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• Air strikes, car bombs wreck last day of Syria "truce"
• Clinton presses Algeria on Mali intervention plan
• Germany's Schaeuble tells skeptical UK "EU needs you"
• Netanyahu wins party mandate for alliance with far right
• Russian punk band "risk lives" in Soviet-style prisons
• Anti-corruption crusader rattles India's political class
• Senegal's Sall replaces interior, foreign ministers in reshuffle
• Storm damages crops in Haiti, fueling food price woes
• Turkish police fire tear gas at banned secularist march
• Ukraine ruling party ahead in vote monitors call flawed
• Syrian regime launches nationwide airstrikes
• Pearson, Bertelsmann confirm publishing tie-up
• Al-Qaida claims deadly holiday attacks in Iraq
• Cuba's 2nd city without power, water after Sandy
• UK police take some blame for Savile case
• China steps carefully with protesting middle class
• Ukraine's ruling party leads in vote called biased
• Egypt: Coptic Church moves toward picking new pope
• US seeks Algeria's support in possible Mali move
• France eyes 'Google Tax' for French websites
• 'Pragmatic' Rutte to lead new Dutch coalition government
• Is the detritus of the Iraq war harming the babies of Fallujah?
• Chile drops mandatory vote – and a few incumbent mayors
• The real reason China-Japan are locked in a territory dispute
• Ukraine elections confirm divisions over Russia, Europe
• Venezuela prioritizes 'happiness' in its national budget
• Home to Tintin and Smurfs, Belgium looks to reinvigorate comic industry
• Airstrikes, car bombs in Syria leave brief cease-fire in tatters
• Is Europe really on the brink?

Air strikes, car bombs wreck last day of Syria "truce" Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:50 AM PDT BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian jets bombed parts of Damascus on Monday in what residents said were the capital's fiercest air raids yet, at the end of what was supposed to be a four-day truce. "More than 100 buildings have been destroyed, some leveled to the ground," said opposition activist Moaz al-Shami. "Whole neighbourhoods are deserted." Each side in the 19-month-old conflict between President Bashar al-Assad and rebels blamed the other for breaking the truce proposed by peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to mark a Muslim holiday. Two car bombs rocked the capital on Monday, state media ...

Clinton presses Algeria on Mali intervention plan Posted: 29 Oct 2012 03:40 PM PDT ALGIERS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed regional power Algeria on Monday to support an Africa-led military intervention in northern Mali, a senior U.S. official said. Clinton's one-day visit comes amid mounting international pressure on Algeria over the crisis in Mali, where a March military coup was followed by a revolt that has seen Tuareg rebels and Islamist militants, some linked to al Qaeda, seize control of the northern two-thirds of the country. The senior U.S. ...

Germany's Schaeuble tells skeptical UK "EU needs you" Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:36 PM PDT OXFORD (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble urged Britain on Monday to remain strongly engaged in the European Union, responding to a tide of Euroskepticism that Berlin fears could sweep London towards the exit. Schaeuble's plea, delivered during a visit to Oxford University, came days after British Foreign Secretary William Hague mapped out a very different vision of a much looser EU in which Britain would opt out of many policies. Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would visit Britain, an "important partner", for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron next week. ...

Netanyahu wins party mandate for alliance with far right Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:51 AM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday overcame opposition within his party to an alliance with a far-right group that opinion polls predict will help him triumph in a January election. Netanyahu had angered many Likud party faithful with a surprise announcement on Thursday of the merger with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's ultra-nationalist party. ...

Russian punk band "risk lives" in Soviet-style prisons Posted: 29 Oct 2012 11:57 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two women from punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to jail for an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral face harsh, Soviet-style prison camps where their lives may be in danger due to a lack of medicine and no hot water amid sub-zero winter temperatures, according to a recently released band member. Pussy Riot's protest has attracted global attention because of the two-year jail sentences meted out to its members for what prosecutors called "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred". ...

Anti-corruption crusader rattles India's political class Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:39 PM PDT NEW DELHI (Reuters) - From a shabby house in one of New Delhi's grimmest suburbs, a mild-mannered former tax official has launched a salvo of accusations of corruption involving some of India's most powerful people, rocking the political establishment. In quick succession, Arvind Kejriwal has publicly leveled charges of shady dealings against the son-in-law of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, the outgoing law minister and the leader of the main opposition party. ...

Senegal's Sall replaces interior, foreign ministers in reshuffle Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:27 PM PDT DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese President Macky Sall has fired his interior and foreign ministers in his first cabinet reshuffle since taking office six months ago, the government announced on state television late on Monday. Interior Minister Mbaye Ndiaye had come under heavy criticism for his handling of a riot by supporters of a jailed religious leader who smashed car windows, set fire to buses, and ransacked shops in the capital Dakar last week. He was replaced by retired general Pathe Seck. ...

Storm damages crops in Haiti, fueling food price woes Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:53 AM PDT PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - As Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the U.S. East Coast on Monday, the full extent of the storm's havoc on Haiti was just beginning to emerge. Extensive damage to crops throughout the southern third of the country, as well as the high potential for a spike in cases of cholera and other water-borne diseases, could mean Haiti will see the deadliest effects of Sandy in the coming days and weeks. Haiti reported the highest death toll in the Caribbean, as swollen rivers and landslides claimed at least 52 lives, according to the country's Civil Protection office. ...

