Archive for January 2010
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Severe weather conditions claimed more lives and disrupted transport across northern India Friday as the number of deaths due to the unseasonal cold reached 500. The death toll from cold weather in northern parts of
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A Qatari prince who owns a rare 17th-century mansion in Paris settled a dispute on Friday with heritage activists who had feared he would destroy a cultural gem, the French government said. A French court
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday rejected the idea of working with the US on missile defence, and criticised the current US plans to station missiles near Poland's border with Russia. Lavrov told journalists
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown confirmed on Friday he would appear at a public inquiry into the Iraq War before this year's election, a move which could damage the ruling Labour party at the ballot
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Cash became available and buses started running in Haiti's rubble-clogged capital on Friday but there was still not enough food to feed desperate earthquake survivors. "We can do this 24 hours a day for the
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An explosion hit the home of a financier of opposition presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka on Friday, amid increasing violence before a close presidential election next week. The elections commissioner said that police and soldiers
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European Union justice ministers were split Friday over a plan to use the bloc's concept of "enhanced co-operation" to develop EU rules governing divorce between mixed-nationality couples. The concept - created by the EU's 1997
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Airports around the world must adopt different security measures or else it will become easier for terrorists to exploit weaknesses to carry out attacks, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday. "What we do
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European governments are set to reject the European Parliament's call to postpone the entry into force of the SWIFT financial data-sharing agreement with the United States, European Union officials said on Friday. On Thursday parliament
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The United States told Palestinian leaders on Friday they must resume talks with the Israelis if they want US help to achieve a peace treaty that ends Israeli occupation and creates a Palestinian state. Putting
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