Exclusive: Drugmakers weigh emergency supply plan for Greece
By Ben Hirschler
LONDON (Reuters) - International drugmakers are working with European authorities on emergency plans to keep medicines flowing into Greece if the country crashes out of the euro.
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Analysis: Germany's Merkel losing green battle to cheap coal
By Henning Gloystein and Vera Eckert
LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - To reach its strict climate targets and fulfill Chancellor Angela Merkel's nuclear exit plans, Germany needs to avoid coal and build a stack of gas...
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Iran may seek "tactical gain" with UN nuclear deal
By Fredrik Dahl
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog are making headway towards a framework deal on how to tackle concerns about its atomic activity, diplomats say, a potential bargaining chip...
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Iran may seek "tactical gain" with U.N. nuclear deal
By Fredrik Dahl
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog are nearing a framework deal on how to tackle concerns about its atomic activity, diplomats say, a potential bargaining chip for Tehran...
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China "bars" blind dissident's family choice of lawyers
By Sui-Lee Wee
BEIJING (Reuters) - The nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied his family's choice of lawyers to defend a charge of "intentional homicide" in what one said was an...
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Retired officials urge China's ruling party to come clean
By Chris Buckley
BEIJING (Reuters) - Three retired Chinese Communist Party officials issued a call on Friday for leaders to disclose their family wealth before a looming succession, warning that a scandal over the...
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G8 leaders look to head off euro zone crisis
By Laura MacInnis and Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of major industrial economies meet this weekend to try to head off a full-blown crisis in Europe where fears are growing that Greece could...
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Obama, Hollande to press euro crisis remedies at G8
By Laura MacInnis and Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will seek to cement a bond with France's new leader at the White House on Friday before heading to Camp David...
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Exclusive: Myanmar's central bank aims for weaker currency
By Jason Szep and Aung Hla Tun
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's central bank wants to weaken its newly floated currency and prevent further rises that could derail reforms to its economy, a deputy...
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Former editor says Murdoch sowed seeds of hacking scandal
By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton
LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch sowed the seeds of the phone hacking scandal that has tarnished his reputation by forcing Britain's most respected newspapers into "a Faustian bargain"...
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Candidates fight for "change" vote in Dominican election
By Manuel Jimenez
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Voters in the Dominican Republic's presidential election on Sunday will choose between two candidates vying to be seen as agents of change, even though one represents the...
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Anti-war protesters march at Obama campaign headquarters
By Mary Wisniewski and Eric Johnson
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful "die in" on Thursday at President Barack Obama's election campaign headquarters in Chicago to demand an...
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U.S. Justice Dept urges terror label for Nigerian militants
By Mark Hosenball and John Shiffman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department is pressing the State Department to designate Boko Haram, a Nigerian militant group alleged to be responsible for hundreds of deaths, as...
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Cameron urges G8 action to stop eurozone crisis from spreading
By Adrian Croft
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron will tell leaders of some of the world's biggest economies on Friday that they must work together to stop the economic crisis afflicting...
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Exclusive: U.N. probes possible North Korea arms trade with Syria, Myanmar
By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is investigating reports of possible weapons-related shipments by Pyongyang to Syria...
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Exclusive: U.N. panel probes possible North Korea arms trade with Syria, Myanmar
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is investigating reports of possible weapons-related shipments by Pyongyang to Syria and Myanmar, the panel said in a confidential report seen by Reuters on Thursday.
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Judge holds Mexican generals over for drug probe
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican judge on Thursday ordered the former deputy defense minister and a top general to be held for 40 days while they are investigated for alleged ties to drug cartels.
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Qaeda chief urges Saudis to topple ruling family
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri on Thursday urged Saudis to rise up against the kingdom's ruling Al-Saud family, suggesting they draw inspiration from uprisings that have deposed leaders across the Middle East and Africa in the past year and a half.
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Iran threatens to sue Google over dropping Persian Gulf
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Ministry threatened on Thursday to take legal action against Google for dropping the name Persian Gulf from its Google Maps and leaving the waterway between Iran and Arab states nameless, state television reported.
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Russian police detain protest leader, five others
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian riot police detained a prominent protest leader and five other demonstrators on Thursday as authorities extended a crackdown on Occupy-style protests in central Moscow against newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin.
In...
