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| Obama orders U.S. airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State |
| Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:32 AM | |
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 By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Americans on Wednesday he had authorized U.S. airstrikes for the first time in Syria and more attacks in Iraq in a broad escalation of a campaign against the Islamic State militant group. Obama's decision to launch attacks inside Syria, which is embroiled in a three-year civil war, marked a turnabout for the president, who shied away a year ago from airstrikes to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons against his own people. ...
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| Philippines' Aquino says will ask Congress to allow govt to expand power capacity |
| Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:09 AM | |
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 MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Benigno Aquino said on Thursday he will ask Congress to allow the government to enter into additional energy supply contracts and avert a looming power shortage in 2015. "I will ask Congress to sign a joint resolution allowing the government to expand power capacity," Aquino told an audience of power industry officials. Energy Secretary Carlos Jerico Petilla has been pushing for emergency powers for Aquino, giving the government a role in the broader electricity market for the first time since the privatisation of power utilities in 2001. ...
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| With World Trade site largely rebuilt, New York marks Sept.11 |
| Thursday, September 11, 2014 1:59 AM | |
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| By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Until a few months ago, the part of New York City where crowds will gather on Thursday morning to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States had been mostly fenced off to the public. This year, for perhaps the first time since the attacks, a sense of normalcy and openness has taken root in the city blocks where two airliners hijacked by militants from al Qaeda crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers. Rebuilding efforts at the site, where 2,753 people died, are nearing completion. ... |
| Obama asks Congress to approve aid to rebels in fight against Islamic State |
| Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:53 AM | |
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 By Richard Cowan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has asked the U.S. Congress to authorize aid for rebel groups fighting in Syria, a move that would put lawmakers on record backing his strategy to defeat Islamic State militants. The request by the president came on the eve of a speech laying out his plan for the United States to lead a broad coalition against the militants who have taken large swaths of Iraq and Syria. Obama requested that funds for training rebels be included in a stop-gap funding bill that would avert a U.S. government shutdown on Oct. ...
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| Israeli policeman charged over violent arrest of U.S. teen |
| Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:18 AM | |
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| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli policeman was charged on Wednesday with assault causing bodily harm against a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent during a protest over the revenge killing of the teenager's cousin days before the eight week war with Gaza. The indictment submitted to a Jerusalem court charged the policeman with grabbing the youth and throwing him to the ground, and subsequently pummelling and dragging him with help from other officers in the course of his arrest. The U.S. ... |
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