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- Romney says Chinese activist should be protected
- Romney, Secret Service, GOP: Obama mocks them all
- Greece opens detention camp for immigrants as election looms
- Libya's Gaddafi-era oil chief found floating dead in Danube
- IG Metall plans more partial walk-outs on Wednesday: union
- Egypt's Brotherhood says army plans cabinet reshuffle
- Egypt cabinet reshuffle seen within 48 hours: speaker
- Egypt army ruler plans cabinet reshuffle: MP
- Dissident case poses test for U.S.-China diplomacy
- U.S. troops synch hi-tech and nomad intel in Kony hunt
- Saleh to leave Yemen temporarily: diplomatic source
- Obama, Clintons deepen political and policy ties
- Is America's Economic Recovery Built To Last?
- French Socialist heavyweights shun Strauss-Kahn
- Trial of baseball ace Clemens set to resume Monday
- Ex-oil chief who tried to reform Gaddafi's Libya dies
- Bahrain hunger striker force-fed, drugged: wife
- In Sudan and South Sudan, questions of nationality
- Islamist group says it carried out Damascus bombing
- Wary of Iran, Saudis seek progress on Gulf union
- Attack on Christians in Nigeria kills at least 15: witness
- Bill Clinton to Join Obama for Fundraiser in Virginia
- Israel court puts 60-day hold on settlement razings
- Myanmar president orders shakeup for peace talks
- U.N. chief visits "new" Myanmar to push more reforms
- Libya leader says government to stay put until elections
- Romney, Secret Service, GOP: Obama mocks them all
- European MP says stopped from entering Bahrain
- AP NewsAlert
- Analysis: Student loan agreement? Not so fast.
- Student demos turn violent in Mexico, 200 arrested
- The 5 Al-Qaida leaders most wanted by US
| Romney says Chinese activist should be protected Posted: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the U.S. should do everything it can to protect a Chinese activist who escaped house arrest and was reported to be hiding in the U.S. embassy in Beijing. |
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| Greece opens detention camp for immigrants as election looms Posted: ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece opened its first purpose-built detention centre for illegal migrants on Sunday in Athens, a week before a national election where illegal immigration has emerged as a key issue. About 130,000 immigrants cross the country's porous sea and land borders every year, the vast majority via Turkey, and the authorities are forced to release those who are arrested because of a lack of permanent housing. With Greece in its fifth year of recession and worries over rising crime levels, illegal immigration has become a major issue in the run up of the May 6 election. ... |
| Libya's Gaddafi-era oil chief found floating dead in Danube Posted: VIENNA (Reuters) - Libya's former top oil industry official, Shokri Ghanem, has been found floating dead in the River Danube in Austria, police said on Sunday. Ghanem, 69, had been chairman of Libya's state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) before defecting last year several months after opponents of Muammar Gaddafi had risen up against the Libyan leader and begun a rebellion. As NOC chairman since 2006, Ghanem helped steer Libya's oil policy and held the high-profile job of representing Libya at OPEC meetings, often visiting Vienna for meetings in that role. ... |
| IG Metall plans more partial walk-outs on Wednesday: union Posted: BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's IG Metall union plans more partial walk-outs on Wednesday after about 2,500 workers walked off the job in Berlin, Bavaria and in several other states early on Sunday to back their demand for a 6.5 percent wage increase. The engineering sector employers have offered a 3-percent pay rise for a period of 14 months for the 3.6 million workers in the sector, which the union has rejected. The union said it planned token strikes in North Rhine-Westphalia on Wednesday, targeting a Daimler plant in Duesseldorf. ... |
| Egypt's Brotherhood says army plans cabinet reshuffle Posted: CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Sunday the ruling generals planned to reshuffle the government in an apparent attempt to defuse a political feud overshadowing a presidential election campaign that gets under way on Monday. The Brotherhood has pushed for more say in the government for months since sweeping to a dominant role in parliament in an election marathon that ended in February this year. Essam el-Erian, a senior Brotherhood lawmaker, told Reuters the generals would initiate talks over the reshuffle but army officials did not immediately confirm any plans to do so. ... |
| Egypt cabinet reshuffle seen within 48 hours: speaker Posted: CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling army council plans to announce a reshuffle of Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri's cabinet within 48 hours, the state news agency quoted the speaker of parliament as saying on Sunday. Speaker Saad al-Katatni, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, received a phone call from the military council which he described as "satisfactory". "The military council will announce this reshuffle within 48 hours," the agency quoted Katatni as saying. (Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Egypt army ruler plans cabinet reshuffle: MP Posted: CAIRO (Reuters) - The head of Egypt's ruling military council will start talks on a cabinet reshuffle, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood told Reuters on Sunday, in an apparent concession to the Islamist-dominated parliament's demand for a new government. Essam el-Erian, a senior Brotherhood lawmaker, said the ruling military council had told Parliamentary Speaker Saad al-Katatni, another member of the Islamist group, that Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi would begin talks for the reshuffle. A military official had no comment on the report. ... |
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| U.S. troops synch hi-tech and nomad intel in Kony hunt Posted:
