(BBC) Nato accuses Libyan leader Col Gaddafi of using mosques and children's parks as shields after Tripoli said Nato was targeting civilian buildings.
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June 18, 2011
Analysis: Yemen crisis puts Saudi in powerbroker's bind
DUBAI (Reuters) - Fearing both civil war and sweeping political reform as results of the crisis in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is struggling with its role as regional kingmaker.
Syrian refugees in Turkish camp watch news of home
BOYNUYOGUN, Turkey (Reuters) - At the small playground in the Boynuyogun refugee camp scores of children wait patiently for a turn on the swing, while in the television tents the adults watch events in the Syria they have fled.
VIDEO: Nuclear radiation rise halts Japan clear-up
Operators of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have suspended an operation to clean contaminated water hours after it began due to a rapid rise in radiation.
VIDEO: Afghan Taliban in peace talks with US
(BBC) President Karzai of Afghanistan has confirmed that the United States and other countries are engaged in peace talks with the Taliban.
'Mogadishu music'
(BBC) The daily fight for life amid Somalia's gun battles
June 17, 2011
UN passes 'historic' gay rights resolution
(AAP) THE UN Human Rights Council passed a "historic" resolution that seeks equal rights for all regardless of sexual orientation, marking significant progress for gay rights.
Greek PM sacrifices finance chief, appoints rival
ATHENS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou sacrificed his finance minister on Friday and put his main socialist party rival into the job in a bid to force through an unpopular austerity plan to avert bankruptcy.
Afghan unease over saffron prices
(BBC) Farmers in western Afghanistan say that saffron prices have declined sharply over the past year, raising fears that some may resume opium cultivation.
Food prices mean trouble for poor and politicians
JOHANNESBURG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Just a few months ago Alpheus Molepo's daily lunch of "pap" or corn meal and meat cost 20 rand ($3.30). Now it costs 25 rand.
RIGHTS: ILO milestone for domestic workers - IRINnews.org
RIGHTS: ILO milestone for domestic workers IRINnews.org BANGKOK, 17 June 2011 (IRIN) - Activists campaigning for the rights of domestic workers are celebrating the passing of the International Labour Organization's (ILO) convention recognizing domestic work as work. The convention is a long time coming and ... |
Analysis: Indonesia cleric's jailing fails to ease terror fight
JAKARTA (Reuters) - While Indonesia's most notorious Islamist was sitting in a cell awaiting his fate, militants linked to his supposedly peaceful Jema'ah Ansharut Tauhid group shot policemen while trying to rob a bank and wounded 30 people in a suicide bombing at a police mosque.
June 16, 2011
VIDEO: Australia's flood 'disaster area'
(BBC) Parts of New South Wales are declared natural disaster areas following days of heavy rain.
Militants stage more attacks in south Yemen
SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - Masked gunmen attacked buildings near the southern Yemeni city of al-Hota on Thursday, residents said, amid a wave of militant attacks in the region.
Day in Pictures
(BBC) Striking images from around the world
Special Report: Solidarity in the Arab Spring
WARSAW (Reuters) - Lech Walesa chuckles as he recounts a conversation he had in April with reformers in Tunisia, cradle of the Arab Spring.
Greece debt crisis spooks markets
(BBC) Financial markets continue to fall as investors sell shares on fears about the impact of Greece's economic crisis.
June 15, 2011
Upcycling, not recycling
(Channel News Asia) SEOUL: Most people start a business hoping to succeed and make big money, but one company in South Korea is hoping to close its business as soon as possible, if it will help the environment.
UK says Sri Lanka must act on war atrocity claims
LONDON, Jun (Reuters) - Sri Lanka must investigate allegations of atrocities committed during its civil war after more video footage was aired claiming to show "horrific scenes" of bound prisoners being executed, Britain said on Wednesday.
Greek workers strike, protesters march on parliament
ATHENS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Greeks marched on parliament and workers launched a national strike on Wednesday to protest against the government's efforts to approve new austerity measures for the debt-stricken euro zone state.
June 14, 2011
Afghan women 'most at risk in world'
(BBC) Afghanistan is the most dangerous country for women, an international poll of experts on gender issues says.
Yemen opposition shrugs off Gulf mediation offer
ADEN/SANAA (Reuters) - Members of Yemen's political opposition dismissed an offer from Gulf Arab neighbors on Wednesday to resume mediation in the political crisis, which has brought the country to the brink of civil war.
VIDEO: Refugees flee Sudan amid fighting
(BBC) The UN has accused the Sudanese government of carrying out an "intensive bombing campaign" near the north-south border. Aid agencies say tens of thousands of people have fled their homes.
New policy saves thousands of babies from HIV
(health-e.org) Government has slashed the HIV transmission rate from pregnant mothers to their babies to merely 3.5 percent, potentially sparing some 67 000 babies from HIV infection.
June 13, 2011
'Gay girl' hoax
(BBC) Bloggers ask whether it is ever right to fake an identity
VIDEO: Italy rejects nuclear power plans
(BBC) Italians have rejected a raft of policies proposed by Silvio Berlusconi's government including plans to revive nuclear power.
VIDEO: Workers struggle after E.coli scare
(BBC) Spanish farmers lost millions of euros worth of business when Germany initially blamed cucumbers in Spain for a fatal E. coli outbreak.
Special report: Australia's big dig for foreign workers
KARRATHA, Australia (Reuters) - Lucille Lievaux, a 25-year-old French geologist, commutes to work on a plane, a 1,300-km journey from Australia's Indian Ocean city of Perth to the mining town of Karratha, a smudge of suburbia on the continent's barren northwest coast.
SOUTH AFRICA: Blind beggars go south - IRINnews.org
SOUTH AFRICA: Blind beggars go south IRINnews.org JOHANNESBURG, 13 June 2011 (IRIN) - They are a common sight at Johannesburg's busy intersections - a blind man or woman holding the arm of a seeing companion who thrusts a cup in the direction of passing motorists in the hope of getting a few coins. ... |
Berlusconi suffers fresh blow in referendums
ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi headed for a heavy defeat on Monday in four referendums after Italians turned out in large numbers for a vote he had urged them to boycott.
SUDAN: Road closures, bombings, landmines hit Southern food supplies - IRINnews.org
SUDAN: Road closures, bombings, landmines hit Southern food supplies IRINnews.org BENTIU, UNITY STATE, 13 June 2011 (IRIN) - The closure for nearly two months of a road between Northern and Southern Sudan has led to serious food shortages in Southern Sudan's Unity State, with government officials and aid workers expressing concern ... |
Turkey's Erdogan focuses on consensus after big win
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will start a third term of one-party rule strengthened by Sunday's decisive election victory but also burdened by the need for consensus to push ahead with plans for a new constitution.
Syrian forces head for second northern protest town
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops pushed toward the northern town of Maarat al-Numaan on the Damascus-Aleppo highway after rounding up hundreds of people in a sweep through villages near Jisr al-Shughour, fleeing residents said.
Day in pictures
(BBC) A selection of some striking images from around the world
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