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Geithner urges unity in euro zone crisis
WROCLAW, Poland (Reuters) – The world will not see the kind of coordinated response policymakers organized during the global financial crisis in 2009 but the United States and the European Union must work closely together to overcome the current economic challenges, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Friday. Geithner also…
Greenpeace celebrates 40th anniversary in Vancouver
VANCOUVER — Greenpeace celebrated its 40th anniversary in Vancouver on Thursday, with the environmental group praising the Canadian city’s role in spawning a global movement at the forefront of green activism. It was from Vancouver that a boat named “Greenpeace” set off on September 15, 1971 for Amchitka Island, Alaska,…
Second Fukushima plant unlikely to reopen
TOKYO — Japan’s new industry minister has acknowledged it will be difficult to restart the companion nuclear plant to the one at the heart of the country’s atomic crisis, media reports said. The Fukushima Daini (number two) nuclear complex is about 12 kilometres (seven miles) from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi…
Clinton says Iran will free U.S. hikers
SAN FRANCISCO — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she was confident Iran would free two US hikers convicted of spying and rejected concerns about the delay in their release. “At this point we are not at all concerned because we have received word through a number…
26 die in Indian floods, 200,000 evacuated
BHUBANESWAR, India — At least 26 people have died and nearly 200,000 have been evacuated as a result of massive flooding in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, a minister said on Thursday. The floods were triggered by torrential monsoon rains across Orissa, causing water levels to breach river banks,…
Cameron in Tripoli, says U.K. will aid in hunt for Gaddafi
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday pledged that Britain would help to hunt down fugitive former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. “This is not over,” Cameron told a news conference in Libyan capital Tripoli. “We will help you to find Gaddafi and bring him to justice.” Cameron…
Ethiopian athletes missing after African Games
Mozambican authorities are searching for 15 Ethiopian athletes who disappeared after competing at the 10th All Africa Games, a spokesman for the organising committee said Thursday. The group competing in boxing, athletics and taekwondo went missing on Monday and left some of their possessions in the athletes’ village outside the…
Virgin aims for first space launch within a year
British business magnate Richard Branson hopes to launch a vessel into space within the next 12 months, kicking off an era of commercial space travel. “The mother ship is finished… The rocket tests are going extremely well, and so I think that we’re now on track for a launch within…
Denmark votes as polls lean left
Danes came out in droves Thursday to vote in a general election expected to bring the centre-left back to power after a decade in opposition and deliver the country’s first woman prime minister. Polls have consistently suggested that Helle Thorning-Schmidt, 44, who heads the Social Democrats and a broad centre-left…
Deadly bomb hits Pakistan funeral
A bomb explosion during funeral prayers held for a local elder killed at least seven people and wounded 23 others in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, police said. The incident took place in the district of Lower Dir, 100 kilometres northwest of the Swat valley where the military in 2009 launched…
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