Britain forced Guardian to destroy copy of Snowden material
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The editor of the Guardian, a major outlet for revelations based on leaks from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, says the British government threatened legal action against the newspaper unless it either destroy…
U.S. questions Egypt prisoner deaths, Mubarak may be freed
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court ruling has raised the prospect of freedom for deposed military strongman Hosni Mubarak, while the United States questioned Egypt’s account of the deaths of dozens of Islamist detainees and called the incident “suspic…
In Indian Kashmir, angry youth flirt with armed militancy
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Ishfaq first threw a rock at an Indian policeman six years ago. Now he’s thinking about arming himself with a gun.
U.N.’s Ban ‘deeply disturbed’ by Muslim Brotherhood deaths in Egypt
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he was “deeply disturbed” by the deaths in custody of 37 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and condemned an ambush by Islamist militants that killed 25 Egyptian po…
Assad’s forces push back rebels in Syria’s Alawite mountains
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian army and militia troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have pushed back a rebel offensive in the mountain heartlands of his Alawite sect, officials and activists said on Monday, after days of heavy fighting and aerial bomb…
Mexico opposition party, PRD, proposes limited energy reform
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s largest left-of-center political party proposed a plan on Monday that would revamp state-oil monopoly Pemex, but without amending the constitution to permit more private investment in the oil, gas and electricity sector…
Egypt security forces kill journalist after curfew starts, sources say
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces killed the bureau chief of a provincial office of state newspaper Al-Ahram on Monday after opening fire on a car they thought had tried to escape from a checkpoint enforcing a dusk-to-dawn curfew, security sou…
U.N. panel to hear accounts of North Korean human rights abuses
SEOUL (Reuters) – A U.N. panel will start hearing harrowing testimony from North Korean defectors on Tuesday in a move that will likely mobilize public opinion on abuses in the one-party state that comes at or near the bottom of most measures of freedo…
Use of UK terror law to detain reporter’s partner ‘a disgrace’: lawyer
LONDON (Reuters) – British authorities came under pressure on Monday to explain why anti-terrorism powers were used to detain the partner of a reporter who wrote articles about U.S. and British surveillance programs based on leaks from Edward Snowden.
Despite Bo’s trial in China, no redress for victims of his crackdown
BEIJING (Reuters) – The curtain may be about to fall on China’s disgraced leader Bo Xilai, but victims of the harsh brand of justice he handed out in a high-profile crime crackdown are not making any headway in their campaign for redress.
