Don't forget us in Afghan transition, women plead

Don't forget us in Afghan transition, women plead


Don't forget us in Afghan transition, women plead

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 12:24 AM PDT

Afghan women activists are urging the global community to ensure hard-won progress in Afghanistan in the past decade is not lost amid fears that as US and NATO-led troops leave they will be forgotten.

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Venezuela's Chavez re-elected to extend socialist rule

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 12:36 AM PDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez comfortably won re-election on Sunday, quashing the opposition's best chance at unseating him in 14 years and cementing himself as a dominant figure in modern Latin American history.



Gaza militants fire rockets into Israel after air strike

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 12:23 AM PDT

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched rockets at southern Israel on Monday in what they said was a response to an air strike that wounded two militants and eight bystanders on Sunday.



VIDEO: Rothko at Tate Modern is defaced

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 06:40 PM PDT

A painting by artist Mark Rothko at the Tate Modern has been defaced by a small amount of black paint.


Indonesian volcano spews ash clouds in new eruption

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 12:17 AM PDT

One of Indonesia's most active volcanoes has erupted again, spewing clouds of ash, an official said Monday.

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6.2 earthquake strikes off northwest Mexico

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:53 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - A 6.2 earthquake struck in the Gulf of California off the Mexican coast on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.



Maldives police arrest former president for ignoring summons

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:18 PM PDT

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Maldives police arrested and detained former president Mohamed Nasheed on Monday for ignoring a court summons and a travel ban, moves that could trigger further protests by supporters in the Indian Ocean island nation.



Singapore union group sacks executive after racist post

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:44 PM PDT

Singapore's state-linked labour movement on Monday sacked a senior executive after she posted expletive-laden and racially charged comments on Facebook that caused outrage in the city-state.

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Investors have right to lodge reports against gold traders for suspected offences

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:24 PM PDT

Investors have a right to lodge reports with the authorities, including Bank Negara Malaysia, against companies trading in gold on concerns over suspected offences.

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VIDEO: Celebrations as Chavez wins vote

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:16 PM PDT

Noisy celebrations have erupted across the Venezuelan capital Caracas after Hugo Chavez won a fourth term as president.


Gov't has no plans for now to raise dialysis subsidy

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:53 PM PDT

The government has no plans for now to increase the subsidy for dialysis treatment as the number of government-dependent patients continues to increase each year, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin.

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Ponzi Enterprise

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:45 PM PDT

Similar low-risk, high-return investments could be found over the past 100 years and they were actually elaborate Ponzi schemes, instead of new business models.

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Slide halted, Romney challenging Obama in swing states

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:33 PM PDT

PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (Reuters) - Mitt Romney appeared on Sunday to have halted his perilous slide in the polls and is back to running a close race with President Barack Obama as he prepares a new assault on the Democrat over foreign policy.



Venezuela's Chavez re-elected to extend socialist rule

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:04 PM PDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez comfortably won re-election on Sunday, quashing the opposition's best chance at unseating him in 14 years and cementing himself as a dominant figure in modern Latin American history.



Romney to draw contrast with Obama on foreign policy

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 09:10 PM PDT

LEXINGTON, Oct 8 — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will vow to pursue a more aggressive policy toward the Middle East today if elected in an attempt to draw a sharp distinction with how President Barack Obama has handled Libya, Iran, Syria and the Arab-Israeli dispute. Romney, in remarks at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, ...



China’s Huawei, ZTE should be kept from US, says draft Congress report

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 07:03 PM PDT

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 — China's top telecommunications gear makers should be kept from the US market because they cannot be trusted to dodge Chinese state influence and thus pose a security threat, the US House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee leaders said in a draft of a report to be released today. US intelligence must stay focused on ...



Salem, American town known for 'witchcraft'

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:23 PM PDT

Television buffs are sure to remember the sitcom series 'Sabrina, The Teenage Witch'.

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Jobstreet survey shows 78 per cent of Malaysians unhappy with current jobs

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:20 PM PDT

A recent JobStreet.com survey on Employee Job Satisfaction in Malaysia, revealed that 78 per cent of respondents were unhappy with their current jobs.

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S. Korea labels chemical leak area 'disaster' zone

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:15 PM PDT

The South Korean government on Monday designated an area hit by a toxic chemical leak as a "special disaster" zone, after more than 3,000 people were treated for ailments ranging from nausea to chest pain.

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A Paris street battles for its soul

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:14 PM PDT

The battle raging on Rue Du Faubourg Saint-Denis, a shabby Paris street where hip bars are sprouting up like mushrooms, is part of a wider war in the city pitching sleep-starved residents against nocturnal revellers.

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