Saturday, February 5, 2011

Saboteurs attack Egypt gas pipeline (Reuters)

Saboteurs attack Egypt gas pipeline (Reuters)

Saboteurs attack Egypt gas pipeline (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:30 AM PST

A member of the press lies on the ground after being attacked by mobs while soldiers surround him in Cairo February 3, 2011. The United States and Britain condemned the intimidation of foreign reporters covering protests against President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday. Picture taken Fenruary 3, 2011. REUTERS/KyodoReuters - Saboteurs blew up a gas pipeline, state television said on Saturday, adding fresh turmoil to Egypt during unprecedented protests to end the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak.

Witness: Egypt police keep firm grip in Cairo's slums (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 02:52 PM PST

Reuters - Alexander Dziadosz has been a correspondent for Reuters in Egypt since October, 2009. In this piece he describes an encounter with Egyptian police and unidentified armed men, groups of whom control the streets in Cairo's poorer areas even as pro-democracy protesters occupy central areas of the capital.

Thai, Cambodia troops clash again near temple, 1 killed (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:06 AM PST

A house burns in a Thai village near a 11th-century Preah Vihear temple at the border between Thailand and Cambodia February 4, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged on their border fire for a second day on Saturday in a brief clash that killed a Thai soldier, the latest flare-up in a long-running feud over land around an 11th-century temple.

Northern Mexico cold snap paralyzes Ciudad Juarez (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 04:37 PM PST

Reuters - Freezing weather and snow paralyzed the border city of Ciudad Juarez on Friday, knocking out electricity and water in thousands of homes and closing roads and factories.

Jordan Islamists demand speedy political reform (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:32 AM PST

Reuters - Hundreds of Jordanians, inspired by demonstrations in Egypt, protested Friday against King Abdullah's government reshuffle saying it did not meet their calls for political reform.

World Service Cuts: Why We Need the BBC (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:05 PM PST

Time.com - As the BBC announces it's cutting its World Service in several parts of the globe, including Africa and the Balkans, a seasoned journalist in Serbia laments the hole it will leave behind

Berlusconi fights back as sex trial looms (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:20 AM PST

Demonstrators carry placards during a protest against Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in Amsterdam. An Italian inquiry into Berlusconi's alleged liaisons with prostitutes -- denied by the prime minister -- was first reported last month and has dominated Italian newspapers since then, with lurid headlines and pictures of an array of women.(AFP/ANP/File/Valerie Kuypers)AFP - Silvio Berlusconi still has plenty of political clout even as he braces for a bruising week in which judges are set to request he stand trial in a case involving a dancer known as "Ruby the Heart-Stealer".

Iraqi premier says he'll cut his salary by half (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 05:11 PM PST

FILE - In this March 26, 2010 file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al- Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's prime minister says he will return half of his annual salary to the government's treasury in a symbolic effort to balance the standard of living between the nation's rich and poor. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - Iraq's prime minister said Friday he'll return half of his annual salary to the public treasury in a symbolic gesture that appeared calculated to insulate himself from the anti-government unrest spreading across the Middle East.

US warns about night driving in major Mexican city (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 09:52 PM PST

Mexican troops in combat gear patrol the streets after police had a firefight with drug traffickers in the Guadalupe municipality, Zacatecas state, Mexico. Suspected drug traffickers threw grenades, fired shots and burned cars in Mexico's second largest city of Guadalajara following the detention of two gang members, officials said Wednesday.(AFP/Guillermo Moreno)AP - Officials are warning U.S. citizens not to drive at night in parts of the western Mexican city of Guadalajara after suspected drug-gang members burned vehicles and blocked streets. A separate U.S. alert Friday said the northern city of Monterrey has seen a significant increase in armed robberies at restaurants and convenience stores.

Amid protests, views of post-Mubarak Egypt emerge (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:56 AM PST

An anti-government protester straddles atop a lamppost as he waves Egyptian flags at the continuing demonstration in Tahrir square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. Tens of thousands packed central Cairo Friday, waving flags and singing the national anthem, emboldened in their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak after they repelled pro-regime attackers in two days of bloody street battles. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - A new rally Friday by nearly 100,000 protesters in Cairo and behind-the-scenes diplomacy from the Obama administration piled more pressure on President Hosni Mubarak to make a swift exit and allow a temporary government to embark on an immediate path toward democracy.

Indian Kashmiris protest student's killing by army (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:56 AM PST

An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard in Srinagar in January 2011. Thousands of protesters have poured into the streets in restive Indian Kashmir after a student was shot dead by the army.(AFP/File/Rouf Bhat)AFP - Thousands of protesters poured into the streets in restive Indian Kashmir on Saturday after a student was shot dead by the army.

Obama, Harper eye new security plan to ease trade (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:31 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed on Friday to a new approach to U.S. and Canadian security that they said would help boost trade by reducing logjams at the border.

More floods in Australia as cyclone damage tallied (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2011 12:22 AM PST

Nathan La Fauci, right, show his partner Elisha Verrent a photo found in the rubble of their home at Tully Heads, Australia, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, after Cyclone Yasi brought heavy rain and howling winds gusting to 186 mph (300 kph). Yasi ripped across the coast near Cairns on Wednesday night, tearing apart dozens of homes and damaging hundreds more, cutting power to tens of thousands of people and flattening millions of dollars worth of crops. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - The cyclone that tore through Australia's northeast this week brought fresh misery to people in the south on Saturday, causing flash flooding in the second-largest city even as residents in far distant towns returned to ruined homes.

How the Egyptian revolt will recast the Middle East (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:50 PM PST

An Egyptian anti-government demonstrator hold a placard at Cairo's Tahrir Square. President Hosni Mubarak defied a huge The Christian Science Monitor - Iman Mosharafa points at the loose curls spilling over her red sweater. The gesture emphasizes that she isn't wearing an Islamic head scarf. "Look, I'm not from the Muslim Brotherhood," she says in an interview in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Egypt: Protesters (and Mubarak) Stay Put After 'Day of Departure' (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:05 PM PST

Time.com - Massive demonstrations mark the "Day of Departure," but Mubarak remains in office. Could the regime hope to prevail through attrition?

Stronger sense of Egyptian identity emerges among protesters (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 11:31 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - For the second Friday in a row, tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and the establishment of democracy here gathered in Tahrir Square in a largely peaceful and joyous scene.
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