Thursday, October 28, 2010

Britain's spy boss makes first public speech (Reuters)

Britain's spy boss makes first public speech (Reuters)

Britain's spy boss makes first public speech (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 10:09 PM PDT

Reuters - Britain's top spy makes the first public speech by a serving UK espionage chief on Thursday, a step toward greater openness for an intelligence service that for most of the 20th century did not officially exist.

China vows not to use rare earths as leverage (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:29 AM PDT

A stalk of wild grass grows off soil from an old site of a rare earth metals mine on the outskirts of Longnan county, in Jiangxi Province October 27, 2010. REUTERS/Jason LeeReuters - China said on Thursday it will not use its dominance of rare earths supplies as a "bargaining tool" with foreign economies, and the United States said it would welcome clarification of Beijing's policy on the high-tech ores.

Guantanamo convict's victim recalled as a hero (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 05:11 PM PDT

Defendant Omar Khadr, a native of Toronto, Canada, listens to testimony during his commissions trial at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, in this courtroom sketch October 27, 2010. Khadr, who was 15 and gravely wounded when captured during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, admitted he conspired with al Qaeda and killed a U.S. soldier with a grenade. Khadr plead guilty in a plea deal that could send him home to serve the rest of his sentence in Canada within the year. REUTERS/Janet Hamlin/PoolReuters - Six days before a young Canadian lobbed a fatal grenade at a U.S. soldier, that soldier had run into a minefield and rescued two injured Afghan children, the U.S. war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay naval base learned on Wednesday.

Argentina enters new political era as Kirchner dies (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 10:45 PM PDT

UNASUR secretary general and former Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner arrives at Miraflores Palace in Caracas August 5, 2010, for a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. REUTERS/Jorge SilvaReuters - Tens of thousands of Argentines paid tribute on Thursday to Nestor Kirchner, the powerful former leader whose death robbed President Cristina Fernandez of her husband and most trusted ally.

Myanmar's Suu Kyi "could be freed next month" (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 10:44 PM PDT

A man stands near a poster of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as he waits for treatment at the Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, in northwest Thailand October 21, 2010. REUTERS/Chaiwat SubprasomReuters - Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, could be released from house arrest next month, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said on Thursday.

Sri Lanka's Military Tries to Polish Its Image -- on Reality TV (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:05 AM PDT

Time.com - Twenty months after the war's end, Sri Lanka's military members are getting a shot at their 15 minutes of fame in the Reality-TV show Ranaviru Real Star, part of the government's campaign to rehabilitate its military's image

Shell Q3 profit rises 6.5 pct on higher oil price (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:57 AM PDT

AP - Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's largest oil company, Thursday reported third quarter net profit rose 6.5 percent from a year ago as increasing production and a rise in oil prices more than offset charges at its refining arm.

Bahrain opens coup plot trial against Shiites (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:26 AM PDT

Sheik Ali Salman, leader of the opposition al-Wefaq Party, speaks at a press conference Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010, in Manama, Bahrain. Salman, whose party secured 18 seats in the 40-seat legislature, said he wasn't satisfied with the outcome, alleging the government's election rules prevent Shiites from obtaining a majority in parliament. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - State prosecutors in Bahrain are opening their case against 23 Shiite Muslim activists accused of plotting to overthrow Sunni rulers in the tiny Gulf nation.

15 people killed in Mexican car wash massacre (AP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 08:20 PM PDT

People gather in a corner as navy sailors conduct an operation at a neighborhood in Acapulco, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. The city has been recently wracked by almost daily multiple executions as drug gangs battle for control of the region.(AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)AP - Gunmen killed 15 people at a car wash Wednesday in a Mexican Pacific coast state where drug-gang violence has risen this year. It was the third massacre in Mexico in less than a week.

Disfigured but alive: Zimbabwe cuts horns to save rhinos (AFP)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 07:37 PM PDT

Doctor Chris Forging cuts a rhino horn in Chipinge National Park, 360km west of Harare. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Zimbabwe's National Parks have embarked on de-horning rhinos to make them less vulnerable to poaching. At peak, Zimbabwe had 3,000 black and white Rhinos but this has gone down to just over 700.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - The roaring chainsaw sends fingernail-like shards flying into the baking Zimbabwean bush as it slices through the slumped black rhino's foot-long horn.

UN chief appeals for more Khmer Rouge trials (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:56 AM PDT

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, front right, arrives in the court hall of the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. Cambodia will not allow the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal to prosecute former low-ranking officers of the genocidal regime because it would endanger national peace, the country's leader told the U.N. chief Wednesday. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made an emotional appeal Thursday for Cambodia to send a message to the world that the Khmer Rouge's crimes against humanity will not go unpunished.

Parliament defeats controversial mining bill (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Canadian lawmakers on Wednesday defeated a bill that would have raised the bar on human rights and environmental standards followed by Canadian mining companies working overseas.

Mexican car wash massacre: Rehab centers latest target in drug war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 02:47 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Three brutal Mexican massacres in less than a week have killed at least 41 people, with young people formerly involved in the drug trade making up the majority of the victims.

Can the E.U. Find a Way to Fix the Euro? (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:05 AM PDT

Time.com - As Europe's leaders meet in Brussels to try to tackle debt and deficit in the eurozone all agree that sanctions are the best tool for the job, but remain divided on how to use them

How Nestor Kirchner's passing alters Argentine politics (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 12:41 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The sudden passing of former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner today from an apparent heart attack has stunned a nation now mourning a man who will be remembered for adeptly steering Argentina out of its economic meltdown of 2001-2002.

Madagascar Villager to Put $10K Prize to Saving Forest (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 08:08 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - DAKAR, Oct 28 (OneWorld) - A self-educated naturalist from Madagascar has been awarded a prestigious international prize after spending almost all the money he's ever earned to purchase and protect endangered tropical forest.
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