WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives approved bailout
legislation on Wednesday that would force U.S. automakers to
restructure or fail, sending the measure to the Senate where
prospects for passage are uncertain.
- - - -
CHICAGO - President-elect Barack Obama called on the
governor of Illinois to resign on Wednesday after he was charged
with trying to sell Obama's U.S. Senate seat and swap favors for
money.
- - - -
WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will nominate
Steven Chu, a Nobel physics laureate and advocate of alternative
energy research, as his energy secretary, a Democratic aide said
on Wednesday.
- - - -
ATHENS - Riots erupted for a fifth day and strikes paralysed
Greece on Wednesday, as unrest ignited by the police shooting of
a teenager was fuelled further by resentment of economic
hardship and government scandals.
- - - -
ABUJA - Nigeria's Supreme Court will on Friday deliver a
final judgment on legal challenges to President Umaru Yar'Adua's
April 2007 election victory, opposition lawyers said on
Wednesday.
- - - -
MOGADISHU - Somalia's moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif
Ahmed returned to Mogadishu for the first time in two years on
Wednesday and a local rights group said fighting had killed
16,210 civilians since then.
- - - -
OSLO - Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari urged U.S.
President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to delve into solving
the Middle East conflict in his first year in office, calling it
a knot that could be untied.
- - - -
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan confirmed on Wednesday the arrest of
two men named by India as planners of the militant attack on
Mumbai, but a senior Indian official described Pakistani actions
so far as "eyewash."
- - - -
BEIJING - Talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear
weapons ambitions failed to break an impasse over rules for
probing its atomic activities, negotiators said on Wednesday,
offering dim prospects of a breakthrough.
- - - -
HARARE - The death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak
soared to nearly 800 on Wednesday and a court ordered police to
find a missing rights activist, piling more pressure on
President Robert Mugabe's government.
- - - -
BUCHAREST - Liberal economist Theodor Stolojan won the
nomination to head Romania's probable centre-left coalition
government on Wednesday, raising hopes for political stability,
key to coping with global economic crisis.
- - - -
BRUSSELS - Differences narrowed in the European Union over
how to tackle the economic slowdown and global warming but a
final deal on both issues proved elusive before a summit
starting on Thursday.
Content Provided by
Reuters Reuters is the largest international news agency -- providing professionals around the world with stories that move the markets.
- 
- 
- 
Welcome,
Guest!
News
