Pinned Down in Battered City, Libyan Rebels Endure With Grit and Dirt

Pinned Down in Battered City, Libyan Rebels Endure With Grit and Dirt


Pinned Down in Battered City, Libyan Rebels Endure With Grit and Dirt

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Kept alive by tenuous resupply, rebels in Misurata have prevented their city from being overrun for nearly two months with a maze of fighting positions and tank obstacles.


Mexicans seek mass grave victims at border morgue

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:18 PM PDT

MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) - Bereft Mexican families stand clutching photographs of loved ones, weeping outside a morgue on the country's northern border in search of victims of the worst mass killings in Mexico's drug war.


Afghan and Pakistani Leaders Meet in Peace Bid

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:25 PM PDT

A meeting in Kabul hinted at a renewed peace effort at between Pakistan and Afghanistan, which many analysts consider critical to the success of any deal with the Taliban.


Syrian Leader Says He Will Lift Emergency Law

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:30 PM PDT

In a televised speech, President Bashar al-Assad introduced a raft of new proposals, including a pledge to end the country's controversial emergency law, but implied that further protests would not be tolerated.


F.A.A. Changing Work Schedules

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 01:12 PM PDT

The government is changing air traffic controllers' work schedules following another incident in which a controller fell asleep while on duty.


Cuba Commemorates Failed Bay of Pigs Invasion

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 01:02 PM PDT

The failure to topple Fidel Castro's government still ranks in Cuba as an important triumph over the United States.


Levels of Radioactive Materials Rise Near Japanese Plant

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:36 AM PDT

The increase in levels of radioactive materials in seawater raised the possibility of new leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the government said.


On Basketball: In 2011 as in 1990, Knicks’ Upset Hopes Rely on Point Guard

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 01:08 PM PDT

Chauncey Billups must do what Maurice Cheeks did for New York in its defeat of the aging Celtics in Boston Garden 21 years ago.


Live - Real Madrid v Barcelona

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:20 PM PDT

Real Madrid face La Liga leaders Barcelona at the Bernabeu, the first of four 'El Clasico' meetings between the two arch-rivals in 17 days.


Mexicans seek mass grave victims at border morgue

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:18 PM PDT

MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) - Bereft Mexican families stand clutching photographs of loved ones, weeping outside a morgue on the country's northern border in search of victims of the worst mass killings in Mexico's drug war.


Syria's Assad vows to lift emergency law by next week

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:56 AM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday emergency law in place for almost 50 years in Syria would be lifted by next week but ignored popular demands to curb the security apparatus and dismantle its authoritarian system.


Mexicans seek mass grave victims at border morgue

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:18 PM PDT

MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) - Bereft Mexican families stand clutching photographs of loved ones, weeping outside a morgue on the country's northern border in search of victims of the worst mass killings in Mexico's drug war.


Nigerians out in force for vote, Jonathan ahead

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:00 AM PDT

ABUJA (Reuters) - Tens of millions of Nigerians voted on Saturday in the most credible presidential election for decades, with very early results from a handful of polling stations showing President Goodluck Jonathan ahead.


Cuba stages military parade ahead of key congress

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 09:39 AM PDT

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba readied for a Communist Party congress about its future with a tribute to the past on Saturday, staging a military parade for the 50th anniversaries of the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion and the declaration of Cuban socialism.


Egypt court dissolves Mubarak's former ruling party

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:36 AM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered the dissolution of former President Hosni Mubarak's political party, meeting a demand of the pro-democracy movement whose protests ended his 30-year authoritarian rule.


Bahrain arrests prominent lawyer, doctors: opposition

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 08:16 AM PDT

MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain has detained a human rights lawyer and at least two doctors as part of a crackdown on pro-democracy protestors in the Gulf Arab kingdom, campaigners said Saturday.


Militants kill 13 soldiers east of Algiers: security source

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 08:44 AM PDT

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Islamist militants killed 13 Algerian soldiers in the country's northern Kabylie region, the deadliest attack in months, a security source told Reuters on Saturday.


Thousands of Yemeni women protest over Saleh remarks

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 09:14 AM PDT

SANAA (Reuters) - Thousands of Yemeni women protested in Sanaa and other cities on Saturday, enraged by President Ali Abdullah Saleh's remarks it was against Islam for women to join men in the demonstrations aimed at toppling him. The women, many clad in black Islamic dress with full face veils, said their role in protests was religiously sound and called on the president to step down in line with nearly three months of demonstrations demanding his ouster. "It seems that President Saleh failed i


Suicide attack kills 5 foreign soldiers in Afghanistan

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:54 AM PDT

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in an Afghan army uniform killed five foreign and four Afghan soldiers on Saturday at a sprawling desert base in the east of the country, the highest toll on NATO-led troops in a single attack for several months.


Mexicans seek mass grave victims at border morgue

Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:18 PM PDT

MATAMOROS, Mexico (Reuters) - Bereft Mexican families stand clutching photographs of loved ones, weeping outside a morgue on the country's northern border in search of victims of the worst mass killings in Mexico's drug war.


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