Police fire water cannon at Delhi gang-rape protest

Police fire water cannon at Delhi gang-rape protest

Police fire water cannon at Delhi gang-rape protest

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 12:14 AM PST

Indian riot police fired water cannon on Wednesday during a demonstration in New Delhi held to protest the gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a bus, witnesses said.

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Another polio worker shot in Pakistan, six killed in attacks

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:12 PM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan Dec 19 — Another polio worker was shot and badly injured in Pakistan today, the latest in a string of attacks that left six female health workers dead in 24 hours. The shooting in the northern city of Peshawar so soon after the other killings calls into question whether the UN-backed campaign to eradicate polio in Pakistan can ...

Obama faces backlash on possible Hagel nomination for Pentagon

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:35 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 — Pro-Israel groups, neoconservatives and even some former colleagues on Capitol Hill are confronting President Barack Obama with a growing backlash against Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator tipped as his leading candidate for defence secretary. Obama's aides have given no sign of dropping Hagel from consideration — ...

Tiny air pollutants kill thousands, cost billions in China

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:53 PM PST

BEIJING, Dec 19 — Microscopic pollutant particles in the air have killed some 8,600 people prematurely this year and cost US$1 billion (RM3.1 billion) in economic losses in four Chinese cities, according to a study by Beijing University and Greenpeace. The study of pollutant levels of PM2.5, or particles smaller than 2.5 micrometres in diameter, ...

Amid China tensions, Southeast Asia looks to India

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:31 PM PST

NEW DELHI, Dec 19 — The dozens of vehicles that roared into northeast India this week on a rally from Indonesia symbolise deeper ties between the South Asian giant and Southeast Asia, but the dreadful roads along several parts of the 8,000 km journey also show how much remains to be done. The caravan crossed jungles and mountains in eight nations ...

Seventeen reported dead in Mexican prison break attempt

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:15 PM PST

MEXICO CITY, Dec 19 — Eleven inmates and seven guards were killed in a shootout during a prison break attempt in northern Mexico yesterday, local media reported, citing a statement from the security ministry in Durango state. The inmates shot at guard towers in a jail in the city of Gomez Palacio as they tried to escape through a back wall and ...

UN says 126 rapes committed in Congo town after army arrived

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:01 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19 — The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo found that 126 women were raped in an eastern town after Congolese troops fled there last month as rebels advanced on the provincial capital of Goma, the United Nations said yesterday. Congolese troops, aided by UN peacekeepers, have been battling the so-called M23 rebels ...

Clinton accepts Benghazi findings, orders broad changes

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 07:33 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday she accepted the findings of an independent panel that faulted the State Department over the deadly September attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, and had ordered widespread changes to bolster US diplomatic security overseas. Clinton said in a letter to US ...

Inquiry harshly criticises US State Dept over Benghazi attack

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 07:24 PM PST

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 — Security at the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, was grossly inadequate to deal with a September 11 attack that killed a US ambassador and three others because of systemic failures within the State Department, an official inquiry found yesterday. In a scathing assessment, the review cited "leadership and management" deficiencies ...

NBC news team freed in Syria after firefight

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 07:13 PM PST

ANTAKYA, Turkey, Dec 19 — An NBC news team was freed in Syria during a firefight at an Islamic rebel checkpoint five days after being ambushed and kidnapped by 15 heavily armed gunmen, correspondent Richard Engel said yesterday. Engel, 39, who along with production crew members Ghazi Balkiz and John Kooistra disappeared after crossing into ...

Venezuela’s Chavez ‘stable’ after respiratory infection

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 06:40 PM PST

CARACAS, Dec 19 — Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez suffered a respiratory infection but is "stable" again in a Cuban hospital following cancer surgery a week ago, the government said yesterday. Chavez, 58, is battling to recover from a fourth operation since he was first diagnosed with the disease in mid-2011. "The general condition of the ...

France must review pension system by 2017 - finance minister

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:18 PM PST

PARIS (Reuters) - Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said on Wednesday that France must revamp its pension system by 2017 to ensure that it remains fully funded as a previous reform did not go far enough.

Greek public sector workers strike over reforms

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:16 PM PST

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek public sector workers walked off the job on Wednesday in protest at new austerity measures and planned layoffs, disrupting local transport, grounding flights and shutting schools and tax offices.

Another polio worker shot in Pakistan, six killed in attacks

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:15 PM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Another polio worker was shot and badly injured in Pakistan on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks that left 6 female health workers dead in 24 hours.

Philippines' Arroyo declined Christmas reprieve

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:39 PM PST

Detained former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo is to spend Christmas at a military hospital after a court rejected her bid for a temporary reprieve, an official said Wednesday.

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Instagram ad shift creates online uproar

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:36 PM PST

Instagram faced a backlash Tuesday after the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service rewrote its rules to give itself the right to sell users' pictures for advertising without compensation.

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Singapore M&As set record this year

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:36 PM PST

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) here rose by 82.5 per cent this year to hit a record US$79.4 billion, driven by competing bids for Fraser & Neave (F&N) which are currently still pending and will spill over in 2013, said Thomson Reuters.

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Samsung is top 2012 phone brand, ousting Nokia

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:36 PM PST

Samsung has overtaken Nokia as the top mobile phone brand for 2012 and has opened up a decisive lead over Apple in the smartphone market, a research firm said Tuesday.

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Outcry as Cambodia protest shooting charges dropped

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:22 PM PST

Cambodian rights campaigners on Wednesday slammed a court decision to drop charges against a former governor who was the prime suspect in the shooting of three female garment workers earlier this year.

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Global forestry industry slowly recovering: FAO

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:09 PM PST

The global forest products industry is slowly recovering from the economic crisis, with the Asia-Pacific region, and particularly China, taking the lead, according to data published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

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