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Bombings, bombardments kill across Syria

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:17:45 +0000

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 28 people were killed in two bomb attacks in Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday while in besieged Homs, opposition neighbourhoods endured another day of bombardment by President Bashar al-Assad's troops.

Egypt prevents travel ban Briton from boarding flight

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:09:07 +0000

CAIRO (Reuters) - Cairo airport authorities prevented an English woman, who is banned from leaving Egypt until the end of a probe into NGOs' handling of cash and other activities, from flying to Britain on Friday, airport sources said.

Asia giants join Iran diplomacy as sanctions hurt trade

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:19 +0000

BEIJING/HAMBURG (Reuters) - China said on Friday it would send a senior official to Tehran to discuss Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, and India indicated it would also weigh in, as Asia's two giants seek to head off new sanctions already playing havoc with trade.

Maldives ex-president demands election, warns of protests

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:05:00 +0000

MALE (Reuters) - The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, on Friday demanded new elections and vowed mass street protests if the new government did not relent, raising the prospect of a protracted crisis on the Indian Ocean islands famed as a beach paradise.

Norway mass killer faces 24-hour psychiatric watch

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:58:39 +0000

OSLO (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik, an anti-immigration militant who killed 77 people in a Norwegian bomb-and-gun massacre last July, is to undergo psychiatric observation 24 hours a day for up to four weeks as he prepares for his April criminal trial.

Obama to try to placate Catholics on contraceptives

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:46:47 +0000

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, seeking to quell an election-year firestorm, will unveil a plan on Friday to accommodate religious organizations outraged by a new rule that would require health insurance coverage of contraceptives, sources close to the matter said.

Libya fighters-turned-jailors face heat over prisons

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:07:50 +0000

GUWASIM, Libya (Reuters) - The revolutionary fighters-turned-jailors who run what passes for a justice system in Libya's Gharyan region say they are making the best of a bad business.

Germany jails Kosovan for life for killing U.S. airmen

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:32:16 +0000

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Kosovo-Albanian man who killed two U.S. airmen and wounded two others in a gun attack at Frankfurt airport last March was sentenced to life in prison by German court Friday.

Vatican dismisses report of plot to kill pope as delirious

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:33:09 +0000

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Friday dismissed as "delirious" an Italian newspaper report that said Pope Benedict would be assassinated within 12 months.

EU asks India to help bring Iran to nuclear talks

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:26:11 +0000

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The European Union wants India to draw Iran into talks over its nuclear programme but said strong sanctions are also needed, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said on Friday, as Asia's third-largest economy aims to increase trade with Tehran.