Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Gaddafi last tracked heading south: top Libyan official (Reuters)

Gaddafi last tracked heading south: top Libyan official (Reuters)


Gaddafi last tracked heading south: top Libyan official (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:27 PM PDT

An anti-Gaddafi fighter keeps guard at the last checkpoint before the town of Bani Walid, currently held by pro-Gaddafi forces, in southeast Tripoli September 6, 2011. REUTERS/Youssef BoudlalReuters - Muammar Gaddafi was last tracked heading for Libya's southern border, the man leading the hunt for the deposed leader told Reuters, and French and Niger military sources said scores of vehicles carrying pro-Gaddafi forces had crossed into Niger.


Briefcase bomb at High Court in India capital kills 9 (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:59 AM PDT

Police cordon off the site of a bomb blast outside the High Court in New Delhi September 7, 2011. REUTERS/B MathurReuters - A powerful bomb placed in a briefcase outside the High Court in New Delhi killed at least nine people and wounded 45 on Wednesday, the deadliest attack in India in almost two months, prompting the government to put the capital on high alert.


Suicide bombers kill 20 in Pakistan's Quetta (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:00 PM PDT

The site of a double suicide bombing is seen from atop a fire truck in Quetta September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Naseer AhmedReuters - Two suicide bombers targeting a senior security official struck near government offices in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing 20 people, a police official said.


Syrian forces renew assault on Homs, kill 3: activists (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:49 AM PDT

Swiss Jakob Kellenberger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), talks to the media about his visit to Syria and talks with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, during a press conference at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi) GERMANY OUT - AUSTRIA OUT -Reuters - Syrian forces backed by tanks killed at least three civilians in a large-scale assault on Homs on Wednesday, activists said, in a renewal of raids on Sunni districts in the city where thousands have held pro-democracy protests.


NATO suspends transfers to some Afghan prisons (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:06 AM PDT

Reuters - NATO-led foreign forces have stopped handing over prisoners to several Afghan jails ahead of the release of a U.N. report warning of torture, a move that raises fresh questions about plans to hand security over to Afghan forces.

Vietnam: Drug Addicts Forced to Produce 'Blood Cashews' (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:05 AM PDT

Time.com - A new report claims the country is exporting goods produced by drug addicts detained against their will

Paris court drops case on Chernobyl fallout (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:56 AM PDT

AP - A Paris court has dropped a long-running investigation into whether the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident caused health problems in France.

Heavy gunfire in central Syria; several killed (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:46 AM PDT

Swiss Jakob Kellenberger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), talks to the media about his visit to Syria and talks with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, during a press conference at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi) GERMANY OUT - AUSTRIA OUT -AP - Activists and residents say several people have been killed or wounded in fresh attacks by Syrian troops in the flashpoint city of Homs.


Honduran coup officials may get US visas back (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:03 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. State Department is offering visas again to Honduran officials who had them revoked after taking part in a June 2009 coup that deposed former President Manuel Zelaya, a U.S. Embassy official confirmed Tuesday.

Somali leaders agree to hold elections in a year (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:22 PM PDT

Internally displaced children sits at a war-ravaged wall outside their makeshift shelter in Seyidka settlement camp in Berkulan near Somalia's capital Mogadishu, September 6, 2011. Famine has spread to six out of eight regions in southern Somalia, with 750,000 people facing imminent starvation, the United Nations said on Monday, and hundreds of people are dying each day despite a ramping up of aid relief. REUTERS/Ismail Taxta (SOMALIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)AP - Leaders in Somalia signed a deal on Tuesday planning to hold elections within a year, aiming to end a string of ineffective transitional U.N.-backed administrations.


Twin suicide bombing in Pakistan kills 23 people (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:03 AM PDT

Map locates Quetta, Afghanistan, where a senior al-Qaida leader has been detainedAP - A pair of suicide bombers attacked the house of a top military officer in the southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing his wife and 22 other people, at least eight of them soldiers, authorities said.


Conrad Black goes back to jail (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 09:49 PM PDT

Reuters - Former media mogul Conrad Black returned to prison on Tuesday in Florida to finish serving a sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman said.

Man faces Australian court over bomb hoax siege (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:02 PM PDT

A man believed to be holding a child hostage gestures after smashing a window at a lawyers office in suburban Sydney, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Australian police cordoned off a Sydney building Tuesday in a tense standoff with the man who claimed to have a bomb, smashed a window and issued threats from the lawyer's office where he holed up with his teenage daughter. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - A man who triggered a 12-hour standoff with police after marching into a law office with his daughter and claiming he had a bomb demanded several thousand dollars and access to a lawyer during the crisis, court documents revealed Wednesday.


NATO drops leaflets urging Qaddafi loyalists to surrender (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 01:41 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As Libya's revolutionary regime prepares for a military assault on three towns still controlled by Muammar Qaddafi loyalists, NATO aircraft backing the new authorities aren't just destroying missiles and tanks.

Is Muammar Gaddafi Fleeing Libya to Burkina Faso? (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:05 AM PDT

Time.com - The impoverished, landlocked nation has been one of the rumored destinations of a supposedly fleeing Gaddafi. But few ordinary citizens there know who he is

James Murdoch retakes center stage in phone hacking scandal (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 01:29 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Two ex-executives from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid, shut amid Britain's spiraling phone hacking scandal, testified Tuesday that Mr. Murdoch's son, James, knew more about voicemail tampering at the tabloid than he admitted at a July Parliament hearing.

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