| Russia rejects Assad exit as precondition for Syria deal Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:41 AM PST  MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia voiced support on Saturday for international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi but insisted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's exit cannot be a precondition for a deal to end the country's conflict. Some 60,000 Syrians have been killed during the 21-month-old revolt and world powers are divided over how to stop the escalating bloodshed. Government aircraft bombed outer districts of Damascus on Saturday after being grounded for a week by stormy weather, opposition activists in the capital said. ...
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| Egyptian court accepts Mubarak appeal, orders retrial Posted: 13 Jan 2013 01:04 AM PST  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Appeals Court accepted an appeal by ousted former president Hosni Mubarak and his former interior minister on Sunday, allowing him to be retried over the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising. Mubarak and former interior minister Habib al-Adli were sentenced to life in prison in June last year in a court ruling that saw them responsible for the deaths of protesters killed by security forces trying to quell the uprising. "The court has ruled to accept the appeal filed by the defendants ... and orders a retrial," Judge Ahmed Ali Abdel Rahman said. ...
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| Israel evacuates Palestinians from tent outpost in West Bank Posted: 12 Jan 2013 07:59 PM PST  E1, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli security forces evacuated about 100 Palestinians early on Sunday from an outpost of tents pitched in an area of the occupied West Bank that Israel has earmarked for a new settlement. Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Palestinian outpost, built in the geographically sensitive area known as E1, could remain for six days while the issue of the removal of the tents was being discussed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the meantime, ordered those gathered there to be evacuated. ...
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| Netanyahu denies wasting money on Iran attack plans Posted: 13 Jan 2013 12:16 AM PST  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday dismissed allegations by predecessor Ehud Olmert that he wasted billions of dollars preparing for a strike on Iran that did not take place. Olmert, who once led the centrist Kadima party, told Israel's Channel 2 television on Friday that 11 billion shekels (about $3 billion) were wasted on "illusionary security escapades that have not been implemented and will not be implemented". ...
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| Pakistan Prime Minister flies to Quetta to meet protesters Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:29 PM PST  QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf flew to the city of Quetta on Sunday to meet local Shi'ites holding a protest alongside the bodies of family members killed in one of the country's worst sectarian attacks. Thousands of the Shi'ite Hazara community, the ethnic group targeted by the blast, have been holding vigils at the site of the blast beside the 96 shrouded bodies. They have spent two nights outside in the cold and rain and are refusing to bury their dead until their safety is guaranteed. ...
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| Egypt sees talks with IMF "back on track very soon" Posted: 13 Jan 2013 12:51 AM PST  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt hopes to resume talks with the International Monetary Fund on a crucial $4.8 billion loan soon as it struggles to prop up an ailing economy wrecked by protracted political unrest. Egypt's loan agreement was approved in principle in November, but subsequent turmoil forced the government to delay a series of bitter austerity measures deemed necessary to win the IMF board's final approval. Addressing a business forum in Cairo, Prime Minister Hisham Kandil said government had agreed a "home-grown fiscal and financial program" as part of the deal. ...
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| Italian consul in Benghazi shot at in car but unhurt Posted: 12 Jan 2013 02:35 PM PST  BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - An Italian consul came under fire in his car in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday but was unhurt, Italy said, four months after the U.S. ambassador was killed in an attack on the U.S. mission in the city. A spokesman for the Italian Foreign Ministry confirmed the attack on Guido De Sanctis, Italy's Benghazi consul since 2011, and said he was unhurt. A security source in Libya who declined to be named told Reuters: "They shot at his car, but the car was armored. He is fine, there are no injuries. ...
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| Venezuela's Hugo Chavez not in coma, brother says Posted: 12 Jan 2013 08:33 PM PST  CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's cancer-stricken president, Hugo Chavez, is recovering in Cuba and is not in a coma as some have rumored a month after surgery, his brother, Adan Chavez, said after a visit to Havana. The 58-year-old socialist leader has not been seen or heard from since his December 11 cancer surgery - his fourth such operation after the disease was detected in his pelvic area in mid-2011 - leaving Venezuela in a state of suspense. ...
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| Haiti remembers 2010 earthquake in subdued ceremony Posted: 12 Jan 2013 04:57 PM PST  PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti marked the third anniversary of the earthquake that destroyed much of the capital and killed more than 250,000 people with a purposely low-key commemoration on Saturday that included former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Clinton, who is the U.N. special envoy for Haiti, joined the country's president, Michel Martelly, for a simple wreath-laying ceremony held at a mass burial site on a barren hillside at the outskirts of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. ...
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| Egypt court grants Mubarak appeal, orders retrial Posted: 13 Jan 2013 01:00 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has granted Hosni Mubarak's appeal of his life sentence, ordering a retrial of the ousted president.
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| At least 11 killed during Mali military operation Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:57 PM PST  BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A presidential spokesman says at least 11 Malians were killed and over 60 injured after the country launched a military intervention to fight al-Qaida-linked rebels advancing on a crucial town.
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| Victims of Costa shipwreck mark anniversary Posted: 13 Jan 2013 12:11 AM PST  GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Survivors of the Costa Concordia shipwreck and relatives of the 32 people who died are marking the first anniversary of the grounding with the unveiling of memorials to the victims, a Mass in their honor and a minute of silence to recall the exact moment that the cruise ship rammed into a reef off Tuscany.
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| Gunmen shoot birdshot at Egypt protesters; 15 hurt Posted: 12 Jan 2013 01:20 PM PST CAIRO (AP) — A dozen masked attackers fired birdshot late Saturday at protesters who have camped outside Egypt's presidential palace in Cairo for the past month, wounding several along with security forces standing watch nearby, witnesses said. It was the latest in a series of shootings of protesters in Egypt. |
| Indian rape victim's mother urges death penalty Posted: 13 Jan 2013 12:27 AM PST NEW DELHI (AP) — The mother of a 23-year-old student who died after being brutally gang-raped in a moving bus in the Indian capital says all six suspects, including one believed to be a juvenile, deserve to die. |
| Air pollution in Beijing goes off the index Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:32 PM PST  BEIJING (AP) — People refused to venture outdoors and buildings disappeared into Beijing's murky skyline on Sunday as the capital's air quality went off the index.
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| World's oldest woman dies at 115 Posted: 12 Jan 2013 09:44 PM PST TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese official says a woman in his town near Tokyo who became world's oldest living female just last month has died at 115. |
| Palestinian protesters evicted from West Bank site Posted: 12 Jan 2013 09:55 PM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian protesters who pitched tents at a strategic West Bank site to protest plans to build a Jewish housing project there were evicted early Sunday, police said.
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| Mexico dog mutilated by drug traffickers recovers Posted: 12 Jan 2013 10:18 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A dog reportedly mutilated by Mexican drug traffickers is recovering at a sanctuary for abused and abandoned dogs.
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| Syrian army advances in strategic Damascus suburb Posted: 12 Jan 2013 11:31 AM PST  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian troops advanced in a strategic suburb of Damascus and bombarded other areas around the capital Saturday in a push to secure President Bashar Assad's seat of power as rebels make gains in the north.
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| Where does Haiti stand three years after its 7.0 earthquake? Posted: 12 Jan 2013 06:00 AM PST On Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit already deeply impoverished Haiti, killing more than 200,000 and leaving another 1.5 million in makeshift camps. It was one of the worst humanitarian disasters in years, and though the response was rapid and generous, three years and billions of dollars in aid later, hundreds of thousands are still without homes. How has aid money been spent and can Haiti 'build back better?' |
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