New explosion, more anti-aircraft rounds in Tripoli

New explosion, more anti-aircraft rounds in Tripoli


New explosion, more anti-aircraft rounds in Tripoli

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 01:32 PM PDT

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Another explosion and more anti-aircraft rounds boomed in the sky above in the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Monday, a Reuters witness said.


US 'to tone down role in Libya'

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 01:22 PM PDT

President Barack Obama says the US will transfer its leading role on Libya "within days", but differences remain in Nato on whether to take charge.


Muscovite Lives, Entangled in History

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:30 PM PDT

A documentary, "My Perestroika," burrows into the lives of people who came of age at the close of the Soviet Union.


Allies desert Yemeni leader, Syria protests spread

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:56 PM PDT

SANAA/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Popular unrest swelled into a crisis for one Arab autocrat and began to rattle another long seen as immune on Monday as leading figures parted ways with Yemen's president and street protests spread in Syria.


U.S. Suspect Cleared of Terror Link in Spain

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:40 PM PDT

A U.S. citizen of Algerian origin has been cleared due to lack of evidence of Spanish allegations that he transferred funds to an al Qaeda cell.


U.K. Budget to Stay Course on Austerity

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:19 PM PDT

When Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne presents his budget to the House of Commons on Wednesday, he will seek to make the point that while the U.K. is sticking to the course of eliminating the budget deficit, there won't be additional pain for squeezed households.


Apology over donkey-botherer jibe

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 07:17 AM PDT

A Blackpool councillor apologises after branding his own constituents "donkey-botherers" on Facebook.


'Human trafficking' victims saved

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:09 PM PDT

A 37-year-old man has been arrested in Belfast in relation to human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.


Japan beset by radiation fears

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:30 PM PDT

The top US nuclear regulator says Japan's quake-sparked nuclear crisis appears to be on the verge of stabilising.


Japan beset by radiation fears

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:30 PM PDT

The top US nuclear regulator says Japan's quake-sparked nuclear crisis appears to be on the verge of stabilising.


VIDEO: Tsunami children hunt for parents

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:09 PM PDT

More than 8,000 people have been confirmed dead following the earthquake and tsunami, but some 13,000 are still missing.


Medvedev, Putin Clash Over Libya

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:52 PM PDT

The Western-led military action in Libya provoked a rare public split in Russia's ruling tandem Monday, as President Dmitry Medvedev appeared to scold his patron, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, for publicly criticizing the effort.


Royal Mail set to cut 1,700 jobs

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:43 PM PDT

The Royal Mail announces it will cut more than 1,700 jobs and close two mail centres in London as part of its modernisation plans.


Sports of The Times: It’s Opening Day for Barry Bonds

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:40 PM PDT

The long-awaited perjury trial of Barry Bonds, 46, never a media darling and hardly a sympathetic figure, began Monday with jury selection.


Watchdog in uni partner inquiry

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 11:43 AM PDT

The University of Wales is under investigation by the higher education standards watchdog over one of its collaborative centres in Singapore, it emerges.


VIDEO: Syrian protesters call for change

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 11:18 AM PDT

Thousands of demonstrators have marched through the southern Syrian city of Deraa calling for greater freedoms.


AUDIO: Should the West remove Gaddafi?

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 04:30 AM PDT

Should UN forces enact a so-called 'surgical strike' in an attempt to kill Muammar Gaddafi? Or would such an action plunge the country and region into disarray?


Defections plague Yemeni leader

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 11:36 AM PDT

President Saleh faces increasing isolation after wave of military and political figures support pro-democracy uprising.


Families of Al Jazeera captives hold sit-ins

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Protests at Libyan missions in Tunisia and Mauritania demanding release of Al Jazeera team detained by Gaddafi forces.


World divided days after U.N. backs Libya action

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 11:58 AM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - The international community was deeply divided over Libya on Monday, just days after the United Nations passed a no-fly resolution that allowed Western air strikes to protect civilians from Muammar Gaddafi's forces.


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