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Bomb kills man in north Lebanon city of Tripoli

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - A bomb killed a man and wounded 27 other people at an apartment block in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Saturday, medical and security sources said.

Rice calls on North Korea to come clean on uranium

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea did not answer U.S. suspicions of enriching uranium and proliferating technology when it released an inventory of its nuclear plans this week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Saturday.

Singapore charges two for organ trading

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The Singapore government has charged two Indonesians for putting their kidneys up for sale in the city-state, in what local media say is the first prosecution against organ trade in the country.

Guatemalan minister dies in helicopter crash

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (Reuters) - Guatemala's interior minister died when a helicopter crashed on Friday in bad weather north of the Guatemalan capital, officials said.

Philippine ferry search halted till next week

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
MANILA (Reuters) - The search for hundreds of bodies feared trapped on a capsized passenger in the central Philippines has been postponed until next week while officials try to remove 10 tonnes of toxic pesticide from the vessel.

Mugabe likely to be inaugurated Sunday

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is heading for a landslide victory in a one-candidate election boycotted by the opposition and is expected to be sworn in on Sunday, government sources said.

Breakaway Catholics challenge papal ultimatum

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
PARIS (Reuters) - A breakaway traditionalist group has told the Vatican it cannot comply with a papal ultimatum on returning to the Roman Catholic Church because it skirts key issues of their dispute, a spokesman said on Friday.

Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid into the occupied West Bank on Friday, local residents and medical workers said.

Canadians urged to don sealskin as "birthday" suit

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians should wear sealskin to celebrate the country's birthday on July 1, an Inuit leader said on Friday, in defiance of a European movement to ban the import of Canadian seal products.

Basques approve vote on ties with Spain, ETA talks

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
MADRID (Reuters) - The Basque Country regional assembly voted on Friday to go ahead with plans for a public vote on ties with the rest of Spain, but Spain vowed to block the move its sees as unnecessarily divisive.

EU calls on Iran to halt execution of youth

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union urged Iran on Friday to halt the imminent execution of a youth convicted of committing a murder while a minor.

Militias force some to vote for Zimbabwe's Mugabe

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
HARARE (Reuters) - Many Zimbabweans boycotted their one candidate-election on Friday, but witnesses and monitors said government militias forced people to vote for 84-year-old President Robert Mugabe in some areas.

Romanian 11-year-old can legally abort pregnancy

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Romanian government commission ruled on Friday that a pregnant 11-year-old girl could legally have a late-term abortion, in a case that has split the Black Sea state's conservative society.

Swiss riveted by climax of triple murder trial

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
GENEVA (Reuters) - A Swiss man who stood to inherit real estate worth 80 million Swiss francs ($78 million) was convicted on Friday of killing three women, including his adoptive mother and sister, and sentenced to life in prison.

N.Ireland court acquits men over McCartney murder

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
BELFAST (Reuters) - A Northern Ireland court acquitted three men on Friday of involvement in the murder of Belfast man Robert McCartney, whose killing three years ago sparked international outrage.

Pakistan urged to ensure rights as it faces Taliban

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of people in Pakistan have gone missing and women and girls have been left vulnerable to abuse as the government tackles militancy, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday.

Quake hits remote Indian islands, no tsunami alert

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A strong earthquake shook India's remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands but no tsunami alert was issued and there were no reports of damage, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services said on Friday. "The magnitude is 6.3 and it's centred in the Andaman Islands," Srinivas Kumar, an official at the centre, told Reuters.

Colombia's Uribe calls for repeat of '06 election

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said he wants to repeat the 2006 presidential election that gave him a second term, in a combative response to a court ruling that said the vote was tainted by corruption.

Prosecutors launch second case at global court

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors accused two Congolese warlords on Friday of seeking to "wipe out" an entire village and seize survivors as sex slaves and child soldiers in their second case at the International Criminal Court.

U.S. handover of Iraqi province delayed

Wed, 2024-11-27 19:37
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The handover of security control in Iraq's Anbar province to Iraqi forces has been put on hold, the U.S. military said on Friday, blaming a sandstorm forecast to hit the region.