CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez suffered more complications linked to a respiratory infection that hit him after his fourth cancer operation in Cuba, the vice president said in a sombre broadcast yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was sent to the hospital yesterday with a blood clot stemming from a concussion she suffered earlier this month and was being assessed by doctors, a State Department spokesman said.
(Reuters) – President Obama is endorsing a proposal by the Illinois legislature to legalize gay marriage, a White House spokesman told Reuters yesterday.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The body of a woman, whose gang rape provoked protests and rare national debate about violence against women in India, arrived back in New Delhi yesterday and was cremated at a private ceremony.
CANBERRA, (Reuters) – Forget Australia’s mining boom. The nation’s strong economy, high currency and wages have made it a magnet for sex, drugs and rock and roll.
NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A woman whose gang rape provoked protests and rare national debate about violence against women in India died from her injuries yesterday, prompting promises of action from a government that has struggled to respond to public outrage.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian airliner flying without passengers broke into pieces after it slid off the runway and crashed onto a highway outside Moscow upon landing yesterday, killing four of the eight crew on board and leaving smoking chunks of fuselage on the icy road.
MOSCOW/AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) – The international mediator touting a peace plan for Syria warned yesterday of “hell” if the warring sides shun talks, and Moscow accused enemies of President Bashar al-Assad of blocking negotiations.UN-Arab
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said yesterday his country supported the Syrian revolution and that President Bashar al-Asasd’s administration had no place in Syria’s future.
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Constitutional Council yesterday rejected a 75 per cent upper income tax rate to be introduced in 2013 in a setback to Socialist President Francois Hollande’s push to make the rich contribute more to cutting the public deficit.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Following a Friday meeting with congressional leaders, an impatient and annoyed President Barack Obama said it was “mind boggling” that Congress has been unable to fix a “fiscal cliff” mess that everyone has known about for more than a year.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and congressional leaders agreed yesterday to make a final effort to prevent the United States from going over the “fiscal cliff,” setting off intense bargaining over Americans’ tax rates as a New Year deadline looms.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – The Indian gang-rape victim whose assault in New Delhi triggered nationwide protests died in hospital yesterday of injuries suffered in the attack, a Singapore hospital treating her said.
ALEPPO PROVINCE, Syria/ BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Syria’s opposition leader has rejected an invitation from Russia for peace talks, dealing another blow to international hopes that diplomacy can be resurrected to end a 21-month civil war.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate yesterday approved a $60.4 billion aid package to pay for reconstruction costs from Superstorm Sandy, after defeating Republican efforts to trim the bill’s cost.
YANGON, (Reuters) – Myanmar will allow private daily newspapers from April next year, the government announced yesterday, a big leap forward for a country that had barely any press freedom under its decades of military dictatorship.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – The discovery that a protein which triggers milk production in women may also be responsible for making breast cancers aggressive could open up new opportunities for treatment of the most common and deadliest form of cancer among women.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and lawmakers are launching a last-chance round of budget talks days before a New Year’s deadline to reach a deal or watch the economy go off a “fiscal cliff.”
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., the hard-charging U.S. Army general whose forces smashed the Iraqi army in the 1991 Gulf War, has died at the age of 78, a U.S.
ROME, (Reuters) – An Italian priest has provoked outrage after putting up an article that said women were partly to blame for encouraging domestic violence by failing to clean their houses and cook properly and for wearing tight and provocative clothing.
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