Thursday, October 9, 2008

ATC World News Headlines for october 9, 2008

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  • Undated photo of missing American journalist Taylor Luck released Wednesday, Oct. 8. 2008 by the Jordan Times newspaper where he worked as a freelancer reporter, in Amman, Jordan. The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon said two Americans journalists are missing in Lebanon and is appealing for information on their whereabouts. An embassy statement Wednesday says Holli Chmela, 27, and Taylor Luck, 23, have not been heard from since Oct. 1 when they reportedly left Beirut en route to the northern port city of Tripoli. Lebanese security officials told The Associated Press they are searching for the two. The pair arrived in Lebanon on Sept. 29 from Amman, Jordan for a vacation and told a friend on Oct. 1 that they were traveling from Beirut to Tripoli that day.(AP Photo/Jordan Times/HO)
    2 missing Americans detained in Syria AP - 9 minutes ago

    DAMASCUS, Syria - Two American journalists whose disappearance prompted a U.S. Embassy alert and a wide search turned up in Syrian custody Thursday after being detained while trying to sneak into the country with smugglers, Syrian officials said.

  • Israelis stand next to a broken shop window following clashes between Israeli Arab and Jewish residents of the mixed city of Acre, northern Israel, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Israeli legislator Abbas Zakour, said several cars and shops were damaged in the fighting late Wednesday in Acre, which he says broke out after an Arab family drove in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood after the start of Yom Kippur and Jewish youths attacked the family and beat them. Israel comes to a near complete standstill during Yom Kippur, and driving is frowned upon in most communities. (AP Photo / Tomer Neuberg)
    Clashes erupt in mixed Arab-Jewish city in Israel AP - 19 minutes ago

    ACRE, Israel - Arabs and Jews traded blows and threw rocks in this northern Israeli city on Thursday, in a second day of sectarian violence that marred the somber Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

  • Relatives mourn for Iraqi lawmaker Saleh al-Auqaeili , loyal to anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, outside his home in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Officials say Thursday's explosion occurred as Saleh al-Auqaeili's car passed about 200 yards (meters) away from an Iraqi army checkpoint in a heavily secured area near Baghdad's main Shiite district of Sadr City. (AP Photo / Hadi Mizban)
    Shiite politician assassinated in Baghdad AP - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

    BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed a prominent member of Muqtada al-Sadr's political movement Thursday, raising fears of new internal Shiite bloodshed ahead of regional elections expected in January.

Europe News

  • Putin: US image damaged forever over economy woes AP - 12 minutes ago

    MOSCOW - The financial crisis has irreparably damaged the image of the U.S. as the leader of the free world and the global economy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

  • This Aug. 13, 2002 file photo is a satellite image provided by Space Imaging Asia of the Yongbyon Nuclear Center, located north of Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea announced Thursday Oct. 6, 2008 that it is preparing to restart the facility that produced its atomic bomb, clearly indicating that it plans to completely pull out of an international deal to end its nuclear program. North Korea told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was stopping the process of disabling its main nuclear site and barring international inspectors from the Yongbyon facility, the agency said. (AP Photo/Space Imaging Asia, File)
    North Korea preparing to restart atomic facility AP - 21 minutes ago

    VIENNA, Austria - North Korea moved closer Thursday to relaunching its nuclear arms program, announcing that it wants to reactivate the facility that produced its atomic bomb and banning U.N. inspectors from the site.

  • Russia official blasts "secretive" UN-NATO deal AP - 58 minutes ago

    MOSCOW - Moscow on Thursday accused NATO and the United Nations of secretly forging an agreement that tightens their cooperation without informing Russia, a U.N. Security Council member whose relations with NATO are badly strained.

Latin America

  • File photo shows a detainee at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay being escorted by two US Army military police officers. A US federal judge has ordered a group of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at the Guantanamo Bay military jail in Cuba to be released in the United States, officials have said.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)
    AP Enterprise: Some at Gitmo see US as ally AP - 57 minutes ago

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Chinese Muslim locked up at Guantanamo Bay may soon be granted an improbable wish: To move to the United States.

  • Mexico's President Felipe Calderon speaks at the Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008. Calderon is proposing $4.4 billion in emergency spending next year to boost growth and jobs despite the world financial crisis. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
    Mexico unveils emergency spending to combat crisis AP - Thu Oct 9, 12:47 AM ET

    MEXICO CITY - President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday unveiled plans for 53 billion pesos ($4.4 billion) in emergency spending on roads, schools, hospitals and an oil refinery next year to help Mexico combat the world financial crisis.

