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| Gunman kills three and himself at Wisconsin salon Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 07:31 PM PDT  MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at the suburban Milwaukee beauty salon where his spouse worked on Sunday, killing three people and wounding four others before taking his own life, police said, two weeks after he was accused of slashing his wife's car tires. The suspect was identified as 45-year-old Radcliffe Haughton, a resident of Brown Deer, Wisconsin, who had been placed under a restraining order and directed to surrender his firearms to local authorities this month in connection with a domestic abuse case involving his wife. ... Full Story | Top |
| Protesters break into grounds of Libya's parliament Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 05:57 PM PDT  TRIPOLI (Reuters) - About 500 protesters broke into the grounds of Libya's parliament building on Sunday to demand an end to violence in Bani Walid, a former stronghold of the late Muammar Gaddafi that is being shelled by militiamen from a rival town. Militias, many from Misrata and aligned with the Defence Ministry, have been shelling the hilltop town of 70,000 people for several days. State news agency LANA said on Sunday that 22 people had been killed and 200 wounded in the fighting. ... Full Story | Top |
| Clashes break out in Beirut after slain official's funeral Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 05:53 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Gunmen exchanged fire in southern districts of Beirut overnight after the state funeral of an assassinated Lebanese intelligence chief ended in violence when angry mourners broke away and tried to storm the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati. Sunday's clashes fed into a growing political crisis in Lebanon linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria. Opposition leaders and their supporters accuse Syria of being behind the car bombing that killed Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan on Friday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Emir of Qatar to be first head of state to visit Gaza Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 04:51 PM PDT GAZA (Reuters) - The emir of pro-Western Qatar will become the first head of state to enter the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in a high-profile visit breaking the isolation of the Iranian-backed Islamist movement Hamas that seized power in 2007. Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani is officially visiting the Palestinian enclave to inaugurate reconstruction projects worth over $250 million, which an envoy of his oil-rich, conservative Arab emirate unveiled in Gaza last week. But his trip will be loaded with political symbolism. ... Full Story | Top |
| Spain's Rajoy gets mixed message in regional votes Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 04:27 PM PDT  MADRID, Spain (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was given a boost for his austerity drive with an election victory in his home region of Galicia on Sunday, but wins for nationalist parties in the Basque Country could prove a headache for his centre-right government. The election in Galicia, where austerity steps were taken by the People's Party even before Rajoy took national office one year ago, had been seen as a referendum on the Spanish government's handling of the euro zone crisis. ... Full Story | Top |
| UK's Cameron to fight back on crime after grim week Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 04:02 PM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron will seek to draw a line under a torrid period for his Conservative Party on Monday, promising a "tough but intelligent" approach to crime that supporters hope will steady the government after a series of blunders. In his first major speech on crime since his coalition took power in 2010, Cameron will call for long sentences for the worst criminals and rehabilitation and education for others to cut reoffending, according to advance extracts. Agencies helping to rehabilitate offenders should be paid by results, he will say. ... Full Story | Top |
| Friendly Thailand stares down the barrel of rising gun crime Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 03:58 PM PDT  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Twenty schoolchildren surround a city bus in central Bangkok. Some get on to confront a 16-year-old from a rival school and, within moments, he is shot dead. Similar altercations have become a focus of public attention, with shootings affecting seemingly ordinary folk. In one incident at a busy intersection, a computer repairman shot dead two people and took a third hostage. Witnesses said it resembled a scene from a Hollywood blockbuster. ... Full Story | Top |
| Gunfire in southern Beirut, ambulances heard Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 03:37 PM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Gunmen armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades exchanged fire in southern districts of Lebanon's capital Beirut on Sunday night, security sources said, and residents could also hear the sound of ambulance sirens. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the clashes, which occurred after angry mourners tried to storm government offices in the centre of Beirut at the end of the funeral of an intelligence official assassinated on Friday. (Editing by Ralph Gowling) Full Story | Top |
| Suspect in mass shooting in suburban Milwaukee found dead, police say Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 03:34 PM PDT  MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - The lone suspect in a mass shooting at a spa in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene, Brookfield police said. The suspected gunman was identified as 45-year-old Radcliffe Haughton, a resident of Brown Deer, Wisconsin. The shooting incident at the Azana Salon & Spa in Brookfield left at least three people dead and four others injured, according to authorities, but it was not immediately clear whether Haughton was being counted as among the victims. ... Full Story | Top |
