Today's World News from TheEagle.com |  |
- End to Japan crisis years, a fortune away
- Gbagbo's forces put life back into their campaign
- Nigeria holds election despite violence
- Japan bans planting rice in radioactive soil
- EU finance ministers defend austerity
- Iraqi cleric threatens action if US forces remain
- Russia recalls first space mission
- New entrepreneurs in Cuba get mixed results
- U.S. commander: We must destroy towns to save them
- Petraeus: al-Qaida is not making return
- Israeli, Hamas fighting takes deadly turn
- Mideast roundup
- Syrian rights group: Funeral fired upon
- Libyan rebels attack outpost
| End to Japan crisis years, a fortune away Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT TOKYO -- Once Japan's leaky nuclear complex stops spewing radiation and its reactors cool down, making the site safe and removing the ruined equipment is going to be a messy ordeal that could take decades and cost hundreds of millions of dollars. ... |
| Gbagbo's forces put life back into their campaign Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:05 PM PDT ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Forces supporting Ivory Coast's entrenched strongman broke through the security perimeter imposed around the presidential compound Saturday, firing on French helicopters in an advance that appeared to breathe new life into L ... |
| Nigeria holds election despite violence Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:51 PM PDT IBADAN, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria's voters pressed their ink-soaked fingers to ballots Saturday, braving bomb attacks and communal violence to vote in the first round of crucial April elections in the oil-rich nation. Voters from Nigeria's arid nort ... |
| Japan bans planting rice in radioactive soil Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:50 PM PDT TOKYO (AP) -- Fears of radiation spread to rice as the planting season began in Japan, prompting the government to ban its cultivation in contaminated soil as fallout leaking from a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant dealt another blow to the national d ... |
| EU finance ministers defend austerity Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:48 PM PDT GODOLLO, Hungary (AP) -- European finance ministers meeting Saturday defended the painful austerity measures being imposed in the region as necessary to defeat a crippling debt crisis. But tens of thousands of people protested nearby to condemn wha ... |
| Iraqi cleric threatens action if US forces remain Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:47 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) -- A powerful anti-American Shiite cleric threatened Saturday to reactivate his feared militia if American soldiers remain in Iraq beyond this year, after a U.S. offer to keep troops on if they are needed. Muqtada al-Sadr issued a sta ... |
| Russia recalls first space mission Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:08 PM PDT STAR CITY, Russia -- It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago this Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the first human in sp ... |
| New entrepreneurs in Cuba get mixed results Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:08 PM PDT HAVANA -- There was no colorful bunting to mark the grand opening, and no way to advertise in the local press. There was not even money to hand out fliers in this decaying Havana neighborhood of potholed streets and crumbling one-story homes. So w ... |
| U.S. commander: We must destroy towns to save them Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT TAROK KOLACHE, Afghanistan -- Two aerial photos tell the story of this tiny village in the southern province of Kandahar. One shows a deceptively bucolic collection of mud huts amid pomegranate orchards. The second shows a field of dirt and shorn t ... |
| Petraeus: al-Qaida is not making return Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gen. David Petraeus, top commander of U.S. and NATO forces, said Saturday that while some al-Qaida fighters have been searching for hide-outs in rugged areas of eastern Afghanistan, he does not think they are m ... |
| Israeli, Hamas fighting takes deadly turn Posted: 09 Apr 2011 05:06 PM PDT GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian militants fired more than a dozen rockets at southern Israel on Saturday and Israeli warplanes killed four militants in the Gaza Strip in the most intense fighting since Israel's 2008-2009 offensive in the Hamas-r ... |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:44 PM PDT Latest developments in Arab world's unrest on Saturday: Egypt Thousands of demonstrators barricade themselves in Cairo's central square with burned-out troop carriers and barbed wire and demand the removal of the military council ruling Egypt, infu ... |
| Syrian rights group: Funeral fired upon Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:31 PM PDT BEIRUT -- Syrian security forces fired on mourners at a funeral for slain protesters Saturday as authorities vowed to crush any new unrest from a three-week uprising that showed no sign of letting up even as the death toll topped 170. Activists vo ... |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2011 02:30 PM PDT AJDABIYA, Libya -- Government soldiers and rebel gunmen battled in the streets of a key front-line city Saturday after the Libyan military used shelling and guerrilla-style tactics to open its most serious push into opposition territory since inter ... |
| You are subscribed to email updates from World News | The Bryan College Station Eagle To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment