China's Xi Says Fast Growth Over

China's Xi Says Fast Growth Over

China's Xi Says Fast Growth Over

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:48 PM PDT

Chinese President Xi Jinping said China's days of breakneck growth are over as the world's No. 2 economy tries to balance expansion with sustainability and increasing environmental awareness.

France Orders Cabinet to Disclose Assets

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:54 PM PDT

The French prime minister ordered all cabinet members to disclose their assets publicly by next Monday, in a bid to contain the fallout from a former budget minister's dramatic confession that he held an illegal overseas bank account for years.

Putin Confronts Protesters During German Visit

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:49 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel traded barbs over civil rights but largely stuck to business during a visit to a trade fair in Hannover.

Five killed in clashes in Russia's North Caucasus

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:44 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian security forces killed four militants but lost one of their own in a firefight on Monday in Ingushetia, where an Islamist insurgency has spread from the neighboring region of Chechnya, officials said.

Murdered woman 'altered plans'

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:11 PM PDT

The family of Guernsey woman Sarah Groves, who was murdered in Kashmir, says they asked her not to travel there.

Wary of Events in China, Foreign Investors Head to Cambodia

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:20 PM PDT

Foreign companies are flocking to Cambodia as a way to limit their overwhelming reliance on factories in China.

ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: Season 6 Premiere

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:59 AM PDT

Sunday's episode raises questions about Peggy's new role, whether Megan is a victim or the control in an experiment, and why Don is back to his old adulterous ways.

Tribesmen, army deserters clash in Yemen, seven killed

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:28 PM PDT

SANAA (Reuters) - Seven people were killed in clashes between army deserters and tribesmen in south Yemen on Monday, officials and residents said, in another sign of disorder in a country of multiple conflicts next to oil export giant Saudi Arabia.

Rebels inch closer to South Darfur capital

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:23 PM PDT

Latest violence comes as major donors conference in Qatar's capital pledges $3.6bn to help rebuild war-ravaged region.

UAE man jailed 10 months for tweeting on father's trial

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 11:53 AM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - A court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced a man to 10 months in jail on Monday after he tweeted details of the trial of his father and 93 other people accused of plotting to seize power in the Gulf Arab state, an Emirati activist said.

Bissau president implicated in U.S. drugs case

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 11:51 AM PDT

DAKAR (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's caretaker president may have cooperated with the planners of a doomed cocaine-and-weapons smuggling scheme meant to arm Colombian rebels, according to U.S. court filings reviewed by Reuters on Monday.

U.S. envoy says must fight mistrust for Middle East peace

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:54 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday he is trying to break down mistrust on both sides of the "festering" conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and would not rush into a new peace process.

Pakistan Court Orders Musharraf to Respond

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 11:19 AM PDT

Pakistan's top court ordered former military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf to respond to allegations that he committed treason while in power and barred him from leaving the country.

Lisbon Struggles to Find Needed Cuts

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:59 AM PDT

Portugal's international creditors said they would delay the next payment in the country's €78 billion bailout until the government finds €1.3 billion in new spending cuts—a task that some economists say may just be too big.

Margaret Thatcher leaves complicated, sometimes bitter legacy in U.K.'s former colonies

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:54 AM PDT

The historic leadership of U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher transformed her country and played an instrumental role in the final decade of the Cold War, for which she is still lionized in much of the Western world, particularly the United States. But her legacy is far more complicated in a number of former colonies, places that at the time were referred to as the "Third World" in the parlance of the Cold War.

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Margaret Thatcher helped invent ice cream as we know it

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:51 AM PDT

Here's one aspect of Margaret Thatcher's legacy we can all feel unequivocally good about: The Iron Lady, better known for her "bruising political style and free-market views," helped invent soft-serve ice cream as a chemist in the late 1940s.

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Kerry trying to build support for new Israel peace talks

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:55 AM PDT

JERUSALEM — Secretary of State John F. Kerry worked Monday to build support for new Arab-Israeli peace talks that would establish an independent Palestinian state and settle many other old Mideast grievances.

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Iran may have continued weapons research after 2003, IAEA chief says

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:43 AM PDT

The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said Monday his agency could not rule out the possibility that Iran was actively seeking nuclear weapons technology, citing intelligence on suspicious research by Iranian scientists that occurred as recently as a few years ago.

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'Irony Lady': How a Moscow propagandist gave Margaret Thatcher her famous nickname

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:41 AM PDT

On Jan. 24, 1976, a Saturday, a Soviet propaganda outlet known as Krasnaya Zvezda published an unremarkable article condemning an up-and-coming British politician named Margaret Thatcher. She had taken leadership of the U.K. conservative party, then the opposition party, less than a year earlier and had earned a reputation as an anticommunist crusader.

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Thatcher and Reagan: Was their 'special relationship' partly a myth?

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:35 AM PDT

U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan are remembered as a geopolitical "power couple," a partnership that pushed for free-market conservatism and helped win the Cold War. In both U.S. and U.K. politics, their names are practically synonymous.

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