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Dancer accused in Bolshoi attack says did not want acid used

Dancer accused in Bolshoi attack says did not want acid used

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Bolshoi Ballet dancer accused of organizing an attack that just about blinded the Russian theatre's artistic director stated in court docket on Thursday that he didn’t intend for the sufferer to be splashed with acid. Pavel Dmitrichenko indicated he had agreed when the alleged associate accused […]

 
 

Syrian rebels seize U.N. peacekeepers near Golan Heights

Syrian rebels seize U.N. peacekeepers near Golan Heights

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian rebels have seized a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they’re going to hold them captive until President Bashar al-Assad's forces pull back from a rise up-held village which has seen heavy contemporary fighting. The seize used to be announced in rise […]

 
 

China faces social, financial risks in urbanization push

China faces social, financial risks in urbanization push

BEIJING (Reuters) – China's urbanization power could gas social unrest over land disputes and pose financial dangers if money is thrown round recklessly, a senior communist birthday party respectable and a leading economist mentioned on Thursday. Moving individuals from the nation-state to cities is a coverage priority for China's new […]

 
 

Indonesian provincial vote suggests religion card weakening

Indonesian provincial vote suggests religion card weakening

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia's most populous province has re-elected its conservative Muslim governor, but via the sort of slender margin that it suggests the spiritual card is also dropping its energy to win votes on the planet's greatest Islamic society. Final week's West Java election, the consequences of that have […]

 
 

Kenyan authorities urge patience as vote count drags on

Kenyan authorities urge patience as vote count drags on

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities stated the end result of a presidential election would not be compromised through the failure of digital vote counting expertise that has left the nation at the hours of darkness about the end result three days after the poll. Deputy Top Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, 51, […]

 
 

Slow Kenyan count puts technology on trial for African polls

Slow Kenyan count puts technology on trial for African polls

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya resorted to choppers to fly officers carrying outcomes from this week's presidential ballot to the capital, let down by way of new expertise geared toward warding off the violent disputes that led to 1,200 deaths after the vote 5 years ago. The snail-paced liberate of outcomes, […]

 
 

Insight: Beppe Grillo – Italian clown or political mastermind?

Insight: Beppe Grillo – Italian clown or political mastermind?

ROME (Reuters) – Beppe Grillo stirs strong emotions. His supporters imagine he can clean up Italian politics and give odd folks extra say in resolution-making. His opponents see a dangerous populist who conjures up memories of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. International media describe Grillo as a comic book, which on […]

 
 

Insight: Palestinian street boils at plight of prisoners

Insight: Palestinian street boils at plight of prisoners

OFER PRISON, West Financial institution (Reuters) – In a sprawling Israeli detention center, Palestinian activist Hassan Karajeh sat via a hurried courtroom listening to in a language he didn't take note under the authority of a armed forces occupation he and his people reject. The translator within the cramped portacabin-became-court […]

 
 

Analysis: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to ride out sanctions in nuclear push

Analysis: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to ride out sanctions in nuclear push

SEOUL (Reuters) – Contemporary U.N. sanctions are unlikely to halt North Korea's nuclear software provided that seven years of earlier measures from the world body and more than 50 years of U.S. penalties have failed to dissuade North Korea from looking to improve banned weapons. Below new chief Kim Jong-un, […]

 
 

Mourning Venezuelans parade Chavez’s coffin, prepare for vote

Mourning Venezuelans parade Chavez’s coffin, prepare for vote

CARACAS (Reuters) – Sobbing and shouting, a throng of Hugo Chavez's supporters paraded his coffin in the course of the streets of Caracas on Wednesday in an emotional outpouring that would assist his deputy win an election to maintain his socialist revolution alive. Hundreds of thousands of "Chavistas" marched in […]

 
 

U.S. ends kidnapping alert for Peru’s Machu Picchu

U.S. ends kidnapping alert for Peru’s Machu Picchu

LIMA (Reuters) – The State Department lifted a kidnapping alert for U.S. electorate traveling to Peru's awesome Machu Picchu ruins and the encircling Cusco area after a review of the threat, the U.S. embassy mentioned on Wednesday. Final month the U.S. Embassy limited professional travel to Machu Picchu and mentioned […]

 
 

Britain’s Cameron says no turning back on deficit reduction plan

Britain’s Cameron says no turning back on deficit reduction plan

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron will promise on Thursday to stick to his executive's deficit reduction plan regardless of the loss of his u . s .'s top-notch AAA credit standing, saying Britain would plunge "back into the abyss" if he modified route. Speaking ahead of a […]

 
 

U.N. set to crack down on North Korea financing, illicit cargo

U.N. set to crack down on North Korea financing, illicit cargo

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – In response to North Korea's 0.33 nuclear check, the U.N. Security Council is ready to tighten monetary restrictions on North Korea and crack down on Pyongyang's attempts to ship and obtain banned cargo in violation of existing sanctions. The measures are incorporated in a draft sanctions […]

 
 

Anxiety builds as Kenyans wait for presidential winner

Anxiety builds as Kenyans wait for presidential winner

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities said the end result of the united states of america's presidential election would no longer be compromised by means of the failure of digital vote counting expertise that has delayed results for a 3rd day. Deputy Top Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, who is due to go […]

 
 

North Korea blurs lines between prison camps, villages: Amnesty

North Korea blurs lines between prison camps, villages: Amnesty

GENEVA (Reuters) – North Korea has built a huge "safety perimeter" around a camp for political prisoners, limiting movement in nearby villages as a part of its "basic repression" of its individuals, Amnesty World mentioned on Thursday. The reclusive usa's network of political jail camps is believed to hold at […]