In complicating move, al-Qaida backs Syrian revolt Al-Qaida's leader has called for the ouster of Syria's "pernicious, cancerous regime," raising fears that Islamic extremists will try to exploit an uprising against President Bashar Assad that began with peaceful calls for democratic change but is morphing into a bloody, armed insurgency.
Clashes in Bahrain, king mocks opponents' "bad manners" MAMAMA (Reuters) - Bahraini riot police engaged in pitched battles with petrol-bomb throwing youths on Sunday as violence escalated ahead of the February 14 anniversary of an uprising last year, while King Hamad mocked the opposition for its "bad manners." Teenagers blocked off streets in the village of Sanabis, taunting police as "cowards" and "mercenaries" because some are thought to be ...
Kabila aide dies, minister hurt in DRC plane crash KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila's chief adviser was killed and his finance minister seriously injured in an airplane crash near the eastern town of Bukavu on Sunday, officials said. The accident, the latest in a country with one of the world's worst air safety records, comes as Kabila braces for negotiations to form a new coalition government after his ...
US gambles on special forces in Afghanistan strategy As it draws down troops in Afghanistan, the United States plans to rely heavily on its special forces, gambling the elite troops can serve as a firewall to prevent the Taliban seizing back power, experts and officials say.
Police in Brazil's Bahia end strike before carnival SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Police in Brazil's Bahia state voted on Saturday to end a strike that unleashed a crime wave claiming more than 150 lives, raising hopes for peaceful carnival celebrations but leaving concerns about security ahead of the 2014 World Cup. The last holdouts among Bahia's military police agreed to give up their walkout, state spokesman Robinson Almeida told Reuters, after 11 ...
Victims and hostages bond in Philippine kidnap film BERLIN (Reuters) - Boundaries between kidnappers and hostages are blurred in Philippine drama "Captive," which stars French actress Isabelle Huppert and premiered at the Berlin film festival on Sunday. Directed by Filipino Brillante Mendoza and shot with a hand-held camera, the film is loosely based on real life events and tells the story of a group of holiday makers and missionaries kidnapped ...
Whitney Houston found dead in California hotel, age 48 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Whitney Houston, whose soaring voice lifted her to the top of the pop music world but whose personal decline was fueled by years of drug use, died on Saturday afternoon in a Beverly Hills hotel room. She was 48. The pop superstar died on the eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles at the same hotel where her mentor, record mogul Clive Davis, was holding an annual pre ...
Romney, in comeback, has narrow Maine caucus win PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney grabbed back some momentum after midweek losses in three states, scoring a narrow win in Maine's caucuses on Saturday, hours after winning a straw poll of Republican conservative activists. Results of Maine's non-binding straw poll showed the former Massachusetts governor with 39 percent support, or 2,190 votes, ahead ...
In Maine, Paul vies to extend Romney losing streak Mitt Romney hoped to avoid a fourth straight election setback Saturday in the GOP presidential nomination race, but feisty Ron Paul could extend that losing streak with a victory in Maine's caucuses.
Hockey buffs forge on in Buffalo despite lack of ice BUFFALO, NY (Reuters) - An unusually mild winter in upstate New York forced hundreds of amateur ice hockey players in a yearly pond hockey tournament normally held on Buffalo's inner harbor to hit the pavement on Saturday. With no ice on Lake Erie, organizers of the three-day outdoor hockey competition have turned to street hockey, requiring a ball instead of a puck and shoes instead of skates ...
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