Oh, the tasks that confront a Russian tsar. You must guide the affairs of a country spread across nine time zones. You must set its policies on the world stage. And then, if you are Vladimir Putin, you must determine the sentence of three members of a … Ecuador grants asylum to Assange, angering Britain - Reuters
* Ecuador says concerned over WikiLeaks founder's safety * Assange holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London * Three Assange supporters arrested at embassy * Britain says will not grant Assange safe passage By Mohammed Abbas and Eduardo Garcia … Mitt Romney: Claim I didn't pay taxes 'false' but won't release records - Newsday
Nation Newsday > News Print Aa Mitt Romney: Claim I didn't pay taxes 'false' but won't release records Published: August 16, 2012 3:31 PM By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREER, SC – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Thursday that he has never … Assange faces arrest even if Ecuador grants asylum
(This story corrects the Aug 15 story in the second paragraph to make clear that Assange is wanted in Sweden for questioning. He has not been charged.) LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has no way of leaving his refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London without being arrested, even if Quito grants him asylum shortly, lawyers say. The Australian has been in the embassy for eight weeks since losing a legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over rape allegations. Assange denies the accusations made by two female WikiLeaks supporters. …
Baghdad car bomb kills 11, wounds 41: police
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 11 people were killed and 41 wounded when a car bomb exploded near an ice cream shop in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, the latest in a series of bombings and shootings in Iraq on Thursday, police and hospital officials said. The bombings hit the Iraqi capital and other cities toward the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan next week, a period when analysts believe al Qaeda affiliates and other Sunni Islamist insurgents may attempt a major attack. (Reporting by Kareem Raheem and Raheem Salman; writing by Patrick Markey) Breivik report forces Norway police chief to quit
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway's police chief resigned on Thursday, days after an independent commission found that police could have prevented a murder spree by far-right militant Anders Behring Breivik that killed 77 people. The attack, which involved a deadly bombing of central Oslo and a shooting spree at a teenage summer camp, shook the tiny nation of 5 million people, raising questions about the prevalence of far-right views and the efficiency of the police. … Wave of attacks in northern, central Iraq kill 37
Insurgents in Iraq unleashed a wave of attacks from before dawn until late in the evening Thursday, killing 37 people and wounding dozens, the latest in a series of persistent strikes aimed at undermining the government's authority. Taliban carry out brazen attack on Pakistan base
Heavily armed Taliban fighters blasted their way into a Pakistani air force base with possible links to the country's nuclear program in a brazen assault that took two hours of fighting to put down, leaving a security officer and nine insurgents dead and underscoring the group's continued threat despite numerous military offensives. Officials: 3 Iraqis killed in separate attacks
Iraqi officials say gunmen have killed three people in two separate attacks in and around the northern city of Mosul.
South African police open fire as striking miners charge, killing and wounding ... - Washington Post
JOHANNESBURG -- South African police opened fire Thursday on a crowd of striking miners that charged a line of officers trying to disperse them, killing some and wounding others in one of the worst shootings by authorities since the end of the apartheid … Gunmen attack army posts, raid prison in Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked security posts and freed more than 100 prisoners in a town west of Ivory Coast’s commercial capital Abidjan during an overnight raid that ended on Thursday morning, officials and local residents said. At least five people were killed in the clashes, including two of the gunmen and three civilians, an army commander told Reuters. He declined to say whether any soldiers or other security personnel were killed. …
Julian Assange asylum offer leads UK and Ecuador into diplomatic row - The Guardian
Six dead in latest Darfur unrest: media
Six people have been killed and 12 wounded during a dispute in Sudan's Darfur region but security forces managed to avert a tribal conflict, official media said on Thursday. Severed female head, foot found in Toronto-area park
TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto-area police are searching for body parts as well as answers after finding a severed female head in a local river on Thursday, near where hikers found a severed human foot the previous day. Police recovered the head in the park near the Credit River in Mississauga, Ontario, a city of 700,000 located just west of Toronto. The authorities could not confirm the body parts were from the same person, but were working on that assumption. “Obviously, we consider it as foul play, and we are treating it as such,” Peel Police Spokesman Randy Cowan told reporters. …
North Korea's Olympic athletes get heroes' welcome at home after best finish since Barcelona
PYONGYANG, North Korea – Thousands of North Koreans have turned out with cheers and banners to welcome their country’s Olympic medallists home from London.
Andy Murray loses, Serena Williams, Mardy Fish advance to Cincinnati quarterfinals
MASON, Ohio – Andy Murray lost in straight sets to Jeremy Chardy of France, an opponent he has dominated during his career, in the third round of the Western & Southern Open on Thursday.
Oracle fined $2 mn for off-books payments in India
Software and systems giant Oracle was fined $2 million Thursday to resolve charges that its India subsidiary kept a multi-million dollar off-books slush fund. Oil rises for 3rd straight day, tops $95
Oil prices rose for the third day in a row on Thursday as hopeful signs for U.S. housing suggested that oil demand could rise, too.
Wave of attacks in northern, central Iraq kill 28
Insurgents unleashed a wave of attacks Thursday that killed 28 people and wounded dozens in central and northern Iraq, the latest in a series of persistent strikes aimed at undermining the government's authority. US special forces among 11 dead in Afghan crash
U.S. officials say three of the seven American troops killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Afghanistan were special operations forces -- two Navy SEALS and a Navy explosives expert.
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