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Russia says action on Syria, Iran may go nuclear
By Gleb Bryanski
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned on Thursday that military action against sovereign states could lead to a regional nuclear war, starkly voicing Moscow's opposition to Western intervention...
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Pirate guards need global guidelines: U.N. agency
By Peter Griffiths
LONDON (Reuters) - Armed guards employed on merchant ships to repel attacks by pirates should be subject to new standards to ensure they abide by international law while on the high...
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G8 to discuss range of oil market options: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders at this weekend's G8 summit will discuss pressures on global oil markets and options they could take in response, a top White House official said on Thursday, declining to specify whether a release of strategic reserves would be on the table.
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U.N. Security Council demands Sudan withdraw from disputed region
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council demanded on Thursday that Sudan immediately and unconditionally withdraw troops from the disputed Abyei border region but Khartoum pledged only to do so...
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Obama to meet Afghanistan's Karzai at NATO summit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the sidelines of the NATO summit on Sunday, the White House said, but there was no plan for Obama to have a bilateral get-together with his Pakistani counterpart while in Chicago.
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Merkel agrees fiscal consolidation and growth needed
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel is in a "high level of agreement" with French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti that both fiscal consolidation and growth are needed, her spokesman said.
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Morocco slams "biased" U.N. Western Sahara envoy
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco said on Thursday it had lost confidence in the U.N. envoy to the contested Western Sahara territory, in the latest in a long series of setbacks in efforts to settle a decades-old dispute over the region's status.
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Iran parliament approves reduced sanction-hit budget
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's parliament on Thursday approved President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's $462 billion annual budget, the official IRNA news agency reported, a drop in real terms from last year as international sanctions took their toll.
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Bhutan counts the cost of trying to buy happiness
By Belinda Goldsmith
THIMPHU, Bhutan (Reuters) - They say you can't buy happiness - and it's something Bhutan is finding out the hard way.
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Violence engulfs another Venezuelan prison
By Girish Gupta
CARACAS (Reuters) - Shots rang out and smoke rose over a Caracas jail on Thursday in the latest outbreak of violence in one of Venezuela's notoriously violent and overcrowded jails.
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U.S. eyes funding boost for Israel's "Iron Dome" shield
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon will seek to provide Israel with an additional $70 million in the coming months for its short-range rocket shield, known as the "Iron Dome," U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said after a meeting with his Israeli counterpart on Thursday.
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U.S. suspends sanctions on investment in Myanmar
By Andrew Quinn and Paul Eckert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday suspended sanctions barring U.S. investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms in the poor southeast Asian state, drawing praise...
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US to suspend Myanmar sanctions, but keep laws on books
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will suspend sanctions barring American investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms, but will retain the laws to ensure against backsliding, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.
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U.S. to suspend sanctions on investment in Myanmar
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will suspend sanctions barring American investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms there, but will keep those laws on its books to discourage backsliding, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.
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Iran attack decision nears, Israeli elite locks down
By Michael Stott
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A private door opens from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in central Jerusalem directly into a long, modestly furnished, half-paneled room decorated with modern paintings by Israeli...
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Nigeria "robbers" accidentally blow up own bus
PORT HARCOURT (Reuters) - A suspected armed robber was killed when explosives his gang was transporting accidentally went off in the centre of Nigeria's main oil city of Port Harcourt on Thursday, police said.
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Horrors of Srebrenica set out at Mladic trial
By Ivana Sekularac
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the genocide trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic on Thursday described five days of terror in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, when...
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Sri Lanka president to free jailed rival this week-sources
By Ranga Sirilal
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will order the release of his ailing former army chief this week, sources close to the president said on Thursday, in a bid...
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Myanmar hopes for U.S. sanctions move to boost economy
By Jason Szep
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - A further lifting of U.S. sanctions on Myanmar, which could come during a visit by officials to Washington this week, would be crucial to opening its long-isolated...
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Europe's banks on the brink
By Gareth Gore
LONDON, May 17 (IFR) - The euro zone crisis was in full swing when Jean-Claude Trichet took the podium in Berlin last October 6 for his final press conference as president...
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Insight: Greek exit could cost eurozone 100s of billions of euros
By Paul Carrel
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Greek exit from the euro zone could expose the European Central Bank and the currency bloc it seeks to protect to hundreds of billions of euros in...
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Banks' rising bad loans add to Spanish troubles
By Julien Toyer and Jesús Aguado
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish bank bad loans rose in March to their highest in 18 years, figures from the Bank of Spain showed on Friday, underscoring the problems...
