NEW YORK (Reuters) – Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Doctors who tried to revive Michael Jackson at a Los Angles hospital testified yesterday that the singer’s personal physician never told them he gave him the anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel accepted yesterday a call by international mediators to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, who quickly reaffirmed their refusal to negotiate until settlement-building stops on land they seek for state.
MANCHESTER, N.H., (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said on Saturday he would get the U.S.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Syria’s main opposition groups joined together yesterday to call on the international community to take action to protect Syrian people facing a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – In his final regular appearance on the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” Andy Rooney expressed gratitude for a “lucky” life and thanked his fans, but not without adding a touch of the curmudgeonly grumbling that has become a signature element of his TV essays.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – A new plan to curb global warming risks becoming a battleground between rich and poor nations and could struggle to get off the ground as negotiators battle over the fate of the ailing Kyoto climate pact.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian troops regained control of the central town of Rastan, the official news agency said yesterday, after the most prolonged fighting between the army and insurgents in a six-month uprising.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader rejected the Palestinians’ UN statehood bid yesterday, saying any deal that accepted the existence of Israel would leave a “cancerous tumour” forever threatening the security of the Middle East.
KABUL (Reuters) – NATO-led forces said yesterday that they had captured the senior commander for the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, during an operation in eastern Paktia province earlier in the week.
LISBON (Reuters) – Tens of thousands marched in Lisbon and Porto yesterday to protest against austerity measures imposed under the terms of an EU/IMF bailout, the first major rallies since a centre-right government took power in Portugal in June.
Presidential candidate of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Brigadier (ret) David Granger has challenged Minister of Labour Manzoor Nadir’s claim that Guyana’s unemployment rate had fallen from 11.7 to 10.7 per cent.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday the Andean nation will not award oil exploration and production contracts off the San Andres archipelago, an important bio-diverse tourist destination.
LONDON (Reuters) – The Commonwealth must act decisively to uphold human rights among its 54 member nations or risk a slide into irrelevance, according to a report set to divide the group’s leaders at their summit this month.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) -The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen yesterday by a U.S.
(Gerard Wynn is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own.
BERLIN – Following a now-familiar script, Europe again averted disaster in its debt crisis when German lawmakers rallied behind Chancellor Angela Merkel to approve a stronger euro zone bailout fund yesterday. – – – – AMMAN – Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hurled rocks and tomatoes at U.S.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – A former bodyguard for Michael Jackson testified yesterday that the pop star’s doctor asked him to grab vials of medicine and an IV bag before an ambulance was called for Jackson the day he died.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin has risked harming Russia’s economy by firing his finance minister, a prominent economist and business leader said yesterday, adding to scattered warnings of crisis since Putin confirmed he would reclaim the presidency.
SIRTE (Reuters) – Libya’s new rulers have said they believe fugitive former leader Muammar Gaddafi is being shielded by nomadic tribesmen in the desert near the Algerian border, while his followers fend off assaults on his hometown.
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