Sudan, South Sudan leaders meet to discuss border security, oil deal

Sudan, South Sudan leaders meet to discuss border security, oil deal

Sudan, South Sudan leaders meet to discuss border security, oil deal

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 01:44 AM PDT

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Leaders from Sudan and South Sudan will meet on Sunday for the first time in a year to try to agree on border security so that South Sudan can start exporting oil again, a lifeline for both economies.

Daughter of former Iranian president Rafsanjani taken to prison

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 01:19 AM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - The daughter of influential former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was taken to prison late on Saturday to serve a six-month sentence for "spreading anti-state propaganda," Iranian media reported.

Top China official visits Afghanistan, signs security deal

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 12:14 AM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - China has signed security and economic agreements with Afghanistan during a rare trip to Kabul by a top Chinese official, in deals seen aimed at bolstering Beijing's influence ahead of a NATO withdrawal of most combat forces by 2014.

New study finds that breast cancer screening saves lives

Posted: 23 Sep 2012 12:12 AM PDT

Doubts have been raised in recent years over the effectiveness of regular breast cancer screening. But a new Australian study announced Thursday finds that women who undergo screening halve their risk of dying from the disease.

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Opposition boycott and apathy threaten Belarus election

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 09:47 PM PDT

MINSK, Sept 23 — A Belarussian parliamentary election today is likely to reinforce hardline President Alexander Lukashenko's grip on the small former Soviet country despite a boycott call from the dispirited opposition. The two main opposition parties have urged people to go fishing and mushrooming rather than vote in what they see as a sham ...

Suspect in Mekong massacre pleads guilty in Chinese court

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 09:07 PM PDT

BEIJING, Sept 23 — A Burmese drug runner and five members of his gang have pleaded guilty in a Chinese court to murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River, state media said, in a case that has marked China's growing law enforcement role beyond its borders. Naw Kham was extradited to China by Laos officials in May, the chief suspect in the ...

Opposition says Georgia vote a choice between ‘good and evil’

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 08:52 PM PDT

TBLISI, Sept 23 — Voters in Georgia face a stark choice between "good and evil" in parliamentary elections on Oct 1, said opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili yerterday, following days of protests over state prison brutality that have left the ruling party reeling. "We should make a choice between good and evil on October 1," Ivanishvili, told a ...

Lib Dems to defy Cameron on welfare cuts

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 08:31 PM PDT

LONDON, Sept 23 — The Liberal Democrats would block attempts to raid the welfare budget to bolster the coalition government's fragile austerity plan in the run-up to the 2015 election, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said in a newspaper interview. Clegg's comments threatened another rift in the often fractious coalition led by Conservative Prime ...

Hollande hits new low in popularity poll

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 08:24 PM PDT

PARIS, Sept 23 — French President Francois Hollande's approval ratings have tumbled to their lowest level since he first took office in May, a new poll showed today, as France's grinding economic stagnation and record unemployment show little sign of easing. According to the Ifop poll for Sunday newspaper JDD, Hollande now has a 43 per cent ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard expects Israel to launch war

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 08:03 PM PDT

DUBAI, Sept 23 — Israel will eventually go beyond threats and will attack Iran, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying yesterday. As speculation mounts that Israel could launch air strikes on Iran before US elections in November, Mohammad Ali Jafari told a news conference that the Jewish state would be destroyed if it ...

"Ghetto Chavez" and the battle for Venezuela's youth vote

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 10:14 PM PDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - In Venezuela's biggest slum, a graffiti artist stencils a painting of President Hugo Chavez dunking a basketball.

"Ghetto Chavez" and the battle for Venezuela's youth vote

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 10:14 PM PDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - In Venezuela's biggest slum, a graffiti artist stencils a painting of President Hugo Chavez dunking a basketball.

Ex-CIA man Edwin Wilson, jailed for selling arms to Libya, dies

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 06:11 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Former CIA operative Edwin P. Wilson, who was found guilty in 1983 of selling arms to Libya but released from prison in 2004 after a judge threw out the conviction, has died at age 84, a funeral home director said on Saturday.

Egypt's Mursi says Iran is vital to ending Syria's crisis

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:55 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President said on Saturday that having a strong relationship with Iran is important for Egypt at this time to be able to work out a way to end the bloodshed in Syria.

Fake Italian pilot travelled in cockpit, police say

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:15 PM PDT

ROME (Reuters) - A man who posed as an airline pilot and travelled in the cockpit of at least one plane was arrested in Turin Airport using forged identity cards and wearing a pilot's uniform, Italian police said on Saturday.

Ex-Guatemalan Army commander accused in massacre faces charges in U.S

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:05 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former Guatemalan army commander accused of taking part in the massacre of more than 200 people during that country's civil war has been returned to the United States to face charges he lied about his past to gain U.S. citizenship, authorities said on Saturday.

Seven mutilated, burnt bodies found in western Mexico

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 04:34 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Seven decapitated bodies that had been chopped into pieces and burnt were left on a highway in western Mexico on Saturday in a region where rival drug gangs are waging a bloody dispute.

Panetta's Asia visit shows balancing role U.S. hopes to play

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 04:31 PM PDT

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's week-long visit to the Asia-Pacific region helped deepen the U.S. military's strategic shift to the area, even as it illustrated the balancing role that Washington may have to play to maintain peace and stability.

Opposition says Georgia vote a choice between "good and evil"

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 03:40 PM PDT

TBILISI (Reuters) - Voters in Georgia face a stark choice between "good and evil" in parliamentary elections on October 1, said opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili on Saturday, following days of protests over state prison brutality that have left the ruling party reeling.

France's Hollande hits new low in popularity poll

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 03:10 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande's approval ratings have tumbled to their lowest level since he first took office in May, a new poll showed on Sunday, as France's grinding economic stagnation and record unemployment show little sign of easing.

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