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    • Iran may prepare to boost nuclear work - diplomats

      Reuters - 19 minutes ago

      VIENNA (Reuters) - A U.N. watchdog report is expected to show that Iran has installed more uranium enrichment centrifuges at an underground site, potentially boosting the output capacity of nuclear work major powers want it to stop, Western diplomatic sources say. Two sources said Iran may have placed in position nearly 350 machines since February - in addition to the almost 700 already operating at the Fordow facility for higher-grade enrichment - but that they were not yet being used to refine uranium. If confirmed in the next quarterly report on Iran's nuclear programme by the U.N. ... More »Iran may prepare to boost nuclear work - diplomats

    • Myanmar police move against spreading power protests

      Reuters - 20 minutes ago

      YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar police broke up a protest against power cuts by several hundred people in the town of Pyi on Thursday and briefly held five people for questioning, including a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's party, party officials said. Several members of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) were also detained for questioning in the early hours in the city of Mandalay, where protests over electricity outages first started on Sunday. ... More »Myanmar police move against spreading power protests

    • U.S. should respect decision to imprison doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden - Pakistan

      Reuters - 21 minutes ago

      ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States should respect a Pakistan court's decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday. "I think as far as the case of Mr. Afridi is concerned, it was in accordance with Pakistani laws and by the Pakistani courts, and we need to respect each other's legal processes," Moazzam Ali Khan told reporters. (Reporting by Rebecca Conway; Writing by Qasim Nauman) More »U.S. should respect decision to imprison doctor who helped CIA find bin Laden - Pakistan

    • Iran talks with world powers hit snag over sanctions

      Reuters - 52 minutes ago

      BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iran accused world powers on Wednesday of creating "a difficult atmosphere" that hindered talks on its atomic energy programme, signalling a snag in diplomacy to defuse fears of a covert Iranian bid to develop nuclear bombs. The nub of the dispute was not immediately clear as the Baghdad talks entered a second day. But Iran had served notice that it wanted immediate relief from economic sanctions as part of any deal to scale back uranium enrichment, whereas Western powers insisted Tehran must first rein in its activity. ... More »Iran talks with world powers hit snag over sanctions

    • Human rights crimes still taking place in Syria - UN

      Reuters - 1 hour 31 minutes ago

      GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and opposition fighters are committing gross human rights violations despite a six-week-old ceasefire in the conflict and children are often the victims, United Nations investigators said in a report on Thursday. Syrian army and security services committed most of the crimes documented since March, including heavy shelling of residential areas and executions, it said. Armed rebels executed or tortured captured soldiers and pro-government supporters, and abducted civilians in an apparent bid to secure prison exchanges or ransoms, it said. ... More »Human rights crimes still taking place in Syria - UN

    • Afghans say kidnapped aid workers in mountains, talks begin

      Reuters - 1 hour 32 minutes ago

      KABUL (Reuters) - Gunmen in Afghanistan are demanding money for the release of five aid workers, including two Western women doctors, held in remote mountains and authorities have opened negotiations in the hope of freeing them, an investigator said on Thursday. The aid workers employed by Swiss-based aid group Medair were making their way from Faizabad city in rugged northeast Badakhshan province on Tuesday to visit flood-stricken areas when they were abducted about half-way to their destination. ... More »Afghans say kidnapped aid workers in mountains, talks begin

    • Brother of blind China activist flees village

      Reuters - 2 hours 14 minutes ago

      BEIJING (Reuters) - The brother of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has fled his village in northeastern China, evading a security clampdown to seek help from lawyers for his son who has been detained in a case that has become a rallying point among rights activists. Chen Guangfu, the eldest brother of Chen Guangcheng, told Reuters that he walked out of his home in Shandong province at 3 a.m. (0700 GMT) on Tuesday, eluding the increased number of sentries near his village by avoiding roads and running through fields. He arrived in Beijing on Wednesday evening after a six-hour journey by car. ... More »Brother of blind China activist flees village

    • Romney opens new front vs Obama: schools are failing

      Reuters - 2 hours 39 minutes ago

      WASHINGTON/REDWOOD CITY, California (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney opened a new front on Wednesday in his fight against President Barack Obama, accusing him of presiding over a failing U.S. education system in the grip of union bosses who refuse to accept reforms. In a rare diversion from his campaign focus on the weak U.S. economy, Romney laid out an education plan in a speech that represented his most overt appeal to date to Hispanic voters who have largely sided with the Democratic incumbent. ... More »Romney opens new front vs Obama: schools are failing

