June 24, 2007 - June 30, 2007 Archives

June 30, 2007

EU firms laud China's new labor law

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's sweeping new labor law will improve workplace conditions without deterring foreign investment, the European Union Chamber of Commerce said on Sunday.

Australian PM denies 'secret plan' to leave Iraq

SYDNEY : Australian Prime Minister John Howard Sunday denied he planned to suddenly withdraw troops from Iraq, saying the idea was "absurd".

EU energy market opens to competition

PARIS (AFP) - The entire EU energy market was thrown open to competition on Sunday, allowing consumers to choose their gas and electricity suppliers and spelling an end for monopolistic state-run utilities.

AU summit focuses on United States of Africa plan

ACCRA (AFP) - Leaders of the African Union begin a three-day summit here Sunday focused on plans to forge a confederation of states that can help the world's poorest continent exercise greater clout on the world stage.

UK terrorism risk "critical" after Glasgow attack

GLASGOW (Reuters) - Britain is at "critical" risk of a terrorist attack, the government said, after police linked an attack on Glasgow airport to two failed car bombings in London.

Vote count begins after East Timor elections

DILI (Reuters) - Vote counting began on Sunday after the people of East Timor voted to choose a parliament that could help the young, poor nation get back on track after the euphoria of independence was shaken by communal bloodshed last year.

Bush loses special trade powers as Democrats flex muscles

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush lost his special trade power at midnight Saturday as opposition Democrats flexed their new grip on Congress and refused White House appeals to renew it.

Australia plans to withdraw troops from Iraq: report

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister John Howard is secretly planning to begin withdrawing Australian troops from Iraq by February 2008, Australian media reported on Sunday.

Britain on maximum alert as new attack feared

LONDON (AFP) - Britain raised its national threat level to "critical" amid fears of a new Al-Qaeda-style attack, after police said they were treating three failed car bomb attacks in two days as connected.

Sudan's Bashir condemns U.S. over sanctions: Sudan TV

LONDON (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Saturday condemned the United States for pursuing sanctions against his country over Darfur, the BBC quoted Sudan TV as reporting.

June 29, 2007

Pope says China "suffocates" faith, urges dialogue

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday decried Chinese state restrictions on religious freedom that "suffocate" the Church and sow division amongst that country's Catholics, in his most significant address on China to date.

E Timor votes in parliamentary elections

DILI (AFP) - East Timor's voters cast ballots on Saturday to choose a new government tasked with uniting the population of the tiny fledgling state shattered by violence, poverty and soaring unemployment.

New claims of civilians killed in Afghan operations

KABUL (AFP) - There were new claims Saturday of heavy civilian casualties in foreign military air strikes in Afghanistan after an operation that the US-led coalition said killed more than a dozen Taliban.

US, SKorea set to sign free trade pact

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States and South Korea are set to sign a landmark free trade agreement to be sent for Congressional approval, but US lawmakers are already saying they will not vote for it.

26 'Iran-linked terrorists' killed in Baghdad raid: US

BAGHDAD (AFP) - US and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters killed 26 militants suspected of links to "Iranian terror networks" in raids in the Baghdad Shiite district of Sadr City on Saturday, the US military said.

British police patrols stepped up after bombs found

LONDON (Reuters) - British police bolstered patrols on the streets of London and scoured CCTV footage on Saturday after foiling a possible al Qaeda plot to detonate two fuel-and-nail-packed car bombs in the heart of the capital.

Cross-Canada protests denounce natives' poverty

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian aboriginal groups staged protests across the country on Friday to bring attention to poverty, health and social problems facing Indians living on and off the country's reserves.

EU says runs out of cash for Darfur peacekeepers

PARIS (Reuters) - European Union funding for an African peacekeeping force in Darfur has run out, and the United States and Arab League should help cover the costs until a replacement force arrives, the EU's aid chief said on Friday.

International probe as London police avert car bomb carnage

LONDON (AFP) - British police on Friday defused a car bomb which could have caused carnage in London's entertainment district, sparking a manhunt and probe into possible international links.

"Give us more time," NATO asks Kosovo

PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - NATO on Friday asked Kosovo Albanians to give Western powers more time to steer their independence from Serbia through the United Nations, but admitted the project was in trouble.

