GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli tank shells killed at least two Palestinians and wounded 20 in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after an apparent attack on an Israeli army patrol along the Israel-Gaza border, Palestinian medics and local eyewitnesses said. The casualty toll is one of the highest in a single incident in Gaza in recent months. Ambulances and private vehicles rushed the wounded to hospital, local eyewitnesses said. The identity of the wounded was not immediately known. The Israeli military declined immediate comment on the incident. …
U.S. denies Russia request for convicted arms dealer Bout
(Reuters) – The United States has refused a request from Russia that convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout be returned to his home country to spend the remainder of his 25-year prison term, a Russian Foreign Mini stry official said on Saturday. Bout, 54, was sentenced in April after a Manhattan federal court trial jury convicted him on charges that he agreed to sell arms to people he thought were militants intent on attacking American soldiers in Colombia. He was the subject of a book called "Merchant of Death" and inspiration for a film "Lord of War" starring Nicolas Cage. … Soccer-Australia's Wilkshire sidelined for two weeks with injury
MOSCOW, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Dynamo Moscow defender Luke Wilkshire is out for two weeks and will miss Australia’s friendly against South Korea after he pulled a hamstring in a Russian Premier League game on Saturday. Wilkshire was forced off during the first half of Dynamo’s 2-0 victory over Alania Vladikavkaz. “Pulled my hamstring. Out for two weeks,” the 31-year-old said on Dynamo’s Twitter feed. “Won’t go to the national team now.” Australia face South Korea in Hwaseong on Wednesday. (Reporting by Gennady Fyodorov, editing by Stephen Wood)
25 dead, almost 100 injured in Myanmar train blast, fire
YANGON, Myanmar – Authorities said Saturday that casualties from a fiery train accident had reached 25 dead and almost 100 injured. The report raised the number of injured after a carriage full of fuel burst into flames.
2 dead in Gaza from Israeli fire after explosion
Gaza officials say Israeli fire has killed two Palestinians and wounded at least 25 on the territory’s border.
Opposition: Bahrain forces deploy against unrest
Bahrain’s main opposition group says the kingdom’s paramilitary National Guard is deploying to back up police as authorities try to quell rising political violence.
Vatican court convicts computer technician of aiding pope's ex-butler in document leaks
VATICAN CITY – A Vatican court on Saturday convicted a Holy See computer technician of helping the former papal butler in the embarrassing leak of confidential papal documents and gave him a two-month suspended sentence.
Exxon shuts pipeline after oil leak offshore Nigeria
ABUJA (Reuters) – Exxon has shut a pipeline off the coast of Nigeria's Akwa Ibom state after an oil leak started by an unknown cause, the company's local unit said on Saturday. "(Exxon Nigeria) confirms that on Novemb er 9 an oil release occurred offshore Akwa Ibom State," Mobil Producing Nigeria, Exxon's local unit, said in an emailed statement. "The source of the leak was identified and the pipeline was isolated and shutdown." (Reporting by Joe Brock; Editing by Toby Chopra) Kurdish politicians join militants' hunger strike in Turkey
DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) – Six of Turkey’s leading Kurdish politicians have joined hundreds of jailed militants and activists in a hunger strike now in its 60th day to call for a rebel leader to be allowed to see lawyers, one of them said. Osman Baydemir, mayor of Diyarbakir in predominantly Kurdish southeastern Turkey, said in a statement on Saturday that he had stopped eating. Five Kurdish members of the Turkish parliament, named as Sirri Sureyya Onder, co-chair of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Gultan Kisanak, Aysel Tugluk, Adil Kurt, Sabahat Tuncer, were also on hunger strike, he said. …
Drive for education drives South Korean families into the red
When Cheon Sun-kyoung and her husband took out a $100,000 loan and moved their family of three from the affordable suburbs to one of Seoul's most affluent neighborhoods, she hoped it would be the start of the climb up South Korea's highly competitive social ladder.
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