News Archive - 16 November 2009

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama held much-anticipated talks with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Tuesday, with trade friction, the yuan currency and diplomatic headaches such as Iran and North Korea high on the agenda.Obama is expected to prod Hu on the value of the...

> There are signs of revival, but still no firm recovery in the international financial situation, Hu said, adding that the two sides had reiterated commitments to increase dialogue on macroeconomic issues and resolve economic and trade frictions. The two countries achieved "broad consensus" Hu said, and agreed to fight...

> VIENNA (Reuters) - The United Nations' nuclear watchdog is concerned that Iran's belated revelation of a new uranium enrichment site may mean it is hiding other nuclear facilities, an agency report obtained by Reuters said on Monday. The report said Iran had told the International Atomic Energy Agency that...

> VIENNA (Reuters) - The United Nations' nuclear watchdog is concerned that Iran's belated revelation of a new uranium enrichment site may mean it is hiding other nuclear facilities, an agency report obtained by Reuters said on Monday. The report said Iran had told the International Atomic Energy Agency that...

BEIJING -- President Barack Obama says that China's partnership has helped the United States pull out of the worst recession in a generation. Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao appeared together and spoke to reporters after a pair of meetings on Tuesday. Obama says a revised economic approach will...

Delegates at the World Summit on Food Security, which kicked off Monday, "rallied around a new strategy to fight global hunger and help poor countries feed themselves," the Associated Press reports. "So far, helping the world's hungry has largely entailed wealthy nations sending food assistance rather than technology, irrigation help, fertilizer or high-yield...

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> BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told Chinese students on Monday he did not fear their nation's rise, ahead of talks on trade imbalances and currency strains that underline the sometimes tense embrace between the two giants. Testy exchanges between the world's biggest and third biggest economies...

> "The Iranian nation's nuclear rights are not negotiable and our nuclear cooperation will be done within the U.N. nuclear watchdog's framework ... Nuclear cooperation with Iran is beneficial to the West," ISNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday time was running out for...

> MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia announced the latest delay to Iran's first nuclear power station on Monday, saying that technical issues would prevent its engineers from starting up the reactor at the Bushehr plant by the year-end. Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko stressed that politics had nothing to do with the...

A UN team was allowed access to inspect the Qom site last month The UN's nuclear watchdog says it needs "more clarification" about the purpose of a recently declared Iranian nuclear site near the city of Qom.The International Atomic Energy Agency also said in a new report the...

Russia's timetable for Bushehr, agreed two years ago, seems to be slipping Russia has said a new nuclear reactor it is building at Bushehr in southern Iran will not be completed by the end of the year as planned.Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said the delay in launching the...

The division of the former British mandate of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in the years after the end of World War II have been at the heart of Middle Eastern conflicts for the past half century. The creation of Israel was the culmination of...

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VIENNA — Iranian technicians have moved highly sophisticated technical equipment into a previously secret uranium enrichment site in preparation for starting it up in 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a new report Monday. The report offered no estimate of the new plant's capabilities but a senior...

> * World waiting for U.S.-China action on climate -Obama * Economic imbalances, yuan's future on summit agenda * Obama arrives in Beijing after visiting Shanghai By Patricia Zengerle and Jason Subler BEIJING, Nov 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told Chinese students on Monday he...

BEIJING — On the second full day of his visit to China, President Barack Obama prepared early today for a formal meeting with his host, President Hu Jintao, in which he was expected to press the Chinese leader for possible new sanctions on Iran, a stepped-up Chinese role in Afghanistan...

WASHINGTON — International inspectors who gained access to Iran's newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant voiced strong suspicions in a report Monday that the country was concealing other atomic facilities.

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(AP:BEIJING) President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks Tuesday determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers.

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday nudged Chinese President Hu Jintao to allow the yuan currency to appreciate at a summit where they agreed to work to ease trade and economic frictions between the two giants.Hu did not mention the yuan, China's currency policy...

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(AP:BEIJING) President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks Tuesday determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still divided over economic, security and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers.

China is currently pursuing oil resources in unstable countries without regard for the political risk entailed.

The computer-animated gang from a popular film franchise comes to Santa's (Carl Reiner) rescue in "Merry Madagascar" (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG), the very first holiday special of the too-early-to-be-Christmas season. (For the record, Thanksgiving is still nine...

Source: Reuters BEIJING, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Tuesday that he and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama had agreed to adhere to dialogue and consultation in seeking a solution to ...

US President Barack Obama said China had agreed Iran must show its nuclear program is peaceful and transparent.

Obama is potentially a powerful man---he has access to the weaponry---but a leader with a 1,000th of Obama's military capacity who is willing to use his power whilst Obama vacillates timidly---is the ...

A firm that lost a lucrative Sky Harbor taxi contract has raised questions about business ties between some of the winning bidders on the eve of a Phoenix City Council vote on the matter.

On Nov. 17, 1800, Congress held its first session in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building.

