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Saturday, November 7, 2009

  • Darling urges divided G20 to reach climate finance deal 

    Reuters - 33 mins ago

    ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Chancellor Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work towards a $100 billion (60 billion pound) deal on tackling climate change as developing nations held firm they did not want to talk about it. More »

  • Iran says over 100 people detained at anti-U.S. rally 

    Reuters - 1 hour 37 mins ago

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police detained more than 100 people for "disturbing public order" during a rally this week to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. More »

  • A video grab from an undated footage from the Internet shows Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden making statements from an unknown location.

    Bin Laden videotape not new, monitoring site says 

    Reuters - 6 hours 36 mins ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A videotape of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released on Friday is the Pashto-language version of a tape released several months ago, said IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring firm. More »

  • Motive probed for U.S. Army shooting rampage 

    Reuters - 8 hours 6 mins ago

    KILLEEN, Texas (Reuters) - Investigators searched on Friday for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling U.S. Army base in Texas, in which an Army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people. More »

  • U.S. jobless highest in more than 26 years 

    Reuters - Yesterday, 09:47 pm

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to 10.2 percent last month, a 26-1/2-year high, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount. More »

  • Somali pirates threaten to kill Spanish hostages 

    Reuters - Yesterday, 09:32 pm

    MADRID (Reuters) - Somali pirates have threatened to kill three captive crew members from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, a senior officer aboard the vessel said on Friday. More »

  • One killed, 5 injured in Orlando shooting 

    Reuters - Yesterday, 09:30 pm

    ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - An ex-employee of an engineering consulting firm who was laid off in 2007 opened fire at his former workplace in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, killing one person and wounding five others, police said. More »

  • At least 25 hurt in U.S. troop search in Afghanistan 

    Reuters - Yesterday, 07:22 pm

    HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - More than 25 NATO and Afghan troops were wounded during a search Friday for two missing U.S. paratroopers in western Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said. More »

  • BA hints worst over for business travel 

    Reuters - Yesterday, 02:59 pm

    LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways signalled business is stabilising, eclipsing news of a worse than expected first half loss and a prediction that revenue would slump by 1 billion pounds this year. More »

  • Brown warns Karzai he could lose backing 

    Reuters - Yesterday, 01:17 pm

    LONDON (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai, winner of a fraud-tainted election, risks losing British and international support unless he acts decisively to fight corruption, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday. More »

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