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| French Unions Take To The Street Over Pension Plans Wall Street Journal PARIS (Dow Jones)--French workers staged a nationwide one-day strike and rallies Thursday to protest government plans to increase the pension age and challenge a key plank of President Nicolas Sarkozy's economic policy. About 3 million people took part ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| New Iran Sanctions Tighten Controls on Consumer Goods Voice of America Photo: AP Iran's government faces yet another new round of sanctions. "CISADA" - the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions Accountability and Divestment Act - was signed by US President Barak Obama in July, and is scheduled to go into effect by September 29. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Millennium development goals: Fragile states claim summit outcome off-target The Guardian Calls by fragile states for greater focus on addressing conflict and fragility have been largely ignored in the outcome document of the millennium development goals (MDGs) summit in New York, but critical donors are at least listening to the growing ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Obama, China's Wen Pledge Increased Cooperation on Global Economic Issues Bloomberg By Kate Andersen Brower - Thu Sep 23 16:41:39 GMT 2010 President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged their countries to ever closer cooperation on economic issues to foster the global recovery. In remarks to reporters before a private ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Four Japanese 'filmed Chinese military zone' BBC News Four Japanese are being investigated in China on suspicion of illegally filming in a military area, state media report. It is the latest incident in a heated diplomatic row between the two nations. Xinhua news agency said security officials in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Russia's ban on arms sales to Iran 'illogical' RIA Novosti MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow's refusal to deliver S-300 missile defense systems to Iran is illogical, Iran's top military commander said on Thursday. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on Wednesday banning the delivery of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Obama said US can absorb another 9/11, claims Woodward book Oneindia Washington, Sep 23(ANI): US President Barack Obama reckons that the country can "absorb" another terror attack, a new book by journalist Bob Woodward has claimed. According to Fox News, the comment in the book, "Obama's Wars", was made despite the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Russia gives Poland more documents on Katyn executions Xinhua MOSCOW, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Prosecutor General's Office has given Polish authorities 20 additional volumes of documents concerning the Soviet execution of Polish officers at Katyn in 1940, the RIA Novosti news agency reports. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Niger kidnappings show group getting bolder The Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal — To kidnap seven foreigners from inside their homes, al-Qaida-linked gunmen in northern Niger forced their way past the security cordon of one of the world's most heavily guarded mining towns. The assailants made their way through ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Officials: Palestinians will consider compromise The Associated Press JERUSALEM — Hopes of averting a breakdown in Middle East peace talks grew Thursday as senior Palestinian officials said their side would consider an expected US-brokered compromise on Israeli settlement-building in the West Bank. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Elite groups can drown out Chinese voices Financial Times By Geoff Dyer in Beijing It is five years since China was last convulsed by anti-Japanese sentiment. Several thousand young people demonstrated in Shanghai one Saturday morning about Japanese wartime atrocities being excluded from some history ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Rajapaksa rejects external solution to Lanka's ethnic row Sify United Nations: President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday rejected efforts at imposing "external solutions" to the ethnic row in Sri Lanka, saying he was seeking to heal the wounds of the past by setting up a reconciliation panel. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Parents lose 3 children in car bomb blast in Baghdad CNN Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Three siblings were among four killed when a car bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad on Thursday evening, police said. The bomb was attached to a car belonging to Anmar Taha Ridha. Three of his children died in the blast and he and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| PPP Government Will Complete Its Term: Zardari Outlook The Pakistan People's Party-led government has the people's mandate and will complete its term despite "obstacles, difficulties, challenges and machinations", President Asif Ali Zardari said today. Zardari made the remarks while chairing a meeting of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Bangladesh asks BSF to use alternatives to firearms MSN India Dhaka, Sept 23 (PTI) Bangladesh today asked the Indian border guards to use alternatives to firearms to avoid deaths of innocent Bangladeshi people as a key conference of top officials of BSF and BDR started here today. Home Minister Shahara Khatun ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Diaries show life on oldest ship BBC News Crew diaries which had been locked away for 150 years are being reunited with Britain's oldest surviving warship at a special ceremony on Teesside. The journals were written by sailors on board HMS Trincomalee, which is berthed in Hartlepool. ... See all stories on this topic » |
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