Amazon Indians find plane crash survivors

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• Amazon Indians find plane crash survivors
• Typhoon cuts power, uproots trees in Philippines
• Mexican farm leader killed with 14 others on ranch
• Kabul U.N. attack spurs Ban to seek emergency powers
• Canada, Greenland to jointly manage polar bears
• Iran scholar urges U.S. to shift focus to democracy
• Iraqi Kurdish leader backs Turkey's reform steps
• Southern African states to hold Zimbabwe summit
• Fourth storm lashes Philippines
• Iran tells U.N. it wants nuclear fuel first - envoys
• Obama discusses Afghan plan, may be near decision
• People will fear flu vaccine 'adverse events'-study
• UK colonel warned of Afghan helicopter shortage-report
• Cheney harshly criticized CIA in Plame leak probe
• Somali pirates ask $7 mln to free UK couple - report
• U.N. backs negotiations on global arms trade treaty
• Madoff to SEC watchdog: agency held me in awe
• North Korea seen slowly warming to talks again
• Venezuela arrests eight Colombian 'paramilitaries'
• Coast Guard probes fuel spill in San Francisco Bay

Amazon Indians find plane crash survivors Posted: 31 Oct 2009 12:11 AM PDT BRASILIA (Reuters) - Nine people survived a crash landing on a river in Brazil's Amazon rainforest after native Indians alerted authorities who dispatched a rescue mission, the government said on Friday.

Typhoon cuts power, uproots trees in Philippines Posted: 30 Oct 2009 10:43 PM PDT MANILA (Reuters) - The third typhoon to hit the Philippines in five weeks slammed into the main island of Luzon on Saturday, uprooting trees and toppling power lines, but there were no immediate reports of widespread damage.

Mexican farm leader killed with 14 others on ranch Posted: 30 Oct 2009 10:43 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen killed fifteen people on an isolated ranch in northern Mexico, including a prominent farmworker leader, in the latest grisly attack in an area overrun by drug gangs, local police said on Friday.

Kabul U.N. attack spurs Ban to seek emergency powers Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:55 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the world body on Friday for money and emergency powers to boost U.N. security globally after a deadly attack by Taliban militants on a Kabul guesthouse this week.

Canada, Greenland to jointly manage polar bears Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:55 PM PDT CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada and Greenland agreed on Friday to create a joint commission to recommend how many of the polar bears shared between the two countries can be hunted each year.

Iran scholar urges U.S. to shift focus to democracy Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:55 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - A prominent Islamic scholar and Iranian dissident said on Friday the United States was missing an opportunity by negotiating with Iran solely over its nuclear capability and not the country's nascent democracy movement.

Iraqi Kurdish leader backs Turkey's reform steps Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:55 PM PDT ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani on Friday praised Turkish steps to address a decades-old Kurdish conflict and called for an end to ethnic violence during a visit to the region by Turkey's foreign minister.

Southern African states to hold Zimbabwe summit Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:55 PM PDT HARARE (Reuters) - Southern African countries are expected to hold a summit on the political crisis in Zimbabwe, a regional group said on Friday, to try to keep the unity government from crumbling.

Fourth storm lashes Philippines Posted: 30 Oct 2009 07:07 PM PDT The fourth storm to hit the Philippines in a month has lashed the eastern province of Quezon, bringing heavy rain and winds to the region.

Iran tells U.N. it wants nuclear fuel first - envoys Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog it wants fresh fuel for a reactor in Tehran before it will agree to ship most of its enriched uranium stocks to Russia and France, diplomats said on Friday.

Obama discusses Afghan plan, may be near decision Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama heard the opinions of the Pentagon top brass on a commander's troop request for Afghanistan on Friday, and the White House said his lengthy strategy review was nearing the end.

People will fear flu vaccine 'adverse events'-study Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fear of adverse events such as miscarriages, rare neurological conditions and ordinary heart attacks will discourage some people from participating in mass vaccination efforts to fight swine flu, but public health experts said on Friday they could fight back with statistics.

UK colonel warned of Afghan helicopter shortage-report Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The most senior British officer killed in Afghanistan warned his bosses shortly before his death that a lack of helicopters was endangering British soldiers, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday.

Cheney harshly criticized CIA in Plame leak probe Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dick Cheney, then U.S. vice president, had harsh words for the CIA sending a spy's husband to Africa to see if Iraq was seeking nuclear material, according to an interview with the FBI released on Friday.

Somali pirates ask $7 mln to free UK couple - report Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Somali pirates have demanded a $7 million ransom for a British couple captured on their yacht in the Indian Ocean, according to a phone call from a man purporting to be a member of the gang broadcast by the BBC on Friday.

U.N. backs negotiations on global arms trade treaty Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. members on Friday overwhelmingly backed negotiations on a global treaty to regulate the world's $55 billion weapons trade, but two big arms suppliers, Russia and China, refused to support the measure.

Madoff to SEC watchdog: agency held me in awe Posted: 30 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bernard Madoff believed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission employees were too dazzled by his stature on Wall Street to properly probe his operations and uncover his massive fraud, documents released on Friday showed.

North Korea seen slowly warming to talks again Posted: 30 Oct 2009 08:11 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - North Korea appears to be more open to resuming six-nation talks on its nuclear program, U.S. academics and former officials said on Friday after meeting Ri Gun, Pyongyang's second-ranking nuclear negotiator.

Venezuela arrests eight Colombian 'paramilitaries' Posted: 30 Oct 2009 08:11 PM PDT CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela said on Friday it had arrested eight Colombians and two local residents suspected of paramilitary activities on the border between the two feuding South American neighbors.

Coast Guard probes fuel spill in San Francisco Bay Posted: 30 Oct 2009 08:11 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A two-mile-long (3.2 km) slick of bunker fuel stretched across part of San Francisco Bay on Friday after a refueling mishap between a tanker and a barge alongside, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

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