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| Zimmerman, cleared in Trayvon Martin death, faces outrage Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 11:03 AM PDT  By Ellen Wulfhorst and Barbara Liston SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - Cleared by a Florida jury, George Zimmerman walked free from criminal charges in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin but still faces public outrage, a possible civil suit and demands for a federal investigation. The six women jurors who deliberated for 16 hours over two days found Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter Saturday night in a case that has polarized the U.S. public. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt government takes shape Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 09:23 AM PDT  By Noah Browning and Shadia Nasralla CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's interim prime minister filled senior posts on Sunday in a cabinet that will lead the country under an army-backed "road map" to restore civilian rule following overthrow of elected President Mohamed Mursi. Hazem el-Beblawi, a 76-year-old liberal economist appointed interim prime minister last week, is tapping technocrats and liberals for an administration to govern under a temporary constitution until parliamentary elections in about six months. ... Full Story | Top |
| Reid, McConnell yield no ground in filibuster showdown Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 11:43 AM PDT  By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate's top Democrat and Republican yielded no ground on Sunday as they neared a showdown over President Barack Obama's executive-branch nominees that could dramatically change how the Senate operates. Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid charged that Republican obstructionism has prevented Obama from getting much of his second-term team in place. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sprinter Gay fails dope test, pulls out of worlds Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 12:09 PM PDT  By Gene Cherry RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Tearful former double sprint world champion Tyson Gay said on Sunday he had tested positive for a substance he could not identify and was pulling out of next month's world championships in Moscow. Gay, who had the year's fastest 100 meters time of 9.75 seconds, told two reporters in a telephone conference call he was notified by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) on Friday that his A sample from an out-of-competition test on May 16 had returned a positive. "I don't have a sabotage story. I don't have lies... ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Glee' star Cory Monteith dead in Vancouver hotel room at 31 Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 11:16 AM PDT  By Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) - Canadian actor Cory Monteith, 31-year-old heartthrob of Fox's musical comedy television series "Glee", was found dead on Saturday in his Vancouver hotel room, police said. Police and paramedics found no signs of foul play and the cause of death was not clear, British Columbia Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe said at a news conference. Monteith had talked openly about struggles with substance abuse, and in April he completed voluntary treatment for unspecified substance addiction at a rehab facility. He had also been treated in a facility at age 19. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bombs in Iraqi Shi'ite provinces kill 24 Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 11:22 AM PDT  By Aref Mohammed BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A string of bomb blasts in predominantly Shi'ite Muslim provinces of Iraq killed at least 24 people on Sunday, police and medics said. The violence is part of a sustained campaign of militant attacks this year that has prompted fears of wider conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds and Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims have yet to find a stable power-sharing compromise. A suicide bomber killed at least four people in a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Mussayab, and in Kut city, a car bomb went off in a busy market, killing five, police and medics said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Retailers keep inventories low for back-to-school sales Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 11:27 AM PDT  By Dhanya Skariachan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stung by leftover inventory because of a wet, cold spring and unsure about consumer spending, many retailers are ordering conservatively for the second busiest selling season of the year behind the end of the year holiday period, according to executives in shipping, banking and manufacturing. "I don't think this is going to be a blowout year. I think this is going to be a little bit of a tough year," John Barbour, CEO of educational products maker LeapFrog Enterprises Inc said about the rest of 2013. "People have less money in their pockets. ... Full Story | Top |
| Republican governor Perry defends Texas abortion measure Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 09:57 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Governor Rick Perry on Sunday defended a measure passed by the Texas legislature to ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying states - not the federal government - should decide such matters and rejecting criticism that the law would shut down most of the state's abortion clinics. The Republican-controlled legislature gave final passage to the measure on Friday and sent it to the Republican governor to sign into law. Perry had called a second special session of the legislature to get the bill passed. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fighting in South Sudan forces thousands into bush Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 09:17 AM PDT  By Andrew Green JUBA (Reuters) - Fighting between South Sudan's army, rebels and rival tribes has sent thousands of people fleeing into the bush in the east of the country, U.N. and aid officials said on Sunday. South Sudan's army is facing a rebellion from local politician David Yau Yau in the vast Jonglei state, and new clashes have broken out between rival Lou Nuer and Murle tribes. ... Full Story | Top |
| Merkel wants tough EU line on Internet firms after spying outcry Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 10:25 AM PDT  By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on Sunday to push for tougher EU data protection rules and force Internet firms to be more open as she tried to reassure voters before a September election about intrusive snooping by U.S. intelligence in Germany. In an interview with ARD television, Merkel also said she expected the United States to stick to German laws in future, the closest she has come to acknowledging that its spying techniques may have breached German rules. ... Full Story | Top |
