Friday, February 4, 2011

Egyptians brace for new anti-Mubarak rally (Reuters)

Egyptians brace for new anti-Mubarak rally (Reuters)

Egyptians brace for new anti-Mubarak rally (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:59 PM PST

An injured pro-Mubarak supporter is detained by anti-government demonstators at an underground metro station after being rounded up during clashes at Tahrir Square in Cairo February 3, 2011. Anti-government protesters said on Thursday they were more determined than ever to topple President Hosni Mubarak after supporters loyal to him charged Tahrir Square, sparking violence that killed five people. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Egyptians fighting to oust President Hosni Mubarak hoped to rally a million people on Friday as the United States worked to convince the 82-year-old leader to begin handing over power.

Food costs at records as U.N. warns of volatile era (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 05:28 PM PST

South Korean housewives buy vegetables at a market in Seoul February 1, 2011. REUTERS/Lee Jae-WonReuters - Global food prices tracked by a U.N. agency hit their highest level on record in January, a problem set to worsen after a massive snowstorm in the United States and floods in Australia.

Kazakhstan to hold presidential election on April 3 (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:21 AM PST

Reuters - Kazakhstan's veteran leader has called a presidential election on April 3, nearly two years before his current term ends, pre-empting any challenge to his 22-year rule from within a restless political elite.

Haiti sets revised presidency runoff (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:27 PM PST

A Haitian man carries a fighting cock while he walks next to poster of Haiti's presidential candidate Jude Celestin in Port-au-Prince January 9, 2011. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - Haiti on Thursday heeded foreign pressure and amended the results of its November first-round election, setting up a presidential runoff that excludes a government-backed candidate hit by fraud allegations.

Why India is Investigating a Reincarnated Tibetan Lama (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:10 AM PST

Time.com - The young Karmapa Lama is one of the most important incarnations in Tibetan Buddhism. So why is New Delhi picking on him?

Explosions in Turkish capital: death toll now 17 (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:53 AM PST

Rescue workers seen after a powerful explosion in the collapsed two stories of a factory in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, leaving at least six people dead and injuring some 30 others. Search and rescue teams combed the rubble of the building in the industrial area of Ankara for workers who may be trapped inside.(AP Photo)AP - Rescue workers say they have recovered five more bodies at two separate explosion sites in an industrial district of the Turkish capital, bringing the death toll to at least 17.

Iraqi boy killed by gunmen aiming for his father (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:31 PM PST

Then US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, pictured in October 2006, is seen at a press event. Rumsfeld has been portrayed as proposing an attack on Iraq soon after the 9/11 attacks.(AFP/File/Miguel Alvarez)AP - A police chief in northern Iraq says the 8-year-old son of a local anti-terrorism chief was killed in a food market by gunmen aiming for his father.

Afghan detainee dies after exercise at Guantanamo (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 04:21 PM PST

Gautanamo Bay Camp VI in Guantanamo. The US military said on Thursday an Afghan inmate at the American prison has collapsed and died after exercising on an elliptical machine.(AFP/File/Virginie Montet)AP - A 48-year-old Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo Bay collapsed and died, apparently from natural causes, after exercising inside the jail, the U.S. military said Thursday.

US officials: Talks on Mubarak leaving immediately (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:36 AM PST

An opposition demonstrator throws a rock during rioting with pro-Mubarak supporters near Tahrir Square in Cairo February 3, 2011. REUTERS/Goran TomasevicAP - Talks are under way between the Obama administration and top Egyptian officials on the possible immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and the formation of a military-backed caretaker government that could prepare the country for free and fair elections later this year, U.S. officials say.

Nippon-Sumitomo merger stirs hope for steel shakeup (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:36 AM PST

Reuters - Plans by Nippon Steel Corp (5401.T) and Sumitomo Metal Industries (5405.T) to create the world's No. 2 steelmaker fanned expectations of further consolidation in the fragmented industry, sending Japanese steelmakers shares surging on Friday.

Conservative government losing support: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 05:21 PM PST

Reuters - Support for the Conservative government has slipped as political parties jostle in advance of the new budget and a possible spring election, according to a poll released on Thursday.

Australian rescuers battle to reach cyclone towns (AFP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 07:19 PM PST

Local residents sit on a tin roof as they watch a thunderstorm approaching after Cyclone Yasi tore through Tully, on February 3. The biggest storm to hit Australia in a century wrought huge damage to small coastal communities, cutting some of them off completely. But while two men were reported missing, there were no confirmed deaths caused directly by Yasi.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australian rescuers cut their way through to towns splintered by a monster cyclone, as officials urged people stranded by the storm to stay calm until help arrives.

Egypt's VP uses state TV to blame unrest on 'foreign agendas' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 03:23 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Omar Suleiman, looking like a president in waiting, took to Egyptian state television tonight with dark hints of conspiracies behind the democracy protests, a dismissal of demands for immediate political reform, and words of loyalty and respect for President Hosni Mubarak.

Tahrir Warrior: How an Egyptian Doctor Joined the Battle (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:10 AM PST

Time.com - The young physician volunteered himself one night to help with the injured. Now, he's a committed demonstrator, ready to stay to the end

Europe ups pressure on Mubarak, calling for immediate transition in Egypt (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 02:10 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The leaders of Europe’s big five â€" Germany, France, Britain, Italy, and Spain â€" demanded Thursday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak begin a democratic transition “immediately” and condemned violence against media as “unacceptable.”

Sachs defends Pachauri against Murdoch propaganda (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 05:18 AM PST

OneWorld.net - NEW DELHI, Feb 3 (OneWorld.net) - Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the outspoken Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, has accused the News Corporation media empire of conducting a year-long campaign of vilification against the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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