Aquino asks Filipinos' help in fight against graft

Aquino asks Filipinos' help in fight against graft

Aquino asks Filipinos' help in fight against graft

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 12:49 AM PDT

MANILA (Reuters) - President Benigno Aquino III asked Filipinos on Sunday to help him fight the corruption that has dogged previous governments and become one of the major obstacles to developing the economy of their poor Southeast Asian nation.


Israel strikes Gaza tunnels after rocket launch

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 11:46 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft bombed a smuggling tunnel and a militant training camp in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after a rocket was fired into Israel from the territory, the Israeli army and militants said.


China launches new global positioning satellite

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 11:46 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China took a further step on Sunday towards ending its dependence on U.S. satellites to provide navigation and positioning services.


DAP sacks Tee Boon Hock

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 10:24 PM PDT

The controversial Klang municipal councillor and veteran DAP grassroots leader Tee Boon Hock has been sacked from the party with immediate effect.

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Obama warns U.S. not to 'demagogue' immigration

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 10:42 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned U.S. leaders not to use the divisive issue of illegal immigration as a way to gain power and name recognition, in an interview with CBS television released on Saturday.


Mexican police free journalists seized by drug gangs

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 09:33 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican police raided a drug gang safe house before dawn on Saturday and rescued two television journalists kidnapped by cartel members who demanded networks broadcast their messages.


British police hold two over MI6 parcel bomb

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 09:00 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - British police were questioning two men on Sunday after a parcel bomb was sent to the headquarters of the MI6 foreign intelligence service and another was intercepted at a postal sorting office.


Colombia says "never" thought to attack Venezuela

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 09:00 PM PDT

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia rejected on Saturday accusations by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that Bogota was planning an attack on neighboring Venezuela, saying the socialist leader was deceiving his people with such charges.


Sri Lanka, Hawaii sites get world heritage status

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 09:00 PM PDT

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's central highlands and a protected marine area in Hawaii, the only habitats of several endangered plant and animal species, have been added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites, the U.N. body said on Saturday.


Brazil offers asylum to Iranian woman facing stoning

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 09:00 PM PDT

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow a woman sentenced in Iran to death by stoning to accept an offer of asylum in Brazil, local media reported.


Pakistan spy chief scraps UK trip on "terror" remarks

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 09:00 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD/LONDON (Reuters) - Pakistan's spy chief has cancelled a trip to Britain, a spokesman said on Saturday, but Islamabad played down a row over remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron suggesting Pakistan was not doing enough to fight terrorism.


Tight security at Chelsea wedding

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 07:00 PM PDT

The daughter of former US President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has married her long-term boyfriend at a lavish ceremony.


Dhaka workers angry over pay

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 07:21 PM PDT

There have been street battles in Bangladesh for a second day as workers in Dhaka's textile factories vent their disappointment with a planned wage rise.


Arrests in Russia after rallies banned

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 06:19 PM PDT

Russian police have detained two opposition leaders and dozens of activists who tried to hold demonstrations in Moscow and St Petersburg.


Treaty enacted to ban cluster bombs

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 06:57 PM PDT

An international treaty banning the production and use of cluster bombs has come into force.


Bill and Hillary Clinton’s daughter marries in NY

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 04:46 PM PDT

RHINEBECK, N.Y., August 1 — Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter married her long-time boyfriend in the picturesque New York village of Rhinebeck yesterday in what has been dubbed America's royal wedding. Chelsea Clinton — the only child of the former US president and the US secretary of state — wed Marc Mezvinsky at Astor Courts, an historic ...


Sri Lanka, Hawaii sites get world heritage status

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 04:40 PM PDT

BRASILIA, August 1 — Sri Lanka's central highlands and a protected marine area in Hawaii, the only habitats of several endangered plant and animal species, have been added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites, the UN body said yesterday. Sri Lanka's central highlands were deemed of prime importance because of the pristine forests that are home ...


North-west Pakistan 'a massive lake'

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 03:18 PM PDT

Lyse Doucet has travelled to north-west Pakistan, where the worst monsoon floods in living memory have killed at least 800 people and affected one million more.


Merkel attends memorial for 21 Love Parade victims

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 11:16 AM PDT

DUISBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel attended a memorial service on Saturday for the 21 people killed in a stampede at the Love Parade techno music festival as pressure grew on the local mayor, her party ally, to resign.


Two China mine industry accidents kill 17, trap 24

Posted: 31 Jul 2010 11:16 AM PDT

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and 24 trapped in two separate mining accidents in China on Saturday, the official Xinhua news agency said.


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