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Syria’s opposition postpones meeting to form government

Syria’s opposition postpones meeting to form government

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria's opposition has postponed a gathering to type a provisional executive, within the newest setback to opposition efforts to create an administration to take over if President Bashar al-Assad is ousted, coalition sources stated on Sunday. The Syrian National Coalition meeting to opt for a provisional prime […]

 
 

Afghanistan’s Karzai criticizes U.S., exposing tension

Afghanistan’s Karzai criticizes U.S., exposing tension

KABUL (Reuters) – The top U.S. basic in Afghanistan expressed dismay on Sunday at remarks by President Hamid Karzai, who prompt that Washington benefited from Taliban assaults on his usa. Karzai's remarks, delivered all over the first discuss with through new U.S. Security Secretary Chuck Hagel, further strained already fraught […]

 
 

Venezuela election race starts, opposition at disadvantage

Venezuela election race starts, opposition at disadvantage

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela's charged election race kicked off on Sunday with throngs attending mass on the coffin of deceased leader Hugo Chavez and vowing to again his most popular successor, Nicolas Maduro, over probably opposition contender Henrique Capriles. The pair have except Monday to register their candidacies for the […]

 
 

Pakistani Christians, police, clash after neighborhood torched

Pakistani Christians, police, clash after neighborhood torched

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Tons of of Pakistani Christians took to the streets across the united states on Sunday, annoying higher protection after a Christian nearby used to be torched within the metropolis of Lahore a day past in reference to the usa's controversial anti-blasphemy law. Police fired into the air […]

 
 

Netanyahu hints Israeli coalition to be presented in days

Netanyahu hints Israeli coalition to be presented in days

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Top Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his outgoing cabinet on Sunday for what he stated was once most definitely the ultimate time, signaling he was on the subject of finishing the formation of a brand new govt. Netanyahu's closing date to current a governing coalition is on […]

 
 

Peace holds in heartlands of Kenya’s election losers

Peace holds in heartlands of Kenya’s election losers

KISUMU/MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – Strongholds of defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga have been peaceable on Sunday, it sounds as if reflecting a need with the aid of Kenyans to avoid a repeat of the bloodshed that adopted the ultimate election five years in the past. Odinga has refused to concede […]

 
 

Dancer accused in Bolshoi attack says did not want acid used

Dancer accused in Bolshoi attack says did not want acid used

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Bolshoi Ballet dancer accused of organizing an attack that just about blinded the Russian theatre's artistic director stated in court docket on Thursday that he didn’t intend for the sufferer to be splashed with acid. Pavel Dmitrichenko indicated he had agreed when the alleged associate accused […]

 
 

Syrian rebels seize U.N. peacekeepers near Golan Heights

Syrian rebels seize U.N. peacekeepers near Golan Heights

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian rebels have seized a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they’re going to hold them captive until President Bashar al-Assad's forces pull back from a rise up-held village which has seen heavy contemporary fighting. The seize used to be announced in rise […]

 
 

China faces social, financial risks in urbanization push

China faces social, financial risks in urbanization push

BEIJING (Reuters) – China's urbanization power could gas social unrest over land disputes and pose financial dangers if money is thrown round recklessly, a senior communist birthday party respectable and a leading economist mentioned on Thursday. Moving individuals from the nation-state to cities is a coverage priority for China's new […]

 
 

Indonesian provincial vote suggests religion card weakening

Indonesian provincial vote suggests religion card weakening

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia's most populous province has re-elected its conservative Muslim governor, but via the sort of slender margin that it suggests the spiritual card is also dropping its energy to win votes on the planet's greatest Islamic society. Final week's West Java election, the consequences of that have […]

 
 

Kenyan authorities urge patience as vote count drags on

Kenyan authorities urge patience as vote count drags on

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities stated the end result of a presidential election would not be compromised through the failure of digital vote counting expertise that has left the nation at the hours of darkness about the end result three days after the poll. Deputy Top Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, 51, […]

 
 

Slow Kenyan count puts technology on trial for African polls

Slow Kenyan count puts technology on trial for African polls

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya resorted to choppers to fly officers carrying outcomes from this week's presidential ballot to the capital, let down by way of new expertise geared toward warding off the violent disputes that led to 1,200 deaths after the vote 5 years ago. The snail-paced liberate of outcomes, […]

 
 

Insight: Beppe Grillo – Italian clown or political mastermind?

Insight: Beppe Grillo – Italian clown or political mastermind?

ROME (Reuters) – Beppe Grillo stirs strong emotions. His supporters imagine he can clean up Italian politics and give odd folks extra say in resolution-making. His opponents see a dangerous populist who conjures up memories of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. International media describe Grillo as a comic book, which on […]

 
 

Insight: Palestinian street boils at plight of prisoners

Insight: Palestinian street boils at plight of prisoners

OFER PRISON, West Financial institution (Reuters) – In a sprawling Israeli detention center, Palestinian activist Hassan Karajeh sat via a hurried courtroom listening to in a language he didn't take note under the authority of a armed forces occupation he and his people reject. The translator within the cramped portacabin-became-court […]

 
 

Analysis: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to ride out sanctions in nuclear push

Analysis: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to ride out sanctions in nuclear push

SEOUL (Reuters) – Contemporary U.N. sanctions are unlikely to halt North Korea's nuclear software provided that seven years of earlier measures from the world body and more than 50 years of U.S. penalties have failed to dissuade North Korea from looking to improve banned weapons. Below new chief Kim Jong-un, […]