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13 Mar 11


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What the Japanese Quake Means for Stocks  

Wall Street Journal - Brett Arends - ‎24 minutes ago‎

Japan's nuclear crisis and Chernobyl: key differences  

Christian Science Monitor - Robert Marquand - ‎41 minutes ago‎
Japan's nuclear crisis is spawning concerns about 'another Chernobyl,' but a number of American and European scientists are cautiously taking the edge off the worst fears.

Gaddafi forces rout rebels in eastern Libya  

The Guardian - ‎34 minutes ago‎
A house is hit by a shell as pro-Gaddafi forces bombard the town of Brega in eastern Libya. Photograph: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty Images Time was running out for Libya's revolution last night as Muammar Gaddafi's forces routed rebels in the east of ...

Official toll is 1000 – but true figure likely to be far higher  

Independent - Jerome Taylor - ‎1 hour ago‎
The estimated death toll from Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami leapt tenfold yesterday as the world's third-largest economy struggled to deal with the crippling aftermath of what Prime Minister Naoto Kan has described as the ...

Qaddafi Presses Rebels in Oil Port as Allies Debate No-Fly Zone  

Bloomberg - Ola GalalZainab Fattah - ‎1 hour ago‎
Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa looks on before the opening of a extraordinary Arab League meeting to discuss a response to the crisis in Libya in Cairo.

Bahrain suffers day of violence 

BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Bahraini police and protesters have clashed in several areas of the capital, Manama, in some of the worst unrest for weeks. Security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to battle protesters who had managed to blockade main roads into the financial ...

Israel okays 400 West Bank housing units in response to Itamar murders 

Ha'aretz - Jonathan LisBarak Ravid - ‎1 hour ago‎
The ministerial committee on settlement affairs voted after Friday night's terror attack in Itamar to approve construction of 400 housing units in four West Bank settlements.

Clashes Erupt as Protests Continue in Yemen's Capital 

New York Times - Laura Kasinof - ‎1 hour ago‎
Muhammed Muheisen/AP Yemeni government supporters in Sana mingle with riot police, background, as they block the route for anti-government protesters, foreground.

Chinese rescue team arrives Japan for quake relief 

Xinhua - Wang Guanqun - ‎40 minutes ago‎
IWATE, Japan, March 14 (Xinhua) -- A 15-strong Chinese international search and rescue team Monday morning set out to join the relief work in Oofunato, Iwate, a city severely damaged by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake Friday.

Rescues in Japan: 'Thought today was the last day of my life' 

CNN International - ‎22 minutes ago‎
Hiromitsu Shinkawa, 60, was rescued nine miles at sea on Sunday. He says his wife was swept away by the tsunami. Minami Sanriku, Japan (CNN) -- A 60-year-old Japanese man was rescued Sunday more than nine miles out at sea after clinging to the ...

Canadian aid agencies ready to help Japan 

CTV.ca - ‎1 hour ago‎
In this photo released by Japanese Red Cross Society, survivors receive medical treatment by doctors and nurses of Japanese RC's National Disaster Response Team at the Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture (state), Saturday, ...

Ivorians flee after clashes, Gbagbo camp defiant 

Reuters - Tim CocksMatthew Jones - ‎1 hour ago‎
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Dozens of people left a district of Ivory Coast's commercial capital on Sunday after gun battles, and presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara made it back from an AU summit, despite concerns about his security.

Tens of thousands protest against Hezbollah's arms deposit 

Xinhua - Mu Xuequan - ‎35 minutes ago‎
BEIRUT, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Supporters of Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri took to the streets on Sunday to demand the disarmament of the Shiite armed group Hezbollah.

Volcano in southern Japan erupts 

Los Angeles Times - ‎5 hours ago‎
The Shinmoedake volcano on Japan's Kyushu island, after lying dormant for a couple of weeks, resumes activity in a blast heard miles away.

UK teams fly in to join the hunt for survivors 

Independent - Victoria Richards - ‎1 hour ago‎
A british "heavy team" of search and rescue experts has been deployed to Japan to join a global relief effort in a desperate search for survivors.

London markets poised for sell-off after earthquake in Japan 

Telegraph.co.uk - Ben Harrington - ‎1 hour ago‎
Markets are braced for a sell-off on Monday in the wake of the human and economic devastation wreaked by Japan's worst ever earthquake.

Cuba jails US citizen Alan Gross 

GlobalPost - ‎29 minutes ago‎
Cubans waiting to use the internet are reflected on the window while others go online use in an internet cafe in Havana, on February 7, 2011.

State Department Says Avoid Travel To Japan 

MyFox Memphis - ‎3 hours ago‎
(NewsCore) - WASHINGTON -- The US State Department Sunday urged Americans to avoid traveling to Japan in the wake of Friday's monstrous earthquake and tsunami.

The hesitant saviour: how Germany bestrides Europe once again 

The Guardian - ‎2 hours ago‎
The Reichstag building in Berlin: Angela Merkel has emerged from the financial crash of 2008 the unchallenged impresario of the eurozone.

Pakistani General, in Twist, Credits Drone Strikes 

New York Times - Salman Masood - ‎Mar 9, 2011‎
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - In an unusual briefing, a top Pakistani general leading troops in the volatile North Waziristan region has acknowledged the effectiveness of the American drone strikes against foreign militants, according to ...

 

 

 

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