  • Forensics carry the body of a dead man at the crime scene where two men were shoot in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. The Baja California state prosecutor's office said seven people were shot to death in the border city of Tijuana in four separate gunbattles. Another man was found handcuffed with a bag over his head and two other bodies wrapped in blankets were dumped in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
    Mexico: 16 killed in rough border state AP - Thu Oct 9, 12:05 AM ET

    TIJUANA, Mexico - Mexican authorities said Wednesday that 16 people were killed in 24 hours in the northern state across the U.S. border from California.

Africa News

  • Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir speaks during a press conference in September 2008. Beshir rejected the allegations of war crimes against him as "made up" and said mass rape "does not exist" in Darfur, in an interview broadcast here Thursday.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)
    Sudan's Beshir rejects 'made up' warcrimes claims AFP - 19 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir rejected the allegations of war crimes against him as "made up" and said mass rape "does not exist" in Darfur, in an interview broadcast here Thursday.

  • Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, pictured in September 2008, current chairman of the African Union, expressed concern Thursday that the global financial crisis may curtail foreign aid to the continent.(AFP/Ashraf Shazly)
    AU chairman worried financial crisis could curb aid to Africa AFP - 44 minutes ago

    DAR ES SALAAM (AFP) - Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, current chairman of the African Union, expressed concern Thursday that the global financial crisis may curtail foreign aid to the continent.

  • Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir addresses representatives of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) during a visit at the South Sudan Legislative Assembly in Juba August 27, 2008. (Tim McKulka/UNMIS/Handout/Reuters)
    Sudan leader says allegations against him "fabricated" Reuters - 53 minutes ago

    LONDON (Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said Thursday that war crimes allegations against him were fabricated and the people would decide in elections next year if the country's rulers were criminals.

Asia News

  • Dalai Lama hospitalized following checkup AP - 4 minutes ago

    NEW DELHI - The Dalai Lama's spokesman says the Tibetan spiritual leader has been hospitalized in New Delhi.

  • South Korean Marine Corps' amphibious vehicles take part in a re-enactment of the Incheon Landing in September 2008. US officials on Thursday urged North Korea to avoid missile launches and other acts that could raise tension with South Korea, amid deadlocked negotiations for Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.(AFP/File/Won Dai-Yeon)
    North Korea preparing to restart atomic facility AP - 21 minutes ago

    VIENNA, Austria - North Korea moved closer Thursday to relaunching its nuclear arms program, announcing that it wants to reactivate the facility that produced its atomic bomb and banning U.N. inspectors from the site.

  • An electoral comission officer calls a person to vote in a polling station in Male on October 8. The first-ever democratic presidential battle in the Maldives is to go into a second round after Asia's longest-serving leader failed to deliver a knock-out blow to his rivals, officials said Thursday.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)
    Maldives leader faces runoff in 1st free election AP - 36 minutes ago

    MALE, Maldives - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom celebrated his top showing Thursday in the Maldives' first democratic election, but the nation's longtime ruler failed to win a majority and will now face his chief nemesis in a runoff.

Canada

  • Toronto stocks plunge as confidence fades anew Reuters - 11 minutes ago

    TORONTO (Reuters) - The main index of the Toronto Stock Exchange plunged almost 5 percent on Thursday as mounting gloom over the state of the economy and the U.S. financial sector sent investors fleeing the market in a broad rout.

  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper address the media following the French language debate at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, October 1, 2008. Routing out insurgents from Afghanistan and rebuilding the war-torn nation has so far cost Canada up to an estimated 10.5 billion dollars (Canadian), an official said Thursday.(AFP/File/Geoff Robins)
    Canada's Afghan war costs higher than estimated Reuters - 2 hours, 31 minutes ago

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada's Afghanistan mission has cost much more than publicly stated, a government report estimated on Thursday, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged troops will stay until 2011 no matter who wins next week's Canadian election.

  • Liberal leader Stephane Dion speaks during the French language debate at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, October 1, 2008. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledged Thursday his Conservatives could lose next Monday's parliamentary election, in the face of global financial turmoil and the cross-border impact of the US economic downturn.(AFP/Pool/File/Tom Hanson)
    Harper says he could lose election Reuters - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

    RICHMOND, British Columbia (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper, battered over his response to the worldwide financial crisis, acknowledged on Thursday he could lose the October 14 election that he had seemed set to win handily only two weeks ago.

