Detective: DNA suggests 3rd party in UK spy death
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A senior British detective said Tuesday that specks of another person's DNA were found on the zipper and lock of a sports bag that contained the body of a U.K. codebreaker, casting doubt on theories the young spy...
Berlusconi paid Mafia for protection-top Italy court
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ROME (Reuters) - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi paid large sums of money to the Sicilian Mafia to protect himself and his family from kidnapping in the mid-1970s, Italy's highest appeals court said
Pakistan bombing kills at least two in eastern city Lahore
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb killed at least two people and injured at least 27 others when it exploded at the main railway station in the eastern city of Lahore in Pakistan's Punjab province on Tuesday, pol
Ukraine's jailed ex-PM goes on hunger strike
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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko alleged on Tuesday that guards at the prison where she is being held severely beat her and said she has begun a hunger strike. Prosecutors denied the charge, saying that...
Bahraini police battle protesters backing prisoner
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Witnesses say police in Bahrain have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters calling for the release of a jailed hunger striker. The protesters clashed with police Tuesday as they attempted to...
Rights group slams NATO, others for deaths at sea
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A top European rights watchdog has blamed NATO, Libyan authorities and smugglers for the deaths at sea of 63 people fleeing the Libyan war in March 2011 _ a charge the military alliance is disputing. The Parliamentary...
Norway bomb blast diverted police, court hears
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By Walter Gibbs OSLO (Reuters) - When a large car bomb exploded at Oslo's central government building last summer, killing eight and injuring more than 200, police first thought they were dealing with two bo
South Sudan says Sudan air strikes amount to war
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By Yara Bayoumy and Michael Martina JUBA/BEIJING (Reuters) - South Sudan accused Sudan on Tuesday of mounting bombing raids on the newly independent country's oil-producing border region and President Salva
Mubarak's ex-premier barred from presidential race
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By Shaimaa Fayed and Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling military has approved a law banning Hosni Mubarak's top former officials from running for president, ruling out his last prime minister and pos
Pakistan's top court to deliver verdict in PM case
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Pakistan's Supreme Court is expected to deliver a verdict later this week in a contempt case against the prime minister that could see him losing his job at a time when his U.S.-backed government is fighting terrorism...
Militants say Swiss woman freed in north Mali
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A spokesman for a militant Islamic group in north Mali says a Swiss woman taken hostage just over a week ago has been freed. Senda Ould Boumama said Tuesday that the woman who had been working as a missionary in...
Senegalese religious leader arrested after 2 dead
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Authorities say they have arrested a powerful religious leader in Senegal and 11 of his followers after two people were beaten to death. Cheikh Bethio Thioune's arrest late Monday comes amid criticism after he married...
Greek families forage abroad to stay afloat in crisis
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By Li-mei Hoang and Renee Maltezou LONDON/ATHENS (Reuters) - The wistfulness in the voice of George Kapetanios is heart-warming and an increasingly familiar tone for Greek families at home and in cities all
Philippine court orders breakup of Aquino hacienda
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The Philippine Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to break up the sugar estate owned by the president's relatives and distribute it to thousands of farmers following decades of unrest and unfinished land reform. The landmark...
US general in Tunisia warns of stability threats
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The head of the U.S. Africa command has warned against the threats to stability in Africa from militant groups and proliferating weapons. The state news agency reported Tuesday that Gen. Carter Ham said these elements...
Dutch PM asks opposition for help on budget cuts
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By Gilbert Kreijger and Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The Dutch prime minister said his country faced a crisis and asked parliament to push through budget cuts after his government lost the support of
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Offical says FBI director Robert Mueller has held talks in Yemen on fighting al-Qaida. ...
UAE official pledges ship for disputed island
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The ruler of one of the United Arab Emirates has promised he would order a ship that could travel to and from a disputed island claimed by his country but controlled by Iran. Tuesday's remark by Sharjah ruler Sheik...
More grief for Greece as recession seen deeper
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By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's economy will contract a deeper than expected 5 percent this year, the country's central bank chief said on Tuesday, piling more pressure on to a citizenry
China's mums key to Nestle baby milk deal
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By David Jones and Sabrina Mao LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) - The rise of the middle-class Chinese working mother helps explain why Nestle paid nearly $12 billion for Pfizer's baby food business and could leave
US general in Tunisia warns of stability threats
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The head of the U.S. Africa command has warned against the threats to stability in Africa from militant groups and proliferating weapons. The state news agency reported Tuesday that Gen. Carter Ham said these elements...
Amnesty: Europe must fight anti-Muslim prejudice
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European laws on what girls and women wear on their heads are encouraging discrimination against Muslims and against a religion that has been part of Europe's fabric for centuries, Amnesty International says in a new...
Brazil inflation gains steam in mid-April
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By Silvio Cascione SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Inflation in Brazil rose slightly more than expected in the month to mid-April, breaking with an easing trend that allowed the central bank to focus on stimulating gr
Jordanian authorities arrest online journalist
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Jordanian prosecutors say authorities have detained a journalist for publishing online statements alleging misconduct by royal officials. The State Security court's chief prosecutor ordered the detention of Jamal...