US President Barack Obama is holding talks with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao over trade tensions and US calls for a stronger yuan.

LANSING (AP) — Businesses hired far fewer college graduates in the past year than they thought they would, and next year’s graduates will have to be “patient and persistent” to land a job.

SHANGHAI - US President Barack Obama will try Monday to break out of the official constraints of his maiden state visit to China and seek to talk directly to Chinese people in a live dialogue via the Internet.

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YouTube video from today’s Wellington protest against proposed hikes in ACC levies for motorcycles. Posted by user rimu123 During his trip to Asia, President Obama called for the government of Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi, a noted dissident who has spent years under house arrest.

Noting that the latest report of IAEA reflects that Iran still refuses to comply fully with its international nuclear obligations, the Obama Administration has said it is now time for Tehran to signal that it wants to be a responsible member of the international community.

WASHINGTON — International inspectors who gained access to Iran's newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant voiced strong suspicions in a report Monday that the country was concealing other atomic facilities.

Yemeni armed forces and Zaidi Shi'ite rebels have fought a fierce battle near the border with Saudi Arabia.

Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao sent cooperative signals before they began closed-door meetings that were likely to touch on challenges ranging from nuclear proliferation, hurting economies, climate change and human rights.

US President Barack Obama is holding talks with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao over trade tensions and US calls for a stronger yuan.

BEIJING — Seeking help with an array of global troubles, President Barack Obama said today that his closely watched talks with his Chinese counterpart are vital not just for their nations but the world.

For those who watched last week’s episode of South Park, you will remember a stinging commentary on Glenn Beck and Fox News. However, sadly enough, this is the state of most television news organizations today, left and right.

Washington (UPI) Nov 16, 2009 - Did Mikhail Gorbachev launch glasnost and perestroika in the mid-1980s with the aim of bringing about genuine democratic change in the Soviet Union? That's what he says in two interviews on both sides of the Atlantic -- Euronews' Maria Pineiro and Nation Editor Katrina...

Pitt Community College will host a blood drive from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. today at the Craig Goess Student Center, 1986 Pitt Tech Road, Winterville. The Eastern North Carolina Donor Center, 700 Cromwell Drive, also will be open from 1-7 p.m.

Baghdad (AFP) Nov 16, 2009 - Vilified as a nuclear bomb-seeking threat to world peace before the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraq now wants access to civilian nuclear power for its economic and energy needs.

Tom Frewen: Parliament resumes after a fortnight's adjournment, welcomes David Clendon as Sue Bradford's replacement for the Greens, congratulates the All Whites on beating Bahrain, and gets into a shouting match over the cost of the emissions trading scheme with the Prime Minister rubbishing the Treasury for their estimate of...

In Beijing, President Says his Talks With Chinese President Hu Jintao Important for Entire World

Barack Obama and Hu Jintao have started bilateral talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Seeking help with an array of global troubles, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that his closely watched talks with his Chinese counterpart are vital not just for their nations but the world. Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao sent cooperative signals before they began closed-door meetings that were likely to...

Twin Italian archaeologists say they have discovered the remains of an army once thought to have been mythical, deep in the sands of the Sahara

CLIFFORD COONAN in Beijing THE ONLY sightseeing stop on US president Barack Obama’s nine-day Asian visit is a trip today to the ancient Forbidden City in Beijing, but he penetrated one of the gr...

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President Barack Obama gave China a pointed, unexpected nudge to stop censoring the Internet access of its own people, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House - and telling his tightly controlled hosts not to be wary of a little criticism.

EWEN MacASKILL in Washington THE UN nuclear watchdog has expressed fears that Iran may have other secret nuclear sites following the discovery of the facility hidden in a mountain near the holy city o...

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The United Nations questioned yesterday whether Iran was hiding further nuclear facilities following the recent revelation that Tehran was constructing an undeclared uranium enrichment plant.

IRAN could have enough uranium to produce a nuclear bomb by 2012, experts warned yesterday.

INTERNATIONAL talks in London could be used to set a “clear timetable” for the handover of power in Afghanistan, the key to bringing troops home, Gordon Brown suggested last night.

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BEIJING: US President Barack Obama will on Tuesday attack the formal business of his visit to China, sitting down with his opposite number Hu Jintao for talks centred on trade tensions and US calls for a stronger yuan.

(AP:BEIJING) Seeking help with an array of global troubles, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that his closely watched talks with his Chinese counterpart are vital not just for their nations but the world.

As any old salt knows, too much sail and not enough ballast can lead to big trouble in bad weather.The U.S.- Russia relationship is much like a ship without enough draft to steer its way through political storms. The lack of shared interests between our two countries...

The scripted interaction at President Obama’s meeting with Chinese students underscored the obstacles he faces as he tries to manage the U.S. relationship with authoritarian China.

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US President Barack Obama will Tuesday attack the formal business of his visit to China, sitting down with his opposite number Hu Jintao for talks centered on trade tensions and US calls for a stronger Yuan.

