Australia, Kabul argue over deadly search for rogue Afghan killer

Australia, Kabul argue over deadly search for rogue Afghan killer

Australia, Kabul argue over deadly search for rogue Afghan killer

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:47 PM PDT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia contradicted Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday over a deadly weekend raid in Afghanistan in search of a "rogue" soldier who killed three Australian troops, adding new strains to an increasingly uneasy international coalition.

Suicide bomber kills five, including two Americans, in Pakistan

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:34 PM PDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into another near a building occupied by the U.N. refugee agency in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, killing five people, including two Americans, a regional information minister and police said.

Suicide bomber kills two Pakistanis, wounds two foreigners

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:35 PM PDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a vehicle killed two Pakistanis and seriously wounded two foreigners in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, police said.

Obama eyes future with convention speech

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:22 PM PDT

BOULDER, 3 Sept — The Greek columns may be banished and the "hope" and "change" signs gone, but President Barack Obama's pitch to American voters at the Democratic National Convention this week will have echoes of his 2008 speech, when he cast himself as a visionary leader in touch with the nation's priorities. Dogged by a sluggish economy and in ...

US suspends training of Afghan local police force

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:02 PM PDT

KABUL, Sept 3 — US Forces in Afghanistan said yesterday they have suspended training new recruits to the Afghan Local Police (ALP) amid a spike in the number of insider attacks which are damaging trust between Afghans and their allies. The ALP is a militia, set up two years ago by US Forces, in villages where the national police force — a separate ...

Suicide bomber kills two Pakistanis, wounds two foreigners

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:13 PM PDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a vehicle killed two Pakistanis and seriously wounded two foreigners in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, police said.

Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:08 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army's General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising.

US drone kills five suspected militants in Yemen

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 07:50 PM PDT

SANAA, Sept 3 — Five suspected militants linked to al-Qaeda were killed by a US drone attack yesterday in central Yemen, in what appears to be stepped up strikes by unmanned aircraft on Islamists. The strike took place in the city of Radaa on a vehicle which was believed to be carrying militants, officials said. "Five were killed and eight injured ...

Mormons laud Romney for raising church’s profile

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 07:27 PM PDT

WOLFEBORO, Sept 3 — Mormon churchgoers yesterday thanked Mitt Romney for raising the church's profile in his race for the White House and praised the Republican candidate's acceptance speech at a nominating convention in Tampa, Florida, last week. Romney, who would be the first Mormon president if he wins the Nov 6 election, sat smiling with his ...

Thirteen police injured in Northern Ireland sectarian clashes

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 07:17 PM PDT

BELFAST, Sept 3 — At least 13 police were injured in clashes between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland yesterday in a dispute over the rights of the two communities to hold parades in the area. Police fired water cannon after protesters from both sides threw bottles and stones at officers trying to separate the rival groups in north ...

Recalling 1812 battle, Putin calls for unity in Russia

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 07:02 PM PDT

BORODINO, Sept 3 — Vladimir Putin made a rousing call for unity among Russia's diverse ethnic and religious groups yesterday as he led commemorations of a battle 200 years ago that led to the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte. Standing by a monument at the scene of the 1812 Battle of Borodino, 120km west of Moscow, Putin delivered a speech extolling ...

Massacre trial exposes inconvenient truth for India’s BJP

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:31 PM PDT

AHMEDABAD, Sept 3 — Ten years on, Abdul Sheikh can still hardly believe that the doctor who had performed an ultrasound scan on his pregnant wife turned out to be a ringleader in the orgy of violence that killed both the mother and her unborn child. "I remember hearing the commotion and I rushed out to find Dr Kodnani inciting a mob of thousands, ...

Libyan intelligence officer killed in car bombing

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:25 PM PDT

BENGHAZI, Sept 3 — A Libyan intelligence officer was killed and another wounded yesterday when their car exploded in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city, a security spokesman said. A bomb planted in the car, which belonged to one of the officers, was remotely detonated when the two got into the vehicle in a busy shopping district in Benghazi, ...

Russia to quiz Britain over Magnitsky list

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:42 PM PDT

MOSCOW, Sept 3 —  Russia's ambassador to Britain will demand a response from the Foreign Office after reports that London might have blacklisted Russian officials for their alleged role in the prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, RIA news agency said yesterday. The Sunday Times reported that British Home Secretary Theresa May had sent a list ...

Netanyahu urges international ‘red lines’ to stop Iran

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:32 PM PDT

TEL AVIV, Sept 3 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers yesterday to set a "clear red line" for Teheran's atomic programme that would convince Iran they were determined to prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms. Netanyahu's remarks suggested a growing impatience with Israel's main ally, the United States, and other ...

Obama, Romney tied as Democrats go into convention

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:07 PM PDT

WASHINGTON, Sept 3 — President Barack Obama enters an important campaign week tied with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found yesterday, leaving the incumbent an opportunity to edge ahead of his opponent at the Democratic National Convention. With the Democrats set to nominate Obama for a second term this week in ...

Germans want to cut Greece loose - poll

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:09 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Only a quarter of Germans think Greece should stay in the euro zone or get more help from other countries, an opinion poll showed on Monday.

South Africa withdraws miners’ murder charges, for now

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:52 PM PDT

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 3 — South African prosecutors provisionally withdrew murder charges yesterday against 270 miners who had been accused of killing 34 striking colleagues shot dead by police, but said they could be recharged when investigations are complete. Public anger had been mounting at the charges, made under an apartheid-era law, under ...

Unification Church head Sun Myung Moon dies in South Korea

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:35 PM PDT

SEOUL, Sept 3 — Sun Myung Moon, the founder and head of the Unification Church which has millions of followers around the world, died at a retreat near the South Korean capital Seoul today, church officials said. Moon was 92 and had suffered complications from pneumonia, the officials said. Moon had been hospitalised in Seoul in mid-August and was ...

Rebels hit army HQ in Damascus

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:15 PM PDT

AMMAN, Sept 3 — Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army's General Staff headquarters in central Damascus yesterday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces bulldozed buildings to the ground in parts of the capital that have backed the uprising. Syrian state television said four people were wounded in what it called a terrorist ...

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