    • Anti-African street violence surges in Israel

      Reuters - 2 hours 40 minutes ago

      JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Surging street violence against African migrants, including a rampage that an Israeli broadcaster dubbed a "pogrom", drew empathy for the rioters from the interior minister on Thursday. Waving Israeli flags and chanting "Deport the Sudanese", residents of a low-income Tel Aviv neighbourhood where many of the border-jumpers from Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan live held a march late Wednesday that turned violent. Police said 20 people were arrested for assault and vandalism. ... More »Anti-African street violence surges in Israel

    • Child addicts at heart of Indonesia anti-smoking suit

      Reuters - 2 hours 51 minutes ago

      KARAWANG GIRANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Anti-tobacco advocates in Indonesia plan to file a class action lawsuit this month using cases of child addicts in the hope of forcing tougher regulations on a society where one in three people smokes. It is a rare attempt of its kind to constrain a tobacco industry which looks to the world's fourth most populous country and its growing appetite for cigarettes to replace dwindling sales elsewhere. The suit against tobacco companies and the Indonesian government argues that feeble regulation has left children dangerously exposed to the risks of smoking. ... More »Child addicts at heart of Indonesia anti-smoking suit

    • Iran nuclear talks enter second day

      Reuters - 3 hours ago

      BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Talks resumed on Thursday between Iran and world powers about a nuclear programme that the West suspects is aimed at nuclear bomb research. A first day of discussions showed a "fair amount of disagreement" but also areas of common ground, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, adding: "I believe we have the beginning of a negotiation." Talks got under way again on Thursday morning, a diplomat said. Both sides have been publicly upbeat about the scope for an outline deal following a 15-month diplomatic freeze and exploratory talks in Istanbul last month. ... More »Iran nuclear talks enter second day

    • Raul Castro daughter lauds Obama gay marriage stance

      Reuters - 3 hours ago

      SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro's daughter Mariela said on Wednesday she was surprised by the warm welcome she received on arrival in the United States and was heartened by President Barack Obama's support for same-sex marriage. Sexologist Mariela Castro, 50, heads the communist island nation's National Center for Sex Education and is an outspoken gay rights advocate. She is reputed to have used her influence to persuade Cuba to grant certain rights to gay communities. ... More »Raul Castro daughter lauds Obama gay marriage stance

    • South Africa's new security laws: who will they protect?

      Reuters - 3 hours ago

      JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Concerns are growing in South Africa that new laws on intelligence, security and graft-busting may end up protecting the political elite more than the nation. President Jacob Zuma's ANC government has proposed three measures - two revisions to apartheid-era intelligence bills and a third on oversight of the police's anti-graft unit, the Hawks - that have prompted concern data may be suppressed. ... More »South Africa's new security laws: who will they protect?

    • INSIGHT - Iran's "Great Game" in Afghanistan

      Reuters - 3 hours ago

      KABUL (Reuters) - With most foreign combat troops set to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014, Iran is is using the media in the war-ravaged nation to gain influence, a worrying issue for Washington. Nearly a third of Afghanistan's media is backed by Iran, either financially or through providing content, Afghan officials and media groups say. "What Iran wants, what they are striving at, is a power base in Afghanistan that can counter American influence," said a senior government official, who like others for this report, spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. ... More »INSIGHT - Iran's "Great Game" in Afghanistan

    • Obama defends foreign policy record against Republicans

      Reuters - 3 hours ago

      COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday staunchly defended his foreign policy record against Republican election-year criticism that he has overseen a decline in American power in the world. Addressing graduates of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Obama touted his decisions to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq, wind down the war in Afghanistan and order the raid that killed Osama bin Laden - a record his campaign hopes will temper voter discontent about a still fragile economy. "For a decade, we have labored under the dark cloud of war. ... More »Obama defends foreign policy record against Republicans

    • Tokyo 2020 bid symbol of recovery - PM

      Reuters - 4 hours ago

      TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Thursday that staging the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo would symbolise the country's recovery from last year's deadly tsunami after the city made the International Olympic Committee (IOC) short-list. The race to host the 2020 Games was whittled down to Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul after Doha and the Azerbaijan capital Baku were dropped by the IOC in Quebec City on Wednesday. The IOC will choose the 2020 host city in Buenos Aires in September 2013. "It is a true honour for Tokyo to be accepted," said Noda. ... More »Tokyo 2020 bid symbol of recovery - PM

    • Iran may prepare to boost nuclear work - diplomats

      Reuters - 4 hours ago

      VIENNA (Reuters) - A U.N. watchdog report is expected to show that Iran has installed more uranium enrichment centrifuges at an underground site, potentially boosting output capacity of nuclear work major powers want it to stop, Western diplomatic sources say. Two sources said the Islamic state may have placed in position nearly 350 machines since February - in addition to the almost 700 centrifuges already operating at the Fordow facility - but that they were not yet being used to refine uranium. If confirmed in the next quarterly report on Iran's nuclear programme by the U.N. ... More »Iran may prepare to boost nuclear work - diplomats

