Standing Up for Homeless Vets at Stand Downs (OneWorld.net)

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm

OneWorld.net – SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 18 (New America Media) – More than 400 homeless veterans from across Northern California relaxed
in comfort at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton. The occasion: a “Stand Down,” where the homeless veterans were given access to good food, clean clothes, showers and beds.

Read More: Standing Up for Homeless Vets at Stand Downs
(OneWorld.net)

Comments are off for this article

Israel's Netanyahu scores big victory with direct peace talks – for now (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm

The Christian Science Monitor – Savoring the diplomatic victory of renewed direct peace talks announced last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet today that a peace treaty with the Palestinians would be “a difficult thing, but it is possible.”

Read More: Israel's Netanyahu scores big victory with direct peace talks – for now
(The Christian Science Monitor)

Comments are off for this article

2 of 9 trapped dolphins rescued in Bolivia river (AP)

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm

After being rescued, a pink dolphin (Inia Boliviensis) is transported by Colombian biologist Mariana Escobar and rescue worker team leader Runny Callau, top, form the Pailas river to the Grande river in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Sunday, Aug. 22 , 2010. According to Bolivian biologists, heavy sedimentation and droughts have cut the communication between the Amazonian Pailas and Grande rivers, leaving some 12 dolphins stranded on a drying pond of the Pailas river.  (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)AP – Dozens of biologists and environmental activists rescued two freshwater dolphins Sunday among nine that have been trapped in a river by low water levels for more than a month.


Read More: 2 of 9 trapped dolphins rescued in Bolivia river
(AP)

Comments are off for this article

33 miners in Chile are alive, but stuck for months (AP)

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera holds up a plastic bag containing a message, from miners trapped in a collapsed mine, that reads in Spanish 'We are ok in the refuge, the 33 miners' in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday Aug. 22, 2010. The miners have been trapped below the surface of the mine since the main access collapsed on Aug. 5 due to tons of falling rock. (AP Photo/Hector Retamal)AP – For 33 men found alive after 17 days trapped deep in a copper and gold mine, the toughest challenge now may be preserving their sanity during the months it may take to carve a tunnel big enough for them to get out.


Read More: 33 miners in Chile are alive, but stuck for months
(AP)

Comments are off for this article

Kigali — from sleepy backwater to Africa's Singapore (AFP)

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm

People on motorcycles ride past a poster for Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Timichanga road in Kigali on August 7. Rwanda's capital is changing from a sleepy backwater where most things closed at 9:00 pm to a future Singapore with gleaming office blocks and all-night shopping.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)AFP – Rwanda’s capital is changing from a sleepy backwater where most things closed at 9:00 pm to a future Singapore with gleaming office blocks and all-night shopping.


Read More: Kigali — from sleepy backwater to Africa's Singapore
(AFP)

Comments are off for this article

Iran inaugurates nation's first unmanned bomber (AP)

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm

This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry, shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second from left, applauding during a ceremony inaugurating the Karrar drone aircraft, at Malek-e Ashtar University on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. Ahmadinejad Sunday spoke about the country's first domestically-built, long-range, unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an 'ambassador of death' to Iran's enemies. (AP Photo/Iranian Defense Ministry,Vahid Reza Alaei) EDS NOTE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE.AP – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated the country’s first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an “ambassador of death” to Iran’s enemies.


Read More: Iran inaugurates nation's first unmanned bomber
(AP)

Comments are off for this article

Australian Voters Face Hung Parliament in Close Election (Time.com)

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm

Time.com – Australia has its first hung Parliament in 70 years, with neither the conservative Liberal-National Coalition nor the Labor Party getting the requisite 76 seats to win the national election

Read More: Australian Voters Face Hung Parliament in Close Election
(Time.com)

Comments are off for this article

NATO: Bombs kill 2 foreign troops in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm

Razor-wire lines a barrier wall at Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, operated jointly by the Afghan Army's 1st Battalion of the 3rd Brigade and the U.S. Army 2- 502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. The 101st Airborne's 2-502 and their Afghan Army partners operate in a distrct which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP – NATO says roadside bombs have killed two members of the international security force in Afghanistan, including one American.


Read More: NATO: Bombs kill 2 foreign troops in Afghanistan
(AP)

Comments are off for this article

Philippine Hostage-Taker Releases 7 of 25 Captives – Voice of America

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm


CBC.ca
Philippine Hostage-Taker Releases 7 of 25 Captives
Voice of America
Photo: AP Hostage negotiators, left and right, talk to foreign tourists taken hostage by Police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza after securing their release at Manila's Rizal Park Monday Aug. 23, 2010. An ex-policeman who hijacked a tour bus in the
Dismissed police inspector takes tourist bus hostage in PhilippinesCNN
8th passenger released from tourist bus hijacked in ManilaXinhua
Manila police: Optimistic hostages to be released 0700 GMTReuters
Financial Times -Sky News -Philippine Star
all 756 news articles »

Read More: Philippine Hostage-Taker Releases 7 of 25 Captives – Voice of America

Comments are off for this article

Cairo museum officials admit $50m Van Gogh Poppy Flowers still missing – Daily Mail

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:25 pm


Daily Mail
Cairo museum officials admit $50m Van Gogh Poppy Flowers still missing
Daily Mail
By Mail Foreign Service The fate of a £32million Van Gogh masterpiece stolen from a Cairo museum remained a mystery last night. The 12in-square painting of red and yellow flowers was cut from its frame at the Mahmoud Khalil Museum on Saturday.
Van Gogh Painting Remains MissingNew York Times
No alarm at Egypt Van Gogh museumBBC News
Van Gogh $55 Million `Poppy Flowers' Theft in Cairo Blamed on Lax SecurityBloomberg
The Guardian -Mirror.co.uk -The Associated Press
all 1,306 news articles »