U.N. chief in Afghanistan, focus on lack of law and order

KABUL (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a surprise visit to Kabul on Friday to hold talks with President Hamid Karzai ahead of a conference in Rome next week that will seek ways to improve law and order in Afghanistan.

June 28, 2007

Ivory Coast prime minister's plane attacked

ABIDJAN (AFP) - A plane carrying Ivory Coast Prime Minister Guillaume Soro was attacked Friday as it landed at an airport in the centre of the country, killing three people though Soro survived, a top aide told AFP.

Israel's president resigns over sex crimes

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Moshe Katsav resigned on Friday, a day after admitting to sex crimes against women employees in a case that has brought unprecedented disgrace on an Israeli head of state.

Europeans likely to insist on keeping IMF job

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The surprise resignation of the International Monetary Fund's head prompted calls for the search for his replacement to reach beyond Europe, but European finance officials quickly laid claim to the succession.

Five U.S. soldiers killed in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five U.S. soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack on their patrol in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Friday, bringing this month's death toll for American forces in Iraq close to 100.

China calls for reason as food safety fears mount

BEIJING (Reuters) - Under pressure after a U.S. move against Chinese seafood and a huge recall of Chinese toothpaste in Japan, Beijing urged trade partners on Friday to accept its products unless they violate contract terms or local regulations.

International Red Cross issues rare Myanmar censure

GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday accused Myanmar's ruling junta of committing serious abuses against detainees and civilians, in a rare public censure from the humanitarian agency.

"Understanding" on N. Korea reactor shutdown: Kyodo

TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog has reached an "understanding" with North Korea on verification of the shutdown and sealing of the North's Yongbyon reactor, Kyodo news agency said on Friday.

Violence-weary Timor Leste set to vote for new parliament

DILI : Voters in Timor Leste (formerly known as East Timor) head to ballot boxes Saturday to choose a new government tasked with uniting a violence-weary population yet to savour the fruits of the nation's five-year-old independence.

Bush wishes Cuba's Castro would disappear

NEWPORT, Rhode Island (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush made plain his feelings about Fidel Castro on Thursday -- wishing the Cuban leader would disappear.

Chavez attacks US, meets Putin in Moscow

MOSCOW (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez railed against the United States at the start of a visit to Russia on Thursday and called on Moscow to help lead a global revolution against Washington.

Told you so, U.N. Iraq arms inspectors' report says

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - On the day before it is due to be shut down, the U.N. unit that found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but failed to stop the U.S.-led invasion said on Thursday time had justified its methods and work.

Arabs doubt Blair can succeed in Middle East

CAIRO (Reuters) - Arabs said on Thursday they doubted former British Prime Minister Tony Blair could succeed as Middle East peace envoy because of his unpopularity and because he is too close to Israel and the United States.

June 27, 2007

S.Africa civil servants agree to end 4-week strike

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African trade unions called off a four-week public servants strike on Thursday, with most of them accepting a 7.5 percent general pay rise offered by government.

Two Western security workers killed in Afghan blast

KABUL (Reuters) - Two Western security guards were killed when their convoy was attacked by a suicide car bomber in the Afghan capital on Thursday, police officials and witnesses said.

Fujimori to run for office in Japan as trial in Peru looms

TOKYO (AFP) - Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori has announced he will run for office in Japan in another bizarre twist to the career of the former strongman who is under house arrest in Chile.

Serbs mark Kosovo battle under threat of secession

GRACANICA, Serbia (Reuters) - Serbs in Kosovo on Thursday marked an epic medieval battle central to their claim to the province, testing the patience of the Albanian majority already angry at delays to its demand for independence.

EU bans all Indonesian airlines from its airspace

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - All Indonesian airlines including national carrier Garuda will be banned from flying to the European Union within a week, the European Commission said on Thursday, updating a "blacklist" of carriers deemed unsafe.

Myanmar frees agitators for Suu Kyi release

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military government has freed all but one of 52 people detained for holding prayer vigils for the release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, her National League for Democracy (NLD) party said on Thursday.