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Spain beset by bank crisis, downgrades, bond pressure
By Carlos Ruano and Julien Toyer
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's borrowing costs shot up at a bond auction on Thursday and its troubled banks suffered a double blow, with shares in part-nationalized Bankia diving...
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Spain beset by bank crisis, recession, bond pressure
By Sonya Dowsett and Paul Day
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's borrowing costs shot up at a bond auction on Thursday, after economic data confirmed the country is back in recession and reports of an...
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Plans to strike Iran "ready", says U.S. Israel envoy
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is "fully available", the U.S. ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which suspect it of seeking to develop nuclear arms.
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Iran nuclear output seen steady before Baghdad talks
By Fredrik Dahl
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is installing more centrifuges in an underground plant but does not yet appear to be using them to expand higher-grade uranium enrichment that could take it closer...
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Daughter of Cuban leader Raul Castro to visit U.S
By Jeff Franks
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro's daughter is scheduled to visit California next week to speak at a conference of experts on Latin America during a rare U.S. trip by...
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Cameron looks to shield Britain from euro break-up
By Matt Falloon
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron will promise on Thursday to do whatever is needed to protect Britain's economy and banks from a break-up of the euro zone, and will...
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U.S. sends warning to Saleh backers in Yemen
By Arshad Mohammed and Jason Lange
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned supporters of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday it may freeze their assets if they hamper the transfer of...
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Libya says Gaddafi's son refusing defense lawyer
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son has refused to appoint a Libyan lawyer to defend him against accusations of murder and torture during a crackdown on a revolt against his father's rule, the country said on Wednesday.
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Murder of Honduran reporter blamed on drug gangs
By Gustavo Palencia
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A prominent Honduran radio journalist was killed by drug gangs in retaliation for a government crackdown on cartels, the country's security minister said on Wednesday.
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Police disperse, detain anti-Putin protesters
By Alissa de Carbonnel and Maria Tsvetkova
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian riot police detained at least 35 demonstrators on Wednesday, breaking up one Occupy-style sit-in at a Moscow park and threatening to disperse another...
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ICC prosecutor OK with delay to trial of Kenyans
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said on Wednesday he would not oppose a delay to the start of a trial of four prominent Kenyans, including two...
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U.S. to seek G8 support for oil reserve release: Kyodo
WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will seek support to tap emergency oil reserves from other Group of Eight leaders at a summit this weekend before the European Union's July embargo of Iranian crude, Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday.
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U.S. path out of Afghanistan faces risks
By Missy Ryan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, where the United States has already trimmed its forces ahead of the coming NATO withdrawal, a modest number of al Qaeda...
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Monti, Hollande, Merkel, Cameron in videocall Thursday
ROME/LONDON (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron will hold a video conference on Thursday ahead of this weekend's G8 meeting, officials said on Wednesday.
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Monti, Hollande, Merkel, Cameron in videoconference Thursday: Italy government s
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime minister Mario Monti, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron will hold a video conference on Thursday ahead of this weekend's G-8, an Italian government source said on Wednesday.
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Deposed Bissau ex-PM hopes to return and rule
LISBON (Reuters) - Guinea Bissau's former prime minister and presidential frontrunner Carlos Gomes Junior said on Wednesday he hoped to return to run the African country once democracy was restored after an April 12 military coup.
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Analysis: Argentines jump through new hoops to get dollars
By Hilary Burke
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's quest to keep dollars in the country is spawning illegal money trades inside offices and even schools. But big companies have fewer ways to skirt currency...
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U.N. atom talks with Iran may show progress-diplomats
By Fredrik Dahl
VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran may be narrowing their differences on how to tackle concerns over Tehran's atomic ambitions, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday, suggesting a previously...
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Exclusive: Iran flouts U.N. sanctions, sends arms to Syria: panel
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a...
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Exclusive: Syria remains top destination for Iran arms transfers
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a confidential draft report by a U.N. panel of experts seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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Two Mexican generals detained for alleged drug gang ties
By Michael O'Boyle and Miguel Gutierrez
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Investigators are questioning Mexico's former deputy defense minister and a top army general for suspected links to organized crime, in the highest level scandal...
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Bahrain seeks arrest of 20 over homemade bombs
MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain issued arrest warrants on Wednesday for 20 people accused of injuring policemen and civilians with homemade bombs during months of pro-democracy unrest in the island kingdom.
