Today's Reuters News Headlines - Yahoo! News: - Obama leads Romney 49-42 percent in latest Reuters/Ipsos survey
- Netanyahu draws "red line" on Iran's nuclear program
- California man linked to anti-Islam film ordered held without bond
- Syria rebels say launch "decisive battle" in Aleppo
- Theater seeks dismissal of lawsuits in Colorado mass shooting
- U.S. temporarily reduces staff in Libyan embassy
- Spain's crisis budget aims at spending cuts not tax rises
- Terrorists killed U.S. ambassador to Libya: Panetta
- Weak orders point to sharp slowdown in manufacturing
- Abbas says to seek upgrade of Palestinian U.N. status
- California man linked to anti-Islam film in custody for hearing
- Referees return to relief of fans, players and owners
- Netanyahu draws "red line" on Iran's nuclear program
- Britain's Hague meets Ecuador's top diplomat in U.S. on Assange
- U.S., Gulf countries agree to strengthen trade ties
- Spain's crisis budget aims at spending cuts not tax rises
- Euro zone economic outlook darkens with fall in confidence
- China official says spat with Japan derails free trade talks
- In Virginia, Romney blames Obama for potential defense cuts
- Protests threaten Georgian leader's grip on power
- NFL referees agree deal with league to end lockout
- Insight: As cotton surged, China trader amassed $510 million bet
- Assange mocks Obama via video at U.N. event
- New home sales dip, but prices scale five-year high
- Anti-cuts protests erupt on streets of Athens and Madrid
- Losing ground in Ohio, Romney says his "heart aches" for jobless
- Freddie Mac wins dismissal of shareholder lawsuit
- Ahmadinejad denounces "uncivilized Zionists," urges new order
- Noda vows no compromise as Japan, China dig in on islands row
- U.S.-led "war on drugs" questioned at U.N.
- Court to hear appeal over federal gay marriage law
- Islamist wins delay in UK extradition to United States
- Ahmadinejad denounces "uncivilized Zionists," urges new order
- Rajoy inches toward aid as protests seethe
- Exclusive: Vitol trades Iranian fuel oil, skirting sanctions
- In Ohio, Romney says his "heart aches" for jobless
- Insight: U.S. probe of HSBC tangled up in bureaucracy, infighting
- Death of rebel who caught Gaddafi stokes Libya tensions
- China, Japan stand their ground in islands row, but keep talking
- Syrian rebels bomb security building in Damascus
| | Obama leads Romney 49-42 percent in latest Reuters/Ipsos survey Thu,27 Sep 2012 12:02 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama maintains a lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney with 40 days left until the November 6 election, the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Thursday. The daily tracking poll said Obama had 49 percent support to 42 percent for Romney among likely voters. Ipsos interviewed 1,194 registered voters online for the survey. The result showed the race basically holding where it has been for days with Obama enjoying an advantage over the former Massachusetts governor. ...
Full Story | Top | Netanyahu draws "red line" on Iran's nuclear program Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:17 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew his "red line" for Iran's nuclear program on Thursday despite a U.S. refusal to set an ultimatum, saying Tehran will be on the brink of a nuclear weapon in less than a year. By citing a time frame in an address to the U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu - who has clashed with President Barack Obama over the urgency of military action against Iran - appeared to suggest no Israeli attack was imminent before the November 6 U.S. presidential election. ...
Full Story | Top | California man linked to anti-Islam film ordered held without bond Thu,27 Sep 2012 07:02 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California man linked to an anti-Islam film that has stoked violent protests across the Muslim world was ordered jailed without bond on Thursday by a federal judge over accusations that he violated terms of his probation on a bank fraud conviction. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, has been under investigation by probation officials looking into whether he violated the terms of his 2011 release from prison on a bank fraud conviction while making the film. ...
Full Story | Top | Syria rebels say launch "decisive battle" in Aleppo Thu,27 Sep 2012 01:30 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they had launched a major attack in Aleppo on Thursday at the start of a "decisive battle" to push President Bashar al-Assad's forces out of the country's biggest city. Heavy fighting was reported in around 14 districts by opposition activists and several rebel brigades, though the scale of the fighting could not be confirmed independently. A video posted on YouTube by rebels showed Abdulqadir al-Saleh, the head of the biggest rebel force in Aleppo, the Tawheed Brigade, carrying a walkie talkie and announcing the start of the assault. ...
