German president in peril over use of private villas

German president in peril over use of private villas

German president in peril over use of private villas

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:44 PM PST

BERLIN (Reuters) - German President Christian Wulff, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, said he did use the villas of business friends for private holidays, the latest twist in a scandal that could cost him his job after just 18 months.

As Clashes Continue in Egypt, a Media War Breaks Out

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:11 PM PST

On the third day of clashes between security forces and protesters in the center of the capital, a new battle broke out between Egypt's state-run and independent media over who to blame for the violence.

Pakistan's president returns home

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:19 PM PST

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari returns home from Dubai after receiving medical treatment, officials say.


Israel frees 550 Palestinians in Shalit swap

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:12 PM PST

RAMALLAH/GAZA (Reuters) - Israel released 550 Palestinian prisoners Sunday in the second stage of a deal with Hamas that brought home soldier Gilad Shalit after five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip.

Iran state TV airs "confession" of detained CIA spy

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:15 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian state television on Sunday aired what it described as the confession of an Iranian man detained for spying for the CIA.

Pakistan's Zardari back home after treatment

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 12:52 PM PST

President leaves Dubai hospital after undergoing treatment for heart-related condition.


The Neediest Cases: Serving the Role of a Loving Mother to Her ‘Little Monster’

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:00 PM PST

Mary Rodriguez, 70, a diabetic widow who raised 7 children and has 12 grandchildren, was awarded full custody of her great-grandson, Jayden, 3.

Analysis: Iraq resumes political strife in vacuum left by U.S.

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:00 PM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The dust had barely settled from the last column of departing U.S. armoured vehicles when Iraq's rival Sunni and Shi'ite factions resumed the kind of political infighting that threatens a lurch back into turmoil.

Pakistan's president returns home

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:19 PM PST

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari returns home from Dubai after receiving medical treatment, officials say.


Iran TV Shows Suspected U.S. Spy ‘Confessing’

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 12:54 PM PST

Iran's state TV broadcast video of a young man Sunday it claimed was a CIA spy who sought to infiltrate Iran's secret services.

Israel frees last swap prisoners

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:40 PM PST

Israel frees 550 Palestinian detainees in the second part of a deal that saw the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in October.


Two arrested in train stab probe

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:11 PM PST

Police investigating the stabbing of a ticket inspector on a train travelling from Essex to London arrest two people.


Iraqi PM expresses no confidence in deputy

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:45 PM PST

Move comes on day that one of Iraq's two vice presidents escorted off plane and two of his bodyguards arrested.


Zardari returns to Pakistan amid memo saga

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:18 PM PST

KARACHI (Reuters) - President Asif Ali Zardari, who was in Dubai for medical treatment, returned early on Monday to Pakistan, where a controversy over a memo accusing the powerful military of plotting a coup could undermine him.

Carlos the Jackal demands extradition to Venezuela

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 12:26 PM PST

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan Marxist militant Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, insisted on Sunday he be extradited to his home country after a French court sentenced him to another life prison term for bombing attacks in the 1970s.

Man dies in fall through loch ice

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 12:20 PM PST

A 37-year-old man dies after falling through ice at a loch in East Dunbartonshire.


News Analysis: Environmentalists Get Down to Earth

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 11:49 AM PST

Environmental groups are in a stage of transition toward local, grass-roots efforts.

Israel seeks builders for over 1,000 settler homes

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 12:04 PM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel began seeking tenders to build more than 1,000 homes in the occupied West Bank Sunday, part of a settlement plan it accelerated after Palestinians won recognition by a U.N. body, but a move which complicates a return to negotiations.

Syria nearer to sign Arab plan, crackdown continues

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 11:51 AM PST

AMMAN (Reuters) - Gulf officials expressed hope Sunday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would finally sign an Arab League peace aimed at ending a crackdown on protests and averting civil war.

Israel Releases Second Batch of Prisoners

Posted: 18 Dec 2011 01:03 PM PST

Some 550 Palestinian prisoners were released in the second half of a swap that freed one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who had been held by Hamas for more than five years.

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