Wednesday, December 22, 2010

South Korea army to hold huge drill, North silent (Reuters)

South Korea army to hold huge drill, North silent (Reuters)

South Korea army to hold huge drill, North silent (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 10:52 PM PST

Two men look towards North Korea at the empty Tong-il observatory near the border village of Panmunjom, the demilitarized zone (DMZ), in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. South Korea vowed Wednesday to 'punish the enemy' as hundreds of troops, fighter jets, tanks and attack helicopters prepared massive new drills near the heavily armed border a month after a deadly North Korean artillery attack. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)Reuters - South Korea announced land and sea military exercises on Wednesday including its largest-ever live-fire drill near North Korea just as tension on the peninsula was beginning to ease after Pyongyang's attack on a southern island.

Europe travel chaos eases but pain remains (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 12:36 AM PST

A car is stuck in a ditch along a snow-covered road at Fechain near Cambrai December 20, 2010, after heavy snow fell in Northern France. Heavy snow and frigid temperatures caused further disruption across northern Europe on Monday stranding travellers, snarling traffic and shutting schools. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TRANSPORT IMAGES OF THE DAY BUSINESS)Reuters - Airline and international train services were limping back toward normal in parts of Europe on Wednesday, but the lingering effects of ice and snow that caused widespread chaos still weighed on schedules.

Iraq approves new government with Maliki as PM (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:17 PM PST

Reuters - Iraq's parliament approved Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his new government on Tuesday, nine months after an inconclusive election left politics in limbo and delayed investments to rebuild the country after years of war.

Greeks go on strike before austerity budget vote (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 12:27 AM PST

Reuters - Greek unions called a general strike on Wednesday and Athens was paralyzed by a 24-hour public transport stoppage in protest against the government's 2011 budget, set to pass later as part of an EU/IMF bailout.

Ivory Coast's Gbagbo says world can review poll (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:20 PM PST

A man looks at posters of weekly newsmagazine Jeune Afrique in the business area of Abidjan December 21, 2010 as life progressively turns to normal after the violence of last week. The message on the posters reads, Reuters - Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday invited an international committee to re-examine the results of a disputed election, to avoid a bitter power struggle with his rival escalating into civil war.

Frustration Builds Over High Food Prices In China (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 01:00 AM PST

Time.com - Despite the government's recent measures to curb inflation, China's discontent over consumer prices is at an 11-year low

Scotland rejects US senators' Lockerbie report (AFP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 01:14 AM PST

This Libyan Al-Motawassit channel TV grab shows freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi giving an interview in Tripoli in 2009. Scotland on Tuesday rejected as a AFP - The Scottish government has rejected as a "false interpretation" a damning report by US senators which alleges that Britain strong-armed Edinburgh into freeing the Lockerbie bomber.

Al-Qaida in Iraq threatens attacks on Christians (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 12:44 AM PST

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki addresses the parliament in Baghdad during a session in which lawmakers unanimously approved the new government which will be headed by the incumbent Shiite premier. US President Barack Obama Tuesday congratulated Iraq after parliament endorsed the new government.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AP - Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq is threatening more attacks against the country's Christians unless two women it claims Egypt's Coptic Church is holding captive are released.

Death toll from Mexico crude-oil blast rises to 29 (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:16 PM PST

People bury a victim of the oil pipeline explosion in a cemetery in San Geronimo, Mexico, Monday Dec. 20, 2010. The Sunday explosion in the nearby town of San Martin Texmelucan laid waste to parts of the central Mexican city, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude turned streets into flaming rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a disaster authorities blame on oil thieves. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - The death toll from a massive crude-oil explosion that laid waste to parts of a central Mexican city has risen to 29.

UN chief warns that Ivory Coast risks civil war (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 12:58 AM PST

UN forces exit the gate of the UN headquarters in Ivory Coast, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. The U.N. Security Council extended its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast on Monday, hours after the United Nations' top envoy in the West African country said armed men had been threatening staff in their homes. Incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to concede defeat in last month's election and his demand that peacekeepers leave have raised fears that U.N. personnel and other foreigners could be targeted in violence. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - The U.N. chief has warned that Ivory Coast faces "a real risk" of return to civil war, and that U.N. peacekeepers will face a critical situation in the coming days unless Laurent Gbagbo removes a blockade around his opponent's headquarters.

Japan exports post better growth in November (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 01:12 AM PST

AP - Japan's export growth improved for the first time in nine months in November, a possible sign that global demand is turning up again.

Canada's TD Bank bets $6 billion on U.S. auto lending (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:31 PM PST

Reuters - Toronto-Dominion Bank is buying Chrysler Financial for $6.3 billion, the second time in a week that a Canadian lender has placed a big bet on the U.S. economic recovery.

Asylum boat orphan relatives land in Australia (AFP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 12:05 AM PST

A Channel 7 TV framegrab released by The West Australian on December 15, 2010 shows an asylum boat full of refugees being smashed by violent seas against the jagged coastline of Australia's Christmas Island. Australian officials have found two aunts of a young refugee orphaned in last week's asylum boat sinking on later people-smuggling boats and arrangements were underway for a reunion.(AFP/The Western Australia/The West Australian)AFP - Australian officials on Wednesday said they had found two aunts of a young refugee orphaned in last week's asylum boat sinking on later people-smuggling boats and arrangements were underway for a reunion.

Iraq's new government raises hopes even as key ministries go unfilled (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:45 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraq unveiled a new and broad-based government Tuesday that comprised all its major religious and ethnic factions and raised hope that the country's nine-month political impasse could finally be over.

Pakistan Sees An Alternative Endgame in Afghanistan (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 01:00 AM PST

Time.com - Criticized for failing to implement the U.S. strategy, Pakistan's generals offer counter proposals on ending the war

Pop Smoke? A Marine and his fight for Iraq's $30,000 donkey. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:02 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - It’s probably safe to say that Smoke is the most sought-after donkey in Iraq.

Somalia: All to Play For in Unifying Football Tournament (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:10 AM PST

OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Dec 21 (IRIN) - Holding a football tournament with teams from 15 regions of Somalia is an achievement in itself - but the organizers hope it will do more than only bring players together.
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