IAEA team heads for North Korea nuclear complex

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear watchdog officials visiting North Korea traveled on Thursday to a reactor complex that the secretive state has promised to mothball under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported.

South Korea readies for troop pullout from Iraq

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Defense Ministry submitted a plan to parliament on Thursday for the complete pullout of its troops from Iraq, ending what once had been the third-largest deployment of foreign troops in that country.

Israel fights Fatah militants in West Bank city

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - An Israeli raid into a West Bank city dominated by Fatah gunmen drew accusations from Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad that Israel was trying to undermine his new government shorn of Hamas Islamists.

Review decision may reopen Lockerbie case

LONDON (Reuters) - A Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing will find out on Thursday if he can appeal, potentially throwing the case wide open after nearly two decades.

Congress subpoenas White House on eavesdropping

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US Senate Committee slapped subpoenas on the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office over a warrantless wiretap program Wednesday, spiking tensions in a constitutional showdown.

Iranians still planning attacks in Iraq: U.S.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iranian operatives are training fighters in Iraq and helping to plan attacks there despite diplomatic pressure on Tehran to halt such interference, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

EU to sue Germany over law seen as favoring Deutsche Telekom

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Commission decided Wednesday to haul Germany before the European Union's highest court over a law it said tightens Deutsche Telekom's grip on the market for broadband Internet access.

Poland says U.N. to rename Auschwitz death camp

WARSAW (Reuters) - The United Nations has accepted Poland's request to rename the Auschwitz death camp on its list of World Heritage sites to make clear it was run by Germans not Poles, the Polish government announced on Wednesday.

Half world's population to live in cities by 2008

PARIS (AFP) - More than half of the world's population will live in cities by 2008, a UN report said Wednesday urging help for poor nations, the first in line to be hit by galloping urbanisation.

Two killed as Somali officials escape attack

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's trade minister and former defense minister escaped assassination attempts, which killed two other people, in the latest Iraq-style guerrilla attacks on government targets, witnesses said on Wednesday.

June 26, 2007

Mugabe threatens to seize firms over "dirty tricks"

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday threatened to seize foreign companies, including mines, he accused of economic sabotage and of hiking prices as part of a campaign to oust his government.

Health workers jailed in Kazakh baby AIDS death case

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - A Kazakh court jailed 17 health workers on Wednesday for infecting dozens of babies with HIV/AIDS but provoked outrage from parents for sparing four senior officials from incarceration.

NKorea fires short-range missile: report

SEOUL: North Korea appeared to have test-fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency said.

Poland expects U.S. missile shield deal by October

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland expects to sign an agreement with the United States by October to allow parts of a U.S. anti-missile shield to be built on Polish soil, a Polish official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

Sudan's presidential adviser dies in crash

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's powerful presidential adviser Majzoub al-Khalifa, who was key to signing last year's Darfur peace accord, died in a car accident in northern Sudan on Wednesday.

Protests flare in Iran over petrol rationing

TEHRAN (AFP) - Angry Iranian youths torched petrol stations in Tehran and long queues formed at fuel pumps after the government announced the start of fuel rationing, triggering nationwide protests on Wednesday.

World Bank loan to fund India's rural poverty fight

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Wednesday it had approved a $600 million loan for India to help it revamp thousands of ailing rural cooperative banks and fight village poverty through cheap loans.

China launches Olympic education programme in schools

BEIJING - School has suddenly got tougher for China's 400 million children who have an extra subject to tackle - the Olympic movement.

Japan shuns US pressure for 'comfort women' apology

TOKYO: Japan on Wednesday brushed aside growing pressure from US lawmakers for a fresh apology for Tokyo's wartime sexual enslavement of an estimated 200,000 women.

Venezuela's Chavez seen wanting office "for life"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Insecurity, "malignant narcissism" and the need for adulation are driving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's confrontation with the United States, according to a new psychological profile.

Hong Kong in 2017: wrestling with China

Beijing enforces Hong Kong's birdcage democracy. The stock market sputters. Nouveau riche Chinese run the show. That, at least, is what some prominent observers think.

