Thursday, May 31, 2012

In Myanmar, stigma and neglect add to HIV misery

In Myanmar, stigma and neglect add to HIV misery

In Myanmar, stigma and neglect add to HIV misery

Posted: 30 May 2012 10:35 PM PDT

To match Feature MYANMAR-HIV/YANGON (Reuters) - The mother and child who touch hands in an overcrowded Yangon hospice are not family, but their tragic history begins in the blood. Jam, 42, a mother of six, and Kanama, aged 2, are both HIV positive. Abandoned by their families, they must now find comfort in each other, although Jam still yearns for her husband to return to the private HIV hospice in the suburbs of Myanmar's biggest city. "He promised to come back but I'm afraid he never will," said the woman as she burst into tears. She is known in the hospice by her nickname, Jam. ...

Israel hands over Palestinian militants' remains

Posted: 30 May 2012 11:25 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel transferred to Palestinian authorities on Thursday the bodies of dozens of Palestinian militants, saying it hoped the move would help restart peace efforts. The militants had been buried, some of them for decades, in a desolate Israeli military cemetery for "enemy combatants" in the occupied West Bank. They included several suicide bombers. The remains of 80 Palestinians were handed over to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and 11 bodies were slated for transfer to the Gaza Strip, controlled by rival Hamas Islamists. ...

"Hundreds detained" in Tibet after self-immolations

Posted: 31 May 2012 12:22 AM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Hundreds of Tibetans in Lhasa have been detained by Chinese security officers after two self-immolation protests against Chinese rule over Tibet, a U.S.-broadcaster said, stoking concerns of spreading unrest among Tibetans in China. On Sunday, two Tibetan men set themselves on fire in Lhasa, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time in four years of a major Tibetan protest against Chinese rule. One of the men died. ...

Seven killed in militant raid on Yemeni town

Posted: 31 May 2012 12:09 AM PDT

SANAA (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed when fighters linked to al Qaeda attacked Yemeni troops guarding a town briefly seized by the militants earlier this year, officials said on Thursday. The attack on Radda, a town in the al-Baydah province 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Sanaa, comes amid a major Yemeni army offensive on militant strongholds further to the south. The Yemeni Defence Ministry said four militants and three soldiers died during the attack late on Wednesday night. ...

Iran cancels $2 billion dam deal with China: report

Posted: 30 May 2012 11:27 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Iran has cancelled a $2 billion contract for a Chinese firm to help build a hydroelectric dam in the country, Chinese state media said on Thursday, a move that risks upsetting Beijing, one of Tehran's most important economic and political allies. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to visit China next week for a security summit, where he is expected to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, on Iran's disputed nuclear programme. In March 2011, Iran's official IRNA news agency said China's Sinohydro Corp. ...

India set for sweeping protests at petrol price rise

Posted: 30 May 2012 11:04 PM PDT

Activists from Shiv Sena, a Hindu hardline group, carry a motor bike as they shout slogans during a protest against the price hike in petrol, in JammuNEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian opposition parties planned a national strike on Thursday in protest against the steepest petrol price rise in the country's history, seeking to exploit popular anger with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's embattled coalition government. Protests, marches and road blocks were planned across the country. The strike could reduce public transport and hit government offices, colleges, firms and industrial plants, but because it is not centrally organized its impact will differ from state to state. "It will be a total shutdown across the country. ...

U.S. military trainers trickle back into Pakistan

Posted: 30 May 2012 11:38 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sent a handful of military trainers back into Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level cooperation against militants despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington's relations with Islamabad in crisis. Fewer than 10 U.S. special operations soldiers have been sent to a training site near the border city of Peshawar, where they will instruct trainers from Pakistan's Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency warfare, a U.S. official said. But Pakistan denied that any U.S. military personnel had returned. ...