Australia/Antarctica News

  • A Qantas aircraft at Sydney International Airport. A computer glitch may have caused a Qantas jet to plunge mid-flight, an investigator said Wednesday as passengers told how they were slammed against the cabin roof in the terrifying drama.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)
    Qantas plane had glitch before altitude plunge AP - Thu Oct 9, 5:29 AM ET

    SYDNEY, Australia - Qantas Airways said Thursday it will financially compensate all passengers who were on board a plane that made a terrifying plunge this week, tossing people around the cabin and injuring dozens.

  • A map locating Learmonth airbase in Western Australia where a Qantas jetliner made an emergency landing following a mid-air incident that caused injury to 36 passengers and crew members. A computer glitch may have caused a Qantas jet to plunge mid-flight, an investigator said Wednesday as passengers told how they were slammed against the cabin roof in the terrifying drama.(AFP/Graphic/Martin Megino)
    Computer glitch may have caused Qantas plunge: investigator AFP - Wed Oct 8, 9:23 AM ET

    PERTH, Australia (AFP) - A computer glitch may have caused a Qantas jet to plunge mid-flight, an investigator said Wednesday as passengers told how they were slammed against the cabin roof in the terrifying drama.

  • File photo shows asylum seekers on board their boat near East Timor where many people pass en route to Australia. The Australian Navy has detained 17 suspected asylum seekers at sea, officials have said.(AFP/File/Antonio Dasiparu)
    Australia intercepts 17 more suspected asylum seekers at sea AFP - Tue Oct 7, 2:57 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - The Australian Navy has detained 17 suspected asylum seekers at sea just a week after a boatload of Afghans, Iranians and Indonesians was intercepted off the country's coast, officials said Tuesday.

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  • A man walks out of a branch of Landsbanki in Reykjavik, Iceland Tuesday Oct. 7, 2008 . Iceland nationalized its second-largest bank Landsbanki on Tuesday under day-old legislation and negotiated a euro4 billion (US$5.4 billion) loan from Russia to shore up the nation's finances amid a full-blown financial crisis. The moves came a day after trading in shares of major banks was suspended, the Icelandic krona lost a quarter of its value against the euro, and the government rushed through emergency legislation giving it new powers to deal with the financial meltdown. Prime Minister Haarde warned late Monday that the heavy exposure of the tiny country's banking sector to the global financial turmoil raised the spectre of 'national bankruptcy.' (AP Photo/Arni Torfason)
    Iceland teeters on the brink of bankruptcy AP - Tue Oct 7, 3:40 PM ET

    REYKJAVIK, Iceland - This volcanic island near the Arctic Circle is on the brink of becoming the first "national bankruptcy" of the global financial meltdown.

  • This is a Feb. 2008 file photo of French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Jessica Gow/file)
    France's Le Clezio wins Nobel literature prize AP - Thu Oct 9, 7:26 AM ET

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden - French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for his poetic adventure and "sensual ecstasy."

  • A combination photo of handout photographs released by the U.S. embassy in Beirut October 8, 2008 shows U.S. Citizens Holli Chmela (L) and Taylor Luck. (Handout/Reuters)

    DAMASCUS, Syria - Two American journalists whose disappearance prompted a U.S. Embassy alert and a wide search turned up in Syrian custody Thursday after being detained while trying to sneak into the country with smugglers, Syrian officials said...


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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

World News Headlines for october 7, 2008

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Middle East News
  • US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte speaks during a joint news conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, right, n the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Ali Abbas, Pool)
    Iraq's FM: 'Bold' decisions needed on bases deal AP - 59 minutes ago

    BAGHDAD - The Iraqi foreign minister said Tuesday it will require "bold political decisions" to resolve the major issue standing in the way of a deal allowing American troops to remain here next year — who would try U.S. troops accused of crimes.

  • Iran's Mig-29 fighter jets fly during the annual army day military parade in Tehran in April 2008. Iran has said that an aircraft forced down in its territory was a Hungarian aid plane with no Americans aboard, contradicting earlier reports it was carrying US soldiers.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)
    Iran forces down Hungarian flight AP - 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran forced an aircraft carrying Hungarian military officials to land after it entered its airspace, Hungary's Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The plane was allowed to continue to Afghanistan after it was determined the entry was accidental.

