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Lockerbie bomber Megrahi has died in Libya: brother
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 TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died of cancer on Sunday aged 60, leaving many questions on the attack and its aftermath unanswered. Megrahi, who said he was not responsible for bringing the jumbo jet down on the Scottish town and killing 270 people, was found guilty in 2001 but was freed in 2009 and returned to Libya because he had terminal cancer and was not expected to live long. ...
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T18:19:49Z |
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Italy quake kills six, damages historic buildings
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 SANT' AGOSTINO, Italy (Reuters) - A strong earthquake in northern Italy killed at least six people, injured dozens and damaged historic buildings including a famed mediaeval castle early on Sunday, waking terrified citizens and sending thousands running into the streets. The quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey recorded at magnitude 6.0, struck at 4:04 a.m. (0204 GMT) and was followed by a series of jolting aftershocks. At least two of them reached magnitude 5.1, sowing fresh panic, further damaging already weakened buildings and causing more structures to collapse. ...
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T18:00:04Z |
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Opposition ahead in Serbia presidential poll
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| BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's rightist opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic was narrowly ahead in a presidential run-off on Sunday against liberal incumbent Boris Tadic, according to an unofficial projection by pollster CESID. CESID showed Nikolic with 49.4 percent of the votes and Tadic with 47.6, based on a sample of the polling from an election in which fewer than half of Serbia's eligible voters turned out. ... |
| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T19:00:26Z |
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Russia says West still considering military action on Iran
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 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's deputy foreign minister said on Sunday that military action against Iran over its nuclear program was being considered in some Western countries. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was speaking to reporters on a plane on his way back from the G8 summit in Camp David, where the G8 leaders signaled their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Iran threatened to strain supplies. ...
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T18:24:52Z |
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NATO chief: No "rush for the exits" in Afghan war
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 CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO's chief sought on Sunday to dispel fears of a "rush for the exits" in Afghanistan as Western allies gathered to chart a path out of an unpopular war that has dragged on for more than a decade. President Barack Obama hosts the summit in his home town, Chicago, a day after major industrialized nations tackled a European debt crisis that threatens the global economy. ...
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T16:49:22Z |
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Mighty Merkel may be the odd woman out
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 CHICAGO (Reuters) - There are weeks in the political life of Angela Merkel that were surely more pleasant than the last one. Last Sunday, the German chancellor's party suffered a big loss in the regional election of North Rhine-Westphalia. On Wednesday, she sacked one of her cabinet ministers, a rare move for her, after he led the party to the election defeat. On Saturday, she looked isolated with her insistence on fiscal austerity - also known as "consolidation" -for the ailing euro zone at the G8 summit hosted by President Barack Obama at Camp David in Maryland. ...
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T17:13:41Z |
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Syrian army shelling kills 16 in Hama: rights groups
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| BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian army shelling killed 16 people, including children, on Sunday in the town of Souran in the central province of Hama, the British-based rights group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The army shelled the town and then stormed it," the head of the rights group Rami Abdelrahman told Reuters, citing residents. Hama has been a focal point of Syria's 14-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. (Reporting by Oliver Holmes; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T14:22:26Z |
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U.N. nuclear chief hopeful on Iran deal before Baghdad meet
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 VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear supervisor flew to Tehran on Sunday voicing optimism he could reach a deal to investigate suspected atom bomb research - a possible breakthrough that Iran may hope could help ease Western sanctions pressure and deflect threats of war. "I really think this is the right time to reach agreement. Nothing is certain but I stay positive," Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said at Vienna airport, adding "good progress" had already been made. ...
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T18:53:07Z |
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Lone bomber, not mafia, sought for Italy school attack
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| BRINDISI (Reuters) - A bomb attack which killed a teenage girl and wounded 10 other people in the southern Italian town of Brindisi was probably done by an individual operating alone, a senior official said on Sunday, playing down initial suspicions of mafia involvement. Saturday's attack on the Francesca Morvillo Falcone school, a vocational training institute named after the wife of a famed anti-mafia judge, horrified Italy and sparked speculation it was the work of southern Italy's organized crime gangs. ... |
| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T16:09:18Z |
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North Korea releases detained Chinese fishermen
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| BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea released a number of Chinese fishermen and boats on Sunday two weeks after seizing them, ending a rare public dispute between the two allies, Chinese state media reported. The boats were taken in the Yellow Sea between China and North Korea on May 8 - although it remains unclear whether the action was authorized by the North Korean government. The North Koreans who took the boats had demanded 1.2 million yuan ($189,800) for releasing the fishermen, then cut their price to 900,000 yuan, the owner of one of the captured vessels said last week. ... |
| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T15:59:12Z |
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Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates
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 Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates:
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T18:27:31Z |
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Former Israeli PM: Jerusalem must be partitioned
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 Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors irreparably divided.
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T17:43:51Z |
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Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
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| Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials. |
| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T18:22:03Z |
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Bomb explodes during UN visit in Syria
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 A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior U.N. officials toured the area on Sunday, the latest incident in which the unarmed observer mission has nearly been caught up in the country's bloodshed.
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T18:36:15Z |
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Former Yemen president hospitalized
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| The party of Yemen's former president says the 69-year old Ali Abdullah Saleh has been admitted to a hospital for regular checkups and minor procedures. |
| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T18:26:03Z |
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Lawyer: Jailed Bahrain activist granted bail
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| A court in Bahrain granted bail Sunday for a jailed rights activist, but he remained in detention to await another court hearing later this week, a defense lawyer said. |
| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T17:49:35Z |
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Strong quake kills 4 in Italy cheese region
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 A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy Sunday, killing four people, knocking down a clock tower and other centuries-old buildings and causing millions in losses to the region known for making Parmesan cheese.
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T17:21:32Z |
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Jailed Israeli president freed briefly
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| A prison spokeswoman says Israel's jailed former president has been freed for a few hours to attend his son's wedding. |
| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T14:38:19Z |
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Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president
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| Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. |
| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T17:08:45Z |
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Italy bombing revives memories of dark era
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 A bomb blast outside a high school in southern Italy that killed a 16-year-old student has revived dark memories of the 70s and 80s, when terrorists, anarchists and organized crime carried out dozens of bloody attacks across the country.
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| Date Posted : 2012-05-20T12:10:56Z |
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