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Venezuela expels top U.S. diplomat for fomenting 'sabotage' Monday, Sep 30, 2013 06:30 PM PDT | Top |
Mexico rescues 73 suspected kidnap victims near U.S. border Monday, Sep 30, 2013 05:59 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Seventy-three suspected kidnap victims were rescued in northern Mexico near the border city of Reynosa after police followed their alleged captors to a house and heard frantic calls for help, authorities said on Monday. Of the victims, 37 were Mexicans, 19 were from Honduras, 14 from Guatemala and another three from El Salvador, federal police said in a statement. Among the victims were women and minors, some of whom reported having been sexually abused. ... Full Story | Top |
Netanyahu to Obama: Tighten sanctions if Iran defies West Monday, Sep 30, 2013 05:59 PM PDT | Top |
At U.N., Syria compares rebel violence to 9/11 attacks Monday, Sep 30, 2013 04:09 PM PDT | Top |
Syria at U.N. compares militant onslaught to 9/11 attacks Monday, Sep 30, 2013 03:51 PM PDT | Top |
Myanmar says won't allow political opening to spur sectarian violence Monday, Sep 30, 2013 03:21 PM PDT | Top |
Sudan arrests 700 people in week of deadly anti-government unrest Monday, Sep 30, 2013 03:05 PM PDT By Ulf Laessing and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Seven hundred people have been arrested during a week of the worst unrest in central Sudan in years, the government said on Monday, as protests continued against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. One week after the start of demonstrations against subsidy cuts, police once again used teargas on protesters, this time women students at the Ahfad university in Khartoum's twin-city of Omdurman who chanted "We don't want Bashir", witnesses said. ... Full Story | Top |
Mali fights rebels in north as army officers protest in south Monday, Sep 30, 2013 02:59 PM PDT By Tiemoko Diallo and Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Tuareg rebels battled soldiers in northern Mali for a second day and disgruntled army officers staged an unruly protest at a southern military base on Monday, underscoring the dual challenge facing the new government. In the center of the remote northern town of Kidal, MNLA Tuareg separatists traded fire with soldiers early on Monday before an uneasy calm returned. The fighting began on Sunday night, with both sides accusing the other of firing first. ... Full Story | Top |
Nepali official denies labor abuses in Qatar Monday, Sep 30, 2013 02:46 PM PDT | Top |
Berlusconi in new storm as relations sour with president Monday, Sep 30, 2013 02:32 PM PDT By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi was at the center of a new storm on Monday after a private phone call in which he made assertions about President Giorgio Napolitano was aired on television, prompting a furious reaction from the president. A current affairs program on private channel La 7 broadcast a phone tap in which Berlusconi said he had been informed that Napolitano had exerted influence on Italy's top appeals court in a case involving Berlusconi's media empire. ... Full Story | Top |
Turkey says Chinese missile deal not final Monday, Sep 30, 2013 02:23 PM PDT By Jonathon Burch ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Monday it could still reconsider its decision to co-produce a long-range air and missile defense system with a Chinese firm currently under U.S. sanctions, but said it felt no obligation to heed other countries' blacklists. Turkey's Defense Ministry announced last week it had chosen the FD-2000 missile defense system from China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp, or CPMIEC, over rival systems from Russian, U.S. and European firms. Turkey is a member of the NATO transatlantic military alliance. ... Full Story | Top |
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian along Gaza border Monday, Sep 30, 2013 01:56 PM PDT (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian near the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Monday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the soldiers fired at two people who had approached and tampered with the fence and that "a hit was confirmed". She gave no further information. Hospital officials in the Gaza Strip said a Palestinian had been shot dead, but it was not immediately clear whether the man was a militant or civilian. ... Full Story | Top |
Ashton, asked about Iran sanctions, says she wants best atmosphere for talks Monday, Sep 30, 2013 01:21 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top EU official, asked if new sanctions should be imposed on Iran as talks about its nuclear program unfold, said she wanted to go to the October 15-16 talks with Iran in Geneva with "the best possible atmosphere." "I am not in the business of telling Congress what to do," EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in response to a question at a Washington think tank about whether Congress, or others, should impose additional sanctions on Iran. ... Full Story | Top |
Berlusconi faces obstacles in bid to topple government Monday, Sep 30, 2013 01:16 PM PDT | Top |
Norway's new government concedes on oil, immigration for support Monday, Sep 30, 2013 01:15 PM PDT By Balazs Koranyi and Joachim Dagenborg OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Conservative leader Erna Solberg said she would form a minority cabinet with the populist Progress Party after talks with two centrist parties broke down on Monday, giving ground on oil exploration and immigration. Solberg agreed to give up plans to drill for oil in several promising Arctic areas and also agreed to tighten asylum policies to win the support of her eventual coalition partner and the outside backing of the centrist Liberals and Christian Democrats. "We were very close to finding good solutions... ... Full Story | Top |
Car bombs kill 54 in Shi'ite districts of Baghdad Monday, Sep 30, 2013 12:34 PM PDT | Top |
At least 13 drown in migrant boat off Sicily Monday, Sep 30, 2013 12:27 PM PDT By James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - At least 13 people on a migrant boat arriving in eastern Sicily drowned, apparently after trying to get off their stranded vessel while it was just a few meters from the shore, Italian authorities said on Monday. Television pictures showed the bodies, all of adult men, wrapped in white sheets lying on the beach. Davide Roccasalva, a lifeguard at the Sampieri beach near Scicli in eastern Sicily, told the Corriere della Sera website that he had helped an offduty policemen pull some of the struggling people out of the surf. ... Full Story | Top |
