UK says it, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit

UK says it, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit

UK says it, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 12:15 AM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States and Britain have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism, Britain said on Sunday.


Yemen president tackles boosting security with U.S.

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:50 PM PST

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's president met a top U.S. general on Saturday to discuss boosting military cooperation, after President Barack Obama tied al Qaeda's regional arm to the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a U.S. passenger jet.


UK says it, U.S. agree to fund Yemen police unit

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:50 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States and Britain have agreed to fund a counter-terrorism police unit in Yemen as part of stepped-up efforts to fight terrorism in Yemen and Somalia after an attack on a U.S.-bound plane, Britain said on Sunday.


Israel acts like the world's 'spoilt child' - Saudi

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:50 PM PST

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Saturday said Israel was the world's "spoilt child" and got away with what Riyadh said were violations of international law and war crimes without punishment.


Australian prime minister turns children's author

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:50 PM PST

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is about to become a published children's author, with a tale about the lives of two family pets at one of his official residences, a spokeswoman said on Sunday.


ANALYSIS - Counterterrorism competes with jobs in Obama agenda

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:50 PM PST

KAILUA, Hawaii (Reuters) - Job creation will take a backseat to counterterrorism on President Barack Obama's agenda next week after an al Qaeda-linked man's failed attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound plane forced the White House to shift its focus.


Venezuela captures bigger drug haul in 2009

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:50 PM PST

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela reported on Saturday 60 tonnes of drugs were confiscated in 2009, an 11 percent bigger haul than the previous year, and said anti-narcotics efforts had improved since it ended cooperation with the United States.


US bomb suspect "reached out" to UK militants - report

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:50 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - British security services knew three years ago that the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane had "multiple communications" with Islamic extremists in Britain, a newspaper reported on Saturday.


Obama puts blame on al Qaeda for plane attack

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:50 PM PST

HONOLULU (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Saturday zeroed in on al Qaeda as the driving force behind an attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas and promised again to hold accountable those involved in the failed attack.


UK and US unite on 'Yemen threat'

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:51 PM PST

Britain and the US are to join forces to tackle the "evolving threat" from Islamist groups in Yemen and Somalia, Downing Street has announced.


Petition against Icesave pay-out

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:53 PM PST

Almost a quarter of voters in Iceland have signed a petition against plans to repay money lost by foreigners when an Icelandic online bank collapsed.


Brazil mudslide death toll rises

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:54 PM PST

The number of people killed in a landslide that hit a Brazilian island resort on New Year's Day has risen to at least 26.


'Wood to bone' medical breakthrough

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 05:50 PM PST

Scientists in Italy have discovered a way of making artificial replacement bones out of wood, Duncan Kennedy reports.


Eritrea refuses food aid

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 05:49 PM PST

Eritreans who have crossed the border into Ethiopia discuss the plight of their native country, as drought grips the Horn of Africa.


Obama links al-Qaeda to plane plot

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 01:15 PM PST

US President Barack Obama has for the first time publicly accused an offshoot of al-Qaeda over the alleged Christmas Day bomb plot to blow up a US plane.


Karzai cabinet nominees rejected

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:27 PM PST

The Afghan parliament has turned down 17 out of President Hamid Karzai's 24 nominees for his new cabinet.


Pakistan buries volleyball bomb dead

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:17 AM PST

A small village in Pakistan is mourning those lost in a suicide attack on a sports event that killed at least 93 people.


Brazil mudslides death toll rises

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:59 AM PST

Heavy rain and landslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro have killed at least 40 people.


Somali govt accuses Yemeni rebels of arming Shabaab

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:43 AM PST

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Yemeni rebels have sent arms in the last few days to support Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab insurgents, the Somali defence minister said on Saturday.


Danish cartoonist attacker suspected of al Qaeda ties

Posted: 02 Jan 2010 08:43 AM PST

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Somali man armed with an axe and suspected of links with al Qaeda broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist whose drawings of the Prophet Mohammad caused global Muslim outrage and was shot and wounded by police.


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