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Bomb attacks on Iraqi soldiers, Shi’ites kill 49

Bomb attacks on Iraqi soldiers, Shi’ites kill 49

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Ten vehicles rigged with explosives blew up in predominantly Shi'ite Muslim areas in and around Baghdad on Sunday, and a suicide bomber attacked squaddies queuing up for his or her pay in northern Iraq, killing forty nine folks in complete, police mentioned. There was no immediate declare […]

 
 

Insight: Ireland’s bailout report: Good, now fix public debt

Insight: Ireland’s bailout report: Good, now fix public debt

By means of Sam Cage and Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – On the height of the euro zone’s debt predicament in July 2011, Eire’s bailout appeared doomed. Its credit rating had been lower to junk and borrowing prices hiked to a watch-watering 15 p.c. Nonetheless, Financial institution of Eire certain […]

 
 

Kurdish rebels threaten new fight in Turkey as Syria clashes intensify

Kurdish rebels threaten new fight in Turkey as Syria clashes intensify

By way of Isabel Coles QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq (Reuters) – Kurdish rebels are able to re-enter Turkey from northern Iraq, the pinnacle of the crew's political wing mentioned at his mountain hideout, threatening to re-light an insurgency unless Ankara resuscitates their peace process quickly. Accusing Turkey of waging a proxy […]

 
 

China says Tibet policy ‘correct’, no turning back

China says Tibet policy ‘correct’, no turning back

BEIJING (Reuters) – China has no intention of altering its "proper" policies within the restive region of Tibet as they’ve introduced extraordinary achievements, a government white paper stated on Tuesday, slamming the romanticized notion Tibet used to be as soon as an idyllic fairyland. China has lengthy defended its iron-fisted […]

 
 

Charred bodies from Kenya mall ‘highly likely’ to be gunmen: lawmaker

By means of Richard Lough and Joachim Dagenborg NAIROBI/OSLO (Reuters) – Two charred our bodies recovered from Nairobi’s Westgate shopping center are extremely likely to be two of the gunmen who killed dozens of people remaining month in one of the worst militant strikes on Kenyan soil, a lawmaker probing […]

 
 

Jets bomb Syrian city after intelligence general killed

Jets bomb Syrian city after intelligence general killed

By way of Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian air drive jets bombarded the jap city of Deir al-Zor on Friday after heavy overnight clashes and the killing of one in every of President Bashar al-Assad’s top military intelligence officers, activists said. Basic Jama’a Jama’a was once shot lifeless on […]

 
 

Attack mounted on foreign convoy near compound in Kabul

KABUL (Reuters) – An attack involving a automotive bomb followed by using gunfire was once launched through Taliban warring parties on a convoy of automobiles near an international compound in eastern Kabul on Friday night, security sources stated. The Taliban claimed duty on Twitter and later despatched out a observation. […]

 
 

Plane crashes in Laos, 39 people killed: Thai TV

BANGKOK (Reuters) – An aircraft crashed into the Mekong river in Laos on Wednesday and 39 individuals had been killed, media reported. A Lao Airlines plane on an inner flight from the capital, Vientiane, to the south of the us of a, crashed into the Mekong within the late afternoon, […]

 
 

Iran hints it could consider wider nuclear inspections

Iran hints it could consider wider nuclear inspections

GENEVA (Reuters) – Iran steered it was once prepared to handle calls to present the U.N. atomic watchdog wider inspection powers as part of Tehran’s proposals to unravel a decade-outdated nuclear dispute with the West. The comments from Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi gave the look to be the […]

 
 

Death toll from Philippines quake at 144, more people missing

With the aid of Erik De Castro LOON, Philippines (Reuters) – The death toll from an earthquake in the Philippines rose to a hundred and forty four on Wednesday as rescuers dug in the course of the rubble of collapsed constructions together with an outdated church and a medical institution. […]

 
 

Americans win Nobel prize for work on predicting markets

Americans win Nobel prize for work on predicting markets

By way of Johan Ahlander and Alister Bull STOCKHOLM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three American scientists received the 2013 economics Nobel prize on Monday for analysis that has superior the forecasting of long term asset prices, a sizzling matter for the reason that give way of the U.S. housing market bubble prompted […]

 
 

Iran hopeful Geneva talks can lead to ‘nuclear roadmap’

Iran hopeful Geneva talks can lead to ‘nuclear roadmap’

DUBAI (Reuters) – International Minister and chief negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif voiced hope Iran and world powers can agree at talks this week on a roadmap in opposition to defusing the stand-off over Tehran's nuclear task, however warned the method can be advanced. The negotiations about Iran's nuclear application, to […]

 
 

Kerry says Syria peace conference should be held soon

Kerry says Syria peace conference should be held soon

LONDON (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry called on Monday for a peace convention on Syria "very soon" however said peace would not be that you can think of with out a transition govt to switch President Bashar al-Assad. "We consider it’s urgent to set a day, to convene […]

 
 

U.S., Afghans agree most of pact, elders to make final decision

U.S., Afghans agree most of pact, elders to make final decision

By way of Lesley Wroughton and Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have reached preliminary settlement on a bilateral safety p.c. that now relies on the approval of Afghanistan’s tribal leaders. The percent, announced collectively through Kerry and Karzai late […]

 
 

Trail of destruction but few casualties after cyclone pounds India

Trail of destruction but few casualties after cyclone pounds India

Via Sruthi Gottipati and Jatindra Sprint GANJAM/BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) – Morning time printed a trail of destruction across coastal areas of japanese India on Sunday after the strongest storm to hit the country in 14 years, but the lack of lifestyles seemed restricted as greater than half one million individuals […]