Thursday, September 1, 2011

Gaddafi sons broadcast confusion as battle looms (Reuters)

Gaddafi sons broadcast confusion as battle looms (Reuters)

Gaddafi sons broadcast confusion as battle looms (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:12 PM PDT

An anti-Gaddafi fighter stands guard as his compatriots attend the Eid Al Fitr prayer in Tripoli, August 31, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra BensemraReuters - Muammar Gaddafi's sons clashed on the airwaves Wednesday, with one offering peace and another promising a 'war of attrition' as a final battle for control of Libya's coast loomed.

Syrian forces raid Hama, official resigns in protest (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:13 PM PDT

EDITOR'S NOTE: FACES BLURRED AT SOURCE. People protest against President Bashar al-Assad on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr in the city of Suqba, Syria, August 30, 2011. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - Syrian forces raided houses in Hama for the second day on Thursday, residents said, hours after the city's attorney general declared on YouTube he had resigned in protest against the suppression of street demonstrations.

Japan disaster drills hold greater sense of urgency (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:57 AM PDT

A rescue diver of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department carries a man during an earthquake disaster drill in Tokyo September 1, 2011. Emergency drills were held on Thursday across Japan involving some 517,000 participants in 35 prefectures, the first of such annual exercises since the earthquake and tsunami which hit the country's northeast in March, Kyodo news agency reported. REUTERS/Toru HanaiReuters - Over half a million people across Japan took part in annual drills on Thursday to prepare for natural disasters, but this year's exercises held a more immediate sense of urgency following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast in March.

Analysis: Japan's DPJ picks up reviled habits of party it ousted (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:34 AM PDT

Reuters - Two years after the Democratic Party swept to power pledging to reform how Japan is governed, the struggling ruling party appears to be reviving the very practices it reviled.

Insurgents are gone but Mogadishu still struggles (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:14 AM PDT

A displaced man walks outside a war-ravaged Catholic Cathedral that is being used as an informal settlement for internally displaced people in Somalia's capital Mogadishu August 31, 2011. REUTERS/Thomas MukoyaReuters - Under the arches of Mogadishu's ruined Catholic cathedral, 25-year-old Habiba Ahmed helped one of her five children urinate in a tin can.

Alleged Italian Mobster Caught After Woman's Facebook Post (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:35 AM PDT

Time.com - Italian and Spanish police tracked down and arrested Salvatore D'Avino, believed to be a key member of Naples' Camorra crime syndicate, thanks to snapshots posted on Facebook by his pregnant girlfriend

Putin courts Russia drivers with epic road check (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:20 AM PDT

Reuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sought to court millions of Russian drivers this week by sending supporters on an epic car journey across eight time zones to check the state of Russia's notoriously poor roads ahead of the elections.

35 Iraqi inmates tunnel out, most recaptured (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:15 AM PDT

Sunni worshippers and policemen exchange greetings after Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan at a Sunni mosque in Baghdad August 30, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION)AP - An Iraqi security official says 35 terror suspects tunneled their way out of a detention facility and most were quickly recaptured.

Mexican businessman gets more years for child porn (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 09:21 PM PDT

AP - A Mexican judge has increased the sentence of a prominent Mexican businessman convicted of child pornography after a prosecutors' appeal. He extended the prison term to 60 years from 13 years.

Russia recognizes Libyan rebels as country's govt (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:11 AM PDT

CORRECTS DAY OF THE WEEK - FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, a portrait of Moammar Gadhafi is removed from the Radisson hotel in Tripoli, Libya. A defiant Gadhafi vowed to fight on 'until victory or martyrdom,' as rebel fighters tried to end scattered attacks by regime loyalists in the nervous capital. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File)AP - Russia recognized the Libyan rebel movement as the country's acting leadership Thursday, a key endorsement hours ahead of an international conference seeking to map Libya's future.

Hong Kong worries about China's tightening grip (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:21 AM PDT

In this Aug. 20, 2011 photo, journalists shout slogans during a protest outside the police headquarters in Hong Kong against the heavy-handed security which they say restricted their reporting during the visit of a Chinese official. Hong Kong police ratcheted up security, blanketing the city with officers and tightening restrictions on press and protesters during a recent visit by China's vice premier. Such tactics might be normal procedure in mainland China, but not in freewheeling Hong Kong, where students, academics, politicians and journalists are fuming over the supertight security that they say restricted freedom of the press and speech and the right to protest. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - A visit by a senior Chinese leader meant to spread goodwill has instead left Hong Kong fuming over the smothering security that locals fear was aimed at muffling the media and protesters.

Belak death adds to tragic off-season for league (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:37 PM PDT

Reuters - Recently retired NHL tough guy Wade Belak was found dead in a Toronto hotel Wednesday, adding to an off-season of tragedy for the National Hockey League.

Remains of Australia's most infamous criminal ID'd (AP)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 10:18 PM PDT

In this photo supplied by Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, the headless remains of Australia's most infamous criminal, Ned Kelly is shown in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. Through CT scans, X-rays, anthropological and historical research and DNA analysis, a team of scientists finally identified one of the skeletons exhumed with the remains of other executed inmates from a mass grave, as Kelly's. (AP Photo/Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine)AP - The headless remains of Australia's most infamous criminal, Ned Kelly, have been identified, officials said Thursday, ending a decades-long mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the folk hero's body.

Muslim insurgency in Thailand's restive south heats up (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:38 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Here in southern Thailand, the Muslim insurgents seem to be committing more gruesome acts of violence, putting a spotlight on one of Asia’s most opaque conflicts.

The Palestinians' Statehood Dilemma: Full U.N. Membership or Observer Status? (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:35 AM PDT

Time.com - One option is more than likely to be quashed in the Security Council. The other, though far from satisfying, may provide more leverage against Israel

China to cut income tax for 60 million people (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 06:13 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Some 60 million Chinese will wake up newly exempt from income tax tomorrow morning, as the government tries to boost poorer peoples’ spending power and fuel sustainable economic growth.
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