World

CHICAGO  (Reuters) – An influential US panel has called for routine HIV screening for all Americans aged 15 to 65, a change that could help reduce some of the stigma about getting tested for the sexually transmitted infection that causes AIDS.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Rwanda accused UN-backed Congolese forces of shelling its territory during a battle with rebels near the border yesterday but said it had no plans to respond militarily to what it called Kinshasa’s “provocation”.

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – International pressure for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip puts Egypt’s new Islamist president in the spotlight yesterday after a sixth day of Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli air strikes that have killed over 100 people.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The International Court of Justice ruled yesterday that a cluster of disputed small islands in the western Caribbean belonged to Colombia and not to Nicaragua, but drew a demarcation line in favour of Nicaragua in the nearby waters.

VIENNA (Reuters) – A former ice cream parlour owner confessed in court yesterday to shooting, sawing up and freezing both her ex-husband and her lover, and burying them under the cellar of her store in Vienna.

(Reuters) The United States and China have been searching for a new way to frame their relationship. 

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Nations working on a deal to fight climate change should cap the size of delegations and use majority voting to overhaul negotiating rules that stifle progress and harm the interests of the poorest nations, researchers said yesterday.

GAZA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Hostilities between Islamist militants and Israel entered a sixth day today as diplomatic efforts were set to intensify to try to stop rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and Israeli air strikes on Gaza.

KINSHASA,  (Reuters) – Rebels in Congo, who U.N. experts say are backed by neighbouring Rwanda, reached the outskirts of the eastern city of Goma yesterday after pushing back U.N.

TEL AVIV/GAZA (Reuters) – Gaza’s Hamas movement wanted a showdown with Israel because its leaders are high on something called the Arab Spring and competing to become martyrs to the Palestinian cause.

(Reuters) – Days after an extramarital affair forced CIA Director David Petraeus to resign, the Florida socialite who triggered the inquiry that took down Petraeus complained about “paparazzi” in front of her mansion and “people calling me with threats.”

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Rebels said they captured an airport used by Syria’s military near the Iraqi border yesterday, strengthening their hold on the recently seized border town of Albu Kamal.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – UN attack helicopters hit rebel positions in eastern Congo yesterday after insurgents gained ground in heavy fighting with government troops and took control of a town, the United Nations said.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Corporate America is raising the volume of its plea that the US government avert a year-end “fiscal cliff” that could send the nation back into recession, but chief executives aren’t pushing the panic button just yet.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s threat to reprise its Gaza invasion of four years ago if its air strikes against Hamas do not end rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave masks important differences between then and now.

GAZA/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israel’s cabinet authorised the mobilisation of up to 75,000 reservists late yesterday, preparing the ground for a possible Gaza invasion after Palestinians fired a rocket toward Jerusalem for the first time in decades.

SANTA MONICA, Calif,  (Reuters) – Two leading U.S. economists expressed deep pessimism yesterday that politicians in Washington will be able to strike a deal to rein in America’s soaring national debt.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic congressional leaders emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama yesterday pledging to find common ground on taxes and spending that would allow them to avert a looming “fiscal cliff” that could send the economy back into recession.

VIENNA,  (Reuters) – Iran is set to sharply expand its uranium enrichment in an underground plant after installing all the centrifuges it was built for, a U.N.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Former CIA Director David Petraeus told Congress yesterday that he and the spy agency had sought to make clear from the outset that September’s deadly attack on the U.S.