SAO PAULO/ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo's health was stable on Saturday after he was rushed to a hospital in Brazil to treat what turned out to be a vascular problem, his doctor said.
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October 2, 2010
Fidel Castro may visit Venezuela, Chavez says
CARACAS (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro may visit Venezuela, his friend and ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday, in what would be the 84-year-old Castro's first visit abroad in at least four years.
Australian PM visits Afghanistan: report
SYDNEY (Channel News Asia): Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has made a surprise visit to war-torn Afghanistan on her first overseas trip as Australian prime minister, a report said on Sunday.
Earthquake hits central Japan
TOKYO (Channel News Asia): A 4.7-magnitude quake hit areas some 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Tokyo Sunday, but no tsunami warning was issued, Japan's meteorological agency said.
No talks until Israel halts settlements, PLO says
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Direct talks with Israel will not resume unless it halts the building of Jewish settlements on occupied land, the Palestinian leadership said on Saturday.
US to issue Europe travel warning
(BBC) The US government is to advise its citizens to be vigilant while travelling in Europe because of the threat of an al-Qaeda attack.
Mexico probing Acapulco tourist kidnapping report
ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Authorities are investigating the reported kidnapping of 20 Mexican tourists in the Pacific Coast resort city of Acapulco, a state official said on Saturday.
US march seeks to rally liberals
Thousands of people have been attending a rally in Washington DC in support of jobs, education and civil rights.
Bosnians vote amid pessimism and divisions
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnians vote on Sunday in an election that may decide whether their ethnically divided country moves closer toward the European Union and NATO in the next four years or sinks deeper into stagnation.
Iran says several held for spying on nuclear sites
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has arrested several people it believes were spying on its nuclear facilities, a news agency quoted the intelligence minister as saying on Saturday.
North Korea seeks talks with South on resuming tours
SEOUL: North Korea confirmed on Saturday it has proposed talks with South Korea on the possible restarting of cross-border tours by southerners to a jointly-run resort.
Japan nationalists rally against PM Kan, China
TOKYO: Nationalist groups rallied in Japan on Saturday against the country's "diplomatic defeat" to China in a maritime dispute, amid growing Russian pressure over another simmering territorial row.
China's Hu pledges strong ties with new North Korean leadership
BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday pledged to strengthen ties with the new leadership in North Korea, during a visit to Beijing by a senior delegation from Pyongyang, state media reported.
Gang 'kidnaps 22 Mexico tourists'
Prosecutors in Mexico say an armed gang has kidnapped 22 Mexicans from a neighbouring state in the resort city of Acapulco.
Syria's Assad rebuffs Washington by courting Iran
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad assured his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday that their ties were solid -- a view unlikely to please Washington which is working to isolate the Islamic state.
Thousands protest in Rome against Berlusconi
ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators took part in a protest against Silvio Berlusconi in Rome on Saturday, days after the Italian Prime Minister survived a confidence vote in parliament that could have triggered early elections.
Nigeria bomb toll rises as government admits it was warned
ABUJA (Reuters) - The death toll from car bombs that exploded near a parade marking Nigeria's 50th anniversary of independence rose to 12 on Saturday and authorities admitted they had been warned of the attack.
PLO says no talks until Israel halts settlements
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian leadership said on Saturday negotiations with Israel would not resume until it halted settlement building.
U.S. drone strikes kill 18 militants in Pakistan
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two U.S. drone attacks killed 18 militants in Pakistan on Saturday, intelligence officials said, after recent NATO incursions raised tensions with an ally critical to Washington's war effort in Afghanistan.
October 1, 2010
China urges Japan to 'maintain relations'
BEIJING: China has called on Japan to "maintain the full spectrum of relations" between the two nations amid a damaging territorial row that has rumbled on for more than three weeks, state press reported.
'Farc cash launderers' arrested
(BBC) Spanish police arrest 41 people suspected of laundering money for Colombia's Farc rebels.
Ecuador neighbours reopen borders
(BBC) Peru and Colombia reopen their borders with Ecuador, a day after President Rafael Correa accused the opposition of a coup attempt.
Malaria funding 'falling short'
(BBC) There is a 60% global shortfall in funding for malaria control this year, according to a report by UK and African experts.
