Clinton takes “clean cookstove” drive to India
CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed one of her simplest but potentially most transformative diplomatic priorities in India yesterday: clean cooking stoves.
CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed one of her simplest but potentially most transformative diplomatic priorities in India yesterday: clean cooking stoves.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, humbled by a cancer that has upended the OPEC nation’s politics, has set clemency proceedings in motion for convicted opposition activists suffering from health problems.
CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinean President Alpha Conde escaped two attacks on his residence yesterday that killed at least three people and left his home riddled with bullets, in assaults which authorities linked to former senior officers in the army.
ALMATY (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Central Asia’s densely populated Ferghana valley, the US Geological Survey said yesterday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The FBI arrested at least 14 people yesterday as part of a wide-ranging investigation of the Internet vigilante hacking group Anonymous, a law enforcement source said.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan yesterday appointed its first woman and youngest foreign minister within weeks of important talks with India.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s Solicitor General’s office banned a former agriculture minister from public service for 16 years yesterday over a subsidy scandal, the latest involving appointees of former President Alvaro Uribe.
LONDON, (Reuters) – News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch and his son James face questions from parliament today in a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked Britain’s establishment right up to Prime Minister David Cameron.
TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Libyan and U.S. officials met face-to-face, but while Tripoli said it was seeking talks with no preconditions, Washington said it delivered a clear message: Muammar Gaddafi must go.
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Cisco Systems plans to cut 15 percent of its jobs and sell a factory as part of a plan to cut annual expenses by $1 billion as the network equipment maker tries to revive its fortunes.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – In many ways, it’s the perfect weapon for a war-weary nation that suddenly finds itself on a tight budget.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s leftist President-elect Ollanta Humala has launched a “shock of confidence” to show investors he has shed his radical past and will prudently lead one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
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CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela is creating a new agency to limit profit margins for companies operating in areas such as food and medicine, the vice president said on Monday, in the latest effort to boost state control over the economy.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A phone-hacking scandal centred on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp cost Britain’s top policeman his job and renewed questions yesterday about Prime Minister David Cameron’s judgment.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – With time running short in U.S. debt talks, Republican and Demo-cratic senators sought yesterday to craft a plan that could avert an unprecedented government debt default while making modest cuts in the deficit.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan’s second-biggest retailer said yesterday it had sold beef from cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed, the latest in a series of health scares from radiation leaking from a quake-crippled nuclear power plant.
ADEN, (Reuters) – Yemeni forces backed by armed tribesmen launch-ed an offensive to retake Zinjibar, capital of southern Abyan province, officials said yesterday, after months of fighting with Islamist militants who seized the city.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The EU will protect existing investment in its $13 billion biodiesel sector even as it acts on new evidence that suggests making the fuel from food crops can do more harm than good in fighting climate change.
LONDON, (Reuters Life!) – The British Library has launched an appeal to help it buy the oldest book in Europe, an “almost miraculous” survival from the Anglo Saxon period over 1,000 years ago.
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