Bosnia court orders retrial of U.S. embassy attacker
Reuters July 12, 2013 - 14:54 SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian appeals court revoked on Friday an 18-year jail sentence against an Islamist radical for a 2011 gun attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo...
View ArticleCuban food ration system marks 50 years amid controversy
Reuters July 12, 2013 - 16:24 By Rosa Tania Valdes HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's food-rationing system marked 50 years on Friday amid controversy, with President Raul Castro facing popular resistance to...
View ArticleUganda army says fears rebels influx after eastern Congo attack
Reuters July 12, 2013 - 16:38 By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Al Qaeda linked rebels have attacked a town in eastern Congo, forcing thousands of refugees flee across the border into Uganda...
View ArticleRomania sentences transport minister to jail for graft
Reuters July 12, 2013 - 16:26 BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Transport Minister Relu Fenechiu was handed a five year prison sentence for corruption on Friday, becoming the country's first government...
View ArticleViolence flares around Northern Ireland marches
Reuters July 12, 2013 - 20:28 BELFAST (Reuters) - Protestant marchers in Belfast threw objects at police, who responded with water cannon as Northern Ireland's annual parade season descended into...
View ArticleU.S. expresses 'deep concern' about South Sudan violence
Reuters July 13, 2013 - 01:02 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday expressed "deep concern" about reports of killings, beatings and looting in South Sudan's eastern state of Jonglei and...
View ArticleQuebec town marks deadly train crash with vigil, church bells
Reuters July 13, 2013 - 05:28 By Phil Wahba LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - A week after their town was devastated by one of the worst train accidents in Canadian history, residents of Lac-Megantic,...
View ArticleIraq foreign minister says can't stop Iran arms flights to Syria
Reuters July 13, 2013 - 09:17 RIYADH (Reuters) - Iraq is unable to stop its neighbour Iran transferring weapons to Syria through its airspace, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in a newspaper...
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View ArticleObama urges Republican-led House to pass immigration overhaul
Reuters July 13, 2013 - 11:16 By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama stepped into the fray in the U.S. Congress over immigration on Saturday, urging Americans to press the...
View ArticleRussia says no asylum request yet from fugitive Snowden
Reuters July 13, 2013 - 11:43 By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia kept former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden at arm's length on Saturday, saying it had not been in touch with the...
View ArticleTrack fault may have caused French train crash-SNCF
Reuters July 13, 2013 - 14:35 By Pauline Ades-Mevel BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France (Reuters) - The train derailment that killed at least six people in central France on Friday may have been caused by a...
View ArticleBank whistleblower faces criminal backlash
Business Banks in turmoil 1 comments Readers Recommend Image Caption: Reyl is fighting back with its own accusations. (Keystone) July 13, 2013 - 16:27 A former private banker has been arrested in...
View ArticleSwiss arrest witness linked to French minister in tax scandal
Reuters July 13, 2013 - 18:16 ZURICH (Reuters) - A key witness in the investigation against France's former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac has been arrested by Swiss authorities, the Swiss...
View ArticleSuspected militants killed in Pakistan drone strike
Reuters July 14, 2013 - 08:04 PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least two suspected foreign militants were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's volatile border region of North Waziristan, local...
View ArticleZimbabwe police, soldiers cast early votes contested by PM
Reuters July 14, 2013 - 10:24 HARARE (Reuters) - Police officers and soldiers who will be on duty during Zimbabwe's July 31 election began voting on Sunday, the eve of a court hearing to stop the...
View ArticleMyanmar leader visits Britain, may be challenged on human rights
Reuters July 15, 2013 - 01:06 By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - President Thein Sein, the first leader of Myanmar to visit Britain in more than a quarter of a century, will hold talks on Monday with...
View ArticleSenior U.S. official visits Egypt as Islamists plan more protests
Arab Spring Reuters July 15, 2013 - 01:08 By Shadia Nasralla and Ulf Laessing CAIRO (Reuters) - The first senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since the army toppled the country's elected president...
View ArticleDetained Iranian diplomat released on bail after four months
Reuters July 15, 2013 - 02:46 By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists was released from a Tehran prison on bail on Sunday after four...
View ArticleBangladesh sentences former Islamist party chief to life
Reuters July 15, 2013 - 08:57 DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal convicted and sentenced a top Islamist party leader to life imprisonment on Monday, as violence broke out across the...
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