Obama makes Louisiana detour

Obama makes Louisiana detour


Obama makes Louisiana detour

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 11:29 PM PDT

Visit to hurricane-hit state comes two days after Mitt Romney's tour, and a day before Democratic convention's opening.


Dutch boy sentenced in Facebook murder case

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 11:13 PM PDT

Schoolgirl's fatal stabbing after row with friends has raised questions about role of social media in violent crime.


VIDEO: Government videos target asylum seekers‎‎

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:37 PM PDT

The Australian government has launched a media campaign to try to deter asylum seekers arriving by boat.


VIDEO: Teenager convicted of Facebook murder

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:59 PM PDT

A 15-year-old Dutch boy has been sentenced to a year in juvenile detention after he confessed to killing a schoolgirl over a row that appears to have begun on Facebook.


VIDEO: South Africa court frees miners

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:00 PM PDT

About 50 South African miners have been freed after murder charges against them, relating to the deaths of 34 miners shot by police, were dropped.


VIDEO: Government videos target asylum seekers‎‎

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:37 PM PDT

The Australian government has launched a media campaign to try to deter asylum seekers arriving by boat.


VIDEO: South Africa court frees miners

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:00 PM PDT

About 50 South African miners have been freed after murder charges against them, relating to the deaths of 34 miners shot by police, were dropped.


Iran could strike U.S. bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:51 PM PDT

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters via a screen, during a rally marking "Quds (Jerusalem) Day",in the southern suburbs of BeirutBEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday. "A decision has been taken to respond and the response will be very great," Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview with the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen television. ...



Japan to set energy policy but "no stance" on nuclear: minister

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:21 PM PDT

An anti-nuclear protester wearing a gas mask beats a mock nuclear waste container during a demonstration near Tokyo Electric Power Co headquarters building in TokyoTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is scheduled to set national energy policy early next week, Economics Minister Motohisa Furukawa said on Tuesday, although he said the government had not taken any particular position on the main question over the role of nuclear power. An anti-nuclear clamor has grown in Japan since an earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March last year, triggering the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years. ...



VIDEO: Teenager convicted of Facebook murder

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 08:59 PM PDT

A 15-year-old Dutch boy has been sentenced to a year in juvenile detention after he confessed to killing a schoolgirl over a row that appears to have begun on Facebook.


Students lose as Kenya teachers go on strike

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 01:33 PM PDT

At least 250,000 public school teachers walk out demanding 200 per cent pay rise, affecting millions of students.


Iran could strike U.S. bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:51 PM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities even if American forces played no role in the attack, the leader of Lebanon's Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah said on Monday.


Syrians fleeing war start to trickle into Europe

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 11:07 PM PDT

KOPINGEBRO, Sweden (Reuters) - Ali Jamal travelled thousands of miles on foot, by train and road to flee violence in Syria while Jomaah piled his family into a camper van to smuggle them north to Europe.


Pro-settler graffiti found at torched monastery door

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:19 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vandals torched the wooden door of a monastery near Jerusalem on Tuesday and pro-settler graffiti daubed in Hebrew was discovered on the building's stone walls, Israeli police said. "Police have opened a special investigation into the incident," Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said of the arson that occurred at the Latrun Monastery. Rosenfeld said the name of an unauthorized settler outpost evacuated this week, called "Migron" and the words "Jesus is a monkey" were also scrawled at the holy site located inside Israel but not far from the occupied West Bank. ...


Portugal seeks EU help to fight forest fires

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:15 PM PDT

Four water-dumping aircraft sought as dozens of fires rage in the north and centre of drought-hit country.


Pro-settler graffiti found at torched monastery door

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:19 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vandals torched the wooden door of a monastery near Jerusalem on Tuesday and pro-settler graffiti daubed in Hebrew was discovered on the building's stone walls, Israeli police said.


Japan to set energy policy but "no stance" on nuclear: minister

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 10:21 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is scheduled to set national energy policy early next week, Economics Minister Motohisa Furukawa said on Tuesday, although he said the government had not taken any particular position on the main question over the role of nuclear power.


The South African miners story, according to Taiwanese animators

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:54 PM PDT

After charging South African miners with murdering 34 of their colleagues, prosecutors decided to drop the charges against all 270 workers. The decision to charge the miners with murder immediately spread on the Internet, drawing criticism from around the world, and was challenged by the country's own justice minister.

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U.S. nears deal for $1 billion in Egypt debt relief: source

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 09:12 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is close to a deal with Egypt's new government for $1 billion in debt relief, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, as Washington seeks to help Cairo shore up its ailing economy in the aftermath of its pro-democracy uprising. U.S. diplomats and negotiators for Egypt's new Islamist president Mohamed Mursi - who took office in June after the country's first free elections - were working to finalize an agreement, the official said. ...


Venezuela, indigenous groups dispute whether Amazon massacre took place

Posted: 03 Sep 2012 06:12 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Venezuela and indigenous groups are disputing whether an alleged massacre of Amazon villagers took place after Venezuela's government said it found no evidence of an attack. A group representing the Yanomami tribe last week said that Brazilian gold miners had crossed the border and attacked a village from a helicopter. It said the assault could have killed more than 70 people. ...