Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Governments tighten air security after Yemen plot (Reuters)

Governments tighten air security after Yemen plot (Reuters)


Governments tighten air security after Yemen plot (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 06:55 PM PDT

Reuters - Governments tightened aviation security on Monday after two U.S-bound bombs sent in air cargo from Yemen were intercepted in Dubai and Britain.

Argentine president vows to honor husband's legacy (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 08:09 PM PDT

Reuters - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez came close to tears on Monday in her first televised comments since the death last week of her powerful husband and closest advisor, Nestor Kirchner.

Greece intercepts parcel bomb addressed to Sarkozy (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 12:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Greek police intercepted a booby-trapped parcel addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday, after another package exploded at a courier company in Athens, slightly wounding an employee.

Japan recalls envoy to Moscow over islands row (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:55 AM PDT

Kunashiri Island, one of four islands known as the Southern Kuriles in Russia and Northern Territories in Japan, is seen in this photo taken March, 2007. REUTERS/KyodoReuters - Japan said on Tuesday it was recalling its ambassador to Moscow temporarily after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited a disputed island, raising the stakes in a territorial row.


Yemen begins trial of radical preacher wanted by U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:44 AM PDT

Reuters - Yemen, under pressure to crack down on militants operating there after a foiled bomb plot involving U.S.-bound parcels, began the trial in absentia on Tuesday of a radical U.S.-born preacher wanted dead or alive by Washington.

Pakistan Seeks Alliance with China as the U.S. Gets Tough (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:05 AM PDT

Time.com - Pakistan's security establishment, under pressure from Washington over its failure to back the war in Afghanistan, seeks an alternative benefactor

BP back in profit in Q3 but oil spill still weighs (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:57 AM PDT

AP - BP PLC has returned to profit in the third quarter as it recovers from the impact of April's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but says it still cannot estimate the full cost of the disaster.

Yemen charges US-born radical cleric al-Awlaki (AP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:44 AM PDT

AP - Yemeni prosecutors have charged in absentia a U.S.-born, al-Qaida linked cleric with plotting to kill foreigners.

Mexico: 4 US citizens killed in separate attacks (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 09:58 PM PDT

People hang a banner that reads in Spanish 'No more death' outside the federal attorney general office in commemoration of Day of the Dead in Mexico City, Monday Nov. 1, 2010.  Activists protested Mexico's President Felipe Calderon's drug war strategy by erecting a Day of the Dead altar in honor of recently killed youth.  (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said Monday.


UN calls on Ivory Coast to accept poll results (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 05:17 PM PDT

Election officials start counting ballots in the first round of presidential elections in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday Oct. 31, 2010. The West African nation of Ivory Coast held a long-awaited presidential election Sunday, the first since civil war erupted in 2002 and split the world's leading cocoa producer in half. Millions of people here are hoping the repeatedly delayed poll will reunite the divided country and restore stability after more than a decade of chaos and tension. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on rival parties in Ivory Coast on Monday to accept results from the West African nation's first election since civil war split the cocoa-producing country in half nearly a decade ago.


India hikes rates for a sixth time to tame inflation (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:58 AM PDT

Duvvuri Subbarao, governor of the Reserve Bank of India, during a meeting with bankers in Mumbai on November 2. India's central bank on Tuesday raised benchmark interest rates by a quarter percentage point in its sixth hike since the start of the year to curb stubborn inflation in the country's booming economy.(AFP/Punit Paranjpe)AFP - India's central bank on Tuesday raised benchmark interest rates by a quarter percentage point in its sixth hike since the start of the year to curb stubborn inflation in the country's booming economy.


Sydney zoo celebrates birth of Asian elephant (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 07:28 PM PDT

In this image provided by Taronga Zoo an unnamed female baby elephant stands under her mother, Pak Boon, after the birth of the infant early Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. The 120 kg (265 pound) youngster was born four years to the day of the arrival of a herd of elephants from Thailand in 2006. (AP Photo/Taronga Zoo, Bobby-Jo Vial) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - Sydney's premier zoo is celebrating the birth of its first female Asian elephant — a 270 pound (120 kilogram) calf that is doing well.


Oil and gas discoveries produce potential Israel-Lebanon flash points (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 02:01 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The recent discoveries of massive gas fields off the coast of northern Israel, tantalizingly close to Lebanese coastal waters, has stirred cash-strapped Lebanon to accelerate efforts to begin its own oil and gas exploration.

WikiLeaks Plans to Post Russian Documents; Moscow Not Pleased (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 12:05 AM PDT

The homepage of the WikiLeaks.org website is seen on a computer after leaked classified military documents were posted to it. Russia on Thursday called on the United States to carry out a detailed investigation into allegations contained in leaked Iraq war documents published by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)Time.com - WikiKeaks says one of its upcoming document dumps will reveal the truths behind Russia's leadership. But with Moscow issuing threats of censorship -- or worse -- can the whistle-blowing website afford to take on the Russian Bear?


Kurdish rebels deny Istanbul suicide attack as speculation mounts (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 11:08 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Kurdish rebels have denied any role in Sunday's suicide blast in the heart of Istanbul, as speculation mounts about who was behind the attack that targeted police and left 32 wounded.

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