Iran's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh said Monday that Iran will continue its attempts to obtain rights of uranium enrichment and will keep up cooperating with IAEA, semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Jim Lehrer speaks with a panel of China experts about the political and economic implications of U.S.-China relations.

AS THE radical young leader of a student faction during the revolution 30 years ago, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, now Iran's president, initially opposed seizing the US embassy.

SHANGHAI : US President Barack Obama Monday pushed for an unshackled Internet and expanded political freedoms, seeking to get around China’s media curbs with a webcast town hall event in booming Shanghai.

BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama pointedly nudged China today to stop censoring Internet access, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House and suggesting Beijing need not fear a little criticism.

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TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A senior official said Iran would rather buy than produce enriched uranium, as international inspectors raised questions Monday about Iran's nuclear program.

If Washington and the West are unhappy with Ahmadinejad, his critics --both conservative and reformist -- are even more vociferous

Iran have to deal with a strong Macedonia team when they meet in a friendly in Tehran on Wednesday. Iran are in the middle of qualification for the 2011 Asian Cup.

BEIJING - President Barack Obama declared Monday the world is urgently watching for a "meeting of the minds" between the U.S. and China as he meets with President Hu Jintao on the globe's biggest issues - climate change, economic recession, nuclear proliferation and mor.

RIYADH: Saudi clerics have accused Yemeni Houthi rebels of working with Iran to try to spread Shi'ism in Sunni Islam's heartland, days before the start of the Haj. "Iranian co-operation with Houthi rebels in Yemen is a collusion for sin and aggression," Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al Sheikh said in...

VIENNA: The UN atomic watchdog yesterday demanded more information from Iran about the purpose of a previously secret nuclear site and indicated that the Islamic Republic could be hiding other facilities.

BAHRAIN coach Milan Macala admitted yesterday that he may have had his last chance at guiding a national team to the Fifa World Cup.

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Britain will host a meeting in January in London aimed at laying out a plan for handing back authority over Afghanistan’s provinces to President Hamid Karzai’s government.

Maryland divested $38.3 million from the British company Royal Dutch Shell for investing in Iran’s petroleum industry. The state’s pensions and investments board also notified 13 other companies that their Iran and Sudan investments are being monitored, according to the Baltimore Jewish Times.

Barack Obama used his first day in China to offer a carefully worded critique of Beijing's record on freedom of speech, telling an audience of students that it was good for leaders to be forced "to hear opinions that [they] don't want to hear".

No visit to Saudi Arabia by a foreign head of state can ever be seen as an mundane event. That is even less so in the case of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 24-hour visit that starts on Tuesday.

An international conference paving the way for an exit strategy for British troops in Afghanistan should be held in London in January, Gordon Brown proposed last night.

A startling chant rose from the crowd in the latest round of anti-government protests in Iran. The tens of thousands who took to the streets a few days ago, risking imprisonment or worse by defying the regime, cried out in their native Farsi, but in the cellphone videos sent around...

Letter writer misinterprets columnist's point Dear Editor, A few notes regarding the little debate between Lisa Pampuch and Fred Oliveri. Pampuch's column promotes tolerance and correctly describes the Constitutional position on religion, which includes freedom for and from religion of any specific variety. She simply asks to be free from...

RIYADH: The Council of Ministers announced on Monday that Saudi security forces had taken full control of the Kingdom’s southern border after driving away Yemeni infiltrators.

RIYADH: The Middle East peace process will top the agenda of talks between Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and French President Nicolas Sarkozy here on Tuesday.

Iran plays down a report by the UN's nuclear watchdog that raised concerns about a nuclear site near the city of Qom.

Britain's security depends on its success in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a speech, seeking to convince a sceptical public that his country has no choice but to keep fighting there.

US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, have shared a meal in Beijing, where President Hu hosted a state dinner for Mr Obama at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.

ANKARA - Turkey would be willing to store enriched uranium from Iran, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Friday, responding to a United Nations suggestion that Iran send its low-grade enriched uranium to a third country.

Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations atomic agency said it has lost confidence in Iran’s truthfulness and can’t be sure the country isn’t hiding more nuclear facilities.

Politics and unrest in Iran have made recent headlines. But contemporary art from Iran is also making news as well. A group show of Iranian art has just opened at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana.

Geography Area: 1.6 million sq. km. (636,295 sq. mi., slightly larger than Alaska). Arable land: 9.78% of the country. Cities: Capital --Tehran. Other cities --Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Shiraz, Yazd, Qom. Terrain: Desert and mountains. Climate: Semiarid; ...

The government's easier path toward execution is through a tribunal, and yet Holder has chosen the risky path of seeking the death penalty in New York. This is political correctness run amok.

Written with an assist from Lynn Vincent, the memior is less the revealing autobiography of a straight-shooting maverick and more a lengthy campaign speech -- more lipstick, less pit bull.

MOSCOW - Russia announced the latest delay to Iran's first nuclear power station on Monday, saying that technical issues would prevent its engineers from starting up the reactor at the Bushehr plant by the year-end.