Monday, April 25, 2011

Tanks in Syria's Deraa city, bodies in street: witness (Reuters)

Tanks in Syria's Deraa city, bodies in street: witness (Reuters)

Tanks in Syria's Deraa city, bodies in street: witness (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:03 AM PDT

Reuters - Eight tanks and two armored vehicles deployed in the old quarter of the besieged Syrian city of Deraa and several bodies were seen lying in a main street near the Omari mosque, a witness said on Monday.

Carter says hopes to meet North Korea leader and son (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:51 PM PDT

Reuters - Former President Jimmy Carter said on Monday he hopes to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and his son and presumed heir during a visit this week that will concentrate on Pyongyang's nuclear program and foodaid needs.

Saleh defiant, day after agreeing to handover plan (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:33 AM PDT

Soldiers arrest anti-government protesters as they disperse a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz April 25, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - Yemen's veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh has struck a defiant tone in an interview, a day after his government said he had accepted a Gulf Arab plan to hand over power within weeks.

Air strike flattens building in Gaddafi compound (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 07:16 PM PDT

Libyan evacuees arrive by ship from Misrata during an evacuation operation organized by IOM (International Organization for Migration) at the port of Benghazi April 24, 2011. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi's government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life.

Japan PM under pressure after party falters in local polls (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:46 AM PDT

A reporter raises his hands to ask Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan a question during a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo April 22, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan faces fresh pressure to quit after his ruling party's losses in local elections on Sunday, weakening his clout as he struggles to contain a nuclear crisis and find ways to finance post-quake rebuilding.

Casualties of War: Helping Female Soldiers Get Back on Their Feet in Sri Lanka (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:50 AM PDT

Time.com - Sri Lanka's civil war ended nearly two years ago, but women on either side of the former war divide are still battling hard to enjoy even the simple niceties of peace

Animal rights group gives royal couple "cruelty-free silk" gift (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:31 AM PDT

Reuters - An Indian animal rights group hopes their wedding gift to Kate Middleton and Prince William, a set of traditional wedding garments made of artificial silk, will help raise awareness of how cruel traditional versions of the fabric can be.

Syrian security forces storm towns, witnesses say (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:31 AM PDT

In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired Saturday April 23, 2011, by The Associated Press, Syrian anti-government protesters carry the coffin of an activist who was killed on Friday during his funeral procession in Quaboun near Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 23, 2011. Syrian security forces fired on tens of thousands of mourners during funeral processions Saturday, killing several people following the deadliest day of the uprising against authoritarian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo)AP - Witnesses say Syrian security forces are opening fire in the suburbs of Damascus and in the southern town of Daraa.

Mexican brothers face death in Malaysia drug trial (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 09:01 PM PDT

In this April 4, 2011 photo, Brenda Sepulveda, wife of Jose Regino Gonzalez Villareal, stands in her father-in-law's home after picking up her children from school in Culiacan, Mexico. Brenda's husband was a brick maker, but now he and two of his brothers are facing the death penalty in Malaysia on drug charges. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - From age 6, each of the Gonzalez brothers learned to make bricks, trudging like nine little chicks behind their father every day before dawn to work in his dusty hilltop brickyard.

3 bombs in northeast Nigeria city, deaths reported (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:57 AM PDT

Police enforce a curfew in nothern Nigeria following electoral violence. Three bomb blasts have hit a city in northeastern Nigeria, leaving a number of people killed and wounded in an attack believed to have been carried out by an Islamist sect, police said Monday.(AFP/File/Tony Karumba)AFP - Three bomb blasts have hit a city in northeastern Nigeria, leaving a number of people killed and wounded in an attack believed to have been carried out by an Islamist sect, police said Monday.

Taliban break more than 450 out of Afghan prison (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:57 AM PDT

Afghan policemen stand in front of gate of the main prison in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, April 25, 2011. Taliban insurgents dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters, officials and the insurgents said Monday. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Taliban militants dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters, officials and insurgents said Monday.

Leftist party rise shakes up Canadian vote (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 09:50 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada's election campaign entered its final stretch on Sunday with all sides trying to weigh the impact of growing support for the New Democratic Party, which has traditionally lagged its rivals.

World record sought for Trinidad Scorpion Butch T chili (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Beware, Naga Viper. Your reign as the world's hottest chili pepper may be coming to a close.

Iraqi Christians mark a restrained Easter (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 06:35 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi Christians marked a restrained Easter weekend as fear of attacks kept many from openly celebrating their most sacred day of the year and church officials urged them not to give up on the country.

Syria's Bashar Assad: What Can He Count On to Survive? (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:50 AM PDT

Time.com - Even if his own Alawite community may be thinking of a post-Assad Syria, the President is unlikely to be unseated so long as the military and the security forces remain on his side

Yemen's president may step down (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 02:40 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Yemen's embattled president agreed Saturday to a proposal by Gulf Arab mediators to step down within 30 days and hand power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a major about-face for the autocratic leader who has ruled for 32 years.
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