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North Korea says U.S. citizen Merrill E. Newman is a criminal, arrested for hostile acts Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:10 PM PST | Top |
Police helicopter crashes into busy Scottish pub, trapping revelers Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:47 PM PST | Top |
Scottish police say a number of casualties in helicopter crash, some trapped Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:18 PM PST A number of people were injured when a police helicopter crashed into a busy Glasgow pub and some people were still trapped in the building, Scottish police said on Saturday. "I can confirm there are a number of casualties but it is too early at this stage to provide further details," said Deputy Chief Constable Rose Fitzpatrick. Full Story | Top |
China scrambles jets to new defense zone, eyes U.S., Japan flights Friday, Nov 29, 2013 06:50 PM PST | Top |
Scotland says could be fatalities in helicopter pub crash Friday, Nov 29, 2013 04:37 PM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said on Friday that people should prepare for the likelihood of fatalities after a police helicopter crashed into a busy pub in Glasgow. "Given an incident of this scale we must all prepare ourselves for the likelihood of fatalities," Salmond said, adding that a full rescue operation was under way. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Bill Trott) Full Story | Top |
Ukrainian opposition accuses Yanukovich of stealing EU dream Friday, Nov 29, 2013 03:44 PM PST | Top |
Venezuela's Maduro vows stricter business inspections Friday, Nov 29, 2013 03:43 PM PST | Top |
Ukraine's Yanukovich vetoes EU push to save trade deal Friday, Nov 29, 2013 03:43 PM PST | Top |
Helicopter crashes into Glasgow pub, multiple casualties: BBC Friday, Nov 29, 2013 03:35 PM PST | Top |
With new air zone, China tests U.S. dominance in East Asia Friday, Nov 29, 2013 03:30 PM PST By Greg Torode and Linda Sieg HONG KONG/TOKYO (Reuters) - China's new air defense zone, stretching far into East Asia's international skies, is an historic challenge to the United States, which has dominated the region for decades. For years, Chinese naval officers have told their U.S. counterparts they are uncomfortable with America's presence in the western Pacific - and Beijing is now confronting strategic assumptions that have governed the region since World War Two. China's recent maritime muscle-flexing in disputes over the Paracel islands and Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and over Japanese-administered islands in the East China Sea has stirred concern and extensive backroom diplomacy in Washington. But it took the events of the last week to spark an immediate and symbolic response from the United States - the unannounced appearance in the zone of two unarmed B-52 bombers from the fortified island of Guam, the closest U.S. territory to the Chinese coast. Full Story | Top |
Malian separatist rebels end ceasefire after clashes Friday, Nov 29, 2013 02:19 PM PST By Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Separatist Tuareg rebels said on Friday they were ending a five-month-old ceasefire with Mali's government and taking up arms following violence in the northern city of Kidal. "The political and military wings of the Azawad (MNLA, MAA and HCUA) declare the lifting of the ceasefire with the central government in Bamako," said a statement by Attaye Ag Mohamed, one of the founders of the MNLA groups. A French-led military offensive routed the Islamists but tension remains between the central government and Tuareg separatists demanding an independent homeland they call Azawad. Full Story | Top |
Yemen president rules out southern split, separatists call rallies Friday, Nov 29, 2013 02:00 PM PST | Top |
Tents, refugees crowd Lebanese valley - just don't call it a camp Friday, Nov 29, 2013 01:13 PM PST | Top |
Ukraine wants financial, economic aid package from EU: Yanukovich Friday, Nov 29, 2013 11:49 AM PST KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich said on Friday that Kiev still intended to sign an association and trade agreement with the EU in the future, but he wanted the bloc to take 'decisive steps' to draw up an economic aid package for Ukraine. Justifying his decision not to sign the agreement on Friday at an EU summit in Lithuania's capital, he told EU leaders in a closed summit session: "Unfortunately, Ukraine in the last while has turned out to be alone in dealing with serious financial and economic problems. ... Full Story | Top |
Benin says frees Nigerian ex-militant after Jonathan intervenes Friday, Nov 29, 2013 11:12 AM PST Benin freed a former militant leader from Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region on Friday after a personal intervention by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, a government spokesman said. Mujahid Dobubo-Asari had been arrested in the West African nation's capital Cotonou on Tuesday. Like Jonathan, Asari is from the Ijaw ethnic group. He is best known for staging attacks on oil infrastructure in the swampy creeks of OPEC member Nigeria that drove up oil prices to record highs in 2004. Full Story | Top |
Libya's coastguard picks up almost 300 African migrants Friday, Nov 29, 2013 10:28 AM PST Libya stopped three boats off its coast packed with almost 300 African migrants apparently trying to reach Europe, the state news agency Lana said on Friday. The migrants were taken to detention centers for processing by Libya's department for illegal migrants. Hundreds of people have died in the past two months in the stream of refugees trying to enter the European Union by boat from North Africa through Lampedusa, an Italian island south of Sicily. Many come via Libya, which is struggling with growing anarchy two years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Full Story | Top |