Read More: Cairo museum officials admit $50m Van Gogh Poppy Flowers still missing – Daily Mail

Comments are off for this article

Ottawa to match aid for Pakistani flood victims – Globe and Mail

Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:25 pm


The Hindu
Ottawa to match aid for Pakistani flood victims
Globe and Mail
Villagers, displaced by floods, lead their livestock through flood waters on August 22, 2010 in the village of Baseera near Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops
Pakistan appeal donations to be revealedIndependent
Feds to match Pakistan relief donationsCTV.ca
Economic outlook dire for Pakistan flood victimsCNN
Toronto Star -StarPhoenix -BBC News
all 260 news articles »

Read More: Ottawa to match aid for Pakistani flood victims – Globe and Mail

Comments are off for this article

Toronto hit by blackout after transformer fire (Reuters)

Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am

Up to 250,000 people in Toronto's city center were left without electricity amid an extreme heat alert due to an explosion at a power facility(AFP/Graphic)Reuters – A fire at a Toronto transformer station knocked out power to much of the city on Monday, snarling traffic in the midst of a blistering heatwave, but appearing to have little impact on financial markets.


Read More: Toronto hit by blackout after transformer fire
(Reuters)

Comments are off for this article

India's Bharti Airtel plans heavy investment in Nigeria (AFP)

Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am

India's largest phone operator Bharti Airtel said Tuesday it will invest 600 million dollars in Nigeria's mobile market following a huge recent acquisition deal spanning 15 African nations. Calling the Nigerian market the biggest in Africa, Bharti Airtel CEO Manoj Kohli, pictured in 2009, said the investment would occur over the next year.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP – India’s largest phone operator Bharti Airtel said Tuesday it will invest 600 million dollars in Nigeria’s mobile market following a huge recent acquisition deal spanning 15 African nations.


Read More: India's Bharti Airtel plans heavy investment in Nigeria
(AFP)

Comments are off for this article

Poland: Komorowski's Election Win May Help Boost E.U. Ties (Time.com)

Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am

Time.com – Bronislaw Komorowski’s victory in Poland’s presidential election opens the way for stronger ties with the E.U.

Read More: Poland: Komorowski's Election Win May Help Boost E.U. Ties
(Time.com)

Comments are off for this article

Finding Space for Crowd-Sourcing in Humanitarian Response (OneWorld.net)

Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am

OneWorld.net – NAIROBI, Jul 5 (IRIN) – “Crowd-sourcing” is a new buzzword in the world of
humanitarian information. The combined power of mobile phones, mapping
technology and social networking can enable citizens in crisis to seek
help, facilitate aid deliveries, bear witness to abuses and hold
governments and aid agencies more accountable, advocates say.

Read More: Finding Space for Crowd-Sourcing in Humanitarian Response
(OneWorld.net)

Comments are off for this article

Sri Lanka protesters lay siege to UN compound (AP)

Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am

Sri Lankan protesters wave their national flags and burn an effigy of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon outside the U.N. office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Protesters at the U.N. building in the Sri Lankan capital forced U.N. workers to stay in their office Tuesday to demand the world body end its investigation of rights abuses alleged during the country's civil war. Ban ki-Moon last month appointed a three-member panel to advise him on allegations of human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)AP – Hundreds of protesters, led by a government minister, laid siege to the U.N. compound in Colombo on Tuesday, refusing to let workers out in an effort to force the world body to cancel its investigation of alleged abuses committed during Sri Lanka’s civil war.


Read More: Sri Lanka protesters lay siege to UN compound
(AP)

Comments are off for this article

Amnesty demands release of Zimbabwe diamond activist (AFP)

Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am

Amnesty International called Tuesday for the release of an activist charged with endangering Zimbabwe's economic interests by highlighting abuses at diamond mines.(Amnesty International)AFP – Amnesty International called Tuesday for the release of an activist charged with endangering Zimbabwe’s economic interests by highlighting abuses at diamond mines.


Read More: Amnesty demands release of Zimbabwe diamond activist
(AFP)

Comments are off for this article

Italy farmers protest import of "blue" mozzarella (AP)

Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am

AP – Thousands of Italian farmers and farm activists massed at Italy’s border with Austria on Tuesday to protest the importation of what they called sub-quality foods pretending to be from Italy.

Read More: Italy farmers protest import of "blue" mozzarella
(AP)

Comments are off for this article

US soldier linked to Iraq attack video charged (AP)

Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am

AP – An American soldier suspected of leaking a military video of an attack on unarmed men in Iraq was charged with multiple counts of mishandling and leaking classified data and putting national security at risk, the U.S. Army said in a statement Tuesday.

Read More: US soldier linked to Iraq attack video charged
(AP)

Comments are off for this article

Kaczynski's 47% Support May Slow Polish Deficit Cuts – BusinessWeek

Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:34 am


Sydney Morning Herald
Kaczynski's 47% Support May Slow Polish Deficit Cuts
BusinessWeek
July 6 (Bloomberg) — Jaroslaw Kaczynski's stronger-than- expected performance in losing the July 4 presidential election may revitalize the opposition, damping optimism for government plans to reduce the budget
In Poland, Loser Could Still Play the SpoilerNew York Times
Poland: Komorowski's Election Win May Help Boost E.U. TiesTIME
Instant View: Komorowski wins Polish presidencyReuters
Wall Street Journal -The Associated Press -Washington Post
all 2,151 news articles »

Read More: Kaczynski's 47% Support May Slow Polish Deficit Cuts – BusinessWeek

Comments are off for this article