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Thai customs seize 451 turtles in suitcases
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai customs has found 451 turtles worth 1 million baht ($33,000) stashed in suitcases offloaded from a passenger flight from Bangladesh, the latest seizure of live creatures at Bangkok’s bustling Suvarnabhumi airport. Turtles of varying sizes worth around 2,000 baht apiece in Thai markets, and seven false…
100,000 throng to Syrian protesters’ funerals
DAMASCUS (AFP) – More than 100,000 mourners turned out on Saturday for the funerals of protesters killed by Syrian security forces in Hama, a rights group said, warning that the country is nearing an “abyss”. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head Rami Abdel Rahman said more than 100,000 people took…
Syria cracks down on protesters, killing 34
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian security forces intensified their assault on protesters calling for President Bashar al-Assad to quit, killing at least 34 demonstrators in the latest crackdown in the city of Hama, activists said. Thousands of protesters took to the streets after noon prayers on Friday in defiance of security…
Parts of Africa, India, China could get too hot for key crops
By Marlowe Hood PARIS — Climate change is on track to disrupt lifeline food crops across large swathes of Africa and Asia already mired in chronic poverty, according to an international study released Friday. More than 350 million people face a “perfect storm” of conditions for potential food disaster, warns…
Canada plans to open military bases abroad
OTTAWA — Canada is looking to expand its military reach by setting up small bases in Germany, Jamaica and elsewhere to support humanitarian and combat missions abroad, officials and media said Friday. Jay Paxton, spokesman for Defense Minister Peter MacKay, told AFP: “Military planners are pursuing logistical agreements to ensure…
Anonymous claims control of Iranian gov’t servers
Hackers claiming to be part of protest group “Anonymous” published on Friday over 10,000 internal emails from the Iranian government’s ministry of foreign affairs, as part of an ongoing campaign against the authoritarian regime. The emails were published to torrent file sharing website The Pirate Bay, along with usernames and…
GOP leader: Palestinian culture ‘filled with resentment and hatred’
WASHINGTON – House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Friday blamed a hateful Palestinian culture for the bloody half-century long Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. “Sadly it’s a culture filled with resentment and hatred,” Cantor said at the Faith and Freedom Conference, as first reported by TPM’s Benjy Sarlin.…
GOP-led House votes to rebuke Obama on Libya
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives on Friday demanded that President Barack Obama clarify the U.S. role in Libya, but rejected an attempt to force him to end America’s military involvement there. The House votes reflected unease in both parties with a third war after Iraq and Afghanistan, as…
Official: Yemen president, premiere wounded in shelling
SANAA (AFP) – Yemen’s embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded on Friday along with his premier and other officials as shells struck a mosque in the presidential palace compound, a security official told AFP. The mosque attack came as fighting that has killed scores of people in north Sanaa…
Official: Yemen’s President Saleh alive and well after being reported dead in attack
SANAA (Reuters) – Shells struck Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s palace in Sanaa on Friday, wounding three senior officials, but a Yemeni official said Saleh was “well.” Fierce fighting engulfed the Yemeni capital, where residents cowered in their homes as explosions rocked the city. Two Yemeni officials said Saleh escaped…
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