Full Story | Top | Theater seeks dismissal of lawsuits in Colorado mass shooting Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:45 PM PDT Reuters - DENVER (Reuters) - A theater chain being sued by three Colorado moviegoers who were hurt when a gunman opened fire during a July screening of the "Dark Knight Rises" said on Thursday the lawsuits should be dismissed, court papers show. James Holmes, a 24-year-old former neuroscience graduate student at the University of Colorado, has been charged with murder and attempted murder for the rampage that killed 12 people and wounded 58 others. Lawyers for Cinemark USA are seeking dismissal of the lawsuits filed last week in Denver federal court by the victims, who said the theater had lax security. ...
Full Story | Top | U.S. temporarily reduces staff in Libyan embassy Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:24 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States is temporarily withdrawing more staff from its embassy in Libya's capital for security reasons, but hopes to send them back early next week, the State Department said on Thursday. "This is a temporary further drawdown of staff for security reasons. We will review our posture again early next week with the goal of restoring staff as soon as conditions allow," a State Department official said in New York, where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is attending the U.N. General Assembly. U.S. ...
Full Story | Top | Spain's crisis budget aims at spending cuts not tax rises Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - Spain announced a crisis budget for 2013 based mostly on spending cuts on Thursday in what many see as an effort to pre-empt the likely conditions of an international bailout. Ministry budgets were slashed by 8.9 percent for next year and public sector wages frozen for a third year as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy battles to trim one of the euro zone's biggest deficits. "This is a crisis budget aimed at emerging from the crisis ... ...
Full Story | Top | Terrorists killed U.S. ambassador to Libya: Panetta Thu,27 Sep 2012 01:26 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Terrorists killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, but an ongoing investigation into the attack will have to determine which group was involved and whether it had links to al Qaeda, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday. The assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi September 11 that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens "was a terrorist attack," Panetta told a news conference at the Pentagon. "A group of terrorists obviously conducted that attack on the consulate and against our individuals. ...
Full Story | Top | Weak orders point to sharp slowdown in manufacturing Thu,27 Sep 2012 11:29 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods fell sharply in August, suggesting the main engine of the economic recovery was stalling even as a report showing a drop in new claims for jobless aid offered a hopeful sign on the labor market. While weak demand for aircraft and automobiles accounted for much of the drop in orders last month, the Commerce Department report on Thursday underscored the damage being inflicted by the uncertainty over U.S. fiscal policy, Europe's debt troubles and a slowdown in China. ...
Full Story | Top | Abbas says to seek upgrade of Palestinian U.N. status Thu,27 Sep 2012 03:43 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday he would seek to have the Palestinians' U.N. status upgraded to a sovereign country and cautioned that Israeli settlement expansion meant time was running out for a two-state solution. "Despite all the complexities of the prevailing reality and all the frustrations that abound, we say before the international community there is still a chance - maybe the last - to save the two-state solution and to salvage peace," Abbas told the U.N. General Assembly. ...
Full Story | Top | California man linked to anti-Islam film in custody for hearing Thu,27 Sep 2012 04:13 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California man linked to an anti-Islam film that has stoked violent protests across the Muslim world was in custody and appeared at a preliminary bail hearing in Los Angeles on Thursday linked to a bank fraud conviction, court officials said. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, has been under investigation by probation officials looking into whether he violated the terms of his 2011 release from prison on a bank fraud conviction while making the film. ...
Full Story | Top | Referees return to relief of fans, players and owners Thu,27 Sep 2012 12:02 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - To the relief of fans, players and owners, the National Football League's (NFL) regular referees will return to work on Thursday after a deal was struck to end a damaging months-long lockout of unionized game officials. The storm of criticism following a botched call that handed the Seattle Seahawks a victory at the expense of the Green Bay Packers on Monday added urgency to talks between the league and NFL Referees Association (NFLRA) and a new eight-year deal was reached just before midnight on Wednesday. ...
