http://www.mail.com/in-en/subjects/1860-municipal-governments.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/in-en/subjects/1860-municipal-governments.html http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2107466-soldiers-slaying-prompts-uk-security-review.html LONDON (AP) — Both of the suspects accused of butchering a British soldier during broad daylight on a London street had long been on the radar of Britain's domestic spy agency, though investigators say it would have been nearly impossible to predict that the men were on the verge of a brutal killing. Still, counter-terrorism officials said they are review... Sat, 25 May 2013 01:01:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2107466-soldiers-slaying-prompts-uk-security-review.html 2013-05-25T01:01:01Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2107542-berlusconi-looms-large-rome-mayor-election.html ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi's figure looms large over Rome's mayoral elections this weekend, even though the former premier isn't among the 19 candidates running. The vote is very much a test of Berlusconi's enduring political influence and voter sentiment over the uneasy national government made up of his center-right forces and the center-left that wa... Fri, 24 May 2013 18:09:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2107542-berlusconi-looms-large-rome-mayor-election.html 2013-05-24T18:09:17Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2105804-cayman-opposition-will-lead-coalition-govt.html GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) — Election officials in the Cayman Islands say the opposition party has won nine of 18 seats, one short of a majority needed to control the British territory's legislature. The results released Thursday mean that attorney Alden McLaughlin's People's Progressive Movement will be the dominant force in a coalition government.... Thu, 23 May 2013 17:10:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2105804-cayman-opposition-will-lead-coalition-govt.html 2013-05-23T17:10:19Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2104842-un-chief-visits-goma-congo.html GOMA, Congo (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed Thursday that security must go hand-in-hand with development in Congo's troubled eastern city of Goma, arriving just hours after a rebel group halted fighting to allow the visit to proceed. The U.N. chief traveled to Congo, and specifically to Goma, for the first time since the Secur... Thu, 23 May 2013 16:49:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2104842-un-chief-visits-goma-congo.html 2013-05-23T16:49:22Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2102900-kerry-us-allies-ready-to-step-up-aid-to-rebels.html AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The U.S. and several key allies looked again Wednesday for a strategy to end Syria's civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the Assad regime's military gains and Washington still unwilling to join those providing the rebels with lethal military aid. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry allowed that President Barack... Wed, 22 May 2013 22:01:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2102900-kerry-us-allies-ready-to-step-up-aid-to-rebels.html 2013-05-22T22:01:53Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2102324-syrian-opposition-urges-rebels-to-join-key-battle.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's main opposition alliance on Wednesday urged fighters from around the country to reinforce a rebel-held town under attack by President Bashar Assad's troops and their allies from the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group. With its appeal, the Syrian National Coalition sought to bolster embattled rebel forces in Qusair who for a fourth str... Wed, 22 May 2013 17:43:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2102324-syrian-opposition-urges-rebels-to-join-key-battle.html 2013-05-22T17:43:08Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2102930-afghanistan-suicide-bomb-kills-anti-taliban-elder.html KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber on foot killed an anti-Taliban village elder and at least three other people in a busy marketplace Wednesday in central Afghanistan, the latest in a wave of assassinations and bombings. Habibullah Khan was killed along with two bodyguards and a civilian bystander in the afternoon attack in Ghazni province's Moqur... Wed, 22 May 2013 16:08:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2102930-afghanistan-suicide-bomb-kills-anti-taliban-elder.html 2013-05-22T16:08:27Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2101496-toronto-mayor-avoids-questions-crack-video.html TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford continued to duck questions Tuesday about a video that purportedly shows him smoking crack cocaine despite calls by allies and rivals for further comment. The video has not been released publicly and there is no way to verify whether it is authentic. Reports Thursday night on the gossip website Gawker and in the Toron... Tue, 21 May 2013 23:24:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2101496-toronto-mayor-avoids-questions-crack-video.html 2013-05-21T23:24:56Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2099538-car-bomb-attacks-kill-20-iraq.html BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed at least 20 people nationwide in a week of the most sustained sectarian violence in the country since U.S. troops withdrew more than a year ago. Rising tensions between Sunnis