| SEC takes Goldman's 'Fabulous Fab' to trial in civil fraud case Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 08:07 AM PDT  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission heads to trial Monday against a former Goldman Sachs bond trader in a case it says highlights what went wrong on Wall Street in the financial crisis. Jury selection begins in federal court in New York in the civil fraud case against Fabrice Tourre, 34, who the SEC says misled investors in an ill-fated mortgage securities investment called Abacus 2007-AC1. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fear of Fed and China slowdown take a toll Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 11:20 AM PDT  By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Emerging economies that have thrived on ultra-loose U.S. monetary policy and insatiable Chinese demand for natural resources are in for another rude wake-up call this week. The twin tailwinds are not turning into outright headwinds. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will explain - yet again - in two days of congressional testimony that his plan to buy fewer bonds is not the same as raising interest rates. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rajoy's risky bet on Spanish economic recovery Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 07:08 AM PDT  By Julien Toyer MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Mariano Rajoy is making a risky political bet in claiming recovery is close at hand as a recent economic upturn is fragile and even if it persists an austerity-weary public may not feel much benefit, analysts and sources say. For weeks, the government has tried to move away from the gloomy picture it presented in April when it updated its economic strategy, pointing at encouraging trade, labor cost and deficit numbers instead. ... Full Story | Top |
| Airlines insist they'll stick with Boeing Dreamliner after fire Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 06:23 AM PDT  By Peter Griffiths and Rhys Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Airlines expressed confidence in the safety of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner on Sunday as investigators searched for the cause of a fire on one of the advanced jets and billions were wiped off the company's market value. British officials said initial checks into what they called a serious incident appeared to rule out any link to the battery-related problems that grounded the Dreamliner fleet for three months earlier this year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Analysis: Charges unlikely, but Murdoch tape won't help his business case Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 06:29 AM PDT  By Kate Holton and Jennifer Saba LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The recall of Rupert Murdoch to a committee of the British parliament over a secret tape of him dismissing the alleged illegal behavior of his journalists is likely to cause personal embarrassment for the world's most famous media mogul but no criminal charges. It could, however, further complicate his business dealings in Britain, where his firm has long wanted to take full control of the pay-TV group BSkyB and where it is still locked in negotiations with the government over regulation of the press. ... Full Story | Top |
| Nine militants killed in U.S. drone, Pakistan air force strikes Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 04:37 AM PDT By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least nine suspected militants, including two foreigners, were killed in Pakistan's lawless tribal region in a U.S. drone strike and a separate Pakistan military operation, security officials said on Sunday. Pakistan has seen a spate of militant attacks since Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took office last month, putting pressure on his team to act more aggressively to curb the insurgency. Missile strikes by unmanned U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Gunmen kill four policemen in Russia's Dagestan Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 05:24 AM PDT MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Four policemen were killed in Russia's violence-plagued Dagestan region on Sunday when unidentified gunmen opened fire on their car, local investigators said. The police officers were on their way back from a village of Burshi, some 100 km (62 miles) south-west of regional capital Makhachkala, when their car was attacked by two assailants. Insurgents are fighting to carve out an Islamic state in Dagestan - an ethnically mixed, mostly Muslim region in the North Caucasus between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pakistan Taliban set up camps in Syria, join anti-Assad war Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 03:46 AM PDT  By Maria Golovnina and Jibran Ahmad ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban have set up camps and sent hundreds of men to Syria to fight alongside rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, militants said on Sunday, in a strategy aimed at cementing ties with al Qaeda's central leadership. More than two years since the start of the anti-Assad rebellion, Syria has become a magnet for foreign Sunni fighters who have flocked to the Middle Eastern nation to join what they see as a holy war against Shi'ite oppressors. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. community health centers eye Obamacare's newly insured Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 04:05 AM PDT  By Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Community health centers expect to sign up millions of newly insured patients under President Barack Obama's health reform law, but U.S. budget cuts just as they need to beef up services may make it hard to keep the newcomers. The federally funded centers have been a safety net in the nation's poorest areas since 1965, offering primary care and mental health services to 22 million people, more than a third of them without insurance. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insight: Nigeria Islamists hit schools to destroy Western ideas Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 01:47 AM PDT  By Isaac Abrak MAMUDO, Nigeria (Reuters) - They crept up to the school under cover of darkness, armed with petrol and automatic weapons. Most of the teachers and pupils had fled, but some students, one teacher and headmaster Adanu Haruna were still in the compound, one of many rural boarding schools in Nigeria surrounded by forest and farmland. "They made the students line up and strip naked, then they made the ones with pubic hair lie face down on the ground," Haruna said, eyes wide with horror at describing the attack on the iron-roofed school built by British colonizers in the 1950s. ... Full Story | Top |
