The move leaves 53 of Japan's 54 reactors out of service. The last operational reactor, Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari No.3, will be switched off for maintenance May 5.
Leading up to the nuclear summit in South Korea this week, Obama and Hu both expressed their serious concern about the launch, which was first described by North Korea as a peaceful launch of an earth observation satellite.
Annan has already received support for the plan from Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and foreign minister Sergey Lavrov
A Tibetan exile set himself on fire during a protest against the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India in New Delhi on Monday.
The big winner tonight is the Senegalese people, Macky Sall said of Sunday's run-off election. He defeated 12-year incumbent Abdoulaye Wade, a political mentor to Sall before the two had a falling-out.
The U.S. military has officially charged Sgt. Robert Bales with the murder of 17 Afghan civilians, including an unborn baby of one of the victims. With the inclusion of the unborn baby in the dead list, the tally went up to 17, though Afghan officials had reported only 16 deaths initially.
Continuing his tirade against the West, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the US and NATO can no longer dictate policy for the rest of the world and warned that the NATO policy in Afghanistan and other countries would make Western relations with Pakistan worse.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider its own authority to consider a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act. Additional oral arguments set for Tuesday and Wednesday will delve into whether the 2010 health care law is constitutional.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev extended complete support to the UN-Arab League envoy in Syria, saying that Kofi Annan's resolution represented the last chance for preventing the violent insurgency from turning into a civil war. Medvedev's strong message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came close on the heels of US President Barack Obama announcing his plans to send non-lethal aid to the Syrian opposition.
The commotion over Indian Army Chief Gen. V.K. Singh's claim that a $2.7-million bribe was offered to him by an ex-army-officer-turned lobbyist for clearing the purchase of sub-standard vehicles led to the adjournment of both houses of Parliament on Monday.
South Korea wrested one-upmanship from the belligerent North on Monday by issuing a stern warning that it might shoot down a rocket that Pyongyang is planning to launch next month.
Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade conceded defeat to his rival Macky Sall in a presidential election runoff. Admitting his defeat in the election, Wade called and congratulated Sall, Senegal state television reported.
Growth is likely to be weak in the near term for New Zealand as the temporary boost from the Rugby World Cup unwinds, according to Capital Economics.
Obama holds out prospect of cuts in US nuclear arsenal as he tries to rally world leaders against threat of nuclear terrorism.
Canada's economy will grow by 2.5 percent this quarter, analysts have said. The economy had expanded 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter of last year.
French authorities have ordered the brother of an al Qaeda-inspired killer to be detained on suspicion of complicity in his sibling's assassination of three Jewish children, a rabbi and three soldiers.
A property consultant long tied to China's leadership won Hong Kong’s executive election, authorities said Sunday.
The United States has given $860,000 to the families of victims of the massacre in Kandahar province that is being blamed on U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, two Afghan officials said Sunday.
Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street activists marched through the streets of New York City Saturday protesting police violence and demanding the resignation of New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
President Barack Obama, visiting South Korea, called on the Communist North Sunday to call off a planned rocket launch, and warned that food aid in return for disarmament would be at risk.
With political pressures mounting, talk about the release of the strategic oil reserves has come back. Will the President decide to release the country's reserves in a last gasp effort to stem the gas price spike? And if he does, what kind of impact will it have on prices?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Saturday returned to Cuba to resume radio therapy for his cancer.
Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi woman, died Saturday of injuries from a severe beating in her El Cajon home in San Diego, California, where a hateful note warning the family to go back to your country was left next to her.
Rick Santorum defeated Mitt Romney in the Lousiana presidential primary.
Obama traveled to a US military base located at the edge of the 2.5 mile wide DMZ and greeted the soldiers there, as a symbolic reassurance of its support to South Korea.
Police Saturday arrested 14 people in connection with two separate Occupy Wall Street protests in New York.
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania won the Louisiana presidential primary election Saturday, CNN projected, based on exit polls, but he still trails former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by a wide margin in the 2012 Republican Party nomination race.
The Affordable Care Act arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this week will pit two of Washington's seasoned legal minds against each other in a bout akin to Ali vs. Frazier for the legal set. Here's a look at the lawyers who will lead the historic arguments on the constitutionality of the health care measure.
At a press conference and rally organized by the so-called New Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Florida on Thursday, members of the political group circulated posters calling for the arrest of George Zimmerman dead or alive for shooting 17-year-old African-American Trayvon Martin.
Twenty of Louisiana's delegates to the Republican National Convention in August are up for grabs in the state's presidential primary election Saturday. Here is when to look for the results of the election, where to watch online and on TV, and how to follow the race on Twitter.
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