Exclusive: China leadership rules Bo case isolated, limits purge: sources

Exclusive: China leadership rules Bo case isolated, limits purge: sources

Exclusive: China leadership rules Bo case isolated, limits purge: sources

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:07 PM PDT

To match insight CHINA-BO/WANG LIJUNBEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao has demanded senior Communist Party officials stifle tensions over the ousting of ambitious politician Bo Xilai and show unity as they prepare for a change of leadership, sources briefed on recent meetings said. Hu urged the party to close ranks at a meeting of about 200 officials early this month at a Beijing hotel, declaring the downfall of Bo - China's biggest political scandal in two decades - to be an "isolated case", the three sources said. ...

Myanmar protests an opportunity to show more reform

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:52 PM PDT

People take a part in a protest in central YangonYANGON (Reuters) - Five days of street protests over chronic power shortages present Myanmar's reformist government with a headache and an opportunity. Police forcibly dispersed protesters in the central Myanmar town of Pyi on Thursday, a heavy-handed response reminiscent of the previous military junta that could fuel grievances among an impoverished and long-neglected people. ...

Days after deaths, another crowd attempts Everest

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 6, 2003 file photo, Mount Everest, at 8,850-meter (29,035-foot), the world's tallest mountain situated in the Nepal-Tibet border as seen from an airplane. Days after four people died amid a "traffic jam" of climbers scrambling to conquer Mount Everest, Nepal officials said a similar rush up the world's tallest peak will begin soon, and there's little they can do to control it. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi, File)A wave of climbers has headed for the summit of Mount Everest, and several people have already made it in what is expected to another busy weekend on the top of the world.

Exclusive: China leadership rules Bo case isolated, limits purge: sources

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:07 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao has demanded senior Communist Party officials stifle tensions over the ousting of ambitious politician Bo Xilai and show unity as they prepare for a change of leadership, sources briefed on recent meetings said.

Myanmar protests an opportunity to show more reform

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:53 PM PDT

YANGON (Reuters) - Five days of street protests over chronic power shortages present Myanmar's reformist government with a headache and an opportunity.

VIDEO: Man admits to killing NY boy

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:44 PM PDT

A man has confessed to suffocating a six-year-old boy who went missing in New York in 1979, police say.


VIDEO: Man admits to killing NY boy

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:44 PM PDT

A man has confessed to suffocating a six-year-old boy who went missing in New York in 1979, police say.


VIDEO: Greece prepares for new polls

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:41 PM PDT

In just over three weeks time Greeks will head to the polls again for another shot at electing a government after the last ballot failed to produce a clear winner.


The Medicare Drug 'Donut Hole' is a Much Smaller Problem Than You Think

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:26 PM PDT

On Wednesday, I wrote about why closing the Medicare drug-benefit 'donut hole' is a terrible idea, one that some congressional Republicans are poised to endorse. In that post, I described why eliminating this key cost-sharing provision will destroy the program's fiscal controls. Today I want to dig into the data about the Medicare drug program, and explain why the program's inadequacies are exaggerated.


Counting under way in Egypt election

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:16 PM PDT

Counting begins after two days of voting in Egypt's first free presidential election, as Muslim Brotherhood claims lead.


France's Hollande makes unannounced Afghanistan trip

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:58 PM PDT

France's President Hollande waves after talks at the Elysee Palace in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Friday to visit some of the French troops he wants to pull out later this year and meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom he saw briefly last week in Chicago. Hollande, making a whirl of foreign trips since his May 15 inauguration, is accelerating the withdrawal of the roughly 3,400 French troops still stationed in Afghanistan to the end of this year, two years ahead of the NATO timetable. His office said he would pledge to keep to a long-term cooperation treaty signed with Kabul earlier this ...

Three-quarters of Japanese firms oppose nuclear power

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:40 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly three-quarters of Japanese companies support abandoning nuclear power after last year's Fukushima disaster, although a majority set the condition that alternative energy resources must be secured, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.

France's Hollande makes unannounced Afghanistan trip

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:58 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Friday to visit some of the French troops he wants to pull out later this year and meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom he saw briefly last week in Chicago.

Analysis: China's nine-dashed line in South China Sea

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:12 PM PDT

To match Analysis CHINA-SEA/BOUNDARYHONG KONG (Reuters) - Alongside an armada of paramilitary patrol vessels and fishing boats, China has fired off a barrage of historical records to reinforce its claim over a disputed shoal near the Philippines in the South China Sea. While this propaganda broadside makes it clear Beijing will take a tough line with Manila as a standoff over Scarborough Shoal continues into a seventh week, the exact legal justification for China's claim and the full extent of the territory affected remain uncertain, according to experts in maritime law. ...

Analysis: China's nine-dashed line in South China Sea

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:18 PM PDT

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Alongside an armada of paramilitary patrol vessels and fishing boats, China has fired off a barrage of historical records to reinforce its claim over a disputed shoal near the Philippines in the South China Sea.

New Zealand's Christchurch shaken by 5.2 quake

Posted: 24 May 2012 08:07 PM PDT

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's second largest city Christchurch was shaken by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The government seismology agency said the quake was centered 10 kilometers east of the city at a depth of 11 kilometers. The city was devastated by a force 6.3 quake in February last year, killing nearly 200 people, and destroying the central business district and making large areas of surrounding suburbs uninhabitable. ...


Police blockade Papua New Guinea's Parliament

Posted: 24 May 2012 08:35 PM PDT

Police in Papua New Guinea blockaded Parliament on Friday, a day after Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's government leveled sedition charges against the country's chief justice.


New Signs of Global Slowdown

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:21 PM PDT

New signs of a global slowdown are darkening the economic outlook, with measures of business sentiment in Europe slipping and reports from manufacturers around the world turning down.


Early Egypt Results Put Islamist in Lead

Posted: 24 May 2012 06:36 PM PDT

The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate appears poised to advance to the second round of Egypt's presidential elections, a surprise showing that is likely to set up a dramatic runoff featuring at least one Islamist candidate.


Israelis Cling to Faith in Peace Pact

Posted: 24 May 2012 06:26 PM PDT

As Egyptians voted for a new leader this week, some Israeli officials said they believe the peace treaty between them is likely to endure no matter who wins.


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