and the Shii... Tue, 21 May 2013 20:14:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2099538-car-bomb-attacks-kill-20-iraq.html 2013-05-21T20:14:32Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2098236-tunisian-feminist-arrested-alleged-provocation.html TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian feminist who scandalized her country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested after allegedly sneaking into Tunisia's holiest city disguised in a veil, then trying to get undressed during a protest. On Sunday, Amina Tyler — a 19-year-old member of the Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN, which uses nudity i... Mon, 20 May 2013 21:17:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2098236-tunisian-feminist-arrested-alleged-provocation.html 2013-05-20T21:17:27Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2097768-high-court-to-weigh-legislative-prayers.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings. The justices said they will review an appeals court ruling that held that the upstate New York town of Greece, a Rochester suburb, violated the Constitution by opening nearly every m... Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2097768-high-court-to-weigh-legislative-prayers.html 2013-05-20T16:00:37Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2095920-pakistan-repeats-vote-karachi-despite-killing.html KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan held a repeat election on Sunday in an upscale area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging, despite the shooting death of a senior member of former cricket star Imran Khan's party. Khan blamed Zahra Shahid's killing late Saturday night in Karachi on the Muttahida Quami Movement, ... Sun, 19 May 2013 10:19:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2095920-pakistan-repeats-vote-karachi-despite-killing.html 2013-05-19T10:19:22Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2094834-assad-syria-transition-talks-internal-matter.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics, raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the country's civil war. In the capital Damascus, a car bo... Sat, 18 May 2013 20:55:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2094834-assad-syria-transition-talks-internal-matter.html 2013-05-18T20:55:44Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2095136-ivory-coast-army-arrests-militia-leader.html ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A militia leader accused of grave crimes during Ivory Coast's 2010-11 postelection violence was taken into custody Saturday not far from the national park where his forces had been illegally occupying in the country's volatile western region, officials said. Amade Oueremi, a native of Burkina Faso, fought alongside forces backi... Sat, 18 May 2013 17:34:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2095136-ivory-coast-army-arrests-militia-leader.html 2013-05-18T17:34:38Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2095130-journalist-dead-eastern-congo.html GOMA, Congo (AP) — The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor said Saturday. "We found his body yesterday in an advanced state of decay. It showed signed of strangulation according to the doctor who examined him on the scene. We couldn't move him furth... Sat, 18 May 2013 16:50:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2095130-journalist-dead-eastern-congo.html 2013-05-18T16:50:16Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2095022-nigeria-military-declares-24-hour-curfew-city.html MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with authorities saying they killed 10 suspected insurgents. A statement Saturday on behalf of Lt. Col. Sa... Sat, 18 May 2013 16:35:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2095022-nigeria-military-declares-24-hour-curfew-city.html 2013-05-18T16:35:24Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2092744-bombs-mosques-northwest-pakistan-kill-15.html PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Bombs that exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 15 people Friday, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government set to take power under the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The blasts at the two Sunni Muslim mosques also wounded 70 people, sai... Fri, 17 May 2013 16:38:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2092744-bombs-mosques-northwest-pakistan-kill-15.html 2013-05-17T16:38:01Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/asia/2090088-residents-shout-protest-refinery-china.html KUNMING, China (AP) — More than 2,000 people in southern China unfurled banners and shouted "Protest! Protest!" on Thursday to oppose plans for a petroleum refinery, in a large environmental rally that local authorities allowed to go forward in order to let the public vent frustration. The gathering in downtown Kunming — the second one in the city this mo... Thu, 16 May 2013 11:53:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/asia/2090088-residents-shout-protest-refinery-china.html 2013-05-16T11:53:49Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2089378-coin-tossing-breaks-tie-philippine-mayoral-race.html MANILA, Philippines (AP) — What do you do when two candidates running for mayor in the Philippines get exactly the same number of votes? You get them to toss a coin. Marvic Feraren and Boyet Py both received 3,236 votes for mayor of San Teodoro town in Mindoro Oriental province in Monday's elections. The Elections Commissions suggested the two men flip a ... Thu, 16 