http://thestar.com.my/news/worldupdates/ Update: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 MYT 3:25:01 AM http://thestar.com.my/common/images/thestar_140x45.gif http://thestar.com.my/ 88 31 http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/dagestan-bombs-kill-four-two-dead-in-shootout-near-moscow&sec=Worldupdates MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in one of the bloodiest attacks this year in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/dagestan-bombs-kill-four-two-dead-in-shootout-near-moscow&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 19:15:31 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/brazil-probes-rumour-that-set-off-panic-run-on-state-bank&sec=Worldupdates BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday she ordered the Federal Police to investigate the source of a rumour that sent thousands of poor Brazilians running to state bank branches seeking payment of a monthly family stipend. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/brazil-probes-rumour-that-set-off-panic-run-on-state-bank&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 19:01:55 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/obama-walks-a-fine-line-with-myanmar-presidents-landmark-visit&sec=Worldupdates WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will walk a fine line between fostering a U.S. ally in China's backyard and trying to defend human rights on Monday when the president of Myanmar becomes the first head of his country to visit the White House in 47 years. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/obama-walks-a-fine-line-with-myanmar-presidents-landmark-visit&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 18:44:40 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/us-says-korea-tensions-relatively-low-despite-missile-tests&sec=Worldupdates WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Monday appeared to play down North Korea's six short-range missile launches over the past three days, describing tensions on the Korean peninsula as relatively low. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/us-says-korea-tensions-relatively-low-despite-missile-tests&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 18:32:08 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/congos-army-clashes-with-rebels-near-goma&sec=Worldupdates KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's army used combat helicopters to bombard rebel fighters on Monday near the city of Goma in the first clashes in nearly six months, days before U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to visit the troubled eastern borderlands. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/congos-army-clashes-with-rebels-near-goma&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 18:24:34 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/arab-spring-makes-israelipalestinian-peace-more-pressing-qatar&sec=Worldupdates DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar's emir, who has thrown his state's riches behind Arab uprisings, said on Monday that the emergence of 'people power' had put Arabs in direct confrontation with Israel and made a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more pressing. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/arab-spring-makes-israelipalestinian-peace-more-pressing-qatar&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 18:21:26 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/bomb-attacks-kill-more-than-70-shiites-across-iraq&sec=Worldupdates BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew in December 2011. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/bomb-attacks-kill-more-than-70-shiites-across-iraq&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 18:16:36 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/nigeria-says-has-islamists-on-defensive&sec=Worldupdates MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants' activities had been stifled by nearly a week of attacks on their bases. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/nigeria-says-has-islamists-on-defensive&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 17:50:13 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/russian-tycoon-on-trial-over-tv-punchup-gets-boost-from-witness&sec=Worldupdates MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian media magnate Alexander Lebedev received unexpected support from a prosecution witness on Monday and told a court that charges laid against him over a televised punch-up were invented by state prosecutors. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/russian-tycoon-on-trial-over-tv-punchup-gets-boost-from-witness&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 17:45:09 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/steaua-bucharest-owner-jailed-in-romania-for-abuse-of-power&sec=Worldupdates BUCHAREST (Reuters) - George Becali, a Romanian MP and owner of the football club Steaua Bucharest, was jailed for three years on Monday for abuse of power, one of only a handful of big names to be convicted in a country trying to show it can beat high-level corruption. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/steaua-bucharest-owner-jailed-in-romania-for-abuse-of-power&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 17:17:59 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/mexican-opposition-dispute-goes-public-threatening-reforms&sec=Worldupdates MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Divisions within Mexico's main conservative opposition party have erupted into a bitter public dispute that threatens to undermine the reform agenda of President Enrique Pena Nieto. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/mexican-opposition-dispute-goes-public-threatening-reforms&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 17:07:29 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/hezbollah-suffers-big-losses-in-syria-battle-activists&sec=Worldupdates AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/hezbollah-suffers-big-losses-in-syria-battle-activists&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 16:30:34 GMT http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/israels-lapid-speaks-of-removing-some-settlers-for-peace&sec=Worldupdates JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Finance Minister Yair Lapid, whose new centrist party is the second largest in Israel's government, said on Monday thousands of Jewish settlers would have to be removed from occupied land under any peace deal with the Palestinians. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/5/21/worldupdates/israels-lapid-speaks-of-removing-some-settlers-for-peace&sec=Worldupdates Mon, 20 May 2013 13:32:19 GMT