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.
NEAR BANI WALID, Libya – Libya’s new authorities launched a military assault on one of the last remaining bastions of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, and the provisional government’s head arrived for the first time in the capital to take charge.
STONE TOWN, Zanzibar (Reuters) – Survivors of a ferry that capsized off Zanzibar overnight killing at least 192 passengers said the vessel was overcrowded and appeared to be in trouble even before it started its ill-fated voyage.
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s army rulers vowed yesterday to try those behind the violence that pushed Israel to evacuate its ambassador from Cairo, as they struggled to contain public fury against the Jewish state while fending off US criticism.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama said yesterday the United States was stronger 10 years after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks and Americans would “carry on” despite continued threats against their safety.
THESSALONIKI, Greece (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday he would do whatever it takes to rescue his country from bankruptcy and stay in the euro zone, as doubts in Europe grew over its membership in the bloc.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Hundreds of Egyptians stormed the building housing Israel’s mission in Cairo and threw embassy documents and its national flag from windows, while state television said today that Israel’s envoy, his family and staff had been flown home.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s core leadership is badly wounded and almost certainly incapable of mounting another attack like the one on Sept.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian forces shot dead six pro-democracy protesters yesterday, activists said, after demonstrations called for foreign help and Turkey indicated that its patience was running thin with the bloody crackdown.
NORTH OF BANI WALID/EAST OF SIRTE, Libya, (Reuters) – Libyan fighters launched assaults on the final bastions of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists yesterday, with battles reported inside the holdout town of Bani Walid and near the ousted ruler’s home town of Sirte.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., (Reuters) – The Susquehanna River, swollen by rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, reached record levels in Pennsylvania yesterday and submerged some towns amid worry that flood waters had been turned toxic by swamped sewage processing plants.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama challenged Congress yesterday to enact a $447 billion package of tax cuts and new spending to revive a stalled job market but he faces an uphill fight with Republicans.
MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – The head of the United Nations mission in Haiti said yesterday he will ask the U.N.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Security has been heightened in New York City because of a credible but uncorroborated threat, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday, but said city residents should go about their business as usual.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday accused four Venezuelan officials of helping to provide arms to drug-running Colombian guerrillas, a charge that Venezuela’s left-wing government dismissed as “abusive.”
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – A well-preserved set of 2-million-year-old fossils shows a part-human, part-ape species had hands similar to man, sophisticated ankles that helped in movement and a surprisingly tiny but advanced brain, a report released yesterday said.
WISHTATA, Libya, (Reuters) – – Libya’s new rulers sent a column of extra fighters towards the tribal bastion of Bani Walid overnight, preparing a showdown with supporters of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi, possibly including his sons or even Gaddafi himself.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s government edged closer to replacing a century-old land acquisition law yesterday, introducing a bill in parliament that seeks to placate a rural voter base worried it is being short-changed in the country’s rush into modernisation.
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