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Chaos at Budapest airport as workers strike
Flights in and out of Budapest's Ferihegy International Airport were cancelled on Wednesday following an indefinite walkout by staff. A few flights made it out shortly after the strike began at 6 am. However, the airport shortly descended into chaos after security staff joined the strike, cutting off the flow of passengers to the...

Chaos at Budapest airport as workers strike

Austrian postal workers organize warning strikes
Austria's post offices were partially closed Wednesday, as postal workers protested plans to downsize the mail service. Employees at around 80 branches were on strike, but mail delivery went on uninterrupted, Oesterreichische Post AG said in a statement. The protests came one day before the post's management meets to discuss...

Austrian postal workers organize warning strikes

Greek rioting abates after three days; but protests to continue
 The situation in the Greek capital Athens calmed down early Tuesday after three days of heavy rioting, triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager, media reports said, but unrest was likely to continue. Violence was concentrated on the area around the Polytechnic University, where several dozen hooded youths were still...

Greek rioting abates after three days; but protests to continue

Greek capital left crippled after clashes
 The Greek capital Athens and dozens of other cities were left crippled Tuesday after several days of arson and looting, triggered by the fatal shooting of a teenager by police. Described as the worst riots in decades, thick black smoke, flames and tear gas had engulfed central Athens for hours as students set fire to cars, banks,...

Greek capital left crippled after clashes

Greece braces for more violence with teenager's funeral
Greece braced for more widespread protests and possible violence Tuesday with the funeral of the teenager who was fatally shot by police over the weekend, triggering the worst rioting the country has seen in decades. Widespread riots first erupted late Saturday shortly after the shooting of the teenage boy by a police officer in the...

Greece braces for more violence with teenager's funeral

Nomura announces job cuts at offices in Britain
Japanese investment bank Nomura said Thursday it would axe 1,000 jobs at their offices in London over the next few months under moves to ensure that the company remained "competitive in the current economic conditions." Nomura said the job losses from its 4,500 strong workforce in Britain would establish the "right cost...

Nomura announces job cuts at offices in Britain

Greece pushes to move ahead smoking ban by summer
Greece's health ministry is pushing to implement a ban outlawing smoking in all public places, including restaurants, bars and offices by the summer - a half year earlier than required by law. The new law does not require implementation until January 1, 2010. But Greek Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos announced in parliament that...

Greece pushes to move ahead smoking ban by summer

Berlin refuses to comment on Kosovo arrests
 Berlin refused to comment Friday on the arrest in Kosovo of three Germans in connection with an attack on the European Union (EU) headquarters in Pristina. A German Government spokesman declined to be drawn on speculation about the possible involvement of Berlin's security services (BND) in the case and instead pointed to the ongoing...

Berlin refuses to comment on Kosovo arrests

UN unveils new ceiling artwork by Spain's Miquel Barcelo in Geneva
A new ceiling artwork meant to inspire dialogue, human rights and global solidarity was unveiled Tuesday at the United Nation's Geneva offices. The work, created by Spanish abstract painter Miquel Barcelo, graces a room where groups like the UN's Human Rights Council and the High Level Group of the Alliance of Civilizations...

UN unveils new ceiling artwork by Spain's Miquel Barcelo in Geneva

EU must do more to achieve energy efficiency, Brussels says
 European Union countries must improve their energy efficiency and stop using the financial crisis as an excuse not to reduce pollution, the bloc's top officials said Thursday. "The financial crisis has not diminished the risks to our planet deriving from climate change," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso...

EU must do more to achieve energy efficiency, Brussels says

Head of German armoured van company jailed for 11 years
 The head of a German armoured van company where executives were quietly helping themselves to the customers' cash was jailed Friday for 11 years. Karl-Heinz Weis, 60, was convicted of misappropriation and embezzlement in the northern city of Hildesheim. He had already been convicted in May 2007 of related offences including...

Head of German armoured van company jailed for 11 years

Bavaria elects new premier after CSU setback
Legislators in the German state of Bavaria elected a new premier, Horst Seehofer, 59, on Monday after the party he leads, the Christian Social Union (CSU), lost its absolute majority at the polls. He comfortably won the vote by a 104-71 margin, though four members of the new state coalition, comprising the CSU and the small...

