(Reuters) – The US pursuit of offshore tax evaders is widening to include Israel, where US authorities are scrutinizing three of Israel’s largest banks over suspicions their Swiss outposts helped American clients evade taxes, people briefed on the matter said.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some 450,000 New Yorkers have quit smoking since 2002, reducing the smoking rate from 22 percent to a record low of 14 percent, city officials said yesterday.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) – The United States heaped the lion’s share of blame for the country’s biggest ever offshore oil spill on BP yesterday as the government issued its final assessment of last year’s Gulf disaster.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in Pennsylvania are mounting a bid to end the political battleground state’s winner-take-all system for electoral votes, which could hurt President Barack Obama’s re-election chances in 2012.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo pleaded with a US judge yesterday to block his extradition to the United States on money-laundering charges, saying he was improperly arrested in the Central American nation.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told Arab states yesterday it was time to raise the Palestinian flag at the United Nations and accused Israel of obstructing peace in the Middle East.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Victims of sexual abuse by the clergy want the International Criminal Court to investigate Pope Benedict and three Vatican officials, accusing them of allowing the rape and abuse of children.
KABUL, (Reuters) – NATO attack helicopters circled over an unfinished building in the centre of Kabul last night in an operation to flush out Taliban fighters, more than 15 hours after the insurgents launched their biggest assault on the Afghan capital.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The number of Americans living below the poverty line rose to a record 46 million last year, the U.S.
DUBLIN, (Reuters) – One of the most prominent members of the Irish Catholic Church has called for an end to compulsory celibacy for priests, saying it is pushing new recruits away.
CONAKRY, (Reuters) – Guinea will launch a nationwide review of mining contracts to root out “unconscionable provisions” granted by previous rulers, and has toned down Chinese involvement in the resource sector, Mines Minister Mohamed Lamine Fofana told Reuters.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The NATO bombing campaign which fatally weakened Muammar Gaddafi’s rule had a secret asset: a 24-year-old Libyan woman who spent months spying on military facilities and passing on the details to the alliance.
PARIS (Reuters) – Former French president Jacques Chirac and his prime minister Dominique de Villepin have denied accusations by a one-time aide that they took millions of dollars in illicit cash handouts from African leaders.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sent his jobs bill to Congress yesterday and proposed paying for it by eliminating $467 billion in tax breaks for richer Americans and companies, meeting immediate resistance from Republicans.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s banks face some of the world’s toughest regulations under reforms outlined yesterday, which require them to insulate their retail lending activities and store up billions in extra capital at a cost of up to 7 billion pounds ($11 billion).
NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least 75 bodies have been recovered after petrol that had spilled into an open sewer caught fire and sent a wave of flame through a densely populated slum in the Kenyan capital, police said yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Children yearned for lost parents and grown men and women sobbed in raw grief on the hard stone bearing the names of nearly 3,000 dead as America commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Sept.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalans anxious for relief from out-of-control crime voted for a new president yesterday with the leading candidates promising to crack down on gangs and drug cartels terrorizing the country.
TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Defiant and angry, captured Libyan spy chief Bouzaid Dorda denied any wrongdoing when he was presented to Reuters reporters yesterday by the former insurgents who tracked him down in the capital Tripoli the previous day.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actor Cliff Robertson, who won an Oscar playing a mentally disabled janitor in “Charly” and worked in movies ranging from “PT 109” to “Spider-Man 3,” died in New York on Saturday, the day after his 88th birthday.
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