Iran says to enter Geneva talks with good intentions

Iran says to enter Geneva talks with good intentions

Iran says to enter Geneva talks with good intentions

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 01:00 AM PDT

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is entering talks with six world powers this week with good intentions, the Islamic Republic's chief nuclear negotiator said on Wednesday as he left Tehran for the one-day meeting in Geneva.


Taiwan likely to upset China with Tibet, Uighur films

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 01:00 AM PDT

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will screen films about Tibetans and Uighurs, China's most restive ethnic groups, on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, sponsors said, likely to anger its diplomatic rival.


Canadian circus billionaire blasts into space

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 12:59 AM PDT

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Canadian circus billionaire Guy Laliberte blasted off in a Russian Soyuz spaceship from Kazakhstan on Wednesday to become the world's seventh space tourist.


Vietnam fights floods after typhoon, toll hits 40

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 12:59 AM PDT

HOI AN, Vietnam (Reuters) - Vietnam's central provinces battled the biggest floods in decades on Wednesday caused by a powerful typhoon that swept into the country after wreaking havoc in the Philippines.


Ghosts of China past emerge in anniversary snaps

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 12:25 AM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - In a black-and-white photo from Tiananmen Square in 1970, the four young faces are serious, the clothes drab and nearly identical, and a copy of chairman Mao Zedong's little red book is clutched in every hand.


Samoa tsunami toll may exceed 100, hundreds injured

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 11:25 PM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa, killing possibly more than 100 people, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, officials said on Wednesday.


Beijing locked down ahead of national day parade

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 11:25 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese capital Beijing is under lockdown on the eve of a massive military parade to mark six decades of Communist Party rule, with gun-toting police manning street corners to ensure nothing spoils the event.


IMF to raise world economic growth forecast - paper

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 11:25 PM PDT

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will raise its 2010 growth forecast for the world economy to 3.1 percent from 2.5 percent to reflect improving economic conditions, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.


Typhoon shows need to act on climate - Philippines

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 11:25 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Philippines urged rich nations at U.N. climate talks on Wednesday to toughen emissions cuts, saying the typhoon that hit the country this week was a taste of future effects of climate change on poor nations.


U.S. envoy in Cuba met with officials, citizens

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:56 PM PDT

HAVANA (Reuters) - A senior U.S. diplomat who participated in recent talks in Havana about resuming bilateral mail service with Cuba stayed around to meet with Cuban officials and other Cubans in the latest sign of thawing U.S.-Cuba relations.


TIMELINE - Sixty years of the People's Republic of China

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:56 PM PDT

The 60 years since the end of the civil war, in which Communists and Nationalists, or Kuomintang (KMT), fought to control the territories vacated by the invading Japanese, have been nearly as tumultuous as those that came before.


Tsunami hits South Pacific islands

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 07:50 PM PDT

A number of islands in the South Pacific have been hit by several tsunamis created by a powerful earthquake deep in the ocean.


EU reports on Russia Georgia conflict

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 09:41 PM PDT

A European Union report into the causes of last year's war between Russia and Georgia will be published on Wednesday.


Samoa tsunami toll may exceed 100, hundreds injured

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:25 PM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing possibly more than 100 people, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, officials said on Wednesday.


EXCLUSIVE - China to cut army by 700,000 troops-sources

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:25 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to cut its army by 700,000 troops over two to three years as part of its drive to modernise the world's biggest military into a leaner high-tech force, two sources with People's Liberation Army (PLA) ties said.


FACTBOX - China's growing military clout

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:25 PM PDT

Following is a brief overview of China's defence forces:


Climate change cuts world food outlook - IFPRI

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 09:58 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming will cut into world grain yields and result in less food being available in the developing world in 2050, a think tank said on Tuesday, calling for aggressive action to boost food output.


Hamas expects unity pact with Fatah in mid-October

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 09:25 PM PDT

GAZA (Reuters) - The Islamist group Hamas will meet its rival Palestinian Fatah party in mid-October and expects to ratify an Egyptian-mediated reconciliation pact, Hamas's leader in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Tuesday.


Climate change to cause more child hunger: report

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 09:25 PM PDT

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Up to 25 million more children will be malnourished in the next 40 years due to climate change, with sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia the worst affected, according to a new report issued on Wednesday.


Global food security plans too narrow - analyst

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 09:25 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global plans to reduce hunger by boosting food production are too narrowly focused on farming without considering how to slow population growth or halt climate change, long-time environmental analyst Lester Brown said on Tuesday.


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