U.S. Defence Secretary denies rift on Afghan war strategy

U.S. Defence Secretary denies rift on Afghan war strategy

U.S. Defence Secretary denies rift on Afghan war strategy

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:26 AM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said on Wednesday that there was no rift between President Barack Obama's military and civilian advisers on the Afghan war strategy.


Pakistan hits Taliban, urges NATO to seal border

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:26 AM PDT

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships attacked Taliban bases near the Afghan border on Wednesday as the army urged NATO forces to seal the frontier to stem cross-border movement of militants.


Gates pushes Japan on U.S. troop shift plan

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:26 AM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday pressed Japan to quickly implement a deal to reorganise the U.S. military presence in the country, an issue that could test ties with Tokyo's month-old government.


South Korea to upgrade hotline equipment with North

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:26 AM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will install fibre optic cables to upgrade two hotlines with the reclusive North in the first project between the two sides since conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office in Seoul in early 2008.


Eyeing Iran, Israel tests missile defences with U.S.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:26 AM PDT

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel and the United States launched a major air defence drill on Wednesday as part of what Israeli public radio called preparation for a faceoff with Iran.


China secretly seizing Uighur men, says rights group

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:26 AM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Scores of Uighur men have disappeared since deadly ethnic riots in far-west China in July, seized by security forces who refuse to tell their families anything about their fate, a rights group said on Wednesday.


U.S. bailout program increased moral hazard-watchdog

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:26 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's $700 billion financial bailout program has increased moral hazard in the markets by infusing capital into banks that caused the financial crisis, a watchdog for the program said on Wednesday.


Australia braces for severe bushfire season

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:26 AM PDT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned the nation on Wednesday to brace for a severe bushfire season as fire crews battled intense blazes stoking memories of infernos earlier this year which killed 173 people.


Poll - Americans divided on Afghan troop increase

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:00 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are evenly and deeply divided over whether President Barack Obama should send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan and public support for his handling of the war has taken a fall, according to a Washington Post-ABC News public opinion poll released on Wednesday.


Afghan election officials fired ahead of run-off

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:00 AM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - The heads of more than half of Afghanistan's district election offices will be replaced to prevent fraud in a second-round presidential election critical to the country's credibility and foreign support.


Maverick surges in Chile presidential race - poll

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:26 PM PDT

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A dark-horse candidate from the left has gained support in Chile's presidential race, a new poll showed on Tuesday, a development that could spell the end of the ruling coalition's 20-year grip on power.


Uruguay military rule amnesty illegal

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:38 PM PDT

Former officials from Uruguay's military government could be prosecuted for suspected human rights violations, more than 20 years on.


Reuters Summit - Geithner - Wall Street pay "offensive"

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:57 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday it is "deeply offensive" to the public that financial firms recently on the brink of failure are able to pay massive bonuses to their executives.


China tells its ships to avoid pirate seas off Africa

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:57 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has warned its ships to avoid waters off Somalia where pirates seized a Chinese coal ship on Monday, as Beijing sought to recover the vessel and crew.


U.N. investigator tells of horrors of world prisons

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:57 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Inmates at a prison in Uruguay can spend years in "tin cans" -- small metal boxes where temperatures rise to 140 degrees F (60 degrees C), while women and children were among prisoners in Nigeria confined to a "torture room."


UN Security Council condemns bomb attack in Iran

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:57 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council heeded a request from Tehran on Tuesday and condemned a weekend bomb attack that killed nearly 60 people in Iran, six of them commanders in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.


UN aims for improved Afghan poll

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:10 PM PDT

As many as 200 officials could be replaced before the second round of voting in the Afghan presidential election, the UN has said.


Biden begins central Europe tour

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:13 PM PDT

US Vice President Joe Biden is touring central Europe, with ties between the region and America uppermost in his hosts' minds.


Garcia in Georgia conflict film

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:25 PM PDT

Hollywood star Andy Garcia has taken on the role of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in a film about the 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia.


Prosecutor seeks suspended jail term for ex-French PM

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:25 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - A Paris prosecutor said on Tuesday former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was guilty of conspiring to smear Nicolas Sarkozy before his presidential bid, and urged a court to hand him a suspended 18-month prison term.


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