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Business as usual for South Korea’s chaebol under Park

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – A Park will be back in South Korea’s presidential mansion come February, and the big businesses, or chaebol, that dominate the country’s economy will be

Sudan, South Sudan to discuss rebel support next month

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – Sudan and South Sudan will tackle the sensitive issue of support for rebel groups for the first time when they resume security talks

India’s Modi looks set to win state poll, may boost PM ambitions

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – Narendra Modi looked set to win a fourth successive term as the chief minister of India’s Gujarat state on Thursday, a victory that

U.N. chief pushes for regional deal to end Congo crisis

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm on Wednesday at the crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and said he had

U.S. soldier could face death penalty for Afghan killings

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – A decorated U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in two forays from his remote military camp was ordered to face a

Rebels seize towns in central Syria

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – Syrian rebels have captured at least six towns in the central province of Hama, activists say, in an operation aimed at putting pressure

Pakistan clerics calls for protests against polio worker killings

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – An alliance of Pakistani clerics will hold demonstrations across the country against the killings of polio eradication campaign workers, leaders said on Thursday,

Israeli PM vows to build in Jerusalem despite criticism

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday his government would press ahead with expanding Jewish settlements around Jerusalem despite Western criticism of

Final member of NBC team free after Syria kidnap

YoopyaDec 19, 20120

LONDON (AP) — The last missing member of an NBC team that was kidnapped in Syria has been freed and is safely in Turkey, NBC

In second verdict, war crimes court acquits Congolese

YoopyaDec 19, 20120

(Reuters) – Congolese militia leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui was acquitted at the Hague war crimes court on Tuesday, after prosecutors failed to prove he ordered