Saturday, 19 January 2008 @ 00:08
Bush unveils plan for stimulating economy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush called on Congress on Friday to give the U.S. economy a "shot in the arm" with an election-year package of temporary tax cuts and other measures worth up to $150 billion (77 billion pounds).
Friday, 18 January 2008 @ 17:01
Israel flattens Hamas ministry in Gaza Strip
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel bombed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza and closed border crossings with the strip on Friday, sharply escalating what it called a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
Friday, 18 January 2008 @ 17:00
At least 10 killed in day of Kenya protests
NAIROBI (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed in Kenya on Friday when police opened fire on protesters and rival ethnic groups clashed in violence caused by a disputed election.
Friday, 18 January 2008 @ 16:16
Chess genius Bobby Fischer dies in Iceland
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
Friday, 18 January 2008 @ 15:39
Pakistani forces say kill up to 90 militants
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani forces killed up to 90 militants in two battles on Friday in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, the military said.
Thursday, 17 January 2008 @ 22:57
Seven Palestinians die in Gaza as Olmert vows "war"
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes killed at least seven Palestinians, including a mother and child, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to wage a "war" to stop rocket attacks on the Jewish state.
Thursday, 17 January 2008 @ 22:54
Iran defiant after Israeli missile test
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel tested a missile on Thursday, prompting Iran to vow retaliation if the Jewish state carried out recent veiled threats to launch strikes, possibly atomic, against Tehran's nuclear facilities.
Thursday, 17 January 2008 @ 21:00
Kenyan police accused of killing seven
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's opposition accused police of killing seven people on Thursday during a second day of clashes with demonstrators protesting against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
Thursday, 17 January 2008 @ 19:14
Teenage bomber kills 9 Pakistani Shi'ites
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A teenaged suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded Shi'ite Muslim prayer hall in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 25, a government official said.