BEIJING, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — The new face of AIDS in China is a shy man with a heavy provincial accent, a weathered face and the rough hands of a manual worker. ... > full story
BUCHAREST, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — Romanians voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election that will determine both its response to the global financial crisis and the fate of judicial reforms, which have stalled since it joined the European Union last year. ... > full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — Twelve people in southern Iran have died after drinking homemade liquor and dozens more have been blinded or are in a serious condition, health workers in the Islamic Republic said in remarks published Sunday. ... > full story
GAZA, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — The Palestinian group Hamas has claimed responsibility for Friday's shelling of an Israeli military base along Israel's frontier with the Gaza Strip where six soldiers were wounded. ... > full story
SEOUL, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — Hundreds of South Koreans streamed out of the communist North at the weekend, expelled from a joint industrial enclave by Pyongyang in anger at the hardline policy of the conservative leader in the South. ... > full story
BOGOTA, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — Anti-kidnapping campaigner Ingrid Betancourt paid a surprise visit to Colombia on Saturday at the start of a regional tour to try to jump start hostage talks with the leftist rebels who kept her captive for years. ... > full story
JOMBA, Congo, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — Congolese Tutsi rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda threatened war Saturday unless Congo's government entered a new round of talks with him. ... > full story
DOHA, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Pascal Lamy said on Saturday he was increasingly inclined to call ministers to Geneva next month to pursue a global trade treaty that could mitigate the world's economic turmoil. ... > full story
HEBRON, West Bank, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — Jewish settlers and Palestinians hurled stones at each other in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday before Israeli soldiers separated the two sides, the army and Palestinian witnesses said. ... > full story
TEHRAN, Nov. 29, 2008 (Reuters) — Iran has sentenced three men to death for being involved in the fatal bombing of a mosque that killed 14 Iranians in the southern city of Shiraz in April, the hardline Kayhan newspaper reported on Saturday. ... > full story
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Cda-Cuba-Trade Nov. 29, 2008 (TMCnet.com) — Cuba's trade minister says the Caribbean nation is seeking more business with Canada to bolster his country's economy during the global economic ...
Trading our way out of tough times Nov. 29, 2008 (Regina Leader-Post) — Friday night is an odd time for a news release, if it's something a government is proud of. Usually, inauspicious launches are meant to avoid ...
Castro to Penn: I'm open to Obama Nov. 29, 2008 (PerthNow, Perth, Australia) — CUBAN President Raul Castro is open to meeting US President-elect Barack Obama on neutral ground to try to resolve the island's four-decade-old ...
Obama team has no comment on Castro story Nov. 29, 2008 (Xinhua News Agency) — The transition team of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday declined to comment on a report that Cuban leader Raul Castro is open to meet ...
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