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| Saleh to leave Yemen temporarily: diplomatic source Posted: SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh will leave Yemen temporarily after Gulf states leaned on him to get out of the way of his successor in order to ease tensions complicating efforts to stabilize the country, a diplomatic source said on Sunday. The diplomat said he expected Saleh to travel next week, probably to the United Arab Emirates, to allow recently elected President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to rule unhindered by his predecessor. Russia has said it is willing to take in Saleh. ... |
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| Is America's Economic Recovery Built To Last? Posted: "This Week's" panel of economic experts debated the status of the economy and the opportunities and barriers that lie ahead on the path to recovery from the worst recession since the Great Depression. Sunday's broadcast, in partnership with the Miller Center at the University of... |
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| Trial of baseball ace Clemens set to resume Monday Posted:
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| Ex-oil chief who tried to reform Gaddafi's Libya dies Posted:
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| Bahrain hunger striker force-fed, drugged: wife Posted:
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| In Sudan and South Sudan, questions of nationality Posted:
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| Islamist group says it carried out Damascus bombing Posted: CAIRO (Reuters) - An Islamist group called "al-Nusra Front" claimed responsibility on Sunday for a suicide bombing which killed at least nine people in the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday. The group named the bomber as Abu Omar al-Shami and said he detonated his explosives amidst 150 members of the Syrian security forces who were gathered outside the Zain al-Abideen mosque in the Midan district of Damascus. It was not possible to verify the statement. ... |
| Wary of Iran, Saudis seek progress on Gulf union Posted: DUBAI (Reuters) - Wary of Iran and regional protest movements, Gulf Arab states are pushing ahead with plans for a political union that would involve joint foreign and defense policies, the Saudi foreign minister said in a speech at the weekend. The comments by Prince Saud al-Faisal come two weeks ahead of a summit of U.S.-aligned Gulf leaders in Riyadh that will review an outline for such a union after Saudi King Abdullah first floated the idea last December. ... |
| Attack on Christians in Nigeria kills at least 15: witness Posted: KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many more on Sunday in an attack on a university theatre being used by Christian worshippers in Kano, a northern Nigerian city where hundreds have died in Islamist attacks this year. Security sources said gunmen arrived on motorbikes and threw small homemade bombs into the theatre before shooting fleeing worshippers. There was sporadic gunfire in other parts of the city later on from attackers driven from the university by the army, the sources said. "I counted at least 15 dead bodies. ... |
| Bill Clinton to Join Obama for Fundraiser in Virginia Posted: President Obama will be joined by Bill Clinton at a fundraising reception and dinner tonight. It is the first time the former occupant of the White House has openly joined the current commander in chief on the campaign trail. The event is being hosted at... |
| Israel court puts 60-day hold on settlement razings Posted: JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Supreme Court postponed the demolition of five unauthorized buildings on the West Bank on Sunday, a ruling that gave the government more time to argue against their destruction and placate pro-settler political partners. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government agreed last year to remove the apartment blocks on the edge of the Beit El settlement, after a court ruled they were built on private Palestinian land. ... |
| Myanmar president orders shakeup for peace talks Posted: YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar will overhaul its peace negotiating teams in a bid to settle armed rebellions with ethnic rebel militias following a failure to end a stubborn conflict in the strategic Kachin State, sources close to the process said on Sunday. President Thein Sein has ordered a shakeup after a lack of a breakthrough following six rounds of talks with Kachin political leaders. Fighting between troops and militias has displaced more than 50,000 people since June. ... |
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| European MP says stopped from entering Bahrain Posted: DUBAI (Reuters) - A European Union member of parliament with a diplomatic passport said she was prevented from entering Bahrain on Sunday in an application of visa rules imposed while the government grapples with a pro-democracy movement. Ana Gomes, a Portuguese member of the European Parliament's foreign affairs and human rights committees, said she was held at Manama airport for over seven hours when she tried to enter the Gulf Arab state during a stopover on the way to Libya. "I've been ... ... |
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| Student demos turn violent in Mexico, 200 arrested Posted: MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Students demanding access to university hostels set fire to two police cars in street protests in the Mexican city of Morelia on Saturday that led to 200 arrests, local media reported on Sunday. Masked men sprayed a police pick-up with gasoline and then set it ablaze with molotov cocktails on one of the busiest streets of Morelia, television images showed. The protesters, mainly young men, were demanding local government funding to maintain access to student hostels from which they had were evicted by police. ... |
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