More rain, strong winds and rough seas: Meteorological Dept |
- More rain, strong winds and rough seas: Meteorological Dept
- 36 detainees under emergency ordinance to be released
- Yemen's Saleh signs deal to give up power
- Cairo clashes pause, but protesters dig in
- Asia's old suffer fraud, abuse with rising dementia
- Saudi says two killed in gunfight in eastern province
- Japan looks to future with earnest crown prince
- France calls for humanitarian zone in Syria
- Top Guatemala prosecutor warns on war crimes cases
- U.S. urges Bahrain to tackle abuses, sees path forward
- U.N. chief appoints Slovakia's Kubis as Afghan envoy
- ICC prosecutor happy for Libya to try Gaddafi son
- Four militants killed in attack on Iraqi town - sources
- Tunisia security forces fire in air during protest
- Libyan tribes protest at new government line-up
- Warplanes strike Somali militant bases - residents
- S.Korean teen accused of killing grade-obsessed mum
- Robot guards to patrol South Korean prisons
- China navy to carry out Pacific exercises
- VIDEO: Austrian ski resorts lacking snow
| More rain, strong winds and rough seas: Meteorological Dept Posted: 24 Nov 2011 12:35 AM PST The Meteorological Department has forecasted intermittent heavy rains for Terengganu, Pahang and Kelantan until tomorrow, with possible floods in low-lying areas.
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| 36 detainees under emergency ordinance to be released Posted: 24 Nov 2011 12:31 AM PST About 36 people detained under the Emergency Ordinance will be released soon, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today.
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| Yemen's Saleh signs deal to give up power Posted: 23 Nov 2011 11:26 PM PST RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal on Wednesday under which he will step down after 33 years in power and 10 months of protests against his rule that brought the country to the brink of civil war. 
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| Cairo clashes pause, but protesters dig in Posted: 23 Nov 2011 11:02 PM PST CAIRO (Reuters) - Clashes between Egyptian riot police and protesters stopped overnight for the first time in days on Thursday, though demonstrators occupying Cairo's Tahrir Square vowed to stay put until the army relinquished power. 
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| Asia's old suffer fraud, abuse with rising dementia Posted: 23 Nov 2011 08:09 PM PST HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thin, frail and slightly demented, 83-year-old Yuk Po approached social workers for help after learning that her daughter had invested her lifesavings in Lehman Brothers' minibonds, the notorious financial instruments that went bust in late 2008. 
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| Saudi says two killed in gunfight in eastern province Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:51 PM PST RIYADH (Reuters) - Two people were killed and three wounded in an exchange of fire between Saudi security forces in the oil-producing Eastern Province and what the interior ministry on Thursday called gunmen serving a foreign power. 
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| Japan looks to future with earnest crown prince Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:36 PM PST TOKYO (Reuters) - Over the past few weeks, Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito has been in the public eye as rarely before, whether tipping a wine glass in toasts at a state banquet or conferring imperial decorations as he stands in for Emperor Akihito, who has been in hospital. 
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| France calls for humanitarian zone in Syria Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:53 PM PST AMMAN/PARIS (Reuters) - France has called for a "secured zone to protect civilians" in Syria, the first time a major Western power has suggested international intervention on the ground in the eight-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. 
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| Top Guatemala prosecutor warns on war crimes cases Posted: 23 Nov 2011 06:22 PM PST GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Military officials accused of atrocities during Guatemala's civil war must be brought to justice to ensure that such crimes are not repeated, the country's attorney general said on Wednesday. 
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| U.S. urges Bahrain to tackle abuses, sees path forward Posted: 23 Nov 2011 05:34 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States urged its ally Bahrain, home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, to quickly address abuses laid out in a report on Wednesday that alleged that Bahraini security forces used torture to obtain confessions. 
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| U.N. chief appoints Slovakia's Kubis as Afghan envoy Posted: 23 Nov 2011 03:55 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday named Slovak diplomat Jan Kubis as his next special envoy to Afghanistan, a challenging post that will be changing hands for the third time in four years. 
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| ICC prosecutor happy for Libya to try Gaddafi son Posted: 23 Nov 2011 12:33 PM PST TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said on Wednesday he was happy for Libya rather than the Hague to try Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam but the country's ex-intelligence chief was still at large. 
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| Four militants killed in attack on Iraqi town - sources Posted: 23 Nov 2011 12:32 PM PST KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Militants attacked the northern Iraqi town of Hawija with car bombs and mortars on Wednesday in an assault that killed four insurgents and wounded nine people including two soldiers and a policeman, police and hospital sources said. 
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| Tunisia security forces fire in air during protest Posted: 23 Nov 2011 12:16 PM PST TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian security forces late Wednesday fired into the air to try to disperse more than 3,000 protesters who were trying to attack a government building in the provincial town of Kasserine, witnesses told Reuters. 
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| Libyan tribes protest at new government line-up Posted: 23 Nov 2011 10:52 AM PST TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Some of Libya's clans said on Wednesday they would not recognise the government, a day after the unveiling of a new cabinet revived regional and tribal rivalries which threaten the country's stability. 
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| Warplanes strike Somali militant bases - residents Posted: 23 Nov 2011 10:40 AM PST MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Unidentified fighter jets bombed three Islamist militant bases in Somalia on Wednesday, residents and soldiers said, as neighbouring Kenya continued its assault on the rebels. 
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| S.Korean teen accused of killing grade-obsessed mum Posted: 24 Nov 2011 12:04 AM PST A teenager in education-obsessed South Korea allegedly killed his mother because she hounded him to come top in exams, and then hid her body at their home for eight months, police said Thursday.
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| Robot guards to patrol South Korean prisons Posted: 23 Nov 2011 11:51 PM PST Robot guards with sensors to detect abnormal behaviour will soon begin patrolling South Korean prisons to ease the burden on their human counterparts, researchers said Thursday.
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| China navy to carry out Pacific exercises Posted: 23 Nov 2011 11:42 PM PST China has said it will conduct "routine" naval exercises in the Pacific Ocean, in the week after a major diplomatic campaign by US President Barack Obama to assert the United States as a Pacific power.
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| VIDEO: Austrian ski resorts lacking snow Posted: 23 Nov 2011 11:58 PM PST Some ski resorts in the Austrian Alps have cancelled their season opening weekends because of a lack of snow, after the driest November since the 1920s.
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