Friday, January 20, 2012

Exclusive: Senior al Qaeda figure killed in drone strike (Reuters)

Exclusive: Senior al Qaeda figure killed in drone strike (Reuters)

Exclusive: Senior al Qaeda figure killed in drone strike (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:45 PM PST

Reuters - A militant who acted as a senior operations organizer for al Qaeda was targeted and killed in one of two U.S. drone strikes launched against targets inside Pakistan last week, a U.S. official said.

Syria killings persist as Arab monitors' mandate expires (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 07:34 PM PST

Reuters - Syrian forces have retreated from a rebel-held town under a local ceasefire, residents said, but deadly violence raged on elsewhere as a month-long mandate for Arab League peace monitors in Syria was expiring.

Marine tape reaction sets Taliban fighters against commanders (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 11:30 PM PST

Reuters - Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have been enraged by a video which shows U.S. marines urinating on three corpses, believed to be insurgents, and some say they do not understand their leadership's relatively measured response to the tape.

Iran says scientist's killer may have used U.N. info (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:48 PM PST

Reuters - Iran charged on Thursday that assassins who killed an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran last week may have used information obtained from the United Nations.

Iran warns region against "dangerous" stance on Hormuz (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 10:09 PM PST

A security personnel looks on at oil docks at the port of Kalantari in the city of Chabahar, 300km (186 miles) east of the Strait of Hormuz January 17, 2012. REUTERS/Raheb HomavandiReuters - Iran's foreign minister warned neighboring states not to put themselves in a "dangerous position" by aligning themselves too closely with the United States in the escalating dispute over Tehran's nuclear activity.

Why the World Should Ignore the Presidential Campaign Foreign Policy Debates (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:35 AM PST

Time.com - Foreign policy vows made on the presidential campaign trail are almost invariably forgotten by the winning candidate once in office

Crews face test on Italy cruise ship as weather worsens (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 12:42 AM PST

Reuters - The vast wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia shifted on the undersea ledge supporting it Friday, forcing a new suspension in rescue work and threatening plans to pump oil out of the vessel to prevent a possible environmental disaster.

Yemen: 3 soldiers killed in attack in south (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 12:13 AM PST

AP - A security official says three Yemeni soldiers were killed when assailants opened fire on their checkpoint in a southern port city.

Jailed Cuban dissident dies after hunger strike (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:53 PM PST

AP - A prominent Cuban government opponent says an imprisoned dissident who went on a hunger strike to protest his four-year sentence has died.

African Union troops reach outskirts of Mogadishu (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 12:34 AM PST

A girl carries containers of food away after receiving them at a distribution center for those displaced by last year's famine or by conflict, in Mogadishu, Somalia Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. Six months after the U.N. declared Somalia's capital a famine zone the number of famine refugees there is dwindling, as most of the men have gone home to try to revive devastated herds and withered crops. The women and children would like to join them but many don't have enough money to make the long journey, meaning there will be fewer hands on farms and smaller harvests. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Residents and military officials say heavy fighting is under way in Somalia's capital, breaking a period of calm.

India lit fest says Rushdie cancels due to threats (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 12:42 AM PST

AP - The organizers of a literary festival in India say novelist Salman Rushdie has canceled his plans to attend after protests from Muslim clerics.

Nortel execs say Deloitte approved of accounting (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 11:44 AM PST

Reuters - Defence lawyers for three former Nortel executives charged with fiddling with balance sheets to trigger bonus payments on Thursday said the telecom equipment company's external auditor knew about major accounting adjustments and signed off on them.

Saddam musician jailed for Australian burglaries (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:45 PM PST

AP - A wedding musician who once served as a music teacher to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been jailed in Australia for burglarizing the homes of two women.

Attack on foreign tourists widens rift between Ethiopia, Eritrea (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:37 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Five western tourists on a trip of a lifetime in East Africa walked into a long-running, albeit low-boil, international conflict and paid with their lives Wednesday. 

Q&A: Russia's Blogger in Chief on the Anti-Putin Movement (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:35 AM PST

Time.com - TIME talks to Andrei Navalny, who has the most popular political blog in Russia and is the acclaimed leader of the largest antigovernment protests since the fall of the Soviet Union

Costa Concordia captain: symbol of the era? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:29 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - When the Titanic went down in 1912, the orchestra was reportedly playing “Nearer My God to Thee.”
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