Police die in Egypt border attack

Police die in Egypt border attack


Police die in Egypt border attack

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:15 PM PDT

Masked gunmen kill at least 13 Egyptian policemen in what Israel says was an attempt to storm its border with Egypt.


Mexico singer Chavela Vargas dies

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:13 PM PDT

Mexican singer Chavela Vargas, famous for her deep-voiced renditions of lusty ranchera songs, dies in Cuernavaca, Mexico at age 93.


Concern grows for missing girl

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:05 PM PDT

Police renew appeals to find 12-year-old Tia Sharp who is missing after leaving her grandmother's south London home.


IMF mission to discuss loans in Egypt this month

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:11 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will send a mission to Cairo this month to hold talks on loans to the new government of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, a spokesman for the fund said on Sunday.


Five soldiers killed in Ivory Coast attacks

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:03 PM PDT

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least five soldiers in attacks on a police station and an army checkpoint in Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abidjan, early on Sunday, police and government officials said.


UAE probes plot against state security, says has foreign links

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:03 PM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - Initial findings of a probe into a group plotting "crimes against state security" in the United Arab Emirates have confirmed links with suspicious foreign parties, the Attorney General said on Sunday.


Acid and poison hinder schooling

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT

Terrorists will stop at nothing to keep Afghan girls from receiving an education.


Shedding light on 'dirty war'

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 12:13 PM PDT

After years of trying to put the past behind it, Brazil has created a truth commission to investigate crimes committed during a painful period in history known as the dirty war.


Athens police target immigrants

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 12:27 PM PDT

Police in the Greek capital Athens round up 5,000 suspected illegal immigrants, amid fears fighting in Syria could lead to a new refugee influx.


Bolt eases through to 100m final

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 12:21 PM PDT

Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay all qualify for the men's 100m final with times under 10 seconds.


Red Cross attacked with rockets, grenades in Libya

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT

GENEVA (Reuters) - Unknown assailants attacked a compound of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Libyan port of Misrata on Sunday with grenades and rockets, forcing it to suspend its work there and in the eastern city of Benghazi, the agency said.


'Seven dead' at Wisconsin temple

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 12:43 PM PDT

Police say initial reports suggest at least seven people have died in a shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, but that the situation remains fluid.


Mary Kom, India's golden hope

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 08:20 AM PDT

Boxer Mary Kom carries the hopes of Manipur


Jamaica under tropical storm warning as Ernesto approaches

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 11:54 AM PDT

Tropical Storm Ernesto, swirling in the Caribbean Sea, weakened slightly Saturday but will still likely strenghthen into a Category 1 hurricane in the next few days, the National Hurricane Center said.


Egyptian police killed in attack in Sinai

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:19 PM PDT

At least 15 shot at police station in north Sinai on the border between Egypt and Israel, news agencies report.


Clinton chides Ugandan leader over his rule

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 12:15 PM PDT

Yoweri Museveni told democracy is not about "strong men" keeping power for decades but about "strong institutions".


Shooting Reported at Temple in Wisconsin

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 12:50 PM PDT

At least one gunman opened fire at a temple in Oak Creek, a town just south of Milwaukee, police said. The gunman was shot and is believed to have died. The police said they were still uncertain whether there were other gunmen.


Fifteen Egyptian police killed in Sinai border attack

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:16 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 15 Egyptian policemen were killed and seven wounded in an armed attack on a police station in North Sinai on the border between Egypt and Israel on Sunday in what the Israeli government said was an attempt to storm its border.


Al Qaeda prisoners try to tunnel out of Iraqi jail

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 11:51 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A group of al Qaeda prisoners was caught trying to tunnel out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, an official said on Sunday, after the militants said they would step up their fight against the government.


Monti warns of psychological rift

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 11:19 AM PDT

Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti warns of a "psychological break-up" of Europe, while talks over Greek reforms make progress.


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