Young Spaniards battle unemployment

Young Spaniards battle unemployment

Young Spaniards battle unemployment

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 03:26 PM PDT

With 40 percent unemployment among Spanish youngsters, jobs that were once seen as holiday work, are now in high demand amongst graduates


Spain trade unions set to strike

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 10:26 PM PDT

Public sector unions to hold rallies around country in protest against spending cuts.


Kan Unveils Cabinet With Fiscal Hawks

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 10:30 PM PDT

Japan's new prime minister announced his Cabinet, appointing fiscal conservatives to key posts to show his resolve to prevent further fiscal deterioration.


Young Spaniards battle unemployment

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 03:26 PM PDT

With 40 percent unemployment among Spanish youngsters, jobs that were once seen as holiday work, are now in high demand amongst graduates


Police: Dutchman confesses to killing Peru woman (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 10:19 PM PDT

This undated frame grab image taken from a video interview originally aired on Fox News Channel's 'On the Record with Greta Van Susteren' in December of 2009 shows Joran Van der Sloot responding to a question from Van Susteren in connection with the case of the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway. Twice arrested and released for lack of evidence in the Holloway case, Van der Sloot was taken into custody again last week in connection with the slaying in Peru of Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old college student police say he met while playing poker at a Lima casino. (AP Photo/Fox News Channel's 'On the Record with Greta Van Susteren') MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALESAP - Peruvian police say the Dutchman Joran van der Sloot has confessed to killing a young woman in his Lima hotel room last week.

New Japan PM Kan unveils cabinet as election looms (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 10:19 PM PDT

Japan's foreign minister Katsuya Okada arrives at the Prime Minister's official residence in Tokyo June 8, 2010. New Japanese leader Naoto Kan appointed his cabinet on Tuesday as expectations jostle with doubts that he can clip the wings of a scandal-tainted party power broker and begin to tackle the nation's huge public debt. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: POLITICS)Reuters - New Japanese leader Naoto Kan appointed his cabinet on Tuesday as expectations jostle with doubts that he can clip the wings of a scandal-tainted party power broker and begin to tackle the nation's huge public debt.

Obama: Spill 'compensation for all'

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 09:40 PM PDT

President Obama has promised that every single person affected by oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be properly compensated.


More bodies pulled from Mexico mine

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 09:42 PM PDT

Drug gangs suspected of dumping dozens of bodies in abandoned silver mine.


Chinese farmer fires homemade cannon to defend land (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 09:34 PM PDT

Reuters - A Chinese farmer has declared war on property developers who want his land, building a cannon out of a wheelbarrow and pipes and firing rockets at would-be eviction teams, state media said on Tuesday.


Japan PM outlines new cabinet (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 09:43 PM PDT

Japan's new Prime Minister Naoto Kan (pictured on June 8) has named his cabinet, keeping 11 of 17 previous ministers and appointing fiscal hawk Yoshihiko Noda as finance minister.(AFP/Toru Yamanaka)AFP - Japan's new Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday named his cabinet, keeping 11 of 17 previous ministers and appointing fiscal hawk Yoshihiko Noda as finance minister.

Obama: Spill 'compensation for all'

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 09:40 PM PDT

President Obama has promised that every single person affected by oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be properly compensated.


Warsaw braces for flood, Slovakia and Hungary reel (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 08:54 PM PDT

People walk on a temporary walking bridge in Budapest. Warsaw braced Monday for a new flood crest on the mighty Vistula river, as Budapest sandbagged its tourist quarter against the swollen Danube and Slovakia reeled from its worst flood in centuries.(AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)AFP - Warsaw braced for a new flood crest on the mighty Vistula river, as Budapest sandbagged its tourist quarter against the swollen Danube and Slovakia reeled from its worst flood in centuries.

Mexican prez slams death of migrant at US border (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 08:54 PM PDT

AP - President Felipe Calderon said Monday that the death of a Mexican migrant after being shot with a stun gun by a U.S. immigration officer was an unacceptable human rights violation.


France opens its market to online gaming (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 08:38 PM PDT

The web page of the online gambling site BetClic. Online sport and horse racing bets in France will be opened up to new, legal competition at the start of the football World Cup in South Africa.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - France officially opened up its online gaming market on Tuesday, granting 17 licences to 11 operators three days before the start of the soccer World Cup in South Africa.

Deadliest day this year for NATO in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 08:59 PM PDT

US soldiers board a helicopter at a NATO camp in Kandahar. A string of attacks in Afghanistan have killed 10 NATO soldiers and two foreign contractors in the bloodiest 24 hours for the alliance this year, as troops readied for a push into the heart of Taliban territory.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AFP - A string of attacks in Afghanistan killed 10 NATO soldiers and two foreign contractors in the bloodiest 24 hours for the alliance this year, as troops readied for a push into the heart of Taliban territory.

New Japan PM Kan unveils cabinet as election looms

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 10:19 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - New Japanese leader Naoto Kan appointed his cabinet on Tuesday as expectations jostle with doubts that he can clip the wings of a scandal-tainted party power broker and begin to tackle the nation's huge public debt.

Key primary battles on US 'Super Tuesday'

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 06:41 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -A fresh clutch of Republican and Democratic party nominating contests on Tuesday will offer compelling new insights into the feverish political mood ahead of US mid-term elections in November.

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US well cap 'catching more oil'

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 09:27 PM PDT

Efforts to cap leaking well in Gulf of Mexico show signs of working as Obama defends response to crisis.


In Chinese admiral's outburst, a lingering distrust of U.S.

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT

BEIJING On May 24 in a vast meeting room inside the grounds of the state guesthouse at Diaoyutai in Beijing, Rear Adm. Guan Youfei of the People's Liberation Army rose to speak. Known among U.S. officials as a senior "barbarian handler," which means that his job is to deal with foreigners, not le...


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10 NATO troops killed in Afghanistan

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 09:00 PM PDT

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN -- Ten NATO troops were killed Monday in bombings and shootings in eastern and southern Afghanistan, military officials said, in the deadliest day for the U.S.-led international force this year.



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