CAIRO (Reuters) – At least one person was killed and more than 650 wounded in clashes between riot police and protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir square yesterday, officials said, after a protest demanding the ruling military transfer power swiftly to a civilian government.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) – Israel sees cracks in Syrian power structures amid increasingly violent unrest, and there are signs President Bashar al-Assad may not be in power for long, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said yesterday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Both sides of the US Congress’ deadlocked “super committee” held separate talks yesterday, but formal negotiations remained stalled, reaffirming gloomy predictions that the deficit-fighting panel may fail.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Scores of Ethiopian military vehicles pushed at least 80 km (50 miles) into neighbouring Somalia on Saturday, residents said, five weeks after Kenya entered Somalia to fight Islamist militants it blames for a wave of kidnappings on its soil.
LONDON (Reuters) – Growing Syrian army defections do not yet pose a mortal threat to President Bashar al-Assad, but outside support could turn the dissidents into a national insurgency able to harass and exhaust his military.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog board censured Iran yesterday over mounting suspicions it is trying to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran said the move would only strengthen its determination to press on with sensitive work.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaska gave a helping hand to fellow Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich yesterday in a London court battle involving three of Russia’s best-known businessmen.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Norway’s Statoil has agreed to buy a stake in an exploration block offshore Suriname from Tullow Oil, adding to the list of international oil companies entering what industry sources say could be a major new production province in South America.
MANILA, (Reuters) – Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was arrested yesterday for electoral fraud, which carries a life sentence, at a Manila hospital, preventing her departure from the country to seek medical treatment.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Homicide detectives who have reopened an inquiry into the death of Natalie Wood said yesterday the film star’s husband, actor Robert Wagner, was not considered a suspect in the case.
(Reuters) – Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has given birth to a girl, her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan announced on Twitter on Wednesday.
ROME/PARIS, (Reuters) – Italy’s new government has announced far-reaching reforms in response to a European debt crisis that yesterday pushed borrowing costs for France and Spain sharply higher, and brought tens of thousands of Greeks onto the streets of Athens.
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, (Reuters) – Tensions between the United States and China threaten to spill over into meetings of Asia-Pacific leaders today, with U.S.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – The international development community, especially financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank, and the United States should reach out to communist Cuba as it pursues economic reforms and bring it “in from the cold,” a new think tank report says.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Russia stood by President Bashar al-Assad yesterday as Arab and Western countries sought to pile pressure on the Syrian leader to halt a violent crackdown on his opponents.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Embattled dancehall entertainer, Vybz Kartel, is now being probed in relation to five other murder cases.
CANBERRA (Reuters) – President Barack Obama announced yesterday that the U.S.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A judge upheld New York City’s right to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters from a park yesterday after baton-wielding police in riot gear broke up a two-month-old demonstration against economic inequality.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Canada-listed Sino-Forest Corp said an independent committee found no evidence of fraud at the Chinese timber firm following allegations from short-seller Muddy Waters it had exaggerated its assets, although the committee also said it had been unable to verify the company owned all of its forests.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian army defectors attacked an intelligence complex on the edge of Damascus last night, in the first reported assault on a major security facility in the eight-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
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