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STOCKHOLM (AP) Sweden became the first home team to win the world hockey championships in 27 years, beating Switzerland 5-1 on Sunday.
Sunday, May 19, 2013 22:18 |
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By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - One protester died and several were injured when Tunisian Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed with police on Sunday. The 27-year-old man was killed in the violence in the capital Tunis which continued into the evening, the state news agency said. A Reuters witness saw several others injured at the protest in support of the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia group. ...
Sunday, May 19, 2013 19:30 |
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TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian man taking part in a pro-Islamist protest in Tunisia on Sunday died after clashing with police, the state news agency said. The agency identified the man as 27-year-old Moez Dahmani. A Reuters witness saw several people injured in scuffles with police at the protest in the Ettadamen district of the capital Tunis. (Reporting By Tarek Amara; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
Sunday, May 19, 2013 18:27 |
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union criticized Russia`s human rights record on Sunday, saying it was increasingly concerned at a wave of restrictive legislation and prosecutions against activists. The 27-nation bloc cited the cases of protesters arrested at a demonstration on the eve of President Vladimir Putin`s inauguration last year who are still awaiting trial, and a new law requiring charities with funding from abroad to register as `foreign agents`. ...
Sunday, May 19, 2013 14:23 |
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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co shares on Friday topped their 2010 initial public offering price, which will help the automaker`s largest shareholder, the U.S. Treasury, pare its losses. GM shares broke above $33.00, the price in the November 2010 IPO, rising as high as $33.21 in morning trading. It is the first time the stock has surpassed $33 since May 2011. So far this year GM`s stock is up 14.5 percent. The run-up in the stock price could help Treasury, which provided GM with a $49.5 billion bailout, trim losses that will likely still total billions of dollars. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 15:49 |
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Olli Rehn, the European Union`s top economist and a focus of anger across Europe against harsh belt-tightening policies, says he is not a doctrinaire adherent to austerity measures.
Saturday, May 18, 2013 03:20 |
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Japan`s economy has posted an unexpectedly robust growth rate, but economists said Europe, particularly Germany under Chancellor Angela Merkel, is not willing to learn from Tokyo.
Friday, May 17, 2013 01:49 |
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The workers were protesting the government`s use of an emergency law to battle trade unions that oppose austerity measures demanded by creditors.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 23:52 |
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Tax evasion lies at the very heart of the Greek financial collapse, yet efforts to collect billions of euros in taxes from deadbeats have yielded little additional tax revenue.
Sunday, May 12, 2013 23:23 |
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By Joe Bavier ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Authorities in Ivory Coast on Saturday arrested a militia leader accused of participating in one of the worst massacres committed during the West African nation`s post-election violence in 2011, a military official and witness said. Some 3,000 people were killed in the brief armed conflict that broke out after incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo refused to acknowledge defeat at the hands of his rival Alassane Ouattara in a run-off poll in late 2010. ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013 19:01 |
