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Moscow applies to extend Arctic border

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - Jul. 07 (News) - Russia says it will formally submit an application to the United Nations next year to redraw the map of the Arctic, giving itself a bigger share of the resource-rich territory.

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China promises EU "helping hand" with debt crisis

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By James Pomfret, Stephen Brown - Jun. 28 (News) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao offered Europe a "helping hand" with its debt crisis during a visit to Germany on Tuesday and said his country could buy the sovereign debt of some troubled euro zone nations if needed.

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National impact from New York marriage law: experts

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jessica Dye - Jun. 26 (News Analysis) - When New York became the sixth and by far the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, following a grueling overtime session in the state Legislature on Friday, it immediately transformed the national debate over the issue, legal experts said.

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Iraq hunting $17 billion missing after U.S. invasion

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Waleed Ibrahim - Jun. 19 (Breaking News) - Iraq's parliament is chasing about $17 billion of Iraqi oil money it says was stolen after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and has asked the United Nations for help to track it down.

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Citi says hackers access bank card data

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Maria Aspan, Narayanan Somasundaram - Jun. 09 (News) - Citigroup Inc said computer hackers breached the bank's network and accessed the data of about 200,000 bank card holders in North America, the latest of a string of cyber attacks on high-profile companies.

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'Double-Dip' in Housing Prices Even Worse Than Expected

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - May. 31 (News) - U.S. single-family home prices dropped in March, dipping below their 2009 low, as the housing market remained bogged down by inventory and weak demand, a closely watched survey said Tuesday.

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Judge voids controversial Wisconsin union law

Thu, 26 May 2011 08:59:06 -0700

Reuters - By Jeff Mayers - May. 26 (News Report) - MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A Wisconsin judge on Thursday voided a controversial Republican-backed law restricting the collective bargaining rights of public sector unions.Dane County Judge Maryann

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Obama administration fights to save healthcare law

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jeremy Pelofsky, Lisa Lambert - May. 11 (Special Report) - An appeals court on Tuesday sharply questioned whether the state of Virginia could challenge President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, which requires Americans to buy insurance in a bid to slow healthcare costs. The Obama administration is trying to save the individual mandate after a Virginia federal judge agreed with the state it was unconstitutional and struck down that part of the law. The Obama administration has vigorously defended the measure, set to go into effect in 2014

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Gay marriage foes ask court to stop judge from showing Proposition 8 trial video

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Maura Dolan - Apr. 20 (News Report) - Former U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who has retired, said he has used the video from the Proposition 8 trial in talks to a class he teaches at UC Berkeley’s law school, to a legal group and in a lecture at the University of Arizona, which was broadcast on CSPAN.

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After Protests, Burkina Faso’s President Dissolves Government

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Reuters staff - Apr. 16 (News) - President Blaise Compaore dismissed his cabinet, his army chief and the head of his security regiment on Friday, national radio reported, after disgruntled soldiers went on a rampage in the capital and fired their weapons, apparently in a mutiny.

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Japan expands nuclear evacuation, stops radiated water

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Yoko Kubota, Yoko Nishikawa - Apr. 11 (News) - Japan expanded the evacuation zone around a crippled nuclear plant to avoid exposing residents to high levels of accumulated radiation, as the struggle to contain the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl entered its second month.

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China faces uphill battle to give better healthcare

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Apr. 08 (News) - HONG KONG (Reuters) - As a young Chinese doctor earning 4,000 yuan ($600) a month, Zhang Fei was faced with having to cough up 2,000 yuan for a bill that a patient left unpaid after Zhang removed a tumor from her womb.

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Two killed, dozens hurt in third day of Afghan protests

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Apr. 04 (News) - Two policemen were killed and more than 30 people wounded in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday during the third day of protests across Afghanistan against the burning of a Koran by a militant fundamentalist Christian U.S. pastor, officials said.

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Ten dead in Afghan Koran burning protests

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Ismail Sameem - Apr. 02 (News) - At least 10 people have been killed and 83 wounded in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said on Saturday, on a second day of violent protests over the burning of a Koran by a radical fundamentalist Christian in the United States.

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Exclusive: Obama authorizes secret support for Libya rebels (Reuters)

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Mark Hosenball - Mar. 30 (Breaking News) - Reuters - President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

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Syria's Assad deploys army in port to keep order

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Mar. 27 (News Report) - President Bashar al-Assad, facing the gravest crisis in his 11-year rule, deployed the army for the first time in Syria's main port of Latakia after nearly two weeks of protests spread across the country.

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OJ appeals verdict to full Nevada high court

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Mar. 18 (News) - O.J. Simpson asked the full Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday to do what three of its members have already declined to do — overturn his conviction and sentence in a botched Las Vegas hotel room heist.

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Japan’s real disaster

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Gregg Easterbrook - Mar. 16 (Opinion) - The situation in Japan is horrific — but because of the earthquake and tsunami, not because of the malfunctioning atomic reactor station. The earthquake and its awful aftermath killed at least thousands of people, perhaps tens of thousands. That is an unspeakable tragedy. The damaged reactors at Fukushima haven’t killed anyone, and while posing a clear danger, especially to workers heroically fighting the malfunction, the odds are that any harm to public health will be minor, if public health is harmed at all.

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Second nuclear meltdown likely under way in Japan, official says

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NBC News - Mar. 13 (Special Report) - Japanese officials were trying frantically to thwart partial meltdowns presumed under way Sunday at two earthquake-stricken nuclear reactors in Japan.

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S.Africa's Eskom to shut half of nuclear plant

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:26:57 -0700

Reuters - Mar. 13 - Reuters AfricaS.Africa's Eskom to shut half of nuclear plantReuters AfricaJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's power utility Eskom said on Sunday it would shut one of its two units at its 1800 MW Koeberg nuclear plant for a month for repairs and refuelling. State-owned Eskom has enough generating capacity to keep the ...and more »

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New South American exchange may give Mexico a jolt - Reuters

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:32:41 -0800

Reuters - Mar. 09 - New South American exchange may give Mexico a joltReutersLinking the exchanges in Bogota, Lima and Santiago will allow the enlarged market to leapfrog the Mexican bourse to become the second-largest in size in Latin America after Brazil's when ranked by market capitalization of its listed companies. ...and more »

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Gaddafi launches counter-offensive on Libya rebels

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Maria Golovnina, Michael Georgy - Mar. 06 (News) - Troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi launched counter-offensives against rebel-held towns Sunday, increasing fears that Libya is heading for a protracted civil war rather than the swift revolutions seen in Tunisia and Egypt.

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North Korea threatens military action over South's campaign

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Cho Mee-young - Feb. 27 (News) - North Korea will fire across a land border with South Korea if Seoul continues its anti-North psychological campaign, the North's official media said on Sunday ahead of an annual, joint military drill between the United States and South Korea.

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Egypt Shows How Easily Internet Can Be Silenced

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Jan. 28 (News Report) - The move by Egyptian authorities to seal off the country almost entirely from the Internet shows how easily a state can isolate its people when telecoms providers are few and compliant. In an attempt to stop the frenzied online spread of dissent against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, not only Facebook and Twitter but the entire Internet was shut down overnight, leaving some 20 million users stranded.

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Obesity linked to economic insecurity

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Jan. 24 (Special Report) - An Oxford University study suggests that people living in countries with 'free market' regimes are more likely to become obese due to the stress of being exposed to economic insecurity.

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