Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Afghan demonstrators torch foreign compound in Kabul (Reuters)

Afghan demonstrators torch foreign compound in Kabul (Reuters)

Afghan demonstrators torch foreign compound in Kabul (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:35 AM PST

Afghan men stand near pieces of wood and tyres which they set on fire during a protest outside the U.S. military base in Bagram, north of Kabul February 21, 2012. REUTERS/Mohammad IsmailReuters - Demonstrators in the Afghan capital Kabul set fire on Wednesday to part of a housing compound used by foreign contract workers during a second day of violent clashes after copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, were burned at a NATO base.

UN watchdog says nuclear talks with Iran failed (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 11:53 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, police officers stand around an Israeli diplomat's car that was damaged in an explosion in New Delhi, India.. In New Delhi, the wife of an Israeli diplomat and three others were injured by attackers using magnetic bombs, the same tactic used to kill a senior nuclear official in Tehran last month in an attack that Iran claims was masterminded by Israel. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi, File)Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday it had failed to secure an agreement with Iran during talks over disputed atomic activities and that the Islamic Republic had rejected a request to visit a military site.

Australia foreign minister quits sparking leadership crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:48 AM PST

Reuters - Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned on Wednesday, saying he could no longer work with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, stoking speculation he will challenge her for the leadership and plunging the government into a new crisis.

Syrian troops kill 27 in village raids (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:22 AM PST

In this photo taken, Tuesday, Feb. 21,2012, White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily White House briefing in Washington. The Obama administration opened the door slightly Tuesday to international military assistance for Syria's rebels, with officials saying new tactics may have to be explored if President Bashar Assad continues to defy pressure to halt a brutal crackdown on dissenters. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Reuters - Troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 27 young men when they raided villages in a northern Syrian province, an opposition activists' group said on Wednesday.

Gunshots, explosions heard in Nigeria's Kano (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:07 AM PST

Reuters - Gunshots and explosions rang out early Wednesday in Nigeria's biggest northern city Kano, local residents said, in a region beset by violence by Islamist sect Boko Haram.

A Year On, Christchurch Is Still Stuck in Postquake 'Fog' (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:35 AM PST

Time.com - It has been a full year since disaster hit, but the city is just starting to creep back to life

President of breakaway Georgian province attacked (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:21 AM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 file photo, Alexander Ankvab, president of Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia, smiles during a news conference in the provincial capital of Sukhumi. Ankvab survived an assassination attempt by unidentified bandits while driving from Sukhum to Gudauta Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)AP - The president of Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia on Wednesday survived an assassination attempt unhurt, but two of his bodyguards have died, officials said.

Report: Top aide to Israeli prime minister resigns (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:03 AM PST

AP - The prime minister's top spokesman has resigned six months into the job, Israeli media reported Wednesday, injecting new turmoil into Benjamin Netanyahu's troubled bureau shortly before an important White House visit.

Venezuela's Chavez says his cancer is likely back (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 11:18 PM PST

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks with workers as he visits a truck factory in Barinas, Venezuela, Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012. Chavez said Tuesday that doctors in Cuba have found a new lesion in the same place where he had cancer surgery last year, and he will require surgery. (AP Photo/Marcelo Garcia, Miraflores Press Office)AP - President Hugo Chavez has raised serious doubts about whether he'll have the stamina for a successful re-election bid, revealing that he needs to return to Cuba to have a lesion removed that is probably malignant.

Kenya blames Somali militants for food crisis (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:39 AM PST

Kenyan army soldier Nicholas Munyanya, wearing a helmet on which is written in Kiswahili 'Tea in Kismayo', referring to a key strategic Somali town under the control of al-Shabab, checks his ammunition belt near the town of Dhobley, currently under control by Kenyan military and Somali government forces, in Somalia Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. Kenya's military has been fighting inside Somalia in an ongoing offensive against militant group al-Shabab since October, when Somali gunmen carried out several kidnappings in Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - An 80-year-old Somali woman fondly recalled her younger days. There was peace in Somalia then, and people in the town of Tabda in the arid scrublands of the country's south did not rely on the mercy of others for food.

Insight: India's Wild East unprepared for new Myanmar (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:51 AM PST

Reuters - As dusk falls on a lonely police station in the eastern tip of India, a young policeman nervously keeps an eye on the Arakan hills above him, dotted with poppy fields.

John Paulson firm sued over Sino-Forest bet (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:05 PM PST

Reuters - A firm run by John Paulson was sued on Tuesday by a prominent Miami investor who claimed the billionaire's hedge funds failed to conduct proper due diligence on Chinese forestry company Sino-Forest Corp before buying shares, costing investors more than $460 million.

Australia's foreign minister resigns amid dispute (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:08 AM PST

AP - Australia's foreign minister resigned Wednesday amid an ongoing leadership squabble, saying he could not continue in his role without the support of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Islamist attacks draw Nigeria and US military closer (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 11:44 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - With an Islamist militant group on a killing spree in its northern reaches, Nigeria would appear to be just the kind of country that the US military’s Africom was designed to help out.

A Diplomatic Solution to the Iran Nuclear Standoff May Depend On Compromises (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:35 AM PST

Time.com - Sanctions on Iran are beginning to work, goes the argument from the Obama Administration, and they should be given more time to bring Tehran to heel

A defector's tale: How a Syrian soldier turned rebel (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 11:04 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Khaled, a young fighter with the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), keeps a tight grip on his cellphone these days. The serious-looking 20-something with slicked back dark hair and a thin trace of a beard is awaiting a call that will take him from the relative comfort of a safe house in north Lebanon across a border laced with land mines and patrolled by Syrian troops to the dangers and rigors of combat inside Syria.
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