Dozens arrested at Occupy's 6-month anniversary rally in New York

Dozens arrested at Occupy's 6-month anniversary rally in New York

Dozens arrested at Occupy's 6-month anniversary rally in New York

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 10:48 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters on Saturday night during a protest marking the movement's six-month anniversary at its birthplace in New York's Zuccotti Park.

Japan's majority favour phasing out nuclear power - poll

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 09:19 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - A vast majority of Japanese favour the gradual phasing out of nuclear plants but accept that some reactors need to be restarted to secure enough power in the short term, a newspaper poll showed on Sunday.

VIDEO: Italian coastguard rescues migrant boat

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 08:37 PM PDT

More than 50 immigrants have been rescued from a stranded boat off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.


VIDEO: Clashes at Guinea opposition rally

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 07:16 PM PDT

Security forces clashed with opposition protesters in Guinea when over 1,000 demonstrators rallied in the capital, Conakry.


Egypt Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda dies

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 05:40 PM PDT

CAIRO, March 18 — Egyptian Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of most of Egypt's estimated 12 million Christians, died yesterday from old age, his political adviser told Reuters. Bells tolled in Cairo's Abbasiya district, site of Egypt's main Coptic cathedral, as the news spread. Shenouda, 88, became the 117th Pope of Alexandria in ...

Sarkozy blasts Hollande in fiery campaign speech

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 04:54 PM PDT

LYON, March 18 — President Nicolas Sarkozy accused Socialist rival Francois Hollande yesterday of advocating incoherent and ruinous economic policies as he tried to discredit him ahead of the first round of an April-May presidential election. In a fiery speech in Lyon in front of some 8,000 flag-waving supporters, Sarkozy said Hollande had duped ...

Soldier suspected in Afghanistan massacre to huddle with lawyers

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 04:27 PM PDT

TACOMA (Washington), March 18 — The lawyer representing the US soldier implicated in the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan said yesterday he and other members of the defense team would spend several days with him in the week ahead. US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales is in solitary confinement at a military detention center at Fort ...

Africa Union fails to break leadership deadlock

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 05:01 PM PDT

COTONOU (Reuters) - Leaders of eight African Union countries failed on Saturday to break a deadlock over the leadership of the 54-member body, highlighting divisions that have repeatedly stymied its decision-making.

Protesters back in NY park for Occupy Wall Street anniversary

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 04:56 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 200 protesters gathered on Saturday in New York's Zuccotti Park to mark the six-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement and clashed with police, resulting in several arrests and three officers injured, officials said.

Soldier suspected in Afghanistan massacre to huddle with lawyers

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 04:48 PM PDT

TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - The lawyer representing the U.S. soldier implicated in the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan said on Saturday he and other members of the defence team would spend several days with him in the week ahead.

Anti-Communist pastor set to become German president

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 04:42 PM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Joachim Gauck is poised to become Germany's third president in just two years on Sunday after winning support from the country's main political parties, but the feisty theologian may prove an awkward partner for Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Iraq militia frees U.S. hostage after 9 months

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 04:34 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A militia loyal to Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr freed an American former soldier on Saturday after holding him captive in Baghdad for nine months.

Egypt Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda dies

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 03:24 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of most of Egypt's estimated 12 million Christians, died on Saturday from old age, his political adviser told Reuters.

MPs to make up half of Egypt constitution assembly

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 03:00 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament agreed on Saturday that half the members of a 100-person assembly charged with drawing up a new constitution would be chosen from within parliament and the rest from other parts of society.

Venezuela's Chavez sings and dances after surgery

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 02:26 PM PDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sang, danced with his daughter and vowed on Saturday to win a presidential election this year, a day after returning from what he said was a successful operation to remove a second tumour.

MPs to make up half of Egypt constitution assembly

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 04:20 PM PDT

CAIRO, March 18 — Egypt's parliament agreed yesterday that half the members of a 100-person assembly charged with drawing up a new constitution would be chosen from within parliament and the rest from other parts of society. In a tally broadcast live on television, 427 out 590 deputies voting in a joint session of the upper and lower houses of ...

VIDEO: Morocco protest over rape-marriage law

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 04:44 PM PDT

Several hundred women's rights activists have demonstrated outside Morocco's parliament to demand the repeal of a law on sexual violence.


VIDEO: Gaddafi intelligence chief 'held'

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 12:21 PM PDT

The man who served as intelligence chief to the former Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has reportedly been arrested in west Africa.


Iraq militia frees U.S. hostage after 9 months

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 01:48 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A militia loyal to Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr freed an American former soldier on Saturday after holding him captive in Baghdad for nine months.

Egypt Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda dies - adviser

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 01:18 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of most of Egypt's estimated 12 million Christians, died on Saturday from old age, his political adviser told Reuters.

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