U.N. tells Spain to revoke Franco-era amnesty law Monday, Sep 30, 2013 12:04 PM PDT MADRID (Reuters) - The United Nations called on Monday for Spain to overturn a 1977 amnesty law that pardons crimes committed during the 36-year dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. Hundreds of thousands of people died or disappeared during Spain's civil war and subsequent dictatorship, but the crimes have been shielded under an amnesty law passed two years after Franco's death, protecting former members of the regime. The United Nations, which sent a working group to Spain to see how the country was investigating Franco-era disappearances, said the government should act quickly. ... Full Story | Top |
UK's Osborne seeks political capital from recovery before 2015 vote Monday, Sep 30, 2013 11:50 AM PDT | Top |
Cameroon's president seeks to strengthen grip in election Monday, Sep 30, 2013 11:13 AM PDT YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Voters in Cameroon went to the polls on Monday in local and parliamentary elections expected to be dominated by supporters of President Paul Biya, one of Africa's longest-serving leaders. Biya, 80, has ruled over Central Africa's largest economy for three decades after coming to power in 1982 following the resignation of his predecessor. His Cameroon People's Democratic Movement swept Senate elections in April, taking 56 of the 70 seats contested in the new upper house. The president appointed another 30 senators, guaranteeing his control over the 100-seat body. ... Full Story | Top |
Italy's octogenarian president may be called to rescue again Monday, Sep 30, 2013 11:06 AM PDT | Top |
Yemen's army retakes base seized by Qaeda militants Monday, Sep 30, 2013 10:45 AM PDT | Top |
Traders say Kenyan forces looted mall during siege Monday, Sep 30, 2013 10:16 AM PDT | Top |
Party lawmaker says not satisfied after meeting with Berlusconi Monday, Sep 30, 2013 10:15 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - A senior lawmaker from Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party said on Monday he was not satisfied after a party meeting at which Berlusconi sought to quell internal dissent with his decision to pull PDL's ministers from the government. Up to 20 PDL Senators may be willing to defy Berlusconi and support Prime Minister Enrico Letta in a confidence vote on Wednesday, a PDL source told Reuters earlier on Monday. "The situation has not been clarified," the PDL's former lower house leader Fabrizio Cicchitto told reporters after the meeting. ... Full Story | Top |
Russia says to push for Mideast free of mass-destruction weapons Monday, Sep 30, 2013 10:13 AM PDT | Top |
'We must stay united', Berlusconi tells party dissenters: source Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:52 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Italian center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi told his People of Freedom lawmakers that they must stick together after some party officials expressed dissent at his decision to withdraw the group's ministers from Prime Minister Enrico Letta's government. "We must remain united," Berlusconi said, according to a parliamentarian present at the meeting who spoke on condition of anonymity. He added he was willing to conditionally support the 2014 budget to be presented next month and other tax measures, but Italy should then hold a new election. ... Full Story | Top |
Gunmen kill three Egyptian policemen, one soldier in Sinai Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:48 AM PDT By Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Gunmen killed three policemen and a soldier in Egypt's Sinai region on Monday, security sources said, and Islamist militants released a video of an earlier drive-by shooting of an army colonel, highlighting growing security risks to the government. Violent disorder has gripped the Sinai Peninsula since the army overthrew elected President Mohamed Mursi, an Islamist, in July, plunging the most populous Arab nation into turmoil. ... Full Story | Top |
Nigeria beefs up school security after attacks: sources Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:45 AM PDT | Top |
Stop asking me how to fix Congo, says Rwanda's Kagame Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:42 AM PDT | Top |
UK Cameron's party pledges budget surplus if it wins election Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:34 AM PDT | Top |
Greece plans new anti-racism law amid Golden Dawn crackdown Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:28 AM PDT | Top |
Italy's Berlusconi says took decision alone to pull ministers Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:24 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Italian center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi told lawmakers from his People of Freedom party (PDL) on Monday that he was not influenced by anyone in his decision to withdraw PDL ministers from the government at the weekend. Berlusconi's shock decision undermined Prime Minister Enrico Letta's coalition government and created significant dissent and a risk of a breakaway in his own party. "It made no sense to remain in the government, I took this decision alone," Berlusconi said, according to one of the parliamentarians present at the meeting. ... Full Story | Top |
Pentagon chief, at Korean DMZ, says U.S. will not cut force in Korea Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:19 AM PDT | Top |
Cardinals to begin reform summit with pope Monday, Sep 30, 2013 08:58 AM PDT | Top |
France's Sarkozy appeals against vote funding investigation Monday, Sep 30, 2013 08:48 AM PDT | Top |
Turkey presents reforms aimed at pressing Kurdish peace process Monday, Sep 30, 2013 08:34 AM PDT | Top |
Competition between Islamist militants may fuel big attacks Monday, Sep 30, 2013 08:19 AM PDT | Top |
Merkel plans to talk with SPD and Greens on coalition Monday, Sep 30, 2013 08:05 AM PDT | Top |
German farm minister steps down to re-enter local politics Monday, Sep 30, 2013 07:52 AM PDT HAMBURG (Reuters) - German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner stepped down on Monday to return to local politics in her home state of Bavaria, her ministry said. Aigner had said last year she would leave following a parliamentary election on September 22, prompting speculation that she was eyeing the post of Bavarian prime minister should the incumbent, Horst Seehofer, step down. Aigner's southern conservative party CSU has long held power in the state. ... Full Story | Top |
France opens corruption probe into uncle of Syria's Assad Monday, Sep 30, 2013 07:46 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Paris prosecutors said on Monday they had opened a preliminary investigation into whether an uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad illegally acquired millions of dollars of assets in France. Two French anti-corruption campaign groups, Sherpa and Transparency International France, filed a complaint earlier this month alleging corruption, money-laundering, embezzlement of public funds and misuse of corporate assets by Rifaat al-Assad, a former military commander. ... Full Story | Top |
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