Bin Laden role eyed in latest European terror plot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden and top al Qaeda leadership are likely behind the latest European terror plot, U.S. officials said on Friday.
Darfur rebels say Sudan army raids kill 27
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur rebels on Friday accused Sudan's army of killing 27 people in a week-long campaign of air and ground assaults on their positions, as peace efforts in the arid region continued to flounder.
Militants set fire to NATO tankers in Pakistan
KARACHI (Reuters) - Suspected militants in Pakistan set fire to three dozen tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday, officials said, a day after three soldiers were killed in a cross-border NATO air strike.
South Korea parliament approves new prime minister
SEOUL: South Korea's parliament on Friday approved the nomination of Kim Hwang-Sik as the country's new prime minister despite opposition charges that he faked medical records to avoid military service.
U.N. report details hundreds of Congo atrocities
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations released a controversial report on Friday documenting hundreds of atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and suggesting ways to end the climate of near-total impunity for the violence.
US gave syphilis to mentally ill
(BBC) The US government apologises for infecting hundreds of people in Guatemala with gonorrhoea and syphilis as part of medical tests in the 1940s.
Bin Laden criticizes Pakistan relief, urges climate action
DUBAI (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden criticized relief efforts in Pakistan and called for action against climate change in what appeared to be a new audio tape from the al Qaeda leader issued on Friday in an Islamist forum.
NIGERIA: Communities' resistance hampers lead cleanup - IRINnews.org
NIGERIA: Communities' resistance hampers lead cleanup IRINnews.org ANKA, 1 October 2010 (IRIN) - Efforts to treat children poisoned by lead and to clean up contaminated sites in northern Nigeria's Zamfara State are being ... |
September 30, 2010
Quito international airport shuts during unrest
QUITO (Reuters) - The international airport in the middle of Ecuador's capital Quito closed operations on Thursday during political protests, an official said.
Taliban reject Karzai's peace council as "failed"
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban have rejected Afghan President Hamid Karzai's latest bid to move toward peace talks, dubbing a High Peace Council "failed and impractical" and denying that senior Taliban leaders were in contact with Kabul.
SOMALIA: Spotlight on maternal health risks in rural areas - IRINnews.org
SOMALIA: Spotlight on maternal health risks in rural areas IRINnews.org GALKAYO, 30 September 2010 (IRIN) - Poor education among women and lack of access to health facilities in many rural areas of war-torn Somalia have ... |
Uganda fury at UN DR Congo report
(BBC) Uganda is the latest country to react angrily to a leaked UN report which accuses it of committing war crimes in the DR Congo prior to 2003.
Myanmar to free Aung San Suu Kyi days after election
YANGON : Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will be released just days after Myanmar's first election in two decades, officials said on Thursday.
Indian court rules to divide disputed holy site
LUCKNOW, India : An Indian court on Thursday ruled that a disputed holy site in Ayodhya with a history of triggering Hindu-Muslim clashes should be divided - a judgement seen as favouring the Hindu litigants.
DR Congo sex abuse victims speak
A UN panel begins hearing from victims of sexual abuse in Democratic Republic of Congo after a horrific incident of mass rape earlier this year.
September 29, 2010
Sri Lanka president confirms jail for ex-army chief
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's president has confirmed the 30-month jail term imposed on former army chief Sarath Fonseka following his conviction by a military court, an official said Thursday.
India court splits mosque site between religions
LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - An Indian court ruled on Thursday that the site of a demolished mosque would be split between Hindus and Muslims, dousing immediate fears of a violent backlash in one of the country's most religiously divisive cases.
Two Koreas hold first military talks since 2008
SEOUL: South and North Korea began their first military talks for two years on Thursday to try to ease tensions heightened by a naval disaster near their disputed sea border, Seoul's defence ministry said.
Musharraf warns of new military coup in Pakistan
LONDON - Former president Pervez Musharraf warned Wednesday that Pakistan's military could launch another coup, as he prepared to launch a new party and rejoin the country's turbulent politics.
IMF spotlight on ratings agencies
(BBC) Credit rating agencies should improve their procedures, says the International Monetary Fund.
Sudan delays voters' registration
(BBC) Sudan postpones the registration of voters for January's referendum on secession for the south until November.
