VIDEO: Women march against Berlusconi

VIDEO: Women march against Berlusconi

VIDEO: Women march against Berlusconi

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 12:32 AM PST

Thousands of women are expected to take part in marches in cities across Italy to protest against the country's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.


VIDEO: Tunisian migrants head to Italy

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 12:46 AM PST

The Italian government has declared a humanitarian emergency after nearly 3,000 migrants arrive in the country in the last few days.


VIDEO: Rally stampede in Nigeria kills 11

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 12:55 AM PST

At least eleven people have died in a stampede during an election rally for Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan.


VIDEO: Swiss vote on gun restrictions

Posted: 13 Feb 2011 01:06 AM PST

People in Switzerland are voting in a referendum on whether to impose far-reaching restrictions on firearms.


Egypt army moves in on Tahrir, traffic flows

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 11:51 PM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian soldiers formed lines and moved in around protesters still in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday as traffic started flowing through the square again for the first time in more than two weeks, Reuters witnesses said.

Egypt military rulers under pressure from protesters

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 11:51 PM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new military rulers, who have promised to hand power to civilians, faced impatient protesters on Sunday who want swift steps to prove their nation is set for democracy after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow.

11 February - unlucky date for tyrants?

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 11:50 PM PST

LONDON, Feb 13: For most of us 11 February is just another unremarkable late-winter day. But if you're a long serving Middle Eastern autocrat it's a date to mark in the diary with a big warning cross.

Egypt army starts moving in on Tahrir - witnesses

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 10:50 PM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian soldiers formed lines and moved in around protesters still in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday as traffic started flowing through the square again for the first time in more than two weeks, Reuters witnesses said.

ANALYSIS - People's revolutions don't guarantee democracy

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 10:50 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of protesters have thronged public squares; slogans have been chanted, banners waved and security forces cowed into inaction; the reviled despot has stepped down or fled abroad.

UK to allow same-sex "marriage" in church - reports

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 10:19 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain plans to allow same-sex unions to be celebrated in places of worship, removing a key legal distinction between homosexual civil partnerships and heterosexual marriage, newspapers reported on Sunday.

Nigeria presidential rally ends in deadly stampede

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 09:18 PM PST

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least 11 people were trampled to death on Saturday in a stampede at an election campaign rally for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt.

WITNESS - Unlike Iraq, Egyptians do regime change their way

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 09:18 PM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - The last Arab despot I saw overthrown was Saddam Hussein. That was all very different from the fall of Hosni Mubarak, toppled this week by his own people, not the might of a foreign army.

US eyes Egypt Islamists as extremist fears fester

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 09:18 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials are concerned that Islamic extremists may try to exploit Egypt's upheaval but are not yet convinced that the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most influential Islamist opposition group, is necessarily a threat.

Military rulers face squeeze from Egypt protesters

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 08:21 PM PST

CAIRO, Feb 13 — Egypt's new military rulers, who have promised to hand power to civilians, are facing impatient protesters who want swift steps to prove their nation is set for democracy after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow. The nation wakes up to its first working day today since Mubarak was toppled during the Egyptian weekend, and protest organisers ...


U.S. President Obama calls fellow leaders on Egypt

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 07:46 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday welcomed Egypt's new military rulers' commitment to civilian rule and respect for all treaties and stressed U.S. support, including financial support, for Egypt.

U.S. calls on Syria to release young blogger

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 07:46 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States condemned on Saturday what it said was Syria's "secret trial" of a young blogger and called for her immediate release, saying allegations of U.S. espionage connections were baseless.

Algeria police stifle Egypt-inspired protest

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 07:46 PM PST

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Thousands of police in riot gear blocked off the centre of Algeria's capital on Saturday and stopped government opponents from staging a protest march that sought to emulate Egypt's popular revolt.

Pakistan seeks to ease rift over U.S. prisoner

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 07:46 PM PST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan warned on Saturday it would be "extremely counter-productive" if ties with the United States were to be harmed by the case of an American held in a Pakistani jail and accused of murder.

Ron Paul wins US conservative poll, Romney second

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 07:16 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Libertarian Republican Congressman Ron Paul won a presidential straw poll of conservatives on Saturday in a result that showed Republicans have far to go to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama in 2012.

Suicide bomber kills 38, wounds dozens in Iraq

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 07:16 PM PST

SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday near a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims at a bus depot in the Iraqi city of Samarra, killing 38 people and wounding scores, police and officials said.

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