Lufthansa pilots call off strike

Lufthansa pilots call off strike

Lufthansa pilots call off strike

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 01:01 PM PDT

Pilots at Lufthansa, Europe's biggest airline, have called off a four-day strike planned for next week.


Critics wonder whether Russia concedes too much in arms control deal

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:40 PM PDT

MOSCOW -- As President Obama prepares to sign a landmark arms control treaty with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, a chorus of skeptics here is quietly expressing concerns that Moscow has conceded too much in the deal.


Pinochet judge charged with abuse

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 08:27 AM PDT

A Spanish judge who brought cases against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been charged with abuse of judicial power in a ruling issued by Spain's Supreme Court.

Al-Jaafari wins controversial Iraqi cleric's support

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 06:42 AM PDT

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has won a non-binding vote that could influence the decision on who will be the country's next prime minister, an official in the office of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Wednesday.

Palestinian president fires aide amid sex scandal

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 08:08 AM PDT

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has fired his chief of staff despite an inquiry into a sex scandal that cleared the second-in-command of wrongdoing.

Erdogan Calls Israel 'Principal Threat' to Middle East Peace

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:21 PM PDT

Relations between Turkey and Israel, already at a low point, took a further battering Wednesday when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described Israel as "the principal threat to peace" in the Middle East.


'Ice explorer' ready for lift-off

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:37 PM PDT

Europe's Cryosat-2 spacecraft is about to launch on a mission to assess the state of the world's ice caps.


Somali pirates seize Turkish ship

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:25 AM PDT

Somali pirates strike again, hijacking a Turkish cargo ship with a crew of 25 people off the coast of Kenya, the EU's naval force says.


After violence, critics say Peru's Garcia unfit to lead

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:55 AM PDT

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's left-wing Nationalist Party presented a motion in Congress on Wednesday to have President Alan Garcia declared "morally unfit" to lead, but the move to force him to leave his post was likely to fail.

Colombia blasts arrest of "spies" by Venezuela

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:53 PM PDT

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accused Venezuela on Wednesday of violating the rights of a group of Colombians arrested in the neighboring country for allegedly spying on its ailing energy infrastructure.

Bernanke warns on jobs and homes

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:58 AM PDT

The Fed chairman gives a sombre assessment of the US recovery, stressing problems in the housing market and unemployment.


Berlin airport reopens after WW2 bomb defused

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:51 AM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin's Tegel Airport was closed for about two hours on Wednesday after an unexploded World War Two bomb was found and defused, an airport spokesman said.

Kyrgyzstan opposition 'in charge'

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:32 AM PDT

Protest leaders claim command of capital after deadly anti-government clashes, reports say.


China Again Hopes to Drive U.S. Rail Construction

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:08 PM PDT

China is poised to play a role in supplying the technology to build high-speed rail lines in California.

Mickelson expects Woods challenge

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 04:32 AM PDT

Two-time champion Phil Mickelson predicts that Tiger Woods will challenge at the top of the Masters leaderboard despite five months out.


Many of Haiti's most-wanted on the loose after earthquake

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 10:59 AM PDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Early one morning this month, in the buzz saw that is downtown Port-au-Prince, three men approached a police checkpoint, firing automatic weapons. When the shooting finally stopped, a seven-year veteran of the Haitian National Police force lay dead, his body riddled with ...


Sinking mars Rwanda ceremony

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:18 AM PDT

A boat in Rwanda sinks in Lake Kivu while carrying people to commemorations to mark the 16th anniversary of the genocide.


Heavy rains continue to hit Brazil

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:17 AM PDT

Rains lash south a day after region witnesses its heaviest rainfall in 48 years.


Israeli gagging order condemned

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:10 AM PDT

Campaigners call for an Israeli media ban on the case of an ex-soldier suspected of security offences to be lifted.


Blast in Islamabad, no casualties: police

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 11:27 AM PDT

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An explosion in a shopping district of the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Wednesday caused minor damage but no casualties, police said.

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