News 1st Look: BP seeks to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico

Sunday, April 3, 2011

BP seeks to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico

BP seeks to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico
2 Gaddafi sons are said to offer plan to push father out
Magnitude-6.7 earthquake strikes off Indonesia
Ivory Coast: Journalists, locals come under fire as fighting continues
Prince Harry emerges as cool, fun face of monarchy
UN evacuates 200 Ivory Coast staff after attacks
Former Agriculture Minister is new Syria PM
Thousands protest in Yemen; Police fire tear gas
41 killed, many injured in blasts at Pak shrine
Libya fight focuses on strategic oil town
Five Indian tourists drugged, robbed by prostitute in Pattaya
92-year-old woman to stand trial for murder in Australia

BP seeks to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico

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BP has asked United States regulators for permission to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, two company officials said on Sunday, creating a delicate situation for the Obama administration as it seeks to balance safety concerns with a desire to increase domestic oil production.

2 Gaddafi sons are said to offer plan to push father out

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At least two sons of Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi are proposing a resolution to the Libyan conflict that would entail pushing their father aside to make way for a transition to a constitutional democracy under the direction of his son Saif al-Islam el-Gaddafi, a diplomat and a Libyan official briefed on the plan said Sunday.

Magnitude-6.7 earthquake strikes off Indonesia

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Hundreds of residents fled an Indonesian port town for higher ground today when an earthquake struck south of Java with a magnitude estimated by US seismologists at 6.7.

Ivory Coast: Journalists, locals come under fire as fighting continues

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A group of journalists travelling in a convoy of three vehicles was shot at as they arrived in Agboville, close to the Ivory Coast capital Abidjan on Sunday. The journalists, said to be French, did not want to interviewed or identified, but one of the drivers - Ahmed Yoda - said there had been "lots of gunfire."

Prince Harry emerges as cool, fun face of monarchy

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He's been filmed trekking through the Arctic, gives a smoldering look from the cover of a men's magazine and is being targeted by legions of young women who only a few years ago would have been lusting after his older brother.

UN evacuates 200 Ivory Coast staff after attacks

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A UN employee said they were told Sunday that they were leaving. They were taken by helicopter from the UN base downtown to the airport. Another helicopter will take them to the northern city of Bouake.

Former Agriculture Minister is new Syria PM

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Syrian President Bashar Assad appointed a former agriculture minister on Sunday to form a new government, part of a series of overtures toward reform as the country faces a wave of anti-government protests.

Thousands protest in Yemen; Police fire tear gas

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Witnesses say thousands of people in southern Yemen took to the streets to demand that their president step down, and that police attacked the demonstrators with tear gas, batons and bullets.

41 killed, many injured in blasts at Pak shrine

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Two suicide bombers struck a crowded Sufi shrine near Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday, killing at least 41 people and injuring 115 others in the latest in a series of attacks targeting religious sites.

Libya fight focuses on strategic oil town

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Libyan rebels skirmished with government forces around the strategic oil town of Brega on Sunday, making incremental gains backed by international air strikes in the see-saw desert battle for the country.