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More than two weeks after the unprecedented triple disaster of monster quake, killer tsunami and nuclear crisis struck Japan, the enormity of the catastrophe is becoming clearer.
BBC News - 1 hour ago
The port city of Sirte lies halfway along Libya's long coastal road to the capital, Tripoli, from the main rebel base of Benghazi to the east.
CNN International - 1 hour ago
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- An "extraordinary number" of security forces flooded Daraa on Monday, patrolling streets and guarding government buildings in an apparent attempt to stave off further protests, a political activist in the city told CNN.
BERLIN, March 28 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday it would take her Christian Democrats a long time to overcome the pain of an election defeat in their conservative heartland where the Greens ...
KABUL, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Increasing militancy and violent incidents in Afghanistan have once again claimed civilians' life in the conflict-ridden country as over two dozen non-combatants have lost their precious lives ...
The UK is sending emergency drinking water to one of Japan's worst tsunami-stricken regions in response to an urgent request from the Japanese authorities, the Department for International Development (Dfid) said.
SAN'A, Yemen—An explosion at a munitions factory in southern Yemen killed more than 100 people, mostly local residents, after a group of unknown gunman had seized control of the site from the Yemeni military, according to witnesses ...
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: "We are there to protect civilians ... and that will be our focus." Tune in to CNN tonight at 7 ET for live coverage of President Obama's speech on Libya .
Voice of America - 34 minutes ago
Egypt's military rulers say the first parliamentary elections since an uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak last month will be held in September this year.
Aljazeera.net - 2 hours ago
Italy's prime minister appears in court for tax fraud case relating to his Mediaset broadcasting empire. Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, has appeared at a court in Milan over allegations of tax fraud and breach of trust in his business ...
LONDON - The number of countries executing convicts rose to 23 in 2010, four more than the previous year, Amnesty International said in a report published Monday.
Monsters and Critics.com - 1 hour ago
London/Paris - British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday launched a joint appeal for Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi's partisans to abandon ranks and join in a process of political transition.
On the 10th day of US military involvement in Libya, President Obama uses an address to the nation this evening to explain his decision to engage, what's at stake, who's in charge and how long it'll last.
The Guardian - 1 hour ago
Freedom of speech is part of the daily routine in Turkey. Western attacks on the Turkish government smack of a dubious agenda Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has come under attack from US neocons.
The Guardian - 2 hours ago
AP in Cairo Iman Al-Obeidi tries to tell her story to western media. Her parents say she is being held at Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli.
Hindustan Times - 1 hour ago
Call it a tiger paradox. The number of tigers in India has increased from 1411 to 1706 in four years but the total tiger area has shrunk from nine million hectares to seven million hectares.
India and Pakistan have held their first formal peace talks since the 2008 terror attacks in India's financial hub, Mumbai. The agenda for Monday's meeting in New Delhi between Indian Home Secretary GK Pillai and his Pakistani counterpart, ...
The Hindu - 1 hour ago
AP File photo of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Moscow has accused the Western coalition of interfering in a civil war in Libya in breach of the United Nations resolution.
Wall Street Journal - 23 minutes ago
By KAVERI NITHTHYANANTHAN LONDON—The union representing British Airways cabin crew said Monday staff have voted to back more strike action at the airline, but didn't give possible dates.
Voice of America - 20 minutes ago
Former US President Jimmy Carter arrived in Cuba Monday for a three-day unofficial visit. Invited by the Cuban government to learn about the communist nation's new economic policies, Carter also is expected to intervene on behalf of an American ...
San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour ago
AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes part in his party's faction meeting in the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, March 28, 2011.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 3 hours ago
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel may cancel a visit by Argentina's foreign minister after a report that the country told Iran it would stop investigating two bombings of Jewish targets in exchange for better trade relations.
Israel Chemicals Ltd., which extracts minerals from the Dead Sea to make fertilizer, said fourth-quarter profit surged 21 percent as potash sales volumes and prices increased.
In an interdependent world threatened by transnational terrorism, Israel, as much as any other nation, has a vital stake in ensuring that the United States pursues its wars within the bounds of the law.
Fifa.com - 1 hour ago
Israel coach Luis Fernandez feels victory over Georgia in Tel Aviv tomorrow would re-ignite their UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying campaign.
Jerusalem Post -
Avi Katz -
28 minutes ago "We - the State of Israel and the Jewish people - deserve better. There really is a movement out there that is trying to delegitimize the very existence of the State of Israel." I CERTAINLY DON'T AGREE WITH everything that I heard and read at J ...
Globe and Mail - 10 minutes ago
Jerusalem— AP The Israeli government is demanding that Facebook remove a page calling on Palestinians to take up arms against Israel. The page, entitled “Third Palestinian Intifada,” has more than 340000 fans. In a letter to Facebook founder Mark ...
Globes - 33 minutes ago
The Bank of Israel, led by Governor of the Bank of Israel Prof. Stanley Fischer, has raised the interest rate by 50 basis points, to 3% from 2.5%.
Back then, all the Arab states followed by all member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, offered Israel the best deal the Jewish state has received since the Balfour Declaration.
Israel receives an unflattering mention in the "Underground Economies" report: it is ranked fourth in response to the question "Has your company avoided doing business with these countries?
Monsters and Critics.com - 2 hours ago
Tel Aviv - Israel is opening a field hospital in a village in Japan's north-eastern Miyagi prefecture, one of the areas worst hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
UPI.com - 4 hours ago
CAIRO, March 28 (UPI) -- A second attempt to blow up a gas pipeline between Egypt andIsrael failed, an Egyptian official of the Egyptian Natural Gas Co.
