Court order comes just hours after country’s supreme court rules that ex-president is free to go overseas for treatment. An arrest warrant has been issued for the former Philippine president, Gloria Arroyo, amid a legal battle to decide whether the former president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is free to travel abroad. The country’s supreme court ruled on Friday that Arroyo should [...]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today will begin its case-by-case review of some 300,000 pending deportation cases. It will also begin a nationwide training program for immigration agents and prosecuting attorneys. The goal, as described in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prosecutorial discretion memo in June, is to expedite the deportation of serious criminals and stop deportations of undocumented immigrants [...]
This week, President Obama is in the Pacific. He traveled to Hawaii for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, visited Australia for meetings with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and an address to Parliament, and he’s currently in Indonesia for the East Asia Summit. We’ll be back next week with a special edition of West Wing [...]
Country given some long-sought recognition after it holds elections, frees opposition leader and eases media curbs. Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, have approved Myanmar’s request to chair the Southeast Asian regional bloc in 2014, giving the country some long-sought international recognition. The 10-member bloc made the decision two years before schedule, as they began [...]
New York- Thousands of “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrators fanned out across New York on Thursday in the first major showing of protest strength since authorities forcibly evicted them from their Lower Manhattan encampment two days earlier. The group twice squared off against riot police in Zuccotti Park, while engaging in sporadic confrontations with authorities throughout [...]
President Obama’s 10-day trip to Asia last November wasn’t all work and no play. At the end of a four-country tour that included India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan, the President found time to mingle with the locals and enjoy some culture while visiting the Great Buddha of Kamakura outside Tokyo. The business end of [...]
US officials arrest 21-year-old man thought to be linked with an alleged shooting on the White House on Friday. Police have arrested a 21-year-old man suspected of shooting at the White House last week, after federal agents found two bullets that had hit the mansion, including one that struck a window. Oscar Ortega-Hernandez was picked [...]
Dr. Jill Biden, along with Jennifer Aniston, Kristin Hahn, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, listens to Dr. Constanza Cocilovo during a tour of the Inova Breast Care Center in Alexandria, Va., Oct. 3, 2011. During the tour, Dr. Biden visited with breast cancer patients, clinicians, survivors and family members to discuss [...]
Filmmaker Hanung Bramantyo hopes his controversial new film will spread tolerance and help quell recruitment by radical Islamists on Indonesia’s university campuses RELATEDIndonesia’s Artists vs. Muslim Extremists Print PDF This post was submitted by Time Video.
Al Jazeera revisits Jakarta’s wildlife markets five years after our initial report to determine if anything has changed. Al Jazeera English is marking five years on air this month and looking back at some of the stories we covered on our first day of broadcast. One of the first reports was a special look at [...]
Bank of America’s sale of most of its shares in China Construction Bank earned the U.S. lender a tidy profit, but also underlined that BofA, like other foreign financial groups, found scant strategic gain in the Chinese stake it built. While banks from New York to Zurich may point to the odd initiative here or there forged [...]
Oakland officials order Occupy Wall Street protesters to evacuate citing concerns about potential health and fire hazards. Deborah Gembara reports Print PDF This post was submitted by Reuters.
NASA has released new images of Earth captured during October from the International Space Station. Using both still and video cameras on board, astronauts took the images which technicians on the ground turned into digitized videos. The sequences come courtesy of the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center Print PDF This [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – Ed Lee’s anticipated win in Tuesday’s mayoral race is a major milestone for Chinese voters, but not all members of the community are celebrating the victory as their own. For Daniel Li, a San Francisco resident who came to the United States from China nearly 30 years ago, Lee is among a [...]
US president fails to win support from Hu and Medvedev at APEC summit as he seeks to rein back Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Barack Obama’s push for consensus over renewed concerns about Iran’s nuclear programme have had a lukewarm response from the Russian and Chinese leaders attending the APEC summit in Hawaii. The US president had sought support from [...]
Leaders gathered at summit seek regional free trade agreement, with China expressing serious reservations. Leaders from the Pacific Rim gathered for an annual summit in Hawaii have pledged to work together to ensure that world economic growth remains on track, as the US president announced the broad outlines of a plan that he says could [...]
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