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| Colombian president says rebels free hostages including general | | | By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Marxist FARC rebels had freed an army general and two others on Sunday, paving the way for peace talks to resume in the quest to end five decades of conflict. Santos halted peace negotiations in Havana two weeks ago after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia seized five hostages, including General Ruben Dario Alzate, disrupting the push to stem violence that has killed more than 200,000 people. ... |
| Colombia rebels free kidnapped general, peace talks may resume | | | BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's president said on Sunday Marxist FARC rebels had freed an army general and two other hostages captured earlier this month, in a move that may help restart peace talks suspended by the government over the abductions. President Juan Manuel Santos refused to allow negotiations, aimed at ending five decades of war, to continue until the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) released General Ruben Dario Alzate, a civilian lawyer and a soldier seized on Nov. 16. ... |
| Mubarak verdict fuels protests, mockery in Egypt | |  CAIRO, Nov 30 (Reuters)- Protests erupted at universities across Egypt on Sunday, condemning a court decision to drop criminal charges against Hosni Mubarak, the president whose ouster in the 2011 uprising raised hopes of a new era of political openness. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Cairo University, waving pictures of Mubarak behind bars and demanding the "fall of the regime", the rallying cry of the Arab Spring uprisings that shook governments from Tunisia to the Gulf in 2011. Police stood ready at the gates to bar students that sought to take their demonstration into the streets. ...
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| Online threats case to show if U.S. justices are down with rap | | | By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A case before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning threats that a Pennsylvania man made toward his estranged wife and others on Facebookcould hinge on how the nine justices interpret the sometimes violent imagery in rap lyrics. The justices, not known for their pop culture bona fides, are set on Monday to hear a one-hour oral argument in an appeal filed by Anthony Elonis. He was convicted for making threats aimed at his wife, law enforcement officers and others after posting statements on Facebook in 2010 soon after his wife left him. ... |
| Kabul police chief quits after guest house attacks, army ousts Taliban from Camp Bastion | |  By Jessica Donati and Kay Johnson KABUL (Reuters) - The Kabul police chief resigned on Sunday after three Taliban attacks in 10 days on foreign guest houses in the capital, while officials said Afghan forces had ousted insurgents who tried to seize former U.S. and British base Camp Bastion in the south. Taliban fighters breached the perimeter of Camp Bastion in the southern Afghan province of Helmand three days ago, just one month after the base was handed over to the Afghan army. The attacks of recent days have renewed fears that Afghanistan's army and police are unable to secure the country. ...
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| Uruguay starts voting in presidential election, leftist favorite to win | |  By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguayans began voting on Sunday for a new president, with former leader Tabare Vazquez looking set to win comfortably, securing the ruling leftist coalition a third consecutive term and allowing it to roll out its pioneering marijuana law. Opinion polls give Vazquez, 74, who was president from 2005 to 2010, a 14 percentage point lead over Luis Lacalle Pou, 41, of the center-right National Party. ...
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| Thai crown prince revokes wife's royally-assigned family name | |  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's crown prince has revoked the royally-assigned family name of his wife, following the arrest of several of her relatives in a high-profile corruption case. News about the monarchy is heavily filtered by the palace, and under the lèse-majesté laws, the world's harshest, anything deemed an insult or a threat to the monarchy is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. ...
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| Arab-Jewish school, symbol of Jerusalem co-existence, torched | | | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Suspected Jewish extremists set fire to a classroom in an Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem, police said on Sunday, targeting a symbol of co-existence in a city on edge over a recent surge in violence. The premises were empty late on Saturday when assailants torched a classroom used by first-graders at the Hand in Hand school, where Palestinian and Israeli children study together in Hebrew and Arabic. "Death to Arabs" had been scrawled on a schoolyard wall. ... |
| Sudan's Bashir slams U.N. peacekeepers, demands they leave | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - A peacekeeping force in Darfur had become a security burden and should leave, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Sunday, escalating a row that has already led to the closure a joint United Nations-African Union office in Khartoum. The Darfur conflict erupted in 2003 when mainly African tribes took up arms against the Arab-led government in Khartoum. ...
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