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| Immigration bill expected this week, senators say Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 09:13 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to overhaul the immigration system would likely be completed by the end of this week, two senior senators said on Sunday. Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York said that senators in the bipartisan "Group of Eight" have resolved all major issues in a pending deal and that their staffs are putting the bill into legislative language. "All of us have said that they'll be no deal until the eight of us agree to a big, specific bill, but hopefully we can get that done by the end of the week," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program. ... Full Story | Top |
| Republican senator sees Obama budget offer as positive Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 11:44 AM PDT  By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday became the first prominent Republican to publicly praise, however lukewarmly, the budget proposal the White House outlined last week. Graham said that while he believes President Barack Obama's plan is overall bad for the economy, "there are nuggets of his budget that I think are optimistic," and that could set the stage for a broad bargain to put the nation's finances on a stronger footing. He was speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" program. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egyptian Copts and Muslims clash again, in central Cairo Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 11:43 AM PDT  CAIRO (Reuters) - Clashes broke out between Coptic Christians and Muslims in central Cairo on Sunday after the funeral of four Copts killed in sectarian violence outside the Egyptian capital on Friday night, a witness said. The state news agency MENA said 17 people had been injured in fighting after a funeral ceremony at the city's Coptic Orthodox cathedral. Public television showed riot police firing tear gas to disperse the crowd. ... Full Story | Top |
| China warns against "troublemaking" on Korean peninsula Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 12:47 PM PDT  By Ben Blanchard and Jane Chung BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - China warned against "troublemaking" on its doorstep, in an apparent rebuke to North Korea, and the United States said it was postponing a missile test to help calm high tension on the divided Korean peninsula. But in the midst of what some described as an unprecedented ratcheting up of rhetoric from Beijing, China began running into criticism from influential political voices in Washington who blamed North Korea's closest ally for not doing enough to avert the danger of conflagration. ... Full Story | Top |
| Powers and Iran fail to end nuclear deadlock in Almaty Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 12:14 PM PDT  By Justyna Pawlak and Yeganeh Torbati ALMATY (Reuters) - World powers and Iran failed again to end the deadlock in a decade-old dispute over Tehran's nuclear program in talks that ended in Kazakhstan on Saturday, prolonging a standoff that could yet spiral into a new Middle East war. No new talks were scheduled but big power negotiators, who earlier this year were insisting that time was running out, were at pains to say the diplomatic process would continue. Iran's critics accuse it of covertly seeking the means to produce nuclear bombs. ... Full Story | Top |
| Guinea opposition says it will return to election talks Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 10:35 AM PDT CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's opposition said on Sunday it would reopen talks with the government on preparations for legislative elections after the ruling party agreed to its conditions. Parliamentary polls are a final step in Guinea's transition to civilian rule after a 2008 military putsch, but they have been repeatedly delayed due to opposition complaints about how they are being organized. "The government has accepted all of our conditions. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pope installed as bishop of Rome, appeals to lapsed faithful Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 10:21 AM PDT  ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis was formally installed as bishop of Rome on Sunday and he urged lapsed Catholics not to be afraid to return to God. Francis celebrated a Mass before thousands of people in the Rome Basilica of St. John in Lateran to formally take possession of the cathedral in his capacity as bishop of the Italian capital, his other major role along with the papacy. Francis, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, has indicated that he intends to embrace his role as Rome's bishop as well as leader of the 1.2-billion-member Catholic Church. ... Full Story | Top |
| Afghan attacks kill U.S. diplomat, soldiers, others Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 12:12 PM PDT KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east. The diplomat and other Americans were in a convoy of vehicles in Zabul province when the blast occurred, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement. The soldiers and the diplomat died in the blast along with a civilian employee of the Defense Department and Afghan civilians, Kerry said. His statement gave no overall death toll. ... Full Story | Top |
