News Analysis: Japan Seeks Answers to Debt Load Without Angering Voters

News Analysis: Japan Seeks Answers to Debt Load Without Angering Voters

News Analysis: Japan Seeks Answers to Debt Load Without Angering Voters

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Yoshihiko Noda, new Japan's prime minister, is a fiscal conservative with a tough message: raise taxes while reining in spending.

Anti-Israel protests disrupt UK concert

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:28 PM PDT

Protesters disrupt a performance by the Israel Philharmonic at Thursday night's prom at the Royal Albert Hall in London.


News Analysis: Japan Seeks Answers to Debt Load Without Angering Voters

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Yoshihiko Noda, new Japan's prime minister, is a fiscal conservative with a tough message: raise taxes while reining in spending.

Peruvian authorities charge Van der Sloot with murder

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:18 PM PDT

Once a prime suspect in Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, Joran van der Sloot has been charged with murder in the death of a Peruvian woman last year.

World leaders urge Libya reconciliation

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Friends of Libya meeting in Paris throw weight behind National Transition Council and ask it to lead from the front.


UN calls Israel raid on flotilla 'excessive'

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:36 PM PDT

UN inquiry called for Israel to make "an appropriate statement of regret" and pay compensation for 2010 flotilla raid.


U.N. panel's report says Gaza blockade was legal

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:58 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A long-awaited U.N. report on a May 2010 Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound ship that killed nine Turks says that Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip was legal, the New York Times reported on Thursday.

China Threatens to Legalize Repression

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:05 AM PDT

Beijing's lawmakers have also proposed a change to the country's Criminal Procedure Law that has the potential to send a chill through the Chinese legal and activist communities.


PM pledges help for Libya future

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:45 PM PDT

David Cameron says the UK will "play its part" in helping Libya rebuild itself but stresses that Nato military operations will continue as long as is needed.


Thousands march at Bahraini boy's funeral

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:16 PM PDT

Shia groups say 14-year-old died after teargas canister hit him, a charge denied by the Gulf Arab state's government.


CBI weighs into referendum debate

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Uncertainties over a planned referendum on independence could damage Scotland, according to the chairman of CBI Scotland.


Jim Davidson banned from theatre

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:45 AM PDT

Comedian Jim Davidson publishes an email from a theatre in Norfolk banning him for his previous "rude" behaviour.


VIDEO: Paris news conference on Libya's future

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 10:45 AM PDT

Representatives from 30 countries and several multilateral organisations are attending the conference, to discuss ways of supporting Libya's government-in-waiting, the Transitional National Council (TNC), in rebuilding the country after six months of war.


The Lede Blog: All Leaked U.S. Cables Were Made Available Online as WikiLeaks Splintered

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:23 PM PDT

A WikiLeaks computer file, which allows anyone to read every word of 251,287 leaked U.S. diplomatic cables by typing a password made public six months ago, was posted online by mistake last year.

Two More Charged in Probe of Cyber-Attacks

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:21 AM PDT

U.K. authorities charged two more men as part of their investigation into the online activist group Anonymous, amid a crackdown on cyber-attacks.


Thousands march at Bahrain teenager's funeral

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:30 AM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of Bahrainis chanted slogans against the Gulf state's king on Thursday at a funeral of a teenager who rights groups say died after being hit by a tear gas canister fired by police.

The Lede Blog: All Leaked U.S. Cables Were Made Available Online as WikiLeaks Splintered

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:23 PM PDT

A WikiLeaks computer file, which allows anyone to read every word of 251,287 leaked U.S. diplomatic cables by typing a password made public six months ago, was posted online by mistake last year.

VIDEO: Yo William! Filipino Shakespearean rap

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:02 AM PDT

Filipino theatre group use rap to reach students studying Shakespeare.


Iran "charm offensive" fails to ease nuclear fears

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:59 PM PDT

VIENNA (Reuters) - An Iranian effort to show increased openness about its disputed nuclear program is doing little to dispel Western suspicions about Tehran's atomic ambitions, with one Vienna-based envoy dismissing it as a "charm offensive."

Kurdish activists clash with police in Istanbul

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:36 PM PDT

Mounting tensions between the government and members of Turkey's Kurdish ethnic minority erupted on the streets of the country's largest city Thursday, after Kurdish activists clashed with riot police at a protest organized by the main Kurdish nationalist political party.

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