Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Libyan forces plan "final" attack on Gaddafi hometown (Reuters)

Libyan forces plan "final" attack on Gaddafi hometown (Reuters)

Libyan forces plan "final" attack on Gaddafi hometown (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:49 PM PDT

Anti-Gaddafi fighters fire heavy machine gun towards Gaddafi forces during clashes between the two sides, about 500 metres from the entrance of Sirte, October 3, 2011. REUTERS/Asmaa WaguihReuters - Libyan interim government forces have pledged to mount a final decisive attack on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown and one of his former lieutenants says he believes the deposed leader is ready to fight to the end.

Pakistan appears more isolated after India-Afghan pact (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:50 AM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan, its ties with powerful ally the United States heavily strained, is looking increasingly isolated after rival India signed a wide-ranging agreement with neighboring Afghanistan.

Yemeni troops shell anti-Saleh forces (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:24 PM PDT

Medics tend to a man injured in a mortar attack at a makeshift hospital in Sanaa October 4, 2011. REUTERS/Mohamed al-SayaghiReuters - Yemeni soldiers loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened artillery fire late on Tuesday against armed fighters supporting protesters in the southern city of Taiz, in the latest resurgence of violence in the anti-Saleh stronghold.

Somali's al Shabaab kills 70 in Mogadishu bomb (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:48 PM PDT

Somalia government soldiers carry an injured man from the scene of a suicide attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu October 4, 2011. REUTERS/Feisal OmarReuters - Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels struck at the heart of the capital on Tuesday, killing more than 70 people with a truck bomb in the group's most deadly attack in the country since launching an insurgency in 2007.

Putin aide woos Russia's middle-class voters (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:59 PM PDT

Reuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is seeking to build bridges with middle class voters disillusioned by the near certain prospect of his return to the Kremlin after 2012 presidential elections.

Will Thailand's Most Famous Fugitive Get His Passport Back? (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Time.com - Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has gone from exile to de-factor ambassador in a matter of months. Now, with help from his family, he might finally be heading home

Panetta: US military can't make up NATO shortfalls (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 01:38 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta answers questions during a news conference in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. Panetta is on his first visit to the Middle East since becoming defense secretary. (AP Photo/Win McNamee. Pool)AP - Facing deep budget cuts, the U.S. will no longer be able to make up for the significant shortfalls that have plagued NATO's operations in Libya and Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Wednesday, exhorting allies to work together or risk losing the ability to take on such missions.

Syrian TV airs interview with woman reported dead (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 01:13 AM PDT

In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and provided by The Union of Homs City Neighborhood, anti-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters hold up a banner with the signs of the Muslim Crescent, Christian's Cross, and Alawite sect by the sword, and the name of Imam Ali, with Arabic words reading:'The Syrian people is one,' to show the unity between the Syrian sects during a demonstration against the Syrian regime, in Homs province, Syria, late Monday Oct. 3, 2011. Syrian troops going house to house have detained more than 3,000 people in the past three days in a rebellious town that government forces recently retook in some of the worst fighting since the country's uprising began six months ago, an activist said Monday. The formation of the new Syrian National council announced in Istanbul on Sunday. The council appeared to be the most serious step yet to unify a deeply fragmented dissident movement, and many Syrians in the southern and central regions of the country took to the streets in celebration, singing and dancing. (AP Photo/The Union of Homs City Neighborhood) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTOAP - Syrian state-run TV has aired an interview with a young woman who was reported to have been beheaded and mutilated by security agents while in custody.

Pressure grows as Chile student leader opens talks (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:33 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sept. 22, 2011, Chile's student leader Camila Vallejo walks after attending a student demonstration in downtown Santiago, Chile. The 23-year-old geography student has become the public face of a movement that has repeatedly forced Chilean President Sebastian Pinera to make concessions. Finally, after five months leading the biggest marches in two decades of Chilean democracy, the students have begun face-to-face talks with the government over their demands for profound changes in what they say is the country's unequal and under funded public school system. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Camila Vallejo handles a microphone as if she were born with it, rallying huge demonstrations for education reform that only seem to grow bigger each time police turn up with tear gas and water cannons.

UNESCO delays decision on disputed prize (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:37 PM PDT

AP - Diplomats at UNESCO delayed a decision Tuesday on whether to name a life sciences prize after the much-criticized ruler of Equatorial Guinea, giving respite to Western governments and U.N. diplomats who see him as tainted and the prize as an embarrassment.

10 years on and life grim for Afghans (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:59 AM PDT

In this Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011 photo, an Afghan National Army soldier relaxes on his bed inside the sleeping quarters of their barracks in Kunduz, northen Afghanistan. As the U.S. and NATO mark 10 years of war in Afghanistan, a grim picture emerges from scores of interviews over six months across the country with ordinary Afghans, government officials, soldiers, and former and current Taliban. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - Asif Khan sits on a dirty, once-white blanket in an abandoned cinema and fights back tears of desperation.

Manitoba's NDP wins fourth straight majority term (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:57 PM PDT

Reuters - Manitoba voters re-elected the New Democratic Party government on Tuesday, which won a record-matching fourth straight majority in the western Canadian farm and mining province.

Arrests of journalists show Ethiopia's sterner side (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:00 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The arrests of two Swedish journalists â€" captured by security forces in early July after a firefight with ethnic Somali rebels â€" and the detention of a long stream of local journalists with critical views of the Ethiopian government is showing once again the ruthless streak of America’s biggest friend in the Horn of Africa.

Amanda Knox Acquittal: What Now for the Family of Meredith Kercher? (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Time.com - Amanda Knox sobbed uncontrollably as a judge read out her acquittal. Several rows behind her, the family of Meredith Kercher stared ahead in silence

Protests underscore Bulgarians' fear of Roma, organized crime (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:57 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Houses set ablaze; far right activists and football hooligans chanting racist slogans; vigilantes arming themselves with swords, knives, and clubs; riot police charging through normally peaceful streets.
Posted by Harshad at 1:56 AM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)