Indonesia lawmakers vote on fuel hike after protests
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's parliament is set to vote on a controversial fuel price hike on Friday, with a leading political party threatening to scupper the plan in a move that could undermine confidence in So
Kurds struggle for recognition in Syrian revolt
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By Khaled Yacoub Oweis ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Veteran Kurdish human rights campaigner Radeef Mustafa lived in the shadow of huge Syrian secret police compounds towering over his decrepit hometown on the border
Brazil protests counter military coup celebration
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Riot police used pepper spray and tear gas Thursday to chase protesters away from a celebration by retired soldiers marking the 1964 coup that established Brazil's long military dictatorship. Former officers have...
Canada to rid itself of the penny
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Canada has announced it is scrapping the penny. The humble one-cent piece is set to disappear from Canadian pockets, a victim of inflation. Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced in the federal budget on...
Fugitive foe of Aristide backs ex-Haiti president
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Fugitive rebel Guy Philippe made a rare public appearance Thursday and urged Haitians to seize the streets if foreigners try to arrest the president he helped topple eight years ago, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. It was an...
Venezuela poll says Hugo Chavez ahead of rival
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President Hugo Chavez has a double-digit lead over the opposition's presidential candidate, but a quarter of Venezuelan voters haven't committed to either candidate, a poll said Thursday. The survey released by the...
13 dead in Honduran prison fire amid inmate riot
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At least 13 people died during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison Thursday, one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorities said. Varying reports of local and...
Chilean youths, police clash on 'combatant day'
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Bands of hooded youths clashed with police in Chile's capital Thursday during another round of riots on what has come to be known as the "day of the combatant." Young people have been staging the violence every March...
Sentencing set for Australian fake-collar-bomber
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An Australian investment banker who chained a fake bomb to a 18-year-old woman's neck in a bizarre extortion attempt will be sentenced June 21. Paul Douglas Peters pleaded guilty this month to aggravated break and...
Bloc threatens to seal off Mali, cut off money
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Seeking to force from power the mutinous soldiers that seized control of Mali last week, the body representing countries in the region announced late Thursday that they will close all its land borders with the...
EU says Congo election "not credible"
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The European Union has concluded that the recent presidential election in Congo, which was marked by massive logistical problems, is not credible The observation mission said in its final report, which is being...
PHOTOS: Street fires, violence in Spain protest
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Protesters smashed bank and storefront windows with hammers and rocks and set fire to a cafe Thursday as economic protests in Spain's second-largest city turned violent. The riots in Barcelona broke out during a...
Clinton to meet Saudi king amid Syria, Iran tensions
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By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Saudi Arabia on Friday for talks to weigh limited options available to end the violence in Syria and launch a "strategi
U.S. mulls less-stringent controls for Taliban detainees
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By Missy Ryan and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The !a class="tagLink" href="http://townhall.com/tags/barack-obama">Obama!/a> administration has signaled a willingness to accept less-stringent contro
Israeli expulsion of Africans postponed
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An Israeli court has ordered the government to halt the planned expulsion of thousands of migrants from South Sudan. In January, the government gave the migrants until March 31 to leave or face deportation. Under...
University revokes Hungary president's doctorate
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A Hungarian university decided Thursday to revoke the doctorate of the country's president after an investigation found that large parts of his 1992 thesis were copied from other authors. Rector Tivadar Tulassay said...
US envoy wonders how Russian TV knows his schedule
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The U.S. ambassador to Russia is perplexed over how a government-controlled television station seems to know his every move and concerned that his email and phone calls may be intercepted. In a series of tweets on...
Reuters says Iran suspends staffers' accreditation
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Reuters says the Iranian government has suspended media accreditation for its staff in Tehran after the news agency published a video on women's martial-arts training that contained an error. Reuters says it had...
Iran, Turkey sharply differ on Syria
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Iranian and Turkish leaders exchanged sharply opposing views Thursday as they discussed how to deal with the crisis in Syria. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran strongly supports reforms in Syria...
Israel braces for Arab protests on Friday
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Israel on Thursday stepped up preparations a day before a series of planned Arab protests, deploying thousands of troops and police across the country and along its borders in anticipation of possible violence. On...
Former FBI director tapped as P. Rico police chief
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A former director of the FBI office based in Puerto Rico was nominated Thursday to lead the island's troubled police department, which U.S. justice officials have accused of corruption, illegal killings and civil rights...
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Honduran authorities say at least 14 dead in prison fire following riot. ...
Intrigue, treachery charges fly in fight for U.N. post
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By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Accusations of threats, Cold War-style treachery and backstage attempts by Russia to punish a former Soviet republic are turning a routine election for a high-
Sunni rulers largely shun Iraq at Arab summit
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Sunni Muslim rulers largely shunned an Arab League summit hosted by Shiite-led Iraq on Thursday, illustrating how powerfully the sectarian split and the rivalry with Iran define Middle Eastern politics in the era of the...
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West African regional bloc nations seal borders with Mali, close bank account following coup. ...
