Thursday, May 5, 2011

Special report: Why the U.S. mistrusts Pakistan's spy agency (Reuters)

Special report: Why the U.S. mistrusts Pakistan's spy agency (Reuters)

Special report: Why the U.S. mistrusts Pakistan's spy agency (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2011 06:07 PM PDT

A roadside vendor sells newspapers with headlines about the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in Lahore May 3, 2011. ves to nuclear-armed Pakistan. REUTERS/Mohsin RazaReuters - In 2003 or 2004, Pakistani intelligence agents trailed a suspected militant courier to a house in the picturesque hill town of Abbottabad in northern Pakistan.

U.S. insists bin Laden killed during firefight (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:57 AM PDT

Osama bin Laden sits during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early 2009. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf/Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)Reuters - U.S. officials sought to keep a lid on growing skepticism over Washington's version of events around Osama bin Laden's death, insisting the al Qaeda leader was killed during a firefight in the compound in Pakistan where he was hiding.

Pakistan Islamists to protest against U.S. bin Laden raid (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan's most influential Islamist party urged its followers to hold mass rallies on Friday to demand their government withdraw its support of the U.S. war on militancy after U.S. commandos killed Osama bin Laden near Islamabad.

Polls mean unhappy first birthday for UK coalition (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:24 PM PDT

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague delivers a speech as he campaigns against the adoption of the Alternative Vote (AV), in London May 3, 2011. Voters are expected to punish the coalition government parties in local elections on Thursday and reject plans to reform the voting system, but the one-year-old alliance is expected to survive the fallout. REUTERS/Stefan WermuthReuters - Britons voted on Thursday in a referendum on electoral reform that has split the year-old coalition government and raised doubts about whether the partnership will last.

"Banker to the poor" loses final appeal against dismissal (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:11 AM PDT

Reuters - Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a final appeal by "banker to the poor" Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus against his dismissal as managing director of Grameen Bank, the micro-lender he founded.

Sorry, We're Closed: Amid Migrant Fears, Europe Brings Back Border Controls (Time.com)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Time.com - As migrants continue to flee the Arab uprisings toward Europe, the European Commission has said Schengen countries can temporarily tighten their borders -- and take away the right to passport-free travel

Al-Qaida suspect goes on trial in Germany (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:48 AM PDT

AP - A 25-year-old German-Syrian who authorities believe trained in an al-Qaida paramilitary camp in Pakistan goes on trial in Germany, where he faces charges of membership in a terror organization.

Suicide bomber kills 18 policemen in central Iraq (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:52 AM PDT

File picture shows members of an Iraqi anti-terror unit at a checkpoint in Baghdad. A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives near a police station in the city of Hilla south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 13 policemen, police and medical officials said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - A suicide car bomber crashed his vehicle into a barrier outside a police building in central Iraq on Thursday morning, killing 18 policemen and wounding dozens more, a local councilman said.

11 bodies found in Mexico pits, total now 121 (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:42 PM PDT

This image provided by Telemundo Communications Group shows Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo appearing as Teresa Mendoza in a scene of the Spanish soap opera “La reina del sur”, from Telemundo. Del Castillo, who lives in Los Angeles, says she is afraid of the surge of violence in Mexico due to drug trafficking. (AP Photo/Telemundo Communications Group, Juan Manuel Garcia)AP - Investigators in the northern Mexico state of Durango said they found the remains of 10 men and one woman in mass graves in the state capital Wednesday, bringing the total of bodies recovered there to 121.

Clinton, Frattini meet ahead of Libyan gathering (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:45 AM PDT

An internally displaced Libyan girl sits among stacks of relief goods at a refugee center in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Thursday's international talks on Libya in Rome promise to be all about the money as global powers seek ways of channelling credit to Libya's rebels, who are asking for up to three billion dollars.(AFP/Saeed Khan)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini ahead of a diplomatic meeting on Libya.

Singapore leaders admit faults, face election test (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:50 AM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, April 29, 2011, Singapore's opposition party Workers' Party leader Low Thia Khiang speaks to his supporters during a rally in Singapore. The ruling People's Action Party, with Lee Hsien Loong, the son of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew at the helm, is still expected to overwhelmingly win Saturday's parliamentary election and remain in power for at least the next decade. But more seats are being contested than ever before by a new crop of well-educated opposition candidates. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)AP - The prime minister is admitting mistakes and even apologizing. It's a sign that the party that has dominated Singapore and told the island state what's best for a half-century could be facing its strongest electoral challenge.

Last WWI combat vet Claude Choules dies aged 110 (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:19 AM PDT

Reuters - British-born Claude Choules, 110, believed to be the last World War One combat veteran, died in his sleep in an Australian nursing home overnight, his family said on Thursday.

After bin Laden: Why the US wants military access to Afghanistan beyond 2014 (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 May 2011 12:17 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Without an airbase on Afghan soil, the secret US air raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan would have been significantly more risky, perhaps prohibitively so. The operation highlights one of the reasons the US would want military access to Afghanistan beyond the 2014 date for withdrawal.

Indicting Gaddafi for War Crimes: Will It Help or Hurt? (Time.com)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Time.com - The International Criminal Court may look to indict to Libyan leader and his henchmen for war crimes. Could it induce his sons to break from him?

Arrests at UK's Sellafield nuclear plant raise concerns about security (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:41 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The arrest of five men whose actions aroused suspicion outside Britain’s Sellafield nuclear plant on Monday has increased fears of terrorist reprisals in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden.

Bin Laden Killing Largely Unmourned in Pakistan (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:30 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - ABBOTTABAD, May 4 (IPS) - Three days since the death of Al-Qaeda chief and U.S. public enemy No. 1 Osama bin Laden, there are no public demonstrations to protest his killing, nor are there any other displays of anger or grief in this country of 170 million where he once enjoyed tremendous support.
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