Thousands feared dead as major quake strikes Haiti

Thousands feared dead as major quake strikes Haiti

Thousands feared dead as major quake strikes Haiti

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 01:12 AM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help.


Study says Europe's 12 mln cocaine users risk lives

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 01:12 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - More than three percent of sudden deaths in Europe are related to cocaine use and many of them are brought on by a "lethal cocktail" of the drug, alcohol and cigarettes, scientists said on Wednesday.


Suicide bomber kills 7 in Iraq's Anbar province

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:41 AM PST

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up a truck near a police station in Iraq's western Anbar province on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding six, police said.


U.S., Google take hard line on China Internet controls

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:10 AM PST

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc may pull out of China because of censorship and cyber attacks on rights activists, further straining Sino-U.S. relations as Washington prepared to tackle global Internet censorship.


Chinese Internet activists applaud Google, see no backdown

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:10 AM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Google's announcement that it may quit China over censorship and hacking drew applause, warnings and bouquets from dissidents and Internet activists on Wednesday, with few seeing much chance of the wary government giving ground.


Turkey calls for Israel apology

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:26 PM PST

Turkey has demanded that Israel apologise over the way its ambassador was treated during a diplomatic meeting.


Watch the politics if you're worried on inflation

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - If accelerating global inflation is to be the real legacy of credit crisis, watch closely the relationship between central bankers and their political overseers for clues to any potential policy accident.


Cash-short North Korea opens up to U.S. tourists

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea appears ready to welcome visitors from the United States year-round, increasing the trickle of tourists from its sworn enemy who provide the reclusive state with hard cash.


White House says stimulus has saved two million jobs

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's emergency spending measures last year saved up to 2 million U.S. jobs, the White House said on Wednesday, but it warned that the outlook for the economy remained uncertain.


Indonesia's top reformer defends bank rescue

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, a top reformer in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's cabinet, defended on Wednesday her decision to rescue a troubled bank in 2008 to avert a financial crisis.


CORRECTED - U.S., Google take hard line on China Internet controls

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST

By Alexei Oreskovic and John Poirier


Suicide bomber kills 7 in Iraq's Anbar province

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:06 PM PST

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up a truck near a police station in Iraq's western Anbar province on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding six, police said.


Google's China retreat resets expansion plans

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:06 PM PST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc delighted free-speech advocates as it threatened to pull out of China over censorship and cyber attacks, but the move upends one of the company's most important growth initiatives.


Yemeni al Qaeda cell leader killed -- state media

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:06 PM PST

SANAA (Reuters) - The leader of a Yemeni al Qaeda cell has been killed in clashes with security forces, Yemen's state news agency reported on Wednesday.


U.S., Google take hard line on China Internet controls

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:29 PM PST

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc may pull out of China because of censorship and cyber attacks on rights activists, further straining Sino-U.S. relations as Washington prepared to tackle global Internet censorship.


U.S. urges Japan to keep commitment on military base

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:29 PM PST

HONOLULU (Reuters) - The United States urged Japan on Tuesday to keep its commitment to move a U.S. military base on Okinawa island but the two vowed not to let the row derail their security alliance in the face of rising Chinese power.


TIMELINE: Google's rocky road into China

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:29 PM PST

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc has said it may pull out of China because it is no longer willing to accept censorship of its search results, in what would be a shock retreat from the world's largest Internet market by users.


Google may quit China over censorship

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:29 PM PST

SHANGHAI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Internet giant Google Inc has made a shock threat to quit China, the world's biggest Internet market by users, after hackers accessed human rights activists' e-mail accounts.


Big Haiti quake topples buildings, many casualties

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:57 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A major earthquake struck the capital of impoverished Haiti on Tuesday, toppling many buildings and burying hundreds, possibly thousands, of people under the rubble, witnesses said.


White House says stimulus has saved two million jobs

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:57 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's emergency spending measures last year saved up to two million U.S. jobs, the White House said on Wednesday, but it warned that the outlook for the economy remained uncertain.


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