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By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A broad healthcare overhaul was poised to clear its first US Senate hurdle yesterday as the last wavering senators said they would …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
CUCUTA, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe yesterday ruled out any military retaliation against Venezuela after Venezuelan troops dynamited two cross-border footbridges.
“The fellow republic …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
HARBIN (Reuters) – A gas explosion killed 42 miners in a Chinese mine yesterday and 66 remain trapped hundreds of metres (yards) underground after the …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian anti-terrorist police have arrested two Pakistanis suspected of helping to finance the Islamic militant group responsible for the attacks on Mumbai …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
GENEVA (Reuters) – After a year’s delay, scientists at the world’s biggest accelerator have restarted an experiment to recreate ‘Big Bang’ conditions that had sparked …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
COLOMBO (Reuters) – A pro-rebel website accused Sri Lanka’s military of killing 64 people yesterday by shelling a makeshift hospital inside the last scrap of …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
PHOENIX, (Reuters) – The U.S. government will audit hiring records of 1,000 firms in agriculture, healthcare and other areas to determine if they have illegal …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 20 (Reuters) – A Honduran television station that backs deposed President Manuel Zelaya accused the de facto government of interfering with its broadcast …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
LONDON, (Reuters) – A Briton who strangled his wife during a nightmare because he believed he was attacking an intruder, walked free from court yesterday …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
LUCKNOW, India, (Reuters Life!) – Shrews, beware: a group of Indian husbands tired of being harassed by their wives are demanding the local government create …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai is an “unworthy partner” who does not deserve a big boost either in U.S. troops or civilian aid, …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
HERAT, Afghanistan, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber in southwestern Afghanistan killed 17 people yesterday, and an Afghan lawmaker escaped a separate blast on the outskirts …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The routine reopening of India’s parliament has suddenly emerged as an awkward test for the Congress-led government’s ability to push reforms …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuelan soldiers yesterday blew up two makeshift foot bridges that stretched across the border to Colombia in the latest incident …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
LONDON, (Reuters) – The United States pledged $275 million to rainforest protection yesterday, at an event hosted by Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince Charles, …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, a man little known outside his home country, as the bloc’s first …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Oprah Winfrey, one of the most influential and highly paid women on television, will announce yesterday she is ending her popular …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
BEIJING, Reuters) – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told President Barack Obama his nation does not seek a trade surplus with the United States and wants …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 0 Comments
LONDON, (Reuters) – Two teenage girls were found guilty yesterday of causing the death of a vicar’s daughter who leapt from an upstairs window to …
