| Honduran coup leaders want Zelaya to make pledge Zelaya had planned to leave his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy on Wednesday night for Mexico, but the trip was aborted when he refused to go into exile on the government's terms because he w ...[more] |
| Ecuador says U.S. helped Colombia plan '08 bombing A 130-page report prepared by the Ecuadorean government says U.S. forces then based in the Pacific coast town of Manta helped Colombian troops target Raul Reyes, No. 2 commander of the Revolu ...[more] |
| Iran may face new U.N. sanctions The exchange of views during a U.N. Security Council debate on Iran showed how the Western powers' desire to ratchet up the pressure on an increasingly defiant Tehran over its atomic ambition ...[more] |
| U.N. seeks Afghan envoy to help civilian surge Ban's current special envoy in Kabul, Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide, is expected to step down by the end of January -- around the time of a major conference on Afghanistan in London -- after le ...[more] |
| Ecuador says U.S. helped Colombia plan 2008 bombing A 130-page report prepared by the Ecuadorean government says U.S. forces then based in the Pacific coast town of Manta helped Colombian troops target Raul Reyes, No. 2 commander of the Revolu ...[more] |
| Iraq closes in on big oil deals but short of power Peak winter consumption of electricity due to heaters being run has resulted in what appears to be a near collapse of the public power supply - those without generators to light their homes a ...[more] |
| As Shanghai rises Hong Kong asks: "What's next?" So when the Chinese government declared last April it wanted to make Shanghai an international financial center by 2020, the news sent a ripple of anxiety through Hong Kong. The autho ...[more] |
| FACTBOX: Hong Kong vs Shanghai as global financial centres CONCENTRATION OF FINANCIAL SERVICES Hong Kong has a deeper pool of financial services than Shanghai with insurance, law, accounting and other professional service firms already well e ...[more] |
| Cuban dissidents mark rights day with protests About 30 female relatives of political prisoners walked silently through the ramshackle Havana streets carrying flowers and Cuban flags before being surrounded and jostled by some 250 people ...[more] |
| U.S. envoy gains some ground in North Korea visit Stephen Bosworth, speaking after a three-day trip to North Korea, described as "candid and businesslike" his talks with First Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok-ju, the man seen as the mastermind ...[more] |
| In Mexico's drug war abuses by army rise sharply Mexico's national human rights commission received some 2,000 accusations of abuse by the military in 2008 and the first six months of 2009, a sharp jump from 367 complaints in 2007 and 182 i ...[more] |