Egypt used excessive force to quell protests: report

Egypt used excessive force to quell protests: report


Egypt used excessive force to quell protests: report

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:55 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - A state-appointed committee concluded on Tuesday that Egyptian police used excessive force against pro-democracy protesters in a damning report on their conduct during the unrest that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.


US murder victims' photos issued

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:51 PM PDT

US police release photos that two British tourists took of themselves while out drinking on the night they were shot dead in Florida.


Entrepreneurs create 40% new jobs

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:37 PM PDT

A World Economic Forum study has found that a tiny number of start-up companies create more than a third of new jobs.


Past Holds a Clue to Goldstone’s Shift on the Gaza War

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:40 PM PDT

The Goldstone Report accused both Israel and Hamas of wrongdoing, much like a ruling decades earlier on South Africa.


Cuba Lays Foundation for a Leader Whose Last Name Is Not Castro

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:25 PM PDT

Cuba made the most significant change to its leadership since the 1959 revolution on Tuesday, naming someone other than a Castro to the second-highest position in the Communist Party.


Economix: Labor Puts Executive Pay in Spotlight

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:00 PM PDT

The A.F.L.-C.I.O. has put up a Web site highlighting a resurgence in compensation at the top, hoping to press corporate boards to share the wealth with its members.


Suspects in Italian's murder die in Gaza raid

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:21 PM PDT

Two suspects in the killing of Vittorio Arrigoni, the slain peace activist, die in gunfire with Hamas security forces.


Even Seattleites Have a Limit for a Fruitful and Multiplying Native, Moss

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:56 AM PDT

Spores have been really active this year, and so has a gardening hot line, which fields inquiries as to how to get rid of the abundant plant.


Economix: Rich People Don’t Realize They’re Rich

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 10:56 AM PDT

There's a big disconnect between what upper-income people think about the fairness of their own tax burden, and about the tax burden of "upper-income people" -- because so many rich people don't realize they're talking about themselves.


Poland summons Lithuania envoy over ethnic Poles

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:22 AM PDT

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's foreign ministry summoned the Lithuanian ambassador in Warsaw on Tuesday to express concern over the treatment of its Baltic neighbor's Polish-speaking minority.


France signals new openness on Muslim groups abroad

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:50 AM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - France is open to talking with any Muslim movement abroad that renounces violence, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday, signaling a policy shift in the face of popular revolts across the Middle East.


France signals new openness on Muslim groups abroad

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:50 AM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - France is open to talking with any Muslim movement abroad that renounces violence, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday, signaling a policy shift in the face of popular revolts across the Middle East.


Books of The Times: Recalling Childhood as a Styron

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:40 PM PDT

Alexandra Styron wrote of growing up as the child of a novelist with a charmed social circle and difficult personality.


RBS chief's £7.7m package agreed

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:56 AM PDT

The £7.7m pay package awarded to Royal Bank of Scotland's chief Stephen Hester has been approved by the UK government.


Brazil police hunt 'drug lord'

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:26 AM PDT

Hundreds of police in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro are searching the Rocinha neighbourhood for the man they believe runs the area's drugs trade.


Poland summons Lithuania envoy over ethnic Poles

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:22 AM PDT

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's foreign ministry summoned the Lithuanian ambassador in Warsaw on Tuesday to express concern over the treatment of its Baltic neighbor's Polish-speaking minority.


Widespread election violence erupts in Nigeria

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:49 AM PDT

Roughly 17,000 people fled their homes in eight northern Nigerian states as violence erupted after presidential elections in Africa's most populous nation, the Nigerian Red Cross said Tuesday.


Castro brother now Cuba's top Communist

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:19 AM PDT

Cuba's Communist Party elected President Raul Castro on Tuesday to succeed his older brother Fidel Castro as head of the country's highest political body and only legal party.


Yemen protester: 'They shot at us'

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 10:53 AM PDT

Government forces in Taiz and Sanaa fired on crowds of people protesting the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, leaving dozens wounded and at least three dead, eyewitnesses and medical sources said Tuesday.


Cuba's 'old guard' to oversee economic reform

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:21 AM PDT

Ageing confidantes of Raul Castro handed key party positions, despite talk of need to rejuvenate communist leadership.


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