Alleged drug lord's trial starts in Venezuela
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The trial of alleged drug lord Walid Makled began Monday in Venezuela, where he is accused of money laundering, drug smuggling and murder. Journalists were not permitted inside the courtroom, but Rafael Ojeda, an...
Costa Rican diplomat kidnapped in Venezuela
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A diplomat from the Costa Rican Embassy in Venezuela has been kidnapped and his abductors are demanding a ransom, officials said Monday. Guillermo Cholele, the embassy's trade attache, is the latest diplomat to have...
US repatriates remains of Vietnam War serviceman
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U.S. officials have sent what are believed to be the remains of an American serviceman killed during the Vietnam War to the United States for identification. Spokesman Ron Ward of the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting...
South Korea says North preparing for nuclear test
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Recent satellite images show North Korea is digging a new tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third nuclear test, according to South Korean intelligence officials. The excavation at North Korea's northeast...
Alleged drug lord's trial starts in Venezuela
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The trial of alleged drug lord Walid Makled began Monday in Venezuela, where he is accused of money laundering, drug smuggling and murder. Journalists were not permitted inside the courtroom, but Rafael Ojeda, an...
Costa Rica diplomat is latest Venezuela kidnap victim
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By Mario Naranjo and Daniel Wallis CARACAS (Reuters) - Gunmen have kidnapped a Costa Rican diplomat and are holding him for ransom in the latest high-profile abduction to rock crime-plagued Venezuela during
U.S. should lead to end World Bank tradition: Nigerian finance minister
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By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States should take the lead and break the long tradition of an American always heading the World Bank, Nigerian finance minister and a nominee for the to
China, between a rocket and a hard place on North Korea
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By Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING (Reuters) - A joke circulating among officials in Beijing pretty much underlines the bind China is in over North Korea's plans to send a satellite into space. North Korea'
China rights lawyer jailed for 2 years, 8 months
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court sentenced a disabled lawyer renowned for defending people evicted from their homes to two years and eight months in prison on Tuesday for causing a disturbance and fraud, Beijing
Japan says contingency plans for atomic accidents due soon
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government will soon announce contingency plans for dealing with atomic accidents to ease public concerns about restarting reactors closed since the Fukushima crisis last year, Trade Minis
Mali junta leader doesn't want foreign forces
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The head of Mali's military junta made clear Monday that he would have a powerful say over how the country is run in the weeks ahead, and does not want foreign forces helping reclaim the country's north from rebels who...
Suspected rebels seize workers in Peru's jungle
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Suspected Shining Path rebels abducted 30 Peruvian employees of the Swedish construction company Skanska on Monday at a natural gas plant in the Amazon jungle and later released all but seven, police said. The...
Mexico's ruling party changes campaign strategy
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The candidate of Mexico's ruling party retooled her presidential campaign on Monday, promising a more aggressive strategy to win undecided voters and adding new members to her campaign team following a series of...
Egypt presidential rivals share secretive past
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By Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - They sit at opposite ends of Egypt's political spectrum and one of them was jailed by a government in which the other was chief of intelligence. Now they both want to be presid
Mexico's ruling party closes ranks around candidate
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By Mica Rosenberg MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling party overhauled its candidate's struggling presidential campaign on Monday, unveiling a new team and promising a more aggressive strategy to woo und
Mexico: Social workers, police ambushed, 3 dead
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Authorities say two government workers and the police officer escorting them have been killed in a shootout with gunmen who apparently tried to rob money used for a social welfare program in the southern Mexican state...
Mexico's Pena Nieto plans new police to fight drug gangs
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By Anahi Rama and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto pledged on Monday to create a new police force made up of former soldiers to fight drug gangs and s
Police clash with anti-government protesters in central Tunis
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Police clashed with anti-government protesters who tried to storm Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis on Monday in defiance of a ban on demonstrations in the area - a focal point
Helicopter crash kills 6 foreigners in Niger desert
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NIAMEY (Reuters) - Four Chinese employees from state oil firm CNPC and two French crew members were killed in a helicopter crash in Niger's Tenere desert, two Nigerien security sources said on Monday. Cash-s
Peru's Shining Path rebels take hostages, free most
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By Patricia Velez and Teresa Cespedes LIMA (Reuters) - Shining Path rebels brazenly kidnapped dozens of workers in Peru's natural gas industry on Monday before letting most of them go hours later in a remote
Blast in south central Somalia kills at least 12
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A blast rocked a vegetable market in Somalia's third-largest city, killing at least twelve people and wounding at least 30, officials said Monday, and the country's top militant group claimed responsibility. Prime...
UAE detains 6 activists critical of rulers
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Six activists in the United Arab Emirates previously stripped of their citizenship for criticizing the country's rulers were detained on Monday and told they were illegally residing in the oil-rich union, one of their...
Libya: Gadhafi son to be tried inside country
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Moammar Gadhafi's son and former heir apparent Seif al-Islam will be put on trial inside Libya and there will be a verdict before mid-June, a Libyan official said Monday. The decision comes despite appeals by rights...
Egypt's presidential race: An unexpected lineup
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The race for Egypt's first president after ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak was not supposed to look like this. A year ago, anyone from the old regime seemed too tainted to ever hope for power. Though rising to political...
