Aid workers shot dead in Pakistan

Aid workers shot dead in Pakistan


Aid workers shot dead in Pakistan

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:31 PM PST

Attack in Mansehra, 65km north of Islamabad, targets office of World Vision aid agency.


UK PM Brown warns of bumpy economic road ahead

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:20 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees risks to the economic recovery and says it is not the moment to change course as he prepares for an election by June.


India's Congress faces turmoil over women's bill

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:31 PM PST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's ruling Congress party officials met on Wednesday to douse a political standoff over a contentious womens' quota bill after two of its allies quit and left the government less elbow room to pass economic legislation.


UK PM Brown warns of bumpy economic road ahead

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:43 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees risks to the economic recovery and says it is not the moment to change course as he prepares for an election by June.


Aid group attacked in northwest Pakistan 5 dead (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:04 PM PST

Pakistani troops patrol through Hayatabad near the Khyber tribal agency. Militants stormed a building used by a US-based charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, sparking heavy clashes with police and killing at least five people, police and an aid worker said.(AFP/File/Tariq Mahmood)AP - Gunmen attacked the offices of an international aid group in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people working for the organization, police said.



Dalai Lama: China aims to annihilate Buddhism (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 09:30 PM PST

AP - The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that Chinese authorities had rebuffed all his efforts to reach a compromise over Tibet and had instead engaged in systematic repression as part of a plan to "annihilate Buddhism" there.


UK PM Brown warns of bumpy economic road ahead (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:06 PM PST

Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees risks to the economic recovery and says it is not the moment to change course as he prepares for an election by June.


East Africa new frontier for oil exploration (AFP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 09:33 PM PST

An oil exploration tower is pictured in Tonya on the Ugandan shore of Lake Albert. East Africa has become a promising new frontier for oil exploration and major multinationals are jostling for the rights to search for black gold, industry experts said(AFP/File/Walter Astrada)AFP - East Africa has become a promising new frontier for oil exploration and major multinationals are jostling for the rights to search for black gold, industry experts said.



Taliban claim suicide attack on NATO-Afghan base (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:15 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, second left, tours through the town of Now Zad, Afghanistan, on Tuesday March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim WATSON, Pool)AP - The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing inside a NATO-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two international service members.



Australia's reputation damaged by violence: FM (AFP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:07 PM PST

Indian protesters hold an image of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as they protest against racial attacks on Indians in Australia during a rally in New Delhi. Violence against Indian students has damaged Australia's reputation and will lead to a drop in the number of foreign students, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has said.(AFP/File/Prakash Singh)AFP - Violence against Indian students has damaged Australia's reputation and will lead to a drop in the number of foreign students, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said.



Myanmar bars Suu Kyi from polls

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 09:59 PM PST

Military announces election law disqualifying anyone convicted of a crime.


US family seeks Israeli damages

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 09:51 PM PST

Case concerns Rachel Corrie's death during protest against Palestinian home demolitions.


Gunmen attack Western aid office in Pakistan

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:13 PM PST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants attacked the office of a Western aid agency in Pakistan with a bomb and gunfire on Wednesday, killing up to 5 people, police said.


Q+A - Is there a WTO case against Chinese Internet censorship?

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:13 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States is studying whether it could launch a WTO challenge against Chinese Internet restrictions that affect Google and other U.S. companies operating in China.


U.S. general in Kyrgyzstan, rivals Russian influence

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 10:13 PM PST

BISHKEK (Reuters) - U.S. General David Petraeus arrived in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday, a day after the United States said it would build an anti-terrorism training centre for the former Soviet republic in Central Asia.


Suu Kyi faces new law

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 07:24 PM PST

YANGON – Myanmar's new election laws mean the opposition National League for Democracy must expel detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi from its ranks ahead of polls this year, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Details of the Political Parties Registration Act published in state newspapers

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Clinton, Preval urge quick Haiti elections

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 05:19 PM PST

WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has joined Haitian President Rene Preval in calling for new elections in quake-hit Haiti as soon as possible.

Legislative polls originally set for February and March were postponed after the January 12 earthquake that

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Bali bomb mastermind shot dead

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 11:04 AM PST

CANBERRA  – Indonesia's president confirmed Wednesday that a suspected Bali bombing mastermind with a 10-million-dollar bounty on his head had been killed, as Australia lauded Jakarta's drive to fight extremists.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told a luncheon in Australia's parliament house that Al-Qaeda-trained bomber Dulmatin was killed during a raid by counter-terrorism forces in the

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Is Asia's Growth Hindering Latin America's?

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 09:45 PM PST

With an increase in trade comes eliminated jobs and lost foreign investment.


EXCLUSIVE - U.N. agency punished Somalia whistleblower

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 09:42 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations Ethics Committee has upheld complaints by a former employee of the U.N. Development Programme who said he suffered retaliation from the UNDP for alleging that its Somalia programme was corrupt.