U.S. stock market indexes made gains in Friday’s early trading. The Dow and the S&P 500 advanced six-tenths of a percent, while the NASDAQ rose half a percent. European stock prices rose in Friday’s afternoon trading. London’s Financial Times index rose one percent. The CAC-40 in Paris gained eight-tenths of a percent, and the DAX […]
Activists: Syrian Forces Kill At Least 15
Posted September 16th, 2011 at 9:47 am (UTC-5)
Syrian security forces have shot and killed at least 15 people as they conducted raids and fired on protesters who flooded streets after Friday prayers. Syrian activists say most of the killings took place in the northwestern region of Jabal al-Zawiya, in the southern province of Deraa and the central province of Hama, where at […]
Libya’s Anti-Gadhafi Forces Storm Bani Walid, Sirte
Posted September 16th, 2011 at 9:30 am (UTC-5)
The forces of Libya’s interim government have stormed into the desert town of Bani Walid and are engaged in fierce fighting in Sirte, Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown. Friday’s battles marked an expansion of the interim government’s offensive against the few remaining pro-Gadhafi strongholds. Witnesses said NATO planes flew over Sirte as rapid gunfire and the explosion […]
Syrian Activists Form Opposition Council
Posted September 15th, 2011 at 10:40 pm (UTC-5)
Syrian opposition activists have announced the formation of a council to present a united front against President Bashar al-Assad as United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called for international action against Syria’s bloody crackdown. Marking six months since the Syrian uprising began, opposition members gathered in Istanbul Thursday said the council includes 140 members, half living […]
Denmark’s Leftist Oposition Wins Parliamentary Election
Posted September 15th, 2011 at 6:30 pm (UTC-5)
Denmark’s left-leaning opposition has won a narrow victory in parliamentary elections, after a decade of center-right rule. Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen conceded defeat late Thursday. He said there was no longer enough support for the government in Denmark’s 179-member parliament, and that he would hand in his resignation to the queen Friday morning. Social […]
Leading Central Banks to Provide Additional Dollar Loans to European Lenders
Posted September 15th, 2011 at 3:40 pm (UTC-5)
The world’s leading central banks have agreed to provide additional dollar loans to European commercial banks that have found it harder to borrow because of their exposure to indebted European governments. The European Central Bank said Thursday it will make three-month dollar loans to eurozone banks in coordination with the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank […]
President Obama Awards Medal of Honor
Posted September 15th, 2011 at 3:25 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has awarded the Medal of Honor to former Marine Corps Corporal Dakota Meyer for conspicuous gallantry and exhibiting fearlessness at the risk of his life while in combat. Mr. Obama said at the White House Thursday the ceremony paid tribute to a man who placed himself “in the thick of the […]
Palestinians Vow To Seek Full UN Membership
Posted September 15th, 2011 at 1:36 pm (UTC-5)
Palestinians vowed Thursday to seek full membership to the United Nations next week despite Israeli and U.S. objections, but left open the possibility of a resumption of Mideast peace talks. Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said President Mahmoud Abbas will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 23rd. He will then submit […]
2 Killed, 9 Hurt in Norway Cruise Ship Fire
Posted September 15th, 2011 at 1:30 pm (UTC-5)
Two people were killed and at least nine others were injured after a fire broke out in the engine room of the Norwegian fjord cruise ship MS Nordlys on Thursday. The ship was at sea near the port of Aalesund in western Norway when the fire started. Some of the more than 200 passengers aboard […]
Suicide Bomber Kills 25 at Pakistan Funeral
Posted September 15th, 2011 at 11:37 am (UTC-5)
A suicide bomber has attacked the funeral of an anti-Taliban tribal elder in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 25 people. Thursday’s blast took place in the Lower Dir tribal area, as more than 100 people gathered in an open field for funeral prayers. Police say the bomber targeted members of an anti-Taliban militia. More than […]
