Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Supplies reach Chilean miners; now, the long wait (AP)

Supplies reach Chilean miners; now, the long wait (AP)

Supplies reach Chilean miners; now, the long wait (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 06:00 PM PDT

Chile's President Sebastian third from left, accompanied by miners' relatives and Chile's Mining Minister Lourence Golbourne, right, celebrates after knowing that 33 miners, trapped in a collapsed mine, were found alive in Copiapo, northern Chile. The miners have been trapped below the surface of the mine since the main access collapsed. (AP Photo/Hector Retamal)AP - Trapped nearly half a mile inside the earth and facing perhaps four months before rescue, 33 Chilean miners began getting food, water and oxygen from above ground Monday as rescue teams worked to gauge their state of mind and brace them for the long wait ahead.

China wants answers after 9 killed on hijacked bus (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:17 PM PDT

Members of the SWAT teams prepare to assault the tourist bus seized by dismissed police officer Rolando Mendoza Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 at Manila's Rizal Park, Philippines. Police stormed the bus after shots were heard from the hostage-taker of 15 Chinese tourists and at least four of hte hostages crawled out of the back door. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - China demanded answers Tuesday from the Philippines after a 12-hour hostage drama in the heart of Manila ended with eight Hong Kong tourists dead along with their Filipino hostage-taker after a day of botched negotiations.

US troops fire shots to disperse Afghan protesters (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 12:32 AM PDT

A NATO soldier is seen on patrol in Kukaran in Kandahar province on August 6. Four US soldiers have been killed while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, NATO said.(AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)AP - U.S. troops fired warning shots to disperse a protest in eastern Afghanistan over the arrest of a religious leader suspected of a rocket attack, NATO said Tuesday.

Small passenger plane crashes near Nepal's capital (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:55 PM PDT

Mountains in the Everest region of the Himalayans, northeast of Kathmandu. A small plane heading for the Everest region with 14 people on board including four Americans, one Japanese and a Briton crashed in bad weather near the Nepalese capital on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Prakash Mathema)AP - A small passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed Tuesday outside Nepal's capital in heavy rain with 14 people aboard, including five U.S. nationals and a Japanese tourist, officials said.

Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida arrive in Spain (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 06:38 PM PDT

Spanish aid worker, Roque Pascual , left, Spanish Secretary of State, Soraya Rodriguez, 2nd left, Albert Vilalta, 3rd left, and Spanish Ambassador, Cristina Diaz Fernandez-Gil , talk after leaving a helicopter in the grounds of the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso after their release Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. The two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate were freed Monday in Mali after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid — a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said Monday. Aid workers Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta were abducted last November when their convoy of 4-by-4s was attacked by gunmen on a stretch of road in Mauritania. They were whisked away to Mali, whose northern half is now one of the many stretches of remote desert where al-Qaida of Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has stretched its tentacles. (AP Photo/Brahima Ouedraogo)AP - Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate arrived Tuesday in Barcelona after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid for their freedom — a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said.

Russia Returns to Afghanistan with the U.S.'s Blessing (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 12:40 AM PDT

Time.com - The Soviet pullout from Afghanistan was a humiliating defeat, but now Russia, worried about the flow of terror and heroin, is being encouraged to return -- by the U.S.

FTSE falls after Asia, US losses (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:01 AM PDT

Leading London shares fell at the start of trading on Tuesday, echoing losses in Asia and overnight in New York.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Leading London shares fell at the start of trading on Tuesday, echoing losses in Asia and overnight in New York.

US military: US troops in Iraq below 50,000 number (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 12:59 AM PDT

A line of Strykers convoy in the early hours of August 16, 2010 as part of the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, United States Division-Centers last patrol through Iraq as they leave for Kuwait. REUTERS/U.S. Army/Sgt. Kimberly Johnson/HandoutAP - The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has fallen below 50,000 for the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and ahead of the end-of-the-month deadline mandated by President Barack Obama, the American military said in a statement Tuesday.

Mexico police recover 7 bodies from mines (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 07:46 PM PDT

Relatives and friends gather around the coffin of Edelmiro Cavazos, mayor of the tourist town of Santiago, prior to his funeral at a cemetery downtown in the municipality of Santiago, some 30 km (18.6 miles) from Monterrey, August 19, 2010. Mexicans carrying candles and flowers paid tribute on Thursday to the mayor killed by drug hitmen, while officials vowed a tough response to increasingly bold cartels but resisted calls for more troops. REUTERS/Kristian Lopez (MEXICO - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)AP - Authorities said Monday that seven bodies were pulled from mine shafts in central Mexico, while mounting drug violence forced U.S. diplomats to pull their kids out of a school in the northern city of Monterrey.

40 Somalis die in battle in Mogadishu (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:02 AM PDT

Somalia's Islamist Shebab fighters patrol in northern Mogadishu?s Suqaholaha neighborhood. Fighting raged in Mogadishu Tuesday after Al Qaeda-inspired extremists launched an offensive which the government said was a declaration of war on the Somali people, leaving 29 civilians dead(AFP)AP - An emergency official in Somalia's capital says at least 40 civilians have been killed and more than 130 wounded in fighting between Islamist insurgents and government forces backed by African Union peacekeepers.

S.Korea military drill envisions 'occupying N.Korea' (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:00 AM PDT

South Korean soldiers salute during an anti-terror drill as part of a joint US-South Korean military exercise called AFP - South Korean troops have been practising a war plan during joint military drills with the United States that envisions occupying and stabilising North Korea, news reports said Tuesday.

BHP profit to dazzle as Potash Corp lures rivals (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:44 PM PDT

Reuters - BHP Billiton will look to strengthen its hand this week in its $39 billion bid for fertilizer group Potash Corp, with set of monster earnings it hopes will intimidate any rival bidders.

Australian 'kingmakers' meet on political deadlock (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 12:57 AM PDT

Officials at the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) sort through voting papers as they recheck votes cast during Australia's general elections, in Melbourne on August 23, 2010. Australia's AFP - Australia's "kingmaker" independent MPs were meeting Tuesday in Canberra after weekend elections failed to produce a clear winner, triggering the worst political deadlock in decades.

State Department details Blackwater violations of U.S. laws (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:01 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The company formerly known as Blackwater violated U.S. export control laws nearly 300 times, ranging from attempts to do business in Sudan while that country was under U.S. sanctions to training an Afghan border patrol official who was a native of Iran, the State Department said Monday.

Hong Kong issues 'black alert' after deadly Manila hostage crisis (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 01:45 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Eight Chinese tourists were killed Monday after a hostage crisis in the Philippines came to a violent end. The incident is likely to heap pressure on new president Benigno Aquino, who must confront the diplomatic fallout with his giant neighbor while seeking to reassure tourists that his impoverished nation of 92 million is safe to visit.

Ramadan: A Season of Brisk Business in the Middle East (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 12:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Like Christmas in the U.S., the austere Muslim holy month is becoming increasingly commercialized in places like Dubai and Egypt

Jewish Leaders Join Support for Ground Zero Mosque (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:05 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - LOS ANGELES, Aug 22 (New America Media) - Religious leaders from a variety of faiths gathered Friday at the Islamic Center of Southern California in Los Angeles to express support for the building of an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center.
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