Saudi rights campaigner given 4 yrs' jail: activists
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A court in Riyadh has sentenced prominent Saudi rights campaigner Mohamad al-Bajadi to four years in prison, activists said on Tuesday. Bajadi was detained in March 2011 afte
Saudi says Yemen kidnappers want prisoners freed
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LONDON (Reuters) - A suspected militant wanted by the Saudi Arabian authorities has phoned the Saudi embassy in Yemen claiming responsibility for the kidnap of a Saudi diplomat last month and demanding the release
Mali names Microsoft Africa chief as interim PM
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali authorities have named Cheick Modibo Diarra, Microsoft Corp's chairman for Africa, as interim prime minister charged with helping to restore civilian rule to the West African country after l
Strong earthquake shakes central Chile
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A strong, magnitude-6.7 earthquake rocked central Chile late Monday, prompting authorities to order a preventative evacuation of a stretch of coastline, causing hundreds of people to flee buildings in panic and shaking...
Tajikistan says Russia is main partner, rejects foreign offers
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By Roman Kozhevnikov DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic bordering Afghanistan, has rejected requests by foreign powers to allow them to set up military bases on its territory because i
Dutch supreme Court OKs terror suspect extradition
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The Supreme Court approved Tuesday the extradition of a Dutch-Pakistani man wanted in the United States on suspicion of terror crimes including plotting a suicide attack on an American military base in Afghanistan. The...
Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack
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By Mohammad Hamid KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it o
Ex-guerrilla fighter to win East Timor presidency
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A former guerrilla fighter who became East Timor's army chief is on course to be the new president of Asia's newest and poorest nation, preliminary election results showed Tuesday. Jose Maria Vasconcelos, known by his...
Ahmadinejad warns against aggression on Iran
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Iran's armed forces will make its enemies regret any act of aggression against the Islamic Republic, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday as Iranians marked National Army Day with a military parade near the...
Mali soldiers arrest allies of ex-leader Toure
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's soldiers have arrested senior allies of ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure, aides to those officials said on Tuesday, in an overnight sweep that could complicate efforts to fully restor
Kenyan defense ministry seeks more funding
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's defense ministry, which sent troops into Somalia in October to fight al Qaeda-linked rebels, has requested 12.5 billion shillings ($150 million) out of 21.5 billion extra total recurrent
British police officer to face racism charge
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A London policeman will face criminal charges for allegedly racially abusing a black man detained during last year's London riots, prosecutors said Tuesday, reversing an earlier decision not to charge the officer. The...
Kashmir revisits '95 case of foreigners' abduction
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A state human rights body in Indian-controlled Kashmir is reviewing records from the 1995 kidnapping of six foreigners as a new book alleges that Indian intelligence agents were involved in the crime. The six tourists...
Tokyo governor says city will buy disputed islands
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Tokyo's outspoken governor says the city has decided to buy a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea to bolster Japanese claims to the territory, a move that could elevate tensions with China. Gov. Shintaro...
Facts about lay judges in Norway's courts
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Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is being tried by a panel of two professional judges and three lay judges. Here's a look at the role of lay judges in Norway's courts. ____ WHAT LAY JUDGES ARE Lay judges...
Liberian authorities release mercenary on bail
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Liberian authorities have quietly released on bail a mercenary known as "Bob Marley" who is accused of leading massacres in neighboring Ivory Coast last year that left more than 120 people dead. The man, whose real...
Malaysia passes bill to curb jailing without trial
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Malaysian legislators on Tuesday approved a bill designed to prevent authorities from detaining suspects indefinitely without trial. The Security Offenses Bill is the centerpiece of Prime Minister Najib Razak's pledge...
NATO ministers to mull Afghan strategy
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NATO ministers will discuss strategy for the military withdrawal from Afghanistan at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, even as violence inside the country mounts and more allies prepare to head for the exits. The...
Incensed Spain threatens Argentina after YPF seizure
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By Tracy Rucinski and Sarah Morris MADRID (Reuters) - An incensed Spain threatened swift economic retaliation against Argentina on Tuesday after it seized control of YPF, the South American nation's biggest
UK to raise Heywood murder with senior Chinese official
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By Matt Falloon and Adrian Croft LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to discuss the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood in China with a visiting senior Chinese official, an aid
World's No. 2 tower in Japan shows off views
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A Tokyo developer took visitors up the world's tallest freestanding broadcast structure on Tuesday, a 634-meter (2,080-foot) tower with special technology meant to withstand earthquakes that often strike Japan. The...
AU says suspends Guinea Bissau after coup
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union said on Tuesday it had suspended Guinea Bissau's membership after a coup last week by the west African state's military chiefs. "The (African Union's) Peace and Secu
China decries Tokyo-hatched plan to buy disputed isles
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo's controversial governor wants to use public funds to buy islands disputed between Japan and China, prompting Beijing to denounce the plan as illegal and reassert its sovereignty. The
Incensed Spain threatens Argentina after YPF seizure
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By Tracy Rucinski and Sarah Morris MADRID (Reuters) - An incensed Spain threatened swift economic retaliation against Argentina on Tuesday after it seized control of YPF, the South American nation's biggest
Iraqi lawmaker escapes assassination attempt
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A Sunni lawmaker says he escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen ambushed his convoy north of the Iraqi capital. Falah al-Naqeeb, a member the Sunni-backed Iraqiya parliament bloc, said over the phone on Tuesday...
