Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 31-08-2010
AMSTERDAM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Dutch authorities detained two Yemeni men at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on suspicion of terrorist conspiracy after a tip-off from the United States, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
View post:
Dutch prosecutors hold two men on "terror" suspicion
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 31-08-2010
OSLO (Reuters) – The U.N. panel of climate scientists will look at the costs of “second best” ways of fighting global warming amid doubts that all countries will sign up to U.N.-led action, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
View original post here:
U.N. to study impact of incomplete climate action
Filed Under (world updates) by CarmenGay on 31-08-2010
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia must improve education in skilled trades to diversify its resource-reliant economy, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday, but a demographic dip caused by the Soviet collapse is creating hurdles.
Go here to see the original:
Russia’s student shortage hampers modernisation drive
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 25-08-2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Stunned and disappointed Obama administration officials said on Tuesday they would appeal a federal court ruling that temporarily barred federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
See the original post here:
‘Stunned’ US government to appeal stem-cell ruling
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 25-08-2010
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Tuesday that peace talks between Palestinians and Israel next week could deal a fatal blow to the Palestinian cause.
Here is the original post:
Hamas says peace talks will deal blow to Palestinians
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 25-08-2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration will appeal a judge’s ruling that temporarily barred federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Link:
Obama administration to appeal stem cell injunction
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 24-08-2010
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The head of the U.N.
Continue reading here:
UN nuclear chief in Israel to press on NPT-Israeli TV
Filed Under (world updates) by CarmenGay on 24-08-2010
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Failure to meet the immediate needs of flood victims in a key province in northwest Pakistan could fuel the Taliban insurgency and pose a major regional security threat, the provincial chief minister said on Tuesday.
Link:
Hard choices on flood spending for NW Pakistan
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 24-08-2010
CARACAS (Reuters) – A cave-in at a wildcat gold mine in south Venezuela has killed seven people and left others trapped, officials and a miner said on Tuesday.
Read more here:
Venezuela mine accident kills seven
Filed Under (world updates) by CarmenGay on 24-08-2010
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had cut its troops in Iraq to below 50,000 before an Aug. 31 deadline set by President Barack Obama to end its combat mission.
View post:
U.S. says number of troops in Iraq below 50,000