Friday, February 3, 2012

Arabs, West seek to avert Russian veto of U.N. Syria (Reuters)

Arabs, West seek to avert Russian veto of U.N. Syria (Reuters)

Arabs, West seek to avert Russian veto of U.N. Syria (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 08:29 PM PST

Syrian soldiers on an armoured military vehicle are seen in Deir Balaba, near Homs, January 31, 2012. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - Arab and Western drafters of a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at stopping Syria's bloody upheaval revised their text on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to avoid a Russian veto, though the new draft includes language Moscow has rejected.

About 100 feared trapped in sunken PNG ferry (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 10:41 PM PST

Life rafts carrying survivors float on rough waters after MV Rabaul Queen ferry (R) sank off Papua New Guinea February 2, 2012. About 100 people are feared trapped inside a ferry that sank in rough weather off Papua New Guinea, a rescue official said on Friday, a day after the crowded boat went down with about 350 people on board. REUTERS/Papua New Guinea Post CourierReuters - About 100 people are feared trapped inside a ferry that sank in rough weather off Papua New Guinea, a rescue official said Friday, a day after the crowded boat went down with about 350 people on board.

U.N. court gives life sentence to Khmer Rouge torture chief (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 11:23 PM PST

Chum Mey, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge S-21 prison, talks to the media after the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) gave Khmer Rouge's prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, a life sentence, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh February 3, 2012. The U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia ruled on Friday that Duch should serve the rest of his life in jail, extending a 19-year sentence handed down in July 2010 that outraged survivors of the Reuters - The U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia ruled on Friday that the Khmer Rouge's prison chief should serve the rest of his life in jail, extending a 19-year sentence handed down in July 2010 that outraged survivors of the "killing fields" regime.

Anonymous hackers access Greek ministry website (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:28 AM PST

Reuters - Hackers associated with the activist group Anonymous posted a protest against Greece's EU and IMF-inspired austerity policies on the website of the country's justice ministry Friday, a ministry spokeswoman said.

China blocks rights lawyer from meeting Merkel (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 11:26 PM PST

Reuters - Chinese police blocked a prominent human rights lawyer from attending a Beijing dinner hosted by German leader Angela Merkel, the lawyer said on Friday, the latest example of restrictions on unorthodox views in a sensitive year.

Bangladeshi Investors Badly Hit by the Stock-Market Crash (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 10:00 PM PST

Time.com - The dramatic rise and swift fall of Bangladesh's stock market is a cautionary tale for emerging-market investors oblivious to the perils of hasty deregulation and rapid capital inflows

Chinese lawyer barred from meeting with Merkel (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:26 AM PST

AP - A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer says police prevented him from attending a meeting with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Iran reports launch of small satellite into orbit (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:39 AM PST

Iranian children play on top of a tank, displayed next to the graves of soldiers, who were killed during 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, at the Behesht-e- Zahra cemetery, just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, in a ceremony commemorating the 33rd anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution which toppled the pro-US Pahlavi dynasty. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - Iran successfully launched a new small satellite into orbit early Friday, state media reported, the latest in the country's ambitious space program that has raised concerns because if its possible military applications.

Olympics, World Cup preparation bring evictions (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:11 AM PST

In this photo taken Jan. 31, 2012, a man pushes a cart with goods to recycle past a graffiti that reads in Portuguese 'We must resist' in the Favela do Metro shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Residents of communities like Metro, located on the surroundings of the Maracana stadium, are being pushed out of their homes to make way for new roads, Olympic venues, and other projects as part of preparations to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)AP - Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos' devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn't watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in nearby Maracana stadium — this nation's temple to the sport.

Nearly 250 of 362 saved from Papua New Guinea ship (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:18 AM PST

Three life rafts from the MV Rabaul Queen float above the sunken hull of the ferry in the open waters off Papua New Guinea Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Rescuers plucked more than 200 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after the ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said. (AP Photo/Post Courier) PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUTAP - A day after rescuing nearly 250 survivors of a ferry sinking off Papua New Guinea's east coast, crews searching Friday for more than 110 other people aboard found only one more. Many of the missing may still be in the vessel, now at the bottom of the sea.

Oil hovers above $96 ahead of key US jobs report (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:16 AM PST

FILE- A gas pipeline worker, checks the valves at the gas pumping station at Pisarevka, Russia, in this file photo dated Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. European nations, that get much of their natural gas supplies from a trans-Russia-Ukraine pipeline, reported significant cutbacks in supplies Thursday Feb. 2, 2012, although the cut is disputed by Ukraine, as winter temperatures across Europe plunged to record lows. (AP Photo/Svetlana Kozlenko, file)AP - Oil prices hovered above $96 a barrel Friday in Asia as traders awaited a key jobs report for evidence about the strength of the U.S. economy.

Analysis: Canada plan to sell oil to China faces big hurdles (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 12:53 PM PST

Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper may still be smarting from Canada's failed bid to ramp up oil exports to the United States, but his plan B could prove to be even tougher.

Australia's Gillard faces new leadership discontent (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 09:24 PM PST

Reuters - Growing speculation that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard could be dumped by her party before the end of the year forced senior ministers to rally behind her Friday after a disastrous start to 2012.

Prince William, oil, honor: Why Argentina is pushing to reclaim Falkland Islands (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 01:48 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - With the official deployment of Prince William to the Falkland Islands, another chapter in the nearly two-century-old sovereignty conflict between Britain and Argentina is about to be written.

What a Real-Time Copy of the Mona Lisa Reveals About Leonardo (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 10:00 PM PST

Time.com - Curators at the Prado in Madrid believe they have found a copy of Da Vinci's masterpiece created even as the master painted his mysterious portrait

Can you hear me now? Nigeria arrests Boko Haram spokesman. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 10:03 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Nigerian police believe they may have arrested the man who acted as spokesman for the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has launched a killing spree across northern Nigeria, killing nearly 1,000 people in the past two years.
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