Thursday, November 24, 2011

Truce quiets Cairo streets, army apologizes (Reuters)

Truce quiets Cairo streets, army apologizes (Reuters)

Truce quiets Cairo streets, army apologizes (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:21 AM PST

Reuters - An overnight truce between Egyptian riot police and protesters succeeded on Thursday in calming violence that has killed 39 people in five days, but demonstrators occupying Cairo's Tahrir Square vowed to stay until the army gives up power.

Yemen's Saleh signs deal to give up power (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:53 PM PST

A protester shouts and gestures during a demonstration against proposed immunity for Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh under a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-sponsored deal for his ouster in Sanaa November 23, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal on Wednesday under which he will step down after 33 years in power and 10 months of protests against his rule that brought the country to the brink of civil war.

Belarus jails rights activist for tax evasion (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:18 AM PST

Reuters - A Belarussian court on Thursday sentenced leading human rights activist Ales Belyatsky to 4.5 years in prison on tax evasion charges in a case that the European Union has condemned as politically motivated.

"Pokies" roll the political dice for Australian PM (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 12:12 AM PST

Reuters - They are a silent army, formed in ranks inside clubs and hotels around Australia, desperately battling slot machines in the hope of winning an elusive jackpot.

Saudi says two killed in gunfight in eastern province (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 09:28 PM PST

Reuters - Two people were killed and three wounded in an exchange of fire between Saudi security forces in the oil-producing Eastern Province and what the interior ministry on Thursday called gunmen serving a foreign power.

On Cairo's Violent Streets, an Untenable Status Quo Meets an Unwritten Future (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 09:00 PM PST

Time.com - "Say it, don't be afraid: the military council has to leave," chanted some of the tens of thousands of protesters who thronged Cairo's Tahrir Square Tuesday night

Swiss grapple with history of forced child labor (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:01 AM PST

Swiss Michel Frene, a retired watchmaker, shows a magazine article in which he recounts his experience as a 'contract child' in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Monday Nov. 14, 2011. Up until the 1960s Swiss authorities sent hundreds of thousands of children from poor families to live on farms, where they say they were forced to work long hours without pay and suffered physical and emotional abuse. Some are now demanding an apology and compensation. (AP Photo/Frank Jordans)AP - Michel Frene vividly recalls his childhood on a farm in Courtelary, a village in the foothills of Switzerland's Jura mountains. There were cows, lush fields, even a nearby chocolate factory.

Report: Iran lawmaker says 12 CIA agents arrested (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:08 AM PST

Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listen to his speech in Pakdasht, southeast of Tehran November 23, 2011. Ahmadinejad on Wednesday denounced European countries that are tightening sanctions on Iran as puppets of a U.S. master and said he was surprised at their moves to isolate Tehran's central bank. REUTERS/President.ir/Handout (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSAP - An influential Iran parliamentarian has said that the country has arrested 12 agents of the American Central Intelligence Agency, the country's official IRNA news agency reported.

24 killed in drug cartel-plagued Mexican state (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 07:24 PM PST

A soldier looks at bundles of marijuana at a ranch, which was used for the processing and storing of marijuana, in Las Lajas November 23, 2011. Soldiers found 15 tons of marijuana at the ranch during an operation, according to local media. REUTERS/Alejandro Acosta (MEXICO - Tags: DRUGS SOCIETY CRIME LAW MILITARY)AP - Attacks in the home state of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel left 24 people dead and 17 of the victims' bodies were found burned in two pickup trucks, officials said Wednesday.

Climate change: South Africa has much to lose (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:24 AM PST

File: In this photo taken Tuesday, July 19, 2011, elephant walk through the Kruger National Park feeding of trees. Climate change could mean an unthinkable loss of wild life in South Africa, which hosts talks on global warming that will bring government negotiators, scientists and lobbyists from around the world to the coastal city of Durban next week (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)AP - Imagine the savannas of South Africa's flagship Kruger Park so choked with brush, viewing what game is left is nearly impossible. The Cape of Good Hope without penguins. The Karoo desert's seasonal symphony of wildflowers silenced.

Philippine court orders Aquino kin to give up land (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:26 AM PST

AP - The Philippine Supreme Court has ordered vast sugarcane plantation lands owned by President Benigno Aquino III's relatives to be distributed to thousands of farmers under a government land reform program.

Ontario cuts growth targets, says budget on track (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 03:51 PM PST

Reuters - The Ontario government cut its growth, revenue and reserve targets on Wednesday, but said it was still on track to balance the budget in six years, without lowering total program spending or raising taxes.

New House speaker strengthens Australian gov't (AP)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 10:43 PM PST

In this photo taken on March 23, 2011, Peter Slipper, right, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, meets with Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress, in Parliament House, Canberra. Australia's Parliament elected opposition lawmaker Slipper as its new House of Representatives speaker on Thursday, Nov. 24, an unprecedented move that strengthens Prime Minister Julia Gillard's tenuous grip on power because the speaker does not vote in most cases. (AP Photo/Mark Graham)AP - Australia's Parliament elected an opposition lawmaker as its new House of Representatives speaker Thursday, an unprecedented move that actually strengthens Prime Minister Julia Gillard's tenuous grip on power.

Bahrain commission issues brutal critique of Arab Spring crackdown (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 11:08 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - An independent commission in Bahrain today documented abuses by the country's security forces during Arab Spring uprisings and offered a set of recommendations that could help the oil-rich kingdom restore its image with Western allies.

At Cook It Raw, Star Chefs Bond over Sake and Shiitakes (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 09:00 PM PST

Time.com - This year, the gathering brought some of the world's top chefs to Japan, where the collaborations in the kitchen were just as satisfying as the food

Urgency grows in divided Libya, says Jibril (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 09:59 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - This should be Mahmoud Jibril's moment of triumph.
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