2011年11月24日星期四

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Syria faces Arab sanctions deadline over monitors (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:16 PM PST

Reuters - Syria faces a Friday deadline to sign an Arab deal allowing monitors into the country or incur sanctions over its crackdown on protests including halting flights, curbing trade and stopping deals with the central bank.

Egypt braces for fresh rally against army rule (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:11 PM PST

Reuters - Activists vowed to crank up pressure on Egypt's generals on Friday with an overwhelming show of people power to cap almost a week of protests against army rule that have left 41 people dead.

Libya leaders supported by "money, arms, PR": ex-premier (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:53 PM PST

Saif al-Islam is seen after his capture, in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Obari, Libya, in this November 19, 2011 picture. Saif al-Islam needs surgery to remove gangrenous flesh from a severed thumb and finger which if not treated could make him seriously ill, a doctor who examined him told Reuters on November 24, 2011.   Picture taken November 19, 2011.  REUTERS/Ammar El-Darwish/Files (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)Reuters - One of the most senior figures in Libya's outgoing government has denounced its leaders as an unelected elite, supported by "money, arms and PR," and warned that 90 percent of Libya is politically voiceless.


Yemen gunmen kill five in Sanaa, 17 dead in south (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 08:20 AM PST

Egyptian protesters chant slogans as they gather near concrete barricades around the Interior Ministry, near Cairo's Tahrir Square, November 24, 2011. REUTERS/Esam Al-FetoriReuters - Gunmen killed at least five people protesting against a deal to end the rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen's capital on Thursday, a day after the president bowed to pressure and agreed to step down, while the army killed 17 Islamists in the south.


At least 26 bodies dumped in Guadalajara (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 02:08 PM PST

Reuters - Suspected drug gang hitmen murdered at least 26 people and dumped their bodies in the center of Mexico's second city of Guadalajara on Thursday as a showdown between rival drug gangs intensified.

Italy's brightest look abroad for opportunity (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:18 PM PST

Reuters - After working as an unpaid intern for 18 months in Italy, Massimo Fantini decided to try his chances abroad. Within five years he had a good job in a major multinational, had bought a house and had got married.

Egypt military rulers reject calls to step down (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 01:35 PM PST

In this Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011 photo, an Egyptian riot police officer aims his rifle at a man near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. Police and protesters demanding that Egypt's ruling military council step down are observing a truce after five days of deadly street battles in which dozens have died. (AP Photo/Tahsin Bakr)AP - Egypt's military rulers rejected protester demands for them to step down immediately and said Thursday they would start the first round of parliamentary elections on time next week, despite serious unrest in Cairo and other cities.


Mexico acknowledges 2nd Mayan reference to 2012 (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:24 PM PST

AP - Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse in 2012, but now acknowledges that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment from a ruin site in the country's south.

Several killed in central Nigeria religious violence (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:19 PM PST

Reuters - Several people were killed in religious violence in central Nigeria on Thursday, prompting the military to impose a 24-hour curfew in one region at the border between the West African country's mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south.

Top Marine spends Thanksgiving in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 03:06 PM PST

FILE - In this July 29, 2011 file photo, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos speaks with reporters about the Marine Corps need for the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. Amos, the U.S. Marines' top general, sprinted up and down the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, visiting frontline Marines at nine remote outposts to share Thanksgiving and applaud their gains against the Taliban in a region where al-Qaida hatched the 9/11 plot a decade ago. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)AP - A turkey trot it was not.


Canadian troops, doughnuts leaving Kandahar (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 10:34 AM PST

Reuters - Coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons is closing its Kandahar outlet after five years in the war zone, shuttering its store on a Canadian military base as the country's troops leave Afghanistan.

"Pokies" roll the political dice for Australian PM (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2011 12:12 AM PST

Reuters - They are a silent army, formed in ranks inside clubs and hotels around Australia, desperately battling slot machines in the hope of winning an elusive jackpot.

At Cook It Raw, Star Chefs Bond over Sake and Shiitakes (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 09:00 PM PST

Time.com - This year, the gathering brought some of the world's top chefs to Japan, where the collaborations in the kitchen were just as satisfying as the food

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