Mubarak's wife released from detention

Mubarak's wife released from detention


Mubarak's wife released from detention

Posted: 17 May 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Suzanne Mubarak still faces investigation regarding wealth she amassed during time spent as Egypt's first lady.


Myanmar prisoner release fails to impress

Posted: 17 May 2011 11:56 AM PDT

Thousands are freed but critics say most were common criminals and not political prisoners.


Myanmar prisoner release fails to impress

Posted: 17 May 2011 11:56 AM PDT

Thousands are freed but critics say most were common criminals and not political prisoners.


Bahraini activist said threatened with rape: report

Posted: 17 May 2011 12:52 PM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - A prominent Bahraini human rights activist said he had been threatened with rape while in custody after he refused to apologize to the king over his role in anti-government protests.


At I.M.F., Maneuvering to Replace Jailed Chief

Posted: 17 May 2011 11:49 AM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has not yet resigned his position at the fund, but jockeying has already begun to replace him.


Parties in France Adjust to Changed Landscape

Posted: 17 May 2011 11:40 AM PDT

The Socialist Party, facing an unpopular president and a rising far-right party, has lost its top candidate for president.


Pomp and substance

Posted: 17 May 2011 12:12 PM PDT

Serious business looms behind the pagentry of Obama's UK visit


Dmitry Medvedev could shed light on Russian election plans

Posted: 17 May 2011 12:00 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev could shed more light on whether he or Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will run in the 2012 presidential election Wednesday, when he holds his biggest news conference since taking office.


Egypt watchdog slams teenager's death sentence

Posted: 17 May 2011 11:59 AM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian rights group said on Tuesday it was "deeply troubled" by the sentencing of a teenager to death and called for the verdict to be overturned.


Sudan carries out air strikes in Darfur: U.N.

Posted: 17 May 2011 11:13 AM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has carried out air strikes against two villages in Darfur and restricted the movement of aid groups in the troubled western region due to "ongoing" operations, the international peacekeepers said.


Brawling benefits cheat is jailed

Posted: 17 May 2011 08:06 AM PDT

A man caught on camera brawling with police is jailed for benefit fraud.


Man jailed for 70s and 80s abuse

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:51 AM PDT

A retired architect and former scout leader from Gwynedd is jailed for six years for abusing two boys between 1976 and 1984.


VIDEO: Symbolic healing of Queen's visit

Posted: 17 May 2011 11:06 AM PDT

People in County Sligo, where the Queen's cousin Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA in 1979, have shown overwhelming support for her four-day state visit to Ireland.


Live - Tuesday football

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:44 AM PDT

Cardiff and Reading meet in their play-off semi-final second leg for a place at Wembley, while there is a repeat of the FA Cup final as Man City meet Stoke in the Premier League.


Wife of Mubarak released but still faces probe

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:49 AM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - The wife of Egypt's ousted president was released from detention on Tuesday after giving up assets but is still being investigated, said an official leading a probe into whether she amassed wealth illegally.


China blocks U.N. report on N.Korea-Iran ties: envoys

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:52 AM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China on Tuesday blocked the publication of a U.N. expert panel's report that suggests North Korea and Iran have been sharing ballistic missile technology in violation of U.N. sanctions, diplomats said.


Abbas urges U.N. recognition of Palestinian state

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:43 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the international community on Tuesday to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September and support its admission to the world body.


U.S., China Military Officials Meet

Posted: 17 May 2011 09:59 AM PDT

Senior American and Chinese military officers met in Washington, part of a weeklong getting-to-know-you tour of U.S. bases that the Pentagon hopes will warm chilly defense relations.


Documents Illustrate Desperate Hours at Plant

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:10 AM PDT

Thousands of pages of documents released by Tokyo Electric Power paint a grim picture of the atmosphere inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's control rooms during the hours following Japan's massive earthquake.


Agreement Between BP and Russian Oil Giant Collapses

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:41 AM PDT

The deal to explore the Arctic with Rosneft was intended to help BP turn the page after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.


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