Euro-style austerity at home? No thanks Germans say |
- Euro-style austerity at home? No thanks Germans say
- Dutch coalition teeters over cuts as EU pact struggles
- Saudi diplomat may be freed soon - Yemeni tribal head
- Sudan bombs South Sudan border area, kills 3 witnesses
- Over 1,000 S. Sudanese killed at Heglig: commander
- Injured Sabah cabinet minister in stable condition
- Rakyat's bread and butter are taken care of, says Najib
- Post-menopause cancer risk linked to seaweed: study
- Leader of armed tribesmen in S. Philippines bolts from jail
- S. Korea urges DPRK to end anti-Lee smear campaign
- Polls see clear win for Hollande in French runoff
- Trayvon Martin’s killer leaves Florida jail on bail
- VIDEO: NLD 'boycott' at Burma's parliament
- Girl, pregnant woman, killed as Japan car hits group
- 4,000 posts created to fill up police vacancies
- Chan's cheating trial postponed to May 21
- Israel says Egypt gas cutoff a business dispute
- French far right holds balance after Hollande edges Sarkozy
- George Zimmerman leaves Florida jail on bail
- Netherlands political crisis casts cloud on euro zone
| Euro-style austerity at home? No thanks Germans say Posted: 23 Apr 2012 01:06 AM PDT GUETERSLOH, Germany (Reuters) - Two years ago voters in this industrial city on the eastern edge of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) narrowly backed German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives in a regional election. 
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| Dutch coalition teeters over cuts as EU pact struggles Posted: 23 Apr 2012 01:00 AM PDT AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government teetered on the verge of collapse on Monday after an anti-EU party refused to back big deficit cuts, creating a new hurdle for euro zone leaders who are already struggling with a pact on overcoming the bloc's budget problems. 
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| Saudi diplomat may be freed soon - Yemeni tribal head Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:39 AM PDT ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian diplomat who was kidnapped last month by al Qaeda-linked militants is in "good health" and could be released within "the coming hours", a powerful tribal leader in southern Yemen said on Monday. 
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| Sudan bombs South Sudan border area, kills 3 witnesses Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:21 AM PDT OUTSIDE BENTIU, South Sudan (Reuters) - Sudanese warplanes carried out air strikes on South Sudan on Monday, killing three people near a southern oil town, residents and military officials said, three days after South Sudan pulled out of a disputed oil field. 
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| Over 1,000 S. Sudanese killed at Heglig: commander Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:45 AM PDT More than 1,000 South Sudanese troops died during the battle for Sudan's main oilfield of Heglig, the Sudanese armed forces commander said on Monday.
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| Injured Sabah cabinet minister in stable condition Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:43 AM PDT State Community Development and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun, who suffered minor injuries after being involved in an accident yesterday, is in stable condition.
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| Rakyat's bread and butter are taken care of, says Najib Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:43 AM PDT Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the implementation of Cost of Living under National Key Result Area (NKRA) was his way of ensuring the rakyat's bread and butter issues were taken care of.
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| Post-menopause cancer risk linked to seaweed: study Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:37 AM PDT A Japanese study Wednesday said regular seaweed consumption among post-menopausal women heightened their risk of developing thyroid cancer, linking it to iodine in the macrobiotic food.
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| Leader of armed tribesmen in S. Philippines bolts from jail Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:36 AM PDT Philippine police have intensified the manhunt against two suspects in the high- profile kidnapping of teachers and students almost three years ago escaped from a southern Philippine prison on Sunday, authorities said on Monday.
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| S. Korea urges DPRK to end anti-Lee smear campaign Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:35 AM PDT South Korea urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday to stop bad-mouthing the South's conservative leader Lee Myung-bak as the defamation campaign against him intensifies.
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| Polls see clear win for Hollande in French runoff Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:18 AM PDT PARIS, April 23 — French Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande will beat incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy in the May 6 second-round ballot with about 53 to 56 per cent of the vote, according to polls conducted after the close of yesterday's first round. Hollande won the first round with 28.46 per cent of the vote to 27.06 per cent ... 
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| Trayvon Martin’s killer leaves Florida jail on bail Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:10 PM PDT SANFORD (Florida), April 23 — George Zimmerman, the former neighbourhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, was released early today from a Florida county jail on US$150,000 (RM450,000) bail. Wearing a brown jacket, jeans and carrying a brown paper bag, Zimmerman walked out of ... 
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| VIDEO: NLD 'boycott' at Burma's parliament Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:26 AM PDT Burma's parliament opens but without the newly-elected members of Aug San Suu Kyi's NLD party, the BBC's Rachel Harvey reports.
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| Girl, pregnant woman, killed as Japan car hits group Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:22 AM PDT A seven-year-old girl and a pregnant woman were killed Monday when a car hit a group of elementary school children near the tourist city of Kyoto in Japan.
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| 4,000 posts created to fill up police vacancies Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:04 AM PDT Some 4,000 new posts have been created to fill up vacancies especially in new police stations nationwide this year, said Bukit Aman Managament Division director Datuk Mortadaza Nazarene.
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| Chan's cheating trial postponed to May 21 Posted: 23 Apr 2012 12:04 AM PDT The trial of former transport minister Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy who is facing a cheating charge in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal was postponed today to allow the prosecution to examine a letter of representation from the defence.
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| Israel says Egypt gas cutoff a business dispute Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:54 PM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel, aiming to avoid further damage to its troubled ties with Cairo, said on Monday it saw the Egyptian termination of a deal to supply Israel with natural gas as part of a business rather than a diplomatic dispute. 
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| French far right holds balance after Hollande edges Sarkozy Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:14 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Far-right voters may decide who becomes France's next president after anti-immigration crusader Marine Le Pen's record first-round election score jolted the race between Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande and incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. 
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| George Zimmerman leaves Florida jail on bail Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:04 PM PDT SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, the former neighbourhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, was released early on Monday from a Florida county jail on $150,000 bail. 
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| Netherlands political crisis casts cloud on euro zone Posted: 22 Apr 2012 11:03 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands, a core euro zone member, was drawn into Europe's debt crisis at the weekend when the government failed to agree on budget cuts, making elections almost unavoidable and casting doubt on its support for future euro zone measures. 
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