Bruni not keen on second term for France's Sarkozy

Bruni not keen on second term for France's Sarkozy

Bruni not keen on second term for France's Sarkozy

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:39 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is not keen to see her husband President Nicolas Sarkozy run for a second term in office, worried that the job might damage his health, the French first lady told Figaro Magazine.

U.N.'s Ban frustrated and disappointed over Myanmar

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:41 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed frustration on Thursday at slow progress toward democracy in Myanmar, where planned elections have been derided in the West as a sham.

Israeli PM may have to rethink strategy as tensions with U.S. remain, observers say

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:25 PM PDT

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was welcomed home Thursday night with signs reading "Obama, No You Can't" and "Netanyahu Stand Strong" after a trip to Washington that appeared only to widen a two-week-old rift between the close allies over Israeli housing construction.


Prince Charles visits Afghanistan war zone

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 11:50 AM PDT

Britain's Prince Charles left Afghanistan on Thursday after a previously unannounced two-day visit there, a spokesman said.

Code-cracking HQ gets facelift

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:44 AM PDT

The roof is cracking at the place where the British cracked the Enigma code in World War II. So are the roads and fences.

Parliament groups reject EU diplomatic corps plan

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 12:03 PM PDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton suffered a setback on Thursday when the main political groups in the European Parliament rejected her proposal for a new European diplomatic corps as unacceptable.

China Officials Wrestle Publicly Over Currency

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 11:37 AM PDT

Leaders are engaged in a bitter struggle over whether to allow the renminbi to rise against the dollar or to escalate a war of words with the U.S.

U.N. official defends Somali aid effort

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 11:24 AM PDT

The top United Nations humanitarian official in Somalia has fired back at a report that suggests food aid is being skimmed off by contractors as "a cost of doing business" in the war-torn nation, an allegation he calls "completely misleading."

EU-US airline deal on ownership

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 11:33 AM PDT

The latest Open Skies talks on EU-US aviation paves the way for the lifting of restrictions on foreign ownership of US and EU airlines.


Islamic school 'favours Sunnis'

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 11:44 AM PDT

An Islamic state secondary school has been told it is breaking the law by favouring Sunni pupils over Shia ones.


Network Solutions, GoDaddy cease registering Web sites in China

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:56 AM PDT

Two major Internet domain name registration companies have ceased registering Web sites in China in response to intrusive new government rules that require applicants to provide extensive personal data, including photographs of themselves.



Chelsea rocked by Carvalho injury

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:33 AM PDT

Chelsea will be without Ricardo Carvalho for at least four weeks after the defender suffered ankle ligament damage in the Portsmouth win.


'No proof' Somalia aid diverted

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 11:30 AM PDT

The UN World Food Programme denies a claim that much of the food aid to Somalia is diverted to militants and corrupt contractors.


EU boss Ashton's spokesman quits

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:53 AM PDT

The chief spokesman for Europe's foreign affairs supremo, Baroness Ashton, has resigned.


Magazine Preview: Heading Off the Next Financial Crisis

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 11:34 AM PDT

The case for more — and more nuanced — regulation.

New Pentagon Rules Make It Harder to Expel Gay Service Members

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:58 AM PDT

The defense secretary announced an interim plan while the Pentagon looks at how it would implement a repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Pakistan Says 61 Militants Killed

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 10:20 AM PDT

Pakistani military airstrikes killed 61 suspected militants in an area near the Afghan border, including dozens at a seminary where Taliban commanders were believed to be meeting, officials said.


EU, U.S. to Expand Open Skies

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 09:49 AM PDT

Building on a 2007 treaty, European Union and U.S. negotiators secured a draft deal to unlock restrictions on trans-Atlantic air travel.


Charges Near for Spain's Judge Garz ón

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 11:29 AM PDT

Spain's Supreme Court cleared the way for the judge known for indicting Osama bin Laden and Augusto Pinochet to be charged with abuse of power in a probe of Spanish civil war atrocities.


United States and Russia reach nuclear-arms deal

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 09:00 PM PDT

The United States and Russia have reached a deal on their most extensive nuclear arms-control agreement in nearly two decades, the Kremlin announced Wednesday. The pact appeared to represent President Obama's first victory in his ambitious agenda to move toward a nuclear-free world.


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