Monday, September 10, 2012

Pirate Party shakes up Germany

Pirate Party shakes up Germany

Pirate Party shakes up Germany

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 09:48 PM PDT

The Pirate Party is making waves in Germany and beyond. CNN's Jonathan Mann reports.

Future of nuclear power in Japan

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:25 PM PDT

CNN's Paula Hancocks interviews TEPCO President Naomi Hirose about the future of Nuclear power in Japan.

Egypt PM on treaty with Israel

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:26 PM PDT

Egypt's prime minister reaffirms his country's peace treaty with Israel in an interview with Christiane Amanpour.

Italy's 'white widows'

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:38 AM PDT

Six months ago, an Italian bricklayer behind on his taxes wrote a note to his wife of 27 years, then doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire outside a Bologna tax office. Giuseppe Campaniello died nine days later.

UPDATE: Where in the world ... ?

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:25 PM PDT

Do you know where this photo was taken?

Millions without power in Cuba

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:50 AM PDT

Cubans are used to the mundane inconvenience of brief, localized power outages that regularly hit the country's aging electricity grid, but the large blackout that plunged the western part of the Caribbean island into darkness Sunday night was unusual.

New strike hits S. African gold mine

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:36 AM PDT

Operators of a South African gold mine negotiated with about 15,000 striking workers Monday after they walked off the job the night before, a company official said.

Airport: Primate smuggled via pants

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 12:45 PM PDT

He had a primate in his underpants.

UPDATE: Where in the world ... ?

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 11:31 AM PDT

Do you know where this photo was taken?

Activists: No Venezuela massacre

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:23 PM PDT

The nonprofit that pushed last month for Venezuelan officials to investigate reports of a massacre in an Amazon indigenous community said Monday that it now believes there was no attack there.

Yemen: Ex-Gitmo detainee killed

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:10 AM PDT

Yemeni forces have killed Said al-Shihri, second in command of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemeni Defense Ministry said Monday.

U.S. presses pause in handover of Afghan detainees

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:05 AM PDT

The United States declined Monday to surrender an undisclosed number of detainees during the handover of a prison to Afghan control, said a spokesman for the American-led coalition in Afghanistan.

North Korea agrees to take South Korea aid

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:40 PM PDT

North Korea, reeling from a powerful tropical cyclone, will accept aid from South Korean government for the first time in two years, South Korea said Monday.

New strike hits South African gold mine

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:05 AM PDT

Operators of a South African gold mine negotiated with about 15,000 striking workers Monday after they walked off the job the night before, a company official said.

Millions without power in Cuba

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 04:50 AM PDT

Cubans are used to the mundane inconvenience of brief, localized power outages that regularly hit the country's aging electricity grid, but the large blackout that plunged the western part of the Caribbean island into darkness Sunday night was unusual.

Hong Kong pan-democrats keep veto power

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:43 PM PDT

Two days after Hong Kong's chief executive relented to protesters' demands to drop a controversial Chinese education requirement, pro-democracy legislators Monday got a boost from a majority turnout at the polls.

Venezuela: No charges for U.S. crew

Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:24 PM PDT

The crew of a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, held more than a week and accused of arms trafficking, is expected to set sail Monday or Tuesday from Venezuela after authorities dropped charges against them.
Posted by Harshad at 9:41 PM

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