(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court yesterday overturned the conviction of Osama bin Laden’s former driver and bodyguard, Salim Hamdan, on charges of supporting terrorism, in a long-running case emerging from the American military trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean plaintiffs yesterday said an order issued by a court in the Andean country lets them seize some $200 million worth of assets belonging to Chevron in a new legal blow to the No.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday told CNN that she assumes responsibility for last month’s deadly attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
LONDON/BIRMINGHAM (Reuters) – A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban has every chance of making a “good recovery”, British doctors said yesterday as 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai arrived at a hospital in central England for treatment of her severe wounds.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Mexico has accused China of breaking World Trade Organization rules by giving tax breaks and other favorable deals to its own clothing and textile businesses, the global trade body said yesterday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama retained a slim lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll yesterday, as he appeared to have stemmed the bleeding from his poor first debate.
MIAMI (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Rafael strengthened into a hurricane over the Atlantic yesterday on a track that may take it near Bermuda, the US National Hurricane Center said yesterday.
OSLO (Reuters) – Twenty-five species of humans’ closest living relatives – apes, monkeys and lemurs – need urgent protection from extinction, a report by international conservation groups said yesterday.
OSLO/BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian government negotiators and Marxist rebels have delayed their departure for peace talks in Norway aimed at ending nearly half a century of conflict but still plan to arrive in time for their only publicly scheduled event tomorrow, Norway said.
ROSWELL, N.M., (Reuters) – An Austrian daredevil leapt into the stratosphere from a balloon hovering near the edge of space 24 miles (38 km) above Earth yesterday, breaking as many as three world records including the highest skydive ever, project sponsors said.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s Finance Minister P. Chidambaram exudes the self-confidence of a man who, in the eyes of India’s cheerleading financial markets, can do little wrong.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Graduates of IMF emergency loan programmes accepted the Fund’s admission that it miscalculated the cost of austerity with a mix of schadenfreude and frustration that the change came too late to spare them economic pain.
KADUNA, (Reuters) – Armed bandits descended on a village in northern Nigeria yesterday, killing 22 people, most of them shot dead as they were leaving prayers at a mosque, the state police commissioner said.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and Marxist rebels will sit down this week to start peace talks aimed at ending nearly half a century of conflict after a 10-year military offensive against the guerrillas failed to deliver a coup de grace.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Brad Pitt has thrown his weight behind a documentary that blasts America’s 40-year war on drugs as a failure, calling policies that imprison huge numbers of drug-users a “charade” in urgent need of a rethink.
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) – Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was “lightly wounded” after a military patrol accidentally fired on his convoy, the government said yesterday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) – France and Canada urged leaders from the French-speaking world to reinforce democracy and human rights during a summit in the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday, in comments that focused attention squarely on the host.
ACCRA (Reuters) – Former Ghanaian first lady Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings announced yesterday she has split from the ruling party that her husband founded to run for president under a new banner.
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (Reuters) – Republi-can presidential candidate Mitt Romney is recovering ground in the critical swing state of Ohio as he rises in the polls and crowd numbers swell after his strong debate performance last week against President Barack Obama.