China executes 3 Filipinos despite Manila's pleas (Reuters)

China executes 3 Filipinos despite Manila's pleas (Reuters)

China executes 3 Filipinos despite Manila's pleas (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:50 PM PDT

Reuters - China executed on Wednesday three Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking despite a flurry of public appeals for clemency in the Philippines, and days after Amnesty International slammed Beijing's sweeping use of the death penalty.


Wife, daughter of Mexican governor's guard killed (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 11:13 PM PDT

In this April 22, 2010, photo, a Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols along the international border in Nogales, Ariz. The federal government hasn’t come up with a comprehensive strategy to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, despite an all-out war between Mexico and its violent drug gangs that has claimed 35,000 lives and pushed hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the United States. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Gunmen killed the wife and 5-year-old daughter of a state governor's bodyguard in northern Mexico on Tuesday, authorities said.

Africa turns to cellphones for better health (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:46 PM PDT

A man talks on his mobile phone as he rides his bicycle in Ivory Coast. Africa has a severe shortage of landlines and hospital beds but the continent is awash with cellphones, one of the key reasons that health-related mobile phone information offers opportunities for providing care at a low cost, say experts.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)AFP - The text message arrives with life-saving discretion: a neutral "see you at the clinic tomorrow" to remind patients to pick up a fresh batch of anti-AIDS drugs.

Amnesty urges China: reveal missing Aussie blogger (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 11:14 PM PDT

Rights group Amnesty International Wednesday called on the Chinese government to reveal the whereabouts of an Australian political blogger believed detained in the communist country.(AFP/Illustration/Mike Clarke)AFP - Rights group Amnesty International Wednesday called on the Chinese government to reveal the whereabouts of an Australian political blogger believed detained in the communist country.

Syrian president set to address nation

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 11:17 PM PDT

Bashar al-Assad expected to unveil reforms in first public speech since security forces curbed anti-government protests.


Making Education Miserable

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 11:26 PM PDT

This is why public education can never survive on testing and accountability alone: Think back on wh


UK investigates package on UPS plane to Turkey: report

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:41 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is investigating how a suspicious package travelled undetected on a cargo plane to Turkey, media reported on Wednesday.

Flooding in Thailand kills 11, strands thousands of tourists

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:32 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Severe flooding in southern Thailand has killed 11 people and stranded thousands of tourists on resort islands, authorities said on Wednesday, predicting more rain and issuing warnings for possible mudslides.

China executes 3 Filipinos despite Manila's pleas

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:50 PM PDT

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China executed on Wednesday three Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking despite a flurry of public appeals for clemency in the Philippines, and days after Amnesty International slammed Beijing's sweeping use of the death penalty.

Carter and Castro discuss U.S.-Cuba relations (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 06:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Former President Jimmy Carter and Cuban President Raul Castro discussed U.S.-Cuba relations in a meeting on Tuesday in which Castro repeated an offer to hold talks with the United States on any issue, Cuban state television said.


UK investigates package on UPS plane to Turkey: report (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Britain is investigating how a suspicious package travelled undetected on a cargo plane to Turkey, media reported on Wednesday.


Israel airstrike kills 1 Gaza militant (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:18 PM PDT

Israeli relatives and friends mourn over the five bodies of Udi and Ruthie Fogel and their three young children on March 13, in Jerusalem's cemetery. Twenty-seven US senators pressed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday to make clear to Palestinian leaders that any incitement to violence against Israel or Jews is AP - Gaza's Islamic Jihad militant group says an Israeli airstrike targeting two militants on a motorcycle has killed one of the group's members and wounded another.

Friend says China plans to free missing Australian (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:20 PM PDT

AP - A friend of a Chinese-born Australian writer who disappeared in China this week and who he believes is being held by secret police says he will be released.


China executes Filipinos for drug trafficking

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:42 PM PDT

Three convicted Filipinos executed despite Manila saying it could prove a drug syndicate took advantage of them.


Radiation levels soar in Japan sea water

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:51 PM PDT

Search for quake and tsunami survivors goes on, as readings show radioactive iodine levels hit 3,355 times legal limit.


Libya troops advance east; powers want Gaddafi out (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 09:44 PM PDT

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, and the committee's ranking Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., listen to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 29, 2011, by Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, back to camera, on the U.S. mission in Libya. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi's better armed and organized troops reversed the rapid westward advance of rebels on Tuesday as world powers meeting in London piled pressure on the Libyan leader to step down.

Libya: At Bin Jawad, Gaddafi Routs the Rebels Once More (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:00 PM PDT

Time.com - The Libyan rebels have now lost Bin Jawad in battle twice. And they have discovered one new factor that may impede their progress: a town that is ambivalent to their ambitions


India and Pakistan cricket fans unite to skip work (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 09:55 PM PDT

Work across India and Pakistan will come to a grinding halt on Wednesday as bureaucrats, factory workers, farmers and millions of other cricket fans gather to watch the World Cup semi-final.(AFP/File/Strdel)AFP - Work across India and Pakistan will come to a grinding halt on Wednesday as bureaucrats, factory workers, farmers and millions of other cricket fans gather to watch the World Cup semi-final.

Undeterred by Japan, Earthquake-Prone Indonesia Pursues Nuclear Power (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:00 PM PDT

Time.com - More than two weeks into Japan's nuclear crisis, the earthquake-prone country's decision to press ahead with nuclear power plans has rattled many.


Libya troops advance east; powers want Gaddafi out

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 09:44 PM PDT

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's better armed and organized troops reversed the rapid westward advance of rebels on Tuesday as world powers meeting in London piled pressure on the Libyan leader to step down.
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