Image shows buildings gone at Iran site: diplomats

Posted: 30 May 2012 08:14 PM PDT

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano enters his car after his trip to Tehran at the international airport in ViennaVIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear inspectors displayed new satellite imagery on Wednesday indicating that some small buildings had been dismantled and other possible clean-up work undertaken at an Iranian military site they want to visit. One image from May 25 showed signs that "ground-scraping activities" had taken place at the Parchin facility, as well as the presence of a bulldozer, according to diplomats who attended a closed-door briefing by U.N. nuclear agency officials. ...

Egypt election outcome makes economic challenge tougher

Posted: 31 May 2012 01:02 AM PDT

To match Feature EGYPT-ELECTION/ECONOMYCAIRO (Reuters) - The success of two polarizing figures in Egypt's presidential election could make it harder to put in place an effective government that can tackle an economic crisis and secure vital foreign aid. No centre-ground figure made it to next month's run-off vote, setting up a showdown between the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, Mohamed Mursi, and ex-army man and Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, two symbols of opposing political forces whose rivalry has caused months of policy paralysis. ...

Ex-Cameron aide arrested, charged with perjury

Posted: 30 May 2012 03:18 PM PDT

FILE - This is a Thursday, May 10, 2012 file photo of Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World newspaper and former director of communications for Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron as he arrives to appear at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London, Coulson was arrested by police Wednesday May 30, 2012 on suspicion of perjury. Scottish police said Wednesday that Andy Coulson, was detained at his home in London over an accusation of committing perjury at a case at the High Court in Glasgow. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)The former top media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron was arrested and charged with perjury Wednesday in the trial of a flamboyant ex-Scottish lawmaker — the latest case tied to allegations of wrongdoing by British tabloid newspapers.

Revered Jerusalem church comes alive at night

Posted: 30 May 2012 11:22 PM PDT

After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holiest sites.

Activists: Syrian troops shell Houla

Posted: 31 May 2012 12:11 AM PDT

In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Tuesday, May 29, 2012, purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour, Syria. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALActivists say Syrian troops are shelling the central Houla area where more than 100 people were massacred last week.

Australia: No sign from US of Assange indictment

Posted: 31 May 2012 12:04 AM PDT

Australia has talked to the United States about the future of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Thursday that it can't protect the Australian activist from other countries' justice systems.

Spain sends senior official to US amid crisis

Posted: 31 May 2012 12:37 AM PDT

Spain's deputy prime minister is heading to Washington to discuss the country's economic crisis with the U.S. treasury secretary and the head of the IMF.

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

Posted: 30 May 2012 01:05 PM PDT

In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Tuesday, May 29, 2012, purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour, Syria. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALWhen the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead.

McCain: US inability to help Syria 'embarrassing'

Posted: 30 May 2012 11:44 PM PDT

Visiting U.S. Senators, John McCain, R-Ariz., right, and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., are reflected in a mirror during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)The United States must show stronger international leadership to halt the violence in Syria, which could become a significant issue in this year's presidential campaign, two U.S. senators said Thursday.

Ireland votes on Europe's deficit-fighting treaty

Posted: 30 May 2012 11:36 PM PDT

Posters from the no and and yes campaign outside goverment buildings Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Ireland goes to the polls Thursday to vote on the European Fiscal Treaty Referendum. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)Irish voters are deciding whether their government can ratify the European Union's fiscal treaty, a deficit-fighting pact designed to bind Ireland and other debt-crippled eurozone members to tighter spending limits.

3rd witness in Philippine massacre of 57 killed

Posted: 30 May 2012 11:04 PM PDT

A third witness in the 2009 election-related massacre of 57 people in the Philippines has been killed and his body chopped to pieces, a prosecutor said Thursday, casting a shadow over efforts to deliver justice in the country's worst recent bloodletting.

Suicide car bomber kills 5 police in Afghanistan

Posted: 31 May 2012 12:59 AM PDT

A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle full of explosives outside a district police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing five policemen, a government official said.
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