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| Cuba sentences Canadian CEO to 15 years on financial charges |
| Sunday, September 28, 2014 2:53 AM | |
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| By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - A Cuban court has sentenced Canadian executive Cy Tokmakjian to 15 years in prison for bribery and other economic charges in a case his company and Western diplomats have called a chilling development for potential foreign investors. Two of his aides from the Tokmakjian Group received sentences of 12 and 8 years, and Cuba seized about $100 million worth of the company's assets, the Ontario-based transportation firm said in a statement. ... |
| Britain's Cameron loses second MP to anti-EU party |
| Sunday, September 28, 2014 2:45 AM | |
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| By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - A lawmaker from Britain's ruling Conservative party defected to the anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) on Saturday, dealing a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron on the eve of his party's annual conference. In more bad news for Cameron, an opinion poll showed voters view him slightly less favourably than UKIP leader Nigel Farage, and a junior minister resigned over a story in a Sunday newspaper that he had sent sexually explicit pictures of himself to an undercover reporter. ... |
| U.S. flight woes linger after Chicago air traffic center fire |
| Sunday, September 28, 2014 2:38 AM | |
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 By Laila Kearney (Reuters) - U.S. airports reported hundreds of residual flight cancellations on Saturday, a day after a fire at a Chicago-area air traffic control center that authorities said was set by an employee who then tried to take his own life. The incident forced the evacuation of the Federal Aviation Administration control center in Aurora, Illinois, and severely snarled air traffic on Friday, when an estimated 2,100 flights were canceled at major airports across the country. ...
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| Al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen say fire rocket towards U.S. embassy |
| Sunday, September 28, 2014 2:34 AM | |
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| SANAA (Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group said it launched a rocket towards the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, wounding several guards, to retaliate for a purported U.S. drone strike in a northern province of Yemen the day before. The U.S. State Department said it had no indication that the embassy was the target of the attack and that none of its staff were wounded. The rocket landed 200 metres from the heavily fortified embassy, hitting members of the Yemeni special police force who guard the site. At least two were wounded, police said. ... |
| China urges global crackdown on extremists' use of Internet |
| Sunday, September 28, 2014 2:33 AM | |
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 UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China called on Saturday for a worldwide crackdown on the use of the Internet by religious extremists and terrorists to stamp out their ability to communicate their ideas and raise funds. China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks during the annual gathering of the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly in New York. "As new developments emerge in the global fight against terrorism, the international community should take new measures to address them," Wang said. ...
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