ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A U.S. Congressional panel has frozen $700 million in aid to Pakistan until it gives assurances it is helping fight the spread of homemade bombs in the region, a move one Pakistani senator called unwise and likely to strain ties further.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Eight former executives and agents of Siemens AG have been indicted over a scheme to pay $100 million in bribes to Argentine officials to win a $1 billion contract, the
By David Cay Johnston The author is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s doctor yesterday asked for a publicly-funded lawyer to handle his appeal on a manslaughter conviction in the pop star’s death, saying he could not afford to pay for one himself.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – In 2009, British film writer/director Guy Ritchie shocked Sherlock Holmes purists by rebooting the classic crime-fighting character for a new generation of movie fans.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Director David Fincher’s film adaptation of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” earned solid early reviews on Tuesday following its London premiere, and the studio behind it pushed up the release in a crowded holiday season.
(Jamaica Observer) Soul singer Michael McDonald and his son Dylan had Bob Marley on their minds when they came up with the idea to record a cover album, Billboard Magazine reports.
(Reuters) – Bollywood actor Aamir Khan and wife Kiran Rao announced on Monday they were parents to a baby boy born with a surrogate.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada yesterday became the first country to announce it would withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change, dealing a symbolic blow to the already troubled global treaty.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The death toll in Syria’s nine-month crackdown on an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad has now passed 5,000, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay told the Security Council yesterday.
DAKAR (Reuters) – More than nine million people in five countries in Africa’s Sahel region face food crisis next year, following low rainfall, poor harvests, high food prices and a drop in remittances from migrants, aid agency Oxfam said yesterday.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – In a move likely to increase tension with Canada’s Muslim minority, the government said yesterday it would bar all women wearing face coverings from taking part in citizenship ceremonies.
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia yesterday installed as its new president a former dissident who was imprisoned and then exiled for opposing former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, a new landmark in the country’s post-revolutionary transition to democracy.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s navy captured a leader of the Zetas drug cartel, Raul Fernandez, President Felipe Calderon said yesterday via his Twitter account.
DURBAN, (Reuters) – Countries from around the globe agreed yesterday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the plan was too timid to slow global warming.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – It was billed as a summit to save the euro.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – If Vladimir Putin is to face a Russian rebellion, its spiritual leader may be a 35-year-old blogger named Alexei Navalny.
GAMBOA, Panama, (Reuters) – Manuel Noriega, Panama’s drug-running military dictator of the 1980s, was extradited home yesterday and taken straight to prison to serve a 20-year sentence for the murders of opponents during his rule.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – In the middle of the crowd yesterday at Russia’s largest opposition protest in years, a big banner bore a simple message: Putin must go.
(Barbados Nation) The decades old row between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago over fishing rights may be headed for calmer waters.
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