Monday, October 31, 2011

Thais hope flooded factories back up in 3 months (Reuters)

Thais hope flooded factories back up in 3 months (Reuters)


Thais hope flooded factories back up in 3 months (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:31 PM PDT

A Buddhist monk wadesthrough a flooded street while collecting alms near the Grand Palace in Bangkok on October 30, 2011. Thailand's worst floods in half a century have killed 381 people since July, wiped out a quarter of the main rice crop in the world's biggest rice exporter, forced up global prices of computer hard drives and caused delays in global auto production after destroying industrial estates. REUTERS/Adrees LatifReuters - Thailand hopes industrial estates swamped in its worst floods in half a century can be up and running within three months, the prime minister said on Monday, as the center of the capital finally appeared to have escaped a similar fate.


Gaza violence subsides as truce seems to take hold (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:21 AM PDT

A general view shows burned cars after a rocket fired from Gaza landed in Ashdod October 29, 2011. REUTERS/ Nir EliasReuters - An Egyptian-brokered truce appeared to be taking hold Monday to end a five-day flare-up in violence between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip in which a dozen Palestinian gunmen and an Israeli civilian were killed.


Three Afghans killed in Kandahar city suicide attack (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:57 PM PDT

Reuters - Three Afghans including a police officer were killed in a suicide attack in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar early on Monday, the interior ministry said, two days after a deadly bombing in the capital.

Kyrgyz PM set to win tense presidential vote (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:55 PM PDT

Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva casts her ballot during the presidential election at a polling station in the capital Bishkek October 30, 2011. Kyrgyzstan began voting on Sunday to elect a new president capable of bridging divisions that threaten stability in the former Soviet republic, a vital step to completing bold reforms to create Central Asia's first parliamentary democracy. REUTERS/Sultan Dosaliev/PoolReuters - Kyrgyzstan's Moscow-backed prime minister was poised to become president of the strategically important former Soviet republic on Monday, with nearly all votes counted in a poll set to be disputed by rivals alleging electoral shortcomings.


Turkey ends search for survivors, toll nears 600 (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 06:05 AM PDT

A man carries bags taken out of a building, which collapsed during an earthquake, in Ercis, near the eastern Turkish city of Van October 29, 2011. REUTERS/Osman OrsalReuters - The death toll from last week's earthquake in southeast Turkey rose to 596 Sunday, the day after authorities stopped searching for survivors and focused on helping thousands of homeless families in crisis.


Faith, Hope and Austerity at a School for India's Indigenous Population (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Faith, Hope and Austerity at a School for India's Indigenous Population

Analysis: ECB doomed to bigger crisis role despite itself (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:04 AM PDT

The headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) is pictured in Frankfurt, September 29, 2011. REUTERS/Ralph OrlowskiReuters - Ask senior European Union policymakers in private what can stop the euro zone's festering sovereign debt crisis and the answer is "the European Central Bank."


Arab League submits plan on Syria crisis (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:25 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, June 20, 2011 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syria's President, Bashar Assad waves to the audience after he delivers a speech in Damascus, Syria. Syrian President Bashar Assad warned against Western intervention in his country's 7-month-old uprising, saying such action would trigger an 'earthquake' that 'would burn the whole region.'  (AP Photo/SANA, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - An Arab League committee has submitted a plan to end the bloodshed in Syria and a response from Damascus was expected Monday, Qatar's foreign minister said.


Former rebel wins in Bogota mayor's election (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 07:57 PM PDT

Gustavo Petro gestures to supporters as he celebrates winning Bogota's mayoral race in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday Oct. 30, 2011. Voters on Sunday elected Gustavo Petro as mayor of Bogota, the first time an ex-guerrilla has won Colombia's second most important elected office.  (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)AP - Voters on Sunday elected former leftist rebel and anti-corruption crusader Gustavo Petro as mayor of Bogota, the first time an ex-guerrilla has won Colombia's second most important elected office.


Uganda opposition leader arrested for walking (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:19 AM PDT

AP - Police in Uganda have arrested the country's top opposition leader while he was walking on the road.

Oil falls below $93 amid slowing global economy (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:21 AM PDT

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell sits at the head table of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association annual luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in Anchorage, Alaska. Parnell told the audience that Alaska must be prepared to sell liquefied natural gas overseas if demand has shifted away from other states. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)AP - Oil prices fell below $93 a barrel Monday in Asia as investors mulled whether slowing global economic growth justified a surge in crude this month.


Qantas returns to the skies after fleet grounding (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:54 PM PDT

Idle Qantas planes are reflected in a window at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. Qantas Airways grounded all of its aircraft around the world indefinitely Saturday due to ongoing strikes by its workers. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - Qantas Airways planes returned to the skies Monday after an Australian court ruled on a bitter labor dispute that had prompted the world's 10th-largest airline to ground its entire fleet.


In Niger Delta, one rebel leader faces a choice: computer engineering or fighting (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 12:30 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Blessing Dumo, a 30-year-old commander in the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force, belies the stereotype of a Niger Delta militant.

First Come, First Crowned: The British Monarchy Gets Modern (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Time.com - British royals have abandoned their sexist succession tradition -- but it's just part of a long game to keep the keys to the castles

Move over Boko Haram, Nigeria's MEND rebels set to restart oil war in Niger Delta (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 12:28 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Earlier this month, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was forced to move a large outdoor celebration marking the 51st anniversary of Nigeria's independence from British colonial rule from Eagle Square, a large public space in the capital city of Abuja, to his presidential residence.

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