Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit

Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit

Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:53 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled a planned trip to Washington next week for President Barack Obama's 47-country nuclear security conference.


Thai army warns protesters it could use force

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:53 AM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai army warned it could use force, including firing rubber bullets, to enforce a state of emergency on Friday as thousands protested at a satellite station after government censorship of their TV channel.


Kyrgyz president refuses to quit

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:24 AM PDT

Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has offered to hold talks with what he called the temporary government that has replaced his administration.


North Korea parliament meets, succession in focus

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:24 AM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea convenes an annual meeting on Friday of its rubber-stamp parliament, where the secretive state typically reveals changes to its ruling elite and may tip its hand on succession plans for it communist dynasty.


Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:24 AM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled a planned trip to Washington next week for President Barack Obama's 47-country nuclear security conference.


Kyrgyzstan mourns dead in fragile calm after uprising

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:24 AM PDT

BISHKEK (Reuters) - A crowd gathered in the burned out centre of the Kyrgyz capital on Friday to mourn at least 75 people killed in an uprising that ousted the government and cast doubt over the future of a U.S. air base in the country.


Thai army threatens "soft to harsh means" against protesters

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 11:47 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai army said on Friday it would use "soft to harsh means" if red shirt protesters break into a satellite station north of the capital, Bangkok.


Thai "red shirts" start trek to TV satellite station

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 10:53 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai protesters started a trek out of the capital to a satellite earth station on Friday after the government blocked their TV channel, in defiance of an emergency decree imposed to quell nearly a month of protests.


Egypt hosts antiquities meeting

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 08:56 PM PDT

Officials from more than 20 countries are meeting in Egypt to discuss how to recover ancient treasures which they say have been stolen or looted.


Fresh Rio mudslide 'buries 200'

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 07:37 PM PDT

At least 200 people are feared to have been buried by a landslide in Rio de Janeiro, following the heaviest rains in decades, Brazilian officials say.


Is Obama's diplomacy with China paying off?

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 04:42 PM PDT

As Chinese officials agree to join talks on tougher sanctions against Iran, BBC World News America looks at relations between Washington and Beijing.


Kyrgyz vigilantes battle looters in capital city

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 09:46 PM PDT

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Vigilante groups organised by Kyrgyzstan's self-proclaimed government spent the night fighting looters to return calm to the Kyrgyz capital on Friday.


China executes 3 more Japanese for drug smuggling

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 09:46 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China executed three Japanese nationals for drug smuggling and trafficking on Friday, state news agency Xinhua said, following the execution of another Japanese citizen this week.


Thai "red shirt" protesters prepare for mass marches

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 09:14 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Anti-government protesters in Thailand prepared for mass marches to undisclosed locations in the capital on Friday in defiance of an emergency decree imposed to quell nearly a month of protests.


North Korea parliament meets, succession in focus

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 07:43 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea convenes an annual meeting on Friday of its rubber-stamp parliament, where the secretive state typically reveals changes to its ruling elite and may tip its hand on succession plans for it communist dynasty.


Thai "red shirt" protesters prepare for mass marches

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 06:43 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Thai anti-government protesters prepared for mass marches on secret locations on Friday in defiance of an emergency decree imposed to quell nearly a month of protests demanding new elections.


Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 06:43 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled a planned trip to Washington next week for President Barack Obama's 47-country nuclear security summit conference.


President Obama questions Palin's nuclear acumen

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 06:43 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday made clear he was not going to take advice from Republican Sarah Palin when it comes to decisions about the U.S. nuclear arsenal.


San Francisco man charged with threatening Pelosi

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 06:43 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged a San Francisco man on Thursday with making threatening, harassing and obscene phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the debate over healthcare reform.


Rescuers retreat in West Virginia mine search

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 06:43 PM PDT

MONTCOAL, West Virginia (Reuters) - Dangerous gases forced rescue teams on Thursday to temporarily suspend a search for survivors of a massive explosion at a West Virginia coal mine that killed at least 25 workers.


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