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| Cold hits storm victims ahead of election Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 10:12 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Victims of superstorm Sandy on the East Coast struggled against the cold on Sunday amid fuel shortages and power outages, two days ahead of an election that polls suggest is a dead heat between President Barack Obama and his Republican rival. Fuel supplies were rumbling toward disaster zones and a million customers regained electricity as near-freezing temperatures descended on the U.S. Northeast overnight. But New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned the city that it would be days before power was fully restored and fuel shortages ended. ... Full Story | Top |
| Romney, Obama converge on Iowa in late scramble for votes Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 08:37 PM PDT  DUBUQUE, Iowa (Reuters) - The presidential race, which has hinged for months on a handful of states, converged on one city in Iowa on Saturday as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney each made a last-minute appeal for support before Tuesday's election. With the race in a dead heat nationally, both candidates touched down briefly in Dubuque, a Mississippi River city of 58,000 people, as they sprinted across the country in a bid to secure any possible advantage before Election Day. ... Full Story | Top |
| Syrian rebels attack air base to secure north-south corridor Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 02:11 PM PDT  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels attacked a military airport in the country's north on Saturday in a push to cut off Syria's biggest city Aleppo from the capital Damascus, and secure a strategic north-south corridor. President Bashar al-Assad's forces appear over-stretched with fewer fighters on the ground and have sought to limit rebel advances with far superior firepower, increasingly from the air and especially in the Aleppo and Damascus areas. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insight: For most voters, presidential campaign is distant Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 10:23 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This year's presidential election could be among the closest in U.S. history, as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are locked in a virtual dead heat. For a growing number of voters, however, it will not be much of a contest at all. Roughly 22 percent of the U.S. population lives in the nine politically divided states that are likely to determine the outcome of Tuesday's election - and that have been the focus of the candidates' campaign stops and advertising. ... Full Story | Top |
| G20 flags U.S. fiscal cliff, Europe's debt woes Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 10:35 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Finance chiefs of the world's 20 leading economies are ringing alarm bells over the U.S. fiscal cliff and Europe's debt woes at a meeting in Mexico this weekend as they look to push back deficit reduction targets to help boost growth. Unless a fractious U.S. Congress can reach a deal, about $600 billion in government spending cuts and higher taxes are set to kick in on January 1, threatening to push the American economy back into recession and hit world growth. But with the U.S. presidential election looming on Tuesday, dealing with the fiscal cliff has been delayed. ... Full Story | Top |
| Freed Niger hostages say were not mistreated Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 03:05 PM PDT NIAMEY (Reuters) - Five African aid workers freed on Saturday after nearly three weeks as hostages in the Sahara desert said they were relieved to be back with their families in Niger and that their captors did not mistreat them. A sixth aid worker - who was also kidnapped - was shot during the abduction in central Niger on October 14 and later died of his wounds, they said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Police helicopter crashes in Atlanta, kills two officers Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 10:28 PM PDT ATLANTA (Reuters) - An Atlanta police helicopter crashed on Saturday night, killing two police officers, a police spokesman said. "One of our helicopters went down and two officers were killed," police spokesman Carlos Campos said. There was no immediate word on how many people were aboard the aircraft when it crashed, nor on what may have been the cause. (Reporting by David Beasley; Writing By Cynthia Johnston and Doina Chiacu) Full Story | Top |
| Obama and Romney tied three days before election Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 01:56 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remain essentially tied in the race for the White House with razor thin margins in four key swing states, according to a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll released on Saturday. Three days before the November 6 election, both men are neck and neck in Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Colorado, the poll showed. Nationally, the electorate is divided. ... Full Story | Top |
| New York nanny arrested in slayings of two young children Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 07:22 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York nanny suspected of slaying two young children of a Manhattan couple last month in their luxury apartment was arrested on Saturday and charged with murder in their stabbing deaths, New York's deputy police commissioner said. The nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, was arrested over the deaths of 6-year-old Lucia Krim and her toddler brother Leo, who had been days shy of his second birthday, following a bedside interview at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. ... Full Story | Top |
