Manila moves to boost liquidity after strom wreckage

Manila moves to boost liquidity after strom wreckage

Manila moves to boost liquidity after strom wreckage

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 12:05 AM PDT

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered on Saturday a one-year deferment in repayment of loans provided by state pension funds, part of liquidity-boosting measures to protect the economy following massive typhoon devastation.


Typhoon changes course, to only clip Philippines

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 10:44 PM PDT

MANILA (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon bearing down on the Philippines may not be as destructive as feared since it has changed course and should only clip the far north of the archipelago later on Saturday, officials said.


Last leader of Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising dies at 87

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 09:40 PM PDT

WARSAW (Reuters) - The last leader of the wartime Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, Marek Edelman, died in Warsaw on Friday at the age of 87, friends said.


Vanishing Arctic ice shows no sign of returning

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 09:40 PM PDT

ON BOARD COAST GUARD FLIGHT ABOVE BEAUFORT SEA (Reuters) - Out in the Arctic Ocean, about 200 miles (322 km ) north of the nearest human settlement, the future of the world's climate is written in the patterns of ice patches on the water's surface.


Will Obama return to Copenhagen for climate talks?

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 09:40 PM PDT

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama came to Denmark to promote Chicago's Olympic bid, but will he come back to push for a treaty to save the world from climate change?


Irish "Yes" to EU charter, informal tallies show

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 08:38 PM PDT

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish voters have endorsed the European Union's Lisbon Treaty in a referendum, informal tallies suggested, raising EU hopes of greater global clout.


Israel, Palestinians buoyed by video-prisoner swap

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 08:38 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli soldier held captive for the past three years by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas smiled briefly and looked healthy in a two-minute Hamas video handed over to Israel on Friday.


ElBaradei bound for Iran to pin down Geneva accord

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 08:38 PM PDT

VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog will head to Iran this weekend to pin down an Iranian pledge, made at talks with big powers on Thursday, to open a newly revealed uranium enrichment site to inspections.


Obama unlikely to sign climate bill ahead UN meet

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 08:38 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is unlikely to sign climate legislation ahead of a U.N. global warming meeting in Copenhagen that starts in early December, the White House's top climate and energy coordinator said on Friday.


Foreign gunmen helped Guinea crackdown - witnesses

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 08:38 PM PDT

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Foreign gunmen, including some speaking English with Liberian accents, took part in the mass killings of anti-government protesters in Guinea this week, witnesses and other sources said on Friday.


Typhoon changes course, to only clip Philippines

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 08:04 PM PDT

MANILA (Reuters) - A "super typhoon" bearing down on the Philippines has slightly changed course and is only expected to clip the far north of the archipelago later on Saturday, officials said.


Honduras leader says met OAS chief, ready to talk

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 08:04 PM PDT

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran de facto president, Roberto Micheletti said on Friday he had recently held talks in Honduras with Organization of American States chief Jose Miguel Insulza over how to end a post-coup crisis.


Tape shows Shalit 'safe and well'

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 12:37 PM PDT

Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has been seen in a video released by Palestinian militant group Hamas, the first sight of him since his capture in 2006.


Obama, U.S. Afghan commander meet in Copenhagen

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 12:58 PM PDT

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday met President Barack Obama for the first time since presenting a grim assessment of the war effort and requesting more troops.


Obama unlikely to sign climate bill ahead UN meet

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 12:58 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is unlikely to sign climate legislation ahead of a U.N. global warming meeting in Copenhagen that starts in early December, the White House's top climate and energy coordinator said on Friday.


Rio to stage 2016 Olympic Games

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 12:17 PM PDT

Brazil will become the first South American country to host the Olympics, after Rio de Janeiro is chosen as the 2016 host city.


EU and US to present plan to break Bosnia deadlock

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 11:57 AM PDT

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States will present Bosnia's ethnically divided leaders next week with a plan to settle their differences and clear the way for the country's EU candidacy, officials said on Friday.


Rio to host 2016 Games after landslide win

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 11:32 AM PDT

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympics after the Brazilian city won a landslide victory over Madrid in the final round of voting on Friday.


Victory for Rio's heart and soul, says Brazil's Lula

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 11:32 AM PDT

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Tearful Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hailed a victory for Rio de Janeiro's heart and soul after the city won the right to host the 2016 Olympics on Friday.


ElBaradei bound for Iran to pin down Geneva accord

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 11:32 AM PDT

VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog will head to Iran this weekend to pin down an Iranian pledge, made at talks with big powers on Thursday, to open a newly revealed atomic plant to inspections.


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