Turkish air strike kills 30 in southeast Turkey: Mayoy (Reuters)

Turkish air strike kills 30 in southeast Turkey: Mayoy (Reuters)

Turkish air strike kills 30 in southeast Turkey: Mayoy (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 11:10 PM PST

Reuters - Thirty people were killed in an apparent air strike by Turkish warplanes in southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border overnight, a local official told Reuters on Thursday.


Turkish air strike kills 30 in southeast Turkey: Mayoy

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 11:10 PM PST

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Thirty people were killed in an apparent air strike by Turkish warplanes in southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border overnight, a local official told Reuters on Thursday.

Macedonia: Europe's New Hotspot for Illegal Immigrants (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:25 PM PST

Time.com - Macedonia has become a new transit country for Afghan and Pakistani immigrants who gather near the Serbian border as they try to find their way into the European Union. Police turn a blind eye, and humanitarian groups aren't reaching out to help


Argentine leader's cancer forces her to delegate (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:54 PM PST

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez talks to Argentine governors at government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011. Fernandez, who on Tuesday was diagnosed with treatable thyroid cancer, will undergo surgery on Jan. 4 and then take 20 days of medical leave, during which Vice President Amado Boudou will run the country. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)AP - Argentina's president cracked jokes and sounded optimistic Wednesday after her thyroid cancer diagnosis was announced, but she's clearly struggling with the need to delegate power while she recovers from next week's surgery.

Chinese lawyer goes on trial in dissent crackdown (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:44 PM PST

AP - A former lawyer left disabled by police mistreatment is on trial in China, the third activist in a week to be prosecuted as the government presses on with its crackdown on dissent.


Is This Blogger Putin's Greatest Challenger? (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:25 PM PST

Time.com - A master of the web, Andrei Navalny has managed to rouse Russia's middle classes and unite the disparate elements of the opposition even as his nationalist views alarm a few liberals


US warns Iran against closing oil route

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:59 PM PST

Tension rise in a standoff that has the potential to result in military reprisals and raise global oil prices.


Gaddafi hometown seeks help to rebuild

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:33 PM PST

Like other Libyans, Bani Walid residents want government action to provide electricity and repair damaged homes.


Venezuela's Chavez: Did U.S. give Latin American leaders cancer?

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:51 PM PST

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina's Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease.

Chinese police kill Uighurs in rescue

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:24 PM PST

The Chinese police have killed seven members of the Uighur ethnic group in the restive western region of Xinjiang in order to free two hostages, a local government official said Thursday.

Mother: Iranian charges are false

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:30 PM PST

The mother of an American on trial in Iran denied allegations that her son is a spy for the CIA, saying that anything he confessed to was coerced.

Thousands gather for Kim memorial

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:20 PM PST

Huge crowds assembled in Pyongyang on Thursday at a national memorial service for the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the second day of state-orchestrated ceremonies to mourn his death.

North Korea hails nuclear, military feats of Kim Jong-il (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:18 PM PST

Reuters - North Korea lauded the military might built up by deceased leader Kim Jong-il on Thursday, likely tying his young successor to the same policies that have set Northeast Asia on edge as the impoverished state inches closer to nuclear weapons capability.


Arab observers fan out across Syria (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:14 PM PST

Reuters - Arab monitors head to three more Syrian cities on Thursday to check if government forces are complying with a peace plan after a delegation to Homs, centre of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, was mobbed by protesters demanding protection.


Can Web-savvy activist moms change Japan? (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:21 PM PST

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 file photo, a smartphone shows a list of types and amounts of radiation on a package of Maitake mushrooms which is part of a radiation sampling test at a Tokyo market. Japan's nuclear crisis has turned a 41-year-old mother into one of a small but growing number of Internet-savvy activist moms. In the days and weeks following the March 11 tsunami, frustration over the sketchy information coming from the government about the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant drove many Japanese to Twitter and alternative media webcasts. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)AP - Japan's nuclear crisis has turned Mizuho Nakayama into one of a small but growing number of Internet-savvy activist moms.

Oil hovers below $100 after US supplies soar (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 09:43 PM PST

Azeri Energy Minister Natik Aliev (L) and Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz attend the signing ceremony of The Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline project in Ankara December 26, 2011. The Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline project, which will carry Azeri gas across Turkey to Europe, has a capacity of around 35 billion cubic metres (bcm) and can carry 16-24 bcm annually, officials from Turkey and Azerbaijan said on Monday. Azeri state energy company SOCAR, Turkey's state pipeline company Botas and Turkey's state energy company TPAO will be the initial partners in the project and other international oil and gas companies may join the consortium during the process. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES POLITICS ENERGY)AP - Oil prices hovered below $100 a barrel Thursday in Asia after a report showed U.S. crude supplies jumped last week, a sign demand could be weakening.

It's Jihad, Charlie Brown!

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 09:48 PM PST

What do Snoopy and Al Qaeda have in common? Denis Leary, apparently. I should back up. There is precious little for television people to write about this time of year. Holiday-themed episodes and specials are long gone, and new cable programming doesn't start until January. Yes, that's next week, but that's an eternity for people ...


U.S. pulls staff from Afghan media center

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 09:28 PM PST

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul is withdrawing its personnel from an Afghan media center, saying it is reviewing and reassessing its relationship.

Myanmar: Blast in Yangon kills 20

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 10:10 PM PST

An explosion early Thursday in a neighborhood of the Myanmar city of Yangon killed 20 people and injured more than 95, state-run television MR TV reported.

Youngest Jamaica PM faces ex-leader in tight vote (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 09:06 PM PST

FILE - This combo image of two file photographs shows Jamaica's former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition People's National Party, Portia Simpson Miller, left, speaking during his swearing-in ceremony in Kingston on March 30, 2006 and current Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party, Andrew Holness, during his inauguration speech in Kingston on Oct. 23, 2011. Jamaica's two main political parties are in a neck-and-neck race to capture a majority of the country's 63 parliamentary seats in the Thursday Dec. 29, 2011 general elections. With most opinion polls puting the two parties in a virtual dead heat, candidates have scrambled for traction with undecided voters across the Caribbean island known as the birthplace of reggae and a hothouse for big-time sprinters. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa (left), Collin Reid (right), Files)AP - Jamaica's two main political parties are in a neck-and-neck race to capture a majority of the country's 63 parliamentary seats and win control of the government for the next five years.
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