Monday, January 31, 2011

Egypt protesters camp out, Mubarak turns to army (Reuters)

Egypt protesters camp out, Mubarak turns to army (Reuters)

Egypt protesters camp out, Mubarak turns to army (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 12:44 AM PST

Demonstrators celebrate atop an army tank in Tahrir square during protests in Cairo January 29, 2011. REUTERS/Yannis BehrakisReuters - Egyptian protesters were camped out in central Cairo on Monday and vowed to stay until they had toppled President Hosni Mubarak, whose fate appeared to hang on the military as pressure mounted from the street and abroad.

South Sudan votes 99 percent to separate from north (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 01:50 PM PST

Heavily armed police patrol Khartoum's main streets January 30, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - South Sudan almost unanimously voted to declare independence from the north in a referendum, officials said on Sunday, sparking mass celebrations in the southern capital Juba.

South Korea rejects North's call for earlier military talks (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 01:05 AM PST

This photo, released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, shows N.Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (centre) visiting the Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang with his son, Kim Jong-Un (front row, 2nd right).(AFP/KCNA via KNS/File)Reuters - South Korea on Monday rejected a push by the North to bring forward military talks by 10 days, saying it was not enough time to prepare for their first dialogue since the North's deadly attack against a border island last year.

Pakistani children haunted by images of flood waters (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 12:35 AM PST

Reuters - Raja Hussain, 10, still sees flood waters roaring toward his farming village most nights. They sound like a high-speed train.

Tunisian Islamists show strength at chief's return (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 08:36 AM PST

A Tunisian riot policeman searches through belongings of protesters after security forces stormed a protest camp outside the prime minister's office in Tunis January 28 2011. REUTERS/Zohra BensemraReuters - Thousands of Tunisians turned out on Sunday to welcome home an Islamist leader whose return from 22 years of exile indicated that his party would emerge as a major force in Tunisia after the ousting of its president.

Egypt's Uprising: Why the U.S. Needs to Embrace Change (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 12:35 AM PST

Time.com - The events unfolding in Cairo represent the most significant popular uprising in the Middle East since the 1979 Iranian revolution. What should the U.S. do?

Film composer John Barry dies aged 77: report (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 01:07 AM PST

Composer John Barry attends a screening and discussion of AFP - Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote the scores to "Out of Africa" and "Dances with Wolves" and numerous Bond films, has died at the age of 77, the BBC reported Monday, citing relatives.

Signs of normal life reappear in Cairo (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 01:01 AM PST

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this photo taken early Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, and made available Monday, Jan. 31, parts of unidentified mummies are seen damaged on the floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. Early Saturday morning, looters entered from the glass dome on the roof of the museum with ropes with the intention to loot antiquities. Civilian and army soldiers surrounded the museum and detained several looters. According the Egyptian army and Dr. Zahi Hawass, the chief of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, no items were stolen, but several were damaged. (AP Photo)AP - Police and garbage collectors are appearing on the streets of Cairo and subway stations are reopening after soldiers and neighborhood watch groups armed with clubs and machetes kept the peace in many districts overnight.

Chavez's new threat: funding at risk for activists (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

AP - A single number topped the front page of El Nacional one recent morning: 1,734.

Egypt protesters call strike, 'million man march' (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 12:58 AM PST

Looters walk away with goods as smoke billows from the riot-hit Abu Zaabel prison in the Egyptian capital Cairo after a mass breakout by convicts amid a nationwide revolt. Troops set up checkpoints on roads to riot-hit prisons, stopping and searching cars for prisoners on the run.(AFP)AFP - Egyptian protesters on Monday called for an indefinite general strike and a "million man march" on Tuesday in Cairo, upping the stakes in their bid to topple President Hosni Mubarak's creaking regime.

Japan kingpin Ozawa charged in funding scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 12:53 AM PST

Reuters - Japanese ruling party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa was charged on Monday over a funding scandal, a widely expected judicial move that could widen a rift over whether he should leave the party.

Australia dodges cyclone 'bullet', fears remain (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 10:51 PM PST

File photo shows the Brisbane city skyline following devastating floods. Australia's Queensland state could be hit by a monster cyclone packing fierce 260 kilometre (162 mile) per hour winds, just as it recovers from weeks of massive inundations, officials have warned.(AFP/File/Tertius Pickard)AFP - Australia's Queensland state could be hit by a monster cyclone packing fierce 260 kilometre (162 mile) per hour winds, just as it recovers from weeks of deadly floods, officials warned Monday.

ElBaradei to US: Take Egypt's Mubarak off life support (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 12:35 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian Nobel Prize winner who says he has a mandate from Egypt's opposition to negotiate President Hosni Mubarak's withdrawal from power and the creation of a transitional government, urged the US to turn its back on long-time ally Mr. Mubarak in a series of television interviews earlier today.

What the U.S. Loses if Mubarak Goes (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 12:35 AM PST

Time.com - The strategy of relying on authoritarian moderates to back Washington's confrontation with Iran and its allies may become untenable as Arab publics demand a say in matters of state

It's official: South Sudan set to secede with a 99.57 percent vote (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 11:49 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Cheers and spontaneous dancing broke out as the first official announcement of results from South Sudan’s independence vote was made in the oil-rich region’s capital by members of commission that organized the referendum held earlier this month.

Egypt Uprising 'As Serious as a Heart Attack' (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 30 Jan 2011 11:44 AM PST

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 29 (New America Media) - NAM Contributor Jalal Ghazi spoke with Dina Ibrahim, an Egyptian-born assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University whose area of expertise is Middle Eastern politics and media.
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