China jails Australian Rio Tinto exec for 10 years

China jails Australian Rio Tinto exec for 10 years

China jails Australian Rio Tinto exec for 10 years

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:53 AM PDT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Shanghai court on Monday sentenced a Chinese-Australian executive of Rio Tinto to 7 years in prison on Monday on charges of accepting bribes and 5 years on charges of stealing commercial secrets.


FACTBOX - China-Australia ties span business, people

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:53 AM PDT

(Reuters) - A Chinese court convicted four employees of global miner Rio Tinto of taking bribes and stealing commercial secrets in a case closely watched by foreign investors and the huge domestic steel industry.


Suicide bombers kill at least 37 in Moscow metro

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:53 AM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 37 people were killed and 33 wounded on Monday when suicide bombers detonated explosives on two packed Moscow metro trains during the morning rush hour, the worst attack in the Russian capital for six years, officials said.


Suicide bombers kill at least 35 in Moscow metro

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:26 AM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 35 people were killed and 33 wounded on Monday when suicide bombers detonated explosives on two packed Moscow metro trains during morning rush hour, the worst attack in the Russian capital for six years, officials said.


China jails Australian Rio Tinto exec for 10 years

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:26 AM PDT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Shanghai court on Monday sentenced a Chinese-Australian executive of Rio Tinto to 7 years in prison on Monday on charges of accepting bribes and 5 years on charges of stealing commercial secrets.


Deadly explosions on Moscow Metro

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 11:33 PM PDT

At least 37 people have been killed by two explosions which hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, Russian officials have said.


TIMELINE - Recent attacks in Russia

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 11:53 PM PDT

The following is a timeline of big attacks on Russian soil over recent years:


At least 34 killed in Moscow metro blasts

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 11:28 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two blasts ripped through packed Moscow metro stations on Monday during rush hour, killing at least 34 people and wounding 18, Russian officials said.


Secrecy, surprise: Anatomy of Obama's Afghan trip

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 11:28 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - Any trip by a U.S. president requires careful planning, but sneaking him into Afghanistan -- a country in the midst of an eight-year war with Islamic militants -- is a special case.


Russia says suicide bombers behind metro blasts

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 11:28 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Suicide bombers were behind two blasts in the Moscow metro on Monday, Moscow's prosecutor Yuri Syomin told reporters.


Thai PM's talks with "red shirts" to resume 1100 GMT

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 11:28 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was set to resume talks with "red shirt" opposition protesters on Monday to find a way out of a political impasse that may now be of some concern for investors.


FACTBOX - Some of the world's worst mining accidents

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 11:28 PM PDT

Some 108 men were lifted to safety on Sunday afternoon after water surged into a pit that was still under construction at the Wangjialing Coal Mine in northern Shanxi province, the official Xinhua agency reported.


Moscow Metro blast kills commuters

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:56 PM PDT

Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in two explosions on the Metro system in central Moscow.


Race to save trapped Chinese miners

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:47 PM PDT

Rescuers are trying to reach more than 150 coal miners trapped after a pit flooded in China's northern Shanxi province.


Sarkozy vows to fight for French farmers

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:33 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is vowing to do battle in Brussels to preserve EU subsidies for French farmers.


At least 35 dead after Russian metro blasts

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:53 PM PDT

Flood in unfinished China coal mine traps 153

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:53 PM PDT

XIANGNING, China (Reuters) - The number of workers trapped by flooding in an unfinished Chinese coal mine has risen to 153, state media reported, in what could be one of the worst disasters to hit the deadly industry in recent years.


Blast in Moscow metro kills 25 - report

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:23 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed in an explosion that rocked the Lubyanka metro station in central Moscow on Monday, Itar-Tass news agency reported.


Blast hits another Moscow metro station - Ifax

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:23 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An explosion rocked another central Moscow metro station on Monday during rush hour, shortly after a first blast that killed at least 20 people, Russian news agencies and officials said.


17 sentenced to death in UAE for murder - report

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:23 PM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced 17 Indians to death over the killing of a Pakistani following a dispute involving illegal trade in alcohol, a newspaper reported on Monday.


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