Major Asian markets opened lowered Monday, following elections in Greece and France that raised concerns about the future of austerity measures put into place to help rescue ailing eurozone economies. Japan’s Nikkei index and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng both dropped more than 2 percent in early trading. In France, voters elected as their new president […]
Asian Markets Fall After European Elections Raise Concerns
Posted May 6th, 2012 at 11:30 pm (UTC-5)
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Yemen Airstrike Kills Senior Al-Qaida Leader
Posted May 6th, 2012 at 10:15 pm (UTC-5)
A senior al-Qaida leader in the Gulf region, wanted for bombing the USS Cole warship in 2000, was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Yemen Sunday. Yemeni officials said Fahd al-Quso was hit by a missile in Rafth, in the country’s southern Shabwa province, along with another al-Qaida operative identified as Fahed al-Akdam. The Yemeni […]
Socialist Hollande Wins French Presidency
Posted May 6th, 2012 at 9:05 pm (UTC-5)
France will have a new leader after Socialist challenger Francois Hollande beat conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential election. With all but a handful of ballots counted in Sunday’s runoff, Mr. Hollande won 52 percent of the vote to Mr. Sarkozy’s 48 percent. Thousands of Hollande supporters met and cheered him outside Paris’ […]
Clinton in India for Wide-Ranging Talks
Posted May 6th, 2012 at 8:15 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in India for two days of talks ranging from Iran to oil imports to Wal-mart. Clinton arrived in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, Sunday after visits to neighboring Bangladesh and China. On Monday, she is scheduled to meet with the state’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee — […]
Syria Holds Parliamentary Elections as Violence Rages On
Posted May 6th, 2012 at 7:55 pm (UTC-5)
Also: audio of UN observer spokesman Neeraj Singh in APTN feed below VIDEO: AP and Reuters feeds attached below; shot lists in asset manager WEB: TYPE: OCN )) Syrian voters choose a new parliament Monday in the country’s first multi-party elections, as violence between government and opposition forces rages on across the country. Authorities are […]
Socialist Hollande Wins French Presidency
Posted May 6th, 2012 at 7:35 pm (UTC-5)
France will have a new leader, after Socialist challenger Francois Hollande beat conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential election Sunday. With nearly all ballots counted in the runoff election, official results give Mr. Hollande 52 percent of the vote to Mr. Sarkozy’s 48 percent. Mr. Sarkozy called his challenger to concede defeat shortly […]
Israeli PM Calls for Early Parliamentary Polls
Posted May 6th, 2012 at 6:25 pm (UTC-5)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the dissolution of his coalition government and early parliamentary elections in September, more than a year ahead of the next national vote scheduled for October 2013. Mr. Netanyahu told his Likud party members Sunday he did not want a year-and-a-half of instability that harms security, the economy […]
Serbian Presidential Election Heading for Runoff
Posted May 6th, 2012 at 6:10 pm (UTC-5)
First results in Serbia show the country’s presidential election going to a runoff. Projections late Sunday show the incumbent president, Boris Tadic of the Democratic Party, slightly ahead of his main challenger, Tomislav Nikolic of the nationalist Serbian Progressive Party. Neither contender has even 30 percent of the vote, and a majority is necessary to […]
9 Pakistani Troops Die in Ambush
Posted May 6th, 2012 at 4:50 pm (UTC-5)
Militants ambushed a Pakistani military convoy, sparking a firefight that killed nine troops Sunday in North Waziristan. Pakistani military officials say government forces killed a number of militants in the battle, although the exact number is unknown. There also are unconfirmed reports of civilian casualties in nearby Miranshah, the capital of semi-autonomous North Waziristan Authorities […]
Airstrike Kills Senior al-Qaida Leader in Yemen
Posted May 6th, 2012 at 4:40 pm (UTC-5)
Yemeni officials say a senior al-Qaida leader in the Arabian Peninsula, wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship in the Yemeni port city of Aden, was killed in an airstrike Sunday. The officials said Fahd al-Quso was hit by a missile in Rafth, in the southern Shabwa province, along with […]
