WASHINGTON, November 8 (Tantao News) – The top stories making headlines right now:

Europe:
Italy –Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi offered a conditional resignation on Tuesday, in that he step down but only after Parliament passes an austerity package demanded by the European Union.

Under Berlusconi’s offer, once he formally steps down, the President would then begin talks with various parliamentary leaders to decide whether to go to call for elections or try to form a new government with the existing political assembly.

There was no timetable as to Berlusconi’s conditional resignation offer. Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, November 4 (Tantao News) – The top stories making headlines right now:

Europe:
France –World leaders attending the G-20 summit in Cannes demanded that the Euro Zone do more to manage its debt problem but offered no explicit support as the region’s fate was in its own hands.

After two days of talks that were dominated by the situation in Greece, the most concrete outcome was an agreement by Italy that the International Monetary Fund be allowed to conduct intense monitoring of that nation’s economy. Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, November 2 (Tantao News) – The top stories making headlines right now:

Europe:
Athens – The Greek cabinet gave its full support early Wednesday to Prime Minister George A. Papandreou for his surprise plan to call a referendum on the Greek financial crisis. This came as the government is on the verge of collapse.

The referendum threatens the ability of the country to adhere to the terms of a new deal with its foreign lenders and has caused financial turmoil in Europe. Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, October 31 (Tantao News) – The top stories making headlines right now:

Europe:
Paris- Palestine was admitted as full member of UNESCO on Monday, in defiance of a cutoff of American funds. The vote of UNESCO’s full membership was 107 to 14, with 52 abstentions.

It is estimated that the organization will now lose about 25% of its yearly budget or $70 million unless that shortfall is made up by other nations.

United States:
Washington – Republican Party surprise front-runner for the Presidential candidate nomination Herman Cain called sexual-harassment allegations against him a “witch hunt” as he spoke at Continue Reading

NEW DELHI, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — India Monday welcomed the world’ s first symbolic “seven billionth” citizen, named Nargis, born to a family in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

The girl baby was born to 23-year-old Vinita and her husband Ajay at a community health centre about 7:20 a.m. near the state capital Lucknow, according to Bhagyeshwari, executive director of NGO Plan India, which is conducting the exercise. Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, October 29 (Tantao News) – The top stories making headlines right now:

Asia:
Afghanistan – At least five American soldiers, eight American contract workers and four Afghans were killed when a Taliban suicide car bomber attacked an armored shuttle bus in Kabul on Saturday. It was the single deadliest attack for Americans in the capital since the war began.

Australia – Qantas Airways, Australia’s national carrier, announced on Saturday that it had grounded its entire worldwide fleet, in response to a protracted labor dispute between the airline and its employees. The action led to the immediate cancellation of 600 flights affecting 70,000 travelers. Continue Reading

Top headline news you need to know – October 27: 2015 GMT

WASHINGTON, October 27 (Tantao News) – The top stories making headlines right now:

Asia:
Thailand – In advance of rising floodwaters, tens of thousands of people are fleeing Bangkok. Authorities have declared a five-day holiday to allow people to relocate. There are reports of stores rationing food in order to prevent hoarding, and bottled water is running low.

Europe:
Brussels – European leaders reached a deal with holders of Greek debt that will see private investors take a 50 per cent cut in the face value of their bonds. This should reduce Greek Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, October 25 (Tantao News) – The top stories making headlines right now:

Africa:
Libya – Finally, after four days of public viewing, the rotting corpses of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, his son Muatassim and the former defense minster, Abu Bakr Younes, were buried in an unmarked grave in the desert. The location is secret. Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, October 24 (Tantao News) – The top stories making headlines right now:

Africa:
Libya – Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the chairman of the Transitional National Council, agreed to the calls by foreign powers and human rights groups for an investigation into how Colonel Muammar Qaddafi wound up dead with a bullet to the head. A formal committee will look into the circumstances surrounding the death once he had been captured. Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, October 23 (Tantao News) – The top stories making headlines right now:

Africa:
Libya – Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the leader of Libya’s transitional government, declared on Sunday that Libya’s revolution had ended, setting the country on the path to elections, and he said that the new government would be based on Islamic tenets. Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, October 21 (Tantao News) – The top stories making headlines right now:

Africa:
Libya – Celebrations over the death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi are being tempered over questions as to the cause of death and over where and when he should be buried.

Libya’s Transitional National Council had said initially that Gaddafi would be buried on Friday in accordance with Islamic law but that the location of the grave had not been determined, news agencies reported. Later on Mahoud Jibril the Interim Prime Minister
said the burial could take place in the next 48 hours but he did not provide any details.

On Friday Gaddafi’s body was laid out on a table in a refrigerated Misurata meat locker, open for public viewing. Continue Reading

TRIPOLI/SIRTE, Libya, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) — Libya’s fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi died of his wounds on Thursday, a National Transitional Council (NTC) field commander told Xinhua.

The commander, Momhemed Buras Ali Al-Maknee, told Xinhua earlier that a group of fighters from the western Libyan city of Misrata captured Gaddafi in Sirte, who was then severely injured.

NTC forces planned to send the body to Misrata, he added. Continue Reading