A strong earthquake struck northern Myanmar on Sunday, collapsing a bridge and a gold mine, damaging several old Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead.
UPDATE 3-Cricket-South Africa corner Australia in Brisbane
(Updates at close of play) BRISBANE, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Centuries from Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla put Australia on the ropes before South Africa’s bowlers landed some early blows of their own to leave the hosts struggling at 111 for three after the third day of the first test on Sunday. The tourists were reduced to 10 fit batsmen after an injury to JP Duminy but 147 from the evergreen Kallis and 104 from the in-form Amla helped them to an imposing first innings tally of 450. …
Jordan sentences ex-intelligence chief to jail for embezzling public funds, money laundering
AMMAN, Jordan – A Jordanian criminal court has sentenced the kingdom’s ex-intelligence chief to 13 years and three months in jail for embezzlement of public funds, money laundering and abuse of office.
Jordan sentences ex-spy chief to 13 years in jail on graft charges
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan’s former spy chief, once of the country’s most feared officials, was sentenced on Sunday to 13 years in prison on graft charges in the first high-profile case from an anti-corruption crackdown driven by popular protests. An Amman court found former General Mohammad al-Dahabi, who ran the country’s intelligence services from 2005 to 2009, guilty of money laundering, embezzlement and abuse of power, and ordered him to return $30 million. (Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Pravin Char)
Jordan sentences ex-intelligence chief to jail
A Jordanian criminal court has sentenced the kingdom’s ex-intelligence chief to 13 years and three months in jail for embezzlement of public funds, money laundering and abuse of office.
Israel warns Syria it will respond to more Golan shelling
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel threatened on Sunday to respond should stray Syrian ordnance continue to strike the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, highlighting international concerns tha t the civil war in Syria could ignite a wider regional conflict. The remarks by Defense Minister Ehud Barak came days after Israel told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to rein in attacks on rebels near the Golan, a strategic plateau that Damascus lost to the Jewish state in the 1967 Middle East war and which had been mostly quiet for decades. "The message has certainly been relayed. … Cautious enforcer to be China's next premier
The man in line to oversee China’s massive but rapidly slowing economy for the coming decade speaks English and comes from a generation of politicians schooled during greater openness to liberal Western ideas than their predecessors.
Steel sanctions cut deep into Iran's economy
LONDON (Reuters) – Iranian manufacturers and builders face serious shortages of steel and other metals as a new European Union export ban adds to troubles for an economy already reeling from sanctions on its finances and oil exports. Reliant on imports to make up a shortfall in its own steel production, data shows Iran’s purchases of foreign steel already falling as buyers are being hit by EU and U.S. measures which hinder banks, insurers and others supporting trade with Tehran until Iran agrees to alter its nuclear program. …
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