2011年11月27日星期日

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Rage grips Pakistan over NATO attack (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 01:50 PM PST

Reuters - Fury spread in Pakistan Sunday over a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and could undermine the U.S. effort to wind up the war in Afghanistan.

Saboteurs blow up Egypt gas pipeline to Jordan, Israel (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 04:38 PM PST

Reuters - Saboteurs blew up Egypt's gas pipeline to Jordan and Israel on Monday, witnesses and security sources said, a few hours before the country holds its first free election since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February.

Protests against military rule cloud Egypt election (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 10:59 AM PST

Reuters - Protesters rallied again in Cairo on Sunday to try to evict Egypt's ruling generals, in a trial of strength that has muddied the run-up to Egypt's first vote since a popular revolt deposed former leader Hosni Mubarak.

Arab states cut commercial ties with Syria (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 04:40 PM PST

Reuters - The Arab League approved economic sanctions on Syria on Sunday to try to force Damascus to halt an eight-month crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad that Qatar said may prompt international intervention.

Mexico's early frontrunner formalizes presidential bid (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 02:21 PM PST

Reuters - The frontrunner in Mexico's 2012 presidential race on Sunday pledged to break past decades of political paralysis and deliver the country from a deepening spiral of drug violence and sluggish economic growth.

Egypt's Tense Waiting Game: What's at Stake in the Elections (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 09:50 PM PST

Time.com - Everyone -- the military, the protesters, the Muslim Brotherhood -- is trying to outwait the other, and to see what the first phase of the country's crucial vote will bring

Futures rise in electronic trade on Europe hopes (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 04:30 PM PST

RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2011 - A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Raven, gets a shave from Larry Left who is contributing his barber skills to the movement, in Zuccotti Park near the financial district of New York October 12, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY BUSINESS)Reuters - U.S. stock futures jumped in early electronic trading on Sunday on the latest round of proposals out of Europe designed to corral the growing euro zone debt crisis.


Egypt heads to landmark vote in turmoil, confusion (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 12:59 PM PST

A protester wearing the Egyptian flag stands beneath a banner reading,'the street of free eyes,' that hangs over a street where many protesters lost their eyes during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. The placard in his hands reads, in Arabic, 'for the sake of peace, justice shall be allowed.' (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - Egyptians prepared to vote Monday in the first elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a milestone many hoped would usher in a democratic age after decades of dictatorship. Instead, the polling is already marred by turmoil in the streets and the population is sharply polarized and confused over the nation's direction.


Former Mexico ruling party clears way for nominee (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 04:25 PM PST

Enrique Pena Nieto, former governor of Mexico State and the unopposed presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, waves to supporters during a rally in Mexico City, Sunday Nov. 27, 2011. Pena Nieto filed his nomination papers Sunday, for the July 2012 presidential election at party headquarters. Pena Nieto, who has led in all the recent national polls, seeks to regain the presidency the PRI lost in 2000 after 71 years in power. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - Enrique Pena Nieto is the sole candidate for the presidential nomination of Mexico's former ruling party now that the party's internal filing deadline has passed.


US student says he was beaten after Cairo arrest (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 04:17 PM PST

Derrik Sweeney, 19, of Jefferson City, Mo., smiles as he walks with his mother, Joy Sweeney, center, and sister Ashley Sweeney after arriving at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, in St. Louis. Derrik Sweeney and two other American students were arrested on the roof of a university building near Tahrir Square in Cairo last Sunday, accused of throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters. On Thursday, a court ordered the three to be released. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP - Forced to lie still for hours in the dark, the American students held during protests in Egypt were told they would be shot if they moved or made any noise, one of them said Sunday on his first full day home.


China keen to invest in Western infrastructure: CIC head (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 03:22 PM PST

Reuters - China is keen to invest in the ailing infrastructure of Western countries, especially Britain, the chairman and chief executive of the Asian country's sovereign wealth fund wrote in the Financial Times.

Canada to eliminate tariffs on more goods: Flaherty (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Nov 2011 10:38 AM PST

Reuters - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Sunday the government would eliminate tariffs on dozens more products used by Canadian manufacturers, aiming to lower their costs and encourage more hiring.

China's younger generation: lifestyle counts as much as work (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 12:15 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Early this year Song Hao, a stocky, bearded video editor in his late 20s, began to feel that the job he'd been doing for nearly four years was boring, leading nowhere, and certainly not worth the overtime he was made to do every evening.

The Arabs Gang Up Against Syria: Stop the Killing Or Foreigners May Intervene (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 09:50 PM PST

Time.com - Damascus is more isolated than ever and beset by more biting sanctions. However, the regime has an important pressure valve: Lebanon

The war in Iraq: soldiers assess 'peaks and valleys,' prospects of a final attack (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Nov 2011 07:38 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - As he watches yet another US military column prepare to drive across Iraq’s southern desert wastelands and withdraw into Kuwait, US Army Col. Scott Efflandt fears the impact of any final strike against his troops.

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