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Myanmar authorities work to evacuate camps as cyclone nears
SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Authorities in Myanmar struggled on Wednesday to evacuate tens of thousands of people, most of them Rohingya Muslims, before a cyclone reaches camps in low-lying regions that have been their home since ethnic and religious unrest last year. Cyclone Mahasen has already killed at least seven people and displaced 3,881 in Sri Lanka, its Disaster Management Center said on Tuesday #China #Business #Brazil #Arabic #Government #United Kingdom #Latin America #lifestyle
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Man killed in attack on police station in Libya's Benghazi
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A man was killed in an overnight attack on police in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi and their station was later set on fire in a possible act of revenge for the killing, police sources said on Wednesday. The army deployed additional forces to Benghazi after a car loaded with explosives blew up near a hospital on Monday, killing three people #United States #China #Business #Japan #France #Argentina #United Kingdom #Mexico #opinion #lifestyle
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Putin targets Russian audience in handling of spy saga
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin has been unusually silent about the expulsion of a U.S. diplomat Russia says it caught red-handed trying to recruit an agent for the CIA. But Putin need not say anything - his pliant state media is doing the talking for him. #Politics #India #China #Business #Internet #Brazil #Argentina #United Kingdom #Mexico #lifestyle
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Wal-Mart checks Bangladesh factories; retailer accord elusive
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc ( WMT.N ) stepped up Bangladesh factory inspections while U.S. and European retailers pursued separate accords to try to prevent another disaster in a garment industry where more than 1,200 workers have died in the past six months. Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, said it does not plan to sign a fire-and-building safety agreement backed by some of Europe's biggest apparel brands because it believes its own safety inspection plans will get faster results #China #Business #Bangladesh #Technology #Argentina #United Kingdom #Latin America #Entertainment #lifestyle
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Three workers dead, some missing, in collapse at Freeport Indonesia mine
JAKARTA (Reuters) - At least three people were killed on Tuesday and an unknown number missing after a training tunnel collapsed at the Indonesian unit of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc ( FCX.N ), mine officials said. Output at the world's second-largest copper mine was not expected to be significantly affected, they said. Freeport Indonesia operates the Grasberg mine in West Papua province, which also has the world's largest gold reserves and employs just over 24,000 contract and non-contract workers #facebook #China #Japan #Arabic #markets #Argentina #United Kingdom #Latin America #opinion
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Syria peace talks look doomed in advance
LONDON (Reuters) - If anyone saw last week's U.S.-Russian agreement to convene a peace conference on Syria as a potential breakthrough, Western leaders have been going out of their way to disabuse them. #India #China #Business #Arabic #United Kingdom #Latin America #opinion #lifestyle
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Controversies give Obama new governing headaches
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama learned on Monday what can happen to presidents caught up in allegations of scandal: they have to address them instead of anything else. It happened when the president had to interrupt his news conference with Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain to answer questions about the widening investigation into the Benghazi attacks in Libya and the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups #United States #India #Business #Democrats #Brazil #Technology #Arabic #markets #United Kingdom #democratic #opinion
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Bahrain blogger escapes to Britain
OSLO (Reuters) - A Bahraini blogger and human rights activist said he had been granted asylum in Britain after being in hiding for two years. A leading voice among protesters during anti-government demonstrations in 2011, Ali Abdulemam hid to escape a government crackdown and was smuggled out by fishermen. A military court tried and sentenced him in absentia to 15 years in prison #facebook #United States #Business #markets #Norway #United Kingdom #Latin America #Entertainment #lifestyle
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Starman falls to Earth after five-month space odyssey
ALMATY/CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The Canadian astronaut who became a music sensation when his zero-gravity version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" went viral on the web returned to Earth along with two crewmates on Tuesday after a five-month stint on the International Space Station. Chris Hadfield landed safely in central Kazakhstan with his American and Russian colleagues. Their Soyuz space capsule descended under an orange parachute and raised clouds of dust as it ignited an engine to cushion its landing about 150 km (90 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan #India #China #Business #Technology #Russia #Health #Argentina #United Kingdom #Latin America #Earth #Entertainment #opinion