Thai villagers trickle home after Cambodia clashes (Reuters)

Thai villagers trickle home after Cambodia clashes (Reuters)


Thai villagers trickle home after Cambodia clashes (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:20 PM PST

Cambodian soldiers walk at the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple on the border between Thailand and Cambodia February 9, 2011. Thailand and Cambodia faced growing diplomatic pressure on Wednesday to end an armed standoff on a stretch of border surrounding the 900-year-old clifftop temple as guns held silent for a second day. REUTERS/Damir SagoljReuters - Thai villagers began trickling back to their homes near a disputed stretch of the border with Cambodia on Thursday in a sign of easing tension after deadly clashes over an ancient temple.



Israel's Barak: From great promise to punching bag (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:37 PM PST

AP - A decade ago, Ehud Barak was a popular Israeli prime minister and war hero on the historic verge of making peace with Syria and the Palestinians. Today, he is widely reviled as the country's most despised leader.


Morocco pressured to step up reforms (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:27 PM PST

Moroccan security guards attempt to disperse anti-government protesters and young unemployed graduates in front of the Moroccan Parliament in Rabat in January 2011. Morocco is a country of stark economic inequalities, sharing some of the ingredients that exploded into massive revolts in nearby Tunisia(AFP/File/Abdelhak Senna)AFP - Emboldened by the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, demands for political reforms are now mounting in Morocco, touching even the country's monarchy.



India, Pakistan to resume formal peace talks (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:41 PM PST

Pakistani Rangers (R) and Indian Border Security Force personnel perform their daily retreat ceremony on the India-Pakistan Border at Wagah. The two nuclear states have agreed to resume formal peace talks for the first time since the Mumbai attacks in 2008, the NDTV news channel said Thursday, citing unnamed government sources.(AFP/File/Narinder Nanu)AFP - India and Pakistan have agreed to resume formal peace talks for the first time since the Mumbai attacks in 2008, the NDTV news channel said Thursday, citing unnamed government sources.



Thai villagers trickle home after Cambodia clashes

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:20 PM PST

KANTHARALAK, Thailand (Reuters) - Thai villagers began trickling back to their homes near a disputed stretch of the border with Cambodia on Thursday in a sign of easing tension after deadly clashes over an ancient temple.


Suleiman: When Egypt's Transitional Figure Won't Transition (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:25 PM PST

Time.com - The "orderly transition" touted by Washington is good in theory, butthere's little sign of it on the ground as the will of the protesterspresses against Suleiman's defiance of U.S. prodding


Japan FM slams Russian stance on disputed islands (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:12 PM PST

AP - Japan's foreign minister said Thursday that Russia has no legal right to occupy several disputed islands that have kept the two countries at odds for decades, despite Moscow's increasingly assertive stance.


Australia PM introduces contentious floods tax (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:07 PM PST

An elderly woman wipes silt from a portrait of her daughter salvaged from the ruins of her flood-hit home in Ipswich, Queensland. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has introduced contentious legislation for a one-off tax to help pay for the massive inundation which killed 35 people and swamped thousands of homes.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday introduced contentious legislation for a one-off tax to help pay for devastating floods which killed 35 people and swamped thousands of homes.



Revolution, Delayed (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:25 PM PST

Time.com - After the high drama of the first wave of antigovernment protests, many Egyptians are beginning to grow anxious about what the uprising has wrought


India says peace talks to resume with Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:30 PM PST

Reuters - India and Pakistan have agreed to resume peace talks that were broken off by New Delhi after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Indian sources said Thursday, a step forward in improving ties that impact regional security.


Can sex, shaving boycotts save Belgium? (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 09:26 PM PST

Photo illustration of a prostitute in Antwerp. No sex here please! As Belgium hits eight months without a government this week, a boycott on sex is being suggested as a way out of the nation's longest political impasse.(AFP/ANP/Illustration/Gerrit de Heus)AFP - No sex here please! As Belgium hits eight months without a government this week, a boycott on sex is being suggested as a way out of the nation's longest political impasse.



India says peace talks to resume with Pakistan

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 10:30 PM PST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and Pakistan have agreed to resume peace talks that were broken off by New Delhi after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Indian sources said Thursday, a step forward in improving ties that impact regional security.


Tapping a Continent's Growth From Home

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:41 PM PST

While U.S. and European firms are waking up to Africa's accelerating growth, companies based on the continent also are expanding. From an abandoned farm outside Lagos, Nigeria, a Zambian beef processor is moving into one of Africa's most promising markets.


Germans in Talks to Buy Big Board

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 09:03 PM PST

After 219 years as the citadel of American capitalism, the New York Stock Exchange was near an agreement to be acquired by Deutsche Börse in a deal that would create the world's largest financial exchange.


Anchor Fired After Report of President's Drinking

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 07:09 PM PST

A leading news anchor accused the Mexican president's office of pushing her employers to fire her after she discussed on a radio program allegations that the president suffered from drinking problems and demanded he respond.


German Shuns Top Euro Bank Job

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 06:13 PM PST

German Bundesbank President Axel Weber is no longer seeking the presidency of the European Central Bank, euro-zone officials said, throwing the race for Europe's top monetary position into disarray.


Suicide Bomb Kills Pakistani Soldiers

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:29 PM PST

A suicide bomber attacked a group of soldiers during their morning exercises in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 10 soldiers, security officials said.


Multiculturalism Loses Its Allure

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:44 PM PST

A local council's effort to evict a mosque from an abandoned industrial site in east London demonstrates Britain's shifting appetite for multiculturalism, which U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has proclaimed "dead."


China Kidnap Outcome Plays Out Online

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:23 PM PST

The emotional meeting of a man and a boy believed to be his missing son has drawn fresh attention to China's child abductions and to new efforts to use the Internet to find lost children.


Taiwan Says General Spied for China

Posted: 09 Feb 2011 06:24 PM PST

Taiwan arrested a military general on suspicion of spying for China in the most high-profile cross-Strait espionage case in decades.