Thursday, November 25, 2010

China says concerned at U.S.-South Korea military drill (Reuters)

China says concerned at U.S.-South Korea military drill (Reuters)

China says concerned at U.S.-South Korea military drill (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 11:56 PM PST

Reuters - China expressed concern on Thursday about joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises in the Yellow Sea while North Korea threatened more attacks on the wealthy South if there are more "provocations."

Cholera-hit Haiti needs nurses, doctors: U.N. (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 04:15 PM PST

A Haitian child with cholera rests while receiving treatment in a provisional clinic run by medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince November 23, 2010. REUTERS/ Eduardo MunozReuters - Haiti needs a surge of foreign nurses and doctors to stem deaths from a raging cholera epidemic that an international aid operation is struggling to control, the United Nations' top humanitarian official said.

India hit by another major corruption scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:08 AM PST

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attends the Indian labour conference in New Delhi November 23, 2010. REUTERS/B MathurReuters - India's reputation as a place to do business took another hit after the scandal-tainted government charged top public sector bankers of accepting bribes worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Protesters disperse after UK student demonstration (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:54 PM PST

A student jumps over a fence to join other students occupying Oxford University's Radcliffe Camera building, in Oxford, southern England November 24, 2010. REUTERS/Eddie KeoghReuters - Thousands of demonstrators protesting in central London against a rise in university fees began to disperse Wednesday, after earlier scuffles with police and vandalism to some public buildings and a police van.

Another war in Sudan could cost $100 billion: report (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:51 AM PST

Reuters - The cost to Sudan and its neighbors of any return to civil war sparked by January's referendum on independence for southern Sudan could total $100 billion, a report said on Thursday.

Philippines: Hope, Finally, for a Family Planning Law (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST

Time.com - While Catholics and critics digest the Pope's most recent pronouncement on prophylactics, the Philippines is mired in its own debate about family planning, population and the place of the church in the 21st century

Stocks little changed at open (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:34 AM PST

The stock market was little changed in opening deals after recent volatility. The FTSE 100 index dipped 0.04 percent to 5,654.95 points.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The stock market was little changed in opening deals on Thursday after recent volatility. The FTSE 100 index dipped 0.04 percent to 5,654.95 points.

Egypt activists struggle to monitor election (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:16 AM PST

Electoral posters are seen at a street ahead of the Nov. 28 Egyptian parliamentary elections, in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010. Rights activists in Egypt are struggling to ensure they will be able to monitor parliament elections Sunday that they expect to be plagued by rigging. But they are hoping for help from would-be voters themselves through an Internet map tracking violations at the polls. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - Rights activists in Egypt are struggling to ensure they will be able to monitor parliament elections Sunday that they expect to be plagued by rigging. But they are hoping for help from would-be voters themselves through an Internet map tracking violations at the polls.

Mexico sending more troops to violent border zone (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 11:09 PM PST

In this Nov. 19, 2010 Mexican Navy marines stand next to a wall painted with portraits of Mexican Revolution heroes Emiliano Zapata, right, and Francisco I. Madero at the entrance to the city of Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, near the border with Texas. Mexico will send more troops and federal police in an operation called 'Coordinated Northeast Operation' to fight drug violence, the federal government said Wednesday. Cartel violence has escalated to warfare in parts of Tamaulipas state across the border from Texas and the industrial city of Monterrey in Nuevo Leon state.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - Mexico's violent northeastern corner near the U.S. border will get a boost in troops and federal police as the government tries to wrest back control of an area that has become a battleground for two rival drug cartels.

Summary box: SAfrica interest rate cuts too small (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:52 PM PST

AP - SOUTH AFRICA GROWTH SLOWS: South Africa's third-quarter economic growth moderated to 2.6 percent from 2.8 percent in the second quarter, according to new statistics Wednesday.

Afghan prosecutor: 2 election workers arrested (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:51 AM PST

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, welcomes Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul, prior to their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - The Afghan attorney general's office has arrested two money changers and two members of the nation's electoral commission on allegations of fraud in the September parliamentary election.

Quebec government survives confidence vote (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:22 PM PST

Reuters - Quebec's unpopular Liberal government narrowly survived a vote of confidence on Wednesday, fending off a move by separatists to force an early election in the Canadian province.

US 'Honeymoon Killer' flies out of Australia (AFP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 10:51 PM PST

File photo shows a diver swimming over Australia's Great Barrier Reef. An American dubbed the AFP - An American dubbed the "Honeymoon Killer" over his wife's death on a diving trip flew out of Australia Thursday for the United States, where he may face further charges, officials said.

Egypt cracks down on Muslim Brotherhood ahead of elections (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 11:52 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Arrests of more than 1,300 political activists, violent dispersals of opposition campaign events, and a reduction of independent poll monitoring all point to a landslide victory for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) in this Sunday's parliamentary elections.

The Afghanistan War Reaches a Milestone -- and Keeps Going (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:00 AM PST

Time.com - The longest war in U.S. history has been extended by at least four years, but faces a growing obstacle in local public opinion that opposes further fighting

Final Afghan election results show Hazara minority trumped dominant Pashtuns (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 10:39 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Nearly two months after Afghans cast their votes in the parliamentary election, the country’s Independent Election Commission released the final results for all but one area of the country.
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