WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, Britain and Canada yesterday announced new sanctions on Iran’s energy and financial sectors, steps analysts said may raise pressure on Tehran but were unlikely to halt its nuclear programme.
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia, the world’s No 3 cocaine producer, said yesterday it would not let US anti-drug agents return even as government officials work with Washington on a plan to fight the narcotics trade.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US lawmakers abandoned their high-profile effort to rein in the country’s ballooning debt yesterday in a sign that Washington likely will not be able to resolve a dispute over taxes and spending until 2013.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s centre-right opposition stormed to a crushing election victory yesterday as voters punished the outgoing Socialist government for the worst economic crisis in generations.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – U.S. oil company Chevron promised to fully clean-up a spill off Brazil’s coast, the CEO of the local subsidiary, George Buck, said on Sunday, taking responsibility for an accident that has become a major test for one of the world’s fastest-growing oil frontiers.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York police arrested a follower of late Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki on suspicion of building a pipe bomb he planned to use against U.S.
YANGON, (Reuters) – Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will run in an upcoming by-election, a senior official in her party said yesterday, three days after her National League for Democracy ended its boycott of the country’s political system.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – At least 10 people died as police backed by the army used batons and teargas yesterday to charge protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding Egypt’s ruling generals hand over power, in some of the worst violence since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – An international team of scientists in Italy studying the same neutrino particles colleagues say appear to have travelled faster than light rejected the startling finding this weekend, saying their tests had shown it must be wrong.
ZINTAN, Libya (Reuters) – Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has been captured in Libya’s southern desert, scared and with only a handful of supporters, by fighters who vow to hold him in the mountain town of Zintan until there is a government to hand him over to.
CAIRO (Reuters) – At least one person was killed and more than 650 wounded in clashes between riot police and protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir square yesterday, officials said, after a protest demanding the ruling military transfer power swiftly to a civilian government.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) – Israel sees cracks in Syrian power structures amid increasingly violent unrest, and there are signs President Bashar al-Assad may not be in power for long, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said yesterday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Both sides of the US Congress’ deadlocked “super committee” held separate talks yesterday, but formal negotiations remained stalled, reaffirming gloomy predictions that the deficit-fighting panel may fail.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Scores of Ethiopian military vehicles pushed at least 80 km (50 miles) into neighbouring Somalia on Saturday, residents said, five weeks after Kenya entered Somalia to fight Islamist militants it blames for a wave of kidnappings on its soil.
LONDON (Reuters) – Growing Syrian army defections do not yet pose a mortal threat to President Bashar al-Assad, but outside support could turn the dissidents into a national insurgency able to harass and exhaust his military.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog board censured Iran yesterday over mounting suspicions it is trying to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran said the move would only strengthen its determination to press on with sensitive work.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaska gave a helping hand to fellow Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich yesterday in a London court battle involving three of Russia’s best-known businessmen.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Norway’s Statoil has agreed to buy a stake in an exploration block offshore Suriname from Tullow Oil, adding to the list of international oil companies entering what industry sources say could be a major new production province in South America.
MANILA, (Reuters) – Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was arrested yesterday for electoral fraud, which carries a life sentence, at a Manila hospital, preventing her departure from the country to seek medical treatment.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Homicide detectives who have reopened an inquiry into the death of Natalie Wood said yesterday the film star’s husband, actor Robert Wagner, was not considered a suspect in the case.
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