The Associated Press PARIS October 16, 2010 (AP) French gendarmes block the Fos-sur-Mer oil depot, southern France, Friday Oct. 15, 2010. French... French gendarmes block the Fos-sur-Mer oil depot, southern France, Friday Oct....
BEIJING – Thousands of Chinese protested against Japan and its claim to disputed islands at demonstrations Saturday that were far larger than past protests over the competing territorial claims. Photos from the southwestern city of Chengdu and the central city of Zhengzhou show hundreds of people marching with banners and signs protesting...
Associated Press -- BEIJING -- An explosion in a Chinesecoalmine killed 20 and trapped more than 30 workers underground Saturday in the country's central region, state media reported. The China blast comes shortly after the world was riveted by the Chile's dramatic rescue of 33...
NEW DELHI: With the CommonwealthGames behind it, the government on Friday night ordered a probe into allegations of corruption in the organising of the mega event. A PMO communique said the Prime Minister has asked a panel headed by former CAG V K Shunglu to hold the inquiry. A clear indication that the government would walk the talk on...
More than 15,000 rapes were committed last year in the strife-torn region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where peacekeepers are unable to fully protect civilians, a senior United Nations official has said. With accusations now being made against DRC government troops over new cases of rape and killing in the volatile east of the...
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "...we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way." Unlike Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" in which he writes it was the best of times and the worst of times, and that it was an age of wisdom and an...
THE Obama administration, employing a good-cop, bad-cop approach to China, applauded Beijing's recent currency moves. But the administration opened a new fight over whether...
The government sought to reassure the US yesterday of its commitment as a military ally after Hillary Clinton expressed concern about the expected deep cuts in the defence budget. The Prime Minister told General David Petraeus, the US commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan...
The US government on Friday agreed to investigate a US labour union's charges that China subsidises and protects its green technology producers in violation of global trade rules. "This is a vitally important sector for the United...
PARIS (AFP) – President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel will host Russia's President Dimitry Medvedev next week at a seafront summit designed to bind Moscow more closely into a partnership with the West. The trio will meet on...
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan's army has rebuked the United Nations over plans to set up a buffer zone along the country's north-south border ahead of a politically sensitive referendum, saying the move was a sign of either ignorance or...
By Edward Krudy October 16, 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. banks will be in the limelight next week as several household names report earnings and investors worry a forced halt to foreclosure proceedings could hit the sector and end the recent rally....
A militant attack on an army checkpoint killed five Pakistani soldiers elsewhere in the northwest on Friday, other officials said. The missile attacks targeted two villages near Mir Ali in North Waziristan, intelligence officials said on condition of...
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John L. Beeman