U.S. stock market indexes declined in Thursday’s midday trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost four-tenths of a percent, the S&P 500 moved down three-tenths, while the NASDAQ slid one-tenth of a percent. European stock markets were lower at the close of trading. London’s Financial Times 100 index lost 1.4 percent to end at 5,848. […]
Clinton: Feds Probe Google Hacking Allegations
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 1:10 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says federal agents are investigating accusations from Internet giant Google that computer hackers in China broke into the e-mail accounts of hundreds of people, including senior U.S. officials, Chinese political activists and journalists. Clinton, speaking Thursday in Washington, called the allegations “very serious,” but offered no details of the […]
Greenpeace Activists Arrested on Greenland Oil Rig
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 1:00 pm (UTC-5)
The environmental group Greenpeace says two of its activists who had protested deepwater drilling in the Arctic have been arrested. Greenpeace said Thursday the two were arrested after they climbed an oil rig off the coast of Greenland to stop a Scottish company from drilling for oil. The activists scaled the 53,000-ton Leiv Eiriksson, which […]
Rights Group: Iraqi Authorities Unjustly Detaining Reformers
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 12:40 pm (UTC-5)
U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch says Iraq’s central government and northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish administration have been unjustly detaining protesters calling for reforms. In a report released Thursday, the group says authorities in Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan are keeping their citizens from demonstrating peacefully. It says Iraq needs to make sure that security forces […]
Nigerian Police Raid Clinic Accused of Selling Babies
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 11:40 am (UTC-5)
Nigerian police say they have taken 32 pregnant women from an illegal clinic accused of selling babies in southeastern Abia state. Authorities say they raided the Cross Foundation in Abia last weekend and arrested the facility’s director. Police commissioner Bala Hassan says the pregnant women were housed at the clinic until their babies were born. […]
HRW: 150 Gbagbo Supporters Killed in Ivory Coast
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 11:35 am (UTC-5)
An international rights group says forces loyal to Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara have killed nearly 150 people since mid-April, in attacks aimed at real or perceived supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo. Human Rights Watch says in a report released Thursday that the pro-Ouattara Republican Forces killed at least 95 unarmed people in Abidjan […]
Investigators Demand Information From Major US Bank
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 11:25 am (UTC-5)
Investigators are demanding information from one of the largest U.S. banks, seeking details on the firm’s activities leading into the financial crisis. New York prosecutors have sent a subpoena to Goldman Sachs, which says it will “fully cooperate” with officials. The subpoena is a formal legal demand for information, and not an accusation of wrongdoing. […]
NATO Says Forces Capture Bin Laden Associate in Afghanistan
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 11:10 am (UTC-5)
NATO says Afghan and coalition troops have captured an al-Qaida facilitator who was a former associate of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. In a statement Thursday, NATO said the man was captured in the Nahr-e Shahi area of northern Balkh province, but did not give his name. The coalition said the Pakistan-based man planned attacks […]
Ex-Israeli Spy Chief: Israel Not Planning Attack on Iran Soon
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 10:50 am (UTC-5)
Israel’s recently-retired spy chief says the Israeli government has no immediate plans to attack Iran’s nuclear program, which the United States and its allies suspect is aimed at producing weapons. In comments published Thursday in the Israeli media, Meir Dagan says he is “not familiar” with any government decision to strike Iranian nuclear facilities in […]
Luggage Maker Seeks to Raise $1.5 Billion from HK Share Sale
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 10:45 am (UTC-5)
Samsonite — the world’s largest luggage maker — says it plans to raise up to $1.5 billion from a share sale in Hong Kong, in a move that joins the company with other global retailers seeking to attract investor interest in China. The company said Thursday it will sell about 671 million shares — about […]
