HONG KONG, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Singapore companies, highly
exposed to slowing global trade and a lacklustre commodity
market, face a financing scramble in 2017, as more than US$12
billion of their bonds falls due and banks grow wary of lending
to the resources sector.
CARACAS, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas
Maduro was expected to sit down on Sunday with members of the
opposition and foreign mediators, a gesture his foes suspect is
a time-wasting tactic to ease pressure on the unpopular
socialist leader.
CANNON BALL, N.D., Oct 30 (Reuters) - Authorities were
looking into the cause of a blaze that burned through about 400
acres near where Native American leaders are protesting against
a North Dakota oil pipeline they say threatens water and sacred
lands, officials said on Sunday.
CARACAS, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas
Maduro was to sit down on Sunday with opposition representatives
and foreign mediators, a gesture his foes suspect is a
time-wasting tactic to ease pressure on the unpopular socialist
leader.
DUBAI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Arab coalition warplanes struck a
security building in Yemen's Hodeidah city used by Houthi forces
as a command centre, the Saudi-led alliance said on Sunday in
its first comment on an attack that local sources and relatives
said killed 60 people.
BEIRUT, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Syrian state media said militants
fired poison gas at a government-held area of Aleppo on Sunday,
causing 35 people to choke, a report that a rebel official
called a lie.
DUBAI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - A Saudi security officer was
killed and a second was wounded on Sunday in a drive-by shooting
in the Eastern Province city of Qatif, state-owned Al Arabiya
television reported.
SANAA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Arab coalition warplanes struck a
prison in the Yemeni city of Hodeidah, killing 45 people
including inmates, a local official, relatives and medical
sources in the Houthi-controlled Red Sea port said on Sunday.
SANAA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Arab coalition warplanes struck a
prison in the Yemeni city of Hodeidah, killing at least 33
people including inmates, a local official, relatives and
medical sources in the Houthi-controlled Red Sea port said on
Sunday.
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