Gordon Brown to finally take PM mantle from Blair

LONDON (Reuters) - Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as British prime minister on Wednesday, inheriting a Labour government trailing in many polls because of Iraq and needing to win back voters if it is to secure a fourth consecutive term.

Europe hit by killer heatwave and floods

BUCHAREST (AFP) - A searing heatwave has killed at least 46 people across southern Europe while in Britain torrential rain claimed three lives and forced hundreds to flee a creaking dam.

Cyclone kills 18 on Pakistan coast

GWADAR, Pakistan (AFP) - A powerful cyclone lashed Pakistan's southern coast on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, leaving dozens more missing and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, officials said.

Laura Bush pushes education, AIDS fight in Africa

DAKAR (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Laura Bush began a four-nation tour of Africa in Senegal's capital Dakar on Tuesday, pledging Washington's support in improving education and combating AIDS on the world's poorest continent.

Scottish ruling could reopen Lockerbie mystery

LONDON (Reuters) - A Libyan intelligence agent will learn this week if he can appeal against his conviction for blowing a Pan Am airliner out of the sky over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988.

U.N. envoys say keep pressure on Sudan over Darfur

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan has expressed its "total unconditional acceptance" of a hybrid international force for Darfur, but the world must keep up the pressure on Khartoum, Britain's U.N. envoy said on Tuesday.

Fighting rages in Lebanon as Spain mourns peacekeepers

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (AFP) - Lebanese troops and Islamic extremists exchanged heavy fire for a 38th day on Tuesday as Spain mourned six peacekeepers killed in a "terrorist" attack in the south of the country.

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ATIR (NEGEV DESERT), 26 June 2007 (IRIN) - At least 20 houses in two Bedouin-Arab villages were destroyed on 25 June by Israeli security forces, ...
June 25, 2007

CIA "kidnap" victim eyes political career in Egypt

ROME (Reuters) - An Egyptian cleric who says he was kidnapped by the CIA in Italy and flown to Egypt for torture is considering a political career in his home country thanks to the fame the case has brought him.

Hardliners demand Indonesia disband anti-terror unit

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian Muslim hardliners demanded on Tuesday the government disband an American trained special anti-terror unit, saying it was a tool of the United States to fight Islam.

Iran to vie with West by launching news channel

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's state broadcaster will launch a 24-hour English-language satellite news channel next week to rival dominant Western services, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Heritage at centre of Hong Kong's search for post-colonial identity

HONG KONG : Long celebrated for its picturesque harbour and dazzling skyscrapers, as well as low taxes and a business-friendly government that has made it rich terrain for property developers, Hong Kong is in the grip of a debate on its post-colonial identity.

Inflation-ravaged Zimbabwe orders prices cut in half

HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's government has ordered prices of basic goods and services be slashed by half to protect Zimbabweans battling with the world's highest inflation rate, official media reported on Tuesday.

Thaksin defies Thai graftbusters' order to return

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will not return from exile to the "killing zone" of Thailand despite being ordered back to face charges of hiding assets illegally, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Japan to keep position on sex slaves despite US move

TOKYO: Japan said Tuesday it would stick to its position over former "comfort women" even if a US Congressional panel backs a bill demanding a fresh, unambiguous apology over wartime sexual slavery.

Australian Aborigines label government crackdown a land grab

SYDNEY: Aborigines on Tuesday said the government was trying to steal their land under the guise of responding to a crisis that Prime Minister John Howard has labelled Australia's own Hurricane Katrina.

East Timor on course for largely smooth polls: U.N

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Parliamentary elections in East Timor at the weekend should be largely peaceful and fair despite some tensions in the run-up, the U.N. envoy to the young nation said on Tuesday.

UN nuclear inspectors arrive in Pyongyang: Xinhua

BEIJING (AFP) - United Nations nuclear inspectors arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday for their first visit since being kicked out of North Korea nearly five years ago, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.

Bodies of Spanish peacekeepers arrive ahead of state funeral

MADRID (AFP) - The bodies of the six soldiers serving with Spanish UN forces killed in a Sunday bombing in Lebanon arrived back in Spain in the early hours of Tuesday to a sombre reception at Torrejon airbase outside Madrid, Spanish media reported.