EU carbon down 9.4 percent in November as supply curbs seen distant Friday, Nov 29, 2013 09:35 AM PST EU carbon fell 9.4 percent in November as lawmakers advanced a plan to cut supply but were unable to move fast enough to block an influx of government permits depressing the market. The December 2013 EU Allowance ended on Friday at 4.36 euros on ICE, down 7 cents on Thursday's settlement and 51 cents down month-on-month. "It's a case of the auctions and EIB (European Investment Bank) sales coming and coming. Germany's sale of 4 million spot permits on Friday morning was almost three times subscribed, a sale typical of the near-daily government auctions that feed permits into the market at a rate of around 80 million a month. Full Story | Top |
Men tried to behead soldier on London street, court hears Friday, Nov 29, 2013 09:25 AM PST | Top |
Spain's anti-protest bill criticized as anti-democratic Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:56 AM PST | Top |
Quake did not damage nuclear plant, Iran tells IAEA Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:26 AM PST Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency an earthquake near the city of Bushehr did not damage the country's sole nuclear power plant and it continues to operate normally, the IAEA said on Friday. At least seven people were killed in Thursday's earthquake that hit a region near the Bushehr nuclear power plant, state news agency IRNA reported. The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 5.6, struck about 40 miles northeast of Bushehr on the Gulf coast, according to U.S. Geological Survey data. "Iran informed the IAEA's Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) yesterday that no damage had been found at Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant," the U.N. agency said. Full Story | Top |
Governments seek to raise the EU cap on food-based biofuels Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:25 AM PST By Charlie Dunmore BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments are trying to raise a planned limit on the use of transport fuels made from food crops, despite warnings that the fuels can harm the environment and push up food prices. Last year in response to such warnings, the European Commission, the EU executive, proposed capping the bloc's use of crop-based biofuels at 5 percent of total transport fuel demand. That was a U-turn from three years before, when the European Union had set a legally binding target to source 10 percent of its transport fuel from renewable sources by 2020, mostly crop-based biofuels. On Friday, EU ambassadors meeting in Brussels drew up a draft compromise that would raise the proposed cap to 7 percent. Full Story | Top |
Earthquake shakes San Salvador, no major damage reported Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:17 AM PST SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - An earthquake rattled buildings in San Salvador on Friday morning, although there were no immediate reports of damage. Mexico's national seismological agency reported that a quake of 5.2 magnitude had been registered in El Salvador. (Reporting by Nelson Renteria) Full Story | Top |
Dozens of firms interested in destroying Syrian chemicals: OPCW sources Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:17 AM PST By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - More than two dozen companies have expressed interest in destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, sources at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), told Reuters on Friday. The global chemical weapons watchdog is seeking commercial firms to destroy toxins from Syria's poison gas arsenal, and is trying to find a Mediterranean port where the deadliest can be processed offshore after Albania abruptly backed out of its offer to have it done on its territory. Last week the OPCW asked companies to indicate whether they could destroy nearly 800 metric tons (about 882 tons) of chemicals and 7.7 million liters of effluent, or liquid waste, and set a deadline of November 29 for expressions of interest. The sources did not reveal which companies had expressed an interest, but Timo Piekkari, chief executive at Finland's state-owned Ekokem, said his firm had done so. Full Story | Top |
German policeman held for death of man he met on cannibal website Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:12 AM PST | Top |
Iran sees nuclear deal implementation starting by early January Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:07 AM PST | Top |
U.S. Plains young wheat crop at risk from arctic blast Friday, Nov 29, 2013 08:01 AM PST Bitter cold conditions expected to move through the U.S. Plains wheat belt next week will put the young crop at risk of winterkill if the region does not see snow before then, an agricultural meteorologist said on Friday. But the chances of the region getting snow before then are good, Lerner said. Full Story | Top |
Journal withdraws controversial French Monsanto GM study Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:59 AM PST | Top |