  • Military officers pray on October 5, during a funeral ceremony for two Turkish soldiers killed in clashes with Kurdish separatist PKK rebels in southeast Turkey on October 3, in Istanbul. The Turkish army on Monday stepped up operations against Kurdish rebels, bombing their hideouts both in neighbouring Iraq and inside Turkey after 17 soldiers were killed in a rebel attack last week.(AFP/File/Bulent Kilic)
    Turkish jets bomb Kurdish targets in Iraq, Turkey AP - 2 hours, 52 minutes ago

    ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish warplanes bombed suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey early Tuesday in retaliation for an attack that killed 17 soldiers, the Turkish military said.

Europe News

  • Pedestrians walk past a Royal Bank of Scotland branch in central London October 7, 2008. (Alessia Pierdomenico/Reuters)
    UK set to launch bank rescue deal Reuters - 23 minutes ago

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Finance Minister Alistair Darling will announce a rescue package for the UK banking system on Wednesday and a government source said it was likely to include public money being injected into banks.

  • Far-right Austria governor isolates asylum seekers AP - 29 minutes ago

    VIENNA, Austria - Powerful far-right politician Joerg Haider has set up a holding facility in the remote mountains of southern Austria for asylum seekers suspected as criminals, saying they need to be isolated to protect the people in the area.

  • Europe Struggles for a Response to the Bank Crisis Time.com - 48 minutes ago

    Some analysts say the case-by-case approach of national governments is undermining confidence rather than bolstering it

Latin America

  • This NOAA satellite image show Tropical Storm Marco (lower-L) as it approaches the eastern coast of Mexico. Marco made landfall in Mexico Tuesday, crashing ashore as the latest in a series of powerful storms to strike the region this hurricane season, US forecasters said.(AFP/NOAA-HO)
    Tropical Storm Marco hits Mexico's Gulf coast AP - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

    VERACRUZ, Mexico - Tropical Storm Marco roared ashore on Mexico's Gulf coast with near-hurricane force winds on Tuesday, prompting a shutdown of some oil platforms.

  • Mexico's Attorney General Eduardo Medina, right, shakes hands with U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey in Mexico City, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
    Official links Mexican drug gangs, Colombia rebels AP - 2 hours, 53 minutes ago

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico's powerful drug cartels are buying drugs directly from Colombia's main rebel group, a senior Colombian defense official said Tuesday at a hemispheric meeting on crime.

  • UPDATES storm path; Map shows the projected path of Tropical Storm Marco;
    Tropical Storm Marco roars ashore on Mexico's Gulf AP - Tue Oct 7, 10:59 AM ET

    MEXICO CITY - The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Marco is hitting land north of Mexico's Veracruz port on the Gulf coast.

Africa News

  • The UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, seen here in September 2008, Tuesday urged South Africa to do more to stop xenophobic violence, as Amnesty International said officials had failed to help foreigners displaced by the attacks.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
    UN rights chief, Amnesty, criticise SAfrica over xenophobia AFP - 11 minutes ago

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - The UN human rights chief Tuesday urged South Africa to do more to stop xenophobic violence, as Amnesty International said officials had failed to help foreigners displaced by the attacks.

  • UN calls for action to fight pirates off Somalia AP - 27 minutes ago

    UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling on all countries with a stake in maritime safety off Somalia to send naval ships and military aircraft to confront growing piracy there.

  • Policemen disperse protesters in a street of Nouakchott on October 5, 2008. Police in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott on Tuesday clashed with protesters supporting president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who was ousted by a military junta in August.(AFP/File/Seyllou)
    Anti-coup protesters clash with police in Mauritania AFP - 40 minutes ago

    NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) - Police in military-ruled Mauritania clashed Tuesday with protesters supporting ousted president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, as the African Union urged the junta to reinstate the elected leader.

Asia News

  • NKorea reportedly fires missile into Yellow Sea AP - 46 minutes ago

    TOKYO - North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the Yellow Sea, media reports said Tuesday.

  • A pedestrian walks past a billboard advertising White Rabbit candies Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 in Shanghai, China. China's iconic White Rabbit candy is back in production after being pulled out of stores around the world last month in the wake of the country's tainted milk scandal, a state-run newspaper reports. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
    Chinese lawyers face pressure to drop milk cases AP - 1 hour, 22 minutes ago

    BEIJING - Lawyers advising the families of children sickened in China's tainted milk scandal said Tuesday they are facing growing official pressure to withdraw from the cases.

