Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Mladic extradited to UN court in The Hague (AP)

Mladic extradited to UN court in The Hague (AP)

Mladic extradited to UN court in The Hague (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 01:12 PM PDT

A helicopter-escorted convoy of police vehicles with flashing blue lights possibly carrying Ratko Mladic leaves Rotterdam Airport, Netherlands, Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Serbia has extradited Ratko Mladic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal where he will stand trial for genocide, 16 years after he was charged by the court for the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)AP - Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was placed in a U.N. detention unit Tuesday to await trial on genocide charges, 16 years after he was indicted in the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II.

AP Exclusive: Boy in Mladic video looks back (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:32 PM PDT

**CORRECTS REFERENCE TO IZUDIN ALIC AS A BOSNIAN MUSLIM, NOT A BOSNIAN SERB** FILE - This image from file video shows Bosnian Muslim boy Izudin Alic being patted on the head by a grinning Ratko Mladic in 1995 as Mladic assures him that everyone in Srebrenica, Bosnia, would be safe as other young Bosnian Muslims look on, just hours before overseeing the murder of some 8,000 men and boys. But Izudin Alic escaped with his life to bear witness to the incident. Sitting in his home in Srebrenica, Bosnia, on Tuesday May 31, 2011, 24-year old Alic recalls the sunny day in 1995 when he met with the Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic, who gave him chocolate, even as soldiers were killing his father in the nearby woods. The fugitive Mladic has been arrested on charges relating to alleged war crimes during the Bosnian 1992-95 war. (AP Photo, File) TV OUTAP - The video horrified the world: a grinning Ratko Mladic patting a young Muslim boy on the head and assuring him everyone in the Srebrenica area would be safe — just hours before overseeing the murder of 8,000 men and boys.

House to reject debt limit increase without cuts (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:58 PM PDT

Vice President Joseph Biden arrives for a Budget meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP - House Republicans lined up to reject their own proposed $2.4 trillion increase in the nation's debt limit Tuesday, a political gambit designed to reinforce a demand for spending cuts to accompany any increase in government borrowing.

Afghan president seeks to limit NATO airstrikes (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:10 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks with a media member after a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Angered by civilian casualties, Karzai said Tuesday he will no longer allow NATO airstrikes on houses, issuing his strongest statement yet against strikes that the military alliance says are key to its war on Taliban insurgents. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Angered by civilian casualties, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday he will no longer allow NATO airstrikes on houses, issuing his strongest statement yet against attacks that the military alliance says are vital to its war on Taliban insurgents.

High court rules out damage claim against Ashcroft (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:10 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2010 file photo, former Attorney General John Ashcroft in Washington. The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday thatAshcroft cannot be personally sued over his role in the post-9/11 arrest of an American Muslim who was never charged with a crime. By a 5-3 vote, the court said Ashcroft did not violate the constitutional rights of Abdullah al-Kidd, who was arrested in 2003 under a federal law intended to make sure witnesses testify in criminal proceedings. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)AP - The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out damage claims against former Attorney General John Ashcroft over an American Muslim's arrest, but four justices said the case raises serious questions about post-9/11 detentions under a federal law intended to make sure witnesses testify.

European food contamination kills 16, sickens 1150 (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:10 PM PDT

A farm worker stands behind a pile of cucumbers outside of a greenhouse in Algarrobo, near Malaga, southern Spain, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Angry Spanish farmers whose produce has been cited as a possible source of the deadly bacterial infection in Europe are watching in despair as machines grind their suddenly unwanted fruit and vegetables into compost and are particularly livid with Germany. Spanish agriculture associations accuse German officials of being trigger-happy in singling out two Spanish farm produce companies as sources of cucumbers tainted with E. coli before ascertaining if the vegetables were contaminated before leaving Spain or along the transport chain or while being handled in Germany itself. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres)AP - A massive and unprecedented outbreak of bacterial infections linked to contaminated vegetables claimed two more lives in Europe on Tuesday, driving the death toll to 16. The number of sick rose to more than 1,150 people in at least eight nations.

Megachurch founder Long says Bernice King leaving (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:17 PM PDT

AP - The youngest daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is leaving the Atlanta megachurch where the pastor has been embroiled in scandal, months after she turned down a leadership role with the organization her father co-founded.

Experts say cellphones are possibly carcinogenic (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:10 PM PDT

AP - A respected international panel of experts says cellphones are possible cancer-causing agents, putting them in the same category as the pesticide DDT, gasoline engine exhaust and coffee.

Home-price index falls to lowest point since 2002 (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:07 PM PDT

In this May 23, 2011 photo, a home is shown for sale in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Home prices have reached their lowest points since the housing bubble burst in 2006, driven down by foreclosures, a glut of unsold homes and the reluctance or inability of many to buy. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - An index of home prices in big metro areas has reached its lowest level since 2002, driven down by foreclosures, a glut of unsold homes and the reluctance or inability of many to buy.

