Reuters: Top News


DENVER (Reuters) - Barack Obama, poised to take a historic step as the Democratic presidential nominee, promised on Thursday to reverse the economic failures of the last eight years, end the war in Iraq and restore the U.S. reputation abroad.


read story at feeds.reuters.com 


KINGSTON (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Gustav hit Jamaica with near hurricane-force winds on Thursday after killing at least 59 people elsewhere in the Caribbean, and was on a path to reach New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico oil fields as potentially a powerful hurricane.


read story at feeds.reuters.com 


BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai rail workers began a partial strike on Thursday, joining a protest by thousands of people barricaded inside the prime minister's official compound whose leaders vowed to stay until his government fell.


read story at feeds.reuters.com 


THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is being asked for a second time on Friday to enter a plea at a U.N. tribunal for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.


read story at feeds.reuters.com 


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs in its latest round of cost cutting, a person familiar with the matter said, as weak financial markets spur layoffs across Wall Street.


read story at feeds.reuters.com 


DUSHANBE/PARIS (Reuters) - Russia faced increased diplomatic isolation over its military action against Georgia on Thursday, with its Asian allies failing to offer support and France saying EU leaders were considering sanctions.


read story at feeds.reuters.com 


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. and Pakistani military officials met this week on a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean to discuss the presence of militant safe havens in Pakistan and their role in Afghan violence, officials said on Thursday.


read story at feeds.reuters.com 


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has upheld the dismissal of criminal charges against 13 former executives at KPMG, saying prosecutors violated the defendants' rights by pressuring the accounting firm not to pay their legal bills.


read story at feeds.reuters.com 


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outbreak of an unusual strain of Salmonella that sickened more than 1,400 people and put 286 in the hospital appears to be over in the United States, federal health officials said on Thursday.


read story at feeds.reuters.com 


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces arrested the deputy head of a committee that purged Iraq's government of members of Saddam Hussein's party, an ally said, but the U.S. military said he was a wanted militia leader behind a deadly Baghdad bombing.


read story at feeds.reuters.com 

Somali News

Dayniile BBC Somali Horn Afrik SBC Online Hadhwanaag Idamaale Puntland Post Radio Somaliland
International Newspapers on Somalia

World news

Yahoo Top stories UEFA Latest News BBC World News Reuters News

Sports news

World Soccer News UEFA Latest News BBC Sport front page BBC Sport (football)

Technology news

SlashDot Gizmodo (Gadgets) Engadget (..more) Tech Republic C|Net News.com Wired Top stories BBC Technology Ingeniøren.dk (DK)

Arabic news

AFP Arabic News Aljazeera Asharq Alawsat (eng) Moheet Al-Ahram (eng)

Digital photography

Topleft pixel Unprocessed Durham Township