Thailand to charge plane crew over N.Korean arms

Thailand to charge plane crew over N.Korean arms

Thailand to charge plane crew over N.Korean arms

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:49 PM PST

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will press charges against the crew of a plane forced to land in Bangkok and found to be carrying arms from North Korea, a government spokesman said on Sunday, adding it was unclear where the plane had been going.

Iran opposition warns of action against reformers

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:34 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's opposition accused the authorities on Sunday of preparing "unconventional" actions to uproot the reform movement, after official media said pro-opposition students had destroyed pictures of religious leaders.

Billionaire favored in Chile vote but run-off seen

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:12 PM PST

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A conservative billionaire is the front-runner in Chile's presidential election Sunday but is seen needing a run-off to break two decades of center-left rule since the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

Amazon projects undercut Brazil's new green path

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:04 PM PST

PORTO VELHO, Brazil (Reuters) - Straddling one the Amazon's main tributaries and flanked by dense jungle, a construction pit the size of a small town bustles with bulldozers and nearly 10,000 workers blasting huge slabs of rock off the river bank.

Jewish settler woman stabbed in West Bank

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:18 PM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Jewish settler woman was stabbed and wounded on a roadside in the occupied West Bank in what Israeli police said on Sunday was an attack by a Palestinian militant. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the assault late on Saturday night near the city of Bethlehem and a settlement bloc known as Gush Etzion, which occurred after a mosque was vandalized elsewhere in the West Bank.

Chile prepares to hold elections

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:35 PM PST

Chile is preparing for the first round of its presidential elections with four men vying for the job.


Chile prepares to hold elections

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:35 PM PST

Chile is preparing for the first round of its presidential elections with four men vying for the job.


Violence follows DTP ban in Turkey

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:23 PM PST

Angry protests erupt after pro-Kurd party banned by constitutional court.


Kabul's deputy-mayor arrested

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:37 PM PST

Afghanistan police take second official into custody amid crackdown on corruption.


Blair will give Iraq war evidence in public: inquiry (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:24 PM PST

A protestor sets fire to a mask representing former British prime minister Tony Blair. Britain's Iraq war inquiry said Sunday the former prime minister would be questioned AFP - The Iraq war inquiry said Sunday that former prime minister Tony Blair would be questioned "very much in public" amid fears that crucial evidence would only be heard in private.

S.Africa tackles World Cup child trafficking fears (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:18 PM PST

Children play foorball at the Amazing Grace children's home grounds in Eikenhof, South of Johannesburg. An estimated 247,000 children in South Africa now work in exploitive labour, including prostitution, according to the Child Protection Action Plan for the World Cup, created by government?s department of social development.(AFP/File/Paballo Thekiso)AFP - Lesotho-born Thato was brought to South Africa at age three, by a woman she knew simply as "granny".

Hundreds of Indian languages struggle to survive (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:21 PM PST

In this picture taken on October 31, 2009, Indian students from tribal communities are taught about tribal symbols at the Adivasi Academy in the village of Tejgadh, some 200kms from Ahmedabad. Classrooms at the Adivasi Academy in western India echo to the speech patterns of languages that may soon become no more than a meaningless jumble of noises.(AFP/Sam Panthaky)AFP - Classrooms at the Adivasi Academy in western India echo to the speech patterns of languages that may soon become no more than a meaningless jumble of noises.

Gunmen storm jail, free 31 prisoners in Philippines

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 10:19 PM PST

MANILA (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim rebels punched a hole on the wall of a provincial jail on a remote southern island in the Philippines and freed 31 prisoners before dawn on Sunday, security officials said.


Gunmen storm jail, free 31 prisoners in Philippines

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 09:35 PM PST

MANILA (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim rebels punched a hole on the wall of a provincial jail on a remote southern island in the Philippines and freed 31 prisoners before dawn on Sunday, security officials said.

Official: 3rd Air France black box search in Feb. (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 09:27 PM PST

Jean-Paul Troadec, director of France's accident investigation agency BEA, right, and lead investigator Alain Bouillard speak to the press after meeting with the relatives of the victims of the crashed Air France flight 447 in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. The cause of the June 1 crash off Brazil's northeastern coast that killed all 228 people aboard is unknown. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - A new, three-month hunt for the black boxes of a crashed Air France jetliner will begin in February, the head of France's accident investigation agency told relatives of crash victims on Saturday.

'Whack A Banker' game proving a hit in Britain (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 09:42 PM PST

Demonstrators dressed as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) and a 'City fat cat, drinking champagne' pose outside the Bank of England during a protest against poverty last year. A new AFP - A new "Whack A Banker" amusement arcade game is proving so popular in Britain that the mallets used to clobber them are wearing out fast, its creator said.

Seven crew missing after ship capsizes off Lebanon

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 09:50 PM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Five crew were rescued from a cargo ship that capsized some 80 km (50 miles) off the Lebanese coast, but seven more were still missing, the Israeli army and the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon said on Saturday.


Thaksin to arrive in Cambodia Sunday: govt

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 07:40 PM PST

PHNOM PENH -Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra was expected in Cambodia Sunday to meet a Thai man jailed for spying on him last month, a government spokesman said.

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Chinese man kills 12 in gun rampage: state media

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 06:33 PM PST

BEIJING -Police in central China encircled Sunday a remote hilltop where a gunman suspected of killing 12 people, including his father, was believed to be hiding, state media said.

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Police capture mass-murder suspect in China

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 06:33 PM PST

BEIJING -Police in central China captured Sunday a man suspected of killing 12 people, including his father and relatives, and torching up to six homes, a government official said.

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