Full Story | Top | Netanyahu draws "red line" on Iran's nuclear program Thu,27 Sep 2012 04:39 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew his "red line" for Iran's nuclear program on Thursday despite a U.S. refusal to set an ultimatum, saying Tehran will be on the brink of a nuclear weapon in less than a year. By citing a time frame in an address to the U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu - who has clashed with President Barack Obama over the urgency of military action against Iran - appeared to suggest no Israeli attack was imminent before the November 6 U.S. presidential election. ...
Full Story | Top | Britain's Hague meets Ecuador's top diplomat in U.S. on Assange Thu,27 Sep 2012 09:32 AM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - British Foreign Minister William Hague sought on Thursday to allay his Ecuadorean counterpart's concerns about the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying Britain's extradition law has "extensive human rights safeguards." Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since June to avoid extradition to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations. His lawyers and Ecuador's government fear that could lead to extradition to the United States, where he could face charges stemming from WikiLeaks' publication of thousands of U.S. ...
Full Story | Top | U.S., Gulf countries agree to strengthen trade ties Thu,27 Sep 2012 08:52 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday said it has signed a framework agreement with Saudi Arabia and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council to explore ways to boost trade and investment with the oil-rich region. The GCC also includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Total two-way trade between the United States and the GCC totaled almost $100 billion last year, with the U.S. running about a $24 billion trade deficit. ... Full Story | Top | Spain's crisis budget aims at spending cuts not tax rises Thu,27 Sep 2012 01:49 PM PDT Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - Spain announced a crisis budget for 2013 based mostly on spending cuts on Thursday in what many see as an effort to pre-empt the likely conditions of an international bailout. Ministry budgets were slashed by 8.9 percent for next year and public sector wages frozen for a third year as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy battles to trim one of the euro zone's biggest deficits. "This is a crisis budget aimed at emerging from the crisis ... ... Full Story | Top | Euro zone economic outlook darkens with fall in confidence Thu,27 Sep 2012 04:22 AM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The outlook for Europe's economy darkened on Thursday with euro zone business confidence falling to a three-year low and a range of economic indicators across the continent pointing towards recession. Shrinking lending and rising unemployment in Germany, until now a mainstay for growth in the euro zone, added to the gloom, with economists saying there was now no hope of growth for the region in the third quarter of the year. "It is bad. ...
Full Story | Top | China official says spat with Japan derails free trade talks Thu,27 Sep 2012 09:17 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - A festering territorial dispute between China and Japan has derailed talks for a free trade zone involving the two countries and South Korea, an adviser to China's central bank said on Thursday. Sino-Japanese ties are at their lowest in decades amid a row over a series of islands in the East China Sea, waters believed to be rich in natural gas deposits, with neither side backing down on its claim of sovereignty. Violent protests broke out across China last week after the Japanese government bought two of the islands, known as the Diaoyu in Chinese and the Senkaku in Japan. ...
Full Story | Top | In Virginia, Romney blames Obama for potential defense cuts Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:29 PM PDT Reuters - SPRINGFIELD, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, lagging behind in polls, squared off against rival President Barack Obama on Thursday over potential defense cuts that could kick in early next year. Speaking in the suburbs of Washington which are home to thousands of defense jobs, Romney blamed Obama for the proposed $1.2 trillion that is set to be cut from Pentagon spending as part of a deal Obama made with Congress in the summer of 2011. ...
Full Story | Top | Protests threaten Georgian leader's grip on power Thu,27 Sep 2012 07:33 AM PDT Reuters - TBILISI (Reuters) - Nana Dumbadze was all set to vote for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's party in an election next week. That is, until she saw television footage of prisoners being raped. The 37-year-old teacher was so shocked that she has decided to switch allegiance from the leader of the Rose Revolution that swept out the ex-Soviet old guard in 2003 to an opposition bloc, Georgian Dream, led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. ...
Full Story | Top | NFL referees agree deal with league to end lockout Thu,27 Sep 2012 01:01 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - The National Football League (NFL) reached an agreement to end a labor dispute with its regular game officials on Wednesday, ending three weeks of questionable calls that had threatened the integrity of the sport. The eight-year deal with the NFL Referees Association (NFLRA) will allow locked-out officials to return to action for this week's games after replacements had struggled to act as cover for them in the early stages of the 2012 season. ...
Full Story | Top | Assange mocks Obama via video at U.N. event Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:24 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking via a choppy video feed from his virtual house arrest in London, lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for supporting freedom of speech in the Middle East while simultaneously "persecuting" his organization for leaking diplomatic cables. Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy since June to avoid extradition, made the comments at a packed event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. ...
