Friday, October 1, 2010

Dozens of NATO oil tankers attacked in Pakistan (AP)

Dozens of NATO oil tankers attacked in Pakistan (AP)

Dozens of NATO oil tankers attacked in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:02 AM PDT

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand alongside trucks carrying NATO supplies at the border town of Chaman on Thursday. The Pentagon expressed hope that Pakistan would reopen a key supply route for US-led forces in Afghanistan, which Islamabad closed after NATO aircraft staged cross-border raids.(AFP/Asghar Achakzai)AP - Suspected militants in southern Pakistan set ablaze more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for foreign troops in Afghanistan on Friday, highlighting the vulnerability of the U.S.-led mission a day after Pakistan closed a major border crossing.

Ecuador troops rescue president from rebel cops (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:38 AM PDT

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, sitting in a wheelchair and wearing a gas mask, is rescued from a hospital where he was holed up by protesting police in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. The army rescued Correa from a hospital where he had been trapped by rebellious police for more than 12 hours while he was being treated for tear-gas fired by hundreds of police angry over a law that they claim would cut their benefits. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)AP - Ecuador was under a state of siege Friday, with the military in charge of public order, after soldiers rescued President Rafael Correa from a hospital where he'd been surrounded by police who also roughed him up and tear-gassed him.

India less tense after court verdict on holy site (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:21 AM PDT

Hindu priests celebrate after hearing the first reports on the court verdict in Ayodhya, India, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. An Indian court ruled Thursday that a disputed holy site that has sparked bloody communal riots across the country in the past should be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities. However, the court gave the Hindu community control over the section where the now demolished Babri Mosque stood and where a small makeshift tent-shrine to the Hindu god Rama rests. While both Muslim and Hindu lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court, the compromise ruling seemed unlikely to set off a new round of violence, as the government had feared. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)AP - Schools, shops and businesses reopened Friday as fears of violence ebbed in northern India following a court order to divide a disputed holy site between the Hindu and Muslim communities.

Myanmar abuzz over possible release of Suu Kyi (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:57 AM PDT

Thu Wai, third from left, chairman of the Democratic Party walks along a street with party members as they campaign Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar's prime minister warned citizens to protect the country's image during November elections and to prevent anyone from derailing the first polls in 20 years, state media reported Wednesday. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - The detention of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi expires early next month, but an official said Friday that only the ruling junta chief knows exactly when she will be granted freedom.

Hamas leader: Arafat urged attacks on Israel (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:17 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 1, 2006 file photo, Hamas strongman Mahmoud Zahar walks past portraits of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, at the embassy of the Palestine Authority in Beijing, China, Thursday, June 1, 2006. It's been 10 years ago, almost to the day, since Palestinians rose up in revolt against Israel, sweeping away peace talks, triggering a ferocious Israeli reaction and leaving thousands dead on both sides.There is an enduring mystery and competing narratives over why the uprising erupted, but Zahar now seems to confirm a key Israeli claim: that Yasser Arafat was playing a double game while insisting he was trying to stop the violence.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - It has been 10 years since Palestinians began an uprising that swept away peace talks, triggered a ferocious reaction by the Jewish state and left thousands dead on both sides.

How Do You Solve Middle East Peace From Your Apartment? (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:05 AM PDT

Time.com - Former Israeli speechwriter Gregory Levey talks with TIME about fixing the Middle East from his apartment

Sweden raises terror threat alert (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:57 AM PDT

AP - Swedish security officials say they are raising the country's terror threat alert because of an increased "threat of terror attacks against Sweden."

Hezbollah bars members from Hariri court interview (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:04 PM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, Hezbollah fighters stand guard as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks through a video link in the occasion of Jerusalem Day in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. 'Justice' was the rallying cry for tens of thousands of angry Lebanese who took to the streets of Beirut five years ago after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and drove a movement that reshaped Lebanon's politics. But now the quest to uncover and prosecute his killers threatens to tear the country apart. The U.N. tribunal investigating Hariri's killing has not yet named any individuals or countries as suspects. But suspicion also has fallen on Syria's main ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - Hezbollah has denied a request from the international tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister to interview some of its members, the group's deputy leader said Thursday.

Death toll in southern Mexico mudslides up to 32 (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 08:23 PM PDT

People search for victims in the aftermath of a landslide Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - A rain-soaked hillside crumbled and crushed an elderly couple in their home Thursday, and rescuers found more bodies buried by earlier landslides, raising the death toll from a series of slides in southern Mexico to at least 32.

UN report on DR Congo an 'insult to history': Rwanda (AFP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:32 AM PDT

File picture shows a camp for displaced people in DRCongo. A draft United Nations report accusing Rwandan troops of having killed and raped Hutu refugees in the DR Congo, is AFP - A draft United Nations report accusing Rwandan troops of having killed and raped Hutu refugees in the DR Congo, is "flawed and dangerous" and an "insult to history", the Kigali government said.

NATO says it captures Afghan insurgent leaders (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:58 AM PDT

British soldiers with the Royal Gurkha Rifles regiment patrol Helmand Province in June 2010. The commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan has said the Taliban are approaching the Afghan government and foreign forces about laying down arms after almost nine years of insurgency.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AP - NATO forces said Friday they have detained two insurgent leaders in Afghanistan's east and in the south where troops are battling deeply dug-in militants, and that 430 suspected militants have been detained over the last month.

Canada forms panel to probe oil sands pollution (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:25 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada's environment minster has formed a scientific panel to examine whether Alberta's oil sands projects are polluting the Athabasca River as charged by an influential water ecologist.

Australian spies 'may have tracked' WikiLeaks founder (AFP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:42 AM PDT

Australian spy agencies may have helped trace the movements of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (pictured), whose whistleblowing website published tens of thousands of secret US military files, reports said Friday.(AFP/Scanpix/File/Bertil Ericson)AFP - Australian spy agencies may have helped trace the movements of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose whistleblowing website published tens of thousands of secret US military files, reports said Friday.

Ecuador coup attempt? President Rafael Correa attacked in police revolt. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:30 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Ecuador President Rafael Correa was holed up in Quito on Thursday afternoon after being attacked by police angered over changes to their job benefits.

An Indian Court Tries to Impose Peace on a Sacred but Bloody Space (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 12:05 AM PDT

Time.com - The site of the Babri mosque has been the focus of violent controversy for centuries. Now, a court has tried to impose an evenhanded solution. Will it hold?

Was a Mumbai-style terror attack really 'foiled'? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:16 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Breathless coverage in the past few days has written at length about a potential "Mumbai-style" terror attack planned for Britain â€" or perhaps Germany, or France â€" that was thwarted by the Obama administration's expanding aerial campaign against militant targets in Pakistan's lawless border provinces.
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