| Insight: Local wars blur al Qaeda's threat to West Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:38 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden would not have approved. Spinoff groups from al Qaeda have become increasingly engrossed in insurgencies in Africa and the Middle East, inflicting death and mayhem on local communities. But this emphasis on the pursuit of the enemy nearby has cast doubt on their commitment, in practice, to bin Laden's war on the "far enemy" - the West and the United States in particular. More than a year after U.S. forces killed bin Laden, some groups such as the Yemeni-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) undoubtedly remain a menace to the West. ...
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| Greece presses case to change bailout terms Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:06 AM PDT  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's new government took up the task on Thursday of persuading skeptical lenders visiting Athens to ease the punishing terms of the bailout saving the debt-laden country from bankruptcy. Just hours after being sworn in, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras was due to meet senior officials from Greece's trio of international lenders - the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. The so-called 'troika' is in Athens to review Greece's faltering progress on fiscal adjustment and reforms under a 130 billion euro ($162.63 billion) bailout package. ...
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| After long closure, NATO supplies enter Afghanistan from Pakistan Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:10 AM PDT CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A pair of trucks carrying NATO supplies crossed into Afghanistan on Thursday, Pakistani customs officials said, the first time in more than seven months that Pakistan has allowed Western nations to use its roads to supply troops in Afghanistan. Customs officials said the container trucks had passed through the Chaman border crossing into southern Afghanistan, a milestone following a deal this week with the United States ending the impasse triggered by the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers by U.S. aircraft last November. ... |
| South Korean dictator's daughter to launch presidential bid Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:42 AM PDT  SEOUL (Reuters) - The daughter of slain South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee is to launch a bid to become the first woman to lead this Asian economic powerhouse on July 10 and is likely to pledge to broaden welfare and offer to mend relations with a bellicose North Korea. Park Geun-hye, a slight and elegant 60 year old, has a double digit lead over most of her potential opponents for the vote which is due in December. She will be the clear front-runner in the primary of the ruling conservative New Frontier Party. ...
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| Japan regains nuclear power as first reactor resumes operations Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:17 PM PDT  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan ended two months without nuclear power on Thursday when the No. 3 unit at Kansai Electric Power Co's Ohi plant became the first reactor to resume supplying electricity to the grid since a nationwide safety shutdown after the Fukushima disaster. Japan's last working reactor was idled in early May, leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970. ...
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| Mexico recounts votes from over half of polling booths Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:02 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's election officials on Wednesday recounted votes from more than half the polling booths in Sunday's presidential and congressional elections, responding to claims of fraud and requests for recounts in areas where the race was tight. Officials with the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) said the recount would not significantly change preliminary results of the presidential vote, which showed Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) winning with more than 38 percent of the vote, 6.5 points clear of his nearest rival. ...
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| Syria pummels rebels as battered city collects bodies Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT  YAYLADAGI, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrian artillery pounded a northwestern town on Wednesday and areas near the ghost city of Douma, where residents recovered mutilated corpses after a rampage by militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said. They said at least 11 people, including a six-year-old girl and an elderly man, were killed by shelling in the towns of Misraba and Rihan near Douma, and three more were shot dead. ...
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| Fate of detainees is early test for Egyptian leader Posted: 04 Jul 2012 01:01 PM PDT  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian revolutionaries piled pressure on new President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday to free protesters jailed by military courts, as he tried to forge a government strong enough to make a difference to a frustrated population. The popular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak last year delivered Egypt's first free leadership vote but sparked an economic crisis and a chaotic spell of army rule that saw thousands of civilians given military trials and thrown in jail. ...
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| Japan's atomic disaster caused by "collusion": panel report Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:34 AM PDT  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from "collusion" among the government, regulators and the plant operator, an expert panel said on Thursday, wrapping up an inquiry into the worst nuclear accident in 25 years. Damage from a big earthquake on March 11 last year, and not just the ensuing tsunami, could not be ruled out as a cause of the accident, the panel said, a finding that could have serious implications as Japan seeks to bring idled reactors back on line. ...
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| Peru protest against Newmont leaves one dead, leader detained Posted: 04 Jul 2012 07:44 PM PDT  LIMA (Reuters) - One person died and police detained one of the leaders of protests against Newmont's $5 billion gold mine in Peru on Wednesday, the day after clashes between police and protesters left three people dead and 21 injured. The second day of violence erupted in the northern region of Cajamarca as President Ollanta Humala came under criticism for suspending freedom of assembly in the area late on Tuesday. "One death has been confirmed, a civilian," Prime Minister Oscar Valdes told a press conference. ...
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| Greece's new finance minister sworn in Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:36 AM PDT Greece's new finance minister Yannis Stournaras has been sworn in to office, along with two deputy ministers. |
| Iraqis face long future of fear as attacks mount Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:03 PM PDT  Whenever he leaves his home, Mohammed Jabar, a Sunni Muslim, carries his cellphone so his family can find out quickly whether he is safe if a deadly bomb attack hits. Shukria Mahmud, another Sunni, rarely ventures from her house because of the rash of violence that is gripping Iraq.
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| Japan reactor on grid; panel slams crisis response Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:55 AM PDT  Nuclear power returned to Japan's energy mix for the first time in two months Thursday, hours before a parliamentary investigative commission blamed the government's cozy relations with the industry for the meltdowns that prompted the mass shutdown of the nation's reactors.
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| Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:24 PM PDT  Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of "the missing cornerstone of physics" Wednesday, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, or "God particle," which could help explain why all matter has mass and crack open a new realm of subatomic science.
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| A closer look at the Higgs boson Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:55 AM PDT  Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle that looks remarkably like the long-sought Higgs boson. Sometimes called the "God particle" because its existence is fundamental to the creation of the universe, the hunt for the Higgs involved thousands of scientists from all over the world.
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| Mexico recounting more than half presidential vote Posted: 04 Jul 2012 07:09 PM PDT  Mexican electoral authorities said Wednesday they are recounting more than half the ballot boxes used in the weekend's presidential election after finding inconsistencies in the vote tallies.
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| Police say head belongs Canada body parts victim Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:37 PM PDT A human head found in a park belongs to a Chinese student who police say was dismembered by a Canadian porn actor, authorities in Montreal confirmed Wednesday. |
| First NATO truck crosses Pakistan border Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:20 AM PDT A Pakistani official says the first truck carrying supplies to U.S. and NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan has crossed the border after a 7-month closure of the supply routes by Pakistan ended. |
| Student murder stokes fears of Egypt's Islamists Posted: 04 Jul 2012 03:04 PM PDT  Three bearded men approached a university student and his girlfriend during a romantic rendezvous in a park and ordered them to separate because they weren't married, according to security officials. An argument broke out, ending with one of the men fatally stabbing the student.
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| Vatican gets report card on financial transparency Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT  The Vatican got a report card Wednesday on its efforts to be more financially transparent — but it's a secret for now.
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