WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A spree of bad news — market gyrations, fears of a double-dip recession, stubborn unemployment and fallout from a debt deal — has shaken confidence in US President Barack Obama’s leadership and could cloud his chances for winning re-election.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron, under attack over his leadership during the rioting and looting that swept English cities this week, has enlisted U.S.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – A cholera epidemic is spreading in famine-hit Somalia, with alarming numbers of cases among people driven to the capital Mogadishu by a lack of food and water, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
AJDABIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Rebels on the eastern front of Libya’s civil war lost 11 men in the past 24 hours fighting to capture the strategic oil terminal and refinery at Brega on the Mediterranean coast, hospital sources said.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Mortgage and investment schemes targeting troubled U.S. homeowners jumped in 2010 and may increase further if the economy does not improve, the FBI said yesterday.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syrian forces shot dead at least 20 protesters yesterday, activists said, as tens of thousands demanded the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, chanting “we will kneel only to God”.
OSLO, (Reuters) – Norway appointed a nine-person commission yesterday to investigate the attacks that killed 77 people last month, including the police response that has been criticised as slow.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – James Tabuteau has been living in a ramshackle tent camp in Haiti’s capital since last year’s catastrophic earthquake wrecked his home, struggling to find enough unskilled temporary work to feed his young family.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron risks his government’s austerity drive, particularly its plans to cut police funding, becoming the focus of Britons’ fears about the future after the worst looting and rioting in decades hit English cities.
AMMAN/HAMA, Syria – Syrian forces killed at least 19 people in raids near the Lebanon border and in the country’s Sunni tribal heartland, activists said, pursuing a military campaign to crush street protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
LONDON, (Reuters) – With social media brutally accelerating the news cycle and allowing rumours from riots to bank failures to spread at lightning speed, politicians, businesses and governments must adapt fast.
NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – A high degree of pain does not make it any more likely that someone coming into the emergency room with chest pains is having a heart attack, according to a study.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry, a staunch conservative with a Washington outsider’s resume, will seek the 2012 Republican nomination for U.S.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters Life!) – An Indian film over caste discrimination against “untouchables” has been mired in controversy with protests from caste groups forcing the producers to cut parts of the film, highlighting deep-seated social tensions in the rising economic power.
RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters Life!) – Since director James Cameron’s “Avatar” raked in $2.8 billion at global box offices, Hollywood has flooded theaters with wave after wave of 3D movies, but some industry watchers wonder if theatergoers are now drowning in it.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Aid officials warned yesterday that the famine in the Horn of Africa would escalate significantly if October rains fail to materialize, and cautioned U.S.
WASHINGTON/KABUL, (Reuters) – NATO-led forces killed the Taliban militants responsible for shooting down a U.S.
KABUL, (Reuters) – Late last Friday night, special forces troops from the NATO-led coalition launched an operation to capture a Taliban leader in an inaccessible valley southwest of Kabul.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A British businessman accused of arranging for his wife to be murdered while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town can be extradited to face trial in South Africa, a court ruled yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron will face pressure today to soften his austerity plans, toughen up policing and do more to help inner-city communities after days of riots and looting laid bare deep social tensions in a depressed economy.
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