  • This picture released by the Korean Central News Agency in September 2008 shows a military parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the country at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. North Korea has fired two short-range missiles into international waters in the Yellow Sea as part of a routine military drill, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, quoting a defence source.(AFP/KCNA/File/Kcna Via Korean News Service)
    NKorea fires short-range missiles: Yonhap AFP - 1 hour, 28 minutes ago

    SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea has fired two short-range missiles into international waters in the Yellow Sea as part of a routine military drill, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said early Wednesday, quoting a defence source.

Canada

  • Liberal Leader Stephane Dion gives the thumbs up as Justin Trudeau (back), Montreal candidate and son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, looks on following a campaign rally in Vancouver, British Columbia October 7, 2008. Canadians go to the polls in a federal election October 14. REUTERS/Andy Clark (CANADA)
    Liberals mull higher deposit insurance Reuters - 5 minutes ago

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - The leader of Canada's main opposition party, Stephane Dion, said on Tuesday he would consider following the lead of other countries in raising the insurance limit on banking deposits.

  • Harper says Afghan mission can't last indefinitely Reuters - 43 minutes ago

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - The history of Afghanistan demonstrates that foreign troops cannot stay there indefinitely in an attempt to completely suppress all insurgency, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday.

  • Conservative leader and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper gestures after delivering a speech to the Canadian Club of Toronto October 7, 2008. Canadians will head to the polls in a federal election October 14. REUTERS/Chris Wattie (CANADA)
    Economy might just cost Tories the election Reuters - 2 hours, 8 minutes ago

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - The slide in the polls for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives has been so steep as voter worry over the state of the economy has heightened that the possibility of his losing the upcoming general election is now being raised.

Australia/Antarctica News

  • Map locating Learmonth airbase in Western Australia where a Qantas jetliner made an emergency landing following a mid-air incident that caused injury to 36 passengers and crew members.(AFP Graphic/Martin Megino)
    Dozens injured in Qantas mid-air jet drama AFP - Tue Oct 7, 7:44 AM ET

    PERTH, Australia (AFP) - Thirty-six passengers and crew were injured, some seriously, in a mid-air drama that forced a Qantas jetliner to make an emergency landing, the Australian carrier and police said on Tuesday.

  • File photo shows asylum seekers on board their boat near East Timor where many people pass en route to Australia. The Australian Navy has detained 17 suspected asylum seekers at sea, officials have said.(AFP/File/Antonio Dasiparu)
    Australia intercepts 17 more suspected asylum seekers at sea AFP - Tue Oct 7, 2:57 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - The Australian Navy has detained 17 suspected asylum seekers at sea just a week after a boatload of Afghans, Iranians and Indonesians was intercepted off the country's coast, officials said Tuesday.

  • Australians who sound like crocodile hunter Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan could soon be a relic of the past, a report has found.(AFP/File/Yoshikatsu Tsuno)
    Australians bid farewell to 'g'day mate': report AFP - Sun Oct 5, 11:14 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Australians who sound like crocodile hunter Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan could soon be a relic of the past, a report said on Sunday.

Most Popular World News

  • Matani Shakya, 3, newly appointed 'kumari,' or living goddess in Nepal, looks on as farewell rituals are performed before taking her to kumari house in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Selected between the ages of 2 and 4, living goddesses are worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists. Devotees touch the girls' feet with their foreheads, the highest sign of respect among Hindus in Nepal. During religious festivals the girls are wheeled around on a chariot pulled by devotees. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
    Nepal appoints 3-year-old as new living goddess AP - Tue Oct 7, 9:59 AM ET

    KATMANDU, Nepal - Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday.

  • Jerome Corsi, CENTRE, who wrote 'The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, follows an immigration department officer holding his passport, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 as he arrives at the immigration department in Nairobi, Kenya. Corsi, was picked up at his hotel in Nairobi on Tuesday morning. He was briefly detained before being brought to the airport for deportation, said Joseph Mumira, head of criminal investigations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. (AP Photo)
    Kenya deports US author of anti-Obama book AP - 2 hours, 23 minutes ago

    NAIROBI, Kenya - The American author of a controversial book accusing Barack Obama of seething with "black rage" and of being unfit for the U.S. presidency was kicked out of Kenya on Tuesday.

