Obama to Meet With Prime Minister of Myanmar The New York Times | MANILA - President Barack Obama plans to meet with the prime minister of Myanmar along with other Southeast Asian leaders Sunday, in a high-level affirmation of the new policy by Washington of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights record. | The meeting between Mr. Oba...
China Offers Big Aid Package to Africa The New York Times | SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT - Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China on Sunday offered Africa $10 billion in concessional loans over the next three years, saying China was a "true and trusted friend" of the continent and its people. | The aid offer was double what was announced by President Hu Jintao at a ...
Ebdane widens 2010 race Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines—The presidential derby widened on Sunday with former Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. formally announcing his intention to run under the Philippine Labor and Peasant Party and declaring 'there's no turning back.' | A...
Thousands trek to Dalai Lama NZ Herald 4:00AM Monday Nov 09, 2009 | TAWANG - Thousands of devout Buddhists poured into this remote Indian mountain town, arriving in packed trucks or on foot after long journeys along narrow paths for a rare chance to glimpse the Dalai Lama. | The Tibetan s...
Harawira lives to apologise another day NZ Herald Are our MPs taking liberties with travel perks and allowances? | Hone Harawira has escaped being expelled from the Maori Party, but is likely to be told to publicly apologise for the inflammatory words he used in an email and for visiting Paris inste...
Poll: Support up for Maori-National deal NZ Herald 4:00AM Monday Nov 09, 2009 | By | The first Marae-DigiPoll survey since the election has shown a spike in Maori support for both the Maori Party and National - and a strong endorsement of the support arrangement between the two parties. | In the poll...
Wen: China-Africa cooperation in new chapter China Daily | SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday that cooperation between China and Africa had made great progress and was now in a new chapter nine years after the...
Germany celebrates anniversary of Berlin Wall coming down Canoe By Matt Moore, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | This Nov. 10, 1989 file photo shows East Berlin citizens climbing up the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburger Tor, to reach the western part of ...
Row erupts as board backs candidates for Southern Cross NZ Herald 4:00AM Monday Nov 09, 2009 | By | An election row has broken out at health insurer Southern Cross over the board endorsing three of the four candidates. | Three of the seven board seats at Southern Cross Medical Care Society, the group's health insur...
Obama faces reality of rising unemployment NZ Herald 4:00AM Monday Nov 09, 2009 | WASHINGTON - For months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 per cent. | A year after his election, Obama finds it increasingly d...
Escobar's 'pacifist' son revisits horrors of past NZ Herald | Juan Escobar was a teenager when he first challenged his father, the most notorious and brutal drug lord in Colombia's history. | "I confronted him about the deaths attributed to him on the TV news," he recalls now. "He started calling me 'my 14-ye...
Thousands in West Bank urge Abbas not to quit The Star | HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians turned out in the West Bank on Sunday to urge Mahmoud Abbas to run again for the presidency following his announcement that he did not want a second term in the job. Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 5, 2009. Thousands of Palestinians turned out in th...
New Delhi must take concrete steps first, says Mirwaiz The Hindu | Shujaat Bukhari | Demands withdrawal of troops, release of detenus | Hurriyat Conference (moderate) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq speaks at the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar on Friday. | SRINAGAR: Hurriyat Conference (moderate) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday virtually said "no" to quiet diplomacy, advocated by New Delhi, and reiterated that som...
