Evening News from Swiss Info

Evening News Roundup from Swiss Info

Aug 31, 2006 - 12:08 AM

Israel rejects U.N. appeal

By Luke BakerJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel rejected a call by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to lift its air and sea blockade...

Aug 30, 2006 - 7:08 PM

U.S. sees Iraq army fit in 18 months

By Alastair MacdonaldBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombers killed nearly 50 Iraqis on Wednesday, mostly in Baghdad, but the top U.S. commander said a...

Aug 30, 2006 - 10:08 PM

Iran sanctions to be discussed

By Carol Giacomo and Sue PlemingWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major powers will begin discussing an Iran sanctions resolution at a meeting in...

Aug 30, 2006 - 6:53 PM

Chavez vows solidarity with Syria

By Khaled Yacoub OweisDAMASCUS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged solidarity on Wednesday with Syria in its struggle...

Aug 30, 2006 - 1:53 PM

Iran enriching uranium ahead of U.N. deadline: paper

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran has begun enriching a new batch of uranium just days ahead of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to suspend atomic fuel...

Aug 30, 2006 - 11:38 PM

Bush's new campaign to defend Iraq war

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - For the third time in less than a year and two months before crucial U.S. elections, President George W....

Aug 30, 2006 - 11:38 PM

Monitors blame Sri Lanka forces for aid massacre

By Peter AppsCOLOMBO (Reuters) - International ceasefire monitors blamed Sri Lankan troops on Wednesday for the killing of 17 aid workers...

Aug 30, 2006 - 7:37 PM

Bomb in Turkish port city wounds woman

By Emma Ross-ThomasISTANBUL (Reuters) - A homemade bomb wounded a 20-year-old woman in Turkey's Mediterranean port city of Mersin on...

Aug 30, 2006 - 7:37 PM

Hurricane John menaces Mexican resorts

By Chris AspinMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane John grew into a powerful Category 4 storm on Wednesday, threatening Mexican Pacific resorts...

Aug 30, 2006 - 1:53 PM

Iran faces sanction deadline

By Mark HeinrichVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran faces the risk of sanctions after a U.N. nuclear watchdog report on Thursday that is likely to find...

Aug 30, 2006 - 10:08 PM

Tourist seized in Niger says not prisoner

By Nick TattersallDAKAR (Reuters) - An Italian tourist seized by a Saharan rebel group on the border between Niger and Chad told Reuters on...

Aug 30, 2006 - 7:08 PM

Red Cross worker killed in Darfur after abduction

GENEVA (Reuters) - A Sudanese national working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who was abducted in Sudan's Darfur...

Aug 30, 2006 - 6:37 PM

Diminished Ernesto weakens further over Florida

By Tom BrownMIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Ernesto weakened over Florida on Wednesday, coming ashore as a rainstorm instead of a dreaded...

Aug 30, 2006 - 6:07 PM

Militants say behead two men for being U.S. "spies"

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan beheaded two men they accused of being U.S. spies and a boy who had...

Aug 30, 2006 - 4:38 PM

Israel kills 7 Palestinians in Gaza Strip

By Nidal al-MughrabiGAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinian gunmen and four civilians on Wednesday, pressing on with an...

Aug 30, 2006 - 4:25 PM

Captor's colleague says he met "happy" Austrian girl

By Karin StroheckerVIENNA (Reuters) - A colleague of the man who held Natascha Kampusch captive for eight years in a cell under his garage...

Aug 30, 2006 - 5:39 PM

Las Vegas ends late-night wedding-licence service

By Alexandria SageLAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Las Vegas bills itself as "the wedding capital of the world", but late-night revellers who decide...

Aug 30, 2006 - 5:39 PM

Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz dies

By Summer SaidCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature, died on...

Aug 30, 2006 - 9:38 AM

Bomb blast kills 24 in Baghdad market

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a central Baghdad market on Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding 35, police and Interior...

Aug 30, 2006 - 8:38 AM

China pursuing "diplomacy" with Iran

BEIJING (Reuters) - Iran and oil-famished China agreed on favouring a diplomatic solution to international confrontation over Tehran's...

Aug 30, 2006 - 12:23 PM

Chinese sex slave case dismissed by Japan court

TOKYO (Reuters) - Chinese women who said they were forced to act as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two lost their bid for...

Aug 30, 2006 - 10:37 AM

Israel kills 5 Palestinians in Gaza Strip

By Nidal al-MughrabiGAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed three Palestinian gunmen and two civilians on Wednesday, pressing on with an...

Aug 30, 2006 - 12:08 AM

Kurdish rebels warn of "hell"

By Thomas GroveANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) - A shadowy Kurdish rebel group threatened on Tuesday to turn Turkey into "hell" after a two-day...

Aug 30, 2006 - 11:53 AM

China foils oilfield and power plant bombings

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have seized explosives and foiled attempts by separatists to blow up oilfields, power plants and highways...

Aug 30, 2006 - 2:23 AM

New Orleans marks Katrina anniversary

By Peter Henderson and Matt DailyNEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans residents marched through their battered city on Tuesday, marking the...

Aug 29, 2006 - 11:09 PM

Polygamist sect leader held in Nevada

By Cathy ScottLAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Fugitive polygamist sect leader Warren Steed Jeffs, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted men, was arrested...

Aug 30, 2006 - 6:54 AM

Bomb kills three at Iraqi army centre

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb exploded at an Iraqi army recruitment centre in the town of Hilla, south of Baghdad, on Wednesday, killing at...

Aug 30, 2006 - 8:07 AM

Hurricane John closes in on Mexico

By Chris AspinMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane John grew into a powerful cyclone off Mexico's Pacific Coast on Tuesday, threatening to...

Aug 30, 2006 - 3:23 AM

Storm threat to Florida eases

By Tom BrownMIAMI (Reuters) - The threat Tropical Storm Ernesto posed to Florida diminished on Tuesday as it failed to gain strength over...

Aug 30, 2006 - 3:23 AM

JonBenet killer still unknown

By Dan WhitcombBOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - Two weeks after the stunning arrest of John Mark Karr for the long-unsolved murder of 6-year-old...

Aug 29, 2006 - 11:53 PM

Vote on U.N. troops for Darfur sought

By Opheera McDoom and Irwin ArieffKHARTOUM/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and Britain plan to push for a vote on a U.N....

Aug 29, 2006 - 11:09 PM

Ahmadinejad challenges Bush to TV debate

By Parisa HafeziTEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged U.S. President George W. Bush to a televised debate...

Aug 30, 2006 - 3:07 AM

Brazil's Lula pledges to help poor in second term

By Ricardo AmaralSAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised more government spending and social programs to...

Aug 30, 2006 - 3:37 AM

Wolves return to eastern Germany

By Erik KirschbaumBERLIN (Reuters) - A century after they were wiped out by hunters and a burgeoning population, wolves have returned to...

Aug 29, 2006 - 9:07 PM

Explosion kills 29 petrol scavengers in Iraq

By Imad al-KhozaieNEAR DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 29 people were killed when a blast ripped through scavengers siphoning petrol...

Aug 30, 2006 - 12:38 AM

Donors urge Somalia power-sharing deal

By Simon JohnsonSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) - International donors urged Somalia's interim government and Islamists on Tuesday to strike a...