Toronto mayor urges police to release video, apologizes for ‘mistakes’
TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Sunday urged his police chief to release a video that media reports say show him smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and issued a broad apology for mistakes in his past, including public drunkenness.
Kerry sees signs Egypt moving back towards democracy
CAIRO (Reuters) – A day before Egypt’s deposed Islamist president goes on trial, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday expressed guarded optimism about a return to democracy in the country during a tour partly aimed at easing tensions with major…
East Libya movement launches government, challenges Tripoli
BENGHAZI/TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) – Leaders of an autonomy movement in Libya’s oil-rich east unilaterally declared a regional government on Sunday, in a challenge to the weak central government as new violence erupted in the restive region.
In China’s Xinjiang, poverty, exclusion are greater threat than Islam
URUMQI, China (Reuters) – In the dirty backstreets of the Uighur old quarter of Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi in China’s far west, Abuduwahapu frowns when asked what he thinks is the root cause of the region’s festering problem with violence and unrest.
Another Canadian freight train derails in Alberta, no injuries
TORONTO (Reuters) – A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying lumber and sulfur dioxide derailed in the Western Canadian province of Alberta on Sunday, but there were no injuries or spills of dangerous goods, a spokesman for the railway said.
India throws rings of protection around divisive candidate Modi
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – – Indian security forces are preparing for one of their most challenging assignments in decades, protecting prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in a country with a grim history of political assassinations.
Less sin, more Shrek in Macau as China takes aim in corruption fight
MACAU (Reuters) – The media scrum surrounding the politically connected chairman of a Chinese financial services company was interested in one particular unpaid loan.
Syria opposition lays preconditions for peace talks
CAIRO (Reuters) – The Syrian opposition set terms on Sunday for attending peace talks to end the Syrian civil war, in a move that throws the proposed conference into further confusion after the international envoy said there should be no preconditions….
Syrian army and allies push into southern Damascus: activists
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian army and Shi’ite Muslim fighters attacked Sunni rebel areas in southern Damascus on Sunday in an offensive aimed at breaking resistance to President Bashar al-Assad around the capital, activists said.
UK response to Snowden data ‘imperils press freedom’: rights groups
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government’s response to leaks of intelligence information by former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has eroded human rights and press freedoms, rights groups said on Sunday.
