Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Libya's NTC says buried Gaddafi at dawn: report (Reuters)

Libya's NTC says buried Gaddafi at dawn: report (Reuters)

Libya's NTC says buried Gaddafi at dawn: report (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 12:20 AM PDT

People walk past a memorial board for slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at the Russian State University of Trade and Economics in Moscow October 24, 2011. Gaddafi was an honorary doctor of the university. The red letters read, Reuters - Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) buried Muammar Gaddafi at an unknown location at dawn Tuesday, al-Jazeera television said, quoting a source in the council.

Islamists claim win in Tunisia's Arab Spring vote (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 05:12 PM PDT

Tunisian election workers count ballots at the end of voting for the election in Tunis October 23, 2011. REUTERS/Louafi LarbiReuters - Moderate Islamists claimed victory in Tunisia's first democratic election, sending a message to other states in the region that long-sidelined Islamists are challenging for power after the "Arab Spring."

Rescue workers battle to find Turkish quake survivors (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 12:17 AM PDT

Rescue workers work to save people trapped under debris after an earthquake in Ercis, near the eastern Turkish city of Van, early October 24, 2011. REUTERS/Umit BektasReuters - Rescue workers dug deeper into collapsed buildings on Tuesday in a battle against time to find survivors from an earthquake in southeast Turkey that killed hundreds and made tens of thousands homeless.

N.Korea's Kim calls for nuclear talks, doubts on uranium (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 07:44 PM PDT

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang addresses an economic forum in Hong Kong August 17, 2011. REUTERS/Bobby YipReuters - North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il told Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang that a moribund 2005 deal should be the basis for fresh talks about Pyongyang's nuclear program, Chinese state media reported, leaving unanswered a key question on uranium enrichment.

U.S. increases food aid to Horn of Africa (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 06:58 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks before presenting the George McGovern Leadership Award to Howard G. Buffett and Bill Gates in recognition of their leadership in addressing food security among small scale farmers at the State Department in Washington October 24, 2011. REUTERS/Yuri GripasReuters - The United States is increasing food aid to drought-hit and strife-torn Horn of Africa nations where millions of people are at risk of starvation and malnutrition, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday.

Mexico's Drug War: Confessions of a Narco Killer (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:05 AM PDT

Time.com - In an excerpt from his new book, El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, Ioan Grillo profiles a former warrior -- and born-again convict -- in the gruesome conflict that is consuming the Americas

Death toll rises to 366 in Turkish quake (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:04 AM PDT

Emergency workers carry a youth they rescued from the rubble and debris of a collapsed building in Ercis, eastern Turkey, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Dozens of people were trapped in mounds of concrete, twisted steel and construction debris after hundreds of buildings in two cities and mud-brick homes in nearby villages pancaked or partially collapsed in Sunday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - Officials say the death toll in the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Turkey is now 366.

In final weeks, Gadhafi between rage and despair (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 12:53 AM PDT

In this image made from amateur video provided by the Libya Youth Movement and filmed on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, an injured Moammar Gadhafi is surrounded by Libyan fighters in Sirte, Libya. There are international calls, led by the U.S. and Britain, for an investigation of whether Libyan fighters killed a wounded Gadhafi after pulling him out of a drainage pipe in his hometown of Sirte last week. Gadhafi's body has been on display for public viewing in Misrata since Friday. Libya's former ruler was laid out on a mattress in a refrigerated produce locker in a shopping mall in Misrata, and long lines of people have formed to get a glance at the deposed dictator. In declaring Libya's declaration Sunday, interim leader Abdul-Jalil did not mention the circumstances of Gadhafi's death, but urged his people to eschew hatred. (AP Photo/Libya Youth Movement via APTN)AP - Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's all-powerful leader for four decades, spent his final weeks shuttling from hideout to hideout in his hometown of Sirte, alternating between rage and melancholy as his regime crumbled around him, said a Gadhafi confidant now in custody.

Venezuelan inmates hold 12 hostages at prison (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 10:25 PM PDT

AP - Prison inmates freed a new group of hostages but were still holding 12 prison employees captive to press for demands including the transfer of some inmates to other lockups, Venezuelan authorities said.

Gaddafi son preparing to flee Libya: NTC official (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 02:15 PM PDT

Saif Al-Islam, son of Muammar Gaddafi, greets supporters in Tripoli in this August 23, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Paul HackettReuters - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a fugitive son of the deposed Libyan leader, is near Libya's borders with Niger and Algeria and planning to flee the country using a forged passport, an official with the National Transitional Council said on Monday.

Asia pays watery price for overdevelopment (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:14 AM PDT

In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, cars are parked on an overfly at a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand. Like most of monsoon-swept Asia, the city and its environs have experienced periodic floods since it was founded more than two centuries ago. But recent decades have witnessed dramatic changes - from intense urbanization to rising waters blamed on climate change - that are turning once burdensome but bearable events into national crises. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File)AP - As millions of urbanites living a modern lifestyle fear that torrents of floodwater will rage through Thailand's capital, some in enclaves of a bygone era watch the rising waters with hardly a worry — they live in old-fashioned houses perched on stilts with boats rather than cars parked outside.

Canada Wheat Board bill moves closer to law (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 04:48 PM PDT

Reuters - A government bill to end the Canadian Wheat Board's grain monopoly cleared another stage in the House of Commons on Monday, as Ottawa races to make the most important change to Western Canada's grain industry since World War 2.

New Zealand economy expected to grow by 3 percent (AP)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 07:50 PM PDT

AP - New Zealand's government predicts the country's economy will grow by an average of about 3 percent over the next four years as earthquake rebuilding helps offset a global economic downturn.

Turkey earthquake: Digging out from quake, fears of more casualties (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 03:58 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - “No one has even touched this yet,” says Adem Yavuz Avci pointing at a two-storey building that has collapsed across the road entering his hometown of Ercis. “It was a hotel, we don't know how many people could be in there.”

Blacklisted: U.S.-Russian Diplomacy's Latest Downturn (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 01:05 AM PDT

Time.com - In Moscow, official paranoia over being on a U.S. visa blacklist leads to a blacklist of Russia's own. Is this mutually assured damnation?

Bulgarians vote for stability, rejecting the far right (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 09:52 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Bulgaria's presidential and municipal elections Sunday were a vote in favor of the status quo and against the far right, despite concerns that recent racially motivated protests and cynicism about the standard parties could boost the political fringe.
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