Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Pakistan PM: No more "business as usual" with U.S. (Reuters)

Pakistan PM: No more "business as usual" with U.S. (Reuters)

Pakistan PM: No more "business as usual" with U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 06:34 PM PST

Reuters - Pakistan's prime minister ruled out "business as usual" with the United States on Monday after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and the army threatened to curtail cooperation over the war in Afghanistan.

Egypt's post-Mubarak poll confounds fears of mayhem (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 04:03 PM PST

Reuters - Egyptians swarmed to the ballot box peacefully in their first election since a popular revolt toppled Hosni Mubarak, confounding fears of violence after a week of riots in which 42 people were killed.

Sound of blast reported in Iran's Isfahan city (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 01:39 PM PST

Reuters - The sound of an apparent explosion was heard from Iran's Isfahan city on Monday afternoon, the head of the judiciary in the province said, but the province's deputy governor denied that there had been a big blast.

Syria sanctioned, condemned for "brutality" (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 03:09 PM PST

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad greets the crowd during his visit to Raqqa city in Eastern Syria, November 6, 2011, in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS/SANA/HandoutReuters - Syria faces growing economic sanctions and condemnation over what the United Nations calls "gross human rights violations," but President Bashar al-Assad shows no sign of buckling under pressure to end his military crackdown on popular unrest.

Analysis: After 10 years, China's WTO ride could get bumpier (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 09:55 PM PST

Reuters - Rising trade protectionism and frustration over its domestic subsidies spell trouble for China and could lead to more friction within the World Trade Organization than Beijing has grown accustomed to over the past decade.

When NATO is the Enemy: Pakistan Seethes After the Attack (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:15 AM PST

Time.com - The deaths of 25 Pakistani soldiers in an air strike on the Afghan border infuriates the nation and its military, already doubtful and hostile about Islamabad's alliance with Washington

Pressure mounts on Europe as finance ministers meet (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:23 AM PST

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a joint press conference after crisis talks with Greece's Prime Minister on the eve of a G20 summit of major world economies in Cannes, November 2, 2011. REUTERS/Charles PlatiauReuters - Euro zone finance ministers are to agree on Tuesday the details of bolstering their bailout fund to help prevent contagion in bond markets, under pressure from the United States and ratings agencies to staunch a two-year-old debt crisis.

2nd day of Egypt's landmark parliamentary election (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 12:57 AM PST

A soldier talks on a megaphone as Egyptian men line up to vote in the country's parliamentary election at a polling center in the Shubra neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians on Monday began voting in their nation's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a giant step toward what many in the country hope will be a democratic Egypt after decades of dictatorship.(AP Photo/David Sperry)AP - Polls opened Tuesday for a second day of voting in Egypt's landmark parliamentary elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak's ouster in a popular uprising earlier this year.

US man getting out of Aruba jail but still suspect (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 11:03 PM PST

FILE -- This undated handout file photo, released by the Natalee Holloway Resource Center on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011, shows Robyn Gardner, 35, of Frederick, Maryland. Gary V. Giordano is to be released by Tuesday evening on the order of a judge, who ruled authorities failed to justify continuing to hold him nearly four months since his companion, Robyn Gardner, vanished during their five-day excursion to the Dutch Caribbean island. (AP Photo/Natalee Holloway Resource Center)AP - U.S. businessman Gary Giordano is getting out of jail Tuesday but he isn't in the clear. Investigators still consider him a suspect in the presumed death of his travel companion — a case seemingly bedeviled by the same lack of evidence that doomed the investigation into the disappearance of teenager Natalee Holloway.

Egypt stock market spikes on elections (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:11 AM PST

An Egyptian woman shows her inked finger after voting in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. Voting began on Monday in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising nine months ago. The vote is a milestone many Egyptians hope will usher in a democratic age after decades of dictatorship. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - Trading has been temporarily suspended on the Egyptian stock exchange after its benchmark index spiked by 5 percent.

Myanmar minorities suffer abuses despite reforms (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:28 AM PST

In this undated photo released by Free Burma Ranger, Karen civilians flee the Myanmar suppression by boat in Karen state, Myanmar. Myanmar's military-backed government may have recently unveiled reforms unprecedented in half a century of despotic rule to worldwide applause. But away from the international spotlight, across large swaths of the country, its army continues to torture and kill civilians, gang rape women and turn thousands of villagers into refugees in campaigns to stamp out the world's longest running insurgencies, human rights groups say. (AP Photo/Free Burma Ranger) EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALESAP - Deep in jungles far from the international spotlight, Myanmar's army continues to torture and kill civilians in campaigns to stamp out some of the world's longest-running insurgencies.

Bill to scrap Canadian Wheat Board monopoly advances (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 04:26 PM PST

Reuters - A government bill to scrap the Canadian Wheat Board's grain marketing monopoly cleared the final stage of approval by Canada's House of Commons on Monday, leaving it all but certain to become law next month.

Australian charged following $30 million drug bust (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 07:04 PM PST

AP - Australian police have arrested a Sydney man after finding 30 million Australian dollars ($30 million) worth of drugs in a shipment of raisins from Afghanistan.

As Egypt votes, eyes on the presidency (VIDEO) (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 12:28 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Egypt's parliamentary elections began today in a mood of relative calm and optimism. Turnout was high, despite the fact that more than 40 democracy protesters had been killed in the past week. While there's still much that could go wrong in a multi-stage parliamentary election that will stretch into next year, the start was about as good as could have reasonably been hoped for.

Egypt's First Free Vote Puts Tahrir Square in Perspective (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 01:15 AM PST

Time.com - Ordinary Egyptians who have stayed out of the demonstrations of recent weeks turned out in force to cast ballots in the first country's first democratic elections

In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, residents see experiment with autonomy as 'illusion' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 12:17 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Baba Jan, a 30-something political activist from Gilgit Baltistan in northeast Kashmir, was jailed by Pakistani police in mid-September for inciting unrest, considered terrorism.   
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