Main parts of crashed Ethiopian jet found off Lebanon

Main parts of crashed Ethiopian jet found off Lebanon

Main parts of crashed Ethiopian jet found off Lebanon

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:14 AM PST

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Search teams have identified the location of main segments of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that had crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month killing all 90 people on board, the Lebanese transport minister said on Saturday.


N.Korea releases U.S. activist, Beijing sends mission

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 11:42 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. missionary was on his way home on Saturday after he was freed by North Korea, which had detained him on Christmas day for illegally crossing the border.


China: Big powers should talk with Iran, not punish

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:42 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Six major powers on Friday discussed efforts to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment program but China made clear it wants them to keep talking rather than impose new sanctions on Tehran.


China: Big powers should talk with Iran, not punish

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:13 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Six major powers on Friday discussed efforts to persuade Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment program but China made clear it wants them to keep talking rather than impose new sanctions on Tehran.


North Korea releases U.S. Christian activist

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 08:42 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - A U.S. religious activist taken captive by North Korea in December arrived in China on Saturday and will next fly back to the United States, an official with the U.S. embassy in Beijing said.


North Korea releases U.S. Christian activist - media

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 08:12 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - A U.S. religious activist taken captive by North Korea in December has been released and arrived in China on Saturday, South Korean media reported.


Russia names NATO expansion as national threat

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 06:07 PM PST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev approved on Friday a new military doctrine identifying NATO expansion as a national threat and reaffirming Russia's right to use nuclear weapons if the country's existence is threatened.


China envoy to visit N.Korea; U.S. activist to go free

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 06:07 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - A senior Chinese Communist Party official will visit North Korea as early as Saturday, in what appears to be a move to press Pyongyang to return to nuclear disarmament talks, a South Korean news agency said on Friday.


Putin scolds party after rally exposes discontent

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:36 PM PST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told his ruling party on Friday it must pay more attention to ordinary voters, just days after one of the biggest opposition protests in a decade.


Illinois Democrats no cure for what ails Obama

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:36 PM PST

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Still reeling from the loss of the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat to Republicans in Massachusetts, Barack Obama's Democrats now face the prospect of losing the president's old Senate seat in Illinois.


Police chief among 16 dead in Russia Caucasus violence

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:36 PM PST

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - The police chief of the southern Russian city of Makhachkala was shot dead in his car on Friday, one of 16 people killed in a string of attacks in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus.


Powerful snowstorm hits U.S. East Coast

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:36 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful storm slammed the U.S. mid-Atlantic on Friday, threatening record snowfall in a region heavily dependent on home heating oil and natural gas supplies.


Iran optimistic on uranium exchange - Mottaki

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:07 PM PST

MUNICH (Reuters) - Iran sees good prospects for clinching a deal with world powers on exchanging some of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) for higher-grade fuel it can use in a reactor producing medical isotopes, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Friday.


Haiti aid chopper crashes, two Americans killed

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:07 PM PST

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Two Americans were killed when their helicopter, which was participating in aid and recovery operations in earthquake-hit Haiti, crashed in the Dominican Republic, aviation authorities said on Friday.


Arctic melt to cost up to $24 trln by 2050 - report

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:07 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $2.4 trillion to $24 trillion by 2050 in damage from rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, according to a report released on Friday.


Arctic climate changing faster than expected - study

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:07 PM PST

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada's changing north.


Blasts hit Shia pilgrims in Karbala

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 11:51 AM PST

Suicide bombers kill at least 40 Shia pilgrims and injure more than 140 during a major ceremony in the Iraqi city of Karbala, police say.


Photographer detained in Iran

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:02 PM PST

An internationally renowned artist, Mehraneh Atashi, and her husband were detained in Iran three weeks ago.


India backs climate chief Pachauri

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:05 PM PST

India has firmly backed climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri - who has been under attack over recent scientific errors - at UN-led talks in Delhi.


BAE handed £280m criminal fines

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 11:53 AM PST

BAE Systems will pay fines of £280m in a deal with US and UK authorities to settle investigations into its actions in Saudi Arabia and Tanzania.


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