US Congress set for make-or-break debate on immigration

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Congress takes up Tuesday a divisive bill balancing border security and the documentation of 12 million illegal aliens, in a make-or-break debate that could scuttle immigration reform until after the 2008 presidential election.

Afghan Helmand province becoming main drug supplier

VIENNA (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Helmand province, heartland of Taliban guerrillas fighting NATO forces, is about to become the world's largest drug supplier, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Zoellick approved as World Bank seeks to emerge from scandal

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The World Bank on Monday approved Robert Zoellick as its next president as the 185-country development lender moved to turn a page after a scandal that undermined its credibility around the world.

Olmert offers Fatah prisoner release at Mideast summit

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a Middle East summit in Egypt on Monday he was ready to free 250 Fatah prisoners in a gesture of goodwill to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.

World powers pledge to step up Darfur efforts

PARIS (AFP) - France, the United States, China and some 15 other nations agreed on Monday to redouble efforts to end bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region by supporting a new peace force and negotiations on a settlement.

German prosecutors want CIA agents extradited

BERLIN (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Munich, Germany, are requesting the extradition from the United States of 13 suspected CIA agents they say took part in the 2003 kidnapping of a German citizen.

Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri voices support for Hamas

DUBAI (AFP) - Osama bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri has voiced his backing for Hamas and warned against any offensive to wrest control of Gaza from the Islamist movement, in an Internet tape broadcast on Monday.

Iran invites IAEA team to help ease nuclear fears

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has invited the International Atomic Energy Agency to send a team to agree how to resolve long-standing IAEA questions about Tehran's nuclear program, the U.N. watchdog said on Monday.

France's Royal under fire over leadership bid

PARIS (Reuters) - Defeated French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal came under fire over her bid to lead the leftist party on Monday, with one rival accusing her of seeking to establish a monarchy.

Somali soldier fires at crowd seeking food, 3 killed

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A Somali government soldier opened fire on Monday at a crowd clamoring for food aid in Mogadishu and killed at least three people, witnesses said.

June 24, 2007

Gaza reporter's family urges captors not to harm him

LONDON (Reuters) - The family and colleagues of Alan Johnston, a BBC reporter kidnapped by Islamists in Gaza, urged his captors on Monday not to harm him after he appeared in a video wearing what he said was an explosive belt.

Egypt nuclear engineer convicted of spying for Israel

CAIRO (Reuters) - A nuclear engineer at Egypt's state-run Atomic Energy Agency was convicted by an Egyptian court of spying for Israel on Monday and sentenced to life in prison.

China's slave scandal kilns used 53,000 illegal workers

BEIJING (AFP) - Brick kilns and mines at the centre of a slavery scandal used more than 53,000 illegal migrant workers, state media reported Monday, as the probe into the abuses spread.

Taylor boycott forces delay of war crimes trial

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Judges delayed Charles Taylor's trial on charges of directing atrocities in Sierra Leone on Monday after the former Liberian President failed to show up in court, saying he lacked funds for a defense.

Darfur meeting ends without concrete action

PARIS (Reuters) - An international meeting on Darfur ended on Monday with promises to support peace-keeping efforts and a political process to stop the violence in western Sudan but with few concrete steps.

Chinese woman breaks silence on sex slavery horror

RUGAO, China (Reuters) - Zhou Fenying is a living witness to the dark history that still poisons China's relations with Japan more than 60 years after World War Two.

Israel frees funds for Abbas

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel agreed on Sunday to transfer several hundred million dollars to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government, a measure designed to undercut Hamas Islamists controlling Gaza.

Sudan must stop trying to limit Darfur force: Rice

PARIS (Reuters) - Sudan must stop trying to "scale back" a hybrid international force for Darfur, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said as she flew to Paris for talks on the humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region.

Nepal elections set for November 22

KATHMANDU: Nepal's eight political parties announced on Sunday that November 22 will be the date for the Himalayan nation's first post-war elections originally scheduled for June.

Elections will put Thai economy back on track, says minister

SINGAPORE: Thailand's economy will return to the fast track once it resolves lingering political uncertainty following September's coup, Finance Minister Chalongphob Sussangkarn said on Sunday.

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