Australian minister urges China to speed up Rio case

Australian minister urges China to speed up Rio case

Australian minister urges China to speed up Rio case

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 01:00 AM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Australia's climate change minister said on Wednesday she had urged China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang to expedite the case of four employees of mining giant Rio Tinto, currently held on suspicion of corporate espionage.


U.S. hails cooperation on North Korea, sees new steps

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 12:30 AM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea's neighbours and the United States are coordinating closely to draw the isolated state back to nuclear disarmament talks and reviewing possible next steps, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday.


Future Karzai cabinet to balance 'warlords' and West

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 12:30 AM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - It may have looked like a done deal for President Hamid Karzai and many Afghans when, one by one, key ethnic chiefs and regional power brokers threw their weight behind the incumbent ahead of the Aug. 20 presidential election.


FEATURE - After Haider, Austrian far-right could grow

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 12:30 AM PDT

KLAGENFURT, Austria (Reuters) - A year after his death in a car crash, a new memorial to Joerg Haider has become a temple to the man who shook up European politics with his anti-foreigner campaigns.


DNA study of humpback whales reveals mating habits

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 12:30 AM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - A 15-year genetic study of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales has opened a window into the little known mating habits of the giant cetaceans, revealing some whales travel between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to mate.


ANALYSIS - Embattled Pakistan faces its worst-case scenario

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:56 PM PDT

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The worst-case scenario facing Pakistan -- prolonged insecurity with militants launching bloody attacks on the key pillars of the state -- is no longer just a risk for markets and Western policymakers to fret over.


SCENARIOS - Could Australia have early elections?

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:56 PM PDT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A lifting of interest rates by Australia's central bank and a forthcoming vote in parliament on an emissions trade scheme, likely to be defeated, has some political analysts tipping an early election.


SCENARIOS - Can things get any worse for Pakistan?

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:56 PM PDT

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Pakistan's military is gearing up for an offensive against Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan, following a week of violence in which militants killed more than 100 people and stormed the army's headquarters.


CORRECTED - Clinton winds up trip with focus on Russian society

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:56 PM PDT

(Corrects population figure of Tatarstan in para 11)


Aquino leading Philippine presidential race - poll

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:25 PM PDT

MANILA (Reuters) - The son of revered former Philippine President Cory Aquino has taken a commanding lead among potential candidates for the 2010 presidential elections, an opinion poll said on Wednesday.


North Korea expresses rare regret over flood deaths

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:25 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Wednesday expressed regret that its release of water into a river that flows across a military border with the South killed six campers downstream last month, a rare admission of fault by the reclusive state.


INTERVIEW - Ebadi says U.S. turns blind eye to Iranian rights

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 10:59 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi accused the United States on Tuesday of turning a blind eye to human rights violations in Iran as it seeks to rein in Tehran's nuclear program.


Taiwan, China negotiators plan meeting in December

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 10:59 PM PDT

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Top negotiators from Taiwan and China are planning a meeting in the second half of December in the island to further boost trade, Taiwan officials said on Wednesday.


U.S. official hails close cooperation on North Korea

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 10:59 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea's neighbours and the United States are working closely together to press the isolated state back to nuclear disarmament talks, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said.


U.S. House begins assembly of financial reform plan

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 10:59 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Financial Services Committee is to begin work on Wednesday on a top priority for the U.S. Congress -- legislation to mend regulatory holes exposed by last fall's financial crisis.


FEATURE - Will solar speed up emerging cellphone revolution?

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 10:32 PM PDT

KAMPALA/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Watching his sons kick around a makeshift ball made from tightly bound plastic bags, Ugandan handyman Jackson Mawa marvels at the way business has improved since he bought a solar-powered mobile phone.


FACTBOX - Cracking the Copenhagen climate code

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 10:32 PM PDT

Except that you won't find AOSIS in a desert, MRV isn't something you can drive, minding your NAMAs has nothing to do with being polite and you can't have a BAP for breakfast.


Sarkozy says son being "thrown to wolves"

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:59 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday his undergraduate son was being unfairly victimised for trying to take charge of the public agency that oversees development of Paris's business district.


Spain police move against ETA's political wing

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:59 PM PDT

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested six senior members of Basque guerrillas ETA's outlawed political wing, state radio RNE reported on Tuesday.


Lebanese army says one wounded in Lebanon blast

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 09:59 PM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - One person was wounded when a shell exploded in a house in the southern Lebanese village of Tayr Filsi on Monday, the Lebanese army and Hezbollah said on Tuesday.


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