Bavaria elects new premier after CSU setback

Jewish cemetery headstones destroyed in Romania
 Unknown vandals have knocked over and, in some cases, destroyed 131 headstones in Bucharest's Jewish cemetery. According to the Mediafax news agency on Friday, the vandals also smashed windows in the administrative offices of the cemetery in Romania's capital. Some office equipment was also destroyed. No anti-Semitic slogans...

Jewish cemetery headstones destroyed in Romania

Banking groups weather financial turmoil according to Q3 reports
Main Swedish banking groups Nordea, Swedbank and SEB on Thursday reported third-quarter results suggesting they had weathered the first phases of the financial turmoil. Shares for all three groups were mid-morning in positive territory on the Stockholm bourse where the OMXS index was flat. The fourth major group Handelsbanken, which...

Banking groups weather financial turmoil according to Q3 reports

German police search federal bank office
German police led by prosecutors searched the offices of a federally owned bank Wednesday in connection with a banking blunder last month as the financial crisis developed. The KfW bank remitted 319 million euros to Lehman Brothers of New York on September 15, the day that the US investment bank failed. The main office of KfW in...

German police search federal bank office

Bavarian Finance Minister resigns as crisis hits bank
 Bavarian Finance Minister Erwin Huber said Wednesday he was stepping down from his post in the wake of the financial crisis that has engulfed the state-owned state BayernLB bank. The troubled Munich-based BayernLB this week asked for 5.4 billion euros (7.1 billion dollars) from Berlin's bank rescue plan as a result, becoming the...

Bavarian Finance Minister resigns as crisis hits bank

Alleged coup plotters go on trial in Turkey
The trial of 86 people accused of plotting to create havoc in order to prepare the ground for a military coup got under way in Istanbul on Monday. The long-awaited trial of the so-called Ergenekon gang began some 17 months after police discovered hand grenades in an Istanbul house belonging to a former non-commissioned officer. An...

Alleged coup plotters go on trial in Turkey

German Bundestag passes bank bail-out bill
In a one-day legislative marathon, German legislators signed off Friday one of world's biggest bail-outs, injecting 480 billion euros (650 billion dollars) into shaky banks. The Bundestag lower chamber passed the bill with only two small opposition parties, the Left and the Greens, opposed. But the bill is still not law until the...

German Bundestag passes bank bail-out bill

Bank warns of "lengthy recession" in Baltics
The economic outlook is grim for central and eastern Europe (CEE) in general and the Baltic states in particular, according to a report released Wednesday by Scandinavian bank SEB. In its latest Eastern European Outlook, SEB's Mikael Johansson warned: "Countries with large external imbalances - the three Baltic countries and...

Bank warns of "lengthy recession" in Baltics

Sri Lanka Bears 27 People Dead After Tiger Attack
Officials stated that a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber caused an entire blast in the main building of the opposition party in Sri Lanka on Monday. The explosion killed nearly 27 people, among which there was a retired senior general. The attack occurred in the town of Anuradhapura and it seems that it represented an act of revenge against...

Sri Lanka Bears 27 People Dead After Tiger Attack

Hypo Real Estate chief pressed to quit
As Germany sought to calm the public with a "decisive" pledge about savings property lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE) came under pressure Monday from other banks and Berlin to sack its chief executive after HRE needed a vast bail-out. Questions about the German government assurance of an estimated 1 trillion euros (1.4 trillion...

Hypo Real Estate chief pressed to quit

Association warns private Irish pension funds could collapse
The Irish Association of Pension Funds has warned that some private pension funds would collapse during the current financial crisis unless action was taken to shore them up, national broadcaster RTE reported Thursday. The association had sent proposals to the government on how to deal with the problem, association chairman Patrick...

Association warns private Irish pension funds could collapse

Germany bails out mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate
The banking crisis spread to Germany on Monday, with the government and fellow banks forced to throw a 35-billion-euro (50-billion-dollar) lifeline to Hypo Real Estate (HRE), a mortgage lender. The bail-out, the same day as Britain nationalized lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) and a day after three governments took stakes in...

Germany bails out mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate

EADS pleads fresh delay with A400M military transport
The maiden flight of the much-delayed European military transport plane A400M is being postponed because the engines are still not ready, manufacturer EADS said Thursday from its German offices in Munich. The propellor plane is intended as Europe's answer to the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, but the project at planemaker Airbus has...

