Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Libya troops advance east (Reuters)

Libya troops advance east (Reuters)

Libya troops advance east (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 12:03 AM PDT

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, and the committee's ranking Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., listen to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 29, 2011, by Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, back to camera, on the U.S. mission in Libya. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi's better armed and organized troops reversed the rapid westward advance of rebels on Tuesday as world powers meeting in London piled pressure on the Libyan leader to step down.

Syria's Assad to give first speech since protests (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:39 PM PDT

Reuters - President Bashar al-Assad will on Wednesday give his first public speech since pro-democracy protests in which more than 60 people have been killed erupted in southern Syria and swept through the country.

Spike in seawater radiation compounds Japan's nuclear crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:35 PM PDT

A man walks in an area destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Taro town, Iwate prefecture March 29, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaReuters - Japan said there was no end in sight to the crisis at its earthquake-wrecked nuclear power plant on Wednesday as a spike in radioactive iodine levels in seawater added to evidence of reactor leakages around the complex and beyond.

China executes 3 Filipinos despite Manila's pleas (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:50 PM PDT

Reuters - China executed on Wednesday three Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking despite a flurry of public appeals for clemency in the Philippines, and days after Amnesty International slammed Beijing's sweeping use of the death penalty.

Carter and Castro discuss U.S.-Cuba relations (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 06:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Former President Jimmy Carter and Cuban President Raul Castro discussed U.S.-Cuba relations in a meeting on Tuesday in which Castro repeated an offer to hold talks with the United States on any issue, Cuban state television said.

Libya: At Bin Jawad, Gaddafi Routs the Rebels Once More (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 12:45 AM PDT

Time.com - The Libyan rebels have now lost Bin Jawad in battle twice. And they have discovered one new factor that may impede their progress: a town that is ambivalent to their ambitions

Tullow Oil says Total, CNOOC buy Uganda assets (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:04 AM PDT

An oil exploration tower is pictured in Tonya on the shore of Lake Albert in Uganda. Anglo-Irish energy firm Tullow Oil has said it has agreed to sell part of its Uganda assets to France's Total and China's CNOOC for a total of $2.9 billion (2.06 billion euros).(AFP/File/Walter Astrada)AFP - Anglo-Irish energy firm Tullow Oil said Wednesday that it has agreed to sell part of its Uganda assets to France's Total and China's CNOOC for a total of $2.9 billion (2.06 billion euros).

Bahrain expands crackdown, detains Shiite blogger (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:18 AM PDT

Bahraini Shiite protesters wave their national flag as they take part in an anti-regime rally at Manama's Pearl Square on March 1. Bahrain's parliament on Tuesday accepted the resignation of 11 Shiite MPs, exposing them to possible legal action, after a news blackout on the arrests of top activists in a crackdown on anti-regime protests.(AFP/File/Joseph Eid)AP - A social media editor in Bahrain says the tiny Gulf country's most prominent blogger and vocal supporter of Shiite-led anti-government protests has been detained.

Wife, daughter of Mexican governor's guard killed (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 11:13 PM PDT

In this April 22, 2010, photo, a Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols along the international border in Nogales, Ariz. The federal government hasn’t come up with a comprehensive strategy to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, despite an all-out war between Mexico and its violent drug gangs that has claimed 35,000 lives and pushed hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the United States. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Gunmen killed the wife and 5-year-old daughter of a state governor's bodyguard in northern Mexico on Tuesday, authorities said.

World mulls arming Libyan rebels on the run (AFP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:00 AM PDT

A protestor is led away by police while taking part in a pro-Kadhafi demonstration in London. Moamer Kadhafi's forces were pushing rebels further back in east Libya on Wednesday after routing them outside the key city of Sirte as world powers mulled arming the rag-tag band of fighters.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - Moamer Kadhafi's forces were pushing rebels further back in east Libya on Wednesday after routing them outside the key city of Sirte as world powers mulled arming the rag-tag band of fighters.

Snapshot: Japan's nuclear crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:18 AM PDT

A man walks in an area destroyed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Taro town, Iwate prefecture March 29, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaReuters - Following are main developments after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan and crippled a nuclear power station, raising the risk of an uncontrolled radiation leak.

Parties differ on how to cut budget deficit (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Reuters - The two main parties contesting Canada's election have the same fundamental economic goals -- cutting the budget deficit chief among them -- but two very different approaches.

Missing Australian writer contacted in China (AP)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:02 AM PDT

AP - A Chinese-born Australian spy novelist who disappeared in China has been contacted and says he is in a hospital, though a friend claimed Wednesday he may be in the custody of secret police.

How AU's boycott of London Libya meeting may hurt Africa's interests (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 12:02 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The United Nations-backed no-fly zone imposed on Libya is easily the most important new intervention on the African continent today. So why did the African Union refuse to send a representative to participate in today's international conference in London about the way forward for the air campaign against Mr. Qaddafi's forces?

Undeterred by Japan, Earthquake-Prone Indonesia Pursues Nuclear Power (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 12:45 AM PDT

Time.com - More than two weeks into Japan's nuclear crisis, the earthquake-prone country's decision to press ahead with nuclear power plans has rattled many.

Can Libya’s people be protected if Qaddafi stays? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:51 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama may have equivocated last night â€" saying the international bombing campaign against Muammar Qaddafi’s forces is not about forcing regime change while insisting that Mr. Qaddafi must “step down from power.”

Desperate Measures in Times of Hunger (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 09:08 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - HARARE, Mar 29 (IRIN) - A mother of four in Zimbabwe’s rural Midlands Province gave her husband custody of her children, after divorcing him three years ago, because the failing crops on her two-acre plot meant she would be unable to feed them.
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