Egypt's rulers hinting at crackdown
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
CAIRO -- Even as election officials began counting ballots in Egypt's presidential runoff Sunday night, the military-led government appeared to be bracing for the possibility that the Muslim Brotherhood candidate could win, issuing a unilaterally drafted constitution that would give the army...
Pro-bailout party wins Greek election
Zeenews
Zeenews
Zeenews Bureau Athens: In a sigh of relief for financial markets around the world, Greece's centre-right, pro-bailout New Democracy party won the Sunday's Parliamentary Elections. The anti-bailout Syriza party has conceded defeat in the crucial polls and its leader, Alexis Tsipras, has said his...
Syria accused of violence rise after UN monitor halt
IBN Live
IBN Live
Amman: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army intensified shelling of Sunni Muslim districts in the northwest city of Homas on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens hours after UN monitors suspended their work, opposition activists said. The monitors' decision on Saturday was the...
France elections: Socialists secure big victory
Zeenews
Zeenews
Zeenews Bureau Paris: Exit poll agencies have projected that French President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party has won a big majority in the Lower House of Parliament. The Socialists' bloc obtained between 312 and 326 seats -- an absolute majority in the 577-seat National Assembly -- and so will...
Army chief: Soldiers home more between deployments
Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii (AP) — Soldiers are getting to spend more time at home between combat deployments as the U.S. military draws down in Iraq and the Army grows in size, the service's chief of staff said Friday. Gen. George Casey told reporters during a visit to Hawaii's largest...
Uncertain prospects loom for post-Oi reactors
Daily Yomiuri
Daily Yomiuri
Now that the government has decided to reactivate the Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, attention has turned to which will be next among the nation's other 48 idle