SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Protesters battled police in Chile’s capital yesterday in the latest unrest against deeply unpopular President Sebastian Pinera, possibly sidetracking his top priorities such as capital market reforms.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it was requesting a dispute settlement panel to hear its year-old complaint that Guatemala has failed to protect workers’ rights as required under a free-trade agreement.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Police arrested Brazil’s deputy tourism minister yesterday in a corruption sweep tied to funding for major sports events, the latest in a series of scandals to tarnish President Dilma Rousseff’s government.
WASHINGTON/LONDON, (Reuters) – Political leaders failed to halt a global stock market rout that gathered steam yesterday as investors lost confidence that Europe and the United States can rein in their budgets quickly and fear spread of a double-dip recession.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Rioting and looting spread across and beyond London yesterday as hooded youths set fire to cars and buildings, smashed shop windows and hurled bottles and stones at police in a third night of violence in Britain’s worst unrest in decades.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – The Nikkei average tumbled more than 4 percent in heavy volume today, posting the biggest one-day fall since the March earthquake as investors fled the stock market in the wake of a plunge on Wall Street and a downgrade of U.S.
SYDNEY, (Reuters Life!) – Nancy Wake, a much-decorated World War Two spy and Resistance heroine known as “The White Mouse” for her ability to remain undetected, and who at one point was the Gestapo’s most wanted person, has died in London at the age of 98.
NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – No need for Kanye West and Jay-Z to simply watch a throne.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – The classic 1987 film “Dirty Dancing” is getting a remake, adding songs from the 1960s and brand new compositions to some of the original music, film studio Lionsgate said yesterday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Fans of the movie “Life in a Day” who think it is a one-shot chance to see a film portraying one day in the life of ordinary people around the world should think twice — quite literally.
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah demanded an end to the bloodshed in Syria yesterday and recalled his country’s ambassador from Damascus, in a rare case of one of the Arab world’s most powerful leaders intervening against another.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Groups of youths attacked shops and damaged a police car in north London yesterday as police sent in reinforcements to prevent more rioting on the scale that laid waste to another area of the British capital 24 hours earlier.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Sudanese security forces have confiscated the entire edition of an independent newspaper in the capital Khartoum, its editor said yesterday, the latest sign of a media crackdown.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Miami police arrested Outkast rapper and “Hey Ya” singer Big Boi yesterday for possessing ecstasy and other drugs that the performer’s lawyer later characterized as “contraband.”
PARIS/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Global leaders yesterday arranged a round of emergency calls to discuss the twin debt crises in Europe and the United States that are causing turmoil in financial markets.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – A top official at Brazil’s agriculture ministry tendered his resignation yesterday following corruption allegations, the latest blow to President Dilma Rousseff’s seven-month old government.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said yesterday his military had defeated Islamist rebels battling to overthrow his Western-backed government after the al Shabaab group began withdrawing fighters from the capital Mogadishu.
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh will leave hospital soon, a government source said yesterday, as clashes between his loyalists and opponents flared in the capital he left when protests against his rule turned into open warfare.
KABUL (Reuters) – A NATO helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 31 US soldiers and seven Afghans, the Afghan president said yesterday, the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in 10 years of war.
(Reuters) – Former Beatle Paul McCartney said on Thursday that he appears to be a victim of the newspaper phone hacking scandal in Britain and will be talking to police when he finishes a U.S.
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