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Cannes sheds its black tie image for G20 riot gear
CANNES, France (Reuters) – The glamorous and easy-going Riviera resort of Cannes turns into a fortified camp this week as French police prepare for the arrival of world leaders for a G20 summit set to be hijacked by fears that a euro zone crisis relief plan is unraveling. Thousands of…
Award-winning Cuban dissident ‘detained and beaten’
Guillermo Farinas, a leading Cuban dissident and winner of the European parliament’s top human rights prize, was arrested and for the first time beaten in detention, said his mother and activists. Farinas, who won the Sakharov rights prize in 2010 after going on a 135-day hunger strike to press for…
Japan restarts first nuclear plant since disaster
A nuclear reactor in southern Japan was to begin producing electricity again on Wednesday, its operator company said, in the first restart of a stalled atomic power plant since the Fukushima disaster. Operations at the reactor began late on Tuesday, Kyushu Electric Power said, less than a month after the…
Philippine workers banned from 41 countries
The Philippines said Wednesday it had banned Filipinos from travelling to work in 41 countries and territories that had allegedly failed to provide enough safeguards to protect them from abuse. The Department of Labour and Employment in a board resolution posted on its website said the blacklisted countries failed to…
Bidders scramble for royal underwear
A pair of ample bloomers once owned by Queen Victoria sold for more than £9,000 ($14,330, 10,500 euros) at an Edinburgh auction, more than three times the original estimate. An anonymous buyer paid £9,375 for the white silk undergarments during an auction of items from London’s Old Battersea House —…
Assange awaits London court ruling on extradition
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange finds out on Wednesday whether he will be forced to leave Britain in order to face questioning over rape allegations in Sweden. The High Court in London is set to announce at 0945 GMT whether the 40-year-old Australian, whose whistleblowing website has enraged governments around the…
‘Occupy London’ protesters get legal reprieve
LONDON — London’s St Paul’s Cathedral and the city authorities suspended legal action Tuesday against anti-capitalist protesters camped outside the historic landmark. The management of St Paul’s said it unanimously agreed to suspend its current legal action against the demonstrators who have turned the churchyard into a sprawling campsite and…
U.S. sanctions militant Haqqani network commander
WASHINGTON — The United States took action Tuesday aimed at ensuring that a jailed commander of the militant Haqqani network or his associates never benefit from funds under American jurisdiction. The State Department blacklisted commander Mali Khan under an executive order signed by President George W. Bush in 2001 in…
U.S. dismisses Iranian letter as a ‘rant’
WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday dismissed as “a rant” an Iranian letter to Washington over allegations of an Iranian plot to murder the Saudi ambassador in Washington. “We did receive a lengthy diplomatic note from the Swiss protecting power on behalf of the Iranians,” US State Department spokeswoman…
British police surveillance system can turn off mobile phones
Police in London possess a surveillance technology that sounds like something straight out of science fiction: a mobile GSM device that pretends to be a cellular tower, tricking nearby phones into connecting to it, then intercepting all their communications. The system was developed by the British firm Datong plc, according…
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