By Kane Farabaugh Dayton, Ohio 13 November 2009 Like slaves on an auction block waiting to be selected, victims of human trafficking have to perform as they are told or risk being beaten (2005 File) The U.S. State Department estimates that 800,000 h...
By Mil Arcega Washington 13 November 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed a Labor Department report Thursday that suggests the pace of job losses is slowing. But with the nation's unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, the president is asking busin...
By David Gollust Manila 13 November 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (File) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday elections planned in Burma next year will not be seen as legitimate unless the military government engag...
By Kent Klein Washington 13 November 2009 President Obama speaks to US troops on way to Asia, 12 Nov 2009 President Barack Obama has told U.S. troops he will not send them into conflict without adequate support. The president spoke to a military aud...
By Paula Wolfson Tokyo 13 November 2009 President Barack Obama, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama arrive for joint news conference in Tokyo, 13 Nov 2009 The United States and Japan are vowing to keep their alliance strong at a time of...
By Paula Wolfson Tokyo 13 November 2009 President Barack Obama during joint news conference with Japanese PM Yukio Hatoyama, not pictured, in Tokyo, 13 Nov 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama says a decision on a revised Afghanistan strategy will come...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 13 November 2009 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, left, shakes hands with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh before a meeting in New Delhi, 12 Nov 2009 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called for more inv...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 13 November 2009 Palestinian elections, originally set for early next year, will not take place on schedule. The elections were postponed because of divisions between rival Palestinian factions: the Fatah movement that con...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 November 2009 Saudi soldiers patrol Jizan province near Yemeni border with Yemen after clearing mountain straddling Yemen border of Shiite rebels, 08 Nov 2009 United Nations and International aid agencies say the plight of...
By Sonja Pace London 13 November 2009 Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (File) Britain's prime minister says the UK will send more troops to Afghanistan if other allies do the same. Speaking on British radio, BBC's Radio Four, Gordon Brown said...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 13 November 2009 Shabab militia patrol Bakara Market in Mogadishu (Oct 2009 file photo) Security forces in Somalia's northern semi-autonomous region of Puntland say three people have been arrested in connection with the fatal s...
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 13 November 2009 Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi (file photo) Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says failures in the U.S. financial system are largely to blame for Africa's economic crisis, and pointed to China...
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 13 November 2009 A new report from a Zimbabwe union says workers on the country's white-run farms were subjected to even greater violence than their employers during violent farms seizures under Zimbabwe President...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 November 2009 Many hotels around the United States are going green by recycling their waste and conserving water, power and other resources. The largest hotel in Los Angeles, the Westin Bonaventure, was recently cer...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 12 November 2009 The economic crisis has taken a toll on young Europeans - especially in France, where nearly one in four French between the ages of 15 and 25 is unemployed. Now a group of young Parisians has found an imaginativ...
