OSCE and EU give thumbs-down to Belarus poll Mon,24 Sep 2012 11:31 AM PDT Reuters - MINSK (Reuters) - International monitors and the European Union on Monday dismissed Belarus's parliamentary election as a sham exercise, increasing the isolation of President Alexander Lukashenko. After election officials listed 109 winning candidates for parliament, all from pro-establishment parties, EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule said the election "took place against the background of an overall climate of repression and intimidation". ...
Full Story | Top | Bitterly, guerrillas yield streets of east Libya town Mon,24 Sep 2012 10:52 AM PDT Reuters - DERNA, Libya (Reuters) - A day after their once feared Islamist militia decided to disband, a dozen die-hard fighters of the Abu Slim Brigade screamed towards us in their cars and piled out, red-faced with fury at the "infidels" come to witness their retreat. We had arrived in the city of Derna, at the eastern end of Libya's long Mediterranean coast and known as a stronghold of Islamist fighters, to find it transformed. The Abu Slim militia of veteran guerrillas had dissolved in the face of popular anger, fuelled in part by public disgust at the killing of the respected U.S. ... Full Story | Top | French coalition rift widens over EU budget pact Mon,24 Sep 2012 10:41 AM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande's government demanded on Monday its Green allies fall into line over European Union policy after the ecologist party said it would oppose a European Union budget discipline pact in a vote next month. While the pact is set to pass with votes from Hollande's Socialists and from the right, the Greens' move is the most open defiance of Hollande's authority yet from within his four-month coalition and comes as his popularity ratings are plummeting. ...
Full Story | Top | Israel's Barak floats partial, unilateral West Bank pullback Mon,24 Sep 2012 10:37 AM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel should pull out unilaterally from much of the occupied West Bank if a peace deal with the Palestinians remains out of reach, Defence Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview published on Monday. The proposal by Barak, who leads a tiny political party that surveys suggest might not win a single parliamentary seat in any new election, was swiftly shot down by a deputy to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ... Full Story | Top | U.N. says saw airdrop in restive South Sudan state Mon,24 Sep 2012 10:27 AM PDT Reuters - JUBA (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in South Sudan said on Monday that they witnessed an airdrop in the country's remote east, days after the national army accused arch-rival Sudan of arming rebels in the region. The South Sudan army's accusation came as the two countries' presidents met in Ethiopia to work out unresolved oil and border issues and is likely to cast a shadow over any agreement made at the African Union-brokered talks in Addis Ababa. The United Nations said it was not in a position to confirm who dropped the packages or what was in them, and Sudan has denied the charges. ... Full Story | Top | Kenyan soldier suspected of killing six Somali civilians Mon,24 Sep 2012 10:10 AM PDT Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan soldier with the African Union peacekeeping force (AMISOM) in Somalia is suspected of killing six Somali civilians in the southern part of the country, the Kenyan military said on Monday. The incident could anger the local population in the run-up to an offensive against al Shabaab rebels in the southern port of Kismayu in a final push by African nations to stabilise the country. The Kenya Defence Force (KDF) said the incident happened on Sunday in the Jubba region after several people approached a KDF defensive position. ... Full Story | Top | Libyan army says takes over key Benghazi militias Mon,24 Sep 2012 09:52 AM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The Libyan military has removed the heads of two of the most powerful militias in the eastern city of Benghazi, replacing them with military officers, the army colonel who negotiated the deal said on Monday. Replacing the heads of the heavily armed February 17 brigade and Rafallah al-Sahati militia would, if successfully implemented, effectively strip two of the most powerful men in eastern Libya of authority they had wielded with official permission but with virtually no control from the central government in Tripoli. ... Full Story | Top | Australian PM Gillard cancels speech due to illness Mon,24 Sep 2012 09:45 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has taken ill after arriving in New York and cancelled a luncheon speech appearance on Monday, a government spokesman said. Gillard was scheduled to deliver a speech on the Australian economy to a luncheon co-sponsored by the Asia Society and the Economic Club of New York. "We don't know the nature of the illness but she is unable to attend today," the spokesman told Reuters. Foreign Minister Bob Carr, also in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting, was asked to step in and deliver Gillard's prepared remarks. ...
Full Story | Top | Actress to sue anti-Islam filmmaker in federal court: lawyer Mon,24 Sep 2012 09:43 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - An actress suing the producer of an anti-Islam movie that has spawned violent protests across the Muslim world plans to drop her suit and file a new case in federal court over copyright claims, her lawyer said on Monday. Cindy Lee Garcia, who appeared in the "Innocence of Muslims," filed a lawsuit last week in a state court in Los Angeles against Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the California man thought to be behind the movie, claiming she was duped into playing a role and her life has been put at risk as a result. Her case also named YouTube and its parent company, Google Inc. ...
Full Story | Top | Don't row back on reforms, OECD tells Italy's parties Mon,24 Sep 2012 09:27 AM PDT Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Mario Monti's technocrat government has laid the base for a reform effort that must be pursued for many years if Italy is to emerge from stagnation, the chief economist of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Monday. Pier Carlo Padoan told Reuters in an interview that whatever government emerges from Italian elections in the spring should not reverse Monti's measures to consolidate public finances and improve the country's chronically weak economic performance. ...
Full Story | Top | Egypt sentences 14 to death for Sinai attacks Mon,24 Sep 2012 09:06 AM PDT Reuters - ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced 14 Islamists to death for attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula, showing Egypt's determination to put down militancy in a region critical to relations with neighboring Israel. The Jewish state has voiced concern about security in Sinai, where at least four cross-border attacks have taken place since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February 2011. The Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, has made the issue a priority since he was elected in June. ...
Full Story | Top | Kazakh leader names PM as chief of staff to reassert grip Mon,24 Sep 2012 08:43 AM PDT Reuters - ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday replaced his chief of staff with his long-serving prime minister, a compliant ally, to reaffirm his grip on the oil-producing former Soviet republic and dispel any talk of succession. Nazarbayev, 72, ended months of speculation by removing Karim Masimov as premier of Central Asia's largest economy and bringing him closer to the workings of power just as confidence in his reforms had begun to wane. ...
Full Story | Top | French court fines Total unit for 2001 blast Mon,24 Sep 2012 08:26 AM PDT Reuters - TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - Eleven years after one of France's worst industrial accidents, a court fined a subsidiary of oil giant Total on Monday over a chemicals plant explosion that killed 31 people and injured 2,500. The appeals court in the southwestern city of Toulouse found the Total subsidiary, owner of the AZF factory, guilty of manslaughter, and jailed the plant's former manager for one year. Judge Bernard Brunet fined Grande Paroisse, the Total subsidiary that owned AZF, 225,000 euros ($292,300) but dismissed calls to rule against Total itself. ... Full Story | Top | Rescuers search for climbers after deadly Nepal avalanche Mon,24 Sep 2012 08:16 AM PDT Reuters - KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali rescue helicopters searched on Monday for at least three foreign climbers missing on a Himalayan mountain after a weekend avalanche swept away camps and killed 11 people in the worst such disaster in Nepal in nearly two decades. Seven French climbers were among the 11 victims of the avalanche that struck their camp on Mount Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain at 8,163 meters (26,781 feet). Two German climbers and one each from Spain and Nepal also died. ...
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