Thrashers moving to Winnipeg next season (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:47 AM PDT

Steve Thomas and other avid Winnipeg hockey supporters play street hockey at The Forks onTuesday May 31, 2011 in Winnipeg, Canada. True North Sports and Entertainment has scheduled a news conference at Winnipeg's MTS Centre to make 'a significant community announcement.' True North has been in negotiations with the owners of the Atlanta Thrashers to buy the NHL team and move it to Winnipeg. Winnipeg has been without NHL hockey since the Jets moved to Phoenix in 1996. Atlanta is saying goodbye to an NHL franchise for the second time. The Flames moved from Atlanta to Calgary in 1980. The NHL was unable to find an owner who wants to keep the team in Atlanta. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, David Lipnowski)AP - First, the Flames. Now, the Thrashers. Atlanta has become the first city in the NHL's modern era to lose two hockey teams as the Thrashers' owners agreed Tuesday to sell the struggling franchise to a group that will move it to Winnipeg next season.

U.S. files new charges against September 11 accused (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:45 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. military prosecutors have filed new charges against the self-described mastermind of the September 11 attacks in 2001, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four alleged co-conspirators held at the Guantanamo detention camp.

Yemen truce ends in blasts, stokes civil war worries (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Wounded anti-government protesters lie on a bed at a hospital after clashes with police in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz May 30, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - Street fighting raged in Yemen's capital on Tuesday ending a tenuous ceasefire between tribal groups and forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and edging the impoverished Arab state closer to civil war.

Libya's Gaddafi: I will not leave my country (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 10:17 AM PDT

Libya's Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi (front R) walks with South Africa's President Jacob Zuma (front L) upon his arrival at Mitiga airport in Tripoli May 30, 2011. REUTERS/Ismail ZetounyReuters - Muammar Gaddafi is emphatic he will not leave Libya, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday after talks with the Libyan leader that left prospects for a negotiated end to the conflict looking dim.

Weak data point to sluggish economy (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:52 PM PDT

A customer counts his cash at the register while purchasing an item at a Best Buy store in Flushing, New York March 27, 2010. REUTERS/Jessica RinaldiReuters - A double-dip in home prices, pessimistic consumers and a slowdown in regional manufacturing raised concerns on Tuesday that the economy's soft patch could become protracted.

Palin tour: campaign prelude or publicity stunt? (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:47 AM PDT

Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska, greets people after taking part in the Rolling Thunder motorcycle ride to honor U.S. veterans, in Washington May 29, 2011. REUTERS/Molly RileyReuters - Sarah Palin is going rogue again, confounding the press and delighting fans on a family bus tour that could be a prelude to an unconventional White House campaign -- or a branding exercise for Palin Inc.

Greece moves on austerity deal, opposition wants more (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:29 AM PDT

Reuters - Greece appears to have agreed a tax cut with its international lenders, aimed at forging a broad consensus for more austerity to avoid a debt default, but the opposition said on Tuesday this would still not win its support.

Egypt's Mubarak unfit for prison move: prosecutor (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 05:50 AM PDT

Protesters holding posters of former president Hosni Mubarak chant slogans in support of Mubarak in downtown Cairo April 17, 2011. REUTERS/Youssef BoudlalReuters - Egypt's public prosecutor said on Tuesday that ousted President Hosni Mubarak was in no condition to be transferred to a prison hospital and would remain in a health facility in a Red Sea resort for the time being.

Top war crimes suspect Mladic arrives in Netherlands (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:47 AM PDT

People rally in support of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic in Banja Luka, May 31, 2011. The words on the flag read Reuters - Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was extradited to the Netherlands on Tuesday to face genocide charges at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague after 16 years on the run.

Mladic arrives in Netherlands to face war crimes charges (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:51 AM PDT

A plane carrying Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic lands at Rotterdam - The Hague Airport. Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic arrived in the Netherlands on Tuesday to face genocide and war crimes charges in The Hague after almost 16 years on the run.(AFP/ANP/Guus Schoonewille)AFP - Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic arrived in the Netherlands on Tuesday to face genocide and war crimes charges in The Hague after almost 16 years on the run.

Clashes shatter Yemen truce, US slams killings (AFP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:52 PM PDT

Yemeni anti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa. Deadly clashes erupted in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday, shattering a truce between loyalist troops and dissident tribesmen, as security forces shot dead seven protesters in the second-largest city of Taez.(AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)AFP - Clashes erupted in Sanaa on Tuesday, shattering a truce between loyalist troops and dissident tribesmen, as security forces shot dead seven protesters, sparking strong condemnation from Washington.
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