Obama, Netanyahu to meet as U.S. peace effort flounders

Obama, Netanyahu to meet as U.S. peace effort flounders

Obama, Netanyahu to meet as U.S. peace effort flounders

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:15 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was due to hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Monday amid floundering U.S. efforts to jump-start stalled Middle East peace talks.


Cold War frontier gone in Germany, remains in Korea

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:15 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - As a united Germany marks the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall on Monday, about 1 million soldiers face off across the Cold War's last great divide -- the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.


FACTBOX - The DMZ dividing the rival Koreas

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:15 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - The Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that divides the Korean peninsula has been a no man's land for more than 50 years. Following are key facts about the DMZ.


US Army appeals for help in Fort Hood inquiry

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 03:30 AM PST

FORT HOOD, Texas -Worshippers have packed into churches to seek answers after a gunman opened fire in a US military base killing 13 and wounding 30, as army investigators appealed for help in their inquiry.

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China pledges $10B in loans to Africa

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:19 PM PST

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UK watchdog rejects tabloid hacking allegations (AFP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:32 PM PST

A man reads a copy of the Sun newspaper in London. The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed allegations that the News of the World hacked the mobile phones of celebrities, footballers and politicians to glean stories.(AFP/File)AFP - The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed allegations that News of the World newspaper hacked the mobile phones of celebrities, footballers and politicians to glean stories.

US military: 2 American pilots die in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:39 PM PST

AP - The U.S. military says two American pilots have died in a helicopter crash in Iraq.


Suicide bomber strikes Pakistan police (AFP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:45 PM PST

A Pakistan man carries an injured boy as he leaves the hospital after a suicide attack in Peshawar. A suicide car bomber struck near a busy livestock market in Pakistan's Peshawar city on Sunday, killing 12 people including a former Taliban sympathiser turned anti-militant mayor, police said.(AFP/Hasham Ahmed)AFP - A suicide bomber killed three people on Monday in the second attack in Pakistan's city of Peshawar in 24 hours as militants stepped up efforts to avenge a major offensive against the Taliban.

Cold War frontier gone in Germany, remains in Korea

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:00 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - As a united Germany marks the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall on Monday, about 1 million soldiers face off across the Cold War's last great divide -- the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.

Suicide bomber kills three in Pakistan

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:44 PM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in an auto-rickshaw blew himself up in Pakistan on Monday killing three people when police stopped him at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of Peshawar, police said.


Tsvangirai aide set for trial

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:22 PM PST

Roy Bennett's terrorism trial could endanger Zimbabwe's unity government.


Cold War frontier gone in Germany, remains in Korea (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:00 PM PST

A North Korean soldier looks south through a pair of binoculars on the north side of the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul, July 8, 2009, on the 15th anniversary of the death of North Korea's founder and the late leader Kim Il-sung. REUTERS/Jo Yong-HakReuters - As a united Germany marks the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall on Monday, about 1 million soldiers face off across the Cold War's last great divide -- the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.

Asian markets track US higher after jobs report (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:01 PM PST

In this photo made Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, specialists Scott Wetzel, Michael Bonnano and Peter Gaicchi, left to right, and Gennaro Saporito, foreground right, work at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stock market volatility is back, a signal to some experts that the powerful rally that started in early March may be coming to an end. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - Asian stock markets rose Monday as investors took a surprisingly weak U.S. jobs report as a sign that interest rates in the world's largest economy will stay low longer than expected.

Police: Suicide bomber kills 3 in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:48 PM PST

Pakistani policemen secure the site after police shot a would-be suicide bomber in Islamabad. Pakistani police shot dead the would-be suicide bomber who advanced towards a checkpoint in the capital Islamabad shouting AP - A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of police constables in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said.

Fighting the odds to keep Indian tongues alive (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:01 PM PST

In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009, children line up before the start of their classes in Huampami in the Peruvian state of Amazonas. Throughout Latin America, native languages are disappearing and Indians are under intense pressure to speak Spanish. At the same time, Indians have little access to post-secondary education. They are ill-prepared by substandard schools, afflicted by high dropout rates and usually short on financial help. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)AP - In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class.

Drugs rife in India's Goa despite crackdown (AFP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:47 PM PST

Tourists walk near the place where body of British teenager Scarlett Keeling was found at the Anjuna beach in Goa in February 2009. Aggressive drug pushing is commonplace at Anjuna Beach, a popular resort in the north of the former Portuguese colony, which has been a haven for foreign visitors since the days of the hippie trail in the 1960s and 1970s.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - Two foreign tourists walk down to the shore at Anjuna Beach in the Indian resort state of Goa. In tow is a local man, persistently offering them a menu of illegal drugs.

Suicide bomber hits Pakistan city

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:14 PM PST

Three people, including police constable, are killed in blast in Peshawar.


Suicide bomber kills three in Pakistan

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:18 PM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in an auto-rickshaw blew himself up in Pakistan on Monday killing three people when police stopped him at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of Peshawar, police said.

Q+A - Climate change finance -- how does it work?

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:33 PM PST

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Discussing how to pay for efforts to combat climate change was a major theme at Saturday's meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 leading economies.


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