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- WikiLeaks' Assange sees up to a year in Ecuador embassy
- Insight: Brutality, anger fuel jihad in Russia's Caucasus
- Egypt says Syria's "oppressive regime" must go
- Chelsea owner Abramovich faces $6 billion court ruling
- Lufthansa cancels 64 flights as strike begins
- Disgraced father of Pakistan nuclear bomb mulls politics
- Mexico electoral judges reject challenge to Pena Nieto victory
- Insight: Does China's next leader have a soft spot for Tibet?
- Argentina strikes back at U.S. in WTO beef row
- Colombia's Santos appoints Renjifo as energy minister
- Mexican court nixes election appeal, upholds vote
- Palestinians chip away at male divorce monopoly
- Clinton in South Pacific with China in focus
- Arrested Russian killer denies ties to Pussy Riot
- Egypt leader in Iran: World must back Syria rebels
- Terror attack survivor becomes Paralympian
- Venezuela election council takes ad off air
- Court extends detention in Pakistan blasphemy case
- Feuding Russian tycoons face London court ruling
- Turkey appeals to UN council for Syria safe zone
WikiLeaks' Assange sees up to a year in Ecuador embassy Posted: 30 Aug 2012 09:10 PM PDT QUITO (Reuters) - Julian Assange expects to wait six months to a year for a deal to free him from Ecuador's embassy in London, and hopes Sweden will drop its case against him, the WikiLeaks' founder said in an interview broadcast on Thursday. The former computer hacker has been holed up at the embassy for more than two months, seeking to avoid being sent to Sweden for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations - and triggering a diplomatic spat with Britain. ... |
Insight: Brutality, anger fuel jihad in Russia's Caucasus Posted: 31 Aug 2012 01:03 AM PDT GIMRY, Russia (Reuters) - Little girls in hijabs peek out of tin-roof houses and boys play at "cops and insurgents" in the narrow dirt streets. At one end of the village of Gimry men are building a new, red-brick madrassa, one of many religious schools springing up across Dagestan, a region in the high Caucasus mountains on Russia's southern fringe, in the throes of an Islamic revival. More than a dozen young men from the village have "gone to the forest" - the local euphemism for joining insurgents in their hideouts, says village administrator Aliaskhab Magomedov. ... |
Egypt says Syria's "oppressive regime" must go Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:22 AM PDT DUBAI/AMMAN (Reuters) - Egypt called on Thursday for intervention to halt bloodshed in Syria, telling a meeting of 120 nations it was their duty to stand against the "oppressive regime" of Bashar al-Assad, prompting a Syrian walkout. President Mohamed Mursi, elected two months ago after a popular uprising toppled Egypt's long-standing leader Hosni Mubarak, said Assad had lost legitimacy in his fight to crush a 17-month-old revolt in which 20,000 people have been killed. ... |
Chelsea owner Abramovich faces $6 billion court ruling Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:34 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich will find out on Friday whether he owes his former partner Boris Berezovsky as much as $6 billion after a British court battle that has laid bare the post-Soviet carve-up of Russia's vast natural resources. After a legal odyssey stretching from the gilded corridors of the Kremlin to the offshore enclaves favored by Russia's richest tycoons, Judge Elizabeth Gloster will rule on whether Berezovsky was extorted out his business empire by Abramovich. ... |
Lufthansa cancels 64 flights as strike begins Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:30 PM PDT FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lufthansa cancelled 64 flights at its main hub Frankfurt on Friday as cabin crew began the first of a series of strikes over pay and cost cuts in a busy holiday season. The eight-hour industrial action, following the breakdown of 13 months of negotiations between Germany's largest airline and trade union UFO, is due to end at 1100 GMT on Friday. The stoppages were focused in Frankfurt, Germany's largest airport, but are expected to have an impact on the airline's global network. ... |
Disgraced father of Pakistan nuclear bomb mulls politics Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:45 AM PDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani scientist who sold nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, may try his hand at politics to rescue a country he says has become worse than a banana republic. Abdul Qadeer Khan, still lionized as the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb despite his fall from grace in 2004, may have some appeal ahead of elections due next year. Many Pakistanis are deeply frustrated with their leaders over everything from chronic power cuts to their strategic ties with the United States, and they might welcome someone seen as a national hero on the political stage. ... |
Mexico electoral judges reject challenge to Pena Nieto victory Posted: 30 Aug 2012 08:42 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's electoral tribunal on Thursday unanimously rejected a legal bid to overturn Enrique Pena Nieto's victory in the July 1 presidential election, paving the way for the centrist to take office and press ahead with his reform agenda. Pena Nieto, 46, and his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, were accused by runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of laundering money and buying votes to secure victory, but the judges said there was insufficient evidence of wrongdoing. ... |
Insight: Does China's next leader have a soft spot for Tibet? Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:10 PM PDT BEIJING/DHARAMSALA (Reuters) - For decades, Beijing has maintained that the Dalai Lama is a separatist, but Tibet's exiled spiritual leader once had a special relationship with the father of Xi Jinping, the man in line to become China's next president. Few people know what Xi, whose ascent to the leadership is likely to be approved at a Communist Party congress later this year, thinks of Tibet or the Dalai Lama. ... |
Argentina strikes back at U.S. in WTO beef row Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:52 AM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - Argentina has lodged a dispute against U.S. restrictions on imports of Argentina beef and other meat products, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Friday. A week ago, the United States and Japan filed complaints against Argentina with the WTO, alleging that its import licensing rules are protectionist because they discriminate against foreign goods. "Argentina has notified the WTO Secretariat of a request for consultations with the United States on measures applied to the imports of Argentinean meat and other products of animal origin. ... |
Colombia's Santos appoints Renjifo as energy minister Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:44 PM PDT BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos named close ally Federico Renjifo as energy and mining minister on Thursday in part of a Cabinet shuffle as the leader begins pursuing a peace process with FARC rebels. Renjifo replaces Mauricio Cardenas, who was appointed last week to head the Finance Ministry. Renjifo, an economist and lawyer, previously served as interior minister. ... |
Mexican court nixes election appeal, upholds vote Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:09 AM PDT |
Palestinians chip away at male divorce monopoly Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:30 AM PDT |
Clinton in South Pacific with China in focus Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:05 PM PDT |
Arrested Russian killer denies ties to Pussy Riot Posted: 31 Aug 2012 12:56 AM PDT |
Egypt leader in Iran: World must back Syria rebels Posted: 30 Aug 2012 12:20 PM PDT |
Terror attack survivor becomes Paralympian Posted: 31 Aug 2012 01:03 AM PDT |
Venezuela election council takes ad off air Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:07 PM PDT Venezuelan electoral officials have ordered off the air a political ad that depicts the murder of a young man to highlight concerns about crime. |
Court extends detention in Pakistan blasphemy case Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:51 PM PDT A Pakistani court has ordered a Christian girl accused of blasphemy to be held in prison for two more weeks as police finalize charges. |
Feuding Russian tycoons face London court ruling Posted: 30 Aug 2012 11:44 PM PDT |
Turkey appeals to UN council for Syria safe zone Posted: 30 Aug 2012 05:51 PM PDT |
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