Mexico deploys troops to outskirts of Mexico City

Mexico deploys troops to outskirts of Mexico City

Mexico deploys troops to outskirts of Mexico City

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:39 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has sent soldiers to patrol a suburb of Mexico City for the first time to combat a rise in drug-related violence that is beginning to encroach on the capital.

Stop killing of protesters, rights group tells Peru's Humala

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:37 PM PDT

LIMA (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch urged Peruvian President Ollanta Humala on Thursday to rein in the police and the army to prevent them from shooting and killing people who protest against mining companies.

One killed in Peru mining protest

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:28 PM PDT

Pressure group Human Rights Watch demands that Peru's president rein in police after a protester is killed during a demonstration against a gold mine.


Microsoft beats Google in court

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:16 PM PDT

Microsoft wins a third patent victory against Google's Motorola unit in Germany.


U.S. asks Russia for more time to close down aid operations

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:16 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it has asked Russia for more time to end the U.S. Agency for International Development's work in the country after Russian authorities gave them until October 1 to close the operation.

Fighting in Caucasus kills 14, including militants

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:21 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian security forces killed twelve people including leading Islamist insurgents in the North Caucasus republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Chechnya on Thursday, officials and local media said.

In Tunisia, embassy attack tests fledgling democracy

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:34 PM PDT

TUNIS — Onlookers milled and nervous merchants shut shops as security forces surrounded a colonnaded mosque on a leafy downtown street here on Monday, preparing to arrest a man giving a speech inside.

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U.S. doesn't support tying Iraq aid to cooperation on Iran

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department said on Thursday it did not support a suggestion from a prominent senator that future U.S. assistance to Iraq be made conditional on Baghdad's cooperation in stopping Iranian aircraft suspected of ferrying weapons to Syria.

Venezuela oil workers sure Chavez will win: union boss

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:43 PM PDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - The head of Venezuela's oil workers union said on Thursday his members are not entertaining the possibility that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles could beat President Hugo Chavez in the October 7 election.

Colorado Prosecutors End Bid to See Holmes’s Notebook

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:07 PM PDT

Anticipating that a notebook by James E. Holmes, the defendant in a deadly movie theater attack, mailed to his psychiatrist would become part of an insanity defense, prosecutors said they would not delay proceedings.

Intangible Dividend in an Antipoverty Experiment: Happiness

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:10 PM PDT

Poor families given federal housing subsidies in the 1990s to move out of poor neighborhoods did not end up with better jobs and more education, as social scientists had expected.

After Report, Fate of Congress’s Inquiry in Gun Case Is Unclear

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:05 PM PDT

Republicans and Democrats each said that the report on Operation Fast and Furious brought them vindication, but it remains unclear whether the Congressional case is concluded.


Jail scandal fells second Georgia minister before vote

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT

TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaia handed in his resignation on Thursday as President Mikheil Saakashvili sought to soothe protests over a prison abuse scandal that erupted across a country facing an election on October 1.

Microsoft rapped over tax havens

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT

The US Senate criticises Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard for their use of tax avoidance schemes, which it says is rampant in the tech sector.


Officials: 129 inmates just walked out

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:58 AM PDT

The 129 inmates who escaped from a northern Mexico prison did not flee through a tunnel, as authorities first reported. They walked out the front door.

Videos said to show prison abuse

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:28 AM PDT

Videos purportedly showing guards abusing prisoners, including one male inmate being raped with a broom handle, have led to arrests and outrage both inside and outside the Eurasian country of Georgia.

UK soldier gives birth at Afghan base

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 08:33 AM PDT

A huge British military base in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan got a surprise arrival this week as a soldier gave birth to a baby boy.

U.S. to sell Indonesia 8 Apache helicopters

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:23 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it will sell Indonesia eight AH-64/D Apache helicopters to strengthen security ties with the largest country in Southeast Asia and the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.

Jury Convicts Amish Group of Hate Crimes

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:18 PM PDT

A federal jury found Samuel Mullet Sr., the leader of a renegade Amish sect, and 15 followers guilty of conspiracy and hate crimes in a series of beard- and hair-cutting attacks in Ohio.

Assault on Consulate in Libya a ‘Terrorist Attack,’ White House Says

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:14 PM PDT

The White House, after Republican criticism, said it was "self-evident" that last week's assault on the American diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, was a "terrorist attack."

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