Spain arrests people-smugglers targeting Iranians
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Spanish police have arrested 22 people and broken up a ring that allegedly smuggled people from Iran to Britain, often via Spain's Canary Islands. Police also said Tuesday that the traffickers also used an overland...
Hague court may probe Mali rapes, killing
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court on Tuesday warned Mali it is considering investigating reports of killings, rapes and other war crimes it fears may have been committed since January when figh
Start of Mladic trial delayed by 2 days
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Survivors of Bosnia's war who have waited 17 years to see former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic face justice will have to wait a little longer. The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Tuesday pushed back the...
South Sudan's leader says Sudan has declared war
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The president of newly independent South Sudan, in Beijing lobbying for economic and diplomatic support, told China's president on Tuesday that attacks by rival Sudan amount to a declaration of war on his country. ...
China's Hu calls for Sudans to exercise restraint
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By Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao called for restraint from the two Sudans on Tuesday after South Sudan President Salva Kiir told Hu that his country's larg
More grief for Greece as recession seen deeper
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By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's economy will contract a deeper than expected 5 percent this year, the country's central bank chief said on Tuesday, piling more pressure on to a citizenry
German terrorism convict granted early release
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A lawyer for the wife of a convicted German terrorist says she has been released from prison after a court commuted her own jail sentence for supporting terror groups to probation. German news agency dapd reported that...
Group urges S'pore to lift opposition travel ban
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A human rights group has urged Singapore to lift a travel ban on a prominent opposition leader so he can attend a conference in Norway. The New York-based Human Rights Foundation called on Prime Minister Lee Hsien...
Analysis: South Africa's Zuma on track for second term
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By Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma is the favorite to win a second term to lead the ruling ANC in a race dominated by factional politics instead of policy refor
Moldovan president refuses to sign castration law
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Moldova's president has refused to sign a law that would have meant that foreigners convicted of sexually abusing children in Moldova were chemically castrated. President Nicolae Timofti on Tuesday called the...
French rivals scramble to seduce Le Pen voters
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By Alexandria Sage and Yann Le Guernigou PARIS (Reuters) - France's presidential rivals scrambled on Tuesday to seduce nearly a fifth of the electorate that voted for far right anti-immigration crusader Mari
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President of South Sudan says rival Sudan has declared war on his country. ...
Egypt's Sinai turning into "Wild West": Israeli PM
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By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has turned into a "kind of Wild West" exploited by Islamist militants with Iranian help to smuggle in weapons and stage attacks on Israel, Prime Min
Iran says it fended off cyber attack on its IT systems
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By Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - The Iranian oil ministry said on Tuesday its IT systems had suffered no lasting damage from a suspected cyber attack, but its experts would require two or three days to inv
Israel grants legal status to three West Bank outposts
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By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Tuesday it had granted legal status to three settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, a move that could shore up the governing coalition but which
UN says 500,000 to get food aid in Syria
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The U.N. food agency says it will soon deliver help to 500,000 people in Syria, a tenfold increase since December. Even after the increase, the U.N. says there are still around a million more who don't have enough to...
Singapore man fined for setting cat on fire
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A newspaper says a Singapore man who set his neighbors cat on fire after the feline defecated in front of his apartment has been fined by a court. The Straits Times said a district court on Tuesday ordered 78-year-old...
Tajikistan closer to Russian bases deal
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Russia and Tajikistan are getting closer to a deal that would extend the presence of Russian troops in the Central Asian nation beyond 2014, Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday. It is expected that the lease for the...
Greece: train crashes into rail car, 1 injured
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Officials say that a passenger train has crashed into a rail car north of the Greek capital, lightly injuring the train driver. Police and state hospital officials said the low-speed collision occurred Tuesday at...
Security forces seize land from Vietnam villagers
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HANOI (Reuters) - Thousands of riot police overwhelmed villagers in Vietnam who tried to block them from taking control of a disputed plot of land outside Hanoi on Tuesday in the second high-profile clash over prop
China leader under scrutiny shows still in control
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A top Chinese leader under scrutiny amid China's biggest political scandal in years called for Communist Party unity in a prominent essay published Tuesday that shows his authority holding despite the investigation. ...
Manila's Philex finds more gas in South China Sea; may fuel China tension
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By Erik dela Cruz and Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - A natural gas discovery in a disputed area in the South China Sea contains more reserves than initially thought, a Philippine exploration firm said on T
Analysis: Mali: from democracy poster child to broken state
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By David Lewis BAMAKO (Reuters) - Within weeks, Mali has plunged from being a sovereign democracy to a fractured territory without a state, occupied by competing rebel groups in the north while politicians a
Aussie PM dismisses claim she's soft on harassment
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday dismissed as "disgraceful" an opposition claim that she was making light of sexual harassment by allowing the parliamentary speaker to hold his job while facing allegations that...
Judges poised to deliver verdicts in Taylor trial
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Rebel fighters hacked off Jabati Mambu's right hand more than 13 years ago in Sierra Leone. This week, Mambu says his wounds may finally be healed. On Thursday, judges at an international war crimes court will pass...
Old wounds, ethnic rivalries stoke Sudan war fever
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By Ulf Laessing and Alexander Dziadosz JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - When petrol started running low in South Sudan's capital this month, Peter Bashir Gbandi sensed a sinister force at work. Rather than b