| Police in Kuwait teargas opposition protesters Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 03:09 PM PDT KUWAIT (Reuters) - Police in Kuwait used teargas, stun grenades and baton charges on Sunday to disperse tens of thousands of demonstrators protesting against changes to the electoral law which the opposition has called a constitutional coup by the government. Demonstrators gathered in various parts of the capital, Kuwait City, to march towards the government's headquarters, but riot police swiftly surrounded some groups and used teargas and stun grenades to disperse them, Reuters witnesses said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ghana says sailors on seized Argentine ship free to leave Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 03:06 PM PDT  ACCRA (Reuters) - The crew of an Argentine naval training vessel impounded in Ghana by a firm seeking to claw back $300 million in defaulted bonds are free to leave the country, a government official said on Sunday. The ARA Libertad and its crew have been detained in Ghana's port of Tema since October 2 by a court order obtained by NML Capital Ltd in a dispute which has strained relations between the west African country and Argentina. "They are free to leave after going through the standard immigration process," a senior government official told Reuters, asking not to be named. ... Full Story | Top |
| Germany backs "special" Ireland on bank deal Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 02:49 PM PDT  DUBLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny issued a joint statement on Sunday reaffirming that euro zone leaders would examine ways of improving Ireland's bank rescue, recognizing that it is a "special case". Kenny has come under intense pressure at home since Merkel said on Friday that euro zone banks could not be retrospectively recapitalized via the bloc's bailout fund, appearing to dash Irish hopes of getting a wide deal on its banking debt. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jordan foils Qaeda plot, arrests 11 militants: state TV Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 02:13 PM PDT  AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan has foiled a plot by an al Qaeda-linked cell to bomb its shopping centres and assassinate Western diplomats, state television said on Sunday, thwarting an attempt to destabilize the key U.S. ally. Security forces had detained 11 suspects, all Jordanians, in connection with the plot, which envisaged carrying out attacks in the capital Amman using smuggled weapons and explosives from Syria, according to security officials cited by television. The plot had been active since June. ... Full Story | Top |
| China cabinet seeks ambitious economic reform agenda: advisers Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 02:10 PM PDT  BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top leaders have asked policy think-tanks to draw up their most ambitious economic reform proposals in decades that could curb the power of state firms and give more freedom to the setting of interest rates and the yuan currency. But after almost 10 years of delay to painful structural reforms by the outgoing leadership, some of the authors of the proposals told Reuters they fear a nascent rebound in economic growth could derail the recommended agenda. ... Full Story | Top |
| Netanyahu says doesn't know of any U.S.-Iran talks Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 01:39 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he didn't know about any U.S. plans to talk bilaterally with Iran, saying tougher sanctions and a "credible military option" were the best ways to peacefully halt Tehran's nuclear program. The White House had earlier denied a New York Times report that Washington and Tehran had agreed in principle to hold bilateral negotiations to halt what the West fears is a plan by the Islamic Republic to develop nuclear weapons. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis : Killing of security chief raises fears for Lebanon Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 01:32 PM PDT  BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Beirut car bomb that killed a top Lebanese security official will probably prove to be the most destabilizing attack in Lebanon since the 2005 assassination of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri. What is less clear - and this is something that instills fear in a society still scarred by its 1975-90 civil war - is whether the attack was a reprisal or the start of a campaign of violence by Damascus and its allies, suspected by many Lebanese of trying to spread Syria's conflict across its borders. ... Full Story | Top |
| Israel swaps missile drills for earthquake rehearsal Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 12:30 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel dropped its annual simulation of a missile attack and held its first major earthquake drill on Sunday instead, but officials insisted the country remained as ready as ever for the possibility of a war with arch-foe Iran. School children, civil servants and others participating in the "Turning Point 6" exercise were urged to flee outdoors if possible as radio and TV channels broadcast tremor alerts. In previous years, people were told to go to household bomb shelters in order to flee an imaginary missile attack. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fidel Castro alive and well: Chavez aide Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 12:21 PM PDT  HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is alive and well, according to Elias Jaua, a former Venezuelan vice president who says he met with Castro over the weekend. Squelching rumors that Castro was at death's door, Jaua, a key aide to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on Sunday showed reporters pictures of the Saturday meeting and said Castro, 86, was in good health and lucid. Jaua, who is running for governor in Venezuela's contested state of Miranda, said Castro accompanied him to Havana's famed Hotel National early on Saturday evening after their meeting. ... Full Story | Top |
| Drone kills three in Yemen's Maareb Province Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 11:02 AM PDT SANAA (Reuters) - Three men thought to be al Qaeda militants were killed in an apparent U.S. drone attack on a car in Yemen on Sunday, tribal sources and local officials said. The men's car was driving through the south-eastern province of Maareb, a mostly desert region where militants have taken refuge after being driven from southern strongholds. Yemen, where al Qaeda militants exploited a security vacuum during last year's uprising that ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh, has seen an intensified campaign of U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Clinton speaks to Lebanon PM, agrees to aid bomb probe Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 10:51 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikhail on Sunday to reiterate U.S. condemnation of Friday's deadly car bombing in Beirut, and the two agreed that Washington would help investigate the attack. In a phone call with Mikati, Clinton called the attack that killed intelligence chief Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan and others "heinous" and offered condolences, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Police fire teargas at opposition protesters in Kuwait Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 10:44 AM PDT KUWAIT (Reuters) - Police in Kuwait used teargas and stun grenades on Sunday to disperse demonstrators as thousands marched in a protest against changes to the electoral law which the opposition has called a constitutional coup by the government, Reuters witnesses said. Demonstrators had gathered in various parts of the capital, Kuwait City, to march towards the government's headquarters. Riot police surrounded some groups, gave them a few minutes to disperse, and then used teargas and stun grenades against them, witnesses said. Several people were injured. ... Full Story | Top |