  • Israelis walk at Sergei's Courtyard in Jerusalem, in this Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. Russia is to take-over the small tract of land known as Sergei's Courtyard, with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Cabinet agreeing to the hand over Sunday Oct. 5, 2008, amid serious policy differences that have sprung up between the two countries. The Russians are to take ownership of the property which once accommodated Russian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land and now houses offices of Israel's Agriculture Ministry and the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
    Russia's Jerusalem land claim worries Israelis AP - Tue Oct 7, 6:59 AM ET

    JERUSALEM - The Russians are coming to downtown Jerusalem, reclaiming ownership of a landmark with the approval of the Israeli government, just as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visits Moscow to try to iron out serious policy differences between the two countries.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008

AMY GOODMAN, HOST OF DEMOCRACY NOW!, FIRST JOURNALIST TO WIN

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New York City, NY –
Award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely recognized as the world's premier award for personal courage and social transformation. The annual prize, also known as the Alternative Nobel, will be awarded in the Swedish Parliament on December 8, 2008.

The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to honor and support those "offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today". Goodman has been selected for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.”

Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the country, Democracy Now! is a daily grassroots, global TV/radio/internet news hour airing on more than 750 public radio and television stations and at http://www.democracynow.org.

Goodman said, “I am deeply honored that grassroots, independent journalism and the hard work of my colleagues at Democracy Now! are being recognized in these critical times. I strongly believe that media can be a force for peace. It is the responsibility of journalists to give voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken and beaten down by the powerful. It is the best reason I know to carry our pens, cameras and microphones out into the world. The media should be a sanctuary for dissent. It is our job to go to where the silence is.”

Goodman and two Democracy Now! producers were arrested last month at the Republican National Convention while reporting on street demonstrations. Charges were dropped after widespread public outcry. The video of Goodman's arrest was among the most watched YouTube video's during the convention week. It has now been viewed over 860,000 times.

Amy Goodman writes a weekly syndicated column with King Features which runs in major newspapers throughout North and South America. She is co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers: Standing Up To the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times; Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back; and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them.

Goodman’s reporting on East Timor and Nigeria won the George Polk Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award. Her other awards include the first ever Communication for Peace Award presented by the World Association of Christian Communication, the Puffin/Nation Institute Award for Creative Citizenship, The Paley Center for Media “She Made It” Award, and the Gracie Award for American Women in Radio and Television Public Broadcasting. Goodman has also received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Goodman shares the 2008 Right Livelihood Award with Krishnammal and Sankaralingam Jagannathan of India, and their organisation, Land for the Tillers’ Freedom, for their work dedicated to realising in practice the Gandhian vision of social justice and sustainable human development; Asha Hagi of Somalia “for continuing to lead at great personal risk the female participation in the peace and reconciliation process in her war-ravaged country.”; and Monika Hauser of Germany, gynaecologist and founder of medica mondiale, “for her tireless commitment to working with women who have experienced the most horrific sexualised violence in some of the most dangerous countries in the world, and campaigning for them to receive social recognition and compensation.”

For more information about the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, please visit
http://www.rightlivelihood.org.
International Herald Tribune Article:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/01/europe/EU-Sweden-Alternative-Nobel.php
Editor and Publisher Article:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003857765
Right Livelihood Press Release:
http://www.rightlivelihood.org/1317.html
Democracy Now!:
http://www.democracynow.org/
Video of Goodman Arrest at RNC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

World Headlines for october 1, 2008

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  • Salah al-Ageidi, a local Awakening council commander ( in a gray suit) talks to people at a checkpoint in the district of Dora in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. Iraq's government took command Wednesday of thousands of U.S-backed Sunni fighters who helped quell violence by turning against al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)
    Iraq: government takes command of Sons of Iraq AP - 37 minutes ago

    BAGHDAD - Iraq's Shiite-led government took command Wednesday of thousands of U.S-backed mostly Sunni fighters who turned against al-Qaida, pledging to integrate them into public life in recognition of their help in quelling violence.

  • A Saudi woman wears an embroidered abaya in the old city of Jiddah, Saudi Arabia on Dec. 20, 2007.For years, the only thing sold openly in Saudi stores selling women's cloaks were of the all-black, drab covering variety. But now, streaks of vibrant color, bands of glittering crystal — and even sheaths of sexy leopard skin prints — are showing up on the racks. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
    Color, glitter enliven Saudi women's black abayas AP - Wed Oct 1, 4:04 AM ET

    JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - For years, the only thing sold openly in Saudi stores selling women's cloaks were of the all-black, drab covering variety. Now, streaks of vibrant color, bands of glittering crystal — even sheaths of sexy leopard skin prints — are showing up on the racks.

