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Italians head to polls in crucial vote for euro zone

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 04:03 PM PST

A man with a Guy Fawkes mask is seen amongst a crowd at a rally led by Five Star Movement leader and comedian Beppe Grillo in RomeROME (Reuters) - Italians vote on Sunday in one of the most closely watched elections in years with markets nervous about whether it will produce a strong government to pull Italy out of recession and help resolve the euro zone debt crisis. A huge final rally by anti-establishment-comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo on Friday before a campaigning ban kicked in has highlighted public anger at traditional parties and added to uncertainty about the election outcome. Polling booths will open between 02:00 am-04:00 pm EST on Sunday and 01:00 am-09:00 am EST on Monday. ...


Tens of thousands in Spain protest economic policy, corruption

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 01:56 PM PST

Demonstrators stage a protest against austerity, near the Spanish Parliament in MadridMADRID (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Spaniards marched through cities across the country on Saturday to protest deep austerity, the privatization of public services and political corruption. Gathering under the banner of the "Citizen Tide", students, doctors, unionists, young families and pensioners staged rowdy but non-violent demonstrations as a near five-year economic slump shows no sign of recovery and mass unemployment rises. "I'm here to add my voice. They're cutting where they shouldn't cut; health, education ... basic services. ...


Cyprus votes for president as clock ticks on bailout deal

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 04:06 PM PST

Cyprus presidential candidate Anastasiades of the right wing Democratic Rally party waits for a debate to start in NicosiaNICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriots vote in a runoff on Sunday to elect a president who must clinch a bailout deal so the island nation can avoid a financial meltdown that would revive the euro zone crisis. Conservative leader Nicos Anastasiades, who favors hammering out a quick deal with foreign lenders, is favored to win against Communist-backed rival Stavros Malas, who is more wary of the austerity terms accompanying any rescue. ...


Iran says it has brought down a foreign spy drone

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 04:12 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards have brought down a foreign surveillance drone during a military exercise, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said on Saturday. "We have managed to bring down a drone of the enemy. This has happened before in our country," the agency quoted war games spokesman General Hamid Sarkheli as saying in Kerman, southeast Iran, where the military exercise is taking place. The agency gave no details on who the drone belonged to. In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said he had seen the reports. ...

Kurdish militant leader signals Turkish prisoners may be freed

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:54 PM PST

Pro-Kurdish politicians Onder, Buldan and Tan, are surrounded by media members before leaving for Imrali island in IstanbulISTANBUL (Reuters) - The jailed leader of Turkey's Kurdish rebellion on Saturday signaled that his followers could release captives and further a fledgling peace process that may be the best hope in years of ending the decades-long conflict. The call by Abdullah Ocalan, the head of the autonomy-seeking Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), came after a rare meeting with members of parliament's only pro-Kurdish party at his prison on an island in the Sea of Marmara south of Istanbul. ...


UK downgrade pressures reluctant Osborne to change course

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 04:07 PM PST

Pedestrians walk past the Bank of England in the City of LondonLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's finance minister insisted on Saturday he would not change course after the loss of the country's 'AAA' credit rating but George Osborne is facing pressure to do just that as his bet on austerity falters ahead of the 2015 election. Moody's dealt Britain its first sovereign rating downgrade on Friday, saying the $2.5 trillion economy faced years more sluggish growth and debt would continue to rise until 2016. ...


Yemen security chief escapes gunmen as three die in south

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 09:55 AM PST

Police troopers are seen on a street during clashes with separatists in the southern Yemeni city of MukallaADEN (Reuters) - A Yemeni security chief survived an assassination attempt on Saturday in the south of the country, where three people were killed in clashes between his forces and separatists. The Defence Ministry said Abdulwahab al-Wali, head of the central security forces, escaped the attack by unknown gunmen in the town of Mukalla, but two of his bodyguards were wounded. Southern Yemen, which was an independent state until 1990, is troubled by both separatist unrest and an insurgency led by Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda, a source of concern to Gulf states and the West. ...


