CA-NEWS Summary

Only two bombs found in Boston Marathon attack

BOSTON (Reuters) - Officials investigating the Boston Marathon bombing said on Tuesday that no additional explosive devices have been discovered other than the two that detonated near the race's finish line, a development that could complicate the case. At this point, no one is in custody in connection with the Monday afternoon attack that left three dead and sent 176 to area hospitals, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said at a press conference. Of the injured, 17 remain in critical condition.

Venezuela post-vote violence kills seven, more protests start

CARACAS (Reuters) - Violent clashes at opposition protests over Venezuela's disputed presidential election have killed seven people, officials said on Tuesday, as both sides mobilized supporters nationwide for new demonstrations. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles has demanded a full recount of votes from Sunday's election after results showed a narrow victory for late President Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro.

Pakistan bears brunt of Iranian earthquake, 13 killed

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A major earthquake centered on a border area of southeast Iran killed at least 13 people in neighboring Pakistan, destroyed hundreds of houses and shook buildings as far away as India and Gulf Arab states on Tuesday. Communications with the area, a sparsely populated desert and mountain region, were largely cut, leading to conflicting preliminary reports of casualties in Iran. An Iranian provincial governor later said there were no deaths there.

Rebels push Assad's army away from vital north Syria highway

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels repelled an advance by government forces near a strategic highway in northern Syria on Tuesday, in fierce battles expected to inflict heavy casualties on both sides, opposition activists said. The two sides are struggling for control of a highway that serves as the main route into Aleppo, Syria's largest city, after President Bashar al-Assad's forces broke through a six-month rebel blockade of two bases near the road.

North Korea issues new threats over protests in South

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea issued new threats against South Korea on Tuesday, vowing "sledge-hammer blows" of retaliation if South Korea did not apologies for anti-North Korean protests the previous day when the North was celebrating the birth of its founding leader. The North also rejected what it called "cunning" U.S. overtures for talks, saying it will not be humiliated into being dragged to sit at the negotiating table by Washington.

Thatcher's legacy: citadel of finance atop once-derelict docks

LONDON (Reuters) - Where a maze of derelict warehouses and old cranes once testified to Britain's decline, glass skyscrapers teeming with traders now dominate London's docks, a metaphor - for good and ill - for Margaret Thatcher's free-market revolution. Thatcher called the dockside development one of the most exciting projects she had ever known. Its aim: To transform a virtual wasteland into a cluster of towers that would, combined with her 'Big Bang' reforms of the City of London, become the spine of the only financial capital to threaten New York.

Italy's 5-Star picks journalist as presidential candidate

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement chose a television journalist as its candidate for president on Tuesday and hinted it could co-operate with center left if she were elected. Choosing a successor to President Giorgio Napolitano, whose term ends on May 15, is a vital step toward resolving the stalemate created by an inconclusive general election in February that left no party able to form a government.

Pakistan officials bar ex-president Musharraf from election race

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's election authorities barred former President Pervez Musharraf from competing in next month's general elections on Tuesday, derailing his efforts to regain influence by winning a seat in parliament. The former army chief returned last month after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest a May 11 general election despite the possibility of arrest on various charges and death threats from the Pakistani Taliban.

France tops EU DNA tests for horsemeat in beef

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France found more cases of illegal horsemeat in beef products than any other European Union country, results of official DNA tests ordered in the wake of the scandal showed, with more than 1 in every 8 samples testing positive. Announcing the results on Tuesday, the European Commission said that for the EU as a whole, just less than 5 percent of all beef products tested had come back positive for horse DNA.

Russian protest leader faces trial after taking on Putin

KIROV, Russia (Reuters) - Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny is so sure President Vladimir Putin wants him convicted in a trial starting on Wednesday that he has already packed a jail bag with sneakers, jogging pants and slippers. He expects he will also need shoes without laces under legal procedures if or when he is taken into custody after the trial in the freshly spruced-up Leninsky Court in the provincial city of Kirov, 900 km (550 miles) northeast of Moscow.

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