Monday, August 2, 2010

Flood victims' anger with Pakistani gov't grows (AP)

Flood victims' anger with Pakistani gov't grows (AP)

Flood victims' anger with Pakistani gov't grows (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:33 AM PDT

Pakistani villagers collect their belongings from their houses collapsed by heavy flooding in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. The death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 Sunday as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging water.(AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)AP - As Monday dawned, Faisal Islam sat on a highway median in northwestern Pakistan — the only dry ground he could find — and railed against the government for its failure to provide aid nearly a week after the country's worst-ever floods first hit.

Rockets fired at Israeli city Eilat (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:58 AM PDT

AP - A string of rockets was fired early Monday toward the Israeli resort city Eilat, and one hit in neighboring Jordan, injuring four people, officials in both countries said.

Death toll from Russian wildfires reaches 34 (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:21 AM PDT

Flames travel along the floor of the forest as a parched forest burns near a suburb of the town of Voronezh some 500 km (294 miles) south of Moscow, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. Hundreds of new fires broke out Sunday in Russian forests and fields that have been dried to a crisp by drought and record heat. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)AP - Russia's Emergencies Ministry says 34 people are known to have died in the recent wave of wildfires, which have destroyed hundreds of homes but are thought to be slowly dying down.

Suicide car bomb kills 5 kids in south Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:04 AM PDT

In this handout photo provided by the MOD, Sunday Aug. 1, 2010, soldiers from 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, during day three of Operation Tor Shezada, in Afghanistan. The troops have cleared large areas of the key route into Sayedebad, removing numerous IEDs and ultimately increasing security in the area. British and Afghan Troops have occupied the first of several permanent check points and the military presence will allow the local population the freedom of movement to go about the their normal daily lives without risk of intimidation from the insurgents. (AP Photo, MOD, HO)AP - A suicide car bomber blew himself up next to a police truck bringing a southern Afghan official to work early Monday, killing five children nearby, officials said.

Iraq: Gunmen blow up policeman's house, 3 killed (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 01:03 AM PDT

US soldiers stand at attention during a handover ceremony of the AP - Officials say gunmen have blown up the house of a policeman in the former al-Qaida stronghold of Fallujah west of Baghdad, killing him, his wife and 4-year-old daughter.

Postquake Haiti Sees Dominican Sex Workers' Numbers Rise (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:30 AM PDT

Time.com - Port-au-Prince is still in ruins and the country's economy is a mess. So why are some Dominican women being drawn to sex work in Haiti. One likely lure: foreign aid

Two British troops killed in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:41 AM PDT

British soldiers on patrol in Helmand Province in June, 2010. Taliban forces shot dead one British soldier and killed another in a bomb attack in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province over the weekend, the defence ministry said.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AFP - Taliban forces shot dead one British soldier and killed another in a bomb attack in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province over the weekend, the defence ministry said on Monday.

Israeli army orders officers to protect civilians (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:45 AM PDT

A Palestinian boy, injured in an explosion, is held by a relative as he waits for treatment at al-Aqsa hospital in the central Gaza Strip August 2, 2010. The explosion in the house of a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip has wounded 24 people, a Hamas official and medical workers in the Palestinian territory said on Monday. Hamas blamed Israel for the explosion, which it said targeted field commander Alaa al-Danaf. The Israeli military, through an army spokeswoman, denied any involvement. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST HEALTH)AP - The Israeli military says it will assign officers to protect civilians in combat zones during wartime.

Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebron dies at 90 (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 05:44 PM PDT

AP - Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican independence activist who spent 25 years in prison for participating in a gun attack on the U.S. Congress a half-century ago, died Sunday. She was 90.

Arab nomads settling in contested Sudan region: official (AFP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:53 AM PDT

A Sudanese Misseriya Arab herder travelling with cattle during an annual migration south to dry season pastures in the Abyei area in 2009. Members of an Arab nomadic tribe are settling in a contested region straddling north and south Sudan, hoping to vote in referendum next year that will define its status, a Sudanese official said on Sunday.(AFP/UNMIS/File/Tim McKulka)AFP - Members of an Arab nomadic tribe are settling in a contested region straddling north and south Sudan, hoping to vote in referendum next year that will define its status, a Sudanese official said on Sunday.

Disease stalks survivors of Pakistan floods (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:50 AM PDT

A Pakistani flood-affected family rest in a makeshift camp in Mardan. The floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains capped a devastating week in Pakistan, where 152 people were killed when an Airblue passenger jet slammed into hills overlooking the capital in the country's worst plane crash.(AFP/A Majeed)AFP - Fears grew Monday about outbreaks of disease among 1.5 million people affected by Pakistan's worst floods in 80 years after monsoon rains killed more than 1,200 people across the northwest.

Australian woman lodges $33 mln sex claim (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:49 AM PDT

A publicist Monday sued Australia's poshest department store and its former head for 33 million US dollars over alleged sexual misconduct that led to the disgraced chief executive's, Mark McInnes, resignation. Kristy Fraser-Kirk alleged in her statement of claim that McInnes behaved inappropriately at a lunch in May and at a function in June, placing his hand under her clothing.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - A publicist Monday sued Australia's poshest department store and its former head for 33 million US dollars over alleged sexual misconduct that led to the disgraced chief executive's resignation.

Hamas attacks: A bid to scuttle direct talks? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Aug 2010 11:57 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Israel and forces loyal to the militant Hamas government that controls Gaza exchanged fire this weekend, with Palestinian rockets hitting southern Israel and Israel responding with multiple airstrikes across the territory.

Signs of Uzbek Persecution Rising in Kyrgyzstan (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 12:30 AM PDT

Time.com - Six weeks after deadly violence between the Kyrgyz and Uzbek communities of southern Kyrgyzstan, Uzbeks are being persecuted under the guise of an investigation into the fighting
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