In another sign of...
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Thousands flee to Uganda as Congo hunts renegade commander
By Jocelyne Edwards
KISORO, Uganda (Reuters) - It was the six rebel soldiers who hacked down the door of Elias Ngahaga's house one night two weeks ago in Kesaha, eastern Congo, who led him...
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Merkel ditches environment minister after poll rout
By Markus Wacket and Sarah Marsh
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday after he led her party to a regional election defeat, replacing him with a loyal conservative...
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German minister steps down, replaced by Merkel ally: sources
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen, who took the blame for a historic defeat for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives in a regional election on Sunday, is to step down and be replaced by her parliamentary whip Peter Altmaier, official sources said on Wednesday.
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Charles Taylor says West manipulating war crimes courts
By Sara Webb
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said on Wednesday witnesses had been threatened and paid to testify against him in a trial that found him guilty of crimes...
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IMF says Italy on right track, must not let up on reform
By James Mackenzie
ROME (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund urged Prime Minister Mario Monti on Wednesday to press ahead with economic reforms to boost growth, saying Italy was on the right track and...
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Breivik killed with joyous "battle cry": survivors
By Balazs Koranyi
OSLO (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik screamed a "battle cry" and appeared both angry and joyous as he shot his victims one by one, survivors of the Norwegian far-right killer's massacre...
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Breivik killed with joyous "battle cry": witnesses
By Balazs Koranyi
OSLO (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik roared a "battle cry" and appeared both angry and joyous as he shot people one by one with a distorted face, survivors of the Norwegian...
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Ukraine dismisses EU plea over jailed Tymoshenko
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Wednesday brushed aside Western concerns about his government's treatment of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko as misguided and unwarranted, indicating that Kiev was unlikely to change its mind.
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Syria tensions light fuse in north Lebanon
By Erika Solomon
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - As armored vehicles rumble past bullet-scarred streets, Lebanese men heckle soldiers they have now added to their list of enemies: "There go the traitors!"
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Exclusive: Order knew for months about priest scandal: Vatican official
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Leaders of the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ religious order knew that their most famous priest had fathered a child for many months before they acknowledged it this...
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Wanted Congo general still using child soldiers: HRW
DAKAR (Reuters) - A renegade Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes has begun to recruit child soldiers again to fight the government, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigation released on Wednesday.
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Blind dissident's plight revives China rights movement
By Sui-Lee Wee
BEIJING (Reuters) - China may have sown the seeds of its next human rights row with the United States even as it looks to end the current one over blind dissident...
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Brotherhood faces new challenges in Egypt power quest
By Tom Perry
CAIRO (Reuters) - On the eve of the uprising that swept Hosni Mubarak from power, the Muslim Brotherhood braced itself for a wave of mass detentions, convinced the president was planning...
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Berlin airport opening delayed until 2013: paper
BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin's new airport will not now open until 2013 due to fire regulations, German paper Bild reported on Wednesday, heaping further embarrassment on authorities who had said the hold-up would only stretch to three months.
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Exclusive: China pushes North Korea to drop nuclear test plan: sources
By Benjamin Kang Lim
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has been quietly and gently pressuring North Korea to scrap plans for a third nuclear test, said two sources with knowledge of closed-door discussions between the...
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Indonesia finds black box from crashed Russian Sukhoi
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's national search and rescue agency has found a black box flight recorder from a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed during a demonstration flight killing all 45 people on board, an agency official said on Wednesday.
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Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial
By Anthony Deutsch and Ivana Sekularac
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic taunted Srebrenica survivors on Wednesday at the start of his trial for genocide, running his hand across his throat...
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Serbia's Mladic at genocide trial in war crimes court
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, 70, appeared on Wednesday for his genocide trial looking confident, flashing a thumbs-up and clapping his hands as he entered the courtroom.
He...
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Police disperse protesters at anti-Putin sit-in
By Alissa de Carbonnel
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian riot police broke up an Occupy-style protest against President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, forcing dozens of people out of a central Moscow park where they had...
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U.S. may freeze assets to boost Yemen transition: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plans to give the Treasury Department authority on Wednesday to freeze U.S.-based assets of anyone who "obstructs" implementation of the Washington-backed political transition in Yemen, the Washington Post reported late on Tuesday.
