CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military ruler on Wednesday promised next week's presidential election would be free and fair, urging people to exercise their right to vote in what the authorities are saying will be the country's first genuine presidential contest. Seeking to dispel fears that the military will rig the election in favor of a candidate it may prefer amid allegations it is meddling in politics, a military officer told Reuters Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi had made the remarks to troops at a military drill. ...
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A plane carrying 21 people crashed Monday while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in Nepal's northern Himalayas, authorities said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Authorities found the dismembered bodies of at least 40 people stuffed into bags and dumped on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey in what appeared to be the latest atrocity by Mexico's brutal drug gangs. The bodies were found in the early hours of Sunday on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez, officials from the state of Nuevo Leon said. There were at least 40 victims, an official for the state government said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The final count was still to be confirmed, the official said. ...
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Alabama authorities say a 14-year-old boy is charged with murder in the death of his half-sister who was found hanging from a tree.
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Nearly six years have passed since U.S. authorities took the unusual step of rounding up a group of Sri Lankan immigrants and charging them with breaking terror financing laws by raising money and trying to get weapons for the Tamil Tigers rebel forces.
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A 19-year-old Haitian man who has accused six former U.N. peacekeepers from Uruguay of sexually abusing him in the poor Caribbean country presented evidence to a judge Thursday, and authorities now have two months to decide whether the case merits a trial.
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ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria voted on Thursday in an election the ruling elite says will set the country, left behind by the "Arab Spring", on the road to real democracy, but people showed their scepticism by abstaining in large numbers. Last year's upheavals in the region have created pressure for reform and a renewal of the ageing establishment that has ruled without interruption since independence from France half a century ago. The authorities in energy exporter Algeria have responded by promising an "Algerian Spring" - a managed process of reform. ...
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, whose plight in prison has soured relations between the country's leadership and the West, was moved to a local hospital on Wednesday in a high-security police convoy. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has faced growing criticism over the conviction of Tymoshenko - and the authorities' refusal to let her travel abroad for treatment for chronic back pain. ...
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The wife and mother of a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter before fleeing with her two younger girls were charged in connection with the abduction, authorities said.
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Two Southwest Airlines flights with ties to Phoenix and Orange County's John Wayne Airport were grounded Tuesday night following a threatening phone call, authorities said.
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