World leaders are gathering in France Thursday to discuss Libya’s future after Moammar Gadhafi, as one of Mr. Gadhafi’s sons vows that his family members and loyalist forces will never surrender. The conference in Paris brings together officials from 60 countries, including both those that have backed Libya’s National Transitional Council as well as those […]
World Leaders Discuss Libya After Gadhafi
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 2:20 am (UTC-5)
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Indian Philanthropists, Philippine NGO Are Honored in Manila
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 1:51 am (UTC-5)
Two Indian philanthropists and a Philippine non-profit development organization were presented with the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Awards in Manila Wednesday. The annual awards, named after a popular Philippine president who was killed in a plane crash in 1957, are widely seen as Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prizes. Harish Hande, a U.S. trained engineer and […]
World Leaders Discuss Libya After Gadhafi
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 1:40 am (UTC-5)
World leaders are gathering in France Thursday to discuss Libya’s future after Moammar Gadhafi, as one of Mr. Gadhafi’s sons vows that his family members and loyalist forces will never surrender. The conference in Paris brings together officials from 60 countries, including both those that have backed Libya’s National Transitional Council as well as those […]
China Enters Ranks of Major Investors in Other Countries
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 1:25 am (UTC-5)
China says its days as a massive net importer of foreign capital may soon be coming to an end. People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, reports on its website Thursday that Chinese foreign direct investment in other countries rose by more than 40 percent last year. It said the country is […]
Clinton Praises US-Vietnamese Relations
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 1:12 am (UTC-5)
U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is hailing the U.S. relationship with Vietnam in a national day message to the people of the Southeast Asian country. Vietnam celebrates its national day on Friday, the anniversary of the day on which Ho Chi Minh officially declared Vietnam’s independence from French colonial rule in 1945. In a […]
Red Cross: Over 100 Dead in Nigerian Flooding
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 1:11 am (UTC-5)
Nigerian authorities say flash floods killed at least 102 people in the country’s southwest in the past week. The Nigerian Red Cross Society says hundreds of residents were displaced after floodwaters from a collapsed dam swept away homes in the town of Ibadan, 150 kilometers from the port district of Lagos. The floods also knocked […]
Eastern US Still Recovering from Irene
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 1:06 am (UTC-5)
Crews in several eastern U.S. states are trying to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people four days after Hurricane Irene ravaged the area. In Vermont, emergency workers are airlifting food and water to thousands of residents stranded after floodwaters washed over roads and bridges, isolating a number of communities in the state’s worst […]
August 2011 Deadliest Month for US in Afghanistan
Posted September 1st, 2011 at 12:35 am (UTC-5)
August was the deadliest month for the U.S. military so far in the decade-long war in Afghanistan. A total of 66 U.S. troops died last month, topping by one the death toll for July 2010, which previously had been the deadliest single month for the United States in Afghanistan since 2001. August’s death toll includes […]
