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 …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Cuba’s Raul Castro has kept the system his brother Fidel used to repress critics, refusing to free scores of people imprisoned years …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
KABUL, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama pledged yesterday to end the Afghan war before he leaves office, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
BEIJING/COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said yesterday next month’s climate talks in Copenhagen should cut a deal with “immediate operational effect,” even if …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
THE HAGUE, (Reuters Life!) – The business of selling food that is halal, or acceptable to Muslims, is set to grow rapidly in Europe in …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet yesterday condemned as haughty and offensive comments by Peru’s leader Alan Garcia over a spy scandal that has …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
EDINBURGH – NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said yesterday he was confident the alliance would agree to increase substantially the number of troops battling Taliban …