Saturday, September 3, 2011

Chile air force plane presumed crashed, 21 aboard (Reuters)

Chile air force plane presumed crashed, 21 aboard (Reuters)

Chile air force plane presumed crashed, 21 aboard (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:51 PM PDT

Reuters - A Chilean air force plane with 21 people aboard was presumed to have crashed in the Pacific Ocean on Friday after it disappeared near the remote Juan Fernandez islands, authorities said.

Pakistani Taliban claim kidnapping up to 25 boys (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 01:05 AM PDT

Reuters - PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters)- Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for holding up to 25 boys hostage as punishment for tribesmen who supported the military in the country's troubled northwest.

EU sanctions target Syrian oil, companies (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 01:00 AM PDT

People protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr in the city of Suqba August 30, 2011. The banner reads: Reuters - The European Union imposed a ban on purchases of Syrian oil on Saturday and targeted three Syrian firms in an expanded sanctions list meant to intensify pressure against President Bashar al-Assad's government.

Tony Blair has major, unheralded role in Mideast talks (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 11:29 PM PDT

Reuters - Tony Blair is playing a central but largely unheralded role in trying to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and perhaps avert a Palestinian push for full U.N. membership later this month.

Harvard's a Bargain -- If You're From the UK (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:10 PM PDT

Time.com - How America's top colleges are luring British students to the U.S.

"Lone wolf" terror seen as biggest threat (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT

AP - After 9/11, it was the men who went to radicalized mosques or terror boot camps who were seen as the biggest terror threat. Today, that picture's changed: Authorities are increasingly focusing on the lone wolf living next door, radicalized on the Internet — and plotting strikes in a vacuum.

Israeli rabbi pairs gays to lesbians (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 12:15 AM PDT

In this Aug. 31, 2011 photo, Rabbi Arele Harel studies in his home in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Shiloh, near Nablus. Harel is an Israeli rabbi setting up gay men with lesbian women in a bid to give religious homosexuals a chance to have children while remaining observant, as homosexuality is viewed as a sin and a violation of Halacha, or traditional Jewish law. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Rabbi Arele Harel offers an unconventional solution for Orthodox Jewish gay men who want to raise a conventional family: He fixes them up with Orthodox lesbians.

Key Gulf Cartel figure killed in northern Mexico (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:41 PM PDT

A relative mourns next to the coffin of journalist Rocio Gonzalez during her funeral in Mexico City September 2, 2011. Mexican authorities are investigating the murder of two women journalists whose bodies were found in a park in the south of Mexico City on Thursday. Dozens of journalists have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico in the past five years. However, the attorney general's office in the capital said the motive for the killing of the two friends was unclear. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso(MEXICO - Tags: MEDIA CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)AP - Gunmen killed a leading Gulf Cartel commander who was sought by the U.S. and believed to be behind a split with a rival crime organization that intensified Mexico's drug violence, authorities said Friday.

Clashes erupt in flashpoint Sudan border state (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 03:04 PM PDT

Sudanese army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad speaks to reporters about the clashes between the Sudanese army and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in Blue Nile in Khartoum September 2, 2011. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin AbdallahReuters - Sudan's army and forces aligned to South Sudan clashed Friday in a Sudanese state on the border with the newly independent south, prompting what witnesses said was an exodus of people from the state capital.

Maoists want Manila to free more rebels before talks resume (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 12:51 AM PDT

Reuters - Maoist rebels Saturday demanded the release of at least five more detained guerrilla leaders before peace negotiations could resume with the Philippines government, the chief negotiator of the communist-led National Democratic Front said.

Canadian authorities probing employees of SNC-Lavalin Group (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Canadian authorities are investigating employees of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc for possible corruption involving a $1.2 billion World Bank bridge project in Bangladesh, a bank spokesman said on Friday.

UN chief urges Turkey and Israel to mend relations (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:53 PM PDT

AP - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged Turkey and Israel to mend their relationship for the good of the Middle East peace process after Ankara expelled the Israeli ambassador in the latest fallout over last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

Mercy at Qaddafi's notorious Abu Salim prison (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 03:16 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Juma Mukhtar Sayeh never chose a career in Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s military intelligence service. It was chosen for him.

Sudan's Conflict Spreads: Is This the Start of a New Civil War? (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Clashes and the fall of a provincial capital signal the beginning of what may be a furious round of fighting in the recently halved country

Rebels resent Sirte residents, but vow not to take revenge (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 02:13 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - On the first Friday since Libya’s revolutionaries freed this small village from the control of forces loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, the mosque is full with village men and rebel fighters who have come from nearby checkpoints.
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