| Assad tells Syria envoy arms flows to rebels must stop Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 10:36 AM PDT  DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A car bomb killed 13 people in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad told an international mediator seeking a truce in Syria's civil war that the key to any political solution was to stop arming rebels. The bomb exploded outside a police station in the mainly Christian central Bab Touma district of the capital while Assad held talks with United Nations-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who is pushing for a temporary ceasefire to mark the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. ... Full Story | Top |
| Slain official's funeral ends in Beirut violence Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 10:14 AM PDT  BEIRUT (Reuters) - The state funeral in Beirut of an assassinated Lebanese intelligence chief ended in violence on Sunday as angry mourners broke away and tried to storm the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, prompting security forces to shoot in the air and fire tear gas to repulse them. The clashes fed into a growing political crisis in Lebanon linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria. ... Full Story | Top |
| George McGovern, 1972 White House hopeful, dies aged 90 Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 10:03 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator George McGovern, a liberal Democrat and fierce opponent of the Vietnam War whose 1972 presidential race against Richard Nixon led to one of the worst electoral defeats in U.S. history, died on Sunday at the age of 90, his family said. The McGovern family said he died Sunday morning at Dougherty Hospice House in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, surrounded by family and friends. He had suffered from a combination of medical conditions due to age that had worsened in recent months. ... Full Story | Top |
| Headscarf debate highlights Russian Muslims' grievances Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 10:00 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - A ban on girls wearing the Islamic headscarf to a school in southern Russia has angered Muslims and forced President Vladimir Putin, who has robustly defended the Orthodox Church, to affirm that Russia is a secular state. Muslims in the town of Kara Tyube in the Stavropol region say the ban on the hijab at School No. 12 forces their children to choose between their religion and a state education. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bahrain detains seven over killing of policeman Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 08:55 AM PDT  ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Seven people in Bahrain have been detained over the killing of a policeman last week, the Gulf Arab kingdom's government said on Sunday, as activists tried to break through police checkpoints around the village where he lost his life. Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, has been convulsed by unrest since February last year following mass demonstrations led by majority Shi'ites demanding democratic change in the Sunni-led monarchy. ... Full Story | Top |
| Timeline: Political turmoil and violence in Lebanon since 2005 Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 07:49 AM PDT (Reuters) - Here is a look back at events in Lebanon after the country buried slain intelligence officer Wissam al-Hassan amid violent clashes between protesters who want Prime Minister Najib Mikati to quit and security forces. Hassan led the investigation into the 2005 bombing which killed former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri: February 2005 - Rafik al-Hariri, the former premier, is killed, with around 21 others, by a truck bomb in Beirut, piling pressure on Syria to end its 29-year military presence in Lebanon. The last Syrian soldiers leave Lebanon on April 26. ... Full Story | Top |
| Protesters storm parliament grounds over Bani Walid violence Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 07:34 AM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - About 200 people stormed the grounds of Libya's parliament building on Sunday demanding an end to violence in Bani Walid, a former stronghold of Muammar Gaddafi. A feud between two towns that demonstrates the country's deep divisions a year after the veteran leader was killed has been raging all week. (Reporting By Ali Shuaib; Writing By Hadeel Al-Shalchi; Editing by Janet Lawrence) Full Story | Top |
| Voters in Iceland back new constitution, more resource control Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 07:29 AM PDT REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Residents of Iceland have voted for their constitution to be rewritten in the wake of the 2008 banking crisis, electing to take greater control of natural resources such as fish and geothermal energy, results of a referendum showed on Sunday. The collapse of the island's heavily indebted banks led to demands for change after accusations of cronyism between the political elite and business. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lebanon's Hariri urges supporters to leave streets Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 07:09 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's opposition leader Saad al-Hariri urged supporters to pull back after protesters tried to storm the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, calling for him to quit. "We want peace, the government should fall but we want that in a peaceful way. I call on all those who are in the streets to pull back," Hariri told supporters through Future Television channel. Former Prime Minister Fouad al-Siniora, who is from Hariri's party, said "any attempts to storm the Saray (government offices) is unacceptable." (Reporting by Mariam Karouny) Full Story | Top |
