ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani politicians should stop squabbling over the fate of President Pervez Musharraf and focus on pressing problems of rising Islamist militancy, soaring prices and energy shortages, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday rejected talks on a unity government, saying President Robert Mugabe must first stop violence and accept him as the rightful election winner.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In impoverished Haiti, the government and aid groups hand out lunches at schools in slums. In Brazil, mothers who regularly take their children to medical check-ups qualify for small cash payments.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian construction worker rampaged in a bulldozer along one of west Jerusalem’s busiest streets on Wednesday, killing three Israelis as he crushed cars and overturned a bus before being shot dead.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq is expecting visits soon from Jordan’s King Abdullah and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, easing its regional diplomatic isolation, the foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - U.S. allies in NATO must provide better equipment and drop many restrictions on how their forces are used to help defeat Afghanistan’s resilient Taliban insurgency, the alliance’s supreme commander said on Wednesday.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, three Americans and 11 other hostages were rescued from leftist guerrillas by Colombian troops on Wednesday after years in captivity, the government said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge will decide whether Osama bin Laden’s former driver, held at the Guantanamo Bay prison, can stop his military tribunal from going forward, the U.S. District Court in Washington said on Wednesday.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba on Wednesday accused U.S. diplomats of escalating anti-government activities in recent weeks and said its ideological foe, the United States, will be held responsible for whatever happens if the actions continue.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iranian leader said on Wednesday he detected a better mood in talks over his country’s nuclear program as the top U.S. military officer called for more dialogue to avoid a confrontation with Tehran.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Jerome Kerviel, the trader accused of causing record losses at French bank Societe Generale , has found a new job, French magazine Le Point reported on its website on Thursday.
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PARIS (Reuters) - An official from a German market watchdog has said French bank Societe Generale “could not possibly have been unaware” of rogue deals carried out by junior trader Jerome Kerviel, a French newspaper said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Jerome Kerviel, the Frenchman blamed by his company for the world’s biggest rogue trading scandal, left jail on Tuesday after winning a legal battle against detention.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia said on Wednesday it would shun any offer of membership of the European Union or NATO if they recognized the breakaway province of Kosovo as an independent state.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Shotgun in hand, rising Republican candidate Mike Huckabee bagged a pheasant on Wednesday as U.S. presidential hopefuls hunted for votes just eight days before the first contest in a wide-open nomination race.
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N’DJAMENA (Reuters) - Six French aid workers were sentenced to eight years of hard labor each after a court in Chad found them guilty on Wednesday of trying to kidnap 103 children from the African country.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan vowed on Wednesday to boost intelligence cooperation to meet the menace of terrorism that was destroying both countries, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf said.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Russia has agreed to sell an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Iran’s defense minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday, a report likely to irritate the United States.
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ANKARA/SULAIMANIYA (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday, Turkey’s general staff said, in the fourth such cross-border raid in five days.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco police combed the city’s zoo on Wednesday for clues as to how a tiger escaped from its enclosure on Christmas and killed one man and wounded two others.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt rejected Israeli complaints about weapons smuggling into Gaza on Wednesday, after talks between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Rescue crews in Panama found an American girl on Tuesday who survived a plane crash that killed the other three people on board, including a wealthy California investor, authorities said.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia agreed on Wednesday to allow Venezuelan planes and helicopters to land in the country and pick up three hostages held for years by Marxist guerrillas, including a child born in captivity.
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(Inc.com) - House Democrats on Wednesday were unable to override President Bush’s veto of the Iraq war spending bill, which also contained an increase in the federal minimum wage and $4.8 billion in tax cuts for small businesses.
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(Inc.com) - President Bush’s expected veto of the Iraq funding bill this week will also halt small-business tax breaks aimed at offsetting an increase in the federal minimum wage.
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(Inc.com) - Anticipating record-high sales for Mother’s Day, a growing number of small businesses are shifting their marketing efforts online this year.
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(Inc.com) - Six years ago, Merrell Warshaw opened a bridal gown shop on top of a small hill in the village of Mamaroneck, N.Y., right across from the local fire department. That location saved his business this week.
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(Inc.com) - Does choosing the right communications system for your small business leave you feeling overwhelmed? A new service launched Wednesday on VendorGuru.com allows users to research an array of telephony vendors and systems in order to determine which system is right for their businesses.
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(Inc.com) - A combination of stress, long hours, and an inflexible schedule is the main driver of bad behavior in the workplace, according to a new survey.
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(Inc.com) - It may seem like everyone you work with spends time standing around the water cooler, talking about the latest contestant to get kicked off “American Idol.” And now there’s evidence to prove it.
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(Inc.com) - Ever wonder how much the office printer is costing your bottom line? Ricoh Americas, a West Caldwell, N.J.-based office-automation firm, has launched a low-cost application that tracks document output from copiers, printers, fax machines, and scanners, the company announced Tuesday.
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(Inc.com) - A year after rallying for immigration reform, hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers and their supporters were back on the streets Tuesday protesting a steady rise in workplace raids and deportations.
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(Inc.com) - Two American Indian sisters who launched a homegrown health-care business in Lumberton, N.C., were named national Small Business Persons of the Year at a gala awards ceremony on Tuesday in Washington.
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