BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria denied reports on Saturday that President Bashar al-Assad's deputy had defected and his forces pressed an offensive against rebels, bombarding parts of Aleppo in the north and hitting an insurgent-held town in the oil-producing east. Vice-President Farouq al-Shara "never thought for a moment about leaving the country", said a statement from his office broadcast on state television issued in response to reports that the veteran Baath Party loyalist had tried to defect to Jordan. … Legendary expedition ship found off Greenland
A U.S.-based oceanographic institute says it has found the wreckage of a ship that was manned by a crew of doomed Antarctic explorers more than a century ago.
Upbeat Swedish PM eyes corporate tax cut
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s center-right prime minister backed a cut in corporate tax on Saturday for his Nordic state as it defies the gloom of the euro zone. The economy grew 1.4 percent in the second quarter and the government has said it might have to revise up its forecast for expansion of 1.1 percent this year. In contrast, a recession is possible in the euro zone. Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said a cut in corporate tax was necessary to remain competitive. …
Japan nationalists set sail for disputed islands
A flotilla of boats carrying Japanese nationalists, including parliamentarians, set sail Saturday for islands at the heart of a bitter dispute with China, an AFP reporter said. Lonmin massacre evokes Soweto and apartheid brutality
South Africans believed police massacres were for the history books and museums, but around Soweto's Hector Pieterson Memorial the killing of 34 miners stirred dark memories and new worries. Iran exiles say will move group to new Iraq site
An Iranian opposition organisation said on Saturday it is ready to move another group of its Iraq-based members to a new site near Baghdad after a delay which has dragged on for several months. New papal envoy to Israel hopes to foster peace
Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto as a new envoy to Israel, who will also serve as apostolic delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine.
In Somalia, presidential election with few voters
Somali leaders are on the verge of naming a new parliament that is supposed to elect a new president.
6.3-magnitude quake hits Indonesia's Sulawesi
A powerful 6.3-magnitude quake shook Indonesia's central Sulawesi province on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, sending terrified residents fleeing into the streets. Philippine interior minister missing in light plane crash: army
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine interior minister and two others went missing after a light plane carrying them crashed at sea off a central island on Saturday, an army spokesman said. A search for the plane and its passengers was called off late on Saturday because it was too dark and the water too deep for craft available, police said. Jesse Robredo was on his way to his hometown in the central Camarines Sur province from Cebu when the propeller-driven Cessna plane he was on malfunctioned and the pilots decided to land at the nearest air field on Masbate island. …
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