| Montenegrin president bids for new five-year term Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 09:49 AM PDT  By Petar Komnenic PODGORICA (Reuters) - Montenegro voted on Sunday in a presidential election expected to return incumbent Filip Vujanovic for a third term with the tiny Adriatic republic trying to shed a reputation for crime and corruption to smooth its way into the European Union. Vujanovic, 58, has held the largely ceremonial post since 2003. The country of 680,000 people became independent in 2006 when it narrowly voted to end an 88-year union with Serbia. ... Full Story | Top |
| Kerry urges Turkey, Israel to take steps to normalizing ties Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 05:24 AM PDT  By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathon Burch ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry urged Turkey and Israel on Sunday to restore full relations, calling this vital to regional stability, but said it was not up to Washington to dictate the conditions of rapprochement. An Israeli-Turkish reconciliation could improve regional coordination to contain spillover from the Syrian civil war and ease Israel's diplomatic isolation in the Middle East as it faces the challenge of Iran's nuclear program. ... Full Story | Top |
| Xi promises peaceful, prosperous China helping neighbors Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 06:07 AM PDT  BOAO, China (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping pledged on Sunday that change and peaceful development will power his country's economic rise and sustain growth within its borders and beyond. Stressing that peace was pivotal for the future of the world's second biggest economy, Xi appealed to business and political leaders to use diplomacy and dialogue to resolve disputes and allow wealth to spread and solve problems. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine leader pardons jailed allies of ex-PM Tymoshenko Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 07:30 AM PDT  By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich pardoned two jailed allies of his main political opponent, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, on Sunday but took no steps to free the imprisoned opposition leader herself. The European Union, which has curbed its ties with Ukraine over the jailing of Yanukovich opponents, hailed the pardons for former interior minister Yuri Lutsenko and former ecology minister Heorhiy Filipchuk as an important initial step in addressing what it considers "selective justice". ... Full Story | Top |
| Opposition holds big rally in Venezuela government stronghold Sunday, Apr 07, 2013 11:02 AM PDT  By Diego Ore and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition candidate Henrique Capriles called tens of thousands of supporters onto the streets of the government's stronghold in downtown Caracas on Sunday, in a show of strength a week before he faces Nicolas Maduro in a presidential vote. Acting leader Nicolas Maduro has vowed to continue the hard-line socialism of his late boss, Hugo Chavez, if he wins the election on April 14. Maduro was holding a giant rally on Sunday in rural Apure state, on the border with Colombia. ... Full Story | Top |
| State firms loom over Malaysian poll despite pledge to divest Saturday, Apr 06, 2013 09:44 PM PDT  By Stuart Grudgings and Siva Sithraputhran KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Wan Abdullah Wan Ibrahim, managing director of Malaysia's UEM Land, thought it was a "match made in heaven" when his state-linked property firm bought out Sunrise, a successful property developer owned by ethnic Chinese, in 2010. Critics, however, saw it as a sign that Prime Minister Najib Razak's promise to roll back the state's overbearing influence in business and dismantle polices favoring ethnic Malays was already ringing hollow less than a year after it was made. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egyptian police fire tear gas to disperse Cairo protest Saturday, Apr 06, 2013 01:37 PM PDT  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired tear gas to prevent opponents of President Mohamed Mursi storming a court and the prosecutor-general's office in central Cairo on Saturday, witnesses said. Eight people were injured in Cairo during another protest in al-Fayoum south of the capital, the state news agency MENA said. Some 500 people marched for much of the day through central Cairo, chanting "The people want to topple the regime" on the fifth anniversary of the founding of the opposition April 6 youth movement. ... Full Story | Top |
| Five die in Christian-Muslim clashes in Egypt Saturday, Apr 06, 2013 03:06 PM PDT  By Ashraf Fahim EL KHUSUS, Egypt (Reuters) - Five Egyptians were killed and eight wounded in clashes between Christians and Muslims in a town near Cairo, security sources said on Saturday, in some of the worst sectarian violence in Egypt for months. Christian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave freer rein to hardline Islamists repressed under his rule. ... Full Story | Top |
| Powers and Iran fail to end nuclear deadlock in Almaty Saturday, Apr 06, 2013 01:54 PM PDT  By Justyna Pawlak and Yeganeh Torbati ALMATY (Reuters) - World powers and Iran failed again to end the deadlock in a decade-old dispute over Tehran's nuclear program in talks that ended in Kazakhstan on Saturday, prolonging a standoff that could yet spiral into a new Middle East war. No new talks were scheduled but big power negotiators, who earlier this year were insisting that time was running out, were at pains to say the diplomatic process would continue. Iran's critics accuse it of covertly seeking the means to produce nuclear bombs. ... Full Story | Top |
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