LONDON – Officials say that Prince Harry will visit Lesotho and South Africa at the end of February on behalf of a charity that he co-founded.
Cairo's musical heart, Mohammed Ali Street, fades
CAIRO (AP) -- During its heyday, it was famed as the lively and romantic heart of Arabic music -- a Cairo st reet modeled after Paris' boulevards, home to musicians, belly-dancers and instrument makers. Pakistan ready for peace talks with militants
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan’s interior minister says the government is ready to hold peace talks with Taliban militants who have been waging a bloody insurgency that has killed thousands of people in his country.
Britain flirting with the edge of three-tier Europe
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is becoming a three-tiered club and Britain risks being left on the outer margins of it, Finland's Europe mi nister, who was among the first to warn about Britain drifting away from Europe, will say in a speech on Tuesday. Alex Stubb, who last October compared Britain to a boat pulling away from the rest of the continent, praised Prime Minister David Cameron for being bold in his Europe speech last month, but said he had chosen a risky strategy that makes a referendum on EU membership almost unavoidable. … Serb PM says victim of plot to link him to drug barons
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia's prime minister said on Monday he was the victim of a "cunning and dirty" plot to topple him following a flurry of leaks linking the Socialist leader to a suspected drug trafficker. Prime Minister Ivica Dacic has denied there was anything untoward in his meetings in 2008 and 2009 with Rodoljub Radulovic, known as Misha Banana. … Man who threw bottle, abused Bolt before Olympic 100 final given 8-week community punishment
LONDON – A man who threw a plastic beer bottle onto the track and shouted abuse at Usain Bolt before the men’s 100-meter final at the London Olympics has been given an eight-week community punishment.
Canadian job market seen flat in January, jobless rate up
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s labor market likely came back to earth in January after gravity-defying job gains in the final months of 2012, with analysts predicting almost no new hiring in the month and a rise in the unemployment rate. The average forecast in a Reuters poll of market players was for 5,000 net new jobs in January compared with 31,200 in December. Statistics Canada considers that a flat reading and well within the margin of error for its household survey. Analysts see the unemployment rate ticking up to 7.2 percent from 7.1 percent. …
Report: British police used dead children's IDs
LONDON (AP) -- The Guardian newspaper says that London’s Metropolitan Police Service stole the identities of dozens of dead children to use as aliases for undercover officers, mining those children’s personal histories to build covers and even issuing fake passports in their names.
Altered mug shots spur probe into Greek police beatings
ATHENS (Reuters) – A Greek prosecutor ordered an investigation on Monday into whether four suspected bank robbers were b eaten in custody after police published mug shots that were altered to make their injuries appear less severe. Rights groups and critics have long accused Greek police of detaining immigrants and other prisoners in shocking conditions. Photos published in the Greek media of the men, who were aged between 20 and 25 and arrested on Friday, show them bruised and bleeding while being escorted by police. But mug shots released by the police over the weekend had injuries missing. … Vets kept in the dark over medical records and claim applications: ombudsman
OTTAWA – The country’s veterans ombudsman says ex-soldiers and members of the RCMP should no longer be at the mercy of government institutions when it comes to submitting their disability applications.
Factbox - Richard III's reign
(Reuters) – Researchers in Britain solved a 500-year-old mystery when they confirmed that a skeleton found in a car park last September, was that of Richard III, England’s most infamous king. Here is a look at his reign: * He was the fourth son of Richard, the third Duke of York. He became the last Plantagenet and Yorkist king of England. He usurped the throne of his nephew Edward V in 1483 and perished in defeat to Henry Tudor (thereafter Henry VII) in battle. * Born in 1452, he was still a child when his elder brother Edward IV became king. …
Kerry has 'big heels to fill' at State Dep't
WASHINGTON (AP) -- New Secretary of State John Kerry reported for duty Monday, acknowledging that as Hillary Rodham Clinton's successor he has "big heels to fill" and promising to protect U.S. foreign service workers from terrorist attacks overseas. Russia eyes crackdown on duty-free booze after brawls on flights
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia may soon crack down to stop boozy flights after a spate of brawls involving drunken passengers. State television on Monday broadcast amateur footage of several drink-soaked punch-ups after a plane made a forced landing in Uzbekistan on the way to Thailand on Sunday because a Russian had attacked other passengers. The footage included shots of a man butting a steward during one flight and a fight among passengers queuing for the toilet during another. In a third incident, a man was tied to his seat and his mouth taped shut after passengers got fed up with him. …
Schoolbooks ingrain Israeli-Palestinian enmity: US-funded study
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israelis and Palestinians depict each other in schoolbooks as an enemy and largel y deny their adversary's history and existence, according to a U.S. government-funded study published on Monday. Young minds are inheriting a century-old struggle for land and legitimacy through their schoolbooks, said a panel of Muslim, Jewish and Christian social scientists from the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land. … Justice minister rolls out new measures targeting child sex assaults
TORONTO – The federal government wants sex predators who prey on children to face tougher sentences.
Iran's Salehi says U.S. is changing approach to Tehran
BERLIN (Reuters) – Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday he saw U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden's offer this weekend of bilate ral dialogue between their two countries as a sign of a change in approach to Iran by the U.S. administration. "As I have said yesterday, I am optimistic, I feel this new administration is really this time seeking to at least divert from its previous traditional approach vis-a-vis my country," Salehi told the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. … British ex-minister faces jail after guilty plea
LONDON (Reuters) – Former British energy secretary Chris Huhne faces time behind bars after pleading guilty on Monday to perverting the course of j ustice by asking his then wife in 2003 to accept a penalty for a speeding offence he had committed. A senior member of the Liberal Democrats, the smaller party in Britain's ruling coalition, Huhne, 58, entered his guilty plea on the morning his trial had been due to start at London's Southwark Crown Court. It was a dramatic change of tack after he had spent months fighting a costly legal battle to have the charge against him dropped. … Bahrain's 2-year-old uprising at crossroads
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Young men wearing masks lurk in the darkened alcoves of the old market in Bahrain's capital. "To victory," they whisper as they hand out pamphlets calling for greater rebellion after two years of nonstop unrest in the Gulf kingdom. 
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