Monday, May 2, 2011

Osama bin Laden killed in shootout, Obama says (Reuters)

Osama bin Laden killed in shootout, Obama says (Reuters)

Osama bin Laden killed in shootout, Obama says (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2011 12:47 AM PDT

Reuters - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan on Sunday, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.

Bin Laden's death makes the world safer, leaders say (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2011 12:23 AM PDT

Reuters - Governments and leaders praised the killing of Osama bin Laden as a dramatic success in the war against al Qaeda that would make the world a safer place, but in some parts of the globe worried residents were bracing for revenge.

Threat remains after bin Laden killed by U.S. forces (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2011 09:50 PM PDT

Osama bin Laden sits during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early 2009. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf/Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)Reuters - President Barack Obama warned Americans on Sunday night to remain vigilant even after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and while there are no known credible threats, the risk of attacks remains.

Osama bin Laden: 9/11 author who defied Bush, Obama (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2011 11:52 PM PDT

Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his adviser and purported successor Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian linked to the al Qaeda network, during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf Newspaper for Daily DawnReuters - Challenging the might of the "infidel" United States, Osama bin Laden masterminded the deadliest militant attacks in history and then built a global network of allies to wage a "holy war" intended to outlive him.

Brotherhood: U.S. troops should now quit Iraq, Afghan (Reuters)

Posted: 02 May 2011 12:32 AM PDT

U.S. Army soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division conduct a patrol through a pomegranate orchard near their base at Strongpoint Stansberry in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar April 21, 2011. REUTERS/Bob StrongReuters - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Monday that U.S. soldiers should be withdrawn from Afghanistan and Iraq after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks that led to two U.S.-led wars.

Death Comes for the Master Terrorist: Osama bin Laden (1957-2011) (Time.com)

Posted: 02 May 2011 12:20 AM PDT

Time.com - "I am a person who loves death," the inspiration of the 9/11 attacks reportedly said. "If I am to die, I would like to be killed by the bullet." The U.S. obliged him on Sunday, with a sophisticated military strike in the heart of Pakistan

France sees U.S. economic lift from bin Laden death (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2011 11:50 PM PDT

Reuters - French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde on Monday welcomed the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and said his death could bolster consumer confidence and economic growth in the United States.

Sirens bring Israel to standstill on Holocaust Day (AP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 12:41 AM PDT

An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 1, 2011. Israel will mark its annual Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday, May, 2. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - The eerie wail of air raid sirens brought bustling Israel to a halt on Monday, marking two minutes of silence in memory of the 6 million Jews who perished during the Nazi Holocaust.

Haiti again feels pinch of rising food prices (AP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 09:00 PM PDT

In this April 21, 2011 photo, a garlic vendor balances produce on her head as she walks through La Saline Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Soaring food prices aren't new in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and heavily dependent on imports. In 2011, prices are on the rise again, mirroring global trends, and the cost of gasoline has doubled to $5 a gallon. Haitians are paying more for basic staples than much of Latin America and the Caribbean, an Associated Press survey finds. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Marie Bolivar, a gray-haired woman with a raspy voice, crushes peanuts into paste for sandwiches which she sells by the roadside for 12 cents apiece. These days the paste is thinner, because the price of peanuts has jumped by 80 percent.

Kadhafi caricature flourishes in rebel capital (AFP)

Posted: 01 May 2011 09:32 PM PDT

Kadhafi pumping petrol into a winged camel, Kadhafi in a dustbin, Kadhafi as Dracula: the once flamboyant Libyan strongman is fuelling a flourishing caricature scene in the rebel capital Benghazi.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)AFP - Moamer Kadhafi pumping petrol into a winged camel, Kadhafi with the tail of a snake and a forked tongue, Kadhafi as Dracula.

(AP)

Posted: 02 May 2011 12:43 AM PDT

AP - Pakistan: Death of bin Laden shows its resolve in fighting terrorism, says it was a US mission.

Canada holds election, result up in the air (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2011 09:12 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada will hold one of its most unpredictable elections ever Monday, one that could just as easily hand the ruling Conservatives a solid grip on power or leave them so weak they would likely soon lose office.

Not all young Australian men want more sex: survey (Reuters)

Posted: 01 May 2011 11:44 PM PDT

Reuters - Unbelievable as it may sound, not all young men want more sex.

Will the Muslim Brotherhood soon control Egypt's parliament? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 May 2011 11:01 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Muslim Brotherhood’s new political party will field candidates in about half the parliamentary seats in Egypt’s first post-revolution elections, leaders announced Saturday.

Opinion: Why Bin Laden's death no longer matters (Time.com)

Posted: 02 May 2011 12:20 AM PDT

Time.com - Killing or capturing Bin Laden might once have been imagined to be a decisive turning point in a struggle between the U.S. and its challengers in the Muslim world, today, the death of America's erstwhile nemesis is little more than an historical footnote

Refugees recount brutal crackdown in western Syria (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 May 2011 10:15 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Hundreds of residents of Tel Kalakh in western Syria have escaped an intensifying siege by the Syrian army by slipping across the nearby border with Lebanon.
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