Monday, January 16, 2012

Italian cruise ship toll rises to 6, captain held (Reuters)

Italian cruise ship toll rises to 6, captain held (Reuters)

Italian cruise ship toll rises to 6, captain held (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:36 AM PST

Reuters - Rescue workers searching the half-submerged hulk of an Italian cruise ship for missing passengers and crew recovered a sixth body on Monday, more than 48 hours after the vessel capsized off Italy's west coast.

Bomb material found in Thailand after terror warnings (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 10:39 PM PST

Reuters - Thai police discovered bomb-making material after the detention of a Lebanese man suspected of planning an attack, but the prime minister insisted Monday that everything was under control.

Romanian protesters clash with riot police (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 06:47 PM PST

Reuters - Romanian riot police used tear gas against protesters who threw rocks and set fire to newspaper stands and rubbish bins in central Bucharest in a fourth day of street demonstrations against government austerity measures Sunday.

North Korea transition "smooth," economy the real test (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:04 AM PST

In this undated photo released Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un, right, inspects the Pyongyang Folk Park under construction in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSIONReuters - North Korea's new leadership under the inexperienced Kim Jong-un appears to be functioning "relatively smoothly," but he has to look beyond key ally China to rebuild its shattered economy, South Korea's senior most official on the North said on Monday.

Car bomb kills at least 8 in Iraq's Mosul: hospital (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 12:05 AM PST

Refugio Ocampo, 49, father of Itzcoatl Ocampo, the man suspected of killing homeless men in Southern California, talks about his son in Fullerton, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Refugio is himself homeless and said that his son came back a changed man after serving with the Marines in Iraq, expressing disillusionment and becoming ever darker as he struggled to find his way as a civilian. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)Reuters - A car bomb exploded inside a residential complex housing displaced Shi'ite Muslims in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding four, hospital and police sources said.

Pakistani Prime Minister Faces Off with the Military (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:35 AM PST

Time.com - The civilian Prime Minister is feuding with the all-powerful generals and with the Supreme Court, and opposition politicians itching to join the melee

Official: 59 Romanians injured in violent protests (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:49 AM PST

A man walks by a fire burning in University Square, the scene of the first anti-communist protests in 1989, in Bucharest, Romania, early Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. Romania's government called an emergency meeting late Sunday to discuss violent protests that show no sign of abating after demonstrators angry about austerity measures hurled stones and firebombs at police. At least six people were injured. (AP Photo/Octav Ganea)AP - A Romanian medical official says 59 people suffered injuries as days of protests against the government and austerity measures turned violent.

Syrian legislator defects to protest crackdown (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:25 AM PST

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, speaks during the opening session of a conference on democracy in the Arab world, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday Jan. 15, 2012. Ban demanded Sunday that Syria's president stop killing his own people, and said the 'old order' of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - A member of Syria's parliament says he has left the country to join the opposition against President Bashar Assad's regime.

Venezuela: Consulate officials in US threatened (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 10:20 AM PST

AP - Venezuelan exiles with links to terrorism have threatened officials at the South American country's consulate in Miami, the foreign minister said Sunday.

Liberia president vows to continue fighting graft (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:30 AM PST

AP - Liberia's president says tackling youth unemployment and fighting corruption are her top priorities after she takes the oath of office Monday and begins her second term in the West African nation.

SKorea: Men arrested for smuggling gold in rectums (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:31 AM PST

AP - South Korean customs officials say they have arrested eight men over a scheme to allegedly smuggle gold out of the country by hiding it in their rectums.

Canada faces legal challenge over Kyoto withdrawal (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 12:26 AM PST

Reuters - The Canadian government's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol is illegal, alleges a suit to be filed in federal court by a law professor and former Canadian MP on Friday.

China: a lifeline for Iran and its oil exports? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 02:52 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - There were few signs that US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had any success during his visit to Beijing this month to persuade China to help pressure Tehran over its nuclear program by buying less Iranian oil.

Germany's Youngest College Lecturer Is Just 16 Years Old (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:35 AM PST

Time.com - By all accounts, Carina Lämmle is the youngest college lecturer in Germany. She also happens to teach a discipline so advanced, few have ever heard of it

ElBaradei quits race, says no real democracy in Egypt (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Jan 2012 10:32 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Egyptian Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei announced Saturday he would not run in Egypt’s presidential elections because the military’s control of the country made fair elections impossible.
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