29 Feb 2012 - 3:19pm
SYDNEY: US prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a confidential email cited by media Wednesday said, as his lawyer demanded Australia start protecting him.
The email is one of a huge number from the US-based global intelligence company Stratfor that the whistleblowing organisation began...
29 Feb 2012 - 2:08pm
ISHINOMAKI: A year ago, a desperate young mother stood amid the ruins of her devastated city wrapped in a blanket as she scoured tsunami wreckage for her missing son.
Twelve months on, Yuko Sugimoto and her family are reunited and living in a temporary home, but the scars from the catastrophe still remain.
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28 Feb 2012 - 2:51pm
GHERYAN: As Libyans set about rebuilding their nation one year after the outbreak of a revolt that toppled Moamer Kadhafi, thousands of immigrants are trapped in makeshift detention centres, denied the chance to work, but with no way home.
In this mountainous city southwest of Tripoli, 950 migrants -- some originally bound for Europe,...
27 Feb 2012 - 11:26pm
LONDON: Journalists at Britain's best-selling tabloid The Sun had a network of corrupted officials who provided them with stories in return for cash payments, a top police officer said Monday.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers of Scotland Yard told an official inquiry there was a culture at the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper of paying...
27 Feb 2012 - 4:15pm
BEIJING: China has reached a turning point in its economic development, with the pace of growth likely to nearly halve in the next two decades, World Bank and Chinese government researchers said Monday.
The Asian giant must implement deep reforms to avoid a sudden slowdown in growth, such as scaling back its vast and powerful state-owned...
27 Feb 2012 - 2:30pm
MEXICO CITY: The eurozone must put in place a bigger firewall to combat its debt crisis before other countries will help by giving more cash to the IMF, the G20 top and developing economies said Sunday.
A statement released after a meeting of the group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers here said:
"Euro area countries will...
27 Feb 2012 - 1:43pm
OTSUCHI: The boat that was dumped on the roof of a two-storey hotel here has gone, and much of the rubble that littered this fishing port has been cleared. But the town lies paralysed, unable to rebuild and unwilling to abandon.
Up and down Japan's tsunami-ravaged coastline, roads have been repaired and are now busy with cars taking people...
26 Feb 2012 - 8:59pm
MEXICO CITY: Germany clashed with some of its key G20 partners Saturday over raising the eurozone's firewall at the start of a key meeting of finance ministers and central bankers dominated by the debt crisis.
With markets calmer due to the latest massive bailout for Greece, divisions intensified over how to handle the crisis and its...
26 Feb 2012 - 8:08pm
DENPASAR: Palm trees, lawns, a tennis court and room service: What at first glance looks like a cheap resort in a touristy corner of the Indonesian island of Bali is in fact a notorious jail.
The Kerobokan prison -- where sex and drugs are reportedly rampant among the 1,015 inmates who include 60 foreigners -- was taken over last week by...
24 Feb 2012 - 2:49pm
UNITED NATIONS: Former UN chief Kofi Annan has played diplomatic poker with dictators ranging from Saddam Hussein to Omar al-Bashir, but the odds are stacked against him in taking on Syria's ruthless president.
Two terms as UN secretary general, during which he won the Nobel Peace Prize but was himself accused of corruption, taught the 73-...
