Opposition "red shirts" try to win over Thai capital

Opposition "red shirts" try to win over Thai capital

Opposition "red shirts" try to win over Thai capital

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 11:26 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of opposition activists fanned out across Thailand's capital on Saturday in a bid to win the hearts of Bangkok's middle classes and recruit them for their anti-government campaign.


North Korea parliament to meet, Kim and cadres in focus

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:25 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's rubber stamp parliament will meet in April for an annual session where the secretive and isolated state typically reveals changes to its ruling elite and spending priorities for the coming year.


Obama urges health reform support

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:31 PM PDT

US President Obama has made another impassioned bid for support for his health care reforms ahead of Sunday's congressional vote.


SA students riot over rapper bail

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:32 PM PDT

Students in South Africa have clashed with police outside a Soweto courthouse where a musician accused of killing four school pupils in a car race was freed on bail.


India seeks Mumbai plotter

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:15 PM PDT

David Headley pleaded guilty to 12 charges including planning to attack the Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.


Obama to Iran: U.S. offer of dialogue still stands

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:57 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama renewed his administration's offer of dialogue and diplomacy with Tehran on Saturday, a year after his offer of a new beginning with Iran failed to achieve concrete results.


Opposition "red shirts" try to win over Thai capital

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:25 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thousands of opposition activists prepared to fan out across Thailand's capital on Saturday in a bid to win the hearts of Bangkok's middle classes and recruit them for their anti-government campaign.


FACTBOX - U.S. healthcare bill would provide immediate benefits

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:25 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is heading for a Sunday vote on a sweeping overhaul of the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system.


FACTBOX - States and U.S. healthcare reform

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:57 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many states are worried that the healthcare reform plan currently winding through the U.S. Congress will usurp their sovereignty and impose more spending to their already stretched budgets.


Putin offers U.S. hints of support, warnings

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:25 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered hints he could support the United States on two key issues -- an arms pact and Iran -- after a meeting on Friday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.


U.S sees Nigeria "moving on" from political crisis

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:25 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nigerian acting President Goodluck Jonathan has consolidated his grip on power, easing a political crisis that fanned fears of instability in Africa's most populous nation, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.


British Airways battles cabin crew strike

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:25 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways said it would fly more than 60 percent of passengers with flights booked for this weekend despite a three-day cabin crew strike that risks hurting the Labour government weeks before an election.


World's slums grow despite rapid economy growth - U.N.

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 06:56 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Almost a quarter of a billion people moved out of slum conditions in the past decade, driven by rapid economic growth in emerging giants India and China, but the number of people living in them continues to rise, the United Nations housing agency said on Friday.


Bomb damages Pakistani community chief's Athens home

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 06:56 PM PDT

ATHENS (Reuters) - A makeshift bomb exploded outside the residence of the head of the Pakistani community in central Athens early on Saturday causing damage but no injuries, police said.


U.S. states sue EPA to stop greenhouse gas rules

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 06:25 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 15 U.S. states have sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to stop it from issuing rules controlling greenhouse gas emissions until it reexamines whether the pollution harms human health.


U.S. House Democrats see momentum on health bill

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:58 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives lobbied undecided members for support and voiced growing confidence on Friday they will win a close vote on final passage of a sweeping healthcare overhaul.


Armed men block roads in Mexico's drug-plagued north

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:58 PM PDT

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Armed men likely linked to drug gangs blocked highways with trucks and buses in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Friday in an apparent attempt to hamper army operations near the U.S. border.


Famed for divorce, Yemeni girl set to read memoir

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:58 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce.


FACTBOX - U.S. healthcare overhaul has few final steps

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:58 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives hope to approve President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul on Sunday, with the Senate putting the finishing touches on the plan next week.


U.S.judge in NY orders more talks on 9/11 deal

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 05:58 PM PDT

NEW YORK, (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday delayed a $657.5 million settlement for workers who suffered health problems after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, saying the process must be transparent and lawyers fees should not be drawn from the funds.


No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)