    • Suu Kyi to make first trip out of Myanmar in 24 years - party

      Reuters - 5 hours ago

      YANGON (Reuters) - Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years next week to deliver a speech at an international forum in Thailand, her party said on Thursday. Her decision to venture outside the country she had only expected to return to temporarily in 1988 comes after a year of dramatic change in Myanmar after almost a half century of military rule. Suu Kyi, 66, won a parliamentary seat in April after engaging with the reformist rulers once part of the junta that locked her up for 15 years for her fight against ... More »Suu Kyi to make first trip out of Myanmar in 24 years - party

    • Bud nears hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast - NHC

      Reuters - 5 hours ago

      MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tropical storm Bud is close to becoming a hurricane off Mexico's southwestern Pacific coast, where the government has issued a storm warning, the National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday. Located about 410 miles (655 km) southwest of the major Pacific port of Manzanillo, Bud is moving northward at around 6 mph (9 km/h) with maximum sustained winds reaching almost 70 mph (110 km/h) and stronger gusts, the Miami-based center said. Bud should become a hurricane on Thursday and start weakening by Friday, the center said. ... More »Bud nears hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast - NHC

    • U.S. drone strike kills 10 in northwest Pakistan - officials

      Reuters - 5 hours ago

      MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike on suspected Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan killed 10 people on Thursday, Pakistani intelligence officials said, an attack likely to raise tensions in a standoff with Washington over NATO supply routes to Afghanistan. The pilotless drone aircraft attacked a compound in a village in North Waziristan, a day after a similar attack killed four suspected militants in the same region. "The drone fired two missiles at the compound. We believe it was being used by militants," one of the Pakistani officials said. ... More »U.S. drone strike kills 10 in northwest Pakistan - officials

    • Divided Syrian opposition to choose new leader

      Reuters - 6 hours ago

      AMMAN (Reuters) - The main Syrian National Council opposition group said it had accepted the resignation of its president, setting the stage for a showdown between the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and its political rivals over who will be the new leader. The internal conflicts have come to a head over the position held by Burhan Ghalioun, a secular sociologist backed by the Brotherhood, who offered to step down as leader of the 313-member council last week if a replacement could be found. ... More »Divided Syrian opposition to choose new leader

    • Winds, heat hamper fight to contain U.S. Southwest wildfires

      Reuters - 6 hours ago

      LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Fire crews hampered by wind gusts and the driest conditions in two decades in the U.S. Southwest made slow gains on Wednesday battling dangerous forest and brush fires, including a wildfire in Nevada that doubled in size overnight and destroyed 17 buildings and two homes. Blazes in rugged, mountainous areas of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah have forced the evacuation of several small towns and torched more than 85 square miles (220 square km) of forest, brush and grass in the past two weeks. ... More »Winds, heat hamper fight to contain U.S. Southwest wildfires

    • Chinese couple bury woman alive, sparking outrage

      Reuters - 6 hours ago

      BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested a young couple who buried an old woman alive believing she was dead after their car hit the 68-year-old, newspapers said on Thursday, in a case which has sparked outrage over declining public morality. The couple had been at an all-night karaoke session when they hit the woman while driving in the early hours of the morning in the wealthy eastern province of Zhejiang last month, the official China Daily said. "A witness said he heard someone crying and saw an elderly woman lying on the ground near (the car)," it cited a policeman as saying. ... More »Chinese couple bury woman alive, sparking outrage

    • Nuclear sub catches fire in Maine Naval shipyard

      Reuters - 6 hours ago

      BOSTON (Reuters) - Fire broke out on Wednesday evening on a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine docked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine, injuring four firefighters, officials said. The cause of the fire is not yet known, but the vessel's nuclear reactor was not involved. There were no weapons aboard the sub, which is at the shipyard for system upgrades and maintenance. The fire started in the "forward compartment" of the U.S.S. Miami, an attack submarine docked at the Kittery, Maine, shipyard shortly before 6 p.m. ET Firefighters were still battling the blaze after 10 p.m. ... More »Nuclear sub catches fire in Maine Naval shipyard

    • Police say 16-year-old shot eight outside NBA game

      Reuters - 7 hours ago

      OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A 16-year-old boy is in custody and suspected of opening fire after an NBA game on Monday, injuring eight people who had gathered outside an arena to watch the Oklahoma City Thunder play the Los Angeles Lakers, police said on Wednesday. The police said they expect to file charges against the youth of shooting with intent to kill the eight victims, after filing an affidavit in court on Wednesday detailing the evidence against the boy. The Daily Oklahoman newspaper reported on Wednesday that the boy confessed to the shooting, but that could not immediately be confirmed. ... More »Police say 16-year-old shot eight outside NBA game

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