Spanish bond yields touch 3-week high as political impasse continues
By Dhara Ranasinghe | LONDON, Sept 1 LONDON, Sept 1 Spanish government bond yields touched a three-week high on Thursday after the country's acting prime minister lost a vote of confidence in parliament for a second term, raising the prospect of a third election in a year.Across the euro zone, bond yields were 1-2 basis points higher as the first trading day of a new month looked set to bring another dose of hefty supply.Both France and Spain are scheduled to sell bonds on Thursday in a week..>> view originalExclusive: US, others agreed 'secret' exemptions for Iran after nuclear ...
By Jonathan Landay | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The United States and its negotiating partners agreed "in secret" to allow Iran to evade some restrictions in last year's landmark nuclear agreement in order to meet the deadline for it to start getting relief from economic sanctions, according to a report reviewed by Reuters.The report is to be published on Thursday by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, said the think tank’s president David Albright, a former U.N..>> view originalReports: Deputy assaulted, police pursuit ends in crash in Dayton
UPDATE @ 12:55 a.m. According to dispatch records, an assault on a deputy and subsequent pursuit started as a traffic stop in Jefferson Township. Dispatchers said the sheriff deputy pulled over the vehicle near the intersection of Infirmary Road and West Third Street at 11:34 p.m. The vehicle took off from the deputy, leading several other Montgomery County Sheriff deputies and officers from Dayton police on a pursuit into the City of Dayton. Pursuing officers and deputies lost sight of the ..>> view originalGabon opposition leader says two killed, many wounded after disputed vote
By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome and Matthew Mpoke BiggLIBREVILLE/ACCRA (Reuters) - Gabon opposition leader Jean Ping said on Thursday two people were killed and many wounded when the presidential guard and police attacked his party's headquarters overnight after an election narrowly won by President Ali Bongo.Ping called for international assistance to protect the population of the oil-producing state and said Saturday's election was stolen by Bongo, who was declared the winner on Wednesday.The res..>> view originalPhilippine Equities Plunge, Erasing Duterte Rally
Philippine equities sank more than any other regional stocks last month, completely erasing the rally that had taken place since pugnacious President Rodrigo Duterte took office in June. According to Bloomberg, the slide was accelerated by foreign fund managers withdrawing some $248 million from the country since the middle of August. One Singaporean fund manager was quoted as saying “I can’t find a good stock to buy.” The news will be disappointing to a strongman leader who has been touted as..>> view originalRousseff's supporters take to the streets to protest impeachment vote
Lawmakers voted 61-20 Wednesday to remove Rousseff from office, finding her guilty of breaking budgetary laws in an impeachment trial. Michel Temer, Rousseff's former vice president who has been serving as interim president since her suspension in May, will assume the office of president and serve out the remainder of her term. Temer, a leader of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, was sworn in Wednesday afternoon. Police lined the streets to curb the often violent demonstrations, which saw..>> view original2 Police, Bystander, Suspect Wounded in Copenhagen Gun Melee
COPENHAGEN, Denmark รข€” Police say they have shot and critically wounded an armed Danish man following an earlier Copenhagen shootout that left two officers and a bystander wounded.Trouble started Wednesday night in Copenhagen's drug-rife Christiania neighborhood, where police say the assailant pulled a gun as officers tried to arrest him. They say he shot one officer in the head, a second in the thigh, and a bystander in the leg before escaping.Police tracked him down several hours later 5 ki..>> view originalTrump declares 'no amnesty' in hard-line immigration speech
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SANTA CLARA, Cuba — It took an hour and a $330 paper check to buy the printed blue ticket for my one-way charter flight from Havana to Miami, the last I will ever take.Check-in meant nearly two hours in a line that almost spilled out the terminal doors. I barely made it aboard my 45-minute flight Sunday.I came back home to Cuba in seat 4B Wednesday on the first commercial flight from the U.S. in more than half a century. The electronic ticket cost $98.90 and took less than three minutes to buy..>> view originalEurope|Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's President, Is Gravely Ill. No, Wait! He's Fine.
Photo Islam Karimov, left, the president of Uzbekistan, at a wreath-laying in Moscow in April. Credit Pool photo by Sergei Karpukhin MOSCOW — The mystery surrounding the health of Islam Karimov, the longtime president of Uzbekistan, deepened on Wednesday with his daughter suggesting that he was recovering after a stroke, but an announcer reading Mr. Karimov’s traditional independence day address on television.There have been no detailed official statements on his condit..>> view original
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