UPI.com - 48 minutes ago
MERRIMACK, NH, March 28 (UPI) -- The US subsidiary of Israel's Elbit Systems is providing the US Marine Corps with laser target designators under a $9.6 million contract.
Israel 21C - 1 hour ago
By Viva Sarah Press Israel and Russia have signed an agreement to increase co-operation on space research and exploration. Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, made a special visit to Jerusalem to attend the signing ceremony.
Jerusalem Post - 1 hour ago
COM STAFF Lebanese Homeland Security issues statement that man was sending intelligence coordinates, detailed information on Hezbollah to Israel. Lebanese securitry forces have arrested a Tyre resident in Southern Lebanon for espionage on Israel's ...
Israel's TA-25 Index slipped 0.1 percent to 1304.48 at 12:05 pm in Tel Aviv, bringing the loss this quarter to 1.6 percent.
It is about Elizabeth Taylor's "love" for Israel, and is the kind of nonsense that fills mediocre Jewish weeklies everywhere.
Daniel C. Kurtzer, former ambassador to Israel and Egypt, will give the final lecture in the University of Charleston's four-part series -- "Seeking Middle Ground in the Middle East" -- Tuesday evening, beginning at 6:30 pm CHARLESTON, ...
UAB Kaleidoscope - 46 minutes ago
Lately, Israel has become a topic often brought up on the news multiple times a day. Whether it is violence, pilgrimage, or politics, there is a lot to discuss about a country roughly the size of New Jersey.
Christians and Jews dance during the fifth annual Greater Rochester Night to Honor Israel on Sunday. / MARIE DE JESUS staff photographer Jews and Christians from across the Rochester area stood together at Bethel Christian Fellowship Sunday evening in ...
A sample of rainwater in Boston, Mass., showed very low concentrations of radiation, most likely from the damaged Japanese nuclear power power, according to health officials who say the amount does not pose a safety risk.
Did Newt Gingrich feel even a tiny twinge of guilt when he was working so hard to impeach President Clinton over his affair with an intern while Gingrich himself was cheating on his wife with a congressional aide?
Facebook is in talks to hire Robert Gibbs, President Obama's former White House press secretary, for a senior role in helping to manage the company's communications, people briefed on the negotiations said.
Chapter 2: Minutes later, Powers is ushered into a storage closet. “You're going to have to wait in here until the VP gets here,” a Biden staffer told him.
Atlanta Journal Constitution - 1 hour ago
AP NEW YORK - A funeral Mass for Geraldine Ferraro is set for Thursday morning in New York City. FILE - This 1984 file picture shows Geraldine Ferraro.
Los Angeles Times - 28 minutes ago
Witnesses described a chaotic scene on San Diego Bay after a sailboat capsized Sunday evening, drowning two men and injuring eight others.
Fox News - 1 hour ago
| AP AP March 3: Protesters celebrate as they walk outside of the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., after a judge ordered the Department of Administration to open the Capitol to normal business hours starting Monday, March 7, 2011.
California Healthline - 26 minutes ago
During last week's congressional recess, lawmakers and the White House did not make substantial progress on the next continuing budget resolution, as Democrats and Republicans are at an impasse over health care spending and other issues, ...
Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty will announce a 16-person fundraising team to supporters on Monday, a major component of his 2012 presidential run.
New York (CNN) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York state legislature have reached an agreement on a $132.5 billion budget that would reduce spending by more than 2% and eliminate a $10 billion deficit without raising taxes.
By Katy O'Donnell Real estate mogul and potential 2012 presidential contender Donald Trump defended his questioning of President Obama's birth certificate Monday morning with a defiant, "this guy either has a birth certificate or he doesn't.
AP A Georgia House committee on Monday took up a Senate bill aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration in the state and substituted the text of a more comprehensive House bill.
Paramedics carry an elderly man who was wounded by a pipe bomb hidden in a newspaper to an air ambulance in Vacaville, Calif. The bomb left a large crater in the man's neighbor's lawn.
It won't feel like spring today, but officials say they are watching out for the return of pesky brush fires as dry grass and winds could whip up trouble.
(CBS/WCBS/AP) NEW YORK - New York DJ Megatron, who had worked for hip-hop and R&B radio stations on the east coast and hosted a segment for BET's music video countdown show "106 & Park," was shot to death early Sunday morning, officials say.
Atlanta Journal Constitution - 47 minutes ago
AP SCHENECTADY, NY - Officials in upstate New York say one woman was burned and another woman and child had to jump from a second-story window during a pre-dawn house fire.
The Seattle Times - 50 minutes ago
The Supreme Court appears poised to strike down a provision of a campaign financing system in Arizona that gives extra cash to publicly funded candidates who face privately funded rivals and independent groups.
The Atlantic - 39 minutes ago
By Ta-Nehisi Coates "Slavery was the primary, central, cause of secession," Barbour told me Friday. "The Civil War was necessary to bring about the abolition of slavery," he continued.
By AG SULZBERGER As Wisconsin's capital continued to echo with debate over the controversial legislation that strips public unions of collective bargaining rights, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison publicly joined the ...
Chicago Tribune - 37 minutes ago
AP Even though there seems to be extra interest in the upcoming state Supreme Court race, the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board is predicting a typical level of voter turnout.
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