US offers Pakistan expanded partnership: report (AFP)

US offers Pakistan expanded partnership: report (AFP)

US offers Pakistan expanded partnership: report (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:30 PM PST

US President Barack Obama has offered Pakistan an expanded strategic partnership, including additional military and economic cooperation, The Washington Post reported Monday.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - US President Barack Obama has offered Pakistan an expanded strategic partnership, including additional military and economic cooperation, The Washington Post reported Monday.

EU pushes for stronger yuan

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:43 PM PST

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Sale of Dubai property bonds frozen

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:27 PM PST

Market drops after Nakheel property developer asks Nasdeq to stop trading its bonds.


Thai king's birthday address postponed - palace

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:41 PM PST

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A traditional birthday eve address by Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej scheduled for Friday, Dec. 4, has been postponed indefinitely, the royal palace said on Monday.


Nazi death camp trial begins

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:08 PM PST

After a 32-year legal battle, John Demjanjuk will face charges of helping to murder more than 27,000 Jews at the Sobibor concentration camp, at a court in Munich on Monday.


Dubai banks given extra liquidity

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:13 PM PST

The UAE central bank says it will offer banks extra liquidity, as the troubled stock market there prepares to reopen.


Nazi death camp trial begins

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:08 PM PST

After a 32-year legal battle, John Demjanjuk will face charges of helping to murder more than 27,000 Jews at the Sobibor concentration camp, at a court in Munich on Monday.


Dubai banks given extra liquidity

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:13 PM PST

The UAE central bank says it will offer banks extra liquidity, as the troubled stock market there prepares to reopen.


Tiger: I'm solely to blame for crash

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:00 PM PST

MIAMI Tiger Woods finally spoke up over the mystery car crash he was involved in outside his mansion on Friday.

The world No1  said he only had himself to blame for the crash. But he continued to turn down an interview with police officers for a third time amid claims

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Three Spaniards kidnapped in Mauritania

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 07:47 PM PST

NOUAKCHOTT -Three Spanish humanitarian workers were kidnapped in northwestern Mauritania on the road linking the capital Nouakchott to the city of Nouadhibou, officials and aid workers said.

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Indians still haunted by worst industrial accident (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:10 PM PST

In this Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 photograph, a physiotherapist holds the leg of a seven year old child at a clinic run by a non governmental organization to cater to victims of the gas tragedy in Bhopal, India. The Bhopal industrial disaster killed about 4,000 people on the night of Dec. 3, 1984. The death toll over the next few years rose to 15,000, according to government estimates. A quarter century later, many of those who were exposed to the gas have given birth to physically and mentally disabled children. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)AP - Hazra Bi wishes she could forget. But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the worst industrial disaster the world has ever seen.

Report urges sanctions against Sudan ruling party

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:11 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and other world powers should impose sanctions on key members of the Sudanese government for refusing to end violence in Darfur and south Sudan, a report by an anti-genocide group said on Monday.


Saudi crown prince ends treatment, back soon -son

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:11 PM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz is in "excellent health" after being treated for an illness and will return home "after a few weeks", his son, Prince Khaled bin Sultan, was quoted as saying.


Hajj pilgrimage comes to an end

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:18 PM PST

The biggest annual pilgrimage in the world has just finished in Saudi Arabia.


Hajj pilgrimage comes to an end

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:18 PM PST

The biggest annual pilgrimage in the world has just finished in Saudi Arabia.


Europe's post-Soviet greening — gains and failures (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:01 PM PST

This Oct. 14, 2009 photo shows Zina Bakhareva, left, on her plot of land in Konstantinovka, Ukraine. Today, there are two segments of Eastern Europe, one that has been largely cleaned up due to a massive infusion of Western funds and the prospect of EU membership; another that still looks as though the commissars never left. The land Bakhareva cultivates has astonishing levels of contamination, lead was 285 times higher than the norm, zinc was 38 times higher and cadmium 17 times higher. (AP Photo/John McConnico)AP - Twenty years ago, when the Iron Curtain came down, the world gagged in horror as it witnessed firsthand the ravages inflicted on nature by the Soviet industrial machine.

Gunmen kill three in restive Thai south: police (AFP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:23 PM PST

A Thai soldier stands guard atop an armoured vehicle in Thailand's restive province of Yala. Suspected Islamic separatists shot dead three men on Monday morning in the latest bout of violence in the country's troubled south, local police have said.(AFP/File/Muhammad Sabri)AFP - Suspected Islamic separatists shot dead three men on Monday morning in the latest bout of violence in Thailand's restive south, local police said.

Conservative 'wins Honduran poll'

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 10:33 PM PST

Ousted president Zelaya insists voter turnout was low and calls vote illegitimate.


Asia stocks up as Dubai fears ease

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 09:52 PM PST

Shares regain some lost ground as UAE pledges support for banks amid fears over debt.


Nuke plant workers poisoned

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 07:17 PM PST

BANGALORE Workers at a nuclear power plant in southern India were treated for poisoning after drinking water was deliberately spiked with radiation, senior government officials said on Sunday.

Routine tests showed 55 employees from the plant in Kaiga in the state of Karnataka had increased levels of the

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