China's Xi seeks to reassure Southeast Asia on sea dispute

China's Xi seeks to reassure Southeast Asia on sea dispute


China's Xi seeks to reassure Southeast Asia on sea dispute

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:56 PM PDT

China's Vice President Xi listens to U.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta in BeijingBEIJING (Reuters) - China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping sought to reassure Southeast Asian leaders on Friday that his country wanted only peaceful relations with them, following months of growing tensions over the strategically located South China Sea. Speaking at the opening of a trade fair in southern China for Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members, Vice President Xi said China's own prosperity could only be guaranteed by having good relations with its neighbors. ...



AngloGold workers strike at South African mine

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:08 PM PDT

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Workers have embarked on an illegal strike at a South African mine run by world No. 3 bullion producer AngloGold Ashanti, a company spokesman said on Friday, signaling spreading labor unrest in the mining sector. "The night shift embarked on an unprotected strike at Kopanang and the morning shift didn't go down either," company spokesman Alan Fine said. Fine said the mine has 5,000 workers and the strikers had not yet communicated their demands to the company. ...


Norway PM to reshuffle cabinet on Friday: media

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:03 PM PDT

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will reshuffle his cabinet on Friday, hoping to revive the fortunes of his Labour Party a year before parliamentary elections, local media said on Friday. Trailing the conservative opposition in opinion polls, Stoltenberg will move his foreign, defense, health and culture ministers and replace the labour minister in what is expected to be the last big major reshuffle before the autumn 2013 ballot, public broadcaster NRK and daily VG said. ...


VIDEO: Louvre opens new Islamic art wing

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:51 PM PDT

A new wing of the Louvre Museum in Paris opens is set to open on Friday, amid ongoing religious tensions over the publication of obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.


Norway PM to reshuffle cabinet on Friday: media

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:03 PM PDT

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will reshuffle his cabinet on Friday, hoping to revive the fortunes of his Labour Party a year before parliamentary elections, local media said on Friday.


AngloGold workers strike at South African mine

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:08 PM PDT

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Workers have embarked on an illegal strike at a South African mine run by world No. 3 bullion producer AngloGold Ashanti, a company spokesman said on Friday, signaling spreading labor unrest in the mining sector.


There's No Escape: Death, Taxes And Student Loans

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:44 PM PDT

Candlelight Vigil (Photo credit: KOMUnews) This is a tough topic to address. It involves taxes but is really about personal tragedy. Some taxes inevitably involve death. For example, estate taxes are obviously explicitly linked to death. The tax treatment of wrongful death lawsuit proceeds is also inevitably linked to death. But this [...]


AU forces close in on al-Shabab town

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:53 PM PDT

Forces remain on alert in southern Somalia though armed group seems to have fled its stronghold, Marka.


VIDEO: Fresh anti-Islam film protests due

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:47 PM PDT

Adverts have been broadcast on Pakistani TV showing President Barack Obama condemning an anti-Islam film made in the US, as security forces in several Muslim countries prepare for fresh protests.


VIDEO: Louvre opens new Islamic art wing

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:51 PM PDT

A new wing of the Louvre Museum in Paris opens is set to open on Friday, amid ongoing religious tensions over the publication of obscene cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.


VIDEO: Arrests at Pussy Riot exhibition

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:50 PM PDT

Nine people have been detained after Orthodox church activists in Russia disrupted the opening of an art exhibition devoted to the controversial punk band, Pussy Riot.


Egypt's mufti urges Muslims to endure insults peacefully

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:44 PM PDT

Riot policemen stand guard outside the French embassy in SanaaCAIRO (Reuters) - Muslims angered by cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad should follow his example of enduring insults without retaliating, Egypt's highest Islamic legal official said. Western embassies tightened security in Sanaa, fearing the cartoons published in a French magazine on Wednesday could lead to more unrest in the Yemeni capital where crowds attacked the U.S. mission last week over an anti-Islam film made in America. ...



Suicide bombers kill 15 in Somali capital

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:33 PM PDT

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers walked into a restaurant in central Mogadishu and killed at least 15 people on Thursday, police said, highlighting the security challenges facing the country's new president. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. However, suspicions will fall on the Islamist militant group al Shabaab which has carried out a campaign of suicide bombings since it withdrew from the capital last year under military pressure. ...


iPhone 5 launch draws Apple fans across Asia

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:47 PM PDT

Kae Shibata 20, left, and Yutaro Noji, 21, show off Apple's iPhone 5 after they bought at a store in Tokyo Friday morning, Sept. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)In a now familiar global ritual, Apple fans jammed shops from Sydney to Tokyo to pick up the tech juggernaut's latest iPhone.



China's Xi seeks to reassure Southeast Asia on sea dispute

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:56 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping sought to reassure Southeast Asian leaders on Friday that his country wanted only peaceful relations with them, following months of growing tensions over the strategically located South China Sea.


Egypt's mufti urges Muslims to endure insults peacefully

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:44 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Muslims angered by cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad should follow his example of enduring insults without retaliating, Egypt's highest Islamic legal official said.


Suicide bombers kill 15 in Somali capital

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:33 PM PDT

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers walked into a restaurant in central Mogadishu and killed at least 15 people on Thursday, police said, highlighting the security challenges facing the country's new president.


Insight: Chavez plays populist card for Venezuela election

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:02 PM PDT

Venezuelan President Chavez plays a guitar, which was a gift from Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez, during a cabinet meeting at Miraflores Palace in CaracasSABANETA, Venezuela (Reuters) - To understand why President Hugo Chavez may win yet another election in Venezuela next month, go and sit under the mango trees of Los Rastrojos or Sabaneta. There, in the rural villages of his childhood at the heart of Venezuela's great savannah or "llanos," family and friends pour out tales of a boy whose motor-mouth and popular touch - now mainstays of his rule - were evident early on. ...



Trinidad justice minister fired over controversial law

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:21 PM PDT

PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Trinidad and Tobago's justice minister, Herbert Volney, was fired on Thursday over a controversial law that could allow charges to be dropped against more than a dozen people facing corruption charges, including two men wanted in the United States. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said Volney, a member of parliament of the ruling coalition, had deceived the government by assuring the cabinet that the proclamation of the new law had been approved by the country's Chief Justice and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). ...


Officials: 129 inmates walked out front door

Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:45 AM PDT

The 129 inmates who escaped from a northern Mexico prison did not flee through a tunnel, as authorities first reported. They walked out the front door.