Helicopter crash kills 6 foreigners in Niger desert
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NIAMEY (Reuters) - Four Chinese employees from state oil firm CNPC and two French crew members were killed in a helicopter crash in Niger's Tenere desert, two Nigerien security sources said on Monday. "We fo
Libya halts cash for ex-fighters over corruption
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By Ali Shuaib and Hadeel Al-Shalchi TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya has halted a scheme to pay compensation to people who fought in last year's revolt against Muammar Gaddafi because it was riddled with corruption
Iran proposal joins jockeying before nuclear talks
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Iran is signaling a possible compromise offer heading into critical talks with world powers deeply suspicious of its nuclear program: offering to scale back uranium enrichment but not abandon the ability to make nuclear...
Officials: Blast in Bahrain injures 7 policemen
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An explosion injured at least seven Bahraini policemen Monday in an area hit by frequent clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters in the Gulf kingdom, officials said. Although street battles...
Gunmen in Nigeria attack, kill 4 people
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Gunmen suspected of being members of a radical Islamist sect have killed at least four people _ including a 6-year-old girl _ in recent attacks in Nigeria's restive northeast, authorities said Monday. In the...
Home-made bomb injures seven Bahrain policemen: ministry
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Seven Bahraini policemen were wounded, three of them seriously, when a home-made bomb exploded on Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, during a protest near the capital calling for the rel
Exiled son of shah of Iran calls for Israel's help
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The exiled son of the toppled shah of Iran called on Israel not to bomb his home country, but rather to help the opposition to the ruling system, in an interview aired Monday on Israeli television. Prince Reza Pahlavi...
Yemen: 64 killed in clashes with al-Qaida fighters
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An al-Qaida attack on a Yemeni army post in the south set off clashes that left 64 people dead on Monday and prompted local civilians to take up arms alongside the military to beat back the militants, said army...
Yemeni army clashes with Islamists in south, 57 killed
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By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN (Reuters) - At least 57 people were killed on Monday in Yemen when fighters from an al Qaeda-linked group attacked a military camp near the southern city of Lawdar, residents and l
Saudi activist life at risk after hunger: activists
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A prominent Saudi rights activist, who has been on a hunger strike for almost a month to protest at his year-long detention, has also stopped drinking water, rights activists said,
Rousseff complains to Obama about monetary policy
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday that she raised concerns in a meeting with U.S. President !a class="tagLink" href="http://townhall.com/tags/barack-obama">Barack Obama!/a> ov
Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates
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THE ISLAMISTS: KHAIRAT EL-SHATER Deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's strongest political movement, and thus a top contender. A behind-the-scenes operator, el-Shater, 61, is the top Brotherhood strategist...
Russia's Transneft has 3 days of oil for Czechs
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By Gleb Gorodyankin MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state oil pipeline monopoly Transneft only has sufficient volume in the Druzhba pipeline to supply the Czech Republic for three more days, after Russian oil com
Dior names Raf Simons as new artistic director
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Christian Dior has named Belgian designer Raf Simons as its new artistic director, and says he'll present his first show for the renowned fashion house in Paris in July. The appointment comes seven months after star...
Exclusive: Aid taps expected to open for new Malawi president: minister
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By Jon Herskovitz LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi's finance minister expects suspended international aid to be restored under its new president, Joyce Banda, helping prop up a budget increasingly under strain af
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Christian Dior names Belgian Raf Simons as new artistic director, replacing John Galliano. ...
Costa Rica diplomat is latest Venezuela kidnap victim
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Kidnappers have seized a Costa Rican diplomat in the latest high-profile abduction in crime-plagued Venezuela, authorities of both countries said on Monday. Guillermo Cholele, an attache
New north Mali Arab force seeks to "defend" Timbuktu
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By Bate Felix and Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Members of Mali's Arab community in the northern town of Timbuktu have formed an armed group to fill the void left by the army's retreat, adding to a host of
22 die in rural Nigeria Catholic church collapse
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A government spokesman says 22 people were killed and 36 were injured when the roof of a Catholic church in rural Nigeria collapsed during services. Benue state spokesman Cletus Akwaya said Monday that the collapse...
Israel asks Obama to release ill convicted spy
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Israeli President Shimon Peres has dispatched a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. The former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst received a life sentence in 1987 for...
In divided Nigeria, latest attack strikes all
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The suicide car bombing that killed at least 38 people in Nigeria claimed victims across its religious and ethnic lines, showing clearly everyone is at risk in this nation often violently divided against itself. Young...
Peru's Shining Path rebels kidnap gas workers
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LIMA (Reuters) - Shining Path rebels took between 10 and 20 workers hostage near Peru's natural gas fields on Monday to thwart an attempt by the army to capture them, sources in the military and a major gas company
Pakistan: Gunmen kill 6 in sectarian attack
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Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on Shiite Muslims in southwest Pakistan on Monday, killing six in an apparent sectarian attack, police said. Three other Shiites were wounded in the attack on a shoe store in Quetta,...
Police clash with anti-govt protesters in central Tunis
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Police clashed with thousands of anti-government protesters in Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis on Monday, defying a ban on demonstrations in the area - a focal point of the r
Nigeria violence spreads after deadly sect attacks
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By Garba Muhammed KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram have killed four people and a large undetonated bomb was found in Kano on Monday, authorities said, a day
Morocco: Suspected militant cell dismantled
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Moroccan state media reports that authorities have dismantled a suspected militant cell with plans to attack government buildings and cash machines. The three men in the cell were arrested near the central city of...