| Activists rally to end prison torture in Egypt Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 12:39 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - About 1,000 activists rallied in Cairo on Saturday demanding an end to brutality in Egyptian prisons and calling for a ban on torture in the new constitution. Islamist president Mohamed Mursi was elected in June following 16 months of rule by the army council that took over after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow last year. During the council's rule, some 12,000 civilians were tried by army courts and many of them were tortured in prisons, according to rights groups. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insight: Women voters helped make Obama; could they break him? Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 03:11 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women helped propel Barack Obama to the White House in 2008, but their flagging enthusiasm for him reflected in recent polls has created uncertainty about who will capture the female vote in Tuesday's election. Four years ago, women voters supported Obama over Republican John McCain by 56 percent to 43 percent. Among men, the Democrat led McCain by just 49 percent to 48 percent. But women's enthusiasm for Obama as president has slipped this year, making his road to re-election more difficult. ... Full Story | Top |
| OECD Chief says G20 should urge U.S. resolution of fiscal cliff Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 04:19 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Group of 20 leading economies should appeal to the United States to avert automatic spending cuts and tax hikes that threaten U.S. and world growth, the head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Saturday. Jose Angel Gurria also said he was optimistic that the U.S. Congress would strike a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff of $600 billion in spending cuts and higher taxes due to kick in on January 1. ... Full Story | Top |
| Kuwait warns against unlicensed protest planned for Sunday Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 01:43 PM PDT KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait said on Saturday it had not issued a permit to allow a planned protest against new voting rules and the prime minister warned police would use force if the nation was under threat. Kuwait outlawed unauthorized gatherings of more than 20 people last month after an opposition-led demonstration by thousands ended in clashes between protesters and police in which at least 30 people were taken to hospital. Although OPEC member and U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Romney, Obama converge on Iowa in late scramble for votes Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 04:35 PM PDT DUBUQUE, Iowa (Reuters) - The U.S. presidential race, which has hinged for months on a handful of states, converged on one city in Iowa on Saturday as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney each made a last-minute appeal for support before Tuesday's election. With the race in a dead heat nationally, both candidates touched down briefly in Dubuque, a Mississippi River city of 58,000 people, as they sprinted across the country in a bid to secure any possible advantage before Election Day. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. disaster relief in a race against freezing cold Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 04:33 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fuel supplies headed toward disaster zones in the U.S. Northeast on Saturday and a million customers regained electricity as near freezing temperatures threatened to add to the misery of coastal communities devastated by superstorm Sandy. The power restorations relit the skyline in Lower Manhattan for the first time in nearly a week and allowed 80 percent of the New York City subway service to resume, but more than a million homes and businesses still lacked power, down from 3.5 million on Friday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Israel's Peres welcomes "courageous" words from Abbas Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 12:26 PM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres hailed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a courageous partner for peace on Saturday after the Palestinian leader made clear his support for a two-state solution to the decades old conflict with Israel. In an interview with Israeli television broadcast this week, the Western-backed Abbas also hinted that Palestinians who, prior to the 1948 establishment of the Jewish state lived on lands that are now in Israel, do not have a right to return there, comments that sparked an outcry from his Islamist rivals. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insight: Sandy shows hospitals unprepared when disaster hits home Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 11:08 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kim Bondy was in New Orleans seven years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, and scores of patients died in flooded hospitals cut off from power. She never thought that she might face that danger herself. But on Monday night, as superstorm Sandy submerged parts of New York City, Bondy was one of 215 patients evacuated from New York University's Langone Medical Center after basement flooding from the East River cut off its electricity. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hungary says EU cut in its funds would be a shame Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 07:58 AM PDT BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The European Union risks undermining the credibility of its drive against national budget overshoots if it strips Hungary of structural funds as punishment for running an excessive deficit, a leader of the ruling Fidesz party said. The EU is due to unveil its assessment of Hungary's latest deficit-cutting measures on November 7, which could be the basis of a cut in funds and can also influence Hungary's credit talks with Brussels and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ... Full Story | Top |
| New York cancels Sunday marathon in wake of deadly storm Saturday, Nov 03, 2012 04:43 AM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg abruptly reversed course and canceled Sunday's marathon, a beloved annual race that had become a lightning rod for people frustrated by the disastrous aftermath of megastorm Sandy. The decision on Friday came after a growing number of storm victims, some runners, and other politicians criticized Bloomberg's decision earlier in the week to go forward with the marathon, one of the world's most popular sporting events. ... Full Story | Top |
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