China raises benchmark interest rates

China raises benchmark interest rates


China raises benchmark interest rates

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:19 AM PST

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Israel says it will not apologize to Turkey over flotilla incident

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:21 PM PST

Despite overtures from Turkey, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday that his country will not apologize to Turkey over the deaths of nine Turkish activists aboard an aid flotilla headed for Gaza in May.


Supply truck headed for Afghanistan attacked

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:02 AM PST

Unidentified gunmen on motorbikes opened fire and killed the driver of a supply truck for NATO troops in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, a senior government official told CNN.


Carlos Andrés Pérez, Former President of Venezuela, Dies at 88

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:43 PM PST

Mr. PĂ©rez tried to make Venezuela a leader of the developing world during a 1970s oil boom only to have his legacy upended.


Fresh clashes in central Nigeria

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:18 PM PST

Further violence between armed groups has broken out in the city of Jos in central Nigeria following bombings that killed 32 people.


Japan Proposes Budget

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:07 AM PST

The hard-pressed administration of Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has unveiled its budget for the fiscal year starting in April, narrowly abiding pledges to limit spending and borrowing.


Ukraine arrests ex-foreign minister

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:25 AM PST

Yuri Lutsenko detained on corruption charges is latest case of probes against members of former administration.


Dutch free 5 of 12 Somalis suspected of terrorism

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:21 AM PST

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch prosecutors said on Sunday that five out of a group of 12 Somalis who were detained just before Christmas on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack had been released for lack of evidence.


Aston Villa 1-2 Tottenham

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:25 AM PST

Tottenham hold off Aston Villa for an hour with 10 men as Rafael van der Vaart's double helps secure the spoils.


Fresh clashes in central Nigeria

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:36 AM PST

Further violence has broken out in the city of Jos in central Nigeria following bombings that killed 32 people on Christmas Eve.


Shooting inside crowded Bullring

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:55 AM PST

A man is arrested after a teenager was shot in the leg inside Birmingham's Bullring Shopping Centre on one of its busiest days of the year.


Icy Czech Republic swim competition

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 08:29 AM PST

Competitors in Prague braved icy cold water in air temperatures of -6 degrees on Sunday for an anuual Christmas swimming competition.


Russians rally against racism

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:25 AM PST

More than 1,500 stage protest in central Moscow against xenophobia following wave of ethnic clashes.


Dog attack woman had head wounds

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:08 AM PST

A woman who was mauled to death by a dog in a house in south London died from head and neck wounds, police reveal.


Starving swans rescued from ice

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:12 AM PST

More than 20 swans are rescued from freezing conditions on a waterway on the Somerset Levels, but 10 are found dead on the ice.


Ivory Coast in civil war warning

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:42 AM PST

A spokesman for Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo warns that foreign intervention to oust him could ignite an "interior war".


Manchester United 2-0 Sunderland

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 08:55 AM PST

Dimitar Berbatov scores twice as Manchester United ease past Sunderland to stay in control of the title race.


Pakistan suicide bomber was woman covered in burqa

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 08:58 AM PST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A woman covered in a head-to-foot burqa carried out a suicide bombing that killed more than 40 people in Pakistan, government officials said on Sunday, adding to security challenges confronting the U.S. ally.


Turkey's apology demand is "chutzpah": Israeli Finance Minister

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 11:22 AM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's ultranationalist foreign minister on Sunday dismissed as "chutzpah" a Turkish offer to restore ties if Israel apologizes for a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound ship, saying it was up to Ankara to make amends.


Eight Americans Killed in Egypt Crash

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 09:52 AM PST

A tour bus slammed into a truck in southern Egypt, killing eight Americans tourists and injuring 21 others, the state news agency said.


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