HONOLULU (Reuters) – President Hu Jintao sought to soothe the nerves of foreign businesses over market conditions in China yesterday and vowed to boost his country’s global role amid growing uncertainty and trade protectionism.
ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned yesterday, ending one of the most scandal-plagued eras in recent Italian history amid the jeers of thousands of protesters gathered in central Rome to celebrate his departure.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – A massive explosion at a military arms depot near the Iranian capital Tehran yesterday killed 17 Revolutionary Guards and wounded 15, a spokesman for the elite fighting force told the semi-official Fars news agency.
ATHENS, (Reuters) – Technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos took office on Friday to save Greece from bankruptcy, heading a coalition cabinet filled with many of the same politicians who led the nation into crisis and pushed the euro zone to the brink of collapse.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Cuba is seeking a credit of $200 million from Brazil to import agricultural machinery and technology in hopes of increasing food output and reducing its reliance on imports, a Brazilian official said yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Almost two weeks after the bankruptcy of commodities firm MF Global, customers at rival firms are all asking the same question: How safe is my money?
ROME – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to resign on Saturday, making way for an emergency government and ending one of the most scandal-plagued eras in Italy’s post-war history.
BELFAST, (Reuters) – Ireland’s former richest man, Sean Quinn, was declared bankrupt yesterday after having bet the family fortune on the shares of Ireland’s most notoriously profligate bank just before it collapsed.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash yesterday, a blow to the government as it fights powerful drug cartels.
ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greece named banker Lucas Papademos as head of a new crisis government on Thursday, ending the country’s chaotic search for a leader to save it from default, bankruptcy and expulsion from the euro zone.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Reducing salt in the diets of the general population may not have an overall positive health impact, according to a review of more than 160 scientific studies published yesterday.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, (Reuters) – A storm forecast to be one of the worst on record in Alaska lashed the state’s western coastline yesterday, tearing roofs off buildings and pushing water and debris into communities, authorities said.
(Reuters) – A deal on forming a Greek national unity government collapsed as the country headed towards an economic abyss and revived early today the chances of former European Central Bank vice president Lucas Papademos heading the coalition.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s security forces are committing widespread human rights violations such as torture and forced disappearances in their battle against drug cartels, a report by Human Rights Watch said yesterday.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japanese police have launched an investigation into the financial scandal engulfing Olympus Corp, a newspaper said yesterday, as a major investor joined increasing calls for a wholesale clean-out of the board.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A vaccine or new drugs against malaria could be developed, British scientists said, after they made a critical discovery about the way the most deadly species of malaria parasite invades human red blood cells.
ROME, (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said yesterday he would resign after suffering a humiliating setback in parliament that showed a party revolt had stripped him of a majority.