Sept. 11 suspects face battles in NY prosecution (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:46 PM PST Reuters - Rights groups and legal scholars on Friday praised the Obama administration's decision to bring Sept. 11 suspects to trial in civilian court in New York, but they questioned whether defendants could get a fair trial so close to Ground Zero. |
Obama pushes for greater U.S. involvement in Asia (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 03:04 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama will promise greater U.S. engagement in Asia and push for deeper trade ties with the region in a major speech in the Japanese capital on Saturday, administration officials said. |
Galleon's Rajaratnam seeks to unseal Khan records (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 08:59 AM PST Reuters - Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, accused in the biggest U.S. hedge fund insider trading case, has asked a federal court to unseal records of a 2001 criminal charge against former trader Roomy Khan, one of the government's cooperating witnesses. |
China's Hu prods West on trade, investment barriers (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 04:59 PM PST Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao called on Friday for an end to "unreasonable" trade restrictions on developing countries, just days ahead of a U.S. presidential visit to his country that has been clouded by economic tensions. |
Moon crash works - there is water there (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 10:43 AM PST Reuters - Scientists who crashed two spacecraft into a crater on the moon said on Friday they found water in the dust they kicked up, just as they had hoped. |
Twenty years on, Tendulkar still feels like he's 16 (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 08:04 AM PST Reuters - Sachin Tendulkar's passion for cricket has not diminished during his long career and he still has a child-like enthusiasm for the game, said the record-breaking batsman. |
Govt to unveil 20,000 MW solar power plan (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 03:18 AM PST Reuters - India will soon launch an ambitious plan to boost its solar power generation from 3 MW to 20,000 MW by 2022, the minister for new and renewable energy said on Friday. |
Myanmar's Suu Kyi's lawyers file detention appeal (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 12:17 AM PST Reuters - Lawyers for Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday they had lodged an appeal against her house arrest with the Supreme Court but expected no rapid decision. |
India quietly bolsters disputed China border (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:23 AM PST Reuters - The rutted mountain road to Tawang in India's remote northeast, quiet and empty for years, is abuzz these days with heavy construction activity. Bulldozers are slowly turning the rickety road to the Chinese border into a double-lane highway. |
Larsen sells part Satyam stake for $66 mln - sources (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 12:48 AM PST Reuters - Indian engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro sold a third of its holding in outsourcer Mahindra Satyam on Friday for about $66 million, three sources close to the deal said. |
New York split over plan to try Sept. 11 plotters (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:12 PM PST Reuters - Some New Yorkers are angry that accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks will be tried in a court near where the World Trade Center once stood, while others are relieved that justice may soon be served. |
Sept. 11 suspects to be tried in New York (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:51 PM PST Reuters - The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-conspirators will be sent to New York for trial in a court near the site of the World Trade Center, the Obama administration said on Friday, as it took a step toward closing the Guantanamo Bay prison. |
Bomber attacks Pakistani intelligence agency; 10 dead (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 06:01 AM PST Reuters - A suicide car bomber attacked an office of Pakistan's main intelligence agency in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 10 people and wounding 60, officials said. |
U.S., Japan vow to revitalise strained ties (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 06:29 AM PST Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama and Japan's new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, pledged on Friday to revitalise their strained security alliance as they adapt to a rising China, set to overtake Japan as the world's No.2 economy. |
Sri Lanka general hits out before possible poll bid (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 07:50 AM PST Reuters - Sri Lanka on Friday accepted the resignation of its top general, who delivered a scathing departure letter accusing the president he may challenge at polls next year of unjustly sidelining him over unfounded coup fears. |
Gold demand edges up as prices ease from records (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:17 AM PST Reuters - India gold demand edged up on Friday as prices eased from their record highs struck in the previous session, but flow of scrap eased, dealers said. |
INTERVIEW - French magistrate details Lashkar's global role (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:11 AM PST Reuters - Pakistan's army once ran training camps for the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group with the apparent knowledge of the CIA, an example of complicity that raises questions about the current state of the nuclear-armed nation. |
Obama faces strains in Japan, first stop in Asia (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 03:25 AM PST Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama headed into talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Friday in which he will likely try to smooth strained ties as the allies adjust to a rising China. |
INTERVIEW - No panic, but rice price pressure building - IRRI (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 01:03 AM PST Reuters - Ample supplies mean the rice market does not need to panic about rising demand from the Philippines, India and Africa or the El Nino threat to production, an industry expert said on Friday. |
Bangladesh arrests 3 for targeting U.S.,India interests (Reuters) Posted: 13 Nov 2009 02:11 AM PST Reuters - Bangladesh police arrested three suspected members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba on Friday on suspicion they were plotting to attack U.S. and Indian targets in the country, an official said. |