October 10, 2016 Russia says it supports OPEC plan to limit oil production Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country supports OPEC's recent agreement to trim production as a way to support oil prices.
October 10, 2016 Aid arrives in Haiti after Matthew, but desperation grows in cut-off towns Helicopters are ferrying in food and medicine to devastated southwestern Haiti, but almost a week after Hurricane Matthew's assault life here is still far from normal and desperation is growing in communities where aid has yet to arrive.
October 10, 2016 Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves: ___ EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a weekly look at the latest key developments in the South China Sea, home to several territorial conflicts that have raised tensions in the region.
October 10, 2016 Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstrom win Nobel prize in economics Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to contract theory.
October 10, 2016 'Like a nuclear bomb,' cholera and destruction after hurricane in Haiti Patients arrived every 10 or 15 minutes, brought on motorcycles by relatives with vomit-covered shoulders and hoisted up the stairs into southwest Haiti's Port-a-Piment hospital, where they could rest their weak, cholera-sapped limbs.
October 10, 2016 Dutch navy delivering aid to hurricane-battered Haiti The Dutch government is sending a navy ship to Haiti to deliver aid including food, water and shelters and to check the ravaged nation's ports and waterways to ensure other aid vessels can safely dock in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.
October 10, 2016 Colombia's Santos to donate Nobel Prize money to victims President Juan Manuel Santos says he'll donate his $925,000 in Nobel Peace Prize money to the victims of Colombia's conflict.
October 10, 2016 Major Australian party leaders reaffirm racial tolerance The leaders of Australia's two major political parties have reaffirmed their commitment to racial tolerance in Australia after several senators called for a ban on Muslims.
October 9, 2016 Report says Mexico state officials ignored massacre Mexican drug gang bosses furious at suspected turncoats sent commandos aided by local police to seize dozens — perhaps hundreds — of people, murder them and dispose of their bodies in a town near the Texas border, yet state and federal officials ignored the massacre for years, according to a government-backed report released Sunday.
