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.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – In its first substantive action on Syria’s five-month-old uprising, the U.N.
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.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Lawmakers rejected Haitian President Michel Martelly’s new choice for prime minister yesterday, blocking his efforts to install a government and move ahead with rebuilding a country shattered by last year’s earthquake.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian forces kept up attacks on Hama for a third day, residents said, while U.S.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala yesterday sentenced four soldiers to 6,060 years of prison each, in the first conviction for a massacre during the country’s brutal 36-year civil war.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Stuart Kuttner, who ran the News of the World’s finances for 22 years as managing editor, was arrested yesterday over a phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct tabloid which has rattled the British establishment, a source close to the case said.
PARIS, (Reuters) – A French magistrate has decided to decided to send giant oil company Total and its chief executive to trial on charges that the company engaged in corruption during the United Nations oil-for-food program in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a judicial source said yesterday.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian authorities have captured two leaders of a 20-ton-per-year cocaine operation that sent drug-laden submarines to the world’s top drug consumer, the United States, local police said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – State governments would have to identify persons forming corporations under legislation that was reintroduced yesterday in the U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The House of Representatives yesterday approved a last-gasp deal to raise the U.S.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian government forces pressed their assault on anti-government protestors in the city of Hama yesterday oblivious to a wave of condemnation from Western powers.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A technology firm has told British legislators it was aware of the deletion of hundreds of thousands of emails at the request of News Corp unit News International between April 2010 and last month, parliamentarian Keith Vaz said on Monday.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) The famine in the Horn of Africa is spreading and may soon engulf as many as six more regions of the lawless nation of Somalia, the U.N.
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