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- World population to reach 7 billion
- U.S officials drop plans to keep troops in Iraq
- Thailand hopes barriers will hold
- Rome protests take violent turn
- U.S. strike kills 9 al-Qaida militants in Yemen
- Libyan forces target Gadhafi loyalists
- Founder of Cuban protest group Pollan dies at 63
| World population to reach 7 billion Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:06 PM PDT As of Oct. 31, according to the U.N. Population Fund, there will be 7 billion people sharing Earth's land and resources. In Western Europe, Japan and Russia, it will be an ironic milestone amid worries about low birthrates and aging populations. I ... |
| U.S officials drop plans to keep troops in Iraq Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:06 PM PDT BAGHDAD -- The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in t ... |
| Thailand hopes barriers will hold Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:07 PM PDT RANGSIT, Thailand -- Beside a wall of white sandbags that has become a front line in Thailand's battle to prevent an epic season of monsoon floods from reaching Bangkok, needlefish swim through knee-high water inside Sawat Taengon's home.On one side, ... |
| Rome protests take violent turn Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:07 PM PDT ROME -- Italian riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Saturday in Rome as violent protesters hijacked a peaceful demonstration against corporate greed, smashing bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles. Elsewhere, hundreds of thousan ... |
| U.S. strike kills 9 al-Qaida militants in Yemen Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:07 PM PDT SANAA, Yemen -- The United States has raised the tempo in its war against al-Qaida in Yemen, killing nine of the terror group's militants in the second, high-profile airstrike in as many weeks. The dead in the late Friday night strike included the ... |
| Libyan forces target Gadhafi loyalists Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:06 PM PDT TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libyan fighters fanned out in Tripoli neighborhoods Saturday to search for armed supporters of fugitive leader Moammar Gadhafi a day after a major gunbattle rocked the capital for the first time in two months. Dozens of men combe ... |
| Founder of Cuban protest group Pollan dies at 63 Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:06 PM PDT HAVANA -- Cuban dissident Laura Pollan, who founded the opposition group Ladies in White and for nearly a decade staged weekly protest marches with other wives of political prisoners to press for their release, died Friday, her husband said. She was ... |
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