Iran to hold court session in French woman's case

Iran to hold court session in French woman's case

Iran to hold court session in French woman's case

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian court will hold its last session on Saturday in the trial of a French teaching assistant arrested on spying charges after a disputed election in June, her lawyer was quoted as saying on Monday.


ANALYSIS - Bomber's betrayal shows spy challenge for West

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - The killing of CIA employees in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber lauded online as a militant James Bond suggests al Qaeda's south Asian allies have developed an unprecedented capacity to disrupt the West's spy efforts.


China sends Rio case to prosecutors

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Chinese investigation into a detained Australian Rio Tinto Ltd executive and three colleagues has been sent to prosecutors, Australia's foreign office and the mining company said on Monday.


ANALYSIS - Armed attack highlights athletes' vulnerability

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - A second armed attack in the space of a year on a bus carrying a national sports team has highlighted the vulnerability of top-level athletes and the publicity such ambushes attract.


French Caribbean regions reject more autonomy

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

FORT-DE-FRANCE, France (Reuters) - Voters in the French Caribbean territories of Martinique and Guyana overwhelmingly rejected the option of greater autonomy in a referendum at the weekend, authorities said.


Al Qaeda sets 20-day deadline for French hostage's life

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:08 AM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North African wing threatened to execute a French hostage if four al Qaeda prisoners being held in Mali are not released within 20 days.


North Korea calls for peace treaty to replace armistice

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:35 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Monday it wants to reach a peace treaty quickly to replace the ceasefire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War in order to build trust with the United States and revive dormant nuclear disarmament talks.


North Korea calls for peace treaty to replace armistice

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:04 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Monday it wants to reach a peace treaty quickly to replace the ceasefire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War in order to build trust with the United States.


Gay marriage ban goes on trial in California

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:04 PM PST

OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - California's ban on gay marriage goes to trial on Monday in a federal case that plaintiffs hope to take all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn bans throughout the nation.


Q+A - U.S. base feud plagues alliance with Japan

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:04 PM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - A feud over plans to relocate a U.S. military base on Japan's Okinawa island as part of a broad reorganisation of U.S. troops is fraying ties between Japan's four-month-old government and close ally Washington.


Q+A - Next step expected in China's Rio Tinto case

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:04 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's probe into four detained Rio Tinto employees, including Australian Stern Hu, is set to move forward as soon as Monday, when authorities could decide whether to extend investigations, seek prosecution or drop charges.


Ashton to face EU 'grilling'

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 10:24 PM PST

The EU's new foreign affairs chief Baroness Ashton is expected to face tough question by MEPs at a confirmation hearing.


Clinton to talk bases, security on Pacific swing

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 10:38 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to the South Pacific this week, working to boost key U.S. alliances while pressing Japan to resolve a damaging dispute over a critical U.S. military base.


Josipovic elected Croatia leader

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 10:17 PM PST

The opposition Social Democrat, Ivo Josipovic, has won Croatia's presidential election by a wide margin.


U.S. lawmaker presses NY Fed on AIG payment details

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 10:03 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. lawmaker said on Sunday he is seeking more information from the New York Federal Reserve Bank about its controversial emails on insurer AIG's bailout, saying he was shocked that the disclosures were never brought to then-bank president Timothy Geithner's attention.


U.S. envoy says N.Korea rights record "appalling"

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 10:03 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - The Obama administration's newly appointed envoy for human rights in North Korea said on Monday Pyongyang had an abysmal record and that Washington would press the reclusive state to clean up its act.


South Korea's Lee runs risks with new city plan

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 08:29 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak put his rising popularity ratings and economic reform plans at risk on Monday by changing the focus of a planned new city that has angered a key power broker in his ruling party.


UK's Brown to unveil election plans after failed plot

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 07:59 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will attempt to reassert his authority over his ruling Labour Party on Monday, after surviving a plot to depose him less than five months before an election that he is expected to lose.


Chavez warns businesses after currency devaluation

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 07:31 PM PST

CARACAS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez ordered soldiers to seek out businesses that raise prices after a sharp devaluation of the bolivar currency last week, saying he will expropriate firms that engage in price gouging.


FACTBOX - Venezuela's bolivar currency devaluation

Posted: 10 Jan 2010 07:31 PM PST

Chavez's government devalued Venezuela's bolivar currency on Friday, setting two rates of 2.6 and 4.3 against the dollar.


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