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WARSAW, Poland — Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's last communist leader who became infamous for imposing a harsh military crackdown in 1981, says he is extremely ill and close to death. Yesterday at 13:47 | Associated Press |
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LONDON — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has elected a British civil servant as its new president. Yesterday at 21:00 | Associated Press |
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CARACAS - President Hugo Chavez's public assurances that he will beat cancer have failed to quell Venezuelans' frenetic speculation about whether the illness will ruin his chances of winning another six-year term in October. Yesterday at 17:33 | Reuters |
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ISTANBUL-Turkeysaid on Friday, May 18 that companies bidding to developCyprus' offshore gas fields would be shut out of Turkish energy projects, amid a spat between the rivals about who has rights to potentially vast reserves in theeast Mediterranean. Yesterday at 15:08 | Reuters |
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HANOI - A passenger bus plunged into a river in Vietnam's Central Highlands at night killing 34 people and injuring at least 25 others, state-run newspapers reported on Friday, May 18. Yesterday at 08:39 | Reuters |
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DUBLIN — A new opinion poll suggests half of Ireland's voters are ready to support the European Union fiscal treaty in a May 31 referendum, enough to ensure its ratification. Yesterday at 16:31 | Associated Press |
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BERLIN — Police in Germany have temporarily detained some 400 demonstrators during largely peaceful protests by Occupy activists. Yesterday at 14:53 | Associated Press |
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NASHVILLE, USA - Soft drink maker Pepsi said on May 17 that it was dropping sponsorship of a prestigious national horse show, one day after ABC News broadcast footage of a horse in training for a show being beaten by a trainer. Yesterday at 08:44 | Reuters |
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NEW YORK — Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of "likes" are worth on Wall Street, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the Nasdaq Stock Market opening bell Friday morning from company headquarters a continent away. Yesterday at 15:20 | Associated Press |
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Jews in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernigov took to the water last week, celebrating the springtime holiday known as Lag B’Omer by taking a cruise down the Desna River. Described by the cruise’s organizer, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, as “sailing against the tide,” the event offered 100 men, women and children a chance to celebrate Jewish pride and unity in a city whose Jewish community dates back to the 13th century but was practically wiped out during the Holocaust. Read more here. Yesterday at 09:02 |
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WASHINGTON — The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere. Yesterday at 07:30 | Associated Press |
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BELGRADE — Serbia, a landlocked nation of 7.1 million in southeastern Europe, is holding a presidential runoff vote on Sunday. The outcome holds the key to Serbia's bid to join the European Union as well as its relations with Kosovo, a former province whose declaration of independence Serbia has refused to accept. The nationalist opposition has accused pro-EU reformists of rigging the May 6 general vote, including the first-round presidential ballot, which has raised tensions ahead of the runoff on May 20. Yesterday at 14:30 | Associated Press |
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TOKYO - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 hit eastern Japan on May 18, shaking buildings in the capital Tokyo. Yesterday at 11:43 | Reuters |
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ROME — The head of a U.S.-owned marine salvage company chosen to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship from the waters off Tuscany is predicting the vessel will be ready for towing by early next year. Yesterday at 19:27 | Associated Press |
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BELGRADE — Belgrade's mayor says authorities in Serbia's capital are setting up temporary housing for gays and lesbians rejected by their families. Yesterday at 16:16 | Associated Press |