World News: General

  • Blasts rock Russian arms depot - agencies Reuters - Fri, Nov 13

    A series of blasts tore through a Russian arms depot on Friday, local news agencies reported.
    The RIA news agency quoted an emergency official as saying that blasts at the depot in Ulyanovsk, a city on the banks of the Volga River, had been reported by local residents.

  • A woman wearing a niqab walks at Trocadero square near the Eiffel Tower in Paris in this June 24, 2009 file photo. France will issue recommendations against full face veils but not pass a law barring Muslim women from wearing them, a leading backer of a legal ban said on Friday. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/Files
    France will oppose but not ban burqas - deputy Reuters - Fri, Nov 13

    France will issue recommendations against full face veils but not pass a law barring Muslim women from wearing them, a leading backer of a legal ban said on Friday.

  • EU plans training missions for Somali forces Reuters - Fri, Nov 13

    The European Union is expected to approve plans next week to train some Somali armed forces, an EU official said on Friday.

  • Moldova's ex-President Vladimir Voronin is seen in Chisinau in this September 11, 2009 file photo. Moldova is in a flap over accusations by its new pro-West leaders that Voronin took hens, turkeys and even a cow with its calf from an official residence when he stepped down. REUTERS/Valerii Corcimari/Files
    Moldova's Voronin took hens, cow, horse, says leader Reuters - Fri, Nov 13

    CHISINAU (Reuters) - Moldova is in a flap over accusations by its new pro-West leaders that communist ex-President Vladimir Voronin took hens, turkeys and even a cow with its calf from an official residence when he stepped down.

  • Deadlock may soon end on Middle East peace talks ANI - Fri, Nov 13

    Jerusalem, Nov. 13 (ANI): Israel has signalled fresh hope for talks with the Palestine Authority following Palestinian officials postponing the elections in their territories indefinitely.The polls were originally scheduled to be held on January 24.

  • South Africa white police allege discrimination Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    A predominately white South African trade union accused the government on Thursday of putting racial job quotas ahead of fighting crime.

  • Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua attends a news conference in Paris November 12, 2009. Pasqua, convicted last month for his role in an arms scandal in the 1990's, accused former President Jacques Chirac of deliberately letting illegal weapons sales to Angola go ahead. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
    Ex-French minister links Chirac to arms scandal Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, convicted last month for his role in an arms scandal in the 1990s, accused former President Jacques Chirac on Thursday of letting illegal weapons sales to Angola go ahead.

  • EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks to students in Tehran November 3, 2009. QUALITY FROM SOURCE REUTERS/Handout/Khamenei.ir
    Iran exile group: Khamenei tightens intelligence grip Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has created a powerful new intelligence organisation to try to quell any further public unrest following June's disputed election, an exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday.

  • Aid freeze in post-coup Honduras hurting poor Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Poor Hondurans are going hungry and their sick children cannot obtain medicines as donors cut aid to the country following a June coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, doctors and aid workers say.

  • Italy arrests 6 in sting on Algeria militant cell Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Six Algerians have been arrested as part of a Europe-wide counterfeit ring that stole the identities of Algerian footballers and is believed to have funded terrorism, Italy's interior minister said on Thursday.

  • Libya says two Swiss businessmen must stand trial Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Two Swiss businessmen prevented from leaving Libya for more than a year will be tried for tax evasion and visa irregularities, Libya's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

  • Iran Guards appoint new Tehran commander - website Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards force has replaced its commander for the greater Tehran area, its Web site said on Thursday.

  • Rice is displayed for sale at Ben Thanh market in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City in this April 28, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Kham/Files
    FACTBOX - World food prices to stay high, spikes possible Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Global food commodities prices are set to stay high in the medium term due to tight balance between supply and demand which can be easily rocked and trigger food price spikes similar to the 2007/08 crisis, agriculture experts say.

  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during his annual address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow, November 12, 2009. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Mikhail Klimentyev
    N. Caucasus strife is Russia's top problem - Kremlin Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday warned the Russian elite that an upsurge of violence in the Muslim-dominated North Caucasus had become Russia's single biggest domestic problem.

  • Children receive biscuits at the Kibati camp for internally displaced people outside of the city of Goma, eastern DRC, in this December 4, 2008 file photo.A U.N. world food summit next week is likely to make little headway in the fight against hunger. REUTERS/Peter Andrews/Files
    Food summit to make little headway in war on hunger Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    A U.N. world food summit next week is likely to make little headway in the fight against hunger, with leaders simply pledging to boost agricultural aid to poor countries but setting no targets or deadlines for action.

  • Road accident in Angola kills 32 people, injures 42 Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Thirty-two people were killed after a truck carrying them to Angola's northern Uige province overturned, also injuring 42 other people, state-owned Radio Nacional de Angola said on Thursday.

  • A man performing the role of Islamic militant Amir Abdillah is guarded by anti-terror police during a re-enactment in Bogor, West Java November 12, 2009. Indonesian radicals plotted to crash an explosives-laden car into a convoy carrying President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono weeks after deadly attacks on Jakarta hotels in July. REUTERS/Telly Nathalia
    Indonesia suspect details plot against president Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Indonesian radicals plotted to crash an explosives-laden car into a convoy carrying President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono just weeks after deadly attacks on Jakarta hotels in July, a suspect said on Thursday.

  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during his annual address to the federal assembly in Moscow, November 12, 2009. Medvedev called on Russia on Thursday to refocus its economy away from Soviet-era energy and heavy industry towards information technology, telecommunications and space. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
    Medvedev warns Russia opposition not to rock boat Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    President Dmitry Medvedev warned Russia's opposition in his annual address on Thursday not to use democracy as a cover to "destabilise the state and split society".

  • Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, November 12, 2009. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen
    Iraq warns of more violence before elections Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Insurgents may step up attacks in Iraq before a parliamentary election in January, the government said on Thursday, acknowledging the fears of many Iraqis who are only just starting to enjoy better security.

  • Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra (L) greets red-shirted supporters at a hotel in Siem Reap November 12, 2009. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
    Thai crisis deepens as Thaksin finds Cambodian base Reuters - Thu, Nov 12

    Emboldened by a rousing welcome in Cambodia, Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra is rallying supporters from just over the border, upping the ante in Thailand's political crisis.


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