BAGHDAD (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims have gathered in several Iraqi cities to protest against what they describe as unfair treatment by the country’s Shiite-led government.
Turkey: 8 retired military officers arrested
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have arrested eight more retired officers over their alleged involvement in the ousting of an Islamic-led government in the late 1990s.
Kenyan court clears Kenyatta to run for president despite ICC charges
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya's High Court on Friday cleared the way for Uhuru Kenyatta to run in next month's presidential election, dismissing legal petitions that sought to bar his candidacy on the grounds that he is facing charges at the International Criminal Court. The Kenyan court said it had no jurisdiction to hear the matter and said it could not deny the presidential hopeful's right to contest the poll. … Pistorius prosecutors to pursue premeditate murder
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Prosecutors say they will pursue a preme ditated murder charge against Oscar Pistorius as the Paralympic superstar openly wept in court Friday after being charged with shooting his girlfriend to death. Swedish photographer wins 2012 World Press Photo award with shot of Palestinian funeral march
AMSTERDAM – Swedish photographer Paul Hansen has won the 2012 World Press Photo of the year award for newspaper Dagens Nyheter with a picture of two Palestinian children killed in an Israeli missile strike being carried to their funeral.
Top photo prize for picture of dead Gaza children
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A photograph of two dead chi ldren, who were killed in an Israeli missile strike on Gaza City, won the top World Press Photo prize on Friday for Swedish photographer Paul Hansen of newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The photograph shows a group of men bearing the bodies of two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and her brother Muhammad, 3, as they were taken to the mosque for a burial ceremony. … Swedish photographer wins World Press Photo award
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Swedish photographer Paul Hansen has won the 2012 World Press Photo of the year award for newspaper Dagens Nyheter with a picture of two Palestinian children killed in an Israeli missile strike being carried to their funeral.
Instant View - UK retail sales post surprise fall in January
LONDON (Reuters) – British retail sales posted a surprise fall in January as unusually snowy weather hurt food stores in particular, data showed on Friday. ECONOMISTS’ VIEWS DAVID TINSLEY, BNP PARIBAS “It looks like it’s genuinely erratic weakness rather than anything to signal an underlying weakening. It very much sounds as though, being located in food and in smaller retail stores, it’s very connected to the weather. It does raise the risk marginally of a contraction in Q1 in GDP terms but there’s a lot of other data to come before we can judge that too clearly. …
Republicans stall Hagel vote, drawing White House ire, but confirmation still likely
WASHINGTON – By delaying a confirmation vote on Chuck Hagel to be defence secretary, Senate Republicans have forced Leon Panetta to remain on the job he is eager to give up. But they’ve also given the White House an opportunity to cast the GOP as obstructing President Barack Obama’s assembly of a second-term national security team.
U.N. estimates 40,000 have fled heavy fighting in eastern Syria
GENEVA (Reuters) – An estimated 40,000 people have fled a town in eastern Syria after three days of heavy fighting, the United Nations food agency said on Friday. The World Food Programme said it had delivered additional ration s to the area in recent days, adding: "A WFP team visited the area and estimated that around 40,000 people have fled al-Shaddadeh to al-Hassakeh city." Rebels seized al-Shaddadeh in Syria's oil-producing east on Thursday after the fighting which killed 30 of their fighters and 100 Syrian troops, a violence monitoring group said. … Pistorius in court in murder case
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius openly wept as he appeared in court Friday, charged wi th the murder of his girlfriend as South Africans closely watched developments in a killing that has stunned the country. UK retail sales fall unexpectedly in snowy January
LONDON (Reuters) – British retail sales posted a surprise fall in January as unusually snowy weather hurt food stores in particular, data showed on Friday. The Office for National Statistics said sales volumes including au tomotive fuel fell 0.6 percent on the month and on the year – confounding economists' forecasts for higher sales. The ONS said the main reason behind the falls was bad weather during the month, which led to shutdowns of some smaller grocers and drove the biggest monthly fall in food sales since May 2011. The ONS said retail sales excluding fuel fell 0. … England thrash NZ by 10 wickets, win Twenty20 series
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – England’s opening batsmen Alex Hales and Michael Lumb made a mockery of the New Zealand bowling attack to guide the visitors to a 10-wicket win in their third Twenty20 international and a 2-1 series victory on Friday. After England’s bowlers restricted New Zealand to 139 for eight, Hales blasted 80 off 42 balls while Lumb scored 53, including a six to win the match and bring up his half century, as the pair pushed England to victory in just 12.4 overs. …
Nuclear plant U-turn hits support for Bulgaria's ruling party
SOFIA (Reuters) – Support for Bulgaria's opposition Socialists rose further in February, narrowing the lead of the ruling GERB party following the government's U-turn on the Belene nuclear power project, a Gallup International poll showed on Friday. Backing for the center-right GERB led by Prime Minister Boiko Borisov was 22.6 percent in February, down from 23.8 percent in January, while support for the Socialists, who led the previous government, jumped to 22.1 percent. Support for the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) was 19.7 percent a month ago. … Ancient asteroid strike in Australia "changed face of earth"
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A strike from a big asteroid more than 300 million years ago left a huge impact zone buried in Australia and changed the face of the earth, researchers said on Friday. “The dust and greenhouse gases released from the crater, the seismic shock and the initial fireball would have incinerated large parts of the earth,” said Andrew Glikson, a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. The asteroid was bigger than 10 km (6 miles) in diameter, while the impact zone itself was larger than 200 km (120 miles) – the third largest impact zone in the world. …
Cricket-England thrash NZ by 10 wickets, win Twenty20 series
WELLINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters) – England’s opening batsmen Alex Hales and Michael Lumb made a mockery of the New Zealand bowling attack to guide the visitors to a 10-wicket win in their third Twenty20 international and a 2-1 series victory on Friday. After England’s bowlers restricted New Zealand to 139 for eight, Hales blasted 80 off 42 balls while Lumb scored 53, including a six to win the match and bring up his half century, as the pair pushed England to victory in just 12.4 overs. …
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