China defends Wen Jiabao's role in Copenhagen talks

China defends Wen Jiabao's role in Copenhagen talks

China defends Wen Jiabao's role in Copenhagen talks

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 11:16 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Friday defended the role played by premier Wen Jiabao at climate change talks in Copenhagen this month after a barrage of international criticism blaming China for obstructing negotiations.


Pope knocked over at mass

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 02:23 PM PST

Pope Benedict XVI was knocked down as he walked down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass at the Vatican


China jails dissident Liu Xiaobo for 11 years

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 10:10 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was jailed on Friday for 11 years for campaigning for political freedoms, with the stiff sentence on subversion condemned by rights groups and Washington.


China jails dissident Liu Xiaobo for 11 years

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 08:16 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced on Friday to 11 years in prison, his lawyer said, for "incitement to subvert state power" with writings calling for civil freedom and multiparty democracy.


Pope dragged to floor but unharmed at Mass incident

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 08:16 PM PST

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A woman the Vatican described as unstable jumped over a barricade, lunged at Pope Benedict and dragged him to the floor at the start of his Christmas Eve mass in St Peter's Basilica.


Pilgrims crowd Bethlehem on warm Christmas eve

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 06:54 PM PST

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Thousands of pilgrims and dignitaries crowded into Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity for a Christmas Mass, where Latin Patriarch Fuad al-Tuwal urged visitors to return home bearing a message of peace for the Holy Land.


Japan PM under fire on scandal as govt drafts budget

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 06:54 PM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama came under fire over a funding scandal on Christmas Day, with Japanese media speculating that he might have to step down if voters found his explanations unconvincing and his leadership disappointing.


China jails dissident Liu Xiaobo for 11 years

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 06:54 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced on Friday to 11 years in prison on charges of "incitement to subvert state power", his lawyer said.


U.S. father, son home after Brazil custody battle

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 06:16 PM PST

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - The 9-year-old boy at the center of an international custody battle arrived back in the United States on Thursday after being reunited in Brazil with his American father at the end of a five-year dispute that tested bilateral ties.


Venezuela's Chavez threatens to oust Toyota

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 05:51 PM PST

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has threatened to expel Japanese carmaker Toyota unless it produces an all-terrain model of 4x4 vehicles used for public transport in poor and rural areas.


Pope knocked to floor but unharmed at mass incident

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:16 PM PST

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A woman jumped over a barricade at the start of Pope Benedict's Christmas Eve mass on Thursday and lunged at the pope, who was knocked to the floor in the confusion but then resumed the service apparently unharmed.


Attacks kill at least 23 across Iraq

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:16 PM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 23 people died in attacks across Iraq on Thursday, including a provincial leader and pilgrims observing a major Shi'ite religious ritual, police and officials said.


Blizzard forms in U.S. Midwest, Plains

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 04:16 PM PST

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A blizzard is set to blanket the central United States on Wednesday, likely shutting roads, reducing visibility to near zero and causing power outages in its wake, forecasters said.


U.N. 2010-2011 budget pushes past $5 billion

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 03:15 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The General Assembly approved a two-year U.N. budget on Thursday that pushed past the $5 billion mark, but Western countries said they had won savings on the cost of an organization some see as profligate.


UN website details peacekeeper sex abuse claims

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 03:15 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations unveiled a website on Thursday aimed at improving transparency about sexual misconduct allegations and other charges leveled against members of its missions.


CORRECTED - Blizzard forms in U.S. Midwest, Plains

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 03:15 PM PST

By Meredith Davis


Bin Laden's daughter "in Saudi embassy in Tehran"

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 02:15 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran has informed the Iranian authorities that one of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's daughters is in the embassy and wants to leave the country, Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday.


Two-time Venezuelan president Caldera dies at 93

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:11 PM PST

CARACAS (Reuters) - Rafael Caldera, who served twice as Venezuela's president and released current leader Hugo Chavez from jail after his failed coup attempt in the 1990s, died at age 93 on Thursday, his family said.


Palestinian gunmen kill Israeli in West Bank - army

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:11 PM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen shot dead an Israeli driving his car in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the army said, calling it a "terror act".


Yemen says Fort Hood-linked imam may be dead

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:11 PM PST

SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni air raid may have killed the top two leaders of al Qaeda's regional branch on Thursday, and an American Muslim preacher linked to the man who shot dead 13 people at a U.S. army base may also have died, a Yemeni security official said.


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