Haiti holds US 'child smugglers'

Haiti holds US 'child smugglers'

Haiti holds US 'child smugglers'

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 12:33 AM PST

Haitian police have arrested 10 US nationals on suspicion of trying to illegally take 33 children abroad.


Thousands rally to urge Russia's Putin to resign

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 12:14 AM PST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Up to 10,000 people rallied in the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad on Saturday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin over living costs and unemployment, a rare show of anger with the popular figure.


First of 250 WWI soldiers from mass grave reburied

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 12:14 AM PST

FROMELLES, France (Reuters) - The first of 250 unknown British and Australian soldiers whose bodies were dumped by the Germans in mass graves in northern France during World War I was reburied on Saturday with full military honours.


Thailand: Seized N.Korea arms were bound for Iran

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 12:14 AM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A shipment of weapons from North Korea seized by Thai authorities last month were headed for Iran, according to a confidential report the Thai government sent to a U.N. Security Council committee.


China: U.S. arms sales to Taiwan hurt national security

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 11:48 PM PST

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. arms sales to Taiwan hurt China's national security, its foreign minister said, escalating the rhetoric in a dispute threatening to deepen rifts between the world's biggest and third-biggest economies.


Yemen says forces clash with rebels, kill 20

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 11:48 PM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's armed forces have clashed with Shi'ite rebels in the north, killing 20, state media reported on Sunday, a day after the insurgents accepted the government's terms for a ceasefire.


U.S. halt to Haiti evacuations stirs fears for sick

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 11:01 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Critically injured Haitian earthquake victims are no longer being flown by the U.S. military for treatment in the United States, raising fears some will die in a dispute over where to treat them and who should pay the costs.


Obama to propose $3.8 trillion 2011 budget - paper

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 11:01 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will unveil a $3.8 trillion budget proposal on Monday for fiscal 2011, the New York Times reported on Saturday.


FACTBOX - How China's anger could hurt ties with the U.S.

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 10:51 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has threatened to punish the United States for plans to sell some $6.4 billion of arms to Taiwan, the disputed island that Beijing calls its own.


Polls suggest hung parliament in British election

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 10:51 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - A British election due by June is likely to result in a hung parliament where no single party has an outright majority, two opinion polls showed on Sunday.


Concern as US halts evacuations

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 09:54 PM PST

A doctor has warned hundreds could die in Haiti, after evacuations to the US ceased for Haitian earthquake victims.


China: U.S. arms sales to Taiwan hurt national security

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 09:45 PM PST

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. arms sales to Taiwan hurt China's national security, its foreign minister said, escalating the rhetoric in a dispute threatening to deepen rifts between the world's biggest and third-biggest economies.


FACTBOX - How China and Taiwan square off militarily

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 09:45 PM PST

(Reuters) - The military balance between China and Taiwan has rapidly shifted in China's favour, but a U.S. proposal on Friday to sell advanced arms to the island that Beijing claims as its own would shore up its self-defence.


Opposition grows to NY trial of Sept. 11 suspects

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 09:45 PM PST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee's chairwoman on Thursday backed calls by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the trial of the accused plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks to be moved from Manhattan.


Mobs disrupt some Haiti quake food handouts

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 09:45 PM PST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Angry crowds mobbed three food distribution sites in Haiti's capital on Thursday, the latest handouts to turn chaotic as aid groups struggle to help the throngs left desperate and hungry by the catastrophic earthquake.


Karzai govt invites Taliban to peace meeting

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 09:45 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - The Afghan government on Thursday invited the Taliban to a peace council as its Western allies worked out plans to try to end the war in Afghanistan.


FACTBOX - Big emitters signal support for Copenhagen Accord

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 09:45 PM PST

Governments are meant to tell the United Nations by Sunday if they want to be associated with the accord, worked out last month, and submit their plans for curbing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The deadline is flexible.


Biden: U.S. budget to seek nuclear funds increase

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 09:45 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden said President Barack Obama's budget proposal will include $7 billion to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, which would be $600 million more than Congress approved last year.


U.S. rebuffs N.Korean overture on U.S. MIA remains

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 09:45 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday rebuffed a North Korean offer to reopen talks on finding U.S. soldiers missing since the Korean War, saying Pyongyang must first resume discussions on ending its nuclear ambitions.


Nations pledge $140 mln for Afghan reintegration

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 09:45 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - Donor countries have pledged more than $140 million towards a fund to encourage Afghan militants to renounce violence and reintegrate into mainstream society, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Thursday.


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