Israeli police officials, however, said they were pleased that they had averted a third consecutive Friday of riots at the sacred plaza, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, or Haram al Sharif.
In exercising the "too big to fail" approach, Government officials said they had averted a possible ripple effect that would likely have brought down other institutions in the economically shaky region.
It came as Belgian authorities said they had averted a "second potential Paris" by foiling an imminent terror attack on police using guns and bombs.
ATHENS — Greek police officials said Sunday that they had averted an imminent terrorist attack by arresting six people believed to be linked to domestic terrorist activities, including two suspected members of a group that had claimed responsibility for letter bombs sent to embassies in Athens and foreign leaders last month.
MOSCOW — Russian regulators said on Friday that they had averted the collapse of one of the largest Russian banks by providing a bailout package of 395 billion rubles to Bank of Moscow, suggesting the bank's problems with bad loans were more severe than previously acknowledged.
Under incongruously blue skies, more than 100,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of villagers patrolled dikes around giant, swollen Dongting Lake in central China today as officials expressed cautious hope that they had averted any major disaster from the summer's most menacing flood.
Though they have averted disaster for the time being, their reputation has suffered for even considering it.
One day, they would walk together on the strand, neither mentioning the fragility of love, or that destruction had been averted when they were young.
Tonight, security officials said a huge bombing planned for Haifa had been averted when they captured two members of the Islamic Holy War group.
Surprised by a lawsuit they thought had been averted after four years of negotiations, Illinois State officials raise the question of political motive.
What's more, by rescuing senior bondholders, they have averted the danger that capital would flee from other weak Italian banks.