EADS pleads fresh delay with A400M military transport

Spanish court hands jail terms to 21 Basque separatists
 Spain's National Court has handed 21 members of a Basque separatist organization prison terms ranging from 8 to 10 years for links with the militant Basque separatist group ETA, the court said Wednesday. The court also ordered the dissolution of Gestoras Pro Amnistia, which is seeking an amnesty for more than 500 ETA activists...

Spanish court hands jail terms to 21 Basque separatists

Stasi-themed pub causes anger in Berlin
A pub packed with memorabilia of the Stasi has caused outrage among victims of the former East German secret police. An East German flag draped behind the bar and shredded surveillance logs are among the decorations in The Firm, located in an East Berlin Street where the Stasi headquarters used to be. On one of the walls there is a...

Stasi-themed pub causes anger in Berlin

Alleged coup plotters in Turkey to face trial on terrorism charges
Eighty-six staunch secularists are to be tried on terrorism-related charges after a year-long investigation into an alleged plot to destabilize Turkey and create the conditions for the military to carry out a coup to depose the moderate Islamist government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Unveiling a 2,455-page indictment on Monday,...

Alleged coup plotters in Turkey to face trial on terrorism charges

British Terror Suspect Admits Planning Airport Explosion
A British Muslim accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic jets admitted he planned to explode a device at a U.K airport terminal, AFP reports. 27-year-old Abdulla Ahmed Ali also said he intended to set off a device in the Houses of Parliament in London in order to attract attention to an online documentary attacking...

British Terror Suspect Admits Planning Airport Explosion

British Government Condemns Russia's 'Cold War' Methods (Update)
The British government Thursday denounced as "reprehensible" Russia's actions in the current diplomatic row over cultural activities, and said the methods used by the Russian authorities were reminiscent of the Cold War. But Foreign Secretary David Miliband, while condemning Moscow's behaviour over the activities of the...

British Government Condemns Russia's 'Cold War' Methods (Update)

British Council Director Arrested in St Petersburg (Update)
The simmering tension between Russia and Britain took a further bizarre twist Wednesday with the arrest of a senior British Council official in St Petersburg - who also happens to be son of a prominent British Labour Party politician. The government in London gave a furious reaction to the arrest on charges of drunk driving of...

British Council Director Arrested in St Petersburg (Update)

Russia Angered by Britain's Refusal to Shut Down Cultural Offices
Russia announced putative measures against Britain's cultural offices on Monday as they came back to work from holiday break, defying Russian orders to shut down. The Russian Foreign Ministry called Britain's move a "deliberate provocation," in spiralling bilateral relations since the 2006 poisoning in London of former...

Russia Angered by Britain's Refusal to Shut Down Cultural Offices

Tensions Rise in Georgia as Opposition Rejects Saakashvili's Re-Election
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili secured re-election Wednesday according to official vote counts vehemently rejected by the opposition, which vows to continue its ongoing protest. With barely two per cent of the vote left to tally, the election commission website showed Wednesday that Saakashvili led decisively with 52.21...

Tensions Rise in Georgia as Opposition Rejects Saakashvili's Re-Election

Russian Foreign Minister: Britain Is "Violating International Law"
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed Britain Friday for knowingly "violating international law," as Russia ordered British Council offices across Russia to close. Anglo-Russian relations have sunk to Cold War lows after Moscow refused to extradite an ex-KGB bodyguard suspected of murdering Kremlin critic...

Russian Foreign Minister: Britain Is "Violating International Law"

Parcel Bomb Kills One Person in Central Paris (Update)
One person was killed Thursday when a parcel bomb exploded near the offices of a Paris law firm founded by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the public prosecutor of Paris, Jean- Claude Marin, said. The victim worked as a secretary for a law firm on the fourth floor of the building in the elegant Eight Arrondissement in central...

Parcel Bomb Kills One Person in Central Paris (Update)

Russia Votes as Putin's Party Expects Landslide Victory
Russian voters went to the polls Sunday in parliamentary elections expected to deliver a sweeping victory to President Vladimir Putin's party. Accusations that Putin's party United Russia enjoyed an unfair advantage were echoed by all 11 parties participating in the vote, which is seen as a referendum on Putin's political...

