Saying he wanted to stay on, he lashed out at unnamed aides to Mr. Gonzalez who he said spread reports Wednesday that he had asked to resign.
Outside Portugal's parliament, demonstrators at an anti-austerity protest by labor groups shouted "Victory!" as the news of the vote spread, reports AP.
Igor Sutyagin, a Russian expert at RUSI, a London-based think-tank, says that four hours before news of the shooting down spread, reports were coming in from social media of sightings of the launcher near what became the crash site.
Riots broke out in parts of the city as news of the cleric's killing spread, reports the BBC's Muliro Telewa from the capital, Nairobi.
It should be noted that, despite the significant differences in D values presented in Table 4, it does not contradict with the data spread reported in literature [10, 25 27, 29, 30].
Vietnamese officials worry that social media, which is not proactively censored as it is in China, will spread reports that damage their reputation, said Trung Nguyen, international relations dean at Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
In a speech on Thursday, Mr. Karzai accused the news media of spreading reports characterizing last year's presidential election as fraudulent "to pressure me".
Today, Mr. Gao expressed concern about the spreading reports of SARS in several inland provinces while some outside experts said the case reports from distant provinces seemed too low.
Deborah Sontag (NYT) EGYPT: SOCIOLOGIST CASE ADJOURNS -- Prosecutors ended their arguments in a defamation trial against Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a prominent sociologist charged with spreading reports abroad about electoral fraud and religious intolerance in Egypt.
The investigation, the first from the CDC into scootermania injuries, comes after spreading reports of injuries and deaths related to scooters in cities including the District, Los Angeles and Dallas; it also follows recent news of scooter failures and breakdowns.
