Yudhoyono proposes Australia-U.S.-Indonesia exercises

Yudhoyono proposes Australia-U.S.-Indonesia exercises


Yudhoyono proposes Australia-U.S.-Indonesia exercises

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:57 PM PDT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday proposed joint military disaster exercises with Australia and the United States in a sign of easing concerns in Jakarta over American troop deployments to northern Australia. Under U.S. President Barack Obama's "pivot" to the Asia-Pacific, the U.S. will rotate 2,500 Marines through a base near the northern Australian city of Darwin in a decision which Indonesia initially said created tension and mistrust. During a two-day visit to Darwin, Yudhoyono made no mention of the U.S. ...


Myanmar freeing 46 prisoners; Suu Kyi wants more

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:24 PM PDT

Back from her triumphant tour of Europe, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi stepped up calls Tuesday for the release of hundreds of political prisoners still behind bars.


Mexico's leftists again question presidential vote

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:06 PM PDT

A man holds up a sign that reads in Spanish "No to electoral fraud" outside a hotel where Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), gave a news conference in Mexico City, Monday, July 2, 2012. After official results showed Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) winning 38 per cent of the vote with more than 92 per cent of the votes counted, Lopez Obrador has not conceded Sunday's elections, telling his supporters Monday evening that, Pre-election polls on Mexico's presidential vote had projected that leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador would lose by a double-digit margin.



VIDEO: Militants 'raid Timbuktu mosque'

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:28 PM PDT

Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents have said.


Syria's Assad wishes Turkish jet not downed

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:20 PM PDT

President says he would not allow the tensions between the two countries to turn into open combat.


Best evidence yet found for 'God particle'

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:58 PM PDT

US physicists say they have come close to proving existence of Higgs boson days before European findings are out.


Yudhoyono proposes Australia-U.S.-Indonesia exercises

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:57 PM PDT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday proposed joint military disaster exercises with Australia and the United States in a sign of easing concerns in Jakarta over American troop deployments to northern Australia.


Syria strikes Damascus suburb; U.N. decries arms flow

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:18 PM PDT

Members of rebel group Khaled ibin al Walid Fighters take position at a front line fighting at Hamidiyeh district area in the central city of HomsBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian helicopters bombarded a Damascus suburb on Monday and Turkey scrambled warplanes near the border in the north, as the U.N. human rights chief warned that arms supplies to both the government and rebels were deepening the 16-month conflict. Fighting has come to the gates of the capital in recent weeks and is also raging throughout the country as the battle to unseat President Bashar al-Assad increasingly takes on the character of an all-out civil war, fuelled by sectarian hatred. ...



For Philippines leader, it's war on graft, tax evasion

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:39 PM PDT

File photo of Philippine President Aquino gesturing during an interview with Reuters at the Malacanang presidential palace in ManilaMANILA (Reuters) - A middle-class woman is headed to jail for tax evasion. That wouldn't make headlines in many countries, but it's big news in the Philippines. It was enough to send President Benigno Aquino reaching excitedly for his phone during an interview this week to retrieve a message about the case from his tax chief. Businesswoman Gloria Kintanar had just exhausted her appeals and would become the first tax evader in Philippine history to be jailed - once authorities deal with her claim of illness at the hospital where she is under arrest. "Once her claim is verified ... ...



Myanmar president grants amnesty to 46 prisoners

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 08:30 PM PDT

A Myanmar state newspaper says President Thein Sein has granted amnesty to 46 prisoners.


Pope fires Slovak bishop in rare show of authority

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:46 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives for an audience to newly appointed archbishops, the day after they received the pallium, a woolen shawl symbolizing their bond to the pope, at the Paul VI hall, Vatican, Saturday, June 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)Pope Benedict XVI fired a 52-year-old Slovak bishop for apparently mismanaging his diocese in a rare show of papal power over bishops that could have implications for U.S. sex abuse cases.



For Philippines leader, it's war on graft, tax evasion

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:51 PM PDT

MANILA (Reuters) - A middle-class woman is headed to jail for tax evasion.


Syria running 27 torture centers: rights group

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:08 PM PDT

(Note: graphic details) NEW YORK (Reuters) - Syrian intelligence agencies are running torture centers across the country where detainees are beaten with batons and cables, burned with acid, sexually assaulted, and their fingernails torn out, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday. The New York-based rights group identified 27 detention centers that it says intelligence agencies have been using since President Bashar al-Assad's government began a crackdown in March 2011 on pro-democracy protesters trying to oust him. ...


Fire put out at Angarsk oil storage site in Russia

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:21 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An underground oil storage facility caught fire in the Siberian town of Angarsk on Tuesday, Russia's Emergencies Ministry said on its Internet site, saying one person had been injured and one missing. Previously two people were unaccounted for but Interfax news agency said one of the workers was found alive. The ministry said the fire at the reservoir of 500 cubic meters, located northwest of the city of Irkutsk, was reported at 8.31 a.m. local time (7.31 p.m. EDT). The fire at the site owned by private company Deltakom, was extinguished at 11.34 a.m. ...


Myanmar parliament's agenda: reshaping the economy

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:16 PM PDT

YANGON (Reuters) - A year and a half after it opened to skepticism from the West, Myanmar's fledgling parliament reconvenes this week for its biggest task yet: debating an ambitious set of laws to reshape an economy that wilted during half a century of military rule. The assembly was written off as a sham when it opened in January 2011, but the lawmakers are getting bolder and more vocal and the new session will be a test of their reformist mettle, even if opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is not taking her seat this week, citing exhaustion. ...


Syria strikes Damascus suburb; U.N. decries arms flow

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:18 PM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian helicopters bombarded a Damascus suburb on Monday and Turkey scrambled warplanes near the border in the north, as the U.N. human rights chief warned that arms supplies to both the government and rebels were deepening the 16-month conflict.


Myanmar parliament's agenda: reshaping the economy

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:37 PM PDT

YANGON (Reuters) - A year and a half after it opened to skepticism from the West, Myanmar's fledgling parliament reconvenes this week for its biggest task yet: debating an ambitious set of laws to reshape an economy that wilted during half a century of military rule.


T-Mobile Confirms Nationwide Data Outage

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:49 PM PDT

Late Monday night, T-Mobile, the nation's fourth largest wireless carrier, confirmed that its data network was down across the country. According to T-Mobile's Twitter account, "T-Mobile is experiencing a network data issue. Service for some customers may be impacted. We'll keep everyone posted." T-Mobile then reported, around 9:30 PST, that "service had been restored [...]


Syria running 27 torture centers: rights group

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 10:08 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Syrian intelligence agencies are running torture centers across the country where detainees are beaten with batons and cables, burned with acid, sexually assaulted, and their fingernails torn out, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday.


Fire put out at Angarsk oil storage site in Russia

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 11:21 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An underground oil storage facility caught fire in the Siberian town of Angarsk on Tuesday, Russia's Emergencies Ministry said on its Internet site, saying one person had been injured and one missing.