Italy urges high turnout in key election for euro zone

Italy urges high turnout in key election for euro zone

Italy urges high turnout in key election for euro zone

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 01:17 PM PST

ROME (Reuters) - Italy pressed citizens to get out and vote in one of the most closely watched elections in years on Sunday and Monday, with markets on edge at the prospect of a political stalemate that could reignite the debt crisis.

Kurdish militant leader signals Turkish prisoners may be freed

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:54 PM PST

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The jailed leader of Turkey's Kurdish rebellion on Saturday signaled that his followers could release captives and further a fledgling peace process that may be the best hope in years of ending the decades-long conflict.

Ahmadinejad admits to economic pain

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:38 PM PST

TEHRAN — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a rare acknowledgment Saturday night of the economic challenges his country is facing.

"This was a very difficult year for our economy," Ahmadinejad said during a live television interview in which he outlined his government's budget plan for the coming fiscal year. He accused the United States of using its vast economic might to exert unfair pressure on the much smaller Iranian economy.

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Hard Budget Realities as Agencies Prepare to Detail Reductions

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:25 PM PST

By the end of this week, federal agencies will notify governors, private contractors and other stakeholders of the dollars they would be about to lose if across-the-board budget cuts go into effect.

Russian inmate joins Chilean club

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:45 PM PST

A Russian inmate is allowed to remain in Chile and play for a local football club after serving three-year prison sentence for drug smuggling.

As Cuts Loom, Governors Call for Discretion on How Federal Money Can Be Spent

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:05 PM PST

Governors of both parties pleaded with President Obama and Congress to give them more discretion over the use of federal money so they could minimize the pain for their citizens.

Utah, a Nature Lover’s Haven, Is Plagued by Dirty Air

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:58 AM PST

Topographic and meteorological factors combine to trap auto emissions and other air pollutants in the region, a problem with no easy solution.

Tens of thousands in Spain protest economic policy, corruption

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:22 PM PST

MADRID (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Spaniards marched through cities across the country on Saturday to protest deep austerity, the privatization of public services and political corruption.

Morsi changes Egypt elections date

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:17 PM PST

Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi brings forward the start of the country's parliamentary elections, just days after announcing it.

Austrian Yemen hostage appeals for ransom in video

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:59 AM PST

VIENNA (Reuters) - An Austrian man taken hostage in Yemen in December has appeared in a video posted on YouTube, saying he would be killed if ransom money was not paid to a Yemeni tribe within a week.

Pairs take pain out of college search

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 10:05 AM PST

At 17 years old, Jessica Perez is an honor student who aspires to be the first member of her family to graduate from college.

Half of S. Africans live in fear of break-in

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:05 PM PST

Oscar Pistorius claims he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder and shot her, a claim that has shown the world that many South Africans live with a palpable fear of having their homes broken into.

Vatican denies rumors involving sex, money, gay priests

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:01 PM PST

The Vatican sought Saturday to tamp down rumors involving sex, money and gay priests that have been swirling in the Italian media and have been linked by some to Pope Benedict XVI's decision to resign.

North Korea threatens U.S. military

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 09:42 AM PST

North Korea threatens the U.S. military with "miserable destruction" if it carries out joint exercises with South Korean forces, which it labels a "war of aggression".

Mass austerity protests sweep Spain

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:32 PM PST

Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to turn out in towns and cities across Spain on Saturday to voice their anger over harsh austerity and the way the country's being run in the wake of its financial crisis.

Egypt's ElBaradei calls for vote boycott

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 05:58 AM PST

Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei urges voters to boycott the country's parliamentary elections, describing them as "an act of deception."

Tainted horse meat 'probably' eaten

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:53 AM PST

Three horse carcasses tainted with a veterinary drug harmful to humans have "probably" entered the food chain, France's agriculture minister confirmed Saturday.

Leader of militant group arrested in Pakistan, police say

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 05:28 AM PST

Pakistani authorities arrested the leader of an outlawed Sunni militant group believed to be behind a suicide bombing at a marketplace that left dozens dead, a senior police official said.

Iran Says It Has Captured an ‘Enemy Drone’

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:27 PM PST

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that it captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran.

France's Hollande hails quality meat at farm show

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 11:34 AM PST

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande sang the praises of local produce at the annual French farm show, where the horse meat scandal added to French cattle breeders' downbeat mood.

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