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Sunday, 26 December, 2010
QUITO — Families in Ecuador yesterday were mourning victims of a road accident, in which a bus plunged into a precipice, killing at least 41, including seven children. Rescuers said around 30 passengers had survived, but had been injured, some of them badly. "There's been a very serious accident wit
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Sunday, 26 December, 2010
LIMA - Riot police on horseback clashed Friday with thousands of squatters wielding clubs and rocks, in a pitched battle over an archaeological site near Lima that was occupied a day earlier to demand decent housing conditions. "It was a successful operation, because a protected area must not be vio
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Sunday, 26 December, 2010
Warning cancelled, no reports of damage or casualties - SYDNEY — A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the western Pacific nation of Vanuatu yesterday, triggering a small tsunami on the sixth anniversary of the Indian Ocean disaster. The shallow quake generated a tsunami, the Hawaii-based
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Sunday, 26 December, 2010
TOKYO — Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan is leaning towards a cabinet reshuffle before a parliament session next month as he tries to woo a tiny opposition party into the coalition, the Nikkei daily reported yesterday. The premier has offered cabinet posts to the Sunrise Party of Japan, which has si
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Sunday, 26 December, 2010
SEOUL — Seoul has released three Chinese fishermen who were detained after a confrontation with the South Korean Coast Guard, a news report said yesterday. The men's 63-tonne boat sank last Saturday after allegedly ramming a South Korean Coast Guard vessel, leaving the Chinese boat's captain dead an
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Sunday, 26 December, 2010
ISLAMABAD — Afghan and coalition forces have detained a top leader of the Haqqani network based in Pakistan's North Waziristan, media report said yesterday. The network, led by Maulana Jalaluddin Haqqani and his three sons, is blamed for fuelling deadly violence in Afghanistan. The report of the lea
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Sunday, 26 December, 2010
KHAR, Pakistan — More than 80 were killed in a bombing on a World Food Programme project and a series of helicopter raids against Taliban camps in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, officials said. A bomber, who some officials said was a woman, killed at least 43 people at a World Food Programme distr
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Sunday, 26 December, 2010
MANILA — A bomb exploded yesterday during Christmas Day mass at a church in the southern Philippines, wounding 11 people, the military and police said. The priest and 10 churchgoers were hurt in the blast at the chapel of a police camp on Jolo island, 1,000 km south of Manila, police said. Lieutenan
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Sunday, 26 December, 2010
KABUL — French Defence Minister Alain Juppe arrived in Kabul yesterday for a Christmas visit to troops deployed in Afghanistan, according to an AFP journalist. Juppe, on his first journey to the country since he assumed his post in November, is due to visit several French and other units deployed in
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Saturday, 25 December, 2010
WASHINGTOB — US President Barack Obama heads into 2011 looking to rebound from a difficult year that included a continuously slumping economy and a major blow to his party in congressional elections. He enters the new year with some of the lowest job approval ratings — stuck in the 40s — of his pres
