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- Powerful quake hits Costa Rica, two dead
- Exclusive: Russian firm to halt Iran ship work as pressure grows
- Turkish jets hit Kurdish militant positions-sources
- Colombia names team for peace talks with FARC rebels
- Hundreds of Afghan soldiers detained, sacked for insurgent links
- Israeli air strike kills three Gaza militants
- Guinea's embattled elections commission chief to step down
- Pentagon maps Japan radiation, says U.S. personnel safe
- Mali requests military assistance to free north
- Dutch pro-European parties lead in opinion polls
- Turkey accuses Syria of 'state terrorism'
- France giving aid to rebel-held Syrian cities
- Strong Costa Rica quake causes panic, minor damage
- President has not tackled Egypt's biggest problems
- Iraq's role in Syria war poses problems for US
- French judges to exhume Arafat body in West Bank
- Afghan soldiers fired during insider attacks probe
- Gadhafi's spy chief in Libyan hands
- Suspect IDed in Quebec election rally shooting
- Bullfights back on Spanish public TV after ban
Powerful quake hits Costa Rica, two dead Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:12 PM PDT SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake rocked Costa Rica on Wednesday, killing at least two people, sparking landslides, knocking down buildings, and briefly triggering a tsunami warning. Striking a tourist region popular with Hollywood stars, Costa Rica's worst quake in over two decades sowed panic in the capital, disrupting power supplies and communications, and caused an entire hospital on the Pacific coast to be evacuated. The Red Cross said two people died in Guanacaste, the northwestern province at the epicenter of the 7. ... |
Exclusive: Russian firm to halt Iran ship work as pressure grows Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:37 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - A Russian firm has decided to stop verifying safety and environmental standards for one of Iran's biggest shipping groups, a letter showed, the latest international company wary of being caught up in Western sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Iran is under growing pressure over its disputed nuclear program and companies are cutting ties with its vital shipping sector, which transports most of its crude oil, for fear of losing lucrative U.S. business. Moscow opposes concerted trade pressure on Tehran by Washington and its allies, making the Russian company's decision unusual. ... |
Turkish jets hit Kurdish militant positions-sources Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:02 PM PDT DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish fighter planes and attack helicopters pounded suspected Kurdish militant positions near the southeastern border with Syria and Iraq late on Wednesday in a major air-and-ground operation, security sources said. "Around 2,000 soldiers are involved in the operation. Cobra helicopters ... are bombing targets on the Kato mountain," a security source told Reuters, referring to a location in Turkey's southeastern Sirnak province. Around 10 F-16 fighter planes had been sent to support the operation, the source said. ... |
Colombia names team for peace talks with FARC rebels Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:20 PM PDT BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos unveiled on Wednesday a six-man team to negotiate with Marxist FARC rebels in the hope of ending almost 50 years of war. A decade after the last attempt to end Latin America's longest-running insurgency failed, the negotiators led by former Vice President Humberto de la Calle are to travel to Norway next month to meet the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The negotiations will then move to Cuba. ... |
Hundreds of Afghan soldiers detained, sacked for insurgent links Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:03 PM PDT KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan army has detained or sacked hundreds of soldiers for having links to insurgents, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, as it tries to stem the rising number of so-called insider attacks. It made the announcement as NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to express his concern over the attacks, in which Afghan servicemen have killed at least 45 NATO-led troops this year, including 15 in August, compared with 35 for all of last year. "Hundreds were sacked or detained after showing links with insurgents. ... |
Israeli air strike kills three Gaza militants Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:17 PM PDT GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike on the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip killed three gunmen as they tried to launch short-range rockets into the Jewish state on Wednesday, the military said. Palestinian medical officials and witnesses confirmed that three militants had been killed in the attack near Bureij, in central Gaza. They did not immediately give the dead men's factional affiliation but said they did not belong to Hamas. Though hostile to Israel, Islamist Hamas has at times proposed long-term truces and faced resistance to its rule from smaller armed groups in Gaza. ... |
Guinea's embattled elections commission chief to step down Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:32 PM PDT CONAKRY (Reuters) - The president of Guinea's national election commission on Wednesday said he will step down amid a political stalemate over parliamentary polls and following months of pressure from opposition supporters. The mineral-rich west African nation has struggled to complete a transition to civilian rule since 2010 because the final step in the process -- parliamentary elections -- has been repeatedly delayed by disputes between rival political camps. ... |
Pentagon maps Japan radiation, says U.S. personnel safe Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday posted a website mapping the amount of radiation to which the tens of thousands of Americans in Japan at the time of last year's earthquake and nuclear disaster were exposed and said none of the doses posed health risks. The 9.0 magnitude March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, triggering meltdowns, spewing radiation and prompting the Pentagon to announce voluntary evacuation for families of service members stationed in Japan. ... |
Mali requests military assistance to free north Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:30 PM PDT ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Mali's interim leader has made a formal request to West African regional body ECOWAS for military assistance to help free the country's north, which has been occupied since April by Islamist fighters, a senior Malian official said on Wednesday. Leaders of an influential former military junta, however, immediately rejected the possible deployment of foreign troops on Malian soil. "Mali is in danger, and that danger is a cross-border danger. ... |
Dutch pro-European parties lead in opinion polls Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:16 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two pro-European political parties in the Netherlands that backed bailouts are leading in the opinion polls one week before an election dominated by the euro zone crisis and austerity measures, three surveys showed on Wednesday. Prime Minister Mark Rutte's fiscally conservative Liberal Party would win the most seats, the new polls showed, followed closely by the Labour Party, which is pro-euro but opposes tough austerity measures. ... |
Turkey accuses Syria of 'state terrorism' Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:46 AM PDT |
France giving aid to rebel-held Syrian cities Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:40 PM PDT France has started providing direct aid and money to five rebel-held Syrian cities as it intensifies efforts to weaken President Bashar Assad, in the first such move by a western power, a diplomatic source said Wednesday. |
Strong Costa Rica quake causes panic, minor damage Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:57 PM PDT |
President has not tackled Egypt's biggest problems Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:49 PM PDT |
Iraq's role in Syria war poses problems for US Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:52 PM PDT |
French judges to exhume Arafat body in West Bank Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:14 AM PDT |
Afghan soldiers fired during insider attacks probe Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:30 PM PDT |
Gadhafi's spy chief in Libyan hands Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:14 PM PDT |
Suspect IDed in Quebec election rally shooting Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:07 PM PDT |
Bullfights back on Spanish public TV after ban Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT |
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