EU eyes new deficit punishments
The EU is to unveil new rules that will punish eurozone states that break budgetary rules.
September 28, 2010
Key posts for N Korea leader's son
The youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is awarded two key party posts, in a move seen as part of a gradual transfer of power.
European cities hit by protests
Tens of thousands take to the streets of Brussels and other European cities in a day of protests against austerity measures, as a general strike grips Spain.
China lifts rare earth export ban to Japan: trader
TOKYO (Reuters) - China has ended a de facto ban on exports to Japan of rare earth minerals, a Japanese trading firm source said on Wednesday, easing concerns about fallout from a bitter feud between Asia's two biggest economies.
Landslide buries 30 in Colombia
Rescuers in Colombia say there is little chance of finding survivors after a massive landslide that buried as many as 30 people.
Mexico landslide less deadly than feared
OAXACA STATE, Mexico (Reuters) - A landslide in a remote mountain town sent Mexican authorities scrambling to deploy rescue workers on Tuesday, but initial reports that hundreds were buried proved overblown.
September 27, 2010
Suicide bomb kills Afghan vice-governor, five others
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed on Tuesday the deputy governor of Afghanistan's Ghazni province, Mohammad Kazim Allahyar, and five other people, a top police official said.
North Korean leader's son unveiled, seen as successor
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-il gave his youngest son his first public title on Tuesday, naming him a general in a move analysts said marked the first stage of dynastic succession in the secretive state.
School opens for miners' children
(BBC) Some of the children at Camp Hope in Chile have begun a new school term in a specially created kindergarten for the families of the trapped miners.
Afghan poll body orders vote recounts in 7 provinces
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's election body has ordered a partial recount of votes from seven of the country's 34 provinces on suspicion of fraud, potentially delaying the results of a parliamentary poll further, an official said on Monday.
Israel seeks talks as freeze ends
Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu urges Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to continue talks, despite the end of Israel's ban on West Bank construction.
Genetic defect 'causes migraines'
(BBC) Scientists identify a genetic defect linked to migraine which could point the way to new avenues of research and treatment targets.
Israeli settlement freeze ends, peace talks in balance
JERUSALEM/PARIS (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday put off a threatened decision to quit peace talks with Israel, leaving more time for diplomacy to save negotiations from collapse over Israel's settlement building.
Still standing
(BBC) Reflections on the ups and downs of Nigeria's past 50 years
Venezuela opposition pegs back Chavez in parliament
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won a majority in parliament but opponents took more than a third of the seats, threatening his ability to pass socialist reforms before seeking re-election in 2012.
September 26, 2010
Protesters swim in front of ship
Environmentalists who were ordered off the anchor of a drill ship jump into the water to try to stop the vessel moving.
Soldiers in Afghan deaths charge
(BBC) Three Australian former special forces soldiers are charged over an operation in Afghanistan in which six civilians died and four were injured last year.
Maoists in police hostage threat
(BBC)Maoist rebels in India have threatened to kill four surviving police hostages out of seven they seized last week, officials say.
Breast cancer partners' mood risk
Men whose partners have breast cancer should be checked for signs that their mental health has been affected, say researchers.
Warning over tourist road deaths
The international tourism industry is urged to do more to protect tourists from the risk of death and injuries on the roads.
Grim harvest
(BBC) Kashmir's 'martyrs' graveyard' is busy once more
PHILIPPINES: Citizens' Raids Hauling in Smugglers, Illegal Fishers
Robert Chan shuffles a pile of legal briefs in his temporary
office – a wooden cargo vessel that he and a team of volunteer
paralegals had apprehended during an operation against
smugglers of logs and other forest products from the central
Philippine province of Palawan to Malaysia.
Mexican soldiers capture suspected drug chief
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers have arrested a suspected leader of the violent Zetas drug gang in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun and blamed him for a deadly attack on a bar last month, the army said on Sunday.
"Main elements" behind bombing killed: Iran Guards
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday they had killed some 30 people who were the "main elements" behind a bomb attack in northwest Iran.
Worm affects Iran nuclear plant
A complex computer worm has infected the personal computers of staff at Iran's first nuclear power station, says the IRNA news agency.
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