French nuclear physicist in terror trial
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An Algerian-born former nuclear physicist accused of plotting with al-Qaida's north African arm to attack a French military base or economic interests went on trial Thursday, insisting he never took any step toward...
Egypt: Islamists press generals to fire government
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-led parliament began drawing up a no-confidence motion against the military-appointed government Thursday, further escalating the Islamists' increasingly public power struggle with the...
Analysis: Springtime in Cuba?
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By David Adams HAVANA (Reuters) - This week's three-day visit to Cuba by Pope Benedict marked another milestone in the Roman Catholic Church's cautious efforts to expand its role in the communist-run island.
France bars four more Islamic preachers from entry
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By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS (Reuters) - France barred four Islamic preachers from entering the country on Thursday after banning prominent preacher Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi and another Egyptian
Chavez back in Venezuela after radiation therapy
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By Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez returned home to Venezuela on Thursday after a first session of radiation treatment in Cuba that he hopes will cure his cancer and allow him to win
Two men torch themselves in Italy as hardship bites
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ROME (Reuters) - A Moroccan worker in Italy set himself on fire on Thursday in protest at not being paid for months, a day after an Italian businessman set himself alight over a tax dispute, police said. The
Palestinians drop threat to scrap government
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Foreign diplomats say President Mahmoud Abbas has dropped a planned threat to dismantle his autonomy government to protest the deadlock in peace efforts with Israel. Abbas had been planning to deliver the threat in a...
Iran suspends accreditation for Reuters in Tehran
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Iranian government has suspended the press accreditation for Reuters staff in Tehran after the publication of a video story on women's martial arts training which contained an error. R
Syria's Assad demands rebels halt attacks
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Syria's President Bashar Assad said Thursday he will spare no effort to make U.N. envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan a success, but demanded that armed opponents battling his regime commit to halting violence. In brazen...
Iran suspends accreditation for Reuters in Tehran
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Iranian government has suspended the press accreditation for Reuters staff in Tehran after the publication of a video story on women's martial arts training which contained an error. R
French gunman buried after terror attacks
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The gunman who claimed responsibility for France's worst terror attacks in years was buried Thursday in a Toulouse cemetery, ending a tortured debate over what to do with the body of a man the president called a...
1 killed by sect in north Nigeria police attack
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Authorities in Nigeria say one police officer has been killed when gunmen from a radical Islamist sect attacked a rural police station to free a detained adherent of the group. Yobe state police commissioner Emmanuel...
Russian bill would impose fines for gay "propaganda"
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By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers have submitted a bill that would impose fines for spreading gay "propaganda" among minors, setting up a tolerance test for the Kremlin-controlled parli
Analysis: Drug gang menace overshadows Mexican election
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By Dave Graham and Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A month after taking office, President Felipe Calderon stood in military fatigues before a group of soldiers in western Mexico and pledged to put a sto
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French gunman who claimed 7 killings and was shot by police has been buried in Toulouse. ...
NATO failure led to Libya migrants' sea deaths: report
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Council of Europe has found NATO largely responsible for the deaths last year of 63 Libyan migrants whose boat was left to drift at sea unaided, and warned that those to blame could face le
Mexico's president says he may be consultant
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President Felipe Calderon says he might work as a legal or political consultant after he leaves office on Dec. 1. The 49-year-old, Harvard-educated Calderon says he has had some offers to teach at foreign universities,...
NATO: Member nations should share military systems
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Two F-4 Phantom jet fighters under NATO control streaked off the runway at a former Soviet air base in Lithuania this week in response to a report that an aircraft had lost communications as it neared Finnish airspace. ...
German think tank says it's forced out of UAE
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A pro-democracy think tank with links to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party said Thursday it is closing its office in Abu Dhabi after officials there ordered that it end its activities in the United Arab Emirates. ...
AP Exclusive: Nigeria ex-militant linked to bid
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A former militant leader in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta is linked to a private security company that signed a $103 million deal with the government to patrol the West African nation's waterways against pirates,...
Seychelles: 17 jailed pirates move to Somaliland
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The Seychelles government has transferred 17 convicted Somali pirates to prisons in Somaliland because of overcrowding in its prisons, official said Thursday. Seychelles Minister of Home Affairs and Transport Joel...
Analysis: Storm clouds gather over Monti's Italy reform drive
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By Barry Moody ROME (Reuters) - Storm clouds are gathering over Mario Monti's efforts to transform the Italian economy, with his approval ratings dropping, mounting protests against his reforms and a damagin
Report: No foul play in Zimbabwe general's death
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An inquest has ruled there was no foul play in the death of a top power broker in President Robert Mugabe's party, though many in Zimbabwe suspect that Gen. Solomon Mujuru was murdered. The 66-year-old former army...
Rumors roil Haiti amid political uncertainty
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One senator warned of a panic. Another said things were going to be hot. Neither gave any details, but that didn't matter: Within minutes of their comments on the radio, hundreds of shops closed, schools canceled...
Turkish prosecutors seek jail for 364 officers
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By Ece Toksabay SILIVRI, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish prosecutors demanded 15-20 year jail sentences for 364 serving and retired military officers at a coup plot trial on Thursday, marking a dark day for a mil