| Heavy gunfire heard in central Beirut Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 06:44 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Heavy gunfire erupted in central Beirut on Sunday after protesters tried to storm the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, demanding that he quit over the assassination of a top intelligence official. An official said security forces had fired in the air. Witnesses said at least two protesters had fainted, apparently as a result of tear gas fired by security forces after protesters breached an outer barrier around the prime minister's offices. ... Full Story | Top |
| Iran, like U.S., denies plan for one-on-one nuclear talks Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 06:32 AM PDT  DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran followed the United States on Sunday in denying that the two countries had scheduled direct bilateral negotiations on Iran's controversial nuclear program. The New York Times, quoting unnamed U.S. administration officials, had said on Saturday that secret exchanges between U.S. and Iranian officials had yielded agreement "in principle" to hold one-on-one talks. "We don't have any discussions or negotiations with America," Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told a news conference. "The (nuclear) talks are ongoing with the P5+1 group of nations. ... Full Story | Top |
| Angry mourners march on Lebanon PM office, demand he quit Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 06:30 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Angry mourners marched on Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati's offices in central Beirut on Sunday, breaking through an outer security barrier and scuffling with police who fired tear gas in response. "Mikati leave, get out," chanted hundreds of protesters following the funeral of a slain intelligence chief. They also chanted slogans against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who they accused of being behind the killing of Wissam al-Hassan. (Reporting by Mariam Karouny) Full Story | Top |
| Six killed in failed Guinea-Bissau "counter-coup" Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 06:29 AM PDT BISSAU (Reuters) - Six people were killed in a gun battle at an airforce base near Guinea-Bissau's capital early on Sunday in what diplomatic sources described as an apparent failed counter-coup attempt. The tiny former Portuguese colony on Africa's west coast is in the midst of a messy recovery after the army overthrew the government in April, derailing elections midstream, and diplomatic and military sources said the violence may have been orchestrated by supporters of the self-exiled former premier. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lebanese opposition rejects dialogue, wants PM to resign Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 06:20 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's opposition said on Sunday it rejected any dialogue to overcome the political crisis caused by the assassination of an intelligence chief unless the government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigns. "No talks before the government leaves, no dialogue over the blood of our martyrs," former prime minister Fouad al-Siniora told thousands of mourners at the funeral of Wissam al-Hassan. (Reporting by Mariam Karouny; Editing by Janet Lawrence) Full Story | Top |
| Bashir had throat surgery in Qatar, in good health: official Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 06:18 AM PDT  KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's veteran President Omar Hassan al-Bashir had a minor operation on his vocal cords in Qatar in August but otherwise is in good health, a government official said on Sunday. Sudanese newspapers and blogs have begun speculating about the health of Bashir, 68, who has been ruling the Arab African country for 23 years. He has been holding fewer public rallies, where he performs a famous dance with his walking stick, in the past months. ... Full Story | Top |
| Vatican names seven saints including first Native American Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 06:04 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict created seven new saints on Sunday including the first Native American to be canonized, as the Roman Catholic Church reaches out to its global flock to rebuff encroaching secularism. The celebration of figures who had suffered to promote the faith comes as the Church begins a drive to reclaim flagging congregations in former strongholds in the face of sex abuse scandals and dissent against Church teachings. Thousands of pilgrims from around the world converged on St. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insight: Murky deals cast doubt over Nigeria's power sell-off Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 05:57 AM PDT ABUJA (Reuters) - For decades Nigeria has failed to fix chronic electricity shortages that stifle growth and help keep millions in poverty. That is about change, the government says, when most of the power sector is privatized by the end of the year. Its target is to increase electricity output tenfold to 40,000 megawatts by 2020. Turning on the lights in a country where power cuts are a daily ordeal could push Nigeria's growth into double digits and help diversify its economy away from oil, which in 50 years has created a super-rich elite but has done little to reduce mass poverty. ... Full Story | Top |
| Six killed in Guinea Bissau firefight: sources Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 05:20 AM PDT BISSAU (Reuters) - Six people were killed in a gunbattle near Guinea-Bissau's capital overnight in an apparent counter-coup attempt, sources said on Sunday. The West African state, a hub for international cocaine traffickers, is in the midst of a messy recovery after the army overthrew the government and derailed elections in April. "It appears to have been a failed counter-coup," one diplomatic source said of the fighting, asking not to be named. "The military is checking vehicles around Bissau, mostly vehicles that are leaving," he said. ... Full Story | Top |
| British PM Cameron on ropes after "catastrophic" week Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 04:54 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is under pressure to reassert his authority over a Conservative Party reeling after a week which saw the resignation of a senior minister and claims of incompetence and elitism at the heart of his government. After one of the most bruising weeks for the centre-right party since it took power in a coalition in 2010, the Conservatives have slipped further behind their Labour rivals, polls showed on Sunday. The next election is due in 2015. ... Full Story | Top |
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