MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Armed men likely linked to drug gangs blocked highways with trucks and buses in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Friday in an apparent attempt to hamper army operations near the U.S. border.
Gunmen pulled truck and bus drivers out of their vehicles in the ...More
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways said it would fly more than 60 percent of passengers with flights booked for this weekend despite a three-day cabin crew strike that risks hurting the Labor government weeks before an election.
The walkout over pay and jobs will disrupt travel for thousands after talks between ...More
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered hints he could support the United States on two key issues -- an arms pact and Iran -- after a meeting on Friday with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
An aide to Putin said a major nuclear weapons reduction pact between Russia and the ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The race for New York governor heated up on Friday when a local Democratic official joined the campaign and switched parties, saying his views mesh best with Republicans and whose primary election is seen easier to win.
Steve Levy, chief executive of Suffolk County, said he was ...More
PHOENIX (Reuters) - The U.S. pay czar will slash the number of top General Motors Co executives who will receive base salaries of more than $500,000 this year.
Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg said he plans to release the 2010 compensation decisions next week on the five large U.S ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday delayed a $657.5 million settlement for workers who suffered health problems after the September 11, 2001, attacks, saying the process must be transparent and lawyers fees should not be drawn from the funds.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ...More
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Armed men likely linked to drug gangs blocked highways with trucks and buses in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Friday in an apparent attempt to hamper army operations near the U.S. border.
Gunmen pulled truck and bus drivers out of their vehicles in the ...More
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan rejected on Friday a suggestion from the former head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan that the arrest of senior Afghan Taliban members in Pakistan may have disrupted talks with U.N. representatives.
Norwegian Kai Eide, who stepped down this month, said talks with the Taliban ...More
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's minister of mineral resources denied on Friday that at least 200 people were killed in the collapse of a gold mine, causing confusion after his own ministry had reported the disaster.
The ministry said more than 200 miners died when a trench collapsed at an ...More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a significant victory for news media, a federal appeals court said the Federal Reserve must disclose records on emergency lending programs to banks bailed out by the government in the financial crisis.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ordered the Fed to release details ...More