UK takes aim at green levies, denies seeking energy price freeze Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:42 AM PST By William James and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Friday to cut energy bills by reducing green levies but denied a BBC report that he had asked the country's biggest gas and energy companies to hold prices steady until the 2015 election. In an unusually sharp reprimand for the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation, a spokesman for Cameron's office said the report which cited unidentified industry sources was utterly misleading. Details of a review of green levies, which include obligatory insulation for poor families and help with their bills, will be unveiled by finance minister George Osborne in his December 5 Autumn Statement, a government spokesman said. "I want to help households and families by getting sustainably low energy prices," Cameron told reporters on the sidelines of a European Union summit in Lithuania on Friday. Full Story | Top |
Berlusconi accused of bribing witnesses in prostitution trial Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:41 AM PST | Top |
Russian prosecutors seek nine years for acid attack dancer Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:01 AM PST | Top |
Anti-government protesters break into Thai army compound Friday, Nov 29, 2013 06:55 AM PST | Top |
In 'Teflon Thailand,' protests test a weak economy Friday, Nov 29, 2013 06:47 AM PST By Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - As anti-government protests roil Bangkok, the president of Thailand's largest petrochemical company is already seeing scattered disruptions to business. "We have taken into account the possibility of prolonged political problems and we think it could hurt our businesses next year," said Bowon Vongsinudom, president of PTT Global Chemical Pcl after days of protests including the occupation of the Finance Ministry since Monday. While Thailand's economy, Southeast Asia's second largest, typically shows remarkable resilience to political turbulence, there are factors this time around that suggest the unrest could exacerbate already softening business conditions. Consumer spending has slumped this year and exports, worth 60 percent of Thailand's $366 billion economy, are flagging amid weak global demand. Full Story | Top |
Suicide bomber wounds MP and bodyguards in Afghan capital Friday, Nov 29, 2013 06:45 AM PST By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber wounded a prominent anti-Taliban Afghan legislator and his bodyguards in an attack in Kabul on Friday, intelligence officials said. The bomber detonated his device inside the house of Hameedullah Tokhi, a member of parliament for Zabul province, and wounded Tokhi and four of his bodyguards, the officials said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack, which came as President Hamid Karzai deliberates over an agreement allowing NATO forces to stay in the country beyond 2014. Full Story | Top |
Liberals to lead Luxembourg as coalition talks succeed Friday, Nov 29, 2013 06:39 AM PST Luxembourg City's mayor Xavier Bettel will become the country's next prime minister, following the end of coalition talks on Friday that usher in a Liberal government for the first time in decades. The agreement between Bettel's Democratic Party, the Socialists and the Greens brings an end to the 19 years in office of Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Union's longest-serving head of government. "After 175 hours, we're done with the coalition talks," Bettel said on his Twitter account. The coalition agreement will be presented to the respective party congresses next week, after which the ministers will be announced and the new government can be sworn in. Full Story | Top |
'Security' swimming pool lands South Africa's Zuma in hot water Friday, Nov 29, 2013 06:37 AM PST | Top |
Iraqi police find 18 men shot in head and seven decapitated Friday, Nov 29, 2013 06:29 AM PST By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Police discovered the bodies of 18 men who had been abducted and shot in the head near Baghdad on Friday, and the decapitated corpses of seven men killed in a separate attack in northern Iraq. The 18 bodies were found together in an orchard in Meshahda, a predominantly Sunni Muslim area around 30 km (20 miles) north of Baghdad. A senior police source blamed al Qaeda. Such killings are on the rise in Iraq, alongside a growing insurgent campaign of bomb and gun attacks on security forces and civilians. Full Story | Top |
Angola says Dos Santos is fine, denies cancer treatment report Friday, Nov 29, 2013 06:03 AM PST | Top |
U.N. carbon offset market seen 'in a coma' for years after Warsaw Friday, Nov 29, 2013 05:55 AM PST | Top |
Key Bangladesh garments factory destroyed in blaze Friday, Nov 29, 2013 05:55 AM PST By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - A devastating fire ripped through a Bangladesh garment factory supplying major Western retailers in a blaze set by workers angered over rumors of a colleague's death due to police gunfire. But fire fighters were still battling to douse the fire in four nearby buildings, more than 15 hours after it had begun around midnight on Thursday, after workers finished for the day. "We are still struggling to control the flames," said fire official Mahbubur Rahman, adding that 22 fire service and civil defense units been thrown into the fire-fighting operation. At the scene, a Reuters photographer said burnt garments strewn on the floors bore brand names from U.S. retailers such as American Eagle Outfitters Inc, Gap Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Other brands on the clothes included Li and Fung Ltd, Marks and Spencer Group PLC, Sears Canada Inc, Fast Retailing Co Ltd's Uniqlo and Inditex S.A. brand Zara. Full Story | Top |
Thailand's red-shirt heartland hides its strength Friday, Nov 29, 2013 05:34 AM PST | Top |
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