International
Written: 2012-04-12 14:27:34 / Updated: 2012-04-12 15:16:08
The Japanese government has gone into emergency mode over North Korea’s plan to launch a rocket.
Japan’s Kyodo News reports that Japanese Prime ...
International
Written: 2012-04-12 14:14:07 / Updated: 2012-04-12 15:04:45
The Chinese government has indicated that Chinese experts have not been sent to North Korea to observe the North’s planned rocket launch.
The ...
International
Written: 2012-04-12 13:22:17 / Updated: 2012-04-12 14:56:22
France’s state-run France 2TV reports that nearly 300 women have been fined since a French ban on the burqa and other Islamic face coverings went ...
International
Written: 2012-04-12 13:07:23 / Updated: 2012-04-12 16:51:49
The Syrian government says it has stopped military operations against antigovernment rebels.
Syria’s state-run TV station quoted an anonymous ...
International
Written: 2012-04-12 12:48:48 / Updated: 2012-04-12 14:40:32
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that the cost of aging is a more serious global problem than was anticipated.
The IMF says governments ...
International
Written: 2012-04-12 08:48:14 / Updated: 2012-04-12 14:29:38
U.S. nominee for the World Bank Presidency , Jim Yong Kim, says he would bring a new kind of leadership to the international institution if elected. ...
International
Written: 2012-04-12 08:36:37 / Updated: 2012-04-12 14:34:48
Korean Air officials say the airline's Boeing 777 that made an emergency landing near Vancouver on Tuesday due to a bomb threat has been cleared to ...
International
Written: 2012-04-12 07:31:17 / Updated: 2012-04-12 14:13:27
The U.S. State Department says it expects a meeting of foreign ministers of G8 nations to yield a chairman's statement denouncing North Korea for ...
International
Written: 2012-04-11 20:31:14 / Updated: 2012-04-11 21:18:40
An eight-point-six magnitude earthquake struck an area off the west coast of Indonesia on Wednesday afternoon, triggering a tsunami warning for ...
International
Written: 2012-04-11 14:46:46 / Updated: 2012-04-11 21:32:02
Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her husband have pleaded not guilty to corruption charges.
Arroyo and her husband ...