Australia says Rio trials opaque,business seeks answers

Australia says Rio trials opaque,business seeks answers

Australia says Rio trials opaque,business seeks answers

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:08 AM PDT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia said on Tuesday China's verdicts against four Rio Tinto executives left serious questions about the country's legal system as business pressed Beijing for clarity.


Thai protesters say further talks with PM pointless

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:08 AM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai anti-government protesters said on Tuesday they were not interested in further talks with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and would look at new ways to push for elections.


Taiwan says researching high-tech missiles

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:08 AM PDT

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan is researching development of high-tech missiles on a road to "peace through strength" with China, military officials on the self-ruled island said on Tuesday.


Russia mourns victims of metro blasts

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:12 PM PDT

Moscow holds a day of mourning for the 38 people killed in Monday's twin suicide bombings on the city's Metro.


Australia says Rio trials opaque,business seeks answers

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:40 PM PDT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Tuesday that the verdicts in the trial of four executives of global miner Rio Tinto left serious unanswered questions for business about China's legal system.


G8 ministers call for strong measures against Iran

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:08 PM PDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrial nations will call on the international community to take "appropriate and strong steps" to show its resolve over Iran's nuclear activities.


Japan to extend sanctions against North Korea

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:08 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will extend sanctions against North Korea first imposed after the reclusive country tested a nuclear device and ballistic missiles in 2006, a senior official said on Tuesday.


Hitmen kill 10 youths in Mexico's drug-hit north

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:08 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen killed a carload of children and teenagers in northern Mexico in the latest of a rash of attacks on minors that have angered the public as drug gang violence spins out of control.


Report warns of storm surge in U.S. coastal regions

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:08 PM PDT

MIAMI (Reuters) - With another Atlantic hurricane season just two months away, a new report on Monday highlighted the risk of flooding and storm surge to homeowners in many U.S. coastal regions.


Indonesian scavengers risk lives to dive for coal

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:08 PM PDT

CIREBON, Indonesia (Reuters Life!) - Forty-year-old Karnadi risks his life every day diving in the murky waters of Indonesia's Cirebon port to collect pieces coal that have fallen into the water while being loaded onto transport ships.


Sex infection gonorrhoea risks becoming "superbug"

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:08 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.


Quake-hit Haiti expects "massive" donors' response

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 10:08 PM PDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti expects a "massive" response from donors to its multibillion-dollar needs for reconstruction following the Jan. 12 earthquake, Finance and Economy Minister Ronald Baudin said on Monday.


Sarkozy calls for financial reform

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:41 PM PDT

President Sarkozy of France says the world can no longer accept a capitalist system without rules.


"Third man" stars in British TV election debate

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:38 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - His party may have no chance of winning Britain's coming election, but Liberal Democrat economics spokesman Vince Cable won the plaudits in Monday's first live debate between possible finance ministers.


Moscow bombs remind New Yorkers of constant risk

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:38 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bag searches and gun-toting police officers in the New York subway, a watch tower in Times Square and thousands of security cameras are now as ubiquitous in the city as yellow taxi cabs and cosmopolitan cocktails.


Clinton rebuke overshadows Canada's Arctic meeting

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:38 PM PDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a rare public rebuke to close ally Canada on Monday, criticizing it for excluding key nations from a meeting to discuss the resource-rich Arctic.


Turkey reforms give top brass over to civilian court

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:38 PM PDT

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish constitutional reform package to be submitted to parliament on Tuesday will make it possible for military top brass to be tried by a civilian court, media reported late on Monday.


ANALYSIS - Saudi sweep shows al Qaeda threat hasn't disappeared

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:38 PM PDT

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's arrests of 113 al Qaeda-linked militants, including two suicide bomb teams, shows that the jihadi threat to the world's top oil exporter has not disappeared. It has just migrated to neighbouring Yemen.


Obama says Afghan's anti-graft progress 'too slow'

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:08 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, who paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, said progress there was "too slow" on cracking down on corruption and the drug trade.


Clinton says China playing role in Iran debate

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 09:08 PM PDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, launching a G8 foreign ministers summit on Monday, said the world could not accept a nuclear-armed Iran and that China would be involved in considering new sanctions proposals.


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