Iran police say ready to carry out hand amputations

Iran police say ready to carry out hand amputations

Iran police say ready to carry out hand amputations

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:44 AM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police are ready to enforce Islamic punishment law, such as amputating hands, because a failure to carry out these punishments had led an increase of crimes, the Ebtekar newspaper reported on Monday.


Q+A - How much damage will the Thai-Cambodia spat cause?

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:44 AM PST

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand and Cambodia are embroiled in a diplomatic stand-off over the appointment of former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, on the run from a graft conviction, as an adviser to the Cambodian government.


Obama, Netanyahu to meet as U.S. peace effort flounders

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:15 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was due to hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Monday amid floundering U.S. efforts to jump-start stalled Middle East peace talks.


Indonesia quake kills at least one, homes collapse

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:15 PM PST

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake struck Indonesia's Sumbawa island early on Monday morning, killing at least one person and injuring around 80 after damaging homes, schools and mosques, a police official said.


Cold War frontier gone in Germany, remains in Korea

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:15 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - As a united Germany marks the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall on Monday, about 1 million soldiers face off across the Cold War's last great divide -- the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.


FACTBOX - The DMZ dividing the rival Koreas

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:15 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - The Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that divides the Korean peninsula has been a no man's land for more than 50 years. Following are key facts about the DMZ.


Suicide bomber kills three in Pakistan

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:44 PM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in an auto-rickshaw blew himself up in Pakistan on Monday killing three people when police stopped him at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the city of Peshawar, police said.


Q+A - Climate change finance -- how does it work?

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:33 PM PST

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Discussing how to pay for efforts to combat climate change was a major theme at Saturday's meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 leading economies.


Bomb near Pakistan's Peshawar; some casualties

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:33 PM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb went off near a police post on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday causing some casualties, police said.


Chavez steps up Colombia rhetoric

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:32 PM PST

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urges his armed forces to be prepared for a possible war with Colombia.


Hurricane Ida aims for Gulf of Mexico oil fields

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:03 PM PST

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida roared through the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, where important oil fields are located, after triggering floods and mudslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.


Iran's Karoubi attacks Ahmadinejad on U.S. policy

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:03 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi, whose supporters clashed with police in a rally last week, accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday of double standards in his U.S. policy.


South Sudan faces famine danger after poor rains - UN

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:03 PM PST

BOR, Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudan could face famine following low rainfall and a surge in tribal conflicts, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Sunday.


Iran frees 40 detained during anti-U.S. rally

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:03 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has released a further 40 people detained during an opposition demonstration last week that led to clashes with police, state media said on Sunday.


Colombia turns to UN, OAS after Venezuela war talk

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:03 PM PST

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia said on Sunday it will appeal to the U.N. Security Council and the OAS after Hugo Chavez, the fiery leftist president of neighboring Venezuela, ordered his army to prepare for war in order to assure peace.


Iran atomic negotiator says wants speedy talks

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:31 PM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's chief negotiator in talks with Western powers over its atomic programme said on Sunday he hoped a draft deal on nuclear fuel would be reached soon.


Netanyahu's Washington trip clouded by Abbas threat

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:31 PM PST

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington on Sunday with the U.S. Middle East peace drive in crisis over a threat by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stand down.


Karzai says he's addressing corruption

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:31 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview airing on Monday he is taking steps to root out corruption in his government, but he also said foreign money was making the problem worse.


Iraq passes election law, Obama hails milestone

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:31 PM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi lawmakers passed a long-delayed election law on Sunday to pave the way for a January poll, after parliament sidestepped a potentially explosive row over the oil-producing city of Kirkuk.


Ally of Zimbabwe's PM goes on trial for terrorism

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:31 PM PST

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ally Roy Bennett goes on trial accused of terrorism on Monday in a case that has stoked tensions in the unity government of Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF.


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