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China's "small stick" approach to South China Sea
By David Lague
HONG KONG (Reuters) - In a month-long standoff between China and the Philippines over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, Beijing has so far refrained from sending warships from...
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U.S., Pakistan on verge of reopening supply lines
By Phil Stewart and Missy Ryan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan and the United States appeared on the verge of clinching an agreement to reopen ground supply lines into Afghanistan, a U.S. official said, as...
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Mladic goes on trial for atrocities in Bosnia
By Thomas Escritt and Ivana Sekularac
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic goes on trial for genocide on Wednesday, accused of leading the slaughter of 8,000 unarmed Muslim boys and men in...
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Taylor to reject call for 80-year sentence
By Thomas Escritt and Sara Webb
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor will on Wednesday tell judges he bears no responsibility for atrocities during Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war, rejecting the prosecution's...
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Obama, Monti agree Europe ought to "intensify" growth: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Tuesday discussed the need for Europe to do more to boost growth, speaking ahead of a weekend meeting of Group of Eight (G8) leaders at Camp David, Maryland, the White House said.
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Strauss-Kahn countersues NY hotel maid for $1 million
By Joseph Ax
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million countersuit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his job and any...
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Sudan's Bashir says no South Sudan oil exports without security
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan will not allow South Sudan to export any oil through its territory unless the two states settle all disputes over border security, President Omar al-Bashir said on Tuesday.
Oil, security...
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Putin praised by leaders of ex-Soviet states
By Gleb Bryanski
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin won praise from leaders of former Soviet republics on Tuesday and called for closer integration among the now-independent states once ruled by Moscow.
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Support for Mexico ruling party candidate hits new low: poll
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Support for Mexican presidential hopeful Josefina Vazquez Mota, candidate of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), has fallen to its lowest level since the campaign began at the end of March, a poll showed on Tuesday.
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In breakthrough, Pakistan leader to attend NATO summit
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will attend a summit of NATO leaders in Chicago this weekend, the Pakistan Embassy in Washington said on Tuesday, ending speculation Islamabad might be excluded from the high-level talks on Afghanistan's future.
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Libyan Islamist militia leader to run in June poll
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - One of Libya's most powerful militia leaders said on Tuesday he had registered his newly founded party for June's election for a transitional national assembly, swapping his post for a run at public office.
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One killed in grenade blast in Kenyan coastal city
By James Macharia
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen detonated grenades outside a night club in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding several others in the latest attack since...
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One killed in blast in Kenyan coastal city
NAIROBI (Reuters) - One person was killed and several were hurt in a suspected grenade attack at a club in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, police said on Tuesday.
"We have one dead,...
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi says sanctions remain tool for change
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A suspension of U.S. sanctions against Myanmar, rather than a full removal of the penalties, would keep pressure on the government to stay on track with political reforms, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday.
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Russia's Patriarch launches Facebook page
By Denis Dyomkin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Facebook page dedicated to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill was launched on Tuesday to feed growing interest in the divisive religious figure who has embodied the church's thickening...
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Bomb targeting former Colombian minister kills two
By Eduardo Garcia and Luis Jaime Acosta
BOGOTA (Reuters) - In a rare attack in the Colombian capital Bogota, a bomb targeting a former interior minister on Tuesday killed his driver and a police...
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Vatican, Benetton settle dispute over pope kiss ad
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Italian fashion firm Benetton has agreed to make a donation to a Catholic charity to end a legal dispute with the Vatican over an advertisement that showed...
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Unrepentant Mladic proud of his Bosnian "legacy"
By Douglas Hamilton
(Reuters) - There is something shocking about Ratko Mladic in court. Old and infirm, he is a shadow of the strutting Bosnian Serb general who once struck fear into the hearts...
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Burning man tries to break into Breivik trial
By Joachim Dagenborg
OSLO (Reuters) - A man set himself on fire and tried to force his way into the Norwegian courthouse where far-right mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for massacring...
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NATO invites Pakistan to Chicago summit
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO said on Tuesday it had invited Pakistan to a summit in Chicago next week, lifting a veiled threat that it might exclude the country from the talks on the future of Afghanistan.
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Strauss-Kahn countersues hotel maid in NY court for $1 million
By Daniel Trotta and Joseph Ax
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million countersuit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his...
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Strauss-Kahn countersues hotel maid in U.S. court for $1 million
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million countersuit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his job and any chance of being elected president of France.
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