Thai troops repel "red shirts" at Bangkok base

Thai troops repel "red shirts" at Bangkok base

Thai troops repel "red shirts" at Bangkok base

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 01:05 AM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Scores of Thai anti-government protesters tried to force their way into an army base in Bangkok on Saturday but were repelled by water cannon, as their leaders vowed to carry on their fight for new elections.


Missing W.Virginia miners found dead, blast toll at 29

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:56 PM PDT

MONTCOAL, West Virginia (Reuters) - Four missing West Virginia coal miners were found dead early on Saturday, nearly five days after an explosion killed 25 others in the worst U.S. mining disaster in nearly four decades.


Iran gives stakes in petchem, power units to army fund

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:56 PM PDT

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has transferred shares in six petrochemical plants and power stations to a social welfare investment organisation of the Islamic Republic's armed forces, state-owned Press TV said on its website.


Thai "red shirts" mass again at satellite station

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:13 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Hundreds of "red-shirt" protesters gathered at a satellite earth station north of Bangkok on Saturday after Thai authorities again blocked transmission of an opposition TV station for inciting unrest, media reported.


Missing W.Virginia miners found dead, blast toll at 29

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:13 PM PDT

MONTCOAL, West Virginia (Reuters) - Four missing West Virginia coal miners were found dead early on Saturday, nearly five days after an explosion killed 25 others and trapped them deep underground at a Massey Energy mine.


Thai authorities take "red shirt" TV off air again

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 09:53 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Authorities in Thialnd took an opposition TV station off the air again on Saturday, a day after "red shirt" protesters stormed a satellite earth station and forced the reversal of an earlier decision to censor it.


Hope fades for US mine survivors

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:56 PM PDT

Rescuers have been forced to retreat for the third time from their search for four missing miners after Monday's accident at a mine in West Virginia.


US and Russia in adoption row

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:58 PM PDT

Russia is considering an end to the adoption of its children by American families, the Kremlin has said, following the case of a Russian boy being sent home by his adoptive American mother.


Thai authorities take "red shirt" TV off air again

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:20 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - An opposition TV station in Thailand was off the air on Saturday, a day after "red shirt" protesters had stormed a satellite earth station and forced the authorities to reverse an earlier decision to censor it.


Rescuers aim to find W.Virginia miners within hours

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 07:52 PM PDT

MONTCOAL, West Virginia (Reuters) - Rescuers prowling a West Virginia coal mine on Friday appear likely to discover the fate within hours of four miners missing after the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in a quarter century, officials said.


U.S. base in Kyrgyzstan diverts passenger flights

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 07:20 PM PDT

BISHKEK (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Friday reversed a decision to resume normal operations at its base in Kyrgyzstan, diverting all military passenger flights elsewhere and restricting cargo flights, officials said.


More bodies pulled from Rio mudslide; 205 dead

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 06:52 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled more bodies from a collapsed hillside slum near Rio de Janeiro on Friday, abandoning hope of finding survivors from a mudslide that buried more than 100 people after the heaviest rains in four decades.


Future pope urged caution on defrocking priest - letter

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 06:52 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, in a previous post as a high Vatican official, recommended caution in the defrocking of a California Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to molesting children, according to a letter released on Friday by lawyers for the victims.


Routine 'recess' a hit at White House obesity summit

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 06:15 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A doctor's endorsement of frequent recess breaks -- and not just for kids -- drew an appreciative response from experts meeting at a White House summit on childhood obesity on Friday.


New technical hitch delays Ariane rocket launch

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 06:15 PM PDT

CAYENNE, French Guiana (Reuters) - A new technical problem has delayed for the second time the launch of an Ariane rocket scheduled to launch two satellites from French Guiana late on Friday, the Arianespace company said.


Justice Stevens to quit Supreme Court

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:29 PM PDT

Justice John Paul Stevens, the oldest member of the US Supreme Court, has announced he is to retire. Katty Kay reports.


Clinton woos Republican in pitch for nuclear treaty

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:19 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a pitch on Friday for the U.S. Senate to ratify a new treaty to slash the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals with a personal visit to the Senate Republican leader's home state.


More bodies pulled from Rio mudslide; 192 dead

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:19 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled more bodies from a collapsed hillside slum near Rio de Janeiro on Friday, abandoning hope of finding survivors from a disaster caused by the heaviest rains in four decades.


Russia eyes U.S. adoption freeze after boy sent back

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:19 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it planned to suspend adoptions of its children by U.S. citizens after an American woman sent her adopted son back to Moscow on a plane with a note disowning him.


Tribe denounces U.S. plan to seize or kill cleric

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:19 PM PDT

SANAA (Reuters) - The Yemeni tribe of a Muslim cleric on Friday denounced plans approved by the Obama administration to capture or kill the U.S.-born radical Islamist.


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