BBC News - Afghan corruption a political obstacleSource: BBC News
The problem of corruption in Afghanistan was highlighted recently when an international survey placed the country as the second most corrupt in the world.
It was beaten only by Somalia.
One year on, Obama cites struggle with Bush legacySource: Reuters
By Ross Colvin MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - A year after his historic election, President Barack Obama sought to remind Americans on Wednesday the biggest problems he is grappling with -- from the economy to the war in Afghanistan -- are the...
ANALYSIS - Ethiopian opposition impotent as elections loomSource: Reuters
By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - When Ethiopia's opposition leaders were freed from jail in 2007, the three most prominent were hailed by fanatical supporters as leaders-in-waiting for sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous...
Saudi court upholds child rapist crucifixion rulingSource: Reuters
RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday. The convict was arrested...
TIMELINE - Abdullah pulls out of Afghan election run-offSource: Reuters
REUTERS - Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah quit an election run-off on Sunday after accusing the government of not meeting his demands for a fair vote, but said he was not calling for a boycott. Here is a timeline of major...
Miley Cyrus voted worst celebrity influence of 2009Source: Reuters
By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Miley Cyrus, one of Disney's hottest stars of the past three years with hit records and hit films, has been voted the worst celebrity influence of 2009 by the very people who made her a star, tweens and...
Russia\'s Putin warns against intimidating IranSource: Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned major powers against intimidating Iran and said that talk of sanctions against the Islamic Republic was \'\'premature\'\'. \'\'There is no need to frighten the Iranians,\'\'...
China weather ''magic'' conjures blue sky for paradeSource: Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air force deployed a ''magic-like'' range of chemicals and technology to clear Beijing's smoggy air for a grand parade marking the 60th anniversary of Communist China, state media said on Thursday. Chemists and...
Defeated Japan LDP picks ex-finance minister as leaderSource: Reuters
By Yoko Nishikawa TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's defeated Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Monday picked a former finance minister as its new leader, handing him the challenge of rebuilding a battered party that had ruled for most of the past 54...
Iranian president raises stakes against IsraelSource: Reuters
By Parisa Hafezi and Firouz Sedarat TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions...
There he goes again...Source:
Jeffrey Heller of Reuters is at it again, adopting the biased, historically inaccurate, and racially-loaded lexicon of Arab invasion forces which ethnically cleansed thousands of Jews from Jerusalem between 1948 and 1967. Heller writes:
Seinfelds beat plagiarism, defamation claims in NYSource: Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawsuit that accused Jerry Seinfeld of defamation and his wife Jessica Seinfeld of plagiarism in her top-selling cookbook was tossed out by a federal judge on Thursday. The suit, filed last year by cookbook author...
Belgium has significant hike in euthanasia after lawSource: Reuters
By Gene Emery BOSTON (Reuters) - Doctors in Belgium have ended the lives of substantially more terminally ill people since a euthanasia law was passed in 2002, researchers said on Wednesday. However, while the increase might have been expected, the...
NY prosecutor targets bank over Iran links-report Source: Reuters
NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said he plans to act within a month against a large "mainstream" bank over illicit links with Iran, and signaled he is investigating Venezuelan banks over potential illegal ties to Iran, the Financial Time …
"Arab East Jerusalem"Source:
In previous posts, we have noted Reuters' repeated use of the racially loaded epithet "Arab East Jerusalem" to describe the eastern part of the city of Jerusalem.
Chronic fatigue linked with enterovirus infectionSource: Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome appear to have a chronic enteroviral infection that can be detected by a stomach biopsy, according to a report in the current Online First issue of the Journal of Clinical...
Reuters revolves around Jewish "settlements"Source:
In a piece for the Reuters blog AxisMundi Jerusalem, Erika Solomon argues that controversy over Jewish settlements is at the core of current discussions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and European leaders.
Reuters blames Israel for talks impasseSource:
As an illustration of the lengths to which Reuters will go to advocate for the Palestinian Arabs in the Middle East conflict, Allyn Fisher-Ilan and Keith Weir imply that Israel is to blame for the current suspension in negotiations with the Palestinians because the Netanyahu gove …
"We believe our post is accurate"Source:
That was the definitively equivocal reply of Reuters' AxisMundi Jerusalem editor and Bureau Chief for Israel and the Palestinian territories, Alastair MacDonald, to a reader who had pointed out that Reuters' correspondent Erika Solomon did not have her facts straight when she cla …