Russia Votes as Putin's Party Expects Landslide Victory

British Premier Apologizes For Embarrassing Data Loss
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday sought to head off an embarrassing scandal over the loss of personal computer data of 25 million Britons by offering a public apology and ordering a data security check in all government departments. His government has been plunged into crisis by the revelation that two computer discs,...

British Premier Apologizes For Embarrassing Data Loss

French Civil Servants Join Crippling Strike
Schools and post offices were closed, planes were late, newsstands were empty of newspapers and hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in cities throughout France Tuesday as civil servants carried out a 24-hour strike to demand higher wages and fewer job cuts. In addition, train service throughout the country and...

French Civil Servants Join Crippling Strike

German Vice-Chancellor Muentefering Resigns Unexpectedly
German Chancellor Angela Merkel lost a key ally on Tuesday when veteran Social Democrat (SPD) Franz Muentefering tendered his resignation as vice-chancellor and labour minister. Muentefering told a news conference he was stepping down for "family reasons" to spend more time with his wife, Ankepetra, who has long suffered...

German Vice-Chancellor Muentefering Resigns Unexpectedly

Britain's Top Police Officer Under Fire Over Menezes Case
The death of an innocent Brazilian man shot by marksmen of Scotland Yard's ant-terrorism squad in the summer of 2005 resulted from "very serious but avoidable mistakes," an independent report said Thursday. Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot seven times in the head by anti-terrorist officers who mistook him for a...

Britain's Top Police Officer Under Fire Over Menezes Case

Bomb in Spain Defused Just in Time
According to Spanish officials, the separatist group in Basque called ETA planted a booby-trapped car on Monday outside a government building. The following day, the armed Basque separatist group warned it would “keep striking.” “Fortunately ETA failed with their bomb, which did not explode because of a malfunction,” Jose Antonio...

Bomb in Spain Defused Just in Time

Anti-globalization Protesters Again Clash With German Police
The streets of Hamburg, Germany’s principal port, were flooded Monday by thousands of demonstrators marching against next month G8 summit, rally which turned violent when police forces stepped in to break it up. A large number of police forces were deployed to ensure a calm consecution of the rally, but the people were irritated...

Anti-globalization Protesters Again Clash With German Police

New Protests Against German Police Raids
The anti-globalization demonstrators took the streets of Karlsruhe to protest against the harsh treatment applied by the police and the abusive arrests.On May 9 hundreds of globalization opponents demonstrated in Berlin, Hamburg and other major cities in Germany, demonstrations which eventually turned into riots. The violence was...

New Protests Against German Police Raids

Election Campaign Start With Acts Of Violence In Spain
The Basque separatist group ETA kept its promise and began a terror campaign against the candidates for the local elections. Sunday, two women that were posting campaign notices in Bilbao were attacked by supporters of the separatist group.The two members of the People’s Party were hospitalized along with the men guarding them and two of...

Election Campaign Start With Acts Of Violence In Spain

German Police Cracks down On Protesters Ahead Of Summit
With less then a month before the 33rd G8 summit takes place at the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm, German police conducted raids across the country in order to prevent terrorist acts that would disrupt or even stop the meeting.The police received information that some leftist activists are planning to disrupt the summit which starts...

German Police Cracks down On Protesters Ahead Of Summit
 

Pakistani charity branded as terror group
  In recent years, the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has done more welfare work than many other national and international non-profit organizations in Pakistan. But its suspected affiliation with the militant group Lahkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is believed to be behind November 26 Mumbai attacks, landed it Wednesday on the...

Pakistani charity branded as terror group

Pakistan questions terror suspects, air forces on alert
Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police. Yousaf Raza Gilani said Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, were detained in a raid this week at the offices of Lashkar-e-Taiba...

Pakistan questions terror suspects, air forces on alert

Pakistan questions terror suspects, air forces on alert
Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police. Meanwhile, Pakistani jet fighters, including F-16s, on Wednesday were flying over Islamabad with live ammunition as a media report said...

Pakistan questions terror suspects, air forces on alert

Taiwan president rules out Dalai Lama visit
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday ruled out a planned visit next year by Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. "The Dalai Lama has visited Taiwan twice, and we generally welcome all religious leaders to visit, but at the current moment, the timing isn't appropriate for that," he told foreign media in...

