ANALYSIS - Tough election challenge to Mubarak unlikely in 2011

ANALYSIS - Tough election challenge to Mubarak unlikely in 2011

ANALYSIS - Tough election challenge to Mubarak unlikely in 2011

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 01:03 AM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - Former nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei's bombshell that he is considering running for Egypt's presidency in 2011 will not translate into a competitive election, even if he succeeds in entering the race.


Pakistan's Peshawar, epicentre of jihad

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 01:03 AM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani provincial minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti spends much of his time handing out envelopes containing cheques. Some people still suffering from shrapnel wounds limped to collect them.


UK expected to tax bank bonuses

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 11:27 PM PST

Britain's Chancellor Alastair Darling will be under the spotlight at home and abroad as he delivers his Pre-Budget Report later.


Myanmar junta labels detained Suu Kyi "dishonest"

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 12:03 AM PST

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been insincere and dishonest in her offer to meet the country's military ruler and push for the lifting of Western sanctions, state media said on Wednesday.


Iran frees three detained Belgians - media

Posted: 09 Dec 2009 12:03 AM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has released three Belgians who were detained two months ago for illegally entering a prohibited area and gathering information, official media reported on Wednesday.


Gates: pieces coming together for Afghan success

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 11:35 PM PST

KABUL (Reuters) - Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited U.S. commanders in Afghanistan on Wednesday, promising that President Barack Obama's surge of extra forces would give them what they need for success against the Taliban.


Iran frees three detained Belgians - media

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 11:35 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has released three Belgians who were detained two months ago for illegally entering a prohibited area and gathering information, official media reported on Wednesday.


California green jobs: small but growing

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 11:35 PM PST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Green jobs in California are growing at a faster pace than jobs overall in the environmentally friendly state, but they still account for only a tiny fraction of the economy, a study said on Tuesday.


Turkey may ban Kurdish DTP party

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:40 PM PST

Turkey's Constitutional Court is considering whether to ban the country's leading Kurdish party.


Rosetta row 'would end with loan'

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:36 PM PST

Egypt's head of antiquities will drop a demand for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum agrees to loan it out, he has said.


Iran frees three detained Belgians - media

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 11:03 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has released three Belgians who were detained two months ago for illegally entering a prohibited area and gathering information, official media reported on Wednesday.


UK's Darling will set stage for election fight

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:33 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Alistair Darling will on Wednesday set the stage for the coming election and gamble his government's future on a one-off tax on bank bonuses and promises to protect schools, hospitals and policing.


NJ vote on gay marriage could shape battles ahead

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:33 PM PST

TRENTON (Reuters) - The legalization of same-sex marriage faces a critical test in New Jersey this week that advocates on each side of the controversial issue argue will shape the fate of gay-marriage battles across the nation.


Iran frees three detained Belgians - media

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:33 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has released three Belgians who were detained two months ago for illegally entering a "forbidden zone" and gathering information there, the official IRNA news agency said on Wednesday.


SPECIAL REPORT - Is there a doctor in the corporation? Maybe soon

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:33 PM PST

SILVER SPRING, Md. (Reuters) - Liz Sequeira, a 52-year-old primary care physician, is too young to remember when U.S. doctors made routine house calls. So to her, seeing patients in her three exam rooms on the first floor of Discovery Communications Inc's modern headquarters is like stepping back in time.


China moves closer to trial of prominent dissident

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:03 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have moved closer to putting one of country's best known dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, on trial, his lawyer said on Wednesday, a year after Liu helped launched a petition demanding democracy.


U.S. airport screening secrets posted online

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:03 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration accidentally posted a document online containing secrets related to airport passenger screening practices, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.


Coakley wins Mass. primary for Kennedy's Senate seat

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 10:03 PM PST

BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley on Tuesday won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death Senator Edward Kennedy, who died in August of brain cancer.


For North Korea, giving up atomic weapons is a risk

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 09:39 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - In wintry Pyongyang this week, the challenge for U.S. President Barack Obama's first envoy to North Korea is how to convince its obsessively secretive leader that he would be mad not to talk with the outside world about disarming.


FACTBOX - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 09:39 PM PST

Bosworth has no plans to speak with leader Kim Jong-il, 67, the man who calls the shots about the nuclear programme that is seen at home at preventing a U.S. invasion and the pinnacle achievement of his "military first" rule.


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