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.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s yesterday in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world’s largest economy.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed out their worst week in more than two years yesterday in a volatile session that saw the major indexes whip back and forth before the S&P 500 ended down less than a point.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Carbon offsets neared all-time lows yesterday, confirming their status as the world’s worst performing commodity, as slumping demand meets rising supply of the U.N.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Emily killed four people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, authorities said yesterday, as remnants of the storm drifted over the Caribbean with a “high chance” of restrengthening into a tropical cyclone.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The illness of Sonia Gandhi, India’s most powerful political leader, may have set off a risky succession that could propel her inexperienced son Rahul to government just as the ruling Congress party battles corruption scandals and high inflation.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Investors around the world dumped stocks and commodities yesterday and rushed to the security of cash and government bonds, hammering equity indexes to their lowest levels of the year on fears of a spreading debt crisis and slowing growth.
SOCHI, Russia, (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made a new appeal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday to carry out reforms and reconcile with his opponents, saying he risked a “sad fate” if he failed to do so.
BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s son has made a bid to divide the fractious Libyan rebellion, telling a newspaper he was forging an alliance with Islamist rebels against their liberal allies.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Protesters clashed violently with police in Chile’s capital yesterday to decry President Sebastian Pinera’s policies, as a poll showed him the least popular leader in two decades since the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – Security experts have discovered an unprecedented series of cyber attacks on the networks of 72 organizations globally, including the United Nations, governments and corporations, over a five-year period.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, accused of corruption and involvement in killing protesters, went on trial yesterday, delighting those who overthrew him and ringing an alarm bell for other autocrats around the Arab world.
SYDNEY, Aug 4 (Reuters) – A young Australian woman was freed from a suspected bomb collared around her neck early on Thursday after 10 hours of drama that lasted past midnight and captivated the nation with police saying they were still investigating the incident.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters Life!) – Actor James Earl Jones will receive an honorary Oscar this year and Oprah Winfrey will be presented with a humanitarian award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States stepped back from the brink of default yesterday but congressional approval of a last-gasp deficit-cutting plan failed to dispel fears of a credit downgrade and future tax and spending feuds.