BitGou: Morning Digest: World leaders pressure Obama over Syria at G20 summit

2013年9月6日星期五

Morning Digest: World leaders pressure Obama over Syria at G20 summit

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09/6/2013

Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between

World leaders pressure Obama over Syria at G20 summit

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama faced growing pressure from Russia's Vladimir Putin and other world leaders on Thursday to decide against launching military strikes in Syria, which many of them fear would hurt the global economy and push up oil prices..

China urges U.N. role on Syria after U.S. gives up

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry urged a role for the U.N. Security Council in resolving the crisis in Syria on Friday after the United States said it had given up trying to work with the council on Syria, accusing Russia of holding it hostage..

Asia stocks cautious, dollar strong as markets await U.S. jobs report

TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian stocks were tentative and the dollar was in the driving seat on Friday, as investors waited with bated breath for a crucial U.S. jobs report that could cement the case for the Federal Reserve to begin scaling back its stimulus later this month..

'Fifth Estate' exposes WikiLeaks in Toronto film festival debut

TORONTO (Reuters) - "The Fifth Estate," an unlikely thriller that chronicles the emergence of anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and its enigmatic founder Julian Assange, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday..

Manning in seventh heaven as Broncos dump Ravens

(Reuters) - Seven touchdown strikes from Peyton Manning helped the Denver Broncos to a 49-27 rout of the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens on Thursday after Colorado lightning had delayed the start of the new NFL season..

Australia's opposition blunders on internet policy on election eve

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's conservative opposition was forced to make a quick about-turn on its internet policy to rule out more censorship on Friday, in a rare policy bungle on the eve of a general election it is poised to win..

New NASA spacecraft to investigate moon mystery

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - More than 40 years after the last Apollo astronauts left the moon, NASA is preparing to launch a small robotic spacecraft to investigate one of their most bizarre discoveries..

Colorado town flooded with applications for drone-hunting permits

DENVER (Reuters) - Voters in one small Colorado town won't decide until next month whether to issue hunting licenses to shoot down drones, but hundreds of marksmen are lining up for permits to fell such aircraft in the unlikely event any appear in local skies..