Monday, September 26, 2011

U.S. citizen killed by Afghan employee at embassy in Kabul (Reuters)

U.S. citizen killed by Afghan employee at embassy in Kabul (Reuters)

U.S. citizen killed by Afghan employee at embassy in Kabul (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:21 AM PDT

Reuters - An Afghan employee killed a U.S. citizen and wounded another in a "shooting incident" at an annex of the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Sunday night, an embassy spokesman said.

Libya's NTC readies new push into Sirte (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 04:49 PM PDT

A man collects human remains at the site of a mass grave in Tripoli September 25, 2011. REUTERS/Suhaib SalemReuters - Fighters backing Libya's interim rulers prepared to renew their advance into the coastal city of Sirte on Monday after NATO aircraft bombed targets in Muammar Gaddafi's home town to sap the resistance of the deposed leader's troops.

Syrian tanks pound rebel town near Homs, 3 injured (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 08:09 PM PDT

Reuters - Syrian tanks pounded a town on a strategic highway overnight, injuring at least three people during a military crackdown on dissent in the central region of Homs, activists and residents said on Monday.

French left seizes Senate majority, hurts Sarkozy (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 01:20 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy attends a ceremony commemorating the Harkis, Algerian soldiers loyal to the French during the Algerian war, at the Invalides in Paris, September 25, 2011. REUTERS/Philippe WojazerReuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative government lost its majority in the Senate to the left on Sunday, officials said, in a historic defeat that deals him a blow just seven months before a presidential election.

In letter, Knox says is tired, thinks of Seattle (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 04:40 PM PDT

Reuters - American student Amanda Knox is "very tired" but dreaming of things to do with her loved ones if she walks free from an Italian prison, Italian media reported, quoting a letter she wrote to an Italian lawmaker.

Opposition to Palestinians at U.N. Threatens U.S. Business Interests (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:45 PM PDT

Time.com - A newly assertive Arab public, infuriated by President Obama shielding Israel from demands for Palestinian freedom, looks set to retaliate via its consumer power

6 men due in UK court over alleged terror plot (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:44 AM PDT

AP - Six men are due to appear in a London court on terrorism charges, three of them charged with plotting suicide bomb attacks in Britain.

Libyans find grave said to hold remains of 1,200 (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 04:05 PM PDT

Revolutionary fighters stand near bone fragments at the site which is thought to be a possible mass grave near to Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, where some 1,270 inmates are thought to have been killed by the regime of Moammar Gadhafi in a 1996 prison massacre. Various bones have been found scattered over the cactus-covered desert field near to the prison, after information was given by a captured former security guard who revealed its location, according to an announcement on Sunday by Dr. Ibrahim Abu Sahima of the government committee overseeing the search for victims of the former regime. Officials with the Libyan Transitional Council are expected to ask for international assistance in identifying the remains. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany)AP - A bone wrapped with rope and skull fragments scattered over a cactus-covered desert field are grim testament to a 1996 massacre of more than 1,200 prisoners by Moammar Gadhafi's regime.

Bolivian police break up anti-highway march (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 10:33 PM PDT

Police officers detain a man during clashes after a march on the outskirts of Yucumo, Bolivia, Sunday Sept. 25, 2011. Indigenous and environmentalist groups began the Aug. 15th march to La Paz in protest of the government’s planned highway that would cut through the nature preserve, Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure or TIPNIS, home to 15,000 natives. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)AP - Bolivian police used tear gas and truncheons to break up a march Sunday by hundreds of indigenous activists protesting plans to build a highway they say will despoil a vast Amazon nature preserve.

First African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize dies (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:32 PM PDT

AP - Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday. She was 71.

China rejects Dalai Lama on succession plans (AP)

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 01:01 AM PDT

AP - China says the Dalai Lama does not have the right to decide who will take over from him when he dies. It says Beijing will decide who will be the next Dalai Lama.

Leader for Life? How Putin Set Up His Kremlin Comeback (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:45 PM PDT

Time.com - It's official: Putin, who is currently Russia's Prime Minister, will run for President this coming spring, opening the door for him to reclaim his throne for another 12 years
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