http://thestar.com.my/news/worldupdates/ Update: Sunday, November 08, 2009 MYT 12:16:53 AM http://thestar.com.my/common/images/thestar_140x45.gif http://thestar.com.my/ 88 31 http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/8/worldupdates/2009-11-07T212040Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-437747-1&sec=Worldupdates TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A bitter four-month dispute over who is president has left many Hondurans too jaded with politics to care about voting for their next leader. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/8/worldupdates/2009-11-07T202219Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-437738-1&sec=Worldupdates TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan urged Myanmar on Saturday to release detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi before next year's election, adding it was ready to provide more aid if democratisation in the country advanced. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/8/worldupdates/2009-11-07T200636Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-437711-2&sec=Worldupdates AL-BIREH, West Bank (Reuters) - The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/8/worldupdates/2009-11-07T212145Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-437689-3&sec=Worldupdates TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police detained more than 100 people for "disturbing public order" during a rally this week to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/8/worldupdates/2009-11-07T202713Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-437741-1&sec=Worldupdates ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Twenty activists donned suits and ties and buried their heads in the sand on a Scottish beach on Saturday to protest against a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of 20 powerful nations. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/8/worldupdates/2009-11-07T202805Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-437671-3&sec=Worldupdates WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a close vote looming, the U.S. House of Representatives was set to open debate on Saturday on a sweeping reform bill that would spark the biggest healthcare changes in four decades. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/8/worldupdates/2009-11-07T192648Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-437718-2&sec=Worldupdates ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts on Saturday to work toward a $100 billion deal to tackle climate change but developing nations insisted they did not want to talk about it. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/8/worldupdates/2009-11-07T174832Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-437721-1&sec=Worldupdates BERLIN (Reuters) - Sanctions against Iran should not be ruled out if it fails to agree to restrictions on its nuclear programme, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told German weekly magazine Der Spiegel in an interview. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/8/worldupdates/2009-11-07T194401Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-437733-1&sec=Worldupdates BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's national security adviser, James Jones, has said there is no guarantee that sending extra troops to Afghanistan would solve NATO's problems, and that they could just be "swallowed up". http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/8/worldupdates/2009-11-07T205804Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-437745-1&sec=Worldupdates MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ida strengthened back into a tropical storm early on Saturday off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and was moving north toward the Cayman Islands, where the government issued a tropical storm warning.