Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Bombardment of Syria's Homs resumes: activists (Reuters)

Bombardment of Syria's Homs resumes: activists (Reuters)

Bombardment of Syria's Homs resumes: activists (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:32 PM PST

Reuters - Heavy bombardment of the Syrian city of Homs resumed on Tuesday after at least 95 civilians were killed on Monday in an offensive to put down a popular revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, activists and residents said.

Iran: US assets ban "antagonistic," will have no impact (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:09 AM PST

Reuters - Iran on Tuesday denounced as "an antagonistic move" a tightening of U.S. sanctions targeting Tehran's central bank and giving U.S. banks new powers to freeze Iranian government assets, and said it would have no impact.

Maldives president resigns after police mutiny (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:14 AM PST

Reuters - Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed resigned on Tuesday after three weeks of opposition-led protests in the Indian Ocean archipelago boiled over into a police mutiny.

Exclusive: Iran defaults on rice payments to India (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:16 PM PST

Reuters - Iranian buyers have defaulted on payment for about 200,000 tonnes of rice from their top supplier India, exporters and rice millers said on Tuesday, as trade between the two countries comes under mounting pressure from a new wave of Western sanctions against Tehran.

U.S. lifts restrictions to support IFIs work in Myanmar (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 12:08 AM PST

Reuters - The United States has eased some restrictions on Myanmar to support ongoing work by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) like the Asian Development Bank carrying out economic assessments and technical assistance to its new civilian government.

Could the Wind Turbines of Chile Harm Blue Whales? (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:55 PM PST

Time.com - The energy-starved country needs wind power but environmental critics say it will not only mar the landscape but harm the wildlife

(AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:14 AM PST

AP - Russia says its foreign minister has arrived in Syria for talks with President Bashar Assad.

Police say Jerusalem monastery desecrated (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:16 AM PST

Israeli police officers stand with a priest beside a car that was sprayed with graffiti outside the Monastery of the Cross, which was also defaced with graffiti, in Jerusalem February 7, 2012. The monastery, built on the spot where tradition holds the tree from which Jesus' cross was made, was defaced with graffiti bearing the hallmarks of militant Jewish settlers, police said on Tuesday. The graffiti on the car reads in Hebrew: AP - Israeli police say "death to Christians" and other Hebrew-language graffiti has been scrawled on a Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem.

Brazil: Standoff between striking police, soldiers (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:55 PM PST

Brazilian Army soldiers control a protester during a police strike, in Salvador, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said Sunday. Salvador is renown for its Carnival celebrations, and some commentators have voiced fears that this week's violence could scare away tourists — a major source of income.(AP Photo/Lucio Tavora-Agencia A Tarde)AP - Soldiers clashed with supporters of striking police in Brazil's third-largest city on Monday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the feet of people trying to join officers occupying the Bahia state legislature building.

South Africa minister: Mines won't be nationalized (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 12:56 AM PST

AP - Nationalization is not an option for South Africa's troubled mining industry, the country's mining minister told an international audience Tuesday.

Oil hovers near $97 as traders eye US supplies (AP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 01:13 AM PST

Flames shoot into the air after a gas pipeline explosion in the Sinai peninsula, 240 miles (374 kilometers) southeast of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. An Egyptian security official says attackers have set off explosives along a gas pipeline in the country's Sinai peninsula, halting exports to neighboring Israel and Jordan. The blast that took place Sunday at dawn is the twelfth successful attack on the line since the popular uprising that ousted longtime Egyptians leader Hosni Mubarak in February last year. The official says the attack by presumed Islamist militants caused huge fires, but fire engines put it out hours later. (AP Photo/Khaled Kandil)AP - Oil prices hovered near $97 a barrel Tuesday in Asia amid trader concern U.S. crude supplies will continue to rise because of weak demand.

Quick end to lockout at Rio's Quebec smelter unlikely (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:51 AM PST

Reuters - Rio Tinto's lockout of workers at its Alcan division's big Alma aluminum smelter in northern Quebec looks set to drag on, and the company said on Monday that no talks were scheduled.

Australia floods fail to dampen big cotton crop (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 10:03 PM PST

Reuters - Australia's projections for a bumper cotton crop remain on track despite a week-long deluge in major growing regions that forced thousands of residents from their homes and left rivers dangerously swollen.

Senegalese opposition denounce president's bid for third term (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:20 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The eight candidates came in convoys from their respective corners of Dakar to Obelisk Square in the heart of the Senegalese capital, where crowds of color-coordinated supporters awaited them while listening to political hip-hop anthems in Wolof - the local dialect. A single microphone stood on stage and each of them were introduced as "president" before they took it.

Russians Rally for and Against Putin, Despite an Icy Day (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:55 PM PST

Time.com - The weather was frightful, but tens of thousands of people showed up in Russia's capital for dueling demonstrations -- though one side may have made appearing hard to refuse

South Africa's cautious UN vote for Syrian action (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:51 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Russia and China’s joint veto of a United Nations resolution urging Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to step down has kicked up a firestorm of criticism from the West and from human rights activists.
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