Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Iran injects fuel into first nuclear reactor (AP)

Iran injects fuel into first nuclear reactor (AP)

Iran injects fuel into first nuclear reactor (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:24 AM PDT

An Iranian policeman stands guard along the road which separates Iran from Afghanistan. Iran acknowledged on Tuesday that it had given AP - Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start-up of a facility that the U.S. once hoped to stop over fears of Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Indonesia warns volcano could erupt at any time (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:41 AM PDT

Indonesia has warned residents living in the shadow of the nation's most active volcano, Merapi, to evacuate or risk being killed by a major eruption.(AFP/Clara Prima)AP - Pressure building beneath a lava dome in the mouth of Indonesia's most volatile volcano could trigger one of its deadliest blasts in years, scientists warned Tuesday, as residents living along the slopes were moved to temporary camps.

Japan, worried by China, may boost submarine fleet (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 11:32 PM PDT

AP - Japan may increase the size of its submarine fleet, officials said, as concerns rise that the expansion of the Chinese navy is tipping the regional balance of power.

China panda baby boom aids against extinction (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 11:07 PM PDT

In this Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 photo, six pandas selected for display at the upcoming Asian Games eat a meal at the Wolong China Pandas Protection and Research Center at Bifengxia base in Ya'an in southwestern China's Sichuan province. China's panda population is booming this year thanks to a record number of births in captivity, a rare accomplishment for the endangered species known for being poor breeders. (AP Photo)**CHINA OUT**AP - China's panda population is booming this year thanks to a record number of births in captivity, a rare accomplishment for the endangered species known for being poor breeders.

SKorea sends 1st food aid to NKorea in 3 years (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 08:30 PM PDT

South Korean Red Cross workers stand as a ship carrying rice for North Korean flood victims prepares to leave for China at a port in Gunsan, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010.South Korea prepared Monday to send 5,000 tons of rice to flood victims in North Korea in its first humanitarian rice shipment to its communist neighbor since a conservative, pro-U.S. government took office in Seoul in 2008. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - South Korea sent its first humanitarian rice shipment to North Korea since a conservative, pro-U.S. government took office in 2008, and opened talks Tuesday on how to regularly hold reunions for families divided across the border.

Pension-reform opposition continues in France despite riot police (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 04:35 PM PDT

A man walks past piles of garbage in Marseille, southern France, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. France's massive strikes are costing the national economy up to euro400 million ($562 million) each day, the French finance minister said Monday, as workers continued to block ports, oil refineries and trash incineration plants to protest a plan to raise the retirement age to 62. Nearly 10,000 tons of garbage have been piling up in southern Marseille and its suburbs. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)Time.com - Last week, the French President sent police in to break up strikes at oil refineries in the hopes of taming protests against his new pension plans. But this week, the opposition to the reforms continues

ArcelorMittal warns on operating profit (AFP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:43 AM PDT

The leading global steelmaker ArcelorMittal warned that operating profits will slow further, in a statement on Tuesday, and its shares slumped by more than 4.0 percent in initial trading.(AFP/File/Jean-Christophe Verhaegen)AFP - The leading global steelmaker ArcelorMittal warned that operating profits will slow further, in a statement on Tuesday, and its shares slumped by more than 4.0 percent in initial trading.

Palestinians, Jews race to plant West Bank (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 05:47 PM PDT

Palestinians pick olives from trees farmers say were cut overnight by Jewish settlers, nearby the Jewish settlement of Eli in the northern West Bank village of A Laban al-Sharkiyeh, Saturday, Oct 23, 2010. Vandals chopped down around 20 Palestinian-owned olive trees in the West Bank overnight Saturday, the latest in a string of attacks against Palestinian property during the important autumn harvest season. 'We found our trees sawed when we came to pick them this morning,' said farmer Raja Aweis, 42. A military spokesman said police were investigating. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - Olive tree by olive tree, Palestinian farmers and Jewish settlers are competing over the rocky hills of the West Bank, planting more of the gnarled evergreens to strengthen their hold on the land. Now in harvest season, the battle gets rough, with orchards robbed, vandalized and burned.

Canadian at Gitmo pleads guilty to all charges (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 07:59 PM PDT

** CORRECTS SLUG TO GUANTANAMO WAR CRIMES AND ADDS LOCATION ** In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official Capt Michael Grant, USAF swears in Omar Khadr, right, at the Camp Justice compound of Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday Oct. 25, 2010. Khadr pleaded guilty under oath before military commission Judge Patrick Parrish, rear, to five charges including murder in a plea agreement with military authorities. On Khadr's right, Canadian lawyers Dennis Edney and Nathan Whitling, with military legal defense LTC Jon Jackson, USA and Maj Matthew Schwartz, USAF.(AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)AP - Eight years after he was taken to Guantanamo as a teenage prisoner, a Canadian pleaded guilty Monday to killing a U.S. Army sergeant during a battle in Afghanistan, in a deal that will send him home in a year to serve his sentence.

Africa's tech explosion promises economic growth (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 11:02 PM PDT

An illustration photo of a worker connecting fiber-optic cables in a junction box of an apartment building. 14 undersea fibre-optic cables will link Africa's Internet service providers to the servers of Europe and Asia by mid-2012, increasing the capacity of its cable Internet connections almost three-fold from today and nearly 300-fold from 2009.(AFP/File/Bertrand Langlois)AFP - Ask web entrepreneur Stefan Magdalinski why he moved from London to Cape Town two years ago, and he points to a map that illustrates the technological revolution reshaping Africa.

Indonesia warns farmers to flee simmering volcano (AFP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:48 AM PDT

Indonesia has warned residents living in the shadow of the nation's most active volcano, Merapi, to evacuate or risk being killed by a major eruption.(AFP/Clara Prima)AFP - Indonesia warned residents living in the shadow of the nation's most active volcano to evacuate on Tuesday or risk being killed by a major eruption.

Liberal Toronto elects conservative mayor (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 06:54 PM PDT

Reuters - Toronto voters on Monday elected conservative Rob Ford as mayor of Canada's biggest city, tilting away from their recent liberal leanings and opting for his platform of small government, fewer taxes and big spending cuts.

Australia unharmed by Afghan WikiLeaks: military (AFP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:09 AM PDT

Australian soldiers at a forward operating base in southern Uruzgan province's Mirwais in January 2010. Australia said Tuesday that July's release by WikiLeaks of thousands of classified documents had not had a major impact on its operations in Afghanistan, as it probed fresh leaks about the war in Iraq.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)AFP - Australia said Tuesday that July's release by WikiLeaks of thousands of classified documents had not had a major impact on its operations in Afghanistan, as it probed fresh leaks about the war in Iraq.

Mexico birthday massacre shows teen toll in drug war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:49 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Fourteen teenagers killed at a birthday party Friday. A 19-year-old and 12 others lined up against a wall and shot at a drug rehabilitation center Sunday. Two teenagers and a woman caught in the crossfire between gunmen and soldiers the same day.

Afghanistan: Talks with the Taliban Still Face Hurdles (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 01:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Negotiations with the Taliban are the talk of the town. But there is little evidence that they are actually taking place. And few trust the would-be negotiators

Haiti cholera outbreak 'stabilizing' – but could affect election (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 01:46 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Haiti's cholera outbreak is "stabilizing," with the United Nations and Haitian government thus far preventing the disease from spreading to the capital's sprawling tent camps of 1.3 million people.
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