| Exclusive: Kenyan peacekeepers aided illegal Somalia charcoal export - U.N. Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 10:08 PM PDT  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A confidential report by U.N. monitors accuses Kenyan soldiers in the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia of facilitating illegal charcoal exports from the port city of Kismayu, a business that generates millions of dollars a year for Islamic militants seeking to topple the government. The case of the failed ban on Somali charcoal outlined in the report highlights the difficulty of cutting off al Shabaab militants' funding and ensuring compliance with U.N. sanctions when there is little appetite for enforcing them on the ground. ... Full Story | Top |
| Turkish police fire tear gas at Istanbul protesters Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 09:02 PM PDT  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired water cannon and tear gas on Saturday to disperse hundreds of protesters who gathered to march to Gezi Park, which has been at the heart of fierce unrest against Prime Minister Erdogan's rule. Protesters scattered, running into sidestreets where police pursued them, before starting to regroup on Istiklal Street, meters from the main Taksim Square. The demonstrators also clashed with shopkeepers disgruntled by weeks of bad business due to weeks of demonstrations. ... Full Story | Top |
| Greece picks Eurobank to buy Postbank ahead of mid-July deadline Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 07:15 PM PDT  By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's bank rescue fund picked Eurobank to buy New Hellenic Postbank as part of consolidation in the sector and to meet a condition for the next tranche of Greece's bailout, it said after a board meeting on Saturday. Athens agreed with its euro zone and International Monetary Fund backers to sell Postbank (TT) and Proton Bank by July 15 as a condition for the release of more funds from the 240 billion-euro rescue package keeping Greece afloat. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt announces criminal investigation of Mursi Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 03:57 PM PDT  By Yasmine Saleh and Peter Graff CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt announced a criminal investigation on Saturday against deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, with prosecutors saying they were examining complaints of spying, inciting violence and ruining the economy. Egypt's first freely elected leader has been held at an undisclosed location since the army removed him from power on July 3, but has not yet been charged with any crime. In recent days, Washington has called for him to be freed and for the authorities to stop arresting leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bomb attacks on Sunni mosques in Iraq kill 23 Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 02:48 PM PDT  By Kareem Raheem BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two bomb attacks near Sunni mosques in the Iraqi capital killed at least 23 people who had gathered to pray after breaking their daily fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Saturday, police and medics said. A car packed with explosives went off near the Mulla Hwesh mosque in Baghdad's western district of Jamia, killing at least seven people, and a suicide bomber blew himself up in the southern Doura neighborhood, leaving 16 dead. "A bomb exploded while worshippers were leaving the mosque of Khalid Bin al-Waleed. ... Full Story | Top |
| Seven peacekeepers killed in Sudan's Darfur region Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 02:40 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Seven peacekeepers were killed and 17 wounded when they came under heavy fire from gunmen in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region on Saturday, the peacekeeping force said, the worst toll from a single incident since its deployment in 2008. Law and order has collapsed in much of Darfur, where mainly African tribes took up arms in 2003 against the Arab-led government in Khartoum, which they accuse of discriminating against them. Violence has surged since January as government forces, rebels and Arab tribes, armed by Khartoum early in the conflict, fight over resources and land. ... Full Story | Top |
| Eighteen killed in Moscow bus crash Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 09:58 PM PDT  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Eighteen people were killed and 25 injured when a truck ploughed into a bus in a Moscow suburb on Saturday, according to the Russian emergency ministry. An eyewitness video of the crash, broadcast on state television, showed the green and white passenger bus's windows shattering as it split in half, forcing other vehicles on the road to swerve wildly out of its way. Death rates from Russian road accidents are higher than in most Western countries, and lawmakers are moving to toughen drunk-driving penalties. ... Full Story | Top |
| Florida jury in Zimmerman case asks about manslaughter charge Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 04:25 PM PDT  By Ellen Wulfhorst SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - The Florida jury deciding the fate of George Zimmerman for killing unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin asked for clarification on Saturday on manslaughter, the less-serious charge in the case that has sparked debate on race and guns. The panel of six women, which has deliberated more than 12 hours over two days, could decide on manslaughter, second-degree murder or acquittal for Zimmerman, who says he shot the 17-year-old Martin in self-defense. ... Full Story | Top |
| No evidence Dreamliner fire linked to batteries: AAIB Saturday, Jul 13, 2013 02:32 PM PDT  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Investigators have found no evidence of a link between a fire that broke out on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner parked at London's Heathrow airport and the plane's batteries, Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said on Saturday. The question of whether the fire was connected to the batteries is crucial because the entire global fleet of Dreamliners, Boeing's groundbreaking new flagship jet, was grounded for three months this year due to battery-related problems. ... Full Story | Top |
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