US offers Pakistan expanded partnership: report (AFP)

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• US offers Pakistan expanded partnership: report (AFP)
• EU pushes for stronger yuan
• Sale of Dubai property bonds frozen
• Thai king's birthday address postponed - palace
• Nazi death camp trial begins
• Dubai banks given extra liquidity
• Nazi death camp trial begins
• Dubai banks given extra liquidity
• Tiger: I'm solely to blame for crash
• Three Spaniards kidnapped in Mauritania
• Indians still haunted by worst industrial accident (AP)
• Report urges sanctions against Sudan ruling party
• Saudi crown prince ends treatment, back soon -son
• Hajj pilgrimage comes to an end
• Hajj pilgrimage comes to an end
• Europe's post-Soviet greening — gains and failures (AP)
• Gunmen kill three in restive Thai south: police (AFP)
• Conservative 'wins Honduran poll'
• Asia stocks up as Dubai fears ease
• Nuke plant workers poisoned

US offers Pakistan expanded partnership: report (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:30 PM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama has offered Pakistan an expanded strategic partnership, including additional military and economic cooperation, The Washington Post reported Monday.

EU pushes for stronger yuan Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:43 PM PST Read full story for latest details.

Sale of Dubai property bonds frozen Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:27 PM PST Market drops after Nakheel property developer asks Nasdeq to stop trading its bonds.

Thai king's birthday address postponed - palace Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:41 PM PST BANGKOK (Reuters) - A traditional birthday eve address by Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej scheduled for Friday, Dec. 4, has been postponed indefinitely, the royal palace said on Monday.

Nazi death camp trial begins Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:08 PM PST After a 32-year legal battle, John Demjanjuk will face charges of helping to murder more than 27,000 Jews at the Sobibor concentration camp, at a court in Munich on Monday.

Dubai banks given extra liquidity Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:13 PM PST The UAE central bank says it will offer banks extra liquidity, as the troubled stock market there prepares to reopen.

Nazi death camp trial begins Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:08 PM PST After a 32-year legal battle, John Demjanjuk will face charges of helping to murder more than 27,000 Jews at the Sobibor concentration camp, at a court in Munich on Monday.

Dubai banks given extra liquidity Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:13 PM PST The UAE central bank says it will offer banks extra liquidity, as the troubled stock market there prepares to reopen.

Tiger: I'm solely to blame for crash Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:00 PM PST MIAMI Tiger Woods finally spoke up over the mystery car crash he was involved in outside his mansion on Friday. The world No1  said he only had himself to blame for the crash. But he continued to turn down an interview with police officers for a third time amid claims Read more...

Three Spaniards kidnapped in Mauritania Posted: 29 Nov 2009 07:47 PM PST NOUAKCHOTT -Three Spanish humanitarian workers were kidnapped in northwestern Mauritania on the road linking the capital Nouakchott to the city of Nouadhibou, officials and aid workers said. Read more...

Indians still haunted by worst industrial accident (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:10 PM PST AP - Hazra Bi wishes she could forget. But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the worst industrial disaster the world has ever seen.

Report urges sanctions against Sudan ruling party Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:11 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and other world powers should impose sanctions on key members of the Sudanese government for refusing to end violence in Darfur and south Sudan, a report by an anti-genocide group said on Monday.

Saudi crown prince ends treatment, back soon -son Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:11 PM PST DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz is in "excellent health" after being treated for an illness and will return home "after a few weeks", his son, Prince Khaled bin Sultan, was quoted as saying.

Hajj pilgrimage comes to an end Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:18 PM PST The biggest annual pilgrimage in the world has just finished in Saudi Arabia.

Hajj pilgrimage comes to an end Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:18 PM PST The biggest annual pilgrimage in the world has just finished in Saudi Arabia.

Europe's post-Soviet greening — gains and failures (AP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:01 PM PST AP - Twenty years ago, when the Iron Curtain came down, the world gagged in horror as it witnessed firsthand the ravages inflicted on nature by the Soviet industrial machine.

Gunmen kill three in restive Thai south: police (AFP) Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:23 PM PST AFP - Suspected Islamic separatists shot dead three men on Monday morning in the latest bout of violence in Thailand's restive south, local police said.

Conservative 'wins Honduran poll' Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:33 PM PST Ousted president Zelaya insists voter turnout was low and calls vote illegitimate.

Asia stocks up as Dubai fears ease Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:52 PM PST Shares regain some lost ground as UAE pledges support for banks amid fears over debt.

Nuke plant workers poisoned Posted: 29 Nov 2009 07:17 PM PST BANGALORE Workers at a nuclear power plant in southern India were treated for poisoning after drinking water was deliberately spiked with radiation, senior government officials said on Sunday. Routine tests showed 55 employees from the plant in Kaiga in the state of Karnataka had increased levels of the Read more...

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