Friday, November 26, 2010

North Korea says U.S.-South Korea exercises bring war closer (Reuters)

North Korea says U.S.-South Korea exercises bring war closer (Reuters)

North Korea says U.S.-South Korea exercises bring war closer (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 01:01 AM PST

South Korean naval ships are seen off Yeonpyeong island November 25, 2010. North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells at the South Korean border island on Tuesday, killing two South Korean soldiers and two civilians and setting houses ablaze in the heaviest attack on its neighbor since the Korean War ended in 1953. REUTERS/Jo Yong-HakReuters - North Korea said on Friday that impending military exercises by the South and the United States were pushing the region toward war, days after it launched its heaviest bombardment since the 1950-53 Korean War.

Brazil Marines join slum battles, 30 people killed (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 11:12 AM PST

Policemen take positions during an operation at Vila Cruzeiro slum in Rio de Janeiro November 25, 2010. REUTERS/Sergio MoraesReuters - Armored cars rolled through smoke-filled streets in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday as police battled slum-based drug gangs for a fifth consecutive day in the city slated to host the 2016 Olympics.

Teenage boys survive 50 days adrift in South Pacific (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 08:02 PM PST

Reuters - Three teenage boys set adrift for 50 days in a small boat in the South Pacific survived on coconuts, a seagull they managed to catch and by drinking rain and then sea water, rescuers said on Friday.

Putin, Merkel trade barbs ahead of talks in Germany (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:36 PM PST

Reuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel accused each other of hindering trade and investment Thursday ahead of talks which may result in the biggest German divestment from Russia to date.

U.N. warns Ivorian candidates against victory claims (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:40 PM PST

Ivory Coast's President and election candidate Laurent Gbagbo speaks during a rally in Abidjan November 22, 2010. REUTERS/ThierryReuters - The chief of the U.N. mission to Ivory Coast has urged both candidates in Sunday's election run-off not to claim victory before results are announced, amid fears of violence in a country torn by conflict in recent years.

Stolen Children in China are Seeking Answers (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 11:05 PM PST

Time.com - China's Kidnap Victims Search for Their Families

France's Casino sells Venuzuela unit to government (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 12:57 AM PST

French supermarket chain Casino said Friday it had sold its Venezuelan unit Cativen to the government there for 622.5 million dollars.(AFP/File/Eric Piermont)AFP - French supermarket chain Casino said Friday it had sold its Venezuelan unit Cativen to the government there for 622.5 million dollars.

Iraq Kurdish leader: A uniter in a divided nation (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:22 PM PST

FILE - In this June. 27, 2009 file photo, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, left, and President Jalal Talabani, right, react, at a ceremony marking the 2003 death of Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi state television reports on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010, that the president has officially asked incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to form the next government. The long-awaited announcement is part of a deal to end an eight-month deadlock over who would lead the country following the inconclusive March 7 elections. President Jalal Talabani's move sets in motion a 30-day timeline for al-Maliki to accomplish the challenging task of forming his Cabinet. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - In his five years as Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani has shown a remarkable ability to rise above the ethnic and religious divisions defining the country's political scene — sometimes at the expense of his own Kurdish identity.

Skirmishes raise specter of violent Haiti election (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 11:16 PM PST

People remove electoral posters with images of presidential candidate Jude Celestin during a protest against the upcoming elections in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. Haiti will hold elections on Nov. 28 in the midst of a month-old cholera epidemic that has killed at least 1,000 people and hospitalized thousands. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - The impromptu campaign rally ended not with cheers but panic as armed men on motorcycles, some wearing yellow-and-green T-shirts of a rival presidential contender, pulled up to the small crowd and fired into the air.

Oil-rich south Sudan weighs cost of progress (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 07:25 PM PST

A southern Sudanese man from a cattle herding community of the Nuer people, walks near the town of Mayom in Unity state in March 2010. South Sudan officials are concerned at the environmental damage being caused by the oil industry and are promising a tough new line if the oil-rich region gains independence next year.(AFP/File/Peter Martell)AFP - South Sudan officials are concerned at the environmental damage being caused by the oil industry and are promising a tough new line if the oil-rich region gains independence next year.

Artillery heard on tense Yellow Sea island (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 12:33 AM PST

U.S. Army Gen. Walter L. Sharp, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, is surrounded by media as his entourage tours a neighborhood destroyed by North Korean shelling on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. North Korea warned Friday that planned U.S.-South Korean military drills are pushing the peninsula to the brink of war. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - North Korea warned Friday that U.S.-South Korean plans for military maneuvers put the peninsula on the brink of war, and appeared to launch its own artillery drills within earshot of an island it showered with a deadly barrage this week.

Premier of Newfoundland Danny Williams stepping down (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 09:08 AM PST

Reuters - Danny Williams, premier of the oil-producing Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, said on Thursday he was leaving politics after seven years, having clinched a much sought-after hydroelectric deal.

3rd blast rocks NZ mine where 29 workers died (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 09:50 PM PST

A specially designed jet engine is unloaded at Hokitika Airport, New Zealand, Friday, Nov. 26, 2010, to be transported to the mine at Greymouth to aid with clearing toxic gas from the mine where 29 miners are trapped and are feared dead following an explosion nearly a week ago. Search teams have been unable to approach the mine because of explosive methane and other toxic gases. The trapped miners are thought to be dead following an underground explosion on Wednesday. (AP Photo/NZPA, Ross Setford) NEW ZEALAND OUTAP - Another underground blast ripped through a New Zealand coal mine on Friday almost a week to the minute after an earlier explosion caused the country's worst mining disaster in decades, with 29 killed.

China welcomes growing African trade, but not the Africans who facilitate it (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 04:05 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - As the southern city of Guangzhou hosts the Asian Games, which will come to a close on Nov. 27 in China, the prosperous city is putting its best face forward and has welcomed foreigners from all across Asia. However, the sweet welcome the visitors are receiving puts the treatment of a growing presence of African immigrants in the city into stark relief.

How Peru Became the Counterfeit-Cash Capital of the World (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 12:55 AM PST

Time.com - With lots of surreptitious printing presses able to churn out fake bills, Lima produces reams and reams of pesos, soles, bolÍvares and, of course, U.S. dollars

Securing a Peaceful Divorce in Sudan (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 03:19 PM PST

OneWorld.net - JUBA, Nov 25 (IRIN) - A January referendum in Southern Sudan is likely to lead to the creation of a new country - the first in Africa since Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 - but much work needs to be done to ensure the separation is more peaceful than that of its Horn of Africa neighbours.
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