  • An Iraqi woman visits the grave of a loved one at the Al-Ghasali cemetery in Baghdad. Sunnis battling Al-Qaeda cautiously embraced Iraq's Shiite-led government as the US military transferred responsibility for them to Baghdad.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
    US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,176 AP - Tue Sep 30, 7:32 PM ET

    As of Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, at least 4,176 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Europe News

  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks at a meeting of the Council battling corruption in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. President Dmitry Medvedev sought Tuesday to strengthen his credentials in battling corruption, a major deterrent to long-term and strategic investors. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)
    Medvedev says Russia to leave areas of Georgia AP - 23 minutes ago

    STRELNA, Russia - President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will fulfill its promise to withdraw troops from areas of Georgia outside two separatist regions.

  • A Pakistani paramilitary soldier stands guard as Muslims gather to attend prayers during the festival of Eid-al-Fitr in Hyderabad October 1, 2008. (Akram Shahid/Reuters)
    UK to bring home diplomats' children from Pakistan Reuters - 27 minutes ago

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is withdrawing the children of its diplomats from Pakistan following last month's suicide bomb attack that killed 55 people at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.

  • A man looks at a computer screen showing the FTSE 100 on September 30. The FTSE 100 has finished more than one percent higher, with shares surging in HBOS and Lloyds TSB, as the US Senate prepared to vote on a revised financial rescue package.(AFP/Shaun Curry)
    London stocks close higher ahead of US Senate vote AFP - 33 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - The FTSE 100 finished more than one percent higher on Wednesday, with shares surging in HBOS and Lloyds TSB, as the US Senate prepared to vote on a revised financial rescue package.

Latin America

  • Money sent home by Mexicans in US drops 12 percent AP - 24 minutes ago

    MEXICO CITY - Mexicans living in the U.S. sent home 12 percent less money in August, the largest drop on record since the Bank of Mexico began tracking remittances 12 years ago, the central bank reported on Wednesday.

  • Tropical Storm Marie forms over the Pacific AP - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

    MEXICO CITY - The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Marie has formed over the Pacific, hundreds of miles southwest of the Baja California Peninsula.

  • Gunmen in Mexico steal suspected drug planes AP - 2 hours, 54 minutes ago

    MEXICO CITY - Police in Mexico say 20 heavily armed men have stolen five small planes that the army seized in anti-drug operations.

Africa News

  • S.Africa sticks to target on black land ownership Reuters - 16 minutes ago

    PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa will stick to its ambitious plan to put 30 percent of farmland in black hands by 2014, even though it is lagging way behind target, a senior government official said on Wednesday.

  • Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (left), Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (centre) and former South African leader Thabo Mbeki shake hands after signing a power-sharing accord on September 15. Zimbabwe's ruling party has rejected calls for Mbeki to intervene to salvage a power-sharing deal after the two sides failed to agree on a cabinet.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)
    Zimbabwe ruling party rejects call for Mbeki mediation AFP - 48 minutes ago

    HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's ruling party Wednesday rejected an opposition call for ex-South African president Thabo Mbeki to intervene to salvage a power-sharing deal after the two sides failed to agree on a cabinet.

  • This photo, supplied by th U.S.Navy, shows the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser monitors the pirated Ukrainian cargo ship Faina in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, while one of his helicopters provides aerial surveillance. Several U.S. Navy ships are monitoring the situation. The ship is carrying a cargo of Ukrainian T-72 tanks and related equipment. The hijacked ship was attacked on Sept. 25 and forced to proceed to an anchorage off the Somali Coast. (AP Photo.U.S. Navy,Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky)
    Somalia: World can use force against the pirates AP - 50 minutes ago

    MOGADISHU, Somalia - Foreign powers can use force if necessary to free a hijacked cargo ship loaded with battle tanks and heavy ammunition, Somalia's foreign ministry declared Wednesday — increasing pressure on the Somali pirates who have demanded a $20 million ransom.

Asia News

  • US President George W. Bush (R) meets with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Oval Office of the White House on September 25, in Washington, DC. The US Senate warned about the prospects of further nuclear tests by India before a vote Wednesday that could clear the final hurdle to a landmark agreement overturning a three-decade ban on civilian nuclear trade with New Delhi.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)
    US Senators express caution ahead of Indian nuclear deal vote AFP - 3 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Senate warned about the prospects of further nuclear tests by India before a vote Wednesday that could clear the final hurdle to a landmark agreement overturning a three-decade ban on civilian nuclear trade with New Delhi.

