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Soccer-Dembele gets first Mali call-up ahead of Nations Cup

January 8, 2013 09:52
BAMAKO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Mali have called up uncapped striker Mana Dembele from French club Clermont Foot to replace Mamadou Samassa in their training squad for the African Nations Cup finals, officials said on Tuesday. Italy-based Samassa pulled out of the team's preparations in Bamako because of injury. Dembele, who was born in Paris, has scored seven goals in Ligue 2 this season, prompting his first call-up by Mali.

Egypt says expects IMF committee in 2-3 weeks

January 8, 2013 09:52
CAIRO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Egypt expects a visit from an International Monetary Fund technical committee in two to three weeks, the presidential spokesman said on Tuesday, after a visit to Cairo by a senior IMF official. "Negotiations with the IMF team will resume from where they stopped," Yasser Ali, spokesman for President Mohamed Mursi, said. Asked when the committee would visit, he said to expect it in "two to three weeks".

Mali army fires warning shots to halt Islamist advance

January 8, 2013 09:52
BAMAKO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Malian soldiers fired warning shots on Tuesday at Islamist fighters pushing south towards their positions, military and diplomatic sources said, raising fears of the first clashes since militants seized Mali's north in April. The capture of the northern two thirds of the arid West African nation by a loose coalition of Islamist groups has sown fears among Western and regional powers that Mali could become a haven for radicals to plot international attacks.

ANALYSIS-Egypt's currency crisis hinges on household dollars

January 8, 2013 09:45
By Sujata Rao LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The key to preventing a messy devaluation of Egypt's pound may lie with the country's households, whose dollar holdings are being eyed by foreign investors as a critical gauge of trust in the authorities. Countless emerging market crises have shown over the decades that it is not the withdrawal of foreign investors from a market but the flight of local households and businesses from a currency that is instrumental in its collapse.

REFILE-In India, questions over decision to treat rape victim overseas

January 8, 2013 09:42
(Fixes spelling of Delhi official's name in 27th para) By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The decision to fly the victim of a gang rape that outraged India for treatment in Singapore made little medical sense as the woman was so severely injured that her death was all but inevitable, doctors say.

UPDATE 4-Obama picks Hagel for defense, Brennan for CIA

January 7, 2013 10:08
* Faces Senate battle on two fronts * Hagel faces questions on Israel, gays * Brennan's previous CIA tenure under scrutiny * Moves fill out reshuffled national security team By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton

REFILE-Soccer-Yaya Toure out of hospital

January 7, 2013 21:47
(Changes date to Jan 7) ABU DHABI, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure has been released from hospital after being admitted with a heavy fever over the weekend, the country's football federation said. Manchester City's Toure, named African Footballer of the Year last month, missed the first two days of training in Abu Dhabi where his country's national team are preparing for the African Nations Cup finals in South Africa.

US Supreme Court won't take combat veterans' mental health appeal

January 7, 2013 21:47
* Veterans say VA slow in processing mental health claims * They say delays contributed to veterans' suicides * Lower court had ruled against veterans By Jonathan Stempel WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a challenge by veterans who said delays by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in processing combat-related mental health claims contributed to suicides by veterans.

GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares, oil dip, but growth prospects limit falls

January 7, 2013 10:09
* World stocks ease 0.15 pct as new year rally fades * Bank stocks outperform on milder liquidity rules * Dollar pulls back from 2-1/2-year high versus yen * Brent crude dips below $111 a barrel By Richard Hubbard LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - World stocks and oil prices eased on Monday ending a new year rally as some investors chose to book profits, but signs of a brightening global economic growth outlook limited the falls.

Reuters People News Summary

January 7, 2013 10:09
Following is a summary of current people news briefs. Schwarzenegger is back, and Hollywood hopes he's still a star LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As he famously droned on-screen in his signature "Terminator" movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger is back. A year after leaving the California governor's office and becoming tabloid fodder for fathering a boy with his family's housekeeper and splitting with his wife, Maria Shriver, the 65-year old former bodybuilder will star in no less than three Hollywood movies over the next 12 months.
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