Indian court convicts eight in Bhopal gas disaster

Indian court convicts eight in Bhopal gas disaster

Indian court convicts eight in Bhopal gas disaster

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:39 PM PDT

BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - An Indian court on Monday found eight people guilty of negligence in failing to prevent one of the world's worst industrial accidents that killed thousands of people in 1984.

Palestinians killed by Israeli fire

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:35 PM PDT

Four killed and one missing after Israeli navy patrol opens fire off Gaza coast.


South Africa's Women Tribal Chiefs Often Rule in Fear (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:00 PM PDT

Time.com - In South Africa, a small but growing number of women are following their fathers as leaders of village tribes. But as tensions grow between democracy and tribal tradition, female chiefs are facing mounting pressure and prejudice


Foxconn gives China workers dramatic wage hike (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:33 PM PDT

Workers inspect motherboards on a factory line at the Foxconn plant in Shenzen in late May. The company, which assembles products for US-based Apple, will raise the monthly pay for its assembly line workers in its southern Chinese plant by nearly 70 percent to 2,000 yuan (290 dollars) from October 1, a spokeswoman has said.(AFP/File/Voishmel)AFP - Taiwanese IT giant Foxconn, hit by a series of suicides, said Monday it would hike wages at its plants in the south Chinese city Shenzhen, a move observers said could trigger industry-wide pay rises.

Rajiv Shah, USAID director, on tackling global hunger and why women lead the way

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT

The number of people suffering from hunger has now topped 1 billion globally -- the highest since 1970, according to the United Nations. U.S. foreign-aid director Rajiv Shah, 37, recently presented the Obama administration's strategy to tackle the food crisis.


Rajiv Shah - United States - United States Agency for International Development - Poverty - Hunger


Europeans 'could play Gaza role'

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:09 PM PDT

The EU could monitor aid to Gaza, France has said, after Israel ruled out an international probe into its deadly flotilla raid.


UK to be 'assertive over Europe'

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:34 PM PDT

The new UK coalition government will be "assertive" in its dealings with Europe, Foreign Secretary William Hague says.


Israel defends aid ship raid

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:09 PM PDT

PM says "terrorists" were on board the Freedom Flotilla, but activists deny the accusation.


Verdicts due 25 years after India's gas disaster (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:02 PM PDT

Those affected by the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster protest in New Delhi in April, 2010. An Indian court was due Monday to hand down verdicts on the Bhopal gas leak, an industrial disaster 25 years ago in which tens of thousands of people died or suffered horrific health problems.(AFP/File/Raveendran)AFP - An Indian court was due Monday to hand down verdicts on the Bhopal gas leak, an industrial disaster 25 years ago in which tens of thousands of people died or suffered horrific health problems.

Europeans 'could play Gaza role'

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 10:49 PM PDT

The EU could monitor aid to Gaza, France says, after Israel rules out an international probe into its deadly flotilla raid.


UK to be 'assertive over Europe'

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 10:52 PM PDT

The new coalition government will be "assertive" in its dealings with Europe, Foreign Secretary William Hague says.


N Korea 'to retaliate' over UN move

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 10:31 PM PDT

North says Seoul's calls for UN action over warship sinking could trigger war.


South Korean Propaganda Blasts (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 11:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Last week, South Korea formally accused North Korea of launching a torpedo on March 26 that sunk its warship Cheonan, declaring "psychological warfare" in retaliation. TIME looks at the Korean peninsula's propaganda wars


Turkey seeks to condemn Israel in security summit (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 10:43 PM PDT

AP - A summit for a 20-member security group for the Asian region kicked off Monday in Istanbul with Turkey seeking to condemn Israel for a raid that killed nine Turks on a pro-Palestinian aid flotilla that had attempted to break the blockade on Gaza.


2 abandoned baby pygmy elephants saved in Malaysia (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 10:25 PM PDT

AP - Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued two starving pygmy elephant calves on Borneo island in the first known cases of the endangered animals being apparently abandoned by their mothers, an official said Monday.


Costa Rica puts brakes on popular stem cell tourism

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 10:06 PM PDT

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rica is cracking down on an unauthorized stem cell clinic that has attracted hundreds of foreigners seeking relief from degenerative diseases and serious injuries.

Fans injured in SA stadium crush

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 03:51 PM PDT

At least fifteen people have been injured and one policeman seriously hurt after a crush outside a South African ground hosting a World Cup warm-up game.


Fans injured in SA stadium crush

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 03:51 PM PDT

At least fifteen people have been injured and one policeman seriously hurt after a crush outside a South African ground hosting a World Cup warm-up game.


Crowded agenda awaits Clinton in Latin America (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 09:38 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with reporters following her meeting with Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna, not shown, Thursday, June 3, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to Latin America and the Caribbean with a crowded agenda awaiting: lingering tensions over last year's coup in Honduras, U.S. immigration policy, security issues and concerns over Iran and the Middle East.

Van der Sloot seeks own lawyer in Peru murder case (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2010 09:01 PM PDT

This image from security footage provided by the Lima police alledgedly shows Joran van der Sloot, left, and Stephany Flores as they enter his hotel room May 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Lima Police Handout)AP - Joran van der Sloot will spend all week at criminal police headquarters being questioned in the death of a 21-year-old Lima woman and has asked to be able to hire his own lawyer, authorities said Sunday.

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