Kyrgyz city charred after days of ethnic fighting |
- Kyrgyz city charred after days of ethnic fighting
- Floods in Myanmar kill at least 12
- Obama renews U.S. economic sanctions on N. Korea
- FACTBOX - Policies at stake in Japan's upper house election
- Central Singapore flooded
- Gunmen kill radio reporter in northern Philippines
- Iran parliament backs 20% uranium enrichment
- Israel 'mulls plan to ease Gaza blockade'
- Quake kills two in Indonesia
- Wave of drug violence sweeps Mexico
- Flash floods claim 10 lives in southern France
- Israel 'mulls plan to ease Gaza blockade'
- France to raise retirement age from 60 to 62
- When global warming comes calling
- Israel's flotilla attack investigation not transparent: Amnesty
- Quake kills two in Indonesia
- Labour reforms spark strike in Spain
- Europe to vote on 'traffic light' food labels
- New Makkah metro to open soon
- Israeli ministers weigh easing Gaza blockade
| Kyrgyz city charred after days of ethnic fighting Posted: 16 Jun 2010 01:20 AM PDT OSH, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Kyrgyz troops patrolled the burned-out streets of the southern city of Osh on Wednesday trying to maintain a fragile peace between feuding ethnic groups after days of fierce fighting.
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| Floods in Myanmar kill at least 12 Posted: 16 Jun 2010 01:20 AM PDT YANGON (Reuters) - Heavy rain in Myanmar has triggered floods and landslides, washing away bridges, blocking roads and killing at least 12 people, district officials said on Wednesday.
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| Obama renews U.S. economic sanctions on N. Korea Posted: 16 Jun 2010 01:20 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has extended U.S. economic sanctions on North Korea for another year, citing the continuing threat posed by Pyongyang's nuclear program, the White House said on Tuesday.
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| FACTBOX - Policies at stake in Japan's upper house election Posted: 16 Jun 2010 01:20 AM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will hold an election for parliament's upper house on July 11 that the ruling Democratic Party needs to win to implement policies smoothly as the government struggles with massive debt and sluggish growth.
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| Posted: 16 Jun 2010 12:13 AM PDT SINGAPORE, June 16 — Heavy downpour today has caused parts of Singapore's city centre to be flooded — causing traffic havoc in the island republic. Traffic lights at some intersections are not working contributing more to the building traffic congestion, while at some parts waters have risen knee-high making those roads inaccessible to traffic, as ...
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| Gunmen kill radio reporter in northern Philippines Posted: 16 Jun 2010 01:00 AM PDT MANILA (Reuters) - Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a journalist on his way home in the northern Philippines, the second reporter murdered in the country this week, police said on Wednesday.
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| Iran parliament backs 20% uranium enrichment Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:38 PM PDT TEHRAN -Parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Wednesday called on Iran's government to push ahead with its controversial programme to enrich uranium to 20 percent, despite being slapped with fresh UN sanctions.
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| Israel 'mulls plan to ease Gaza blockade' Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:28 PM PDT JERUSALEM -Israel's security cabinet was meeting early on Wednesday to debate a proposal to ease the terms of its four-year blockade on the Gaza Strip, local media reported.
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| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 08:29 PM PDT MANOKWARI, Indonesia -A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least two people and damaged scores of homes in eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning and widespread panic.
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| Wave of drug violence sweeps Mexico Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:43 PM PDT CHILPANCINGO, Mexico -A spasm of violence linked to Mexico's powerful drug cartels has killed at least 160 people in just six days -- one of the bloodiest weeks in the country's war on drug gangs in months.
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| Flash floods claim 10 lives in southern France Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:22 PM PDT DRAGUIGNAN, France - Heavy rains triggered flash floods in the mountains above France's southern Cote d'Azur region, killing at least 10 people, a local official said Wednesday.