Taiwan president rules out Dalai Lama visit

Battle with terrorists continues in Mumbai, toll 119
New Delhi - Indian forces continued their battle with terrorists in luxury hotels in the financial hub Mumbai where scores remained trapped on Thursday, nearly 24 hours after the gunmen fanned out to high-profile locations and indulged in shooting sprees that left 119 dead and more than 315 injured. Among the terrorists' targets were...

Battle with terrorists continues in Mumbai, toll 119

Bangalore gets its first foreign consulate
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday opened the first foreign consulate in India's information-technology hub of Bangalore. More than 120 German firms operate in or near the southern city of 8 million people, including carmaker Daimler AG and software company SAP AG. The opening of Germany's diplomatic...

Bangalore gets its first foreign consulate

Pakistan court extends detention of exec in illegal money transfers
 A Pakistani court on Tuesday extended the detention of a senior executive at a top currency exchange firm who is accused of being involved in the illegal transfer of millions of dollars abroad, officials and media reports said. Munaf Kalia of Khanani and Kalia International was detained in Karachi, the country's commercial and...

Pakistan court extends detention of exec in illegal money transfers

Demand for Bangkok office space slows
 The global financial crisis caught up with Bangkok's property market last month when demand stagnated and large companies started to scale down their expansion plans, Jones Lang LaSalle, a professional real estate service company, said Tuesday. "Impact of the global economic meltdown has become more evident since the global...

Demand for Bangkok office space slows

Lebanese sceptical of terrorist confessions on Syrian TV
  A Syrian state television broadcast showing people tied to Lebanese organizations confessing to a September Damascus bomb attack is an attempt to smear Lebanese institutions, Lebanese politicians said Friday. The Thursday-night broadcast showed ten men and a woman alleged to be members of the group Fatah al-Islam confessing to...

Lebanese sceptical of terrorist confessions on Syrian TV

Vatican unveils exhibition on controversial WWII pope
 In a new Vatican exhibition, Pope Pius XII's more mundane belongings - his heavily-worn shoes and portable typewriter - have gone on show, along with World War II-era radio transcripts in which he purportedly denounced totalitarian rule, including Nazism. "The purpose is to allow the general public to get to know the full life...

Vatican unveils exhibition on controversial WWII pope

Strike shuts down India's Assam state to protest serial blasts
Businesses and schools shut down Monday in India's north-eastern state of Assam as part of a strike called to protest serial bombings there last week, which left 81 people dead and more than 300 injured, news reports said. The 11-hour dawn-to-dusk strike was called by the influential All Assam Students' Union, which has accused the...

Strike shuts down India's Assam state to protest serial blasts

Pakistan quake survivors await aid ahead of chilly night
 Rescue workers on Thursday fanned out in south-western Pakistan, distributing relief supplies among thousands of earthquake survivors as the death toll climbed to at least 230, officials said. Many isolated hamlets remained inaccessible as hungry, distraught women, children and elders waited for aid while preparing to spend a...

Pakistan quake survivors await aid ahead of chilly night

US airstrike kills 5, suicide bombing kills 4 in Pakistan
Five people, including an al-Qaeda operative, were killed on Thursday in a suspected US airstrike in Pakistan's tribal area and a suicide attack in the neighboring North West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said. Three guided missiles hit a house in Sam area of South Waziristan tribal district, which is believed to have safe...

US airstrike kills 5, suicide bombing kills 4 in Pakistan

India imposes ban on smoking in public places
India on Thursday imposed a countrywide ban on smoking in public spaces in its fight against tobacco use, which a medical study warned would claim 1 million lives in the country each year from 2010. The ban, aimed at the country's 120 million smokers, has received a good response from people across the country, Health Minister...

India imposes ban on smoking in public places

Five militants killed in gunbattles in Indian Kashmir
At least five suspected Muslim militants were killed in separate encounters in Indian-administered Kashmir where people participated in protests called by separatist leaders on Friday, officials said. The Indian army said three militants belonging to the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami were killed in a gunbattle in the southern district of...

Five militants killed in gunbattles in Indian Kashmir

Despite crisis, Thai shares jump 3.07 per cent on regional rebound
Despite Thailand's ongoing political crisis, its stock market jumped 3.07 per cent Monday, boosted by the US government's takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and growing optimism about the world economy. The Stock Exchange of Thailand index ended at 665.66, up 19.86 points. "Our market was just following the...

