Fighting between Sudanese army and rebels uproots 60,000: U.N.

Fighting between Sudanese army and rebels uproots 60,000: U.N.

Fighting between Sudanese army and rebels uproots 60,000: U.N.

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:49 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - More than 60,000 people have fled a town in Sudan's main oil region since it was attacked by insurgents in April, the United Nations said in a report on Thursday.

After His Fall, Jonah Lehrer Shops a Book on the Power of Love

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:20 PM PDT

In a 65-page book proposal, the former New Yorker writer uses his plagiarism scandal as a case study.
    

India Ink: Image of the Day: June 6

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:12 PM PDT

Fishermen transporting baskets full of fish in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
    

New Turkey rally ahead of PM return

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:36 PM PDT

Thousands of Turkish protesters are pouring into Istanbul's Taksim Square, ahead of the prime minister's return from a North Africa tour.

Putin and wife announce divorce

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:34 PM PDT

The couple announced on state television that they had separated and their marriage was over after 30 years.

Suicide bomber kills six Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:21 PM PDT

TBILISI (Reuters) - Six Georgian soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with explosives, the defense ministry said.

Probe into chocolate 'price-fixing'

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:16 PM PDT

The food giants Nestle and Mars, along with a distribution company, have been charged by authorities in Canada over alleged price-fixing of chocolate

China Builds Up Its Links to North Korea

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 11:28 AM PDT

With high-speed railways, roads and bridges, China aims to bring North Korea closer into its economic orbit, which means scant prospect of a breakthrough on Pyongyang at the U.S.-China presidential summit.

Mexican soldiers free 165 migrants

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:05 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said Thursday that they had rescued 165 migrants, including seven children, after a raid by soldiers on a safe house near the U.S. border.

The U.S.-bound migrants, mostly Central Americans, had been held at gunpoint for two to three weeks, crammed inside a filthy home not far from the U.S. border city of McAllen, Tex., according to Mexico's Interior Secretary.

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Protests held in France after left-wing student beaten to death

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - Left-wingers protested in Paris on Thursday one day after a group of far-right militants beat a leftist student to death in a busy central Paris district.

Putins Finally Appear Together, to Announce Split

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:05 PM PDT

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia announced on Thursday that he plans to divorce his wife of 29 years, Lyudmila, who for years has barely appeared in public.
    

Saudi Arabia blocks Viber messaging

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:04 PM PDT

The head of the messaging application Viber says people in Saudi Arabia have had freedoms curtailed, after his service was blocked there.

South Africa clown wins libel suit

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 08:38 AM PDT

A South African clown wins a defamation suit against a men's magazine after it printed his picture with a report likening jesters to cross-dressing drug addicts.

Persian rug sells for $33.8m in NY

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 09:56 AM PDT

A 17th Century Persian rug sells at auction in New York for $33.8m (£21.8m), triple the previous auction record for a carpet.

Putins Finally Appear Together, to Announce Split

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:05 PM PDT

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia announced on Thursday that he plans to divorce his wife of 29 years, Lyudmila, who for years has barely appeared in public.
    

Keeping dogs off the dinner plate

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 07:02 AM PDT

We arrive in the morning at the Animal Quarantine Center in Nakhon Phanom, north-east Thailand, just a few kilometers away from mountains which outline the border with Laos. The summer heat is already beating down hard and it's only 9 a.m.

Hungry City: Los Perros Locos on the Lower East Side

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 11:10 AM PDT

The specialty is Colombian-style hot dogs, in which dog and bun are subsumed by an avalanche of toppings.
    

New Palestinian Authority cabinet sworn in

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 11:18 AM PDT

New Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah says cabinet will rule until a unity government between Fatah and Hamas is formed.

Britain's Prince Philip, 91, in hospital for operation

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:38 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Philip was taken to a London hospital on Thursday for a planned operation on his abdomen, Buckingham Palace said, in the latest round of medical treatment for Queen Elizabeth's 91-year-old husband.

Malian troops advance on last rebel-held stronghold

Posted: 06 Jun 2013 11:37 AM PDT

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malian special forces advanced towards the rebel-held town of Kidal on Thursday on a scouting mission ahead of a possible assault on the last stronghold of the Tuareg separatist MNLA, a day before peace talks were due to begin.

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