Friday, August 5, 2011

Syrian tanks overrun Hama, kill scores (Reuters)

Syrian tanks overrun Hama, kill scores (Reuters)

Syrian tanks overrun Hama, kill scores (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:51 PM PDT

EDITOR'S NOTE: REUTERS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY CONTENT VIDEO FROM WHICH THIS STILL IMAGE WAS TAKEN Military tanks drive into the Jabal Al-Zawya area of Idlib on August 1, 2011 in this still image taken from video posted on a social media website. T REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TVReuters - Syrian tanks tightened their occupation of Hama and amassed outside a defiant eastern city as President Bashar al-Assad ignored mounting international condemnation of attacks the United States says has killed 2,000 Syrians opposing his rule.

Rebels say NATO air strike kills Gaddafi's son Khamis (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:55 AM PDT

A young Libyan rebel test fires an anti-aircraft gun at a front line checkpoint near Tiji in western Libya, August 1, 2011. REUTERS/Bob StrongReuters - A rebel spokesman said on Friday that a NATO air attack in Libya's western city of Zlitan has killed 32 people, among then Muammar Gaddafi's son Khamis.

Emily breaks up over Haiti, still threatens rains (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 05:35 PM PDT

A resident looks at waves splashing on the malecon as tropical storm Emily arrives to Santo Domingo August 3, 2011. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - Tropical Storm Emily broke apart over the mountains of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursday but its remnants still packed rains threatening flash floods and mudslides in the neighboring Caribbean countries.

Thaksin's sister, Yingluck, becomes Thai prime minister (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:53 PM PDT

Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's prime minister elect, arrives for work at the headquarters of her Puea Thai Party in Bangkok August 3, 2011. REUTERS/Sukree SukplangReuters - Yingluck Shinawatra was elected Thailand's first female prime minister on Friday in a parliamentary vote just 11 weeks into a political career crafted from exile by her brother and former premier, Thaksin Shinawatra.

India's "daughter in law" Sonia Gandhi undergoes surgery (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:45 AM PDT

Reuters - As the Italian-born homemaker, mother-of-two and wife of then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, few would have thought Sonia Gandhi would ever rise to become the most powerful figure in the world's largest democracy.

In the Burqa Ban, Italy's Left and Right Find Something to Agree On (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:30 AM PDT

Time.com - Italy's move to ban women from wearing the burqa or niqab have drawn plenty of criticism, but it has also found support in two opposite ends of the country's political spectrum

Reports: TV's Mr. Bean crashes his supercar in UK (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:59 AM PDT

AP - British media say actor Rowan Atkinson, famed for his "Mr. Bean" television shows and films, is recovering in hospital after crashing his supercar.

Resident: Random killings in besieged Syrian city (AP)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 03:36 PM PDT

In this image made from amateur video released by Ugarit News and accessed via The Associated Press Television News on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, mourners carry the body of a man during a funeral ceremony in the city of Homs, Syria. After killing scores of people in two days, Syrian troops tightened their siege on the city of Hama Tuesday by taking up positions near homes and sending residents fleeing for their lives. The escalated crackdown on anti-government protests has already brought an international outcry and new European Union sanctions on members of President Bashar Assad's regime. (AP Photo/APTN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALAP - The flashpoint Syrian city of Hama endured a fifth day under military siege Thursday, with a resident saying people were being "slaughtered like sheep" in the streets and families were burying their dead in home gardens or roadsides rather than risk a trip to a cemetery.

In Tijuana, deported migrants struggle to survive (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:50 AM PDT

In this photo taken June 22, 2011, a homeless tries to rest inside a Tijuana River canal tunnel, in Tijuana, Mexico. During the day, deportees who find themselves in Tijuana look for work and flee Mexican police, who will jail them for not having papers, just like in the U.S. At night they take refuge in the canals, beneath bridges or in shacks, among drug addicts and people with mental health problems; a few feet from the rusty barrier that separates the country of their birth from the country where they worked years for a better life. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cossio)AP - After 15 years of installing marble in homes in Escondido, California, Porfirio Perez was caught without a driver's license during a February traffic stop and deported.

NATO planes bomb Tripoli, rebels attack pipeline (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:53 AM PDT

A photo taken on a guided Libyan government tour people nearby a destroyed house in the Libyan coastal town of Zliten. NATO warplanes have bombed the Libyan capital, state television has said, as Moamer Kadhafi's regime accused rebels of sabotaging a key pipeline feeding the country's sole functioning refinery.(AFP/Imed Lamloum)AFP - NATO warplanes bombed the Libyan capital early Friday, state television said, as Moamer Kadhafi's regime accused rebels of sabotaging a key pipeline feeding the country's sole functioning refinery.

Typhoon Muifa lashes Okinawa, aprroaches China (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 01:05 AM PDT

This NASA Earth Observatory Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of Typhoon Muifa on August 4. The eye of the storm is seen here east of Taiwan. China has called more than 7,000 fishing boats back to port in preparation for Muifa, one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in recent years, according to state media.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - China has called more than 7,000 fishing boats back to port in preparation for Typhoon Muifa, one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in recent years, according to state media.

Canada to slash environment jobs, critics fume (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:46 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada's environment ministry will cut or reassign around 10 percent of its workers, unions said Thursday, prompting fears that services like weather forecasting and environmental protection will suffer.

Australia teen 'alright' after fake bomb ordeal (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:05 AM PDT

Police cordon off the street where 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver endured a horrifying 10-hour ordeal after a masked man strapped a device around her neck at her home in Sydney. The teenager emerged Friday to say she was AFP - An Australian teenager who underwent a 10-hour ordeal with what she thought was a bomb strapped to her neck emerged Friday to say she was "alright" as police stepped up their investigations.

In Israel, raft of new laws shows rise of the right (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:03 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Critics say Israel is forsaking its democratic ideals with a right-wing agenda.

Anders Behring Breivik: Why He Wants You to Look at Him (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:30 AM PDT

Time.com - Anders Behring Breivik: Why He Wants You to Look at Him

Why Europe's debt crisis is still spreading (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 11:12 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Europe’s economy remained in critical, but stable condition Thursday, as risks mounted of a double-dip recession in big economies like Italy and Spain that could compound woes elsewhere, including the United States.

Water is a right and a commodity, says U.N. chief (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 08:25 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, Aug 3 (IPS) - As the 193-member General Assembly commemorates the first anniversary of its landmark resolution pronouncing water and sanitation to be a basic human right, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon triggered a political controversy last week when he implicitly declared that even human rights have a market price.
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