France's Hollande hails quality meat at farm show

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:26 AM PST

French President Francois Hollande speaks during his visit to the 50th International Agricultural Show in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande sang the praises of local produce at the annual French farm show, where the horse meat scandal added to French cattle breeders' downbeat mood. Hollande, who was long the head of the rural Correze region, spent hours talking to livestock farmers, who worry that the discovery of horse meat in lasagnas and other processed foods labeled as beef-based will cast another cloud over their sector. "We need to promote French quality, French production and French cattle breeding," Hollande told reporters at Europe's largest farm show. ...


More fighting erupts in Sudan's Darfur region

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:10 AM PST

A boy who fled a war across the border in Sudan's Blue Nile state waits in a queue outside a clinic in Doro refugee campKHARTOUM (Reuters) - New fighting erupted between Arab tribes in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, tribal leaders said on Saturday, threatening to displace more people after clashes last month killed more than 100 and forced around 130,000 to flee. Law and order has collapsed in swathes of the arid western region since mainly non-Arab tribes revolted against the Arab government in Khartoum in 2003, accusing it of neglect. Violence has ebbed since 2004 but picked up again in recent months. ...


Palestinians demand inquiry into death in an Israeli jail

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 10:51 AM PST

Palestinians sit next to a burning tyre during clashes with Israeli troops near RamallahRAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian officials on Saturday demanded an international investigation into the death of a Palestinian detainee who died in an Israeli jail hours earlier. A spokeswoman for Israel's Prison Authority said that the detainee, 30-year-old Arafat Jaradat, had apparently died of cardiac arrest. An emergency service team had tried to resuscitate him but failed, she said. ...


Q&A: Why investors are wary of Italy's elections

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 04:29 PM PST

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Investors are keeping a wary eye on Italy as the country heads to the polls Sunday and Monday to elect a new parliament. They fear that a new government and prime minister could weaken or scrap the economic reforms and budget cuts begun by outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti during his 15 months in office and hurt Italy's chances of recovering from a decade of low growth.

Grief besets family of Pistorius' slain girlfriend

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 08:14 AM PST

Olympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius , in court Friday Feb. 22, 2013 in Pretoria, South Africa, for his bail hearing charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The defense and prosecution both completed their arguments with the magistrate soon to rule if the double-amputee athlete can be freed before trial or if he must stay behind bars pending trial) (AP Photo)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Far from the courtroom drama that has gripped South Africa, the family of Oscar Pistorius' slain girlfriend has struggled with its own private deluge of grief, frustration and bewilderment.


Egypt opposition leader calls for election boycott

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:08 AM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 24, 2013 file photo, leading democracy advocate Mohammed ElBaradei speaks to a handful of journalists including the Associated Press, at his home on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Mohamed ElBaradei, who leads the main opposition National Salvation Front, wrote on Twitter Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 that he is calling for the boycott "to expose sham democracy," as he said he did in a similar call in 2010 under then-president Hosni Mubarak. ElBaradei says he urges the boycott of the vote called by Islamist President Mohammed Morsi because he "will not be part of an act of deception."(AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei called Saturday for a boycott of parliamentary elections, drawing immediate criticism from some within his movement who said it was a hasty decision.


Mali radicals recruited child soldiers at schools

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 08:18 AM PST

In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, children attend a class in a madrassa in Gao, northern Mali. Nearly a month after the al-Qaida-linked militants were driven out of Gao and into the surrounding villages, students are now returning to the city's Quranic schools. Many classrooms, though, are still half full, as tens of thousands of people fled the fighting and strict Islamic rule imposed by the extremists. However, other pupils left Gao not with their families but with the Islamic fighters when they retreated, say human rights activists and local officials. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)GAO, Mali (AP) — The radical Islamic fighters showed up at Mohamed Salia's Quranic school, armed with weapons and demanding to address his students.


