Qaddafi denies fleeing to Niger in audio message; Libyan rebels say they are closing in on Qaddafi; HSBC to cut 3000 jobs in Hong Kong; militant Turkistan Islamic Party has claimed responsibility for deadly attacks in China's Xinjiang region; Obama to reveal jobs plan to Congress; Italy's upper house passes austerity plan to save $75 billion; and more
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World News Brief, Wednesday August 31
Libyan rebels are giving Qaddafi loyalists until Saturday to surrender; Qaddafi's whereabouts unknown--some of his family members are sheltering in Algeria; People's Bank of China is reining in lending; Japan's sixth prime minister in five years elected; Pentagon wasted $30 billion on wartime contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, says report; Angela Merkel warns indebted eurozone countries to make substantial efforts to reduce debt; and more
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Friday August 19
Libyan rebels take control of oil refinery outside city of Zawiyah--they are now just 30 miles from Tripoli; Joe Biden begins visit to China to strengthen economic relations; Japan records trade surplus for second month in a row; UK pledges another $48 million to Somali famine relief; protesters in Madrid take to streets to demonstrate against Pope's US$72 million taxpayer-funded visit; and more
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Friday July 8
Major budget talks in US--Obama meets Boehner; US$1 trillion could be saved by reorganising federal government bureaucracy, according to expert; South Korea will host 2018 Winter Olympic Games; Hong Kong media reporting that former Chinese president Jiang Zemin has died; Libyan rebels take Western town on way to Tripoli; North Korea bribed Pakistani military for information on nuclear-bomb making; Europeans angry at credit rating agencies for downgrading Portugal; and more
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Wednesday May 25
NATO warplanes bombed 15 targets in Tripoli; Libyan rebels will open diplomatic office in Washington DC; assessors say damage to Fukushima nuclear reactor worse than previously thought; US envoys in North Korea for humanitarian talks; Netanyahu says there can't be a return to 1967 borders, as suggested by Obama; more trouble in North Sudan; and more
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Wenesday April 13
Nuclear threat at Fukushima raised from five to seven, the highest level; despite elevated status, experts say damage will be much smaller than Chernobyl; China hosts Brazil in trade talks; Libyan rebels reject African Union ceasefire; Gbagbo faces trial; and more
Read MoreWorld News Brief, Tuesday April 12
African Union leaders arrive in Benghazi to begin talks with Qaddafi's regime and rebels; AU says Qaddafi has already agreed to end fighting, allow humanitarian assistance, protect foreigners in Libya and discuss reform; more big aftershocks in Japan; China faces first quarterly trade deficit in seven years; Persian Gulf nations want Yemen's president gone; Obama to push for bipartisan debt talks; and more
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