Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Fighting intensifies; Saleh in hospital

Fighting intensifies; Saleh in hospital


Fighting intensifies; Saleh in hospital

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 01:57 PM PDT

Tribal fighters took control of a top Yemeni city on Tuesday, a setback for an embattled government whose injured president is confined to a hospital in Saudi Arabia. FULL STORY | LIMITED OPTIONS | DOUBTFUL FUTURE

Gadhafi: 'We will not surrender, we will not give up'

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 02:44 PM PDT

Libyan state television showed images Tuesday of destroyed buildings, damaged studios and satellite vehicles -- saying it was the aftermath of a NATO airstrike that allegedly hit its facilities in Tripoli.

European officials hold E. coli crisis talks

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 10:46 AM PDT

Top European farming officials are meeting Tuesday as the continent struggles to deal with an E. coli bacteria outbreak that has killed at least 22 people.

Rights groups want international court to probe Syria

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:17 PM PDT

A delegation of human rights organizations and their lawyers Tuesday accused the Syrian government of committing crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, according to a statement released by the group.

Syrian refugees stranded on Turkish border

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:39 PM PDT

Hundreds of Syrian refugees were camping in the countryside Tuesday night, stranded a few hundreds yards away from the Turkish border after fleeing violence in the Syrian town of Jisr Al-Shugur.

Dutch to ban foreigners from pot shops

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 11:31 AM PDT

The Netherlands plans to ban foreigners from the country's famed pot shops, a decision Amsterdam's tourism industry hopes goes up in smoke.

Japan raises estimate of initial radiation leak

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 01:44 PM PDT

The amount of radiation released from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the immediate aftermath of Japan's earthquake and tsunami were twice the level that the country's Nuclear and Industrial Safety originally admitted, Japan's Emergency Response Center said.

Turkey's prime minister fires back at news magazine

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:53 PM PDT

Turkey is no stranger to name-calling and over-heated rhetoric, especially in the final days before a national election.

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