| Thousands of UK postal workers start 2-day strike Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are taking the action in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and modernization plans which the company and ministers say are essential if Ro ...[more] |
| Dalai Lama to visit disputed Indian state on November8 The Dalai Lama is expected to give spiritual lessons beginning on November 8 to his followers in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh state, which is at the center of a border dispute between two coun ...[more] |
| U.N. agency hunts for microscopic nuclear clues This is where International Atomic Energy Agency experts magnify, scour and dissolve hundreds of samples taken from nuclear sites worldwide each year to verify whether activities are peaceful ...[more] |
| Canada gunman surrenders after 10-hour standoff Police had evacuated the building soon after responding to a morning report that the gunman, described as a disgruntled compensation claimant in his 30s, went into the building and took hosta ...[more] |
| Pakistani brigadier killed in Islamabad shooting Brigadier Moin Haider and his driver were killed and a guard was wounded, said city police official Tahir Alam. (Reporting by Augustine Anthony; Editing by Robert Birsel) [more] |
| Honduras crisis back to square one as talks fail Zelaya pulled his representatives out of meetings with envoys of de facto leader Roberto Micheletti that were the latest in a series of attempts to resolve the deadlock sparked by an army-bac ...[more] |
| Merkel seals coalition deal, eyes tax relief The agreement paves the way for a new center-right government to take office next week, roughly a month after Merkel's conservatives and the FDP won a parliamentary majority in a federal elec ...[more] |
| Honduras crisis back to square one as talks fail Zelaya pulled his representatives out of meetings with envoys of de facto leader Roberto Micheletti that were the latest in a series of attempts to resolve the deadlock sparked by an army-bac ...[more] |
| Karzai wants "better" Afghan vote, vows "inclusivity" Karzai agreed to face his main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, in a November 7 run-off after a U.N.-led fraud inquiry annulled enough of his votes from the first round in August to trigger a rematc ...[more] |
| Israel warns against U.N. council seeing Gaza report Moscow and Beijing have signaled they do not want the Security Council to consider the report as they feel it would interfere with the national sovereignty of the Jewish state, said Western d ...[more] |
| Verdict in French smear trial due the end of January Villepin, an aristocratic ex-diplomat and a bitter rival to Sarkozy when they were ministers in the government of former president Jacques Chirac, is accused of taking part in a failed plot t ...[more] |