AMSTERDAM — Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Friday it is trying to stop oil leaking from a flow line at one of its drilling platforms in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. Spokesman David Williams confirmed the leak was ongoing late Friday, but would not provide details beyond a company statement. Shell said [...]
As stock and bond markets across the world tumbled on fears about Italy and Spain, it emerged that police acting on orders from prosecutors had raided the Milan offices of rating agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s as part of continuing investigations into their role in the recent financial turmoil. Italian shares plunged on Thursday, [...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Boxing champ Muhammad Ali is asking Iran to release two American hikers held since 2009 on spy charges. Ali, arguably the most prominent U.S. Muslim, on Wednesday released to The Associated Press a letter he wrote to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in February. The letter asks Khameini to release Josh Fattal [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama hailed Saturday the bravery of 31 US special forces troops who were killed when a helicopter went down in Afghanistan during an anti-Taliban operation. “My thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the Americans who were lost … in Afghanistan. Their deaths are a reminder [...]
Singapore police are continuing to investigate the death of a three-year-old British girl after a fall from a high-rise luxury apartment. As the BBC is reporting, the girl — whose identity has not been released — was pronounced dead at the scene by ambulance staff at the Fraser Residence Orchard on Monday. The girl’s parents, who are [...]
OSLO, Norway — A polar bear attacked a group of British students camping on a remote Arctic glacier as part of a high-end adventure holiday, killing a 17-year-old boy and injuring four other young people Friday before a trip member fatally shot the bear. Two were hospitalized with severe injuries, according to the British Schools [...]
BERLIN — A 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian charged with the fatal shooting of two U.S. airmen outside Frankfurt airport will go on trial at the end of this month, a German court said Friday. Arid Uka’s trial will open Aug. 31, the Frankfurt state court said, adding that it has ordered the suspect to remain in [...]
BEIRUT — Syria’s government proclaimed Friday that it was succeeding in crushing the uprising in the city of Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, showing TV images of burned buildings and rubble-strewn streets. Under a suffocating siege, residents of the city warned that medical supplies were running out and food rotting after six days without [...]
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni government forces clashed on Friday with supporters of the powerful Hashed tribal grouping led by Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar that is demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh leave office. The two sides exchanged fierce gunfire in a northern district of the country’s capital Sanaa, eye witnesses told Reuters. There were no immediate reports [...]
BEIJING — China is ordering a sweeping security clampdown in the western region of Xinjiang following recent deadly attacks blamed on Muslim ethnic Uighur militants, with Beijing vowing “no mercy” toward anyone pursuing violence or separatism. Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu has ordered officials to mobilize all available resources and manpower to create a “high-pressure [...]
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