  • US General David McKiernan, head of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), speaks during an interview with an AFP journalist at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul in August 2008. McKiernan called Wednesday for enlisting tribes to help pacify the country and did not rule out reconciliation with ousted Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)
    NATO general says reconciling with Taliban a political decision AFP - 9 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The general who commands NATO forces in Afghanistan called Wednesday for enlisting tribes to help pacify the country and did not rule out reconciliation with ousted Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

  • Top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill speaks to the media after a meeting with his South Korean counterpart Kim Sook (L) at a hotel in Seoul, September 30, 2008. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)
    U.S. envoy looks to save nuclear deal in North Korea Reuters - 13 minutes ago

    SEOUL (Reuters) - A senior U.S. envoy traveled to North Korea on Wednesday with compromise proposals to rescue a faltering nuclear disarmament deal and prevent Pyongyang from rebuilding a plant that made weapons-grade plutonium.

Canada

  • Polls divided on Conservative majority Reuters - 34 minutes ago

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Conservatives could turn their parliamentary minority into a majority in the October 14 election, according to one poll released on Wednesday, while other surveys suggest they could fall just short.

  • Stephane Dion overcome by problems Reuters - Tue Sep 30, 11:39 AM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion, who looks to be heading for a big defeat in the October 14 federal election, is so fond of his green credentials that he named his dog Kyoto after the pact to curb global warming.

  • Xstrata Kidd smelter workers strike as talks fail Reuters - Wed Oct 1, 1:02 AM ET

    TORONTO (Reuters) - Unionized workers at Xstrata's Kidd metallurgical operations in Canada went on strike early on Wednesday after talks with the company failed to produce a contract agreement ahead of a midnight deadline.

Australia/Antarctica News

  • BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam copper and uranium operation at Roxby Downs in South Australia. Australia's competition watchdog has said it will not oppose BHP Billiton's proposed takeover of rival Rio Tinto, saying the deal would be unlikely to substantially lessen competition.(AFP/Ho/File)
    Australian watchdog says it will not block BHP's bid for Rio AFP - Wed Oct 1, 5:59 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's competition watchdog said Wednesday it will not oppose BHP Billiton's 120 billion US dollar takeover bid for rival Rio Tinto, saying the deal was unlikely to substantially lessen competition.

  • A row about plagiarism has embroiled Prime Minister Stephen Harper, seen here with former Australian premier John Howard (L) in Canberra last year, after his former speechwriter admitted to copying a speech by Howard supporting of US-led Iraq war.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)
    Harper caught up in plagiarism row AFP - Wed Oct 1, 5:45 AM ET

    OTTAWA (AFP) - A row about plagiarism embroiled Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday after his former speechwriter admitted to copying a speech in support of the US-led Iraq war by Australia's former leader John Howard.

  • File photo shows a red kangaroo and her offspring. An offbeat suggestion that Australians should eat the creatures indigenous to the country instead of cattle and sheep has been given a scientific stamp of approval by the government's top climate change adviser.(DDP/AFP/File/Stefan Simonsen)
    Eating kangaroos could help fight global warming: scientist AFP - Wed Oct 1, 3:09 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - An offbeat suggestion that Australians should eat kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep has been given a scientific stamp of approval by the government's top climate change adviser.

Most Popular World News

  • Money sent home by Mexicans in US drops 12 percent AP - 24 minutes ago

    MEXICO CITY - Mexicans living in the U.S. sent home 12 percent less money in August, the largest drop on record since the Bank of Mexico began tracking remittances 12 years ago, the central bank reported on Wednesday.

  • A Chinese saleswoman places a label which reads, "Does not contain melamine" at a supermarket in Chengdu. Chinese authorities said Wednesday tests had found traces in nearly 12 percent of milk powder products of an industrial chemical that has so far sickened 53,000 children, killing four.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)
    Parents file lawsuit in China against dairy firm AP - 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

    BEIJING - The parents of a baby allegedly sickened by tainted infant formula are suing the dairy at the heart of China's contaminated milk scandal, state media reported, as 15 more companies were accused Wednesday of producing spiked products.

  • Spanish police arrest 121 in child porn raids AP - Wed Oct 1, 6:52 AM ET

    MADRID, Spain - Spanish police arrested 121 people in the country's biggest-ever crackdown on child pornography, seizing discs containing millions of video and photo files shared by a network that distributed them in 75 countries, authorities said Wednesday.

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