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December 12, 2009 5:01 PM
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Australia as part of global protests to demand action from leaders at UN climate talks in Copenhagen. Marches took place in Melbourne, Sydney and other cities. Activists also met in Hong Kong, Jakarta and the Philippines. The action comes ahead of the...
December 12, 2009 5:00 PM
Philippines President Gloria Arroyo is lifting martial law in the southern province where 57 people were killed in political violence. A senior official said the martial law edict would be lifted by this evening. Martial law was imposed in Maguindanao a week ago to quell a rebellion by the Ampatuan ...
December 12, 2009 2:09 PM
In Nepal, the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ), the umbrella organisation of professional journalists in the Himalayan nation today began a week-long protest movement demanding security for working journalists following brutal attack on a woman reporter recently. As a part of the protest mov...
December 12, 2009 1:30 PM
New Delhi says that the proposals by some small island nations at the Copenhagen summit amount to bracket together rich countries and developing nations. Reacting to the proposals by the Alliance of Small Island States, Environment Secretary Vijay Sharma said in Copenhagen that it will weaken the le...
December 12, 2009 1:27 PM
The fear of disturbances in Kurdish areas of Turkey looms large following decision of the country's constitutional court to ban the country's main pro-Kurdish party for having links to armed separatist fighters. The court voted yesterday to shut down the Democratic Society Party (DTP) and banne...
December 12, 2009 12:59 PM
Two US Senators have asked India to give more market access to US agricultural products after a report alleged that Indian tariff and non-tariff measures are impeding farm exports to the country. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and ranking member Chuck Grassley asked the Obama administr...
December 12, 2009 12:58 PM
Saudi Arabia's crown prince and defence minister, Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, returned home today after more than a year's absence which had given rise to widespread concern over his health. The Government said Sultan, a half-brother to King Abdullah returned after medical treatments in New Yor...
December 12, 2009 12:58 PM
A senior United Nations envoy has asked the Sri Lankan government to release all detained Tamil Tiger child soldiers and reunite them with their families. Maj-Gen Patric Cammaert, the UN special envoy on children and armed conflict made the call while on a five-day visit to the island nation. He sai...
December 12, 2009 12:58 PM
The US House of Representatives has approved sweeping changes to the country's financial sector since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Bill aims to create a new agency to monitor consumer banking transactions and give the government powers to break up companies that threaten the economy. ...
December 12, 2009 12:57 PM
The Venezuelan Government has closed another bank, the eighth, in three weeks. The closure comes amid a corruption scandal that has shaken the country's financial system.
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