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| Israel 'mulls plan to ease Gaza blockade' Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:48 PM PDT By Hazel Ward JERUSALEM: Israel's security Cabinet was meeting today to reportedly consider an international proposal for significantly easing its Gaza blockade, after weeks of global pressure to scrap the measure.The 15-member body was expected to vote on a proposal put together over several weeks of intense consultations between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mideast Quartet envoy Tony Blair, the daily Haaretz reported. The security Cabinet began meeting early today, a government official confirmed, for what was understood to be a debate on "matters related to Gaza" without giving any specific details of what they were debating nor when they were likely to vote. If approved, the "Blair-Netanyahu understandings" would see Israel adopt a new approach to those goods which have been kept out of Gaza since the blockade was imposed in 2006, Haaretz and other media outlets reported. Under the new proposal, thrashed out in three face-to-face sessions with Blair as well as multiple telephone calls, Israel would allow in everything -- except for items on a "blacklist", the paper said. It would also allow for the entry of much-needed building materials for UN-sponsored construction projects. And it would see Israel agreeing to examine a proposal for stationing EU and Palestinian Authority inspectors at the border to inspect incoming goods, Haaretz said. Israeli media said the proposal was widely expected to be approved by the security Cabinet, with Blair telling Haaretz it was "a very important step". "It will allow us to keep weapons and weapon materials out of Gaza, but on the other hand to help the Palestinian population there," he said. "The policy in Gaza should be to isolate the extremists but to help the people." However, army radio said Netanyahu was expected to stress the naval blockade of Gaza would remain in place -- a measure he said was crucial for preventing Gaza from "turning into an Iranian port" through which arms would flow freely. Mounting pressure Earlier this week, a European Union diplomat meeting regional foreign ministers in Luxembourg had said Israel was preparing to ease the blockade significantly. "The indications we are getting from Israel is that they are willing to go from a positive to a negative list," he said, explaining it would mean a change from a list of "permitted goods" with everything else banned, to a list of "banned goods" with everything else allowed in. Israel has been facing mounting pressure to end its blockade of Gaza imposed in 2006 after militants there seized an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid. International pressure over the siege on Gaza has increased hugely in recent weeks following last month's deadly raid by Israeli navy seals on a foreign aid flotilla trying to run the Gaza blockade, which killed Turkish activists. As the government mulled easing the blockade, the Israeli committee for investigating the botched naval operation -- known as the Tirkel Commission -- was today to begin its probe, media reports said. The three-man committee, whose work will be overseen by two foreign observers, will look into the legal aspects of the operation in a move dismissed as insufficient by both Turkey and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas. - AFP
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| France to raise retirement age from 60 to 62 Posted: 15 Jun 2010 04:39 PM PDT PARIS: The French government will raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018, Labour Minister Eric Woerth announced today as he unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the pensions system. "It is imperative that we salvage our pensions system," Woerth told a news conference. "Working longer is inevitable. There is no magical solution." Talk of raising the retirement age has been taboo in France where the right to a pension from age 60 has been enshrined since 1982, a legacy of Socialist president Francois Mitterrand's administration. A pensions reform bill will be presented to President Nicolas Sarkozy's Cabinet next month before heading to Parliament in September, but unions have vowed to fight the changes with strikes and street protests. "All of our partners in Europe have done it," the minister argued. "It is not possible to stay on the sidelines of this movement." Speaking after meeting yesterday with Sarkozy to finalise the plan, Woerth said the reforms would allow the pensions system to have a balanced books by 2018. The government is also planning to extend the period of contribution to social security to 41 years and three months from 40.5 years. Several new taxes targeting high-income earners and capital income will be introduced to help finance pensions, with a view to raising an extra 3.7 billion euros (RM14.8 billion), Woerth said. The minister said retirement would be progressively pushed back until 2018 "so as not to upset the plans of French workers who are nearing retirement". Reforming the country's pension system is shaping up as the centrepiece of Sarkozy's reform agenda as he winds up his term in office and heads for a re-election fight in 2012. - AFP
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| When global warming comes calling Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:57 PM PDT |
| Israel's flotilla attack investigation not transparent: Amnesty Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:56 PM PDT LONDON, Wednesday 16 June 2010 (BERNAMA) -- Amnesty International has criticized Israeli's decision to hold a domestic and unilateral investigation into the attack on a Gaza-aid flotilla saying that it will not be transparent and independent, Iran's IRNA news agency reported.
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| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:54 PM PDT MANOKWARI, Wednesday 16 June 2010 (AFP) - A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least two people and damaged scores of homes in eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning and widespread panic.
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| Labour reforms spark strike in Spain Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:38 PM PDT Spanish unions have called a general strike in response to labour market reforms due to be unveiled by the government on Wednesday.
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| Europe to vote on 'traffic light' food labels Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:32 PM PDT The European Parliament is due to vote on whether to put red warning labels on food considered to be unhealthy.
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| Posted: 15 Jun 2010 09:15 PM PDT MAKKAH, June 16: Saudi Arabia is set to open a new rail link designed to carry 70,000 pilgrims to various cites during the Hajj season.
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| Israeli ministers weigh easing Gaza blockade Posted: 16 Jun 2010 12:07 AM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's security cabinet met on Wednesday to consider easing the Gaza blockade, officials said, in the face of world pressure for change since a deadly raid on an aid flotilla to the territory last month.
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