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Migrants in S.Africa shelters "living like dogs"

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Jimmy Malish huddles under a blanket, looks at the darkening sky and prays that it doesn't rain again on him and the hundreds of other African migrants camped in the courtyard of a Johannesburg police station.

Georgia demands Russian apology over spy plane

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia demanded on Tuesday that Russia apologize after a U.N. report said a Russian air force jet had shot down a Georgian spy plane last month, but Moscow said it did not trust the report's conclusions.

China urges progress in North Korea nuclear talks

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
BEIJING (Reuters) - China urged all sides trying to rein in communist North Korea's nuclear weapons program on Tuesday to engage fully to achieve results sooner rather than later.

Twenty-five arrested over Naples rubbish

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
NAPLES (Reuters) - A judge in Naples has ordered 25 people, including employees at units of construction company Impregilo, to be put under house arrest for alleged irregularities in waste management activities in southern Italy.

Human rights abuses seen up in Gaza and W.Bank

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Human rights conditions have worsened in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since Hamas ousted Fatah in Gaza last year, a Palestinian rights group said on Tuesday.

Need to pressure Iran on nuclear issue: Germany

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's report on Iran this week showed the international community must push for a faster response from Tehran over its nuclear program, Germany said on Tuesday.

Food prices seen causing pain in war zones

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
GENEVA (Reuters) - Millions of people caught up in armed conflicts will be pinched hard by the global food crisis, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which vowed on Tuesday to sustain aid to 52 countries.

Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai says 50 killed in poll violence

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
HARARE (Reuters) - More than 50 people have been killed in political violence since Zimbabwe's disputed March 29 elections and 25,000 have fled their homes, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Tuesday.

Thirteen police and 11 civilians killed in Afghanistan

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
KABUL (Reuters) - Eleven civilians and 13 policemen were killed in a series of blasts and Taliban attacks in Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said.

Insurgents attack Ugandan troops in Somali capital

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents firing grenades attacked Ugandan peacekeepers in Mogadishu, killing at least 10 people and injuring a dozen others in the crossfire, residents and officials said on Tuesday.

Sarkozy rejects econ austerity, keeps 35-hour week

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
PARIS (Reuters) - France will keep its 35-hour working week in order to enable employees to add tax-deductible overtime to their salaries and boost growth, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday.

North Korea fights off malaria, disease heads South

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has greatly reduced malaria infections at home but mosquitoes carrying the disease are crossing the heavily armed border and infecting hundreds each year in the South, a provincial governor said on Tuesday.

Taiwan edges closer to China with one nation talk

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Taiwan edged closer to a resumption of fence-mending talks on Tuesday when the chairman of the island's ruling party echoed the Chinese line that both sides are part of a single nation.

Georgia rebels ready for war, hope for prosperity

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
SUKHUMI, Georgia (Reuters) - In the capital of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, the sea breeze rustles the palm trees and beneath them a group of teenage schoolgirls in camouflage gear rehearse marching drills.

Somali pirates seize Dutch-owned ship

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali gunmen hijacked a Dutch-owned ship as it traveled from Kenya's Mombasa port to Romania in the latest act of piracy off the lawless Horn of Africa nation's coast, a maritime official said on Tuesday.

Nepal government warns king he must leave palace

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The Nepali government warned on Tuesday that it could use force to throw unpopular King Gyanendra out of the royal palace if he refuses to leave voluntarily after the 239-year-old monarchy is abolished.

Myanmar junta unmoved, extends Suu Kyi arrest

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta extended the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, a move that dismayed some of the Western nations who promised millions of dollars in aid after Cyclone Nargis.

Myanmar arrests 20 marchers near Suu Kyi home

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta arrested 20 people trying to march to the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, the day her latest year-long stretch of house arrest is due to expire, a witness and opposition sources said.

New aftershocks bring terror to quake-hit China

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
MIANZHU, China (Reuters) - New aftershocks toppled 420,000 houses and injured dozens in southwest China on Tuesday, heaping destruction and fear on a region struggling to recover from the country's worst earthquake in decades.

Australian troops want to see real action in Iraq

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:21
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian infantry troops are ashamed of their "second rate" role in Iraq and Afghanistan and want to see combat as well as protection and reconstruction roles, according to an army major who served in Iraq.