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CONCEPCION, Chile, (Reuters) – A massive earthquake and tsunamis killed 350 people in one Chilean coastal town, pushing the total death toll higher yesterday as …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, February 28, 2010 | 13 Comments
CONCEPCION, Chile (Reuters) – One of the world’s most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile yesterday, killing at least 214 people, knocking down buildings …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, February 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
BOGOTA (Reuters) – The race for Colombia’s presidency began yesterday, with former defence minister Juan Manuel Santos the favourite after the South American nation’s popular …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A court blocked Colombian President Alvaro Uribe yesterday from running for re-election, making his former defence minister the favourite to replace the …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, (Reuters) – An independent board of scientists is to review the work of a U.N. climate panel, whose credibility came under attack …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Two retired generals were charged yesterday over a plot to unseat the government, raising the stakes in a potential stand-off between the …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe celebrates his 86th birthday on Saturday with a lavish party as the economy struggles to recover from …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
LONDON, (Reuters) – The Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that a judgement strongly criticising the country’s security services over the alleged torture of a former …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, (Reuters) – India and China have demonstrated commitment to a climate accord struck in Copenhagen last year and their refusal so far …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democrat Charles Rangel, the top tax writer in the U.S. Congress, was admonished by a congressional ethics committee for taking corporate-funded trips …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, February 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
MISSISSAUGA, Ont., (Reuters Life!) – Hollywood North is auditioning for the role of Bollywood West.
The first known government-backed Bollywood acting school in North America has …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Republicans clashed frequently yesterday at a summit on his stalled healthcare overhaul, battling over the size and cost …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The first official talks between India and Pakistan since the 2008 Mumbai attacks ended yesterday with only an agreement to “keep …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez said yesterday Venezuela will withdraw from the top human rights body in the Western Hemisphere, calling it a “mafia” …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
LONDON, (Reuters) – Seasonal rains and hurricanes spell trouble for Haiti in the best of times, but with hundreds of thousands of people living in …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
LONDON/OSLO, (Reuters) – Climate scientists must do more to work out how exceptionally cold winters or a dip in world temperatures fit their theories of …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters Life!) – A ban on a decades-old and colorful tradition of kite-flying has riled many Pakistanis, but authorities say the sport has …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
MIAMI, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities indicted six associates of Colombia’s Cali drug cartel yesterday on charges they failed to disclose the assets of two jailed …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
ALGIERS, (Reuters) – The chief of Algeria’s national police was shot dead during a meeting at his headquarters yesterday when a fellow officer fired his …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, February 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON – U.S. regulators are probing how Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs helped debt-stricken Greece arrange derivatives deals that critics say were used to …
