Thousands feared dead as major quake strikes Haiti |
- Thousands feared dead as major quake strikes Haiti
- Study says Europe's 12 mln cocaine users risk lives
- Suicide bomber kills 7 in Iraq's Anbar province
- U.S., Google take hard line on China Internet controls
- Chinese Internet activists applaud Google, see no backdown
- Turkey calls for Israel apology
- Watch the politics if you're worried on inflation
- Cash-short North Korea opens up to U.S. tourists
- White House says stimulus has saved two million jobs
- Indonesia's top reformer defends bank rescue
- CORRECTED - U.S., Google take hard line on China Internet controls
- Suicide bomber kills 7 in Iraq's Anbar province
- Google's China retreat resets expansion plans
- Yemeni al Qaeda cell leader killed -- state media
- U.S., Google take hard line on China Internet controls
- U.S. urges Japan to keep commitment on military base
- TIMELINE: Google's rocky road into China
- Google may quit China over censorship
- Big Haiti quake topples buildings, many casualties
- White House says stimulus has saved two million jobs
| Thousands feared dead as major quake strikes Haiti Posted: 13 Jan 2010 01:12 AM PST PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help.
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| Study says Europe's 12 mln cocaine users risk lives Posted: 13 Jan 2010 01:12 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - More than three percent of sudden deaths in Europe are related to cocaine use and many of them are brought on by a "lethal cocktail" of the drug, alcohol and cigarettes, scientists said on Wednesday.
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| Suicide bomber kills 7 in Iraq's Anbar province Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:41 AM PST FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up a truck near a police station in Iraq's western Anbar province on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding six, police said.
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| U.S., Google take hard line on China Internet controls Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:10 AM PST SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc may pull out of China because of censorship and cyber attacks on rights activists, further straining Sino-U.S. relations as Washington prepared to tackle global Internet censorship.
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| Chinese Internet activists applaud Google, see no backdown Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:10 AM PST BEIJING (Reuters) - Google's announcement that it may quit China over censorship and hacking drew applause, warnings and bouquets from dissidents and Internet activists on Wednesday, with few seeing much chance of the wary government giving ground.
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| Turkey calls for Israel apology Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:26 PM PST Turkey has demanded that Israel apologise over the way its ambassador was treated during a diplomatic meeting.
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| Watch the politics if you're worried on inflation Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST LONDON (Reuters) - If accelerating global inflation is to be the real legacy of credit crisis, watch closely the relationship between central bankers and their political overseers for clues to any potential policy accident.
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| Cash-short North Korea opens up to U.S. tourists Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea appears ready to welcome visitors from the United States year-round, increasing the trickle of tourists from its sworn enemy who provide the reclusive state with hard cash.
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| White House says stimulus has saved two million jobs Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's emergency spending measures last year saved up to 2 million U.S. jobs, the White House said on Wednesday, but it warned that the outlook for the economy remained uncertain.
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| Indonesia's top reformer defends bank rescue Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, a top reformer in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's cabinet, defended on Wednesday her decision to rescue a troubled bank in 2008 to avert a financial crisis.
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| CORRECTED - U.S., Google take hard line on China Internet controls Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:39 PM PST By Alexei Oreskovic and John Poirier
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| Suicide bomber kills 7 in Iraq's Anbar province Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:06 PM PST FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up a truck near a police station in Iraq's western Anbar province on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding six, police said.
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| Google's China retreat resets expansion plans Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:06 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc delighted free-speech advocates as it threatened to pull out of China over censorship and cyber attacks, but the move upends one of the company's most important growth initiatives.
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| Yemeni al Qaeda cell leader killed -- state media Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:06 PM PST SANAA (Reuters) - The leader of a Yemeni al Qaeda cell has been killed in clashes with security forces, Yemen's state news agency reported on Wednesday.
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| U.S., Google take hard line on China Internet controls Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:29 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc may pull out of China because of censorship and cyber attacks on rights activists, further straining Sino-U.S. relations as Washington prepared to tackle global Internet censorship.
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| U.S. urges Japan to keep commitment on military base Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:29 PM PST HONOLULU (Reuters) - The United States urged Japan on Tuesday to keep its commitment to move a U.S. military base on Okinawa island but the two vowed not to let the row derail their security alliance in the face of rising Chinese power.
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| TIMELINE: Google's rocky road into China Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:29 PM PST SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc has said it may pull out of China because it is no longer willing to accept censorship of its search results, in what would be a shock retreat from the world's largest Internet market by users.
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| Google may quit China over censorship Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:29 PM PST SHANGHAI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Internet giant Google Inc has made a shock threat to quit China, the world's biggest Internet market by users, after hackers accessed human rights activists' e-mail accounts.
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| Big Haiti quake topples buildings, many casualties Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:57 PM PST PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A major earthquake struck the capital of impoverished Haiti on Tuesday, toppling many buildings and burying hundreds, possibly thousands, of people under the rubble, witnesses said.
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| White House says stimulus has saved two million jobs Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:57 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's emergency spending measures last year saved up to two million U.S. jobs, the White House said on Wednesday, but it warned that the outlook for the economy remained uncertain.
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