World

LJUBLJANA, (Reuters) – The Slovenian Constitutional Court said yesterday it had banned the city of Ljubljana from  naming a road after Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito because  his name was a symbol of the communist regime that violated  human rights.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked  rebels struck at the heart of the capital yesterday, killing  more than 70 people with a truck bomb in the group’s most deadly  attack in the country since launching an insurgency in 2007.

SEATTLE/PERUGIA,  (Reuters) – Amanda Knox returned  home to Seattle yesterday, one day after an Italian court  cleared the 24-year-old college student of murder and freed her  from prison.

PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) – Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend left prison after four years yesterday when an Italian appeals court cleared them of the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Campaigners for a loosely regulated Internet are alarmed at the risk to Web freedom from fast-growing BRIC and other emerging economies seeking more say in how the online realm is policed.

SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan interim government forces have captured a district in Sirte after fierce battles that further raised concern about the dire humanitarian situation in Muammar Gaddafi’s besieged hometown.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman whose murder trial in the death of her retired police officer husband is considered a test of the battered woman defence said yesterday that “the truth has now been told” as her case wound to a close.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Doctors who tried to revive Michael Jackson at a Los Angles hospital testified yesterday that the singer’s personal physician never told them he gave him the anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel accepted yesterday a  call by international mediators to resume peace talks with the  Palestinians, who quickly reaffirmed their refusal to negotiate  until settlement-building stops on  land they seek for state.

MANCHESTER, N.H., (Reuters) – Republican presidential  candidate Rick Perry said on Saturday he would get the U.S. 

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Syria’s main opposition groups  joined together yesterday to call on the international community  to take action to protect Syrian people facing a violent  crackdown on pro-democracy protests.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – In his final regular  appearance on the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” Andy Rooney  expressed gratitude for a “lucky” life and thanked his fans,  but not without adding a touch of the curmudgeonly grumbling  that has become a signature element of his TV essays.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – A new plan to curb global  warming risks becoming a battleground between rich and poor  nations and could struggle to get off the ground as negotiators  battle over the fate of the ailing Kyoto climate pact.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian troops regained control of the central town of Rastan, the official news agency said yesterday, after the most prolonged fighting between the army and insurgents in a six-month uprising.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader rejected the Palestinians’ UN statehood bid yesterday, saying any deal that accepted the existence of Israel would leave a “cancerous tumour” forever threatening the security of the Middle East.

KABUL (Reuters) – NATO-led forces said yesterday that they had captured the senior commander for the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, during an operation in eastern Paktia province earlier in the week.

LISBON (Reuters) – Tens of thousands marched in Lisbon and Porto yesterday to protest against austerity measures imposed under the terms of an EU/IMF bailout, the first major rallies since a centre-right government took power in Portugal in June.

Presidential candidate of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Brigadier (ret) David Granger has challenged Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir’s claim that Guyana’s unemployment rate had fallen from 11.7 to 10.7 per cent.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday the Andean nation will not award oil exploration and production contracts off the San Andres archipelago, an important bio-diverse tourist destination.