May 2013 05:06:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2089378-coin-tossing-breaks-tie-philippine-mayoral-race.html 2013-05-16T05:06:01Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/asia/2086530-rain-cyclone-falls-myanmar-minority-stay.html SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal. Tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya people live in the plastic-roofed tents and huts made of reeds, and they dist... Thu, 16 May 2013 04:38:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/asia/2086530-rain-cyclone-falls-myanmar-minority-stay.html 2013-05-16T04:38:49Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2086890-confrontation-looms-tunisia-moves-salafis.html TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia is taking a harder line on preaching by ultraconservative Muslim groups, a crackdown that has sparked demonstrations by rock-throwing protesters and ominous warnings of terrorist attacks to come. As it struggles to hunt down al-Qaida linked terrorists in its frontiers, the government has also been trying to rein in salafis em... Wed, 15 May 2013 10:42:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2086890-confrontation-looms-tunisia-moves-salafis.html 2013-05-15T10:42:20Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2085584-attacks-lebanese-alawites-deepen-fears.html TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese members of the Syrian leader's Alawite sect fear their tiny community will be a casualty of the civil war raging in the neighboring country. Already, Sunni Muslim extremists have stoned a school bus, vandalized stores and beaten or stabbed a number of men in a wave of attacks against Lebanese Alawites, stoking fears of eve... Tue, 14 May 2013 20:04:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2085584-attacks-lebanese-alawites-deepen-fears.html 2013-05-14T20:04:23Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/sports/soccer/2083934-psg-city-hall-celebrations-scrapped-violence.html PARIS (AP) — A celebration of Paris Saint-Germain's first league title since 1994 was canceled Tuesday, a day after rioting during festivities in the French capital led to 21 arrests and injuries to more than 30 people. "Thugs won't have the last word in Paris," Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe declared. Fans threw stones and other objects at police, who repl... Tue, 14 May 2013 19:15:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/sports/soccer/2083934-psg-city-hall-celebrations-scrapped-violence.html 2013-05-14T19:15:17Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2084774-congo-to-create-city-honor-patrice-lumumba.html KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The Congolese government is naming a town after Patrice Lumumba, the country's first prime minister whose assassination more than 50 years ago made him a liberation symbol worldwide. The new city in central Congo, named Lumumbaville, will be made of several existing communities in the Kassai-Oriental province and will be more than 1... Tue, 14 May 2013 16:13:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2084774-congo-to-create-city-honor-patrice-lumumba.html 2013-05-14T16:13:10Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2083376-japanese-mayor-wartime-sex-slaves-were.html TOKYO (AP) — An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the ranks and provide rest for soldiers who risked their lives in battle. The comments made Monday are already raising ire in neighboring countries that bore the brunt of Japan... Tue, 14 May 2013 11:38:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2083376-japanese-mayor-wartime-sex-slaves-were.html 2013-05-14T11:38:33Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2083542-ex-philippine-president-elected-mayor-manila.html MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former President Joseph Estrada was declared the winner of Manila's mayoral election on Tuesday, his first ballot victory since his ouster in a 2001 anti-corruption revolt and a possible prelude to a return to higher office. Estrada's was among a host of familiar names, including former first lady Imelda Marcos, to score wins in... Tue, 14 May 2013 10:36:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2083542-ex-philippine-president-elected-mayor-manila.html 2013-05-14T10:36:44Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2082224-hundreds-bicyclists-pour-through-dutch-museum.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — Guards removed the final barriers blocking the way, and a cheer went up from the crowd. Moments later, a small army mounted on bicycles of all shapes and sizes eagerly stormed the path that leads straight through the heart of the Netherlands' newly renovated national museum. Their bells were ringing all the way. It has taken Amsterdam's p... Mon, 13 May 2013 19:22:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2082224-hundreds-bicyclists-pour-through-dutch-museum.html 2013-05-13T19:22:30Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2079898-turkey-wont-drawn-syria-conflict.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister vowed Sunday his country won't be drawn into Syria's civil war, despite twin car bombings the government believes were carried out by a group of Turks with close ties to pro-government groups in Syria. The bombings left 46 people dead and marked the biggest incident of violence across the border since the star... Sun, 12 May 2013 16:17:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2079898-turkey-wont-drawn-syria-conflict.html 2013-05-12T16:17:16Z