WikiLeaks' Assange unaware if granted asylum: spokesman

WikiLeaks' Assange unaware if granted asylum: spokesman


WikiLeaks' Assange unaware if granted asylum: spokesman

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:44 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is unaware whether he has been granted asylum by Ecuador, a WikiLeaks spokesman said on Tuesday after a report in Britain's Guardian newspaper that the Latin American country had decided to do so.


U.S. must stop countries reflagging Iran ships: lawmakers

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:41 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers on Tuesday urged the U.S. government to take action against Tuvalu and Tanzania, countries accused of flouting U.S. sanctions by putting their flags on Iranian tankers.


Nationalist Groups in Japan Gain Clout

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:08 PM PDT

Nationalist politicians and activists are wielding new clout in Japan, straining the country's ties with China and South Korea, and creating headaches for policy makers in Tokyo.


Bomb Attacks Mark Deadly Afghanistan Day

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:05 PM PDT

Suicide attacks struck an Afghan city and a motorcycle bomb exploded in a busy market in blasts that killed at least 46 people altogether—the year's deadliest day for civilians in Afghanistan.


Abducted Kurdish MP freed by PKK in Turkey

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:09 PM PDT

Opposition member Huseyin Aygun freed by fighters outside a town in Tunceli province after being kidnapped on Sunday.


Syria crisis chokes off supply of goods to Iraq

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:03 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At his lingerie shop in Baghdad, Ali Hussein apologizes to a customer for the high price of a Syrian sleeveless vest she wants to buy. He's powerless to sell it cheaper, he says.


U.S. denies bond for Mexico's alleged cocaine "Queenpin"

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:07 PM PDT

MIAMI (Reuters) - An alleged smuggler known as Mexico's "Queen of the Pacific" was ordered jailed without bond on Tuesday pending trial in Miami on cocaine conspiracy charges.


Riots: French minister jostled

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:47 PM PDT

France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls is heckled and booed as he arrives in a deprived district of Amiens, where rioters have clashed with police.


French footballers face sex case

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:17 PM PDT

French football stars Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema are to be called before a judge over allegations that they solicited an underage prostitute.


Roof fall man dies from injuries

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:36 PM PDT

A man who fell through a garage roof in Edinburgh while being pursued by police has died, officers confirm.


Cuts expected to some GB sports

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:11 AM PDT

A number of Great Britain's Olympic teams could lose their funding, despite the government recently announcing investment through to 2016.


Did missing athletes defect?

Posted: 10 Aug 2012 05:33 AM PDT

The seven missing in London.


French riots leave injured police, damaged buildings

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:48 AM PDT

Seventeen police officers were injured in violent clashes with young people in the city of Amiens in northern France overnight, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday.


More than 300 killed, 3,000 injured in Iran quakes

Posted: 13 Aug 2012 11:37 AM PDT

The death toll from a pair of earthquakes that jolted Iran on Saturday has escalated once again, state-run media reported Monday.


Will Assange find asylum in Ecuador?

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:29 PM PDT

Ecuador could make a decision on the asylum request of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as early as this week, President Rafael Correa said.


Yoga guru ends hunger strike

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:28 PM PDT

India's famed yoga guru, Baba Ramdev, ended his hunger strike Tuesday, a day after he was briefly detained at a New Delhi stadium for protesting alleged government corruption.


'Weirdest thing' floats in South Pacific

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:27 PM PDT

Pumice, the lightweight stone used to smooth skin, is usually found in beauty salons, but on Thursday sailors from the Royal New Zealand Navy found nearly 10,000 square miles of the lava rock bobbing on the surface of the South Pacific Ocean.


Copter crashes in side of mountain

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:32 PM PDT

Rescue teams searched Tuesday for seven people thought to have survived after three military helicopters came down on the side of Kenya's highest mountain, in a remote area that is home to leopards and rhinoceros.


9 killed in Mexico nightclub

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Gunmen attacked a nightclub in northern Mexico on Monday night, killing at least nine people, a police spokesman said.


Gunmen kill 8 in hail of bullets at Mexican strip bar

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug cartel gunmen stormed a strip bar and shot dead eight men in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey late on Monday in an apparent dispute over drug dealing.


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