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Lawyers: Reality TV producer hopes to avoid trial

32 min 26 sec ago
(02-09) 14:18 PST CANCUN, Mexico (AP) -- Lawyers for a U.S. reality television producer facing trial for allegedly murdering his wife at a Mexican resort said Thursday they hope to persuade a judge to drop the charges...


Famed Spain judge convicted of misusing authority

1 hour 24 min ago
(02-09) 13:26 PST MADRID, Spain (AP) -- The Spanish superstar judge who won global fame for aggressively taking on international human rights cases was convicted Thursday of overstepping his jurisdiction in a domestic...


Brazil: Rio police holding strike vote

1 hour 25 min ago
(02-09) 13:25 PST RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Police are threatening a strike that could prompt violence during this tropical city's popular Carnival bash in spite of government approval Thursday of a police pay...


Noriega leaves hospital in Panama, returns to jail

1 hour 30 min ago
(02-09) 13:20 PST PANAMA CITY, (AP) -- Medical authorities in Panama say former dictator Manuel Noriega has left a hospital four days after fainting in the prison where he is serving time for murder, embezzlement and...


Suffering deepens in bombarded Syrian city of Homs

1 hour 50 min ago
(02-09) 13:00 PST BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Between blasts of rockets and mortar fire, Syrians used loudspeakers to call for blood donations and medical supplies Thursday in the stricken city of Homs, where a weeklong...


On thin ice, and a long course, with the Dutch

1 hour 53 min ago
(02-09) 12:57 PST HINDELOOPEN, Netherlands (AP) -- As I lace up my ice skates while sitting on the banks of the Zijlroade river Thursday, grizzled men old enough to be my father glide past me, leaning into the...


Pakistani man fights police over 40-foot shark

2 hours 1 min ago
(02-09) 12:49 PST KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors the equivalent of 22 cents each to see a...


Lawyer: 6 Austrians were injected with malaria

2 hours 11 min ago
(02-09) 12:39 PST VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- The number of people claiming they were injected with the parasite causing malaria at a Vienna psychiatric ward while teenagers grew to seven Thursday, with the lawyer...


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Brazil files injunction against Twitter

2 hours 15 min ago
(02-09) 12:35 PST SAO PAULO, (AP) -- An attempt to block Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make the Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on...


Police issue warrant for ex Maldives president

2 hours 19 min ago
(02-09) 12:31 PST MALE, Maldives (AP) -- A court in the Maldives issued an arrest warrant Thursday for former President Mohamed Nasheed, one day after his supporters rampaged in the capital and his claim of being ousted...


Assad cousin wins case to unfreeze Swiss millions

2 hours 31 min ago
(02-09) 12:19 PST GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- A cousin of Syria's President Bashar Assad has won a legal bid to unfreeze euro3 million ($4 million) held in bank accounts in Switzerland, overturning a last-ditch effort...


Mexico City modern metro meets ancient Aztec life

2 hours 55 min ago
(02-09) 11:55 PST MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- After two hours' grueling drive southeast from the center of Mexico City, through paralyzing traffic jams and clouds of throat-burning smog, the bleached-white haze of air...


Report: Iran adds 2 submarines to naval fleet

2 hours 58 min ago
(02-09) 11:52 PST TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's official news agency reported Thursday that the navy has added two more domestically built light submarines to its fleet. The move is seen as part of Iran's effort to...


Guerlain perfume heir accused of racism in trial

3 hours 26 sec ago
(02-09) 11:50 PST PARIS, France (AP) -- An heir to the Guerlain perfume empire went on trial Thursday in Paris on charges he made racist insults on national television. Jean-Paul Guerlain faces up to six months in...


Mexican army finds 15 tons of pure methamphetamine

3 hours 26 sec ago
(02-09) 11:50 PST GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) -- Mexican troops have made a historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide...


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50 Cent visits famine victims in Somalia, Kenya

3 hours 15 min ago
(02-09) 11:35 PST NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Rapper 50 Cent is teaming up with the World Food Program to see firsthand the effects of hunger in Somalia and Kenya. The rap star flew to Dolo, Somalia, on Wednesday. Tens of...


Hamas drifting away from longtime patron Iran

3 hours 25 min ago
(02-09) 11:25 PST GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Hamas appears to be drifting away from its longtime patron Iran _ part of a shift that began with last year's Arab Spring and accelerated over Tehran's backing of the...


Naomi Watts to star in Princess Diana biopic

3 hours 33 min ago
(02-09) 11:17 PST LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- Producers say Naomi Watts will play Princess Diana in a film about the last years of the royal's life. Britain's Ecosse Films says "Caught in Flight" will focus on the...


UN honors scouts for orangutan-saving project

3 hours 42 min ago
(02-09) 11:08 PST UNITED NATIONS, (AP) -- The U.N. is honoring two 16-year-old Girl Scouts for their work aimed at saving orangutans from extinction. Madison Vorva, of Plymouth, Michigan, and Rhiannon Tomtishen, of...


Iran opposition leader's daughter banned from job

3 hours 43 min ago
(02-09) 11:07 PST CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- An Iranian opposition website reported Thursday that authorities have banned one of the daughters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi from her teaching job. The report by...



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As Growth Slows, India Awakens to Need for Foreign Investment

International Herald Tribune - Wed, 02/08/2012 - 08:26
India’s central bank and economic analysts predict that growth will fall sharply to 7 percent this fiscal year and remain sluggish.

Social responsibility and a new world order

Washington Post - Innovations - Tue, 02/07/2012 - 07:56
Just before the New Year, the London-based Center for Economics and Business Research announced that Brazil had overtaken the United Kingdom as the world’s sixth largest economy. Furthermore, it predicted that by 2020, India and Russia will also have overtaken all the European economic powers.

Aid for trade policy rears its ugly head

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 01:41
The UK government's dismay at not being granted the contract for Typhoon fighter jets in India is an indication that its controversial aid for trade policy is still very much alive.

Liberia's battle to put the lights back on

The Guardian's Poverty Matters - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 23:00
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has set ambitious targets to restore the country's electricity supply. But will it meet them by 2015?

As Africa's consumers rise, so does inequality

Yale Global Online - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:17
Kenya struggles to spread the wealth from rapid growth.
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