AFP - Gunmen killed a South Korean man and kidnapped two of his companions in a pre-dawn attack in the Philippines Monday, police said.
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Philippine gunmen kill South Korean, kidnap two (AFP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 4:44am EDT
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Australian markets bet on new conservative government (Reuters)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 4:35am EDT
Reuters - Australian financial markets bet on Monday that inconclusive weekend elections would deliver a change of government, ushering in a new minority conservative administration that would scrap a planned mining tax. -
Australians Vote "Neither" In Weekend Polls (Time.com)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 4:30am EDT
Time.com - Australia has its first hung parliament in 70 years, with neither the conservative Liberal nor the Labor Party getting the requisite 76 seats to win the national election -
Brazil: Venture Capital's New Hot Spot (Time.com)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 4:30am EDT
Time.com - Brazil: Venture Capital's New Hot Spot -
2 of 9 trapped dolphins rescued in Bolivia river (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 4:23am EDT
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.
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Australian parties seek backing of independents (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 4:12am EDT
AP - Leaders of Australia's two major political parties lobbied for support from independent lawmakers to stitch together the nation's first minority government since World War II after the closest elections in almost 50 years.
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Joy in Chile: 33 miners trapped 17 days are alive (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 4:11am EDT
AP - Chile's president euphorically waved the note, written deep inside a collapsed mine, that his country waited 17 agonizing days to see: "All 33 of us are fine in the shelter," one of the trapped miners wrote in red letters.
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Iran inaugurates nation's first unmanned bomber (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 3:30am EDT
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.
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Rain batters China; 250,000 evacuated in flood (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 3:18am EDT
AP - Flooding forced the evacuation of more than 250,000 people in the northern China along its border with North Korea, state media said Monday.
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France resolute on cutting deficit, Lagarde tells FT (AFP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 3:13am EDT
AFP - French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said her country would do "whatever it takes" to cut its budget deficit in an interview with the Financial Times (FT) published Monday.
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Next US target: The birthplace of the Taliban (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 2:09am EDT
AP - As Lt. Col. Peter N. Benchoff prepares for an assault next month into the birthplace of the Taliban, he doesn't sugarcoat the hurdles his troops face in this crucial swath of southern Afghanistan.
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4 decapitated bodies hung from bridge in Mexico (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 2:07am EDT
AP - The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fighting between two drug lords.
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Kigali -- from sleepy backwater to Africa's Singapore (AFP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 12:42am EDT
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.
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As floodwaters recede, anger grows in northwest Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 9:29pm EDT
McClatchy Newspapers - CHARSADDA, Pakistan — In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool. -
Israel's Netanyahu scores big victory with direct peace talks â for now (The Christian Science Monitor)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 6:52pm EDT
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." -
Video of mob killings sparks anguish in Pakistan (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 1:06pm EDT
AP - The Pakistani men took turns savagely beating the two teenage brothers with sticks, drawing blood before dragging and hanging their dead bodies from a nearby metal pole. None of the dozens of people watching tried to stop the attack, not even several police. The boys may have been mistaken for robbers. -
In new posters, Egypt's son for president? (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 12:57pm EDT
AP - Posters have sprouted up around Egypt promoting the son of President Hosni Mubarak as the country's next leader, in the most overt campaign yet for a controversial father-son succession in this key U.S. Arab ally.
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LRA spreading reign of terror in south Sudan (AFP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 12:55pm EDT
AFP - When the dreadlocked gunmen burst out of the jungle at night firing AK-47 assault rifles, the men of the village took up bows and arrows to defend their families.
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Israeli PM: Peace 'difficult but possible' (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 12:49pm EDT
AP - Israel's prime minister spelled out his opening position for the new round of Mideast peace talks set to begin next week, insisting Sunday on key security conditions and saying an agreement would be "difficult but possible."
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Russian police detain opposition leader (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 12:41pm EDT
AP - Moscow police have detained opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and another activist after they attempted to lead a march through the center of the Russian capital.
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Australian parties seek backing of independents (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 12:26pm EDT
AP - The leaders of Australia's two major political parties began negotiating power deals with independent lawmakers Sunday after the nation's closest election in decades failed to deliver a clear mandate to govern.
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Markets nervous as Australia faces hung parliament (Reuters)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 12:24pm EDT
Reuters - Australia's two major parties wooed independent lawmakers on Sunday after an inconclusive election left the nation facing its first hung parliament since 1940 and set up financial markets for a sell-off. -
Shiites say Bahrain crackdown sets back relations (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 12:15pm EDT
AP - The top Shiite politician in Bahrain says last week's crackdown on Shiite protesters has destroyed a decade of stable sectarian relations. -
Iran inaugurates nation's first unmanned bomber (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 12:00pm EDT
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. -
Rain batters China anew; 94,000 evacuated in flood (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 11:54am EDT
AP - Flooding killed four people and forced the evacuation of 94,000 people in the northern Chinese port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said Sunday.
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Russia's Long War (Time.com)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 9:30am EDT
Time.com - Russia's Long (and Brutal) War on Terror -
Why Kashmir is Burning Again (Time.com)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 9:30am EDT
Time.com - Why Kashmir is Burning Again -
On a mission to track and save the elusive jaguar (AP)
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 6:01am EDT
AP - The search begins where a dirt road ends, in a forest festooned with vines and filled with the chatter of trilling birds. This is the realm of jaguars, and a young biologist has made it her mission to find them.
