S.Korea to launch emissions scheme in January

S.Korea to launch emissions scheme in January

S.Korea to launch emissions scheme in January

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:40 AM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will launch a pilot carbon emissions trading scheme from January after the environment ministry received applications from 641 public and private organisations, the ministry said on Wednesday.


Suicide attacks kill at least 10 in Iraq

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:40 AM PST

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers killed at least 10 people and wounded at least 40 others, including the provincial governor, in a city in western Iraq on Wednesday morning, police said.


Suicide blasts kill at least four in western Iraq

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:40 AM PST

RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Two suicide bombings ripped through the heart of Ramadi, a city in western Iraq, on Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding at least 20, police said.


North Korea pilfering nuclear reactor site - report

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:40 AM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has been taking equipment left at a nuclear reactor site that was mothballed when an international consortium halted work on grounds the communist state was breaking an agreement, a news report said on Wednesday.


Q+A - Shades of Opium War as China defends Briton's death

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:04 AM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - The execution of a British man convicted of smuggling heroin into China has inflamed tensions between the two nations, with Chinese anger stirring memories of Britain's role as a colonial power.


Iran opposition leaders face execution - Khamenei aide

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:04 AM PST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday opposition leaders were "enemies of God" who should be executed under the country's sharia law.


North Korea New Year wish: tear down imaginary wall

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:04 AM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's New Year's wish of seeing the destruction of a massive concrete wall dividing the Korean peninsula never seems to come true -- mostly because there is no such barrier.


China allows restive Xinjiang limited Internet access

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:04 AM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Twenty million residents in China's far western Xinjiang region who have been cut off from Internet and international phone services since deadly ethnic rioting six months ago may now access two state-run websites.


CORRECTED - S.Korea to launch emissions scheme in January

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:04 AM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will launch a pilot carbon emissions trading scheme from January after the environment ministry received applications from 641 public and private organisations, the ministry said on Wednesday.


Australian bushfires destroys almost 40 homes

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:39 PM PST

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A major bushfire in the west Australian outback has destroyed almost 40 homes, officials said on Wednesday, as firefighters end a third month of fighting bushfires across the country.


Mexico City passes gay marriage law

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 11:18 PM PST

Mexico City has passed Latin America's first law legalising gay marriage, in a sign of increasingly liberal attitudes towards homosexuality on the continent.


S.Korea to trade emissions online from Jan - ministry

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 10:36 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will launch a pilot carbon emissions trading scheme from January after the environment ministry received applications from 641 public and private organisations, the ministry said on Wednesday.


Argentina media heirs take DNA tests

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 09:33 PM PST

A judge in Argentina has ordered the heirs to a powerful media empire to take DNA tests to establish whether they are the victims of a forced adoption scheme run by the country's former military rulers.


Obama blames 'systemic failures' for plane attack

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 09:04 PM PST

KANEOHE, Hawaii (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday blamed "human and systemic failures" for allowing a botched Christmas Day attack aboard a Detroit-bound airliner and a U.S. official said the incident was linked to al Qaeda.


Obama blames 'systemic failures' in U.S. security

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 07:03 PM PST

KANEOHE, Hawaii (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday blamed a combination of "human and systemic failures" for allowing the botched Christmas Day attack aboard a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner, in his first big test on homeland security.


North Korea pilfering nuclear reactor site-report

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 07:03 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has been taking equipment left at a nuclear reactor site when an international consortium halted work on grounds that the communist state was breaking an agreement, a news report said on Wednesday.


U.S., Yemen look at possible targets in Yemen - CNN

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 06:37 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Yemeni officials are looking at fresh targets for a possible retaliation strike in Yemen, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing two unidentified American officials.


Copper price fears over Chile strike

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 05:53 PM PST

A strike vote at one of the biggest copper mines in the world is causing fears over global supplies.


Obama blames 'systemic failures' in U.S. security

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 05:35 PM PST

KANEOHE, Hawaii (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday blamed a combination of "human and systemic failures" for allowing the botched Christmas Day attack aboard a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner, in his first big test on homeland security.


'System failure' over bomb plot

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 04:14 PM PST

President Obama says an attempted attack on a plane bound for Detroit, points to a "totally unacceptable" failure in US security systems.


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