The Star INTERVIEW - New climate partnership planned to protect forests | OSLO (Reuters) - Governments will seek a new climate partnership in 2010 to protect tropical forests with funds going through the United Nations, the World Bank or bilateral channels, Norway said on... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo)
The New York Times Euro Unity? It's Germany That Matters | PARIS — Ten years after the euro, it’s still all about Germany, which isn’t the way it was supposed to be. | In the run-up to the common currency’s debut in 1999, the air was... (photo: AP / Daniel Roland)
The New York Times Japan Drops Denial of Cold War 'Treaties' | TOKYO — Japan ended decades of denials on Tuesday by confirming the existence of secret cold-war-era agreements with Washington that, among other things, had allowed American nuclear-armed war... (photo: U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kyle D. Gahlau ) DefenceJapanNuclearPhotosUS
The New York Times Uproar in India Over Quota for Female Lawmakers | NEW DELHI — The upper house of India’s Parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would amend the Constitution to reserve one-third of the seats in India’s national and state legislatur... (photo: AP / Ajit Kumar) IndiaLawPhotosPoliticsWoman
The Daily Telegraph Australia New hope for young with cancer | TEENAGERS and young adults with cancer have 50 per cent less chance of surviving than other age groups because there are no dedicated services to treat them. | Dubbed t... (photo: AP / Edgard Garrido) CancerDiseaseHealthPhotosTeenagers
Asia Times US ponders China's Southeast Asian rise | By Peter J Brown | The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) last month held a lengthy hearing on China's activities in Southeast Asia and ... (photo: Creative Commons / Naus) AsianChinaEconomyPhotosUS
Asia Times Marjah, the city that never was | By Gareth Porter | WASHINGTON - For weeks, the United States public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan war against what it was told was a "city of 80,000... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder) AfghanistanDefenceNATOPhotosUS
