Friday, May 27, 2011

Clinton in Pakistan, presses for more to quash militancy (Reuters)

Clinton in Pakistan, presses for more to quash militancy (Reuters)

Clinton in Pakistan, presses for more to quash militancy (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:07 AM PDT

Armed soldiers patrol past a police station, which was destroyed by a car bomb, in Peshawar May 25, 2011. REUTERS/Adrees LatifReuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began an awkward, unsmiling meeting with Pakistan's leaders on Friday as Washington pressed its ally to fully grasp the need to quash Islamist militancy amid tense ties over the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Ratko Mladic to face tribunal on genocide charges (Reuters)

Posted: 26 May 2011 11:19 PM PDT

FILE Undated file photo showing top war crimes fugitives Bosnian Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic, right, and political leader Radovan Karadzic. Belgrade media reports Thursday May 26, 2011 that a man suspected to be Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia. Serbia state TV said a man who identified himself as Milorad Komadic when he was arrested Thursday is the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander. It gave no other details. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic, File)Reuters - Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic will face trial on genocide charges in The Hague following his arrest in Serbia after 15 years on the run, with European officials expecting his extradition within 10 days.

U.S. and France will see through Libya mission: Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:09 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Friday that the United States and France were in full agreement on sticking with the NATO-led intervention in Libya until the crisis there is resolved.

North Korea says it releases detained U.S. citizen (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:22 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. rights envoy Robert King on Friday won the release of an American citizen detained in North Korea on unspecified charges for the past six months, as he wrapped up a visit to the secretive state to assess its pleas for food aid.

Japan powerbroker Ozawa ready to challenge PM: report (Reuters)

Posted: 26 May 2011 11:16 PM PDT

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks at the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) headquarters in Paris as the organisation marks its 50th anniversary May 25, 2011. REUTERS/Jacky NaegelenReuters - Ruling party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa is considering backing a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Naoto Kan, raising the possibility that Japan will have another change at the top as it grapples with a nuclear crisis and deep economic problems.

Georgian Failed Revolt: An Egypt Scenario or Russian Plot? (Time.com)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:45 AM PDT

Time.com - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili crushes an attempt to overthrow him by way of street protests even as everyone wonders if Russia had anything to do with it

Serbia may ask IMF for 1 bln euros: IMF official (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:19 AM PDT

Reuters - The Serbian government may ask the International Monetary Fund for about 1 billion euros ($1.42 billion) as part of its future precautionary deal with the lender, an IMF official said on Friday.

Funeral held for assassinated Iraq Shiite official (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:44 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010 file photo, Iraqi men walk past an election campaign poster depicting Ali al-Lami, the director for the Accountability and Justice Committee that vetted candidates for ties to the former regime in Baghdad, Iraq. The top military spokesman for Baghdad says that gunmen killed the head of a controversial committee tasked with vetting people for ties to Saddam Hussein's regime. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)AP - Scores of people have taken part in the funeral procession for the assassinated Iraqi Shiite official who headed a committee tasked with rooting out those with ties to Saddam Hussein.

29 dead after drug gangs battle in west Mexico (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 11:03 PM PDT

** RESENDING TO ADD BYLINE ** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - A man in military fatigues lies dead next a truck on a road after a gunbattle between rival drug gangs near the town of Ruiz, in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, Mexico, Wednesday May 25, 2011. The Mexican army said they found 29 bodies wearing fake military uniforms heaped across the roadway and inside bullet-riddled vehicles. (AP Photo/Nayaritenlinea.mx)AP - A gunbattle between rival drug gangs in western Mexico left 29 bodies in fake military uniforms heaped across a roadway and inside bullet-riddled vehicles in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, the army said Thursday.

US says Sudan move into Abyei was premeditated (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2011 09:12 PM PDT

AP - The Sudanese government's takeover of the disputed border town of Abyei increasingly appears to be premeditated, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said Thursday.

Thailand arrests American for alleged king insult (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:16 AM PDT

AP - An American has been arrested in Thailand for allegedly insulting its monarchy, a serious offense in this Southeast Asian nation punishable by up to 15 years in jail.

NDP names shadow cabinet (Reuters)

Posted: 26 May 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Reuters - Canada's main opposition party named its "shadow cabinet" on Thursday, including former labor negotiator Peggy Nash as chief critic of the Conservative government's finance policies.

Australia returns passport to ex-Gitmo detainee (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:28 AM PDT

AP - An Egyptian-born Australian has had his passport returned six years after his release from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay because he is no longer considered a risk to national security, intelligence officials said Friday.

Can Afghanistan hang on to its newly minted college grads? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 May 2011 01:25 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - On a well-manicured lawn lined with rose bushes in full bloom â€" 211, boasts one brochure â€" members of American University of Afghanistan’s first graduating class mingle and take pictures with former presidential contender Abdullah Abdullah. Though there are just 32 graduates in the first class, most of the university’s 789 students have turned out for the ceremony.

Egypt: Convergence of Civilizations (Time.com)

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:45 AM PDT

Time.com - Egypt: Convergence of Civilizations

G8 gives unpopular host Nicolas Sarkozy a platform to polish his image (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 May 2011 12:29 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Leaders of the G8 countries are discussing a wide range of issues at their two-day meeting in the French beach resort of Deauville: the Arab Spring, nuclear energy, International Monetary Fund leadership, and rules and regulations for the Internet.

A Dark Day for Brazil's Amazon Jungle (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 26 May 2011 04:11 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - RIO DE JANEIRO, May 25 (IPS) - The same day that the lower house of the Brazilian Congress approved a reform of the forestry code that would make it easier to clear land in the Amazon jungle for agriculture, a husband and wife team of activists who spent years fighting illegal deforestation in the rainforest were murdered.
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