Effort to Rehabilitate Suharto’s Reputation Grows in Indonesia

Effort to Rehabilitate Suharto’s Reputation Grows in Indonesia


Effort to Rehabilitate Suharto’s Reputation Grows in Indonesia

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:22 PM PDT

Two years after the death of the military strongman who ruled Indonesia for decades, an effort is under way to redefine his legacy.


Man arrested over stabbing death

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:43 PM PDT

An 18-year-old man is arrested in connection with the death of a man who was stabbed in a Glasgow street just over a week ago.


Canada court press sources ruling

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 11:58 AM PDT

The Supreme Court of Canada sends a case involving a reporter who refused to reveal his source in a federal sponsorship scandal back to a lower court.


British Nuclear Sub Is Freed After 10 Hours

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:30 PM PDT

The H.M.S. Astute had been stuck on a rocky bank all day, embarrassing the Royal Navy.


Your Money: Lending to Children Poses Pitfalls for Parents

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:33 PM PDT

Parents can help their children, but when lending them money, Mom and Dad should think like professionals.


L.I.R.R. Plans Sharp Service Cuts

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:33 PM PDT

For some, it will mean long delays, as service will be curtailed or replaced by buses, and for others, it will mean no service at all.


French Senate OKs retirement reform in tense vote

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:26 PM PDT

PARIS -- The French Senate, pushed into an early vote, approved on Friday a hotly contested bill raising the retirement age to 62, hours after riot police forced the reopening of a strategic refinery to help halt growing fuel shortages amid nationwide strikes and protests.


Gen. Petraeus says progress is faster than expected in Afghanistan operation

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:33 PM PDT

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said allied forces are in the "final stages" of a large operation to clear insurgent fighters from key regions just to the west of Kandahar, the country's second-largest city and principal focus of the coalition's military campa



Council leader dressed as Hitler

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:19 PM PDT

The Conservatives start an investigation after a Tory council leader is pictured giving a Nazi salute while wearing an Adolf Hitler costume.


W.T.O. Rejects Chinese Claims in Dispute Over Duties

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:10 PM PDT

The ruling supports an importer's right to set duties on goods from non-market economies, where the state sets or influences prices.


NASA finds water resource on the moon

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:08 PM PDT

There are oases of water-rich soil that could sustain astronauts on the Moon, according to Nasa.


Disputed attack jets seen by U.N. envoys in Darfur

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:14 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Ground attack jets of the kind that a U.N. report says may have been used by Sudan's government in strikes in Darfur in violation of an arms embargo were in plain view of Security Council diplomats during their visit this month to Sudan's conflict-torn region.


WikiLeaks Iraq files to be released

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:47 PM PDT

Al Jazeera coverage will begin on Friday, October 22, at 2100 GMT, with full coverage starting at 2200 GMT.


US 'lost' nuclear codes in 2000

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:20 PM PDT

Ex-US general says in book that codes went missing after Clinton aide in charge of nuclear "biscuit" lost track of them.


Cholera Reported in Several Areas in Haiti

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 11:36 AM PDT

Relief agencies had long feared a major outbreak of diarrheal diseases among people living in tent cities.


Film: Client 9 and Other Interested Parties

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 11:31 AM PDT

In "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer," the documentary maker Alex Gibney considers a governor, his scandal and his enemies.


American former beauty queen defending foreigners stuck in Afghan legal system

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 12:02 PM PDT

KABUL - The former Miss Wisconsin didn't seem to notice the stares as the car bounced down the narrow dirt road that leads to Kabul's infamous Pol-e-charki prison.


Typhoon Weakens on Path to China, Kills 3 In Taiwan

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 11:00 AM PDT

TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - A typhoon initially feared to be among the worst in 50 years weakened on a course to southern China after killing at least three people in Taiwan and stranding hundreds more.


Pakistan Struggles to Hold Gains Against Taliban

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 11:24 AM PDT

For Pakistan's army, ejecting militants from safe havens near the Afghan border has proven to be the easy part. The problems come later: The guerrillas creep back and carry out attacks. Civilians never return.


Sudan arrests Darfuris after U.N. visit: U.S. official

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 11:40 AM PDT

UNITED NATIONS/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security officials have arrested two Darfuri refugees who were seen speaking to envoys from the U.N. Security Council during a visit to the region, a U.S. official said on Friday.


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