Hector "Macho" Camacho, a Puerto Rican boxer known for skill and flamboyance in the ring as well as for a messy personal life and run-ins with the police, was declared dead on Saturday, four days after being shot in the face. He was 50. Software AG has 1 billion euro war chest for any acquisition: paper
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German business software maker Software AG has the financial flexibility to make any acquisition worth up to 1 billion euros ($1.30 billion), a German weekly said on Saturday, citing finance director Arnd Zinnhardt. “We are so well positioned in terms of our operating activities and our balance sheet that we could theoretically pay for a big acquisition of up to 1 billion euros,” he said. He does not rule out another acquisition next year, the report said. …
Arafat body to be exhumed on Tuesday in murder inquiry
RAMALLAH (Reuters) – The body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, eight years after his death, in an investigation to establish if he was murdered, a Palestinian official said on Saturday. A French court opened a murder inquiry in August into Arafat’s death in Paris after a Swiss institute said it had discovered high levels of radioactive polonium on his clothing, which was supplied by his widow, Suha. …
Thousands of Italian students rally against austerity in Rome
ROME (Reuters) – Several thousand students and teachers marched through central Rome on Saturday to protest against austerity measures imposed by Prime Minister Mario Monti’s government that have cut into education spending. Appointed a year ago when Italy came close to a Greek-style debt crisis, Monti has pushed through painful tax hikes and spending cuts to try to rein in public finances at a time when schools and universities say they desperately need more support. “We need to fight for our rights. …
Israel eases Gaza border restrictions after truce
Gaza residents said Saturday that Israel has eased some border restrictions as part of its truce with the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, allowing farmers to visit land near its security fence and letting fishermen head further out to sea. Israel said to ease restrictions on Gaza fishing and farming
GAZA (Reuters) – Israel eased restrictions on Gaza fishermen on Saturday, further implementing a three-da y-old truce brokered by Egypt after a week of fierce fighting, Palestinian officials said. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children headed back to school for the first time in 10 days, in another indication normal life was returning after cross-border violence in which 166 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed. … Congo army digs in against rebel advance as African leaders meet
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Congo's army reinforced its positions south of the city of Goma on Saturday to halt a rebel advance, as African leaders met in Uganda to try to end the deepening crisis in an area long plagued by ethnic and political conflict. Fighters from the M23 group, widely thought to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, were trying to push south along Lake Kivu near the eastern rebel stronghold of Goma on the Rwandan border. … UK hopes Mideast nuclear talks can be held next year
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Saturday it hoped a conference on banning nuclear weapons in the Middle East could take plac e "as soon as possible", after the United States said it would not be held next month. The U.S. State Department said on Friday that the conference could "not be convened because of present conditions in the Middle East and the fact that states in the region have not reached agreement on acceptable conditions for a conference". It did not spell out when or if the event, originally scheduled for December, would take place. … Egypt's top judges slam president's new powers
Egypt's official news agency says that the country's highest body of judges has called the president's recent decrees an "unprecedented assault on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings." 
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