Ex-Canada ambassador slighted by Affleck's "Argo"

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:01 AM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 file photo, former Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor and his wife Pat, pose for photographers at the premiere of the film Argo in Washington. Taylor, Canada's former ambassador in Iran, who protected Americans at great personal risk during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979, says if "Argo" wins the Oscar for best picture on Sunday there would be something wrong with director Ben Affleck if he didn't mention Canada, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)TORONTO (AP) — The former Canadian ambassador to Iran who protected Americans at great personal risk during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis says it will reflect poorly on Ben Affleck if he doesn't say a few words about Canada's role should the director's film "Argo" win the Oscar for best picture Sunday.


Talk of peace with Pakistan Taliban angers victims

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 05:54 AM PST

In this Thursday, Feb. 21, 2012, photo, Pakistani student Hazratullah Khan, 14, who was injured in a car bombing on December 17, 2012 in Peshawar, poses for a picture in Peshawar, Pakistan. Hazratullah Khan's right leg was amputated below the knee after he survived a car bombing as he was on his way home from school. His response when asked whether peace talks should be held with the Taliban leaders who ordered attacks like the ones that maimed him is simple: Hang them alive. Slice their flesh off their bodies and cut them into pieces. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Hazratullah Khan, who lost his right leg below the knee in a car bombing, answers immediately when asked whether the Pakistani government should hold peace talks with Taliban leaders responsible for attacks like the one that maimed him.


Battle for Syria's Aleppo airport intensifies

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:06 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, two Syrian refugee children sit outside their family tent, at Atmeh refugee camp, in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, Syria. This rebel-controlled camp only yards from the border with Turkey houses some 16,000 people displaced by the civil war. But the U.N. and other major aid agencies best equipped to handle such a large-scale relief agency cannot reach them because they are inside Syria. That leaves the job to smaller organizations who can only provide a fraction of the needs. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BEIRUT (AP) — The battle for Syria's second-largest airport intensified Saturday as government troops tried to reverse recent strategic gains the rebels have made in the northeast in their quest to topple President Bashar Assad.


Iran says it has captured a foreign 'enemy drone'

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 01:52 PM PST

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that it had captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran.

President's personal life hits French stage

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 07:36 AM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, French actors Daniel-Jean Colloredo, center, Marie Piton, left, and Dominique Merot perform in a scene of "Mr. Normal, His Women and Me," directed by Bernard Uzan, at the Tristan Bernard theater in Paris, France. A vow to keep his private life out of the public eye helped sweep Francois Hollande to power last year as France's president, attracting voters tired of his flashy predecessor's amorous exploits. Now, the words of the one-time dull Socialist are back to bite him in a new play. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)PARIS (AP) — A vow to keep his private life out of the public eye helped sweep Francois Hollande to power last year as France's president, attracting voters tired of his flashy predecessor's amorous exploits. Now, the words of the one-time dull Socialist are back to bite him in a new play.


Kurdish leader calls talks 'historic step'

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 09:56 AM PST

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has called talks with Turkish officials aiming to halt a decades-long conflict a historic step and urged all sides involved to show "care and sensitivity."

Israeli Oscar contenders force citizens to confront uncomfortable questions

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 06:00 AM PST

A former spy chief is making gripping statements about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but at Jerusalem's chic Cinamatheque, two university students can't keep their eyes on the screen. One sends text messages and checks Facebook; the other shifts uneasily."I felt uncomfortable in my chair," says one of them, Shay Amiran, a former combat soldier, after the screening of Oscar-nominated "The Gatekeepers." He especially bristled at a comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany during World War II. ...

Academy Awards: When 'No' gets a 'Yes!' in Chile

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 05:00 AM PST

When you click on the website of CinemaChile, the promoter of Chilean films around the world, you see a close-up of Mexican actor Gael García Bernal looking over his shoulder, a huge rainbow blurred out in the background. No one familiar with Chilean film needs the tiny caption. It's from the movie "No," released in 2012, now representing Chile at the Academy Awards as the country's first-ever Oscar nomination.

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