UN chief urges Turkey and Israel to mend ties

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• UN chief urges Turkey and Israel to mend ties
• Harvard's a Bargain -- If You're From the UK (Time.com)
• "Lone wolf" terror seen as biggest threat (AP)
• Sudan's Conflict Spreads: Is This the Start of a New Civil War? (Time.com)
• Guest Post: Limit Spending, Taxes and Regulations
• North Korea readies for harvest as food aid flows in (Reuters)
• UN chief urges Turkey and Israel to mend relations (AP)
• Turkey expels Israeli diplomats after U.N. report
• VIDEO: Yemeni protesters gather in Sanaa
• VIDEO: Yemeni protesters gather in Sanaa
• North Korea readies for harvest as food aid flows in
• Top level Mexican drug boss found slain on highway (Reuters)
• Scotland Yard nabs two hackers who posed as 16 year-old 'Kayla' (Digital Trends)
• Typhoon Talas makes landfall in southern Japan (AP)
• Rebels in Tripoli asked to 'return home'
• Neglect at Afghan Military Hospital
• Tel Aviv Protest Is Planned
• Iran's Alleged Nuclear Work Raises Alarm
• EU Bans Syria Oil as Marchers Are Shot
• Chirac to Go on Trial

UN chief urges Turkey and Israel to mend ties Posted: 02 Sep 2011 11:06 PM PDT Call comes after Turkey expelled Israeli envoys in protest against Tel Aviv's refusal to apologise for deadly ship raid.

Harvard's a Bargain -- If You're From the UK (Time.com) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:10 PM PDT Time.com - How America's top colleges are luring British students to the U.S.

"Lone wolf" terror seen as biggest threat (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT AP - After 9/11, it was the men who went to radicalized mosques or terror boot camps who were seen as the biggest terror threat. Today, that picture's changed: Authorities are increasingly focusing on the lone wolf living next door, radicalized on the Internet — and plotting strikes in a vacuum.

Sudan's Conflict Spreads: Is This the Start of a New Civil War? (Time.com) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:10 PM PDT Time.com - Clashes and the fall of a provincial capital signal the beginning of what may be a furious round of fighting in the recently halved country

Guest Post: Limit Spending, Taxes and Regulations Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:00 PM PDT Guest post by Christopher Ganiere: Our current economic situation is terribly complex. However, it can be distilled down to a single concept. Our government over spends, over taxes and over regulates. Remember back in 2010, Congress (mostly the ?D? party) passed a three thousand page bill with new spending, new taxes, new regulations, and an ...

North Korea readies for harvest as food aid flows in (Reuters) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:28 PM PDT Reuters - Impoverished North Korea appears to have emerged from the depths of a bad winter and late spring in reasonable shape, at least in the far north and south, where a variety of crops are nearly ready for harvest.

UN chief urges Turkey and Israel to mend relations (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:53 PM PDT AP - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged Turkey and Israel to mend their relationship for the good of the Middle East peace process after Ankara expelled the Israeli ambassador in the latest fallout over last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

Turkey expels Israeli diplomats after U.N. report Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:51 PM PDT ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey expelled Israel's envoy and froze military cooperation with the Jewish state on Friday after a U.N. report on the deaths of nine Turks in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound ship failed to trigger an apology.

VIDEO: Yemeni protesters gather in Sanaa Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:02 PM PDT Pro- and anti-government protesters have held rival demonstrations in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, months after the first rallies calling for political reform.

VIDEO: Yemeni protesters gather in Sanaa Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:02 PM PDT Pro- and anti-government protesters have held rival demonstrations in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, months after the first rallies calling for political reform.

North Korea readies for harvest as food aid flows in Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:28 PM PDT WONJONG BORDER POST, North Korea (Reuters) - Impoverished North Korea appears to have emerged from the depths of a bad winter and late spring in reasonable shape, at least in the far north and south, where a variety of crops are nearly ready for harvest.

Top level Mexican drug boss found slain on highway (Reuters) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:00 PM PDT Reuters - One of the top leaders of Mexico's brutal Gulf cartel was found dead, gunned down on a highway near the U.S. border, the Mexican government said on Friday.

Scotland Yard nabs two hackers who posed as 16 year-old 'Kayla' (Digital Trends) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT Digital Trends - More hackers have been caught this week thanks to an international police effort to crackdown on hacktivism. Scotland Yard has apprehended two men they believe are connected to the notorious hactivist groups LulzSec and Anonymous. The two are suspected of committing offenses under the Computer Misuse Act 1990; it’s believed the men committed these offenses under the codename ‘Kayla’.

Typhoon Talas makes landfall in southern Japan (AP) Posted: 02 Sep 2011 07:41 PM PDT AP - Slow-moving Typhoon Talas has made landfall in southern Japan, dumping heavy rain across a wide swath of the country. Public broadcaster NHK says one person has died and three others are missing.

Rebels in Tripoli asked to 'return home' Posted: 02 Sep 2011 08:10 PM PDT Interim minister suggests that fighters who helped take over Tripoli have finished job and can return to home towns.

Neglect at Afghan Military Hospital Posted: 02 Sep 2011 07:32 PM PDT U.S. officers last year found injured soldiers lacking treatment and even starving at Afghanistan's Dawood military hospital, with corrupt personnel demanding bribes to feed and care for patients.

Tel Aviv Protest Is Planned Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:03 PM PDT A mass demonstration touted as a "million man march" Saturday night in Tel Aviv will test the staying power of a seven-week protest movement that has rattled Netanyahu's government by tapping into middle-class frustration over the cost of living.

Iran's Alleged Nuclear Work Raises Alarm Posted: 02 Sep 2011 09:03 PM PDT The U.N.'s nuclear agency says it is "increasingly concerned" that Iran has conducted experimental work to develop nuclear weapons, in particular on warheads to deliver nuclear payloads.

EU Bans Syria Oil as Marchers Are Shot Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:07 PM PDT The European Union banned all import of Syrian crude oil to protest Damascus's violent suppression of demonstrators, the most serious measure so far taken by the international community against the Syrian leader.

Chirac to Go on Trial Posted: 02 Sep 2011 06:08 PM PDT Former French President Jacques Chirac is due to stand trial starting Monday on embezzlement charges related to his stint as Paris mayor, the first time a former president of modern France is being forced to defend himself in court.

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