TUNIS (Reuters) – Islamists stormed a university in Tunisia yesterday after it refused to enrol a woman wearing a full-face veil, a staff member said, highlighting tensions over religion that are likely to dominate an election later this month.
CAPE TOWN – China is built on lies and its officials are hypocrites, the Dalai Lama said today, speaking via videophone after visa problems prevented him from joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s birthday celebrations in South Africa.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez condemned on Saturday the “horrible repression” of anti-Wall Street protesters and termed a US Republican presidential candidate “crazy” for his criticism of Cuba and Venezuela.
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh suggested yesterday that within days he would step down, a promise he has made three times already this year, and analysts said it was yet another stalling tactic.
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Transitional Libyan government forces swept into Sirte yesterday in one of the biggest assaults yet on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown, but had to seek cover when they drew fire from his die-hard loyalists.
LONDON/MISRATA (Reuters) – Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron stepped into a row surrounding his defence secretary’s working relationship with a former flatmate yesterday by demanding initial findings of an inquiry be delivered within 48 hours.
OSLO (Reuters) – Declaring women’s rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize yesterday to three indomitable female campaigners against war and oppression — a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country’s president.
BOSTON (Reuters) – Ivy League professors dropped by anti-Wall Street protest camps in Boston and New York yesterday to school the demonstrators on theories that bolster their demands to end inequality in the American economy.
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi dismissed opposition calls to resign yesterday after yet another vulgar gaffe stirred up a mix of outrage and weary exasperation.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The voice of Michael Jackson’s doctor filled a Los Angeles courtroom yesterday as jurors heard tape of his police interview following the death of the “Thriller” singer in 2009.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities yesterday blamed a surge of killings in Veracruz on a group linked to Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, who has been fighting a turf war with rivals in the port city.
OSLO, (Reuters) – Declaring women’s rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize today to three indomitable campaigners against war and oppression — a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country’s president.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Protests against the US financial system and economic inequality spread across America yesterday and found unlikely sympathy from a top official of one of the main targets of scorn — the Federal Reserve.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose campaign pledge was to combat corruption, is facing a fresh political blow over the biggest financial scandal in Iran’s history.
BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) – Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations yesterday after three soldiers were killed on a ceasefire line near the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region before a visit to the Caucasus by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An attorney for Michael Jackson’s in-house doctor challenged a crime scene investigator yesterday and suggested she conducted a shoddy examination of the bedroom where the “Thriller” singer stopped breathing in 2009.
LONDON (Reuters) – Fleet Street’s finest jostled furiously at the start on Thursday of a government inquiry, trying to grab public attention with tales of shock and horror.
OSLO (Reuters) – The award of the Nobel Peace Prize today has autumnal Oslo turning thoughts back to the Arab Spring, but Africans, from Liberia, or perhaps Sudan, offer a strong challenge in perennial speculation on who will win the global accolade.
BERLIN (Reuters) – A young fashion designer from the German city of Hanover is revolutionising high fashion by designing clothes with a staple she can find in her fridge— milk.
PARIS (Reuters) – Palestinians moved a step closer to full membership of the UN cultural agency yesterday when its board decided to let 193 member countries vote on admission this month.
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