Suicide bomber kills soldier in Somalia's Baidoa
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least one soldier in Baidoa, a former rebel stronghold captured by Somali and Ethiopian soldiers during an offensive in February, a government official said.
Hungary PM to shake up government in two weeks: website
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban will reshuffle his government within the next two weeks and plans to appoint a close political ally to deal with the International Monetary Fund if Budapes
Venezuela's election battle: Chavez vs Chavez
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By Enrique Andres Pretel CARACAS (Reuters) - Hugo Chavez's biggest enemy ahead of this year's presidential election in Venezuela could be the socialist leader himself. It is a battle between the sick
Former East Timor independence fighter wins presidency: election official
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By Tito Belo DILI (Reuters) - Former East Timor independence fighter Jose Maria de Vasconcelos has been elected president, a post vital to promoting stability in Asia's newest and one of its poorest countrie
Bahrain urges Britain to protect kingdom's embassy
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Bahrain's foreign ministry has urged Britain to protect its embassy in London as a rooftop protest against the Gulf kingdom's Sunni rulers stretched into its second day. Scotland Yard said that the two activists who...
Philippines asks China to join tribunal to end sea spat
6:14
By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines is to ask China to agree to take a dispute over an uninhabited South China Sea shoal to an international court as the two sides traded new accusations of i
U.S. looking at "all options" on North Korea as nuclear test looms
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States is looking at "all options" as it seeks to discourage North Korea from conducting a third nuclear test, a senior U.S. military officer said on Tuesday, days after a failed long-r
Indian state minister: No mingling with opposition
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An Indian state minister says his party's members should keep their daughters from marrying or even mingling with opposition supporters. West Bengal Food Minister Jyotipriya Mallik's call to shun members of the...
Five more bodies identified from Concordia wreck
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FLORENCE (Reuters) - Five more people who died in the wreck of the Costa Concordia - two Germans, two Americans and one Italian - have been identified, officials said on Tuesday. The five, whose bodies were
France's Sarkozy denies hawking nuclear reactor to Gaddafi
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PARIS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy denied on Tuesday an allegation by the former head of French nuclear group Areva that he had sought to sell a nuclear reactor to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi until mid-2
Mexico raises alert for Popocatepetl volcano
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities raised the alert level for the Popocatepetl volcano near to Mexico City on Monday after it started spewing red-hot fragments of rock. The lava dome of Popocatepetl
Former rebel declared winner of Aceh governor vote
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A former rebel who once lived in exile has won this month's governor's election in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh The Independent Election Commission announced Tuesday that Zaini Abdullah will be the new...
China asks Manila to withdraw ships from shoal
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China has asked the Philippines to withdraw a Filipino coast guard ship and an archaeological research vessel from a disputed shoal. It also has ignored a Philippine proposal to bring the problem to a U.N.-linked...
U.N.'s Ban alarmed by militia buildup in Sudan border area
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm over reports of a buildup of militia in the disputed Abyei border region as Sudan and South Sudan edge closer to all-out war. South Sud
Bahrain urges Britain to protect kingdom's embassy
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Bahrain's foreign ministry has urged Britain to protect the Gulf kingdom's embassy in London after two opposition supporters climbed onto its roof in a protest against the island's Sunni rulers. The ministry is calling...
Japan to be without nuclear power after May 5
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By Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will within weeks have no nuclear power for the first time in more than 40 years, after the trade minister said two reactors idled after the Fukushima disaster would no
Tokyo governor seeks to buy islands disputed with China
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo's controversial governor wants to use public funds to buy islands disputed between Japan and China, a plan bound to infuriate Beijing. The islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoy
Analysis: Marine insurance: the stranglehold on Iran?
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By Clare Baldwin and Osamu Tsukimori HONG KONG/TOKYO (Reuters) - Marine insurance, or lack of it, may yet turn out to be the most effective sanction used by Western nations in 17 years of tightening the scre
Earthquake rattles Papua New Guinea; no damage
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A strong earthquake has struck the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries and no tsunami alert has been issued. The U.S. Geological Survey says the...
Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits Papua New Guinea, no tsunami alert
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(Reuters) - A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the north coast of Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake struck at a depth of 125.5 miles and was centered 137 km north
U.S. looking at "all options" on North Korea as nuclear test looms
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States is looking at "all options" as it seeks to discourage North Korea from conducting a third nuclear test, a senior U.S. military officer said on Tuesday, days after a failed long-r
Mexican female candidate tries to mount a comeback
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On a campaign swing through the heart of her political stronghold, the first serious female contender for Mexico's presidency didn't fill a town square or the tables at a business luncheon. After stumbling early in her...
Argentine leader moves to nationalize oil company
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In a bold move to gain control of Argentina's energy reserves, President Cristina Fernandez pushed forward a bill to renationalize the country's largest oil company on Monday despite fierce criticism from abroad and the...
Venezuela rejects 'threats' against Argentina
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Venezuela strongly criticized what it called Britain's threats against Argentina as its South American ally intensifies its claim to the Falkland Islands. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said Monday that the...
Video shows dramatic details of Tibetan immolation
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Video obtained by an overseas pro-Tibet group shows Chinese security forces beating a man who had set himself on fire in one of several self-immolations by Tibetans protesting Chinese rule. The Washington-based...