Full Story | Top | New home sales dip, but prices scale five-year high Wed,26 Sep 2012 11:54 AM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New home sales held near two-year highs in August and prices vaulted to their highest level in more than five years, adding to signs of a broadening housing market recovery. The Commerce Department said on Wednesday sales slipped 0.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted 373,000-unit annual rate, but the decrease was from an upwardly revised 374,000-unit July pace that was the fastest since April 2010. From a year ago, sales were up 27.7 percent last month. At the same time, the median price of a new home increased a record 11. ...
Full Story | Top | Anti-cuts protests erupt on streets of Athens and Madrid Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:32 PM PDT Reuters - ATHENS/MADRID (Reuters) - Demonstrators have clashed with police on the streets of Athens and Madrid in an upsurge of popular anger at new austerity measures being imposed on two of the euro zone's most vulnerable economies. In some of the most violent confrontations on Wednesday, Greek police fired tear gas at hooded rioters hurling petrol bombs as thousands joined the country's biggest protest in more than a year. ...
Full Story | Top | Losing ground in Ohio, Romney says his "heart aches" for jobless Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:59 PM PDT Reuters - BEDFORD HEIGHTS/BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (Reuters) - The race for president focused squarely on the battle for working-class votes on Wednesday, as Republican Mitt Romney scrambled to make up ground on Democratic President Barack Obama in the crucial battleground state of Ohio. On a day when the rivals held dueling events across the state, Romney mixed empathy for the unemployed - at one point, he said his "heart aches" for the jobless - with attacks on Obama's trade policy toward China. Foreign trade is a sensitive subject in a state where thousands of manufacturing jobs have gone overseas. ...
Full Story | Top | Freddie Mac wins dismissal of shareholder lawsuit Wed,26 Sep 2012 06:08 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - A federal judge has again dismissed a lawsuit accusing Freddie Mac of misleading shareholders by understating its subprime mortgage exposure and overstating its capital strength ahead of the 2008 financial crisis. U.S. District Judge John Keenan in Manhattan said the allegations made in an amended lawsuit failed to show that Freddie Mac officials, including former Chief Executive Richard Syron, intended to mislead shareholders, or withheld significant information from them. ...
Full Story | Top | Ahmadinejad denounces "uncivilized Zionists," urges new order Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:25 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Wednesday his country was under constant threat of military action from "uncivilized Zionists" and called for a new world order not dominated by Western powers in the service of "the devil." In his eighth and likely final address to the U.N. General Assembly's annual gathering of world leaders, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad painted a gloomy picture of a world driven by greed rather than morality. ...
Full Story | Top | Noda vows no compromise as Japan, China dig in on islands row Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:24 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK/BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan will not compromise on the islands at the heart of a dispute with China as Tokyo already has sovereignty over them, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Wednesday after China's foreign minister angrily declared the islets were "sacred territory." "As for the Senkakus, they are an inherent part of our territory in light of history and also under international law," Noda said of the rocky islets China claims as the Diaoyu Islands in a bitter spat between Asia's two biggest economies. "There are no territorial issues as such. ...
Full Story | Top | U.S.-led "war on drugs" questioned at U.N. Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:02 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala all called for a vigorous global debate of anti-narcotics laws at the United Nations on Wednesday, raising new questions about the wisdom of the four-decade-old, U.S.-led "war on drugs." Although none of the leaders explicitly called for narcotics to be legalized, they suggested at the U.N. General Assembly that they would welcome wholesale changes to policies that have shown scant evidence of limiting drug flows while contributing to massive violence throughout Latin America. ...
Full Story | Top | Court to hear appeal over federal gay marriage law Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:46 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The next battle over a law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman will be waged in a federal appeals court in New York on Thursday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the case of Edith Windsor, an 83-year-old woman who says the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gay couples in violation of the U.S. Constitution. Windsor's lawsuit is one of numerous challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act winding their way through U.S. courts. ...