Turkish police fire tear gas at banned secularist march Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:22 PM PDT ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of secularists protesting at a banned rally in the capital on Monday against what they see as an increasingly authoritarian and Islamist government. The scenes of chanting men and women draped in Turkish flags and carrying banners portraying the country's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk highlight a longstanding division in Turkish society between staunch secularists on the one hand and more conservative religious Turks on the other. ...

Ukraine ruling party ahead in vote monitors call flawed Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:21 PM PDT KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich's party was on course on Monday to secure a new parliamentary majority, but international monitors condemned the election as flawed and said the country had taken a step back under his leadership. Exit polls and partial results from Sunday's vote showed Yanukovich's Party of the Regions would, with help from long-time allies, win more than half the seats in the 450-member assembly after boosting public sector wages and welfare handouts to win over disillusioned voters in its traditional power bases. ...

Syrian regime launches nationwide airstrikes Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:58 PM PDT Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago.

Pearson, Bertelsmann confirm publishing tie-up Posted: 29 Oct 2012 11:44 AM PDT Two of the world's biggest publishing houses are to link up in a deal that will bring the writings of classics like George Orwell's "1984" and this year's literary phenomenon "Fifty Shades of Grey" under one umbrella.

Al-Qaida claims deadly holiday attacks in Iraq Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:38 AM PDT An al-Qaida affiliated group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for wave of attacks that killed dozens of people in the past two days during a major Muslim holiday.

Cuba's 2nd city without power, water after Sandy Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:45 PM PDT Residents of Cuba's second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as the island's deadliest storm in seven years, ripping rooftops from homes and toppling power lines.

UK police take some blame for Savile case Posted: 29 Oct 2012 07:28 AM PDT The head of Britain's Metropolitan Police says authorities and others failed to notice a pattern of behavior that indicated that entertainer Jimmy Savile may have been sexually abusing young girls.

China steps carefully with protesting middle class Posted: 29 Oct 2012 06:21 AM PDT A victory by protesters against the expansion of a chemical plant proves the new rule in China: The authoritarian government is scared of middle-class rebellion and will give in if the demonstrators' aims are limited and not openly political.

Ukraine's ruling party leads in vote called biased Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:22 PM PDT The Ukrainian president's party will retain its strong grip on power, according to returns Monday from a parliamentary election that was criticized by Western observers as unfair and biased against the opposition.

Egypt: Coptic Church moves toward picking new pope Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:41 PM PDT A council of Egypt's Coptic Christians voted on Monday in a process that will lead to the selection of a new pope for the ancient church, as the community struggles to assert its identity and rights in a rising tide of Islamism that has left many Copts fearful for their future.

US seeks Algeria's support in possible Mali move Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:53 PM PDT U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Algeria's assistance on Monday for any future military intervention in Mali, pressing the North African nation to provide intelligence — if not boots on the ground — to help rout the al-Qaida-linked militants across its southern border.

France eyes 'Google Tax' for French websites Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:46 PM PDT French President Francois Hollande is considering a pushing for a new tax that would see search engines such as Google have to pay each time they use content from French media.

'Pragmatic' Rutte to lead new Dutch coalition government Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT The next time Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has a summit with other European leaders in Brussels, he will be in a shrinking camp of political survivors.

Is the detritus of the Iraq war harming the babies of Fallujah? Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:34 AM PDT Anecdotal tales of inexplicable sickness and deformities have abounded in Iraq for years. In their broad brushstrokes, they seem plausible. The first Gulf War had littered much of Iraq with depleted uranium from the armor-piercing bullets the US used to destroy Saddam Hussein's retreating columns in1991. (The Monitor's Scott Peterson traveled around Baghdad with a Geiger counter in 2003 and found plenty of "hot spots" more than a decade later).

Chile drops mandatory vote – and a few incumbent mayors Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:13 AM PDT Chileans replaced pro-government mayors in many of its most important municipalities yesterday, in the country's first election without mandatory voting. It marked a reverse for the administration of President Sebastian Piñera, who three years ago became the first elected conservative president in Chile in decades.

The real reason China-Japan are locked in a territory dispute Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:11 AM PDT As China and Japan spar over control of a group of tiny islets in the sea between them, the deeper issue is really the question of which of Asia's two biggest economies will gain control first of the valuable oil and natural gas located there.

Ukraine elections confirm divisions over Russia, Europe Posted: 29 Oct 2012 09:05 AM PDT The party of Ukraine's incumbent President Viktor Yanukovych looks on track to win a majority in the 450-seat State Rada, or parliament, after a hard-fought election campaign that seems to have done little more than confirm the hard, enduring political divisions between the country's Ukrainian-speaking Europe-leaning west, moderate center, and the Russian-speaking and Moscow-oriented east.

Venezuela prioritizes 'happiness' in its national budget Posted: 29 Oct 2012 08:55 AM PDT Happiness is serious business in Venezuela.

Home to Tintin and Smurfs, Belgium looks to reinvigorate comic industry Posted: 29 Oct 2012 08:02 AM PDT It may now be dominated by American superheros and Japanese manga, but the comic book industry was once associated with no country more than Belgium. Through much of the last century, this small, Western European nation played an outsized role in shaping comics through iconic characters like Tintin and the Smurfs.

Airstrikes, car bombs in Syria leave brief cease-fire in tatters Posted: 29 Oct 2012 07:15 AM PDT • A daily summary of global reports on security issues.

Is Europe really on the brink? Posted: 29 Oct 2012 06:32 AM PDT In the 2012 London Olympic Games, who won the most medals? Yes, the United States garnered 104, and China captured 88. Nicely done!

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