If you are having trouble viewing this email or would like to view it in your web browser, CLICK HERE
 |
|
|
 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | FRI 14 May 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
| |
| | | | 
| | May 14, 2010 09:26 AM ET
 | BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai troops opened fire on rioting anti-government demonstrators on Friday in an attempt to throw a security cordon around their protest site, turning Bangkok's commercial district into a bloody battlefield.
| | | | May 14, 2010 09:17 AM ET
 | JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian militants captured in recent police raids were planning a series of attacks including a Mumbai-style hotel siege targeting foreigners and an assault on the president at an independence day ceremony, police said on Friday.
| | | | May 14, 2010 07:20 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police cleared several blocks near downtown Union Square late Thursday and early Friday to investigate a suspicious vehicle but reopened streets a few hours later, saying the car had posed no danger.
| | | | | May 14, 2010 08:40 AM ET
 | PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana (Reuters) - Political pressure mounted on Friday for BP to show progress plugging a massive oil leak while residents of coastal Florida, Mississippi and Alabama learned the growing pool of oil from the leak would not strike their beaches until late on Saturday.
| | | | May 14, 2010 07:13 AM ET
 | ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants have warned America that it will soon "burn" while calling for Pakistan's rulers to be overthrown for following "America's agenda".
| | | | May 14, 2010 08:59 AM ET
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has signed deals with Syria under which it will sell it warplanes, anti-tank weapons and air defense systems, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a senior Russian arms trader as saying Friday.
| | | | | May 14, 2010 08:02 AM ET
 | LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese leaders agreed tough austerity measures on Thursday, joining a coordinated euro zone push that has calmed market fears of a spreading Greek-style crisis but provoked talk by Spanish unions of a general strike.
| | | | | May 14, 2010 07:10 AM ET
 | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Atlantis was fueled for liftoff on Friday to deliver a Russian module and equipment to the International Space Station, the last planned flight for the 25-year-old spaceship.
| | | | | May 14, 2010 09:30 AM ET
 | ROME (Reuters) - A widening bribery scandal which has already forced the industry minister to resign is threatening to engulf Italy's ruling class, with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi under growing pressure to stop the rot.
| | | | | May 14, 2010 06:24 AM ET
 | SURKHROD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Police shot dead a an Afghan protester in eastern Afghanistan on Friday after hundreds of villagers demonstrated against NATO raids which they said killed 11 civilians overnight, a local official said.
| | | | | |
| | | |
This blog offers a compilation of recent news and world events given by RSOE-Emergency and Disaster Information Service, Reuters News Agency, BBC News , CNN International and Al Jezeera News
Thai troops battle protesters as crisis deepens
