On the eve of his landmark trip to Myanmar, President Barack Obama tried to assure critics that his visit was not a premature reward for a long-isolated nation still easing its way toward democracy. Correction: Gulf Rig Fire story
NEW ORLEANS – In a story Nov. 17 about an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously described the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. It is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, not a state agency.
Sunnybrook vets centre like 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest lite,' man says
TORONTO – Articles about complaints of substandard care at Canada’s largest facility for war veterans have prompted several more people to come forward with stories of neglect.
Giving back: Eight innovative philanthropists around the world
The global face of philanthropy is changing. Donors no longer just open their wallets. They’re actively involved in causes, use savvy business practices, and leverage what they give to achieve more good. Meet eight innovators.
Top negotiators at Colombia talks met before
The two chief negotiators didn’t shake hands. They didn’t even look at each other as they formally inaugurated talks to end Colombia’s stubborn five-decade-old conflict in Norway last month.
Unions rap Deutsche Telekom over U.S. workers rights
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Labor representatives have harshly criticized German phone company Deutsche Telekom's treatment of workers at its ailing U.S. unit, which the gr oup plans to merge with MetroPCS . Lothar Schroeder of the Verdi services workers union, who is also a member of Telekom's supervisory board, told Reuters on Sunday that some of the group's U.S. call centre agents are working under what they described as a "climate of tyranny". Schroeder had spent a month talking to Deutsche Telekom call centre employees across the United States, he said. … Daimler to put extra board member in charge of China: report
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German luxury carmaker Daimler will enlarge it s management board to put a top executive in charge of its troublesome Chinese car business, a German magazine reported on Sunday. The additional eighth executive board seat will be created at the group's upcoming supervisory board meeting, weekly Der Spiegel reported, without specifying its sources. A Daimler spokesman declined to comment. Daimler's flagship car brand Mercedes lags larger German premium names BMW and Audi in China. (Reporting by Ludwig Burger and Christiaan Hetzner; Editing by David Cowell) Puntland says arrests al Shabaab members, seizes explosives
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somalia’s northern region of Puntland, which up to now has been spared violence fuelled by Islamist fighters, said on Sunday its security forces had arrested two suspected members of the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group. Puntland’s president has said the militants, squeezed out of their urban strongholds further south, were moving north towards his semi-autonomous region, a relatively peaceful area. The government said in a statement security forces on Saturday arrested a man known as Abu Hafsa, whom they said was al Shabaab’s head of assassinations. …
For Nunavut judges, going to court 'truly an adventure'
TORONTO – Somewhere between tales of judges bunking with strangers and pushing airplanes out of the mud it becomes clear Nunavut’s court system works a little differently.
Austria's right-wing parties could form coalition
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria's three strongest right-wing parties could form a coalition government after an election next year, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) told Oesterreich newspaper. Austria is currently governed by a grand coalition led by the Social Democrats (SPO) with the conservative People's Party (OVP) as the junior party, but the coalition has been falling out of favor as euroscepticism gains ground. According to Oesterreich's latest opinion poll, the two parties together have 51 percent of the popular vote, after falling below 50 percent in recent months. … Syrians want to know: 'Are you okay after Superstorm Sandy?'
I had just sat down to interview a commander of the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo and we were exchanging the normal pre-meeting pleasantries as some distant gunfire cracked in the background. After 20 months of conflict here, most artillery and gunfire goes unnoticed unless people are close enough to be directly affected.
Israelis question too, 'Who wants this war?'
Just days after Adi Pito married a woman from the town of Kiryat Malachi, he heard that a rocket from Gaza had struck an apartment building there, killing three residents.
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