Full Story | Top | Islamist wins delay in UK extradition to United States Wed,26 Sep 2012 11:58 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has won a delay in his extradition from Britain to the United States, days after he lost an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. A statement from the judiciary said on Wednesday a judge had granted an injunction after Abu Hamza and one other suspect lodged fresh appeals. It said these would be heard in open court on Tuesday. The judge's ruling guarantees further attention to a case that has gripped the British media and even dragged in Queen Elizabeth. ...
Full Story | Top | Ahmadinejad denounces "uncivilized Zionists," urges new order Wed,26 Sep 2012 01:43 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Wednesday his country was under constant threat of military action from "uncivilized Zionists" and called for a new world order not dominated by Western powers in the service of "the devil." In his eighth address to the U.N. General Assembly's annual gathering of world leaders, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad painted a gloomy picture of a world driven by greed rather than moral values. ...
Full Story | Top | Rajoy inches toward aid as protests seethe Wed,26 Sep 2012 09:53 AM PDT Reuters - MADRID (Reuters) - Violent protests in Madrid and growing talk of secession in Catalonia are piling pressure on Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as he moves closer to asking Europe for rescue money. In public, Rajoy has been resisting calls from bankers at home and the leaders of France and Italy to move quickly to request assistance, but behind the scenes he is putting together the pieces to meet the stringent conditions for aid. ...
Full Story | Top | Exclusive: Vitol trades Iranian fuel oil, skirting sanctions Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:46 AM PDT Reuters - SINGAPORE/BEIJING, Sept 26 - Vitol, the world's largest oil trader, is buying and selling Iranian fuel oil, undermining Western efforts to choke the flow of petrodollars to Tehran and put pressure on Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. Vitol last month bought 2 million barrels of fuel oil, used for power generation, from Iran and offered it to Chinese traders, Reuters established in interviews with 10 oil trading, industry and shipping sources in Southeast Asia, China and the Middle East. ...
Full Story | Top | In Ohio, Romney says his "heart aches" for jobless Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:53 PM PDT Reuters - WESTERVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney expressed empathy for unemployed Americans on Wednesday in what appeared to be an effort to repair the damage from comments he made in a leaked videotape that has sent his poll numbers on a downward slide. "I've been across the country. My heart aches for the people I've seen," Romney told an enthusiastic crowd in Westerville on the second day of a bus tour across a state considered a must-win for him in the November 6 election. ...
Full Story | Top | Insight: U.S. probe of HSBC tangled up in bureaucracy, infighting Wed,26 Sep 2012 06:42 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - In the second half of 2010, a senior federal prosecutor in West Virginia drafted an impassioned plea to his bosses in Washington to end infighting as multiple government agencies pursued a high-stakes investigation of HSBC Holdings Plc. William Ihlenfeld II had been fighting a losing battle against fellow prosecutors in Washington and Brooklyn, who were jointly conducting a parallel probe into the British bank's controls over illicit transactions. Ihlenfeld, the U.S. ...
Full Story | Top | Death of rebel who caught Gaddafi stokes Libya tensions Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:48 AM PDT Reuters - MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - One of the Libyan rebels who helped capture Muammar Gaddafi in a drain pipe was buried early on Wednesday after his relatives said he had been shot and tortured in a rival town. The death of Omran Shaban on Monday again highlighted the struggle of Libya's new leaders to rein in armed groups and could further stoke tensions between the towns of Misrata and Bani Walid, which backed opposing sides in the 2011 conflict. Shaban shot to fame when he was seen in pictures grabbing Gaddafi on October 20. before the former Libyan leader was killed in his home town of Sirte. ...
Full Story | Top | China, Japan stand their ground in islands row, but keep talking Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:19 AM PDT Reuters - BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - China claimed islands at the core of a row with Japan as its "sacred territory" in talks between the two countries' foreign ministers, Chinese state media said on Wednesday, as neither side showed any sign of backing down in a long-festering feud. Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba urged China to exercise restraint over the dispute during what he called a tense hour-long meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. ...
Full Story | Top | Syrian rebels bomb security building in Damascus Wed,26 Sep 2012 01:02 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian insurgents detonated bombs at a building occupied by pro-government militias in Damascus on Tuesday and France called for U.N. protection of rebel-held areas to help end Syria's bloodshed and rights abuses. Activists say that more than 27,000 people have been killed in the 18-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad but jostling for regional advantage by world powers has thwarted effective U.N. Security Council action to defuse the conflict. ...
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