Despite crisis, Thai shares jump 3.07 per cent on regional rebound

Pakistan extends daylight saving time through October
Energy-strapped Pakistan on Wednesday decided to extend the daylight saving time till October end as prolonged power cuts triggered violent protests throughout the country. Clocks were set forward by an hour on June 1 for three months to save electricity by benefiting from longer daylight. The move placed the local time six hours...

Pakistan extends daylight saving time through October

22 injured in clashes after separatists arrested in Indian Kashmir
Police arrested three Kashmiri separatist leaders in India-administered Kashmir as protestors defied a curfew in the region and clashed with security forces Monday, leaving 22 people injured, officials said. Two senior leaders of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and moderate Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, were...

22 injured in clashes after separatists arrested in Indian Kashmir

Philippine leader says offensives against separatists to help peace
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Monday the military's offensives against Muslim separatist rebels in the south, which have displaced more than 270,000 civilians, would help remove obstacles to peace talks with the guerrillas. Arroyo stressed that her government has not declared an all-out war against the secessionist...

Philippine leader says offensives against separatists to help peace

One man missing, 49 injured as storm hits Hong Kong
One man was missing and 49 people were injured when tropical storm Nuri hit Hong Kong Friday. Nuri, which had left seven dead in the Philippines, had weakened and been downgraded into a severe tropical storm by the time it reached Hong Kong in the late afternoon. However, it still managed to bring Hong Kong to a standstill. The...

One man missing, 49 injured as storm hits Hong Kong

Thousands join separatist rally in Kashmir
Shouting "We want freedom," tens of thousands of protestors joined a rally called by Muslim separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir state capital Srinagar on Friday. At least 50,000 people from Srinagar and its outskirts gathered at the Idgah, a historic prayer ground in central Srinagar, which also has a cemetery where many...

Thousands join separatist rally in Kashmir

Philippine military vows to strike back at Muslim rebels
The Philippine military vowed Tuesday to take "aggressive actions" against Muslim separatist rebels who killed 49 people in a rampage that also displaced more than 66,000 residents in southern provinces. Security was stepped up in the southern region of Mindanao and in Manila amid intelligence reports that the guerrillas...

Philippine military vows to strike back at Muslim rebels

Pakistani government to restore judges sacked by Musharraf
Pakistan's government plans to reinstate dozens of senior judges who were sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf, a cabinet minister said Tuesday. The announcement was expected to be made after a meeting of ruling coalition leaders, including Asif Ali Zardari of the Pakistan Peoples' Party and Nawaz Sharif from Pakistan Muslim...

Pakistani government to restore judges sacked by Musharraf

India's Tata Group enters franchise agreement with Britain's Tesco
India's Tata Group's retail arm Trent announced Tuesday it was entering into a franchise agreement with British retailer Tesco to expand its hypermarket business in India. The franchise agreement with Tesco would allow Trent to access the former's extensive retail expertise and technical capability to expand its Indian hypermarket...

India's Tata Group enters franchise agreement with Britain's Tesco

Injured teenage girl suspect in terrorist attacks, China says
China on Monday said a 15-year-old girl who was treated in hospital for injuries was a suspect in a series of terrorist attacks on the weekend in its central Asian region of Xinjiang. Paramilitary police shot dead eight other suspected terrorists while two others "blew themselves up" after the attacks in Xinjiang's Kuqa...

Injured teenage girl suspect in terrorist attacks, China says

16 killed in 'terrorist' attack on police station in China
Police suspected a terrorist plot was behind a raid Monday against a police station in north-western China's Xinjiang region in which two attackers killed 16 police and injured 16 others, the official Xinhua news agency said. Two men drove a garbage truck into a team of border patrol police who were jogging outside their division...

16 killed in 'terrorist' attack on police station in China

Indian leaders to visit bomb-hit Ahmedabad, death toll rises to 49
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders were scheduled to visit the western city of Ahmedabad which had been rocked by synchronized bombings that claimed 49 lives, officials and news reports said Monday. A total of 16 small bombs ripped through markets, residential areas, public transport and hospitals in the key city of...

Indian leaders to visit bomb-hit Ahmedabad, death toll rises to 49

Typhoon Fung-Wong Hit Taiwan, Canceling Flights And Shutting Businesses
Typhoon Fung-Wong lashed Taiwan Monday, bringing strong winds and heavy rains which triggered landslides and floods. Schools, offices, banks and the local stock exchange had to be closed. Moreover, the railway traffic was stopped due to the powerful winds of up to 126 kilometers (90 miles).The typhoon made landfall on the east central...

