Thursday, November 29, 2012

Chinese AIDS patients fight hospital rejections

Chinese AIDS patients fight hospital rejections


Chinese AIDS patients fight hospital rejections

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 10:32 PM PST

Wang Pinghe wants the tumor in his liver removed before it becomes life-threatening. But the 28-year-old Chinese villager knows it will be hard to find a hospital that will do the operation - because ...


Afghanistan wants Pakistan to free more Taliban detainees

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 09:55 PM PST

Afghanistan wants Pakistan to free more Taliban detainees to help coax the group into negotiations to end the 11-year-old war.


India to revise enforcement of Internet law

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 09:42 PM PST

The Indian government will soon bar lower-level police officials from arresting people for making offensive comments on social networking sites unless the case is first reviewed by a senior police off...


Original Batmobile from TV series to be auctioned

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 09:41 PM PST

The original Batmobile from the 1960s TV series will be auctioned on January 19 at the Barrett-Jackson auction house in Scottsdale, Ariz.


Egypt's draft constitution adopted, goes to referendum

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 09:03 PM PST

Egypt's constituent assembly early on Friday adopted a draft constitution that will be put to a referendum, replacing the one abrogated after the fall of Hosni Mubarak last year, chairman Hossam el-Gh...


Nepal ex-prince held on Thai drugs charge: police

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:52 PM PST

Nepal's former crown prince Paras Shah has been granted bail after being arrested and charged with cannabis possession on the Thai resort island of Phuket, police said on Friday.


Al Qaeda battle in Afghanistan to stretch for years: US

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:36 PM PST

Al Qaeda fighters are still trying to make inroads into Afghanistan, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday, cautioning that battling the group would be a core US mission there for years t...


Sahara group takes over New York's iconic Plaza hotel

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:14 PM PST

The Indian flag is flying over a lot of prime Manhattan real estate these days. After the Taj group's acquisition of the Pierre on Fifth Avenue, it's now the turn of the Sahara Group, which has bought...


Damascus clashes close airport road, telecoms cut

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:08 PM PST

Syrian troops mounted an assault on rebels near Damascus on Thursday, closing off the road to the airport amid a widespread telecommunications outage, as the US weighed what further help it can give t...


Gunmen kill Mexican environmental activist and her son

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:50 PM PST

Gunmen killed the leader of an environmentalist group and her 17-year-old son in southern Mexico even though 10 police officers were escorting them, authorities said.


Dominique Strauss-Kahn settles with sex 'assault' maid: reports

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:18 PM PST

Disgraced former IMF chief and would-be French President Dominique Strauss-Kahn will settle out of court with a Manhattan maid who accused him of sexual assault, ending a sordid 18-month legal saga, r...


US soldier in WikiLeaks case says he was held in a 'cage'

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:11 PM PST

A US Army private facing court-martial on suspicion of leaking secret documents to the WikiLeaks website testified on Thursday he was confined to a "cage" in the early days after his arrest in 2010, a...


David Cameron rejects press law after hacking scandal

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:52 PM PST

Prime Minister David Cameron rejected the idea of a law to regulate the British press on Thursday, risking a split in his government after an inquiry advised legal backing for a watchdog to police the...


White House fiscal offer gets Republican scorn

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:44 PM PST

A top Republican declared that "no substantive progress has been made" in two weeks of talks between President Barack Obama and a divided Congress on looming austerity measures that threaten to send t...


Closest planet to sun, Mercury, harbors ice: NASA

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:36 PM PST

Just in time for Christmas, scientists have confirmed a vast amount of ice at the north pole - on Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun.


Chinese police plan to board vessels in disputed seas

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:18 PM PST

Police in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan will board and search ships which illegally enter what China considers its territory in the disputed South China Sea, state media said on Thurs...


65 years later, Palestinians celebrate a UN vote

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:09 PM PST

The black-and-white photos show masses of people yearning for independence, celebrating a vote recognising a state in Palestine. It was a day that generations of pupils would be taught to remember wit...


UN vote recognises state of Palestine

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 05:56 PM PST

The United Nations voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to recognise a Palestinian state, a victory decades in the making for the Palestinians after years of occupation and war. It was a sharp rebuke for ...


Savita Halappanavar's husband to sue Ireland over abortion row

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 11:17 AM PST

The husband of Savita Halappanavar is planning to sue the Irish government in the European Court of Human Rights after Irish Health Minister did not agree for a public inquiry into the circumstances l...


Mitt Romney arrives at White House for lunch

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 10:19 AM PST

Defeated Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney arrived at the White House on Thursday for a private lunch with the man who dashed his political dreams, President Barack Obama.


Paris activist to test taboos with gay-friendly mosque

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 10:13 AM PST

Europe's first gay and lesbian-friendly mosque opens on Friday in an eastern Paris suburb, in a challenge to mainstream Islam's long tradition of condemning same-sex relationships.


Former US President George H W Bush in stable condition

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 09:45 AM PST

Former U.S. President George H W Bush is being treated at Methodist Hospital in Houston for complications related to bronchitis and is in stable condition, the hospital said on Thursday.


Indian-origin British woman dies of rabies

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 09:40 AM PST

An Indian-origin British woman has died of rabies after returning from India where she was bitten by a dog, becoming the first person in the UK to die due to the disease in seven years.


Six young people get 100 lashes in Timbuktu: Mali

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:55 AM PST

Timbuktu residents say that Islamist extremists controlling the city publicly whipped 6 young people, males and females aged between 16 to 22 years, who each received 100 lashes for having talked with...


Singapore charges organizers of rare strike

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 08:43 AM PST

Four Chinese immigrant workers who organized Singapore's first strike in nearly three decades were charged on Thursday with instigating labor unrest.


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