Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
AFP – Rebels celebrated Thursday after driving Moamer Kadhafi’s forces out of the port city of Misrata, as the Libyan strongman reportedly made his first public appearance in two weeks.
Read More: Libya rebels drive Kadhafi forces out of Misrata
(AFP)
Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Reuters – Canada’s finance minister warned on Wednesday that countries need to get their fiscal houses in order, saying that markets would act if politicians failed to do so.
Read More: Flaherty urges governments to tackle fiscal woes
(Reuters)
Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
OneWorld.net – May 9 (OneWorld.net) – Two contrasting narratives on Africa’s fragile economic development will confront heads of state gathering in Turkey for a critical UN conference on the world’s “Least Developed Countries” which starts today.
Read More: Mixed messages out of Africa
(OneWorld.net)
Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
AP – A Venezuelan man accused of being a major international drug trafficker was arraigned Wednesday on charges including money laundering, drug trafficking and hired killings.
Read More: Reputed drug kingpin Makled arraigned in Venezuela
(AP)
Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
AFP – International Cricket Council (ICC) chiefs believe floodlit, day/night Tests could take place in the next few years but insist more work needs to be done on the ball before they give the go-ahead.
Read More: ICC say Tests can go day/night if ball alright
(AFP)
Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
AP – Australian police charged a man with people smuggling Thursday in connection with a deadly boat crash on a remote island that killed 48 asylum seekers.
Read More: Man charged after refugee boat crash in Australia
(AP)
Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
AP – Pressing to break a two-month siege, rebels in the port city of Misrata said they had captured the local airport and pushed Moammar Gadhafi’s forces ever further from the city’s western outskirts.
Read More: Rebels: Gadhafi forces pushed back from Misrata
(AP)
Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
The Christian Science Monitor – It was in a grim Soviet-era complex on the outskirts of Tallinn, Estonia, that a quiet high-tech revolution bubbled. In the research park where the USSR secretly assembled its first computer and designed its first space mission, a group of young Estonian computer buffs launched Skype and ushered in a communications revolution.
Read More: Skype's journey from tiny Estonian start-up to $8.5 billion Microsoft buy
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Reuters – A rare earthquake rocked the ancient town of Lorca in southeastern Spain on Wednesday causing homes to collapse, damaging historic churches and killing at least 10 people.
Read More: Earthquake rocks Spanish town killing 10 people
(Reuters)
Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Read More: Uganda's anti-gay bill is far from dead – The Guardian
Posted under World on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Read More: Tepco: Fukushima Fuel Rods Are Fully Exposed – Bloomberg
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Reuters – Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday he expected almost all of the country’s provinces to eliminate their budget deficits by 2015, the same target the federal government has set for itself.
Read More: Focus on deficits, Flaherty tells Canada provinces
(Reuters)
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Reuters – Russian lawmakers said they could approve a nuclear arms reduction pact that is crucial to the “reset” in ties with the United States as early as Friday if a successful U.S. Senate vote left the terms of the treaty intact.
Read More: Russian Duma could ratify START within days
(Reuters)
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
AFP – Bomb blasts in the Chilean and Swiss embassies in Rome injured two staffers in attacks that officials said may have been carried out by anarchists like the ones behind a similar plot in Greece.
Read More: Bomb blasts hit Swiss, Chilean embassies in Rome
(AFP)
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
OneWorld.net – BHUBANESWAR, Dec 22 (IPS) – Just two years ago, Ratha Majhi was at his witsâ end trying to
eke out a decent living from his modest vegetable farm.
Read More: Wonder Irrigation Pump Goes a Long Way
(OneWorld.net)
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Time.com – Nationalist groups targeting ethnic minorities seek to turn Russian soccer fans into their shock troops, which could wreck the country’s plans to host the world’s premier sports event in 2018
Read More: Racist Violence Threatens Russia's World Cup Plans
(Time.com)
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Time.com – The Israelis may not agree, but the U.S.-backed Prime Minister of the West Bank believes that the logic of the institutions he’s building will bring sovereign independence by next summer
Read More: Peace Talks Stall, But Palestinians' Fayyad Conjures a State
(Time.com)
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
AP – One month after a deadly exchange of artillery fire, the two Koreas ramped up their rhetoric, with South Korea’s president pledging unsparing retaliation if attacked again and a top North Korean official threatening a “sacred” nuclear war if provoked.
Read More: War rhetoric rises between North and South Korea
(AP)
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
The Christian Science Monitor – As an unseasonable freeze settles over much of Europe, even the Continent’s balmier southern climates are suffering. But their freeze relates to cash, not the cold.
Read More: Despite Greece's 2011 austerity budget, a financial chill deepens in Europe
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
AP – A Palestinian medic says the Israeli army shot and killed a shepherd near Gaza’s border with Israel.
Read More: Palestinian medic: Israel kills Gaza shepherd
(AP)
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Read More: Preparations under way for Sudan vote – CNN International
Posted under World on Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Read More: Assange says 'high chance' he would be killed in US jail – AFP
Posted under World on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
The Christian Science Monitor – Kenya and Uganda are tightening security at borders, airports, and bus stations after a grenade blast Monday struck a Uganda-bound bus and killed three people at a main bus station in downtown Nairobi.
Read More: Kenya and Uganda boost security after grenade blast linked to Al Shabab
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Posted under World on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Reuters – Fresh snow forecasts threatened to prolong chaos caused by a cold snap that could also dent German growth, and airlines and rail networks struggled to restore normal services in parts of Europe on Wednesday.
Read More: More snow forecast, cold snap to dent German growth
(Reuters)
Posted under World on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
AP – Bolivia has formally declared its recognition of an independent and sovereign state of Palestine.
Read More: Bolivia sends formal letter recognizing Palestine
(AP)
Posted under World on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Reuters – France asked its citizens to leave Ivory Coast and the World Bank froze funding to the West African state on Wednesday, as a violent power struggle deepened between incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and his rival presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara.
Read More: World Bank cuts Ivorian financing as crisis deepens
(Reuters)
Posted under World on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Reuters – Russia’s leading opposition newspaper said on Wednesday it would publish new WikiLeaks disclosures unmasking corruption among Russia’s “highest political echelons.”
Read More: Russian paper to air WikiLeaks corruption material
(Reuters)
Posted under World on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
AFP – Snowbound European airports raced to clear a backlog of stranded passengers as better weather conditions allowed them to begin frantic efforts to get people home for Christmas.
Read More: European airports race to clear Christmas backlog
(AFP)
Posted under World on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
The Christian Science Monitor – Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and Time magazineâs Man of the Year 2010, does not spend his holidays in China like most visitors.
Read More: Mark Zuckerberg meets Chinese businessmen, but would Facebook ever take off in China?
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Posted under World on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
AP – No decorations, no midnight Mass. Even an appearance by Santa Claus has been nixed after Iraq’s Christian leaders called off Christmas celebrations amid new al-Qaida threats on the tiny community still terrified from a bloody siege on a Baghdad church.
Read More: Iraqi churches cancel Christmas festivities
(AP)
Posted under World on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Time.com – As the Spanish government forces striking air-traffic controllers back to work, the controllers face public rage, demands of compensation and possible jail time. But is the state’s stance just a way of diverting attention from the nation’s sorry economy?
Read More: After the Strike, Spain's Air-Traffic Controllers Face a Backlash
(Time.com)
Posted under World on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Read More: Former Argentine dictator sentenced to life – CNN International
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 âStand Down,â 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)
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 â for now
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm
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)
Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm
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)
Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm
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)
Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm
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)
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)
Posted under World on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 pm
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)
Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am
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)
Posted under World on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am
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)
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)