Typhoon Fung-Wong Hit Taiwan, Canceling Flights And Shutting Businesses

Extreme Measures Taken In Mongolia Capital
Mongolian media reported that at least four people have been killed in the brutal disputes that took place in capital Ulan Bator, as a result of the alleged electoral fraud. According to BBC, approximately 130 police officials and civilians were injured in the protests and hundreds of other activists have been arrested. Late...

Extreme Measures Taken In Mongolia Capital

800 Missing After Typhoon Sinked Ferry
Over 800 people were missing Monday after a Philippine ferry turned over in one of the most powerful typhoons the archipelago has ever seen. The capsizing of the Princess of the Stars, on Saturday, was the worst catastrophe in a weekend of tragedy for the Philippines, as typhoon Fengshen razed the islands, bringing torrents and wind...

800 Missing After Typhoon Sinked Ferry

Long Live the Nepalese Republic!
Nepal was back to work on Sunday as government offices and schools reopened for the first time since the country turned into a republic, ending its 239-year-old monarchy regime. King Gyanendra was given fifteen days to leave the Narayanhity royal palace. He is very likely to move to his private home in Kathmandu. His almost six hundred...

Long Live the Nepalese Republic!

China Earthquake: at least 10,000 Dead
A powerful earthquake devastated China, killing about 10,000 people, toppling thousands of homes, factories, offices and schools. It was China’s worst natural disaster in 32 years. It ravaged the mountainous region outside Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, destroying 80 percent of structures in some of the towns and small cities...

China Earthquake: at least 10,000 Dead

Buddhist Monks Detained for Their Role in Lhasa Rioting
China has detained 30 people, including six Buddhist monks for their roles in the violent protests in Lhasa on 14 March, Chinese authorities announced. One month after the incident, the International Campaign for Tibet said more than 160 people were detained from monasteries in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa during April. Three...

Buddhist Monks Detained for Their Role in Lhasa Rioting

15 Civilians Killed in Blast in Eastern Afghanistan
A suicide blast near NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan killed 15 local people and injured 25 others, the alliance's military force said, according to AFP. The explosion took place in Khogyani district in the province of Nangarhar. “Fifteen local nationals have been killed and 25 wounded,” Major Martin O'Donnell, a spokesman for...

15 Civilians Killed in Blast in Eastern Afghanistan

26 Killed in Two Car Bomb Attacks in Lahore, Pakistan
Two suicide bomb attacks took place in Lahore, Pakistan killing at least 26 people. Lahore’s main police building was partly demolished and approximately 175 people were wounded as two cars packed with explosives were detonated a few minutes and kilometers apart during Tuesday’s morning rush-hour.The latest attacks made it clear that...

26 Killed in Two Car Bomb Attacks in Lahore, Pakistan

Britain Will Help Investigate Bhutto's Assassination, Musharraf Says
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that Britain would help investigate the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, whose slaying has forced the delay of crucial scheduled elections by six weeks. In a televised address to the nation, Musharraf said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown agreed to...

Britain Will Help Investigate Bhutto's Assassination, Musharraf Says

Blast Rocks Sri Lanka's Capital, Five Killed
Two soldiers and three civilians were killed and 28 others were injured in an explosion in Sri Lanka's capital Wednesday morning, police said. A bus carrying injured army personnel to a medical clinic appeared to be the target in the explosion at Slave Island, an area less than 1 kilometre from Air Force headquarters. The bus...

Blast Rocks Sri Lanka's Capital, Five Killed

Elections Postponed in Pakistan Until February 18
The Election Commission of Pakistan announced Wednesday that crucial elections meant to usher in a return of civilian rule would be delayed for six weeks following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. "The polling will now be held on February 18, 2008," Qazi Mohammed Farooq, the chief election...

Elections Postponed in Pakistan Until February 18

Pakistan People's Party to Elect Bhutto's Successor
Leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) were meeting Sunday to chose a successor to assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto and decide whether to boycott crucial upcoming parliamentary elections. The nine-member central executive committee of the PPP were meeting at the Bhutto family ancestral home in Naudero in the southern...

Pakistan People's Party to Elect Bhutto's Successor