Thai "red shirts" defiant after 20 die in clashes

Thai "red shirts" defiant after 20 die in clashes

Thai "red shirts" defiant after 20 die in clashes

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:34 AM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai "red shirt" protesters said on Sunday they would not give up their fight for early elections after clashes with security forces in Bangkok the previous day killed 20 people.


Grief in Poland after air tragedy

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 10:37 PM PDT

Poland has begun a week of mourning after the deaths of President Lech Kaczynski and much of its defence establishment in a plane crash in Russia.


Bangkok death toll climbs to 18

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 09:49 PM PDT

At least 18 people are now known to have died in clashes between Thai troops and opposition supporters in Bangkok, and more than 800 were hurt.


Southern Sudan prepares to vote

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:07 PM PDT

The BBC's Andrew Harding has visited southern Sudan to see what impact the historic national elections will have on the region.


Evacuation after Brazil mudslides

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 09:46 PM PDT

Rescue workers are continuing to search for bodies in the homes engulfed by mudslides in Rio de Janeiro.


SCENARIOS - U.S. Congress moves warily toward election day

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 10:34 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Expect the divided U.S. Congress to become more partisan and less productive in the final months before November's congressional elections.


Australia warns boatpeople may be sent home

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 10:17 PM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Sunday warned would-be asylum-seekers from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan they could be sent home as a result of a suspension on considering their claims.


Eighteen killed in Bangkok protest clashes

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 09:33 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's capital Bangkok was calm on Sunday, a day after clashes between troops and opposition activists killed 18 people in the city's historic old quarter, but any resolution of the political row seemed distant.


Sudan set for historic vote, security tight

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:33 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan holds historic multi-party elections on Sunday that have been marred already by fraud allegations and will test the fragile unity of a nation divided by decades of civil conflict.


Poland mourns president, elite killed in crash

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:07 PM PDT

WARSAW/SMOLENSK, Russia (Reuters) - Poles were in deep mourning on Sunday after President Lech Kaczynski and many of the country's ruling elite were killed in a plane crash.


Eighteen killed in Bangkok protest clashes

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:07 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Eighteen people were killed and more than 800 wounded in Bangkok's worst political violence in 18 years between troops and "red shirt" protesters demanding that the government step down and call an early election.


British election on course for stalemate - polls

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:07 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - The opposition Conservatives narrowly extended their lead over the ruling Labour Party in the opening days of the British election race, but polls on Sunday cast doubt on whether they will return to power after 13 years.


Iran backs unity government in Iraq with Sunnis

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:07 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iran urged leaders in neighbouring Iraq on Saturday to form a national unity government that included Sunni Muslims.


Haiti starts moving quake victims to safer refuge

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:07 PM PDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's government and foreign aid agencies started an operation on Saturday to move thousands of earthquake survivors to a safer refuge to avoid the risk of mudslides and flooding during the rainy season.


Australia charges crew with taking ship via reef

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:07 PM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Three foreign men have been charged with steering a cargo ship through a restricted part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, police said on Sunday, days after another bulk carrier ran aground in the same marine park.


Kuwait deports 17 pro-ElBaradei Egyptians - rights group

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:07 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Kuwaiti authorities on Saturday deported 17 Egyptian nationals supporting potential Egyptian presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei in Kuwait City, an Arabic human rights group in Cairo told Reuters.


Explosive device tossed at US consulate in Mexico

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 08:07 PM PDT

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) - Assailants hurled an explosive device at a U.S. consulate in a northern Mexico border city, damaging windows but causing no injuries, the consulate said on Saturday.


Poland mourns air crash dead

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 02:28 PM PDT

Polish people are in mourning for the victims of Saturday's plane crash in Smolensk, Russia.


Twelve die as troops, protesters clash in Bangkok

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:03 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai troops fired rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of demonstrators, who fought back with guns, grenades and petrol bombs in riots that killed 12 people, Bangkok's worst political violence in 18 years.


U.S., Denmark cut climate aid after summit - Bolivia

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 12:03 PM PDT

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Bolivia accused the United States and Denmark on Saturday of cutting aid to the South American country as punishment for its fierce opposition to the Copenhagen Accord for fighting global warming.


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