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Eleventh body pulled from collapsed Mexico mine
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Rescuers recovered an 11th body from a collapsed coal mine in northern Mexico late on Friday and kept searching for three more missing bodies. Rescuers are digging around the clock to remove rubble in the shallow mine shaft that collapsed Tuesday after a methane gas explosion outside…
Osama bin Laden a serious student: Taiwan judo coach
TAICHUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden stood out not just because of his height but because of his serious, conservative demeanor, according to a Taiwan man who says the al Qaeda leader, killed by U.S. troops on Monday, was a student in his judo classes in Saudi Arabia. Jimmy…
Captured US soldier’s father pleads for son’s release on YouTube video
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The father of a US soldier captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan pleaded for his son’s captors to release him, and asked Pakistan to “diligently help,” in a video posted online. Robert Bergdahl, in a video uploaded to YouTube [shown below], said he “can remain silent no…
Taliban launches key attacks on Kandahar
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) – The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks including six suicide bombings on government targets in the major southern Afghan city of Kandahar Saturday, leaving at least 14 people wounded. Militants with guns and rocket-propelled grenades launched an assault on the governor’s office, and ten explosions including…
US fails to kill al-Awlaki with drone strike
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The drone aircraft attack that killed two midlevel al Qaeda militants in Yemen on Thursday was targeting the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a U.S.-born radical known for encouraging attacks on the United States, U.S. media reported. CBS News and The Wall Street Journal,…
Study: Global warming has already reduced harvests
WASHINGTON — Climate change has stunted the worldwide increase in corn and wheat yields since 1980 by 3.8 and 5.5 percent respectively, according to a new study in the journal Science. Without global warming, total harvests of both crops would have been significantly larger than they were, the statistical analysis…
Protesters vent fury at US over bin Laden death
LONDON — More than one hundred Islamic extremists rallied outside the US embassy in London on Friday to vent their fury at Washington over the killing of Osama bin Laden. Police had to separate the group from supporters of the far-right English Defence League (EDL) who held a rival protest…
BOMBSHELL: Greece threatens to quit the euro, emergency EU meeting tonight
by Gregory White Greece’s government is considering leaving the euro and returning to its own currency, according to Der Spiegel. The move comes as a result of austerity measures that have broken the back of the country’s economy, and limited its ability to escape recession. Der Spiegel claims to have…
Argentinean reporter fired after threatening to violently rape activist
It took nearly eight weeks but a reporter who publicly threatened to violently rape an activist he disagreed with has finally been fired from Argentinean magazine El Guardián. In a March 3 article, Juan Terranova took exception with activist Inti Maria Tidball-Binz, and her work with Hollaback International to end…
Murdoch expands News Corp. reach over videogame news with UGO purchase
NEW YORK (AFP) – Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. announced Thursday the acquisition of Hearst Corp.’s UGO Entertainment, expanding its reach over online videogame news. News Corp.’s videogame media unit IGN Entertainment will operate UGO properties such as UGO.com and 1UP.com, Hearst and News Corp. said in a statement. The agreement…
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