Monday, June 27, 2011

China's Wen signals doubt inflation goal can be met (Reuters)

China's Wen signals doubt inflation goal can be met (Reuters)

China's Wen signals doubt inflation goal can be met (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 11:12 PM PDT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers a speech during his visit to the MG motor plant in Birmingham, central England June 26, 2011. REUTERS/Phil NobleReuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao signaled for the first time that China would struggle to meet its 4 percent inflation target this year, underlining expectations that interest rates will rise further even as economic growth slows down.

Khmer Rouge commanders go on trial in Cambodia (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:11 AM PDT

Former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary (2nd row from front, C, in glasses) sits at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on the outskirts of Phnom Penh June 27, 2011. REUTERS/Mark Peters/ECCC/HandoutReuters - The four most senior surviving members of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime went on trial for war crimes on Monday, three decades after its "year zero" revolution marked one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century.

Most Japanese oppose nuclear reactor restarts: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 10:46 PM PDT

An anti-nuclear protester makes a sign board during a rally in Tokyo June 11, 2011, on the three month anniversary of the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami which triggered a nuclear disaster. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Nearly 70 percent of Japanese oppose the restart of nuclear reactors halted for maintenance work, a poll showed on Monday, even though keeping them shut could mean power blackouts this summer and higher electricity bills.

Typhoon batters Korean peninsula, at least 9 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 07:14 PM PDT

Reuters - At least nine people have been killed, mostly drowned in flooding, after a typhoon battered South Korea, a disaster official said on Monday, while impoverished North Korea braced for huge waves and torrential rain.

Most voters want Japan PM Kan out by August: survey (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:09 AM PDT

Reuters - Sixty percent of Japanese voters want Prime Minister Naoto Kan to resign by the end of August, a survey showed on Monday, the latest sign of mounting pressure on the unpopular leader to keep a pledge to quit as Japan struggles with reconstruction and a nuclear crisis.

Greece: Depression and Suicide Rates Soar as Economy Dives (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:15 AM PDT

Time.com - Unemployment, economic hardship and the shame of being considered Europe's black sheep -- the Greeks have never been so dispirited. The country is seeing soaring rates of clinical depression and suicide as a result

Saab gets Chinese order, says enough to pay staff (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:41 AM PDT

Logos are seen at the booth of Saab carmaker on March 1, 2011 at Geneva motor show in Geneva. Saab has received a 13-million-euro order from a Chinese company and the pre-payment expected in this week will enable the firm to pay staff and partially pay suppliers, its parent company said on Monday.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - Saab has received a 13-million-euro order from a Chinese company and the pre-payment expected in this week will enable the firm to pay staff and partially pay suppliers, its parent company said on Monday.

Suspect dies in custody in Palestinian jail (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:29 AM PDT

AP - A Palestinian human rights group is demanding an inquiry into the death of a Gaza man in Hamas police custody.

Zelaya calls for end to ruling elite in Honduras (AP)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 07:21 PM PDT

AP - Ex-Honduran President Manuel Zelaya predicted Sunday that his supporters will win power from the Central American country's long-ruling elite.

Senegalese youths burn church, destroy bar (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:34 AM PDT

AP - Hundreds of Muslim protesters descended on a Jehovah's Witness temple and a bar in a conservative Muslim neighborhood of the Senegalese capital on Sunday, setting the buildings on fire in a rare instance of religious extremism in the predominantly Muslim nation.

Pakistan denies firing rockets into Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:52 AM PDT

AP - Pakistan's army is denying it fired hundreds of rockets into two eastern Afghan provinces over the past three weeks.

Canadian Senate moves to end postal shutdown (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 05:34 PM PDT

Reuters - Canadians could begin receiving mail again within two days after the Senate on Sunday endorsed back-to-work legislation ending the labor dispute that shut down the postal service.

Australian boy knocked unconscious by whale's tail (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:22 AM PDT

AP - A humpback whale has hit a dinghy with its tail off Australia's coast, knocking a 13-year-old boy unconscious and breaking his collar bone.

Women's World Cup kicks off in Germany (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 09:11 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - When host country Germany faces Canada tonight in the second match of the 2011 Women’s World Cup, they'll be playing in front of a sold-out crowd of 70,000 at Berlin’s Olympic stadium.

China's Great Swindle: How Public Officials Stole $120 Billion and Fled the Country (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:15 AM PDT

Time.com - A report by China's central bank found that thousands of Chinese government officials have smuggled billions out of the country and fled, mainly to the U.S., highlights "the corruption within a corrupt system"

Peru's new highway to the future (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Jun 2011 05:07 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Traveling from Brazil’s Atlantic coast to Assis, on the border with Peru deep in the Amazon, took Raul Pereira weeks over a precarious dirt road in 1974. The trip required machetes.
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