NORTH OF BANI WALID, Libya, (Reuters) – Forces of Libya’s interim ruling council are poised for an assault on the desert town of Bani Walid after negotiators failed to persuade Muammar Gaddafi loyalists to abandon one of their last remaining bastions.
NEW ORLEANS, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Lee moved slowly across southern Louisiana on Sunday as New Orleans’ flood defenses appeared to pass one of their biggest tests since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder yesterday called for the creation of a “United States of Europe”, saying the bloc needed a common government to avoid future economic crises.
VENICE, Italy, (Reuters) – Hollywood veteran Al Pacino is honoured by the Venice film festival yesterday with a special prize and the presentation of his latest directorial project “Wilde Salome”.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Europeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses, with almost 165 million people or 38 percent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or dementia, according to a large new study.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief indicate the US and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.
HAVANA (Reuters) – General Julio Casas Regueiro, Cuba’s defence minister and longtime aide to President Raul Castro, died yesterday of heart failure at the age of 75, the Cuban government said.
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Slow-moving Tropical Storm Lee brought torrential rains to the Louisiana coast yesterday as the heart of the storm neared New Orleans, where flood defences were expected to be put to the test.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – China is obstructing the release of Libya’s frozen assets, the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) Mustafa Abdel Jalil said in a news conference yesterday.
DUBAI (Reuters) – A group of Bahraini doctors jailed earlier this year during a crackdown on unrest in the Gulf kingdom have gone on hunger strike in protest against their detention, a human rights group said yesterday.
TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Libya’s new leadership reaffirmed its commitment to democracy yesterday and worked on its priorities for spending billions of dollars released from the frozen assets of fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Two Kenyan politicians offered people money to attack rivals’ supporters after a disputed election in 2007 and gave them weapons and maps of where the targets lived, the International Criminal Court heard yesterday.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. regulator sued 17 large banks and financial institutions yesterday over losses on about $200 billion of subprime bonds, which may hamper a broader government settlement of the mortgage mess left over from the housing crisis.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. regulator sued 17 large banks and financial institutions yesterday over losses on about $200 billion of subprime bonds, which may hamper a broader government settlement of the mortgage mess left over from the housing crisis.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ended a third round of chemotherapy yesterday, saying he “couldn’t feel better” as he led a caravan to the presidential palace cheered on by thousands of supporters.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey will be doing her first-ever live chat with social media website Facebook on Thursday, Sept 8.
TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi urged his supporters from hiding to fight on as Libya’s new interim rulers met world leaders yesterday to discuss reshaping a nation torn by 42 years of one-man rule and six months of civil war.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Modern states should not restrict Internet freedoms, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday, apparently trying to dispel concerns the government might crack down on dissent ahead of elections.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – A Chinese tycoon who plans to build a resort on an isolated patch of land in Iceland said on Wednesday that there were no political motives behind the project, after its strategic location raised security concerns in the island nation.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Singer Marc Anthony yesterday denied rumours that secret affairs with other women broke apart his marriage to “American Idol” superstar Jennifer Lopez earlier this year.
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