Afghanistan to be given timetable for progress (AP)

Afghanistan to be given timetable for progress (AP)

Afghanistan to be given timetable for progress (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:40 PM PST

This Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009 photo released by the United Nations shows UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, right, meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the International Financial Center in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Schneider)AP - Countries backing Afghanistan's government are going to demand that it meet specific security benchmarks, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday, outlining a plan to let foreign troops gradually hand control to local forces.

Ex-rebel likely to be Uruguay presidential winner (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:01 PM PST

Leading Uruguayan presidential candidate Jose Mujica, of the ruling party Frente Amplio, talks to reporters during a press conference in Montevideo, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. Uruguayans will choose their next leader in a Nov. 29 runoff between Jose Mujica and Luis Alberto Lacalle of the National Party. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)AP - A plain-talking former leftist guerrilla is heavily favored to win Uruguay's presidential run-off election Sunday and keep the country's popular center-left coalition in power for another five years.

Afghan private sector desperate for change (AFP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:03 PM PST

Shopowner Mohammad Fareed shows an Afghan carpet in Kabul in September 2009. Afghanistan's tiny business community is hardly brimming with optimism as the government struggles to deal with levels of graft that make the country one of the most corrupt in the world.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)AFP - Afghanistan's tiny business community is hardly brimming with optimism as the government struggles to deal with levels of graft that make the country one of the most corrupt in the world.

Big developing countries form climate change front

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:07 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - A clutch of major emerging economies including China and India have forged a united front to put pressure on developed countries at next month's climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.


Former guerrilla favored to win Uruguay election

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:07 PM PST

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - A former guerrilla fighter who was jailed for 14 years is poised on Sunday to become Uruguay's next president in a runoff vote seen as a referendum on the economic success of the country's ruling leftist coalition.


Hondurans to elect new president after June coup

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:51 PM PST

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Hondurans vote for a new president on Sunday in the latest chapter of a months-long political standoff triggered by a coup that has divided the United States from Latin American powers Brazil and Argentina.


ANALYSIS - White House sees progress from Chinese trip

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:51 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Perhaps Barack Obama's trip to China this month was not such a flop after all.


TIMELINE - Major attacks in Russia 1994-2009

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:51 PM PST

The 14-carriage Nevsky Express carrying nearly 700 people was jolted off the rails on Friday night on the main line between Moscow and Russia's second city, St Petersburg.


Sri Lanka's Fonseka formally announces poll bid

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:51 PM PST

COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan general who oversaw the end of 25 years of civil war said on Sunday he will contest the presidential election in January against President Mahinda Rajapaksa.


Captain Cook: explorer standing the test of time (AFP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:10 PM PST

John Webber's portrait from 1782 of Captain James Cook, which was recently purchased by the Australian Art Gallery. On January 11, 1780, the London Gazette reported the death of Cook, AFP - On January 11, 1780, the London Gazette reported the death of Captain James Cook, "on the island of O'Why'he ... in an affray with a numerous and tumultuous Body of Natives."

Honduras hopes to move past coup with election (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:22 PM PST

A woman walks near pictures of presidential candidate Porfirio Lobo that read in English 'Pepe is change now!' in Tegucigalpa, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. With President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a military coup last June, still holed up in the Brazilian embassy, voters will choose a new president Sunday from the political establishment that has dominated Honduras for decades. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - Hondurans choose a new president Sunday whose first challenge will be defending his legitimacy to the world and his people, and ending a debilitating, five-month-long crisis caused by Central America's first coup in more than 20 years.

Hondurans to elect new president after June coup

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:11 PM PST

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Hondurans vote for a new president Sunday in the latest chapter of a months-long political standoff triggered by a coup that has divided the United States from Latin American powers Brazil and Argentina.

Sri Lanka's Fonseka formally announces poll bid

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 09:48 PM PST

COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan general who oversaw the end of 25 years of civil war said on Sunday he will contest the presidential election in January against President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Former guerrilla favored to win Uruguay election

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:23 PM PST

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - A former guerrilla fighter who was jailed for 14 years is poised on Sunday to become Uruguay's next president in a runoff vote seen as a referendum on the economic success of the country's ruling leftist coalition.

Bin Laden 'within grasp' in 2001

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:43 PM PST

US decisions contributed to failure to capture or kill al-Qaeda leader, report says.


Party Crashers Cause a Hangover

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:31 AM PST

Obama requested a full review of how a Virginia couple crashed a state dinner for India's prime minister. Aides said that they had met the president on the receiving line.


British PM sets targets for Afghan president

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 06:40 PM PST

LONDON -British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday he wanted to set President Hamid Karzai a series of three-monthly targets so that international forces can start to hand over control of Afghanistan.

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Europe lacks means, will for Afghan war: experts

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 05:59 PM PST

BRUSSELS -The United States' partners could deploy some 5,000 extra troops under a new strategy to combat the Afghan insurgency but lack the means or the will to do much more, according to analysts.

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Bangladesh ferry toll at 37 but set to surge: police (AFP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:14 PM PST

Bangladeshi villagers gather at the riverside to inspect a capsized ferry in village Bhola, some 255 km from Dhaka, on November 28. Bangladeshi rescue workers on Sunday pulled more bodies from a capsized ferry as police said at least 37 people had died and warned that AFP - Bangladeshi rescue workers on Sunday pulled more bodies from a capsized ferry as police said at least 37 people had died and warned that "scores" more corpses remained in the vessel.

Zardari Turns Over Nuclear Authority

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:18 PM PST

Pakistan's embattled president, Asif Ali Zardari, has transferred command of the country's nuclear arsenal to the prime minister, as he comes under increasing pressure to step down.


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