Thursday, September 29, 2011

Pakistani leaders to meet on crisis with U.S. (Reuters)

Pakistani leaders to meet on crisis with U.S. (Reuters)

Pakistani leaders to meet on crisis with U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 12:38 AM PDT

Trucks carrying NATO supplies are parked at the Pakistani border post Chaman as they wait to crossover into neighboring Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Pakistani authorities have closed one of the two border crossings used by trucks carrying NATO war supplies into Afghanistan after a bomb hit an oil tanker. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)Reuters - Pakistani political leaders hold all-party talks on Thursday to address growing American demands on Islamabad to tackle Islamic militants and the possibility that the United States might take unilateral military steps in the country.

Libya's NTC thinks Gaddafi hiding near Algeria (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 03:14 PM PDT

Plumes of thick smoke are seen erupting from inside Sirte September 26, 2011. REUTERS/Esam Al-FetoriReuters - Libya's new rulers have said they believe fugitive former leader Muammar Gaddafi is being shielded by nomadic tribesmen in the desert near the Algerian border, while his followers fend off assaults on his hometown.

Shelling, gunfire rocks Yemen capital, breaking truce (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 09:58 PM PDT

Reuters - Heavy clashes rocked northern neighborhoods of Yemen's capital Sanaa at dawn on Thursday, breaking a truce aimed at ending the worst violence since a popular revolt against President Ali Abdullah Saleh began eight months ago.

Typhoon Nesat hits HK, closing financial markets (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT

Reuters - A typhoon swept past Hong Kong on Thursday, closing markets, schools and most businesses in one of Asia's most important financial centers.

Insight: Velvet glove trumps iron fist in south China land riot (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 09:37 PM PDT

Reuters - It was an unusual scene for a Chinese riot -- there was not a single policeman in sight.

Australia Tells Chinese Tourists: Welcome! (And Bring Your Checkbooks) (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 10:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Australia is hoping Chinese travelers can give a boost to its tourism industry -- something even Oprah couldn't achieve

Alternative Nobels to US, Spain, Chad, China (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 01:35 AM PDT

AP - Solar power technology and efforts to protect the rights of birthing mothers, victims of dictatorship and farming communities were rewarded Thursday with the Right Livelihood Awards, sometimes referred to as the alternative Nobel prizes.

Bahrain court sentences protester to death (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 12:59 AM PDT

AP - A lawyer in Bahrain says a special security court has sentenced a protester to death for killing a policeman during a wave of anti-government demonstrations in the Gulf kingdom earlier this year.

US-Mexico governors conference languishes (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 12:03 AM PDT

AP - New Mexico is again the only U.S. state that sent its chief executive to an annual conference of governors from the Mexican and U.S. states along the border, fueling questions about whether the 30-year-old tradition has lost its way.

Ivory Coast launches reconciliation process (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 07:08 PM PDT

AP - Ivory Coast's new government and dignitaries from the West Africa region on Wednesday launched a South African-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission that aims to find peace after months of postelection violence rocked the country.

Typhoon heads to China after hitting Philippines (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 01:44 AM PDT

A man walks at a pier against a backdrop of Hong Kong's Victoria Habour Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Residents of Hong Kong hunkered down Thursday as they rode out a powerful typhoon that brought death and destruction when it tore through the Philippines earlier this week. Hong Kong's stock market suspended trading and shops and businesses shuttered as Typhoon Nesat made its way across the South China Sea from the Philippines, where the storm killed 35 people and that left another 45 missing. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - A powerful typhoon arrived in southern China on Thursday after skirting Hong Kong and bringing death and destruction to the Philippines earlier this week.

Minority, coalition are options in Ontario vote (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 01:22 PM PDT

Reuters - Polls point to a minority government in Canada's economic powerhouse of Ontario after provincial elections next week, amid disillusionment with the ruling Liberals and disappointment with their main rivals.

Australian lawmakers flag changes to racial laws (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 10:13 PM PDT

AP - Australia's conservative opposition plans to repeal or amend racial discrimination laws that a right-wing commentator has breached by implying that fair-skinned Aborigines chose to identify as indigenous for profit.

Zambia's new President Sata sets new mining rules for China (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 11:42 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Days after Michael Sata, the populist opposition leader with the anti-Chinese rhetoric, won election as new president of Zambia, Chinese mine investors gave their Zambian employees a raise.

Can Japan's Anti-Nuclear Protesters Keep the Reactors Shut Down? (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 10:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Japan's new prime minister says he wants to restart the country's idle nuclear reactors, but anti-nuclear protesters may stand in the way.

China's debate on the death penalty becomes increasingly open (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 11:01 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Li Changkui, a southern Chinese farmer charged with raping and murdering a teenage girl before killing the girl’s 3-year-old brother, was tried for the third time in a Chinese court late last month. Both the evidence and charges against him were virtually the same as those of his previous trial, but this time he was sentenced to death.
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