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By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in a July 2007 incident and will …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration will press ahead with climate control legislation, despite difficult odds of passage before December’s international summit on global warming.
U.S. …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
KABUL, (Reuters) – More than half the top Afghan district election officials are being replaced to try to prevent more fraud and produce a credible …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Top earners at financial and auto companies bailed out by the U.S. government will see their pay slashed under an Obama …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
LONDON, (Reuters) – A Briton who cost the insurance industry some 1.6 million pounds by staging almost 100 car crashes as part of a scam …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
KUWAIT, (Reuters) – Kuwait, where women fought for years for voting rights, has said married women can obtain passports without the approval of their husbands, …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 0 Comments
VIENNA – The U.N. nuclear watchdog presented yesterday a draft deal to Iran and three world powers for approval within two days to reduce Tehran’s …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
KABUL, (Reuters) – President Hamid Karzai agreed to face a second round of voting in Afghanistan’s disputed election yesterday after a U.N.-led fraud inquiry tossed …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s Supreme Court lifted a constitutional barrier on Monday to President Daniel Ortega seeking re-election, opening the way to the leftist running …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
LUXEMBOURG, (Reuters) – Talks on a new U.N. climate deal stumbled yesterday when European Union finance ministers failed to agree funds for poor countries and …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
NIAMEY, (Reuters) – West Africa’s regional bloc yesterday suspended Niger in protest against what it said were flawed parliamentary elections being held there.
The Economic Community …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
VIENNA, (Reuters) – High-stakes talks between Iran and big powers that stalled yesterday will resume today and the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said a deal …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Taliban militants attacked Pakistani forces and recaptured a strategic town yesterday while two suicide bomb blasts at an Islamic …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
LONDON, (Reuters) – The world needs genetically modified crops both to increase food yields and minimise the environmental impact of farming, Britain’s top science academy …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Popular websites Facebook, Twitter and Craigslist threw their support behind an open Internet framework to be unveiled by U.S. regulators this week.
They …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – The splits inside NATO over the Afghan war have turned the alliance into a rotting corpse that will be virtually impossible to …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 2 Comments
TEHRAN (Reuters) – The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed yesterday to “retaliate” against the United States and Britain after accusing them and neighbouring Pakistan …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The de facto Honduran government relaxed curbs on protests and opposition media yesterday as crisis talks dragged into a third week with …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former US government scientist was arrested yesterday for attempted espionage in an undercover operation with FBI agents posing as Israeli intelligence …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Times said yesterday it would cut 100 newsroom jobs through buyouts or layoffs as it tries to counter …
