VIDEO: Jordan opens Syria refugee camp

VIDEO: Jordan opens Syria refugee camp


VIDEO: Jordan opens Syria refugee camp

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:37 PM PDT

Jordan opens its first official refugee camp for people fleeing across the border from fighting in Syria.


VIDEO: What are the uses for an old ship?

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:22 PM PDT

Tom Wrigglesworth and Rob Bell travel to Belgium, to Europe's largest ship breaking yard, to discover what happens to ships at the end of their working lives.


Afghan truckers a forgotten front in a war growing deadlier by the day

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 09:30 PM PDT

KHOSH GOMBAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - In the cabins of their "jingle" trucks flamboyant with tinsel baubles and painted tiger patterns as they move NATO's war supplies, Habibullah thinks he and other drivers are becoming a forgotten front in an Afghan war growing more vicious.



Philippine gunmakers take aim from the backyard to the production line

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 07:55 PM PDT

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - In the Philippines, they vote with their trigger fingers. Elections mean big business for illegal gunsmiths, who are looking forward to 2013 mid-term polls.



Romney seeks a fresh start in Israel

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 06:43 PM PDT

JERUSALEM, July 29 — US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign left a troubled visit to London behind him yesterday and looked to rebound in Israel, whose ties with the United States have been a familiar theme during his election bid. Romney arrived late yesterday on the second leg of a foreign trip aimed at bolstering his ...



Bo wife murder charge vexes sceptical Chinese

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 06:01 PM PDT

BEIJING, July 29 — China's ruling Communist Party might insist that the murder charge against Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Politburo member Bo Xilai, is a simple case of all being equal before the law, but winning over the jury of public opinion is proving tough. Since China's last big political scandal — the purge of Shanghai party chief Chen ...



Annan fears ‘imminent battle’ in Syria’s Aleppo

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 05:04 PM PDT

TAL RIFAAT, Syria, July 29 — International mediator Kofi Annan said he feared an "imminent battle" for Syria's biggest city Aleppo. Syrian opposition sources said helicopters from President Bashar al-Assad's military pounded a rebel-held part of the city yesterday and armoured units were positioned for an onslaught that could determine its ...



Philippine gunmakers take aim from the backyard to the production line

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 06:30 PM PDT

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - In the Philippines, they vote with their trigger fingers. Elections mean big business for illegal gunsmiths, who are looking forward to 2013 mid-term polls.



Bo wife murder charge vexes sceptical Chinese

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 05:59 PM PDT

BEIJING, China (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party might insist that the murder charge against Gu Kailai, the wife of ousted Politburo member Bo Xilai, is a simple case of all being equal before the law, but winning over the jury of public opinion is proving tough.



U.S. probes Enbridge Wisconsin oil pipe spill; line still shut

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 05:35 PM PDT

WASHINGTON/CALGARY (Reuters) - The U.S. pipeline safety agency launched an investigation on Saturday into an oil spill in Wisconsin on Enbridge Inc's network that briefly shut much of the company's pipeline system feeding Canadian crude to the U.S. Midwest.



Bodies of two U.S. mountaineers found in Peru's Andes

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 05:08 PM PDT

LIMA (Reuters) - The bodies of two U.S. climbers were located on Saturday after they apparently suffered a fall on the peak of Mount Palcaraju, high in Peru's Andes, local media reported.



Annan fears "imminent battle" in Syria's Aleppo

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 04:12 PM PDT

TAL RIFAAT, Syria (Reuters) - International mediator Kofi Annan said he feared an "imminent battle" for Syria's biggest city Aleppo.



Romanian president tries to evade impeachment

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 03:32 PM PDT

* Basescu unpopular for backing austerity


Rwanda demands respect from the West after aid cuts

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 03:31 PM PDT

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rwanda's foreign minister accused Western governments on Saturday of using aid to treat African states like children, after four countries cut or delayed aid to Kigali because of its policy in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.


Romney seeks a fresh start in Israel

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 02:53 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign left a troubled visit to London behind him on Saturday and looked to rebound in Israel, whose ties with the United States have been a familiar theme during his election bid.


African heads to again seek UN Mali mandate-Ouattara

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:30 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - West African leaders are poised to submit a new request for military invention in Mali to the U.N. Security Council, and boots could be on the ground within weeks, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara told French weekly Journal du Dimanche.


Magnitude 6.6 quake hits off Papua New Guinea coast - USGS

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:27 PM PDT

(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.6 quake struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea early on Sunday local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said.


Hundreds in Phoenix march against Arizona immigration law

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:27 PM PDT

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A few hundred protesters, some toting placards reading "Migration is a Human Right," marched in Phoenix on Saturday to protest Arizona's two-year-old crackdown on illegal immigration.


Peru's Humala says to boost social spending to avert conflicts

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:00 PM PDT

LIMA (Reuters) - President Ollanta Humala vowed on Saturday to ramp up social spending for the poor as he tries to spread the benefits of an economic boom to all Peruvians and defuse conflicts over mining that have marred his term.


Sinai Jihadi group says responsible for Israel attack in June

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:44 AM PDT

Ismailia (Reuters) - An Islamic Jihadi group based in Egypt's Sinai has posted a video showing it carried out a cross-border attack in June, killing one Israeli at a border barrier construction site and raising doubts over Egypt's security control over the desert peninsula.


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