TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have released three journalists who were among more than 100 people arrested during pro-government and opposition street demonstrations this week, the country’s official news agency reported.
One of the reporters, Farhad Pouladi, is an Iranian who works for Agence France-Presse. The other two are foreign reporters, but the report by the IRNA news agency did not identify them or say for whom they work.
Police detained 109 people during the rallies this week, IRNA said.
G-20 finance officials: Too early to end stimulus
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured and committed themselves to urgent action on tackling climate change.
The statement from Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers at the end of their meeting in St. Andrews, Scotland said that economic and financial conditions have improved.
But they stressed that recovery is “uneven and remains dependent on policy support” and that high unemployment remains a major concern.
Guyana: U.S. ‘mastermind’ behind arson attacks
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged.
Jagdeo made the allegation late Friday, shortly after his administration submitted a request to the U.S. Embassy for assistance with the investigation.
“There is a terrorist mastermind who lives in the U.S.,” Jagdeo told reporters. He declined to give more details.
Carol Horning, acting charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy, said Saturday that the Department of Justice is reviewing the request and will likely help out by checking U.S. phone records. She, too, did not disclose further details.
Medvedev: Arms control deal with U.S. attainable
MOSCOW — Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year’s end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.
Medvedev also told Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine he is working well with his predecessor Vladimir Putin, and predictions of a rift between them — widely seen as pulling the strings in Russia — are overblown.
U.S. tourist dies ‘car surfing’ in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend’s moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town.
Police spokeswoman Yolanda Hernandez SAID Long Beach, New York, resident Jorge Geysel, 29, fell off his friend’s vehicle as he was “car surfing” inRincon early Saturday.
It was not clear how fast the car was traveling.
Yemen rebels say Saudi bombs hit stronghold
SAN’A, Yemen — Saudi warplanes and artillery bombarded a Shiite rebel stronghold in northern Yemen for a third straight day Saturday, according to the rebel fighters, and Yemen’s president vowed to wipe out the insurrection.
The sporadic five-year conflict between Yemen’s weak central government and rebels in the north of the impoverished country escalated dramatically this week when Saudi military forces began shelling and bombing rebel positions.
— Herald wire services
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