Reuters International News: 30 November 2008
November 30th, 2008 • Reuters, World
- WTO chief says expects ministerial decision next week
DOHA (Reuters) - World Trade Organization (WTO) chief Pascal Lamy said on Saturday he was increasingly inclined to call ministers to Geneva next month to pursue a global trade treaty that could mitigate the world’s economic turmoil. - China’s richest man thrown into spotlight amid probe
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China’s richest man, Huang Guangyu, who is being investigated for suspected economic crimes, is no stranger to controversy. - WITNESS: In the wreckage of Mumbai’s Trident hotel
Gregory Beitchman is the Consumer Editor, Asia and Emerging Markets, for Thomson Reuters. Based in Mumbai, he is a frequent visitor to the Trident-Oberoi Hotel, one of three sites besieged by Islamist gunmen who launched coordinated attacks on the city late on Wednesday. In the following story, he describes his impressions on returning to the hotel after the siege was lifted - Congo rebel chief says “war” if no talks with government
JOMBA, Congo (Reuters) - Congolese Tutsi rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda threatened war Saturday unless Congo’s government entered a new round of talks with him. - Betancourt in Latam to promote FARC hostage talks
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Anti-kidnapping campaigner Ingrid Betancourt paid a surprise visit to Colombia on Saturday at the start of a regional tour to try to jump start hostage talks with the leftist rebels who kept her captive for years. - Troops patrol after clashes kill hundreds in Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Sporadic bursts of gunfire rattled the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday as the security forces tried to prevent more clashes between Muslim and Christian gangs in which hundreds of people have been killed. - China’s migrants are a new front in AIDS fight
BEIJING (Reuters) - The new face of AIDS in China is a shy man with a heavy provincial accent, a weathered face and the rough hands of a manual worker. - Hundreds of South Koreans leave North before clampdown
SEOUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of South Koreans streamed out of the communist North at the weekend, expelled from a joint industrial enclave by Pyongyang in anger at the hardline policy of the conservative leader in the South. - Thai police order airport protesters to disperse
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police on Sunday again ordered anti-government protesters who have laid siege to the city’s airports to disperse, banning gatherings of more than five people and warning offenders would be jailed or fined. - Indian anger rises as Mumbai cleans up
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Mumbai on Sunday mopped up the streets where Islamist gunmen rampaged and killed nearly 200 people over three days, while Indian anger over the attack’s alleged Pakistani links threatened the nuclear rivals’ ties.
