Wednesday, March 23, 2011

West will end in "dustbin of history," Gaddafi says (Reuters)

West will end in "dustbin of history," Gaddafi says (Reuters)

West will end in "dustbin of history," Gaddafi says (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:50 AM PDT

Reuters - Western powers attacking Libya will end up in the dustbin of history, Muammar Gaddafi said as his troops held back rebels despite four nights of air strikes.

U.S. halts Japan food imports, Tokyo water contaminated (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 01:02 AM PDT

A Japanese tsunami survivor stands in front of messages displayed on the wall of a relief center in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture. Engineers racing to cool a stricken nuclear plant in Japan have partially restored power to one of the control rooms, as radioactivity in the sea fuelled anxiety over food safety.(AFP/Philippe Lopez)Reuters - Radiation danger from Japan's tsunami-smashed nuclear plant loomed on Wednesday with water in Tokyo showing hazardous levels for infants and the United States becoming the first nation to block food imports.

Syrian forces kill 6 in mosque attack: residents (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:56 AM PDT

Protesters gather near the Omari Mosque in the southern old city of Deraa, March 22, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled al-HaririReuters - Syrian forces killed at least six people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in the southern city of Deraa, site of unprecedented protests challenging President Bashar al-Assad's Baathist rule, residents said.

Yemen opposition call for mass protests on Friday (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:15 PM PDT

Girls shout slogans during a rally demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa March 18, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - Yemen opposition groups called on protesters to march on President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Sanaa palace on Friday to demand he step down, hoping to end a crisis that his allies abroad fear will benefit Islamic militants.

Quake-ravaged Japan digs mass graves (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:12 AM PDT

Reuters - The towering waves that splintered thousands of Japanese homes and lives has forced the country to rethink one of its most sacred Buddhist practices: how it treats the dead.

China: Tainted Pork Renews Food Safety Fears (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Pork produced by the country's largest meat processor was found to contain an illegal chemical called Clenbuterol, raising fresh doubts about the government's ability to enforce food safety laws

Sweden freezes $1.6B of Libyan assets (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:52 AM PDT

AP - Sweden has frozen some 10 billion kronor ($1.6 billion) of assets belonging to Moammar Gadhafi's regime in Libya.

New exchange between Gaza and Israel; 1 dead (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 01:12 AM PDT

Israelis stand next to damaged road after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, landed in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, Wednesday, March. 23, 2011. Gaza militants say they've fired rockets at Israel after the Israeli military killed seven Palestinians, including three children and their uncle. The first rocket landed near the coastal city of Ashdod, and the Israeli military said it carried out a retaliatory airstrike early Wednesday. No Israeli injuries were reported in the rocket attack, but Palestinians say one militant was killed in the airstrike. Hours later, a rocket struck southern Israel's largest city, Beersheba, moderately wounding one person. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for both rocket attacks. The killing of the civilians Tuesday dramatically escalated a recent round of simmering violence. Israel says a mortar strike targeting militants went astray.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)AP - Gaza militants barraged southern Israel with rockets and mortars Wednesday, drawing retaliatory Israeli airstrikes in a worrisome escalation of the gravest hostilities in the area since Israel went to war in the Palestinian coastal territory two years ago.

Obama ending Americas tour, cuts Mayan visit (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:06 AM PDT

resident Barack Obama walks with his drink to his seat during the official dinner at the National Palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, March 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama is leaving Central America earlier than scheduled, cutting short a tour dominated by the U.S.-led military action in Libya.

Report: Libya releases 3 captured journalists (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 01:01 AM PDT

AP - Agence France Presse says the Libyan government has released three journalists captured last week.

Thai police seize flimsy children's bike helmets (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 01:08 AM PDT

AP - Authorities in Thailand have raided a factory accused of producing substandard children's motorcycle helmets. They say the helmets were labeled with fake safety stickers.

Canada faces May election over budget rejection (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 04:44 PM PDT

Reuters - A Canadian federal election looked inevitable on Tuesday after all three opposition parties said they would vote against the minority Conservative government's latest budget.

Australia to rescue hundreds stranded by floods (AFP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 12:58 AM PDT

Campers leave a helicopter as authorities evacuate at Fish Creek some 300 people stranded after storms dumped heavy rain, cutting roads and causing flash flooding at Wilsons Promontory National Park, southeast of Melbourne on March 23, 2011.(AFP/Paul Crock)AFP - Hundreds of campers stranded by floods and landslides in Australia were waiting to be rescued on Wednesday after roads were washed out by freakish weather.

Libya timeline: Events leading up to March 22 (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 03:04 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Week 6, March 20- 26March 21-22: World leaders debate the March 17 UN resolution authorizing a no-fly zone and “all necessary measures” to protect Libyan civilians. Some leaders are turning against the resolution because they claim the operations have now gone beyond the scope of what they supported when they voted in favor of it. Meanwhile, NATO members debate whether and how to get NATO forces involved in the operation.

Q&A with Mia Farrow (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:25 PM PDT

Time.com - The actress turned humanitarian speaks to TIME about her recent visit to south Sudan, where she witnessed firsthand the devastating impact of armed conflict on children

Libyan officials decry air strikes as immoral and undemocratic (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 02:47 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As criticism of the scope of allied air attacks on Libya rises from South Africa to Russia, Libyan officials Tuesday took journalists to a recent target: a set of large sheds on a Tripoli naval base that housed aging missile equipment and workshops.

Vulnerability and Uncertainty Prevail in Wake of Nuclear Disaster (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 10:55 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - TOKYO, Mar 22 (IPS) - Accidents at four nuclear power reactors hit by the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima have left thousands of residents in the vicinity facing an uncertain future as they prepare for evacuation orders to protect them from dangerous radiation contamination.
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