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Taliban attack international compound in Afghan capital

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:49:02 +0100

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants launched a large-scale attack involving the United Nations in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, sparking a five-hour battle with security forces.

Syria opposition unity talks face collapse

Sat, 25 May 2013 03:19:38 +0100

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition sources said on Friday.

IMF's Lagarde escapes formal investigation in court

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:37:40 +0100

PARIS (Reuters) - French magistrates decided on Friday not to place IMF chief Christine Lagarde under formal investigation over her role in a 285-million-euro (243 million pounds) arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Stockholm calmer but violence spreads outside Swedish capital

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:38:54 +0100

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even though dozens of youths set cars and a recycling station ablaze.

In Syria's shadow, Iraq violence presents new test for U.S.

Sat, 25 May 2013 06:07:15 +0100

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saddled with Middle East problems ranging from Iran to Syria and beyond, President Barack Obama now faces one that is both old and new: Iraq.

Freeport Indonesia union says 35-40 pct of workers resume work

Sat, 25 May 2013 08:49:25 +0100

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Between 35 and 40 percent of workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Indonesian unit returned to work on Saturday to carry out maintenance work after a training tunnel collapse that killed 28 people, a union official said.

French, Niger troops kill Islamists holding out at Niger base

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:10:19 +0100

NIAMEY (Reuters) - French special forces and Niger troops shot dead on Friday the last two Islamists involved in a twin attack on a military base and a French uranium mine in Niger claimed by the mastermind of January's mass hostage-taking in Algeria.

Pakistan school bus explosion and blaze kill 17 children - media

Sat, 25 May 2013 06:36:54 +0100

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death on Saturday when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded, media said.

Obama wants to end 'war on terror' but Congress balks

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:34:15 +0100

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama wants to roll back some of the most controversial aspects of the U.S. "war on terror," but efforts to alter the global fight against Islamist militants will face the usual hurdle at home: staunch opposition from Republicans in Congress.

Guatemalan ex-president extradited to U.S. on money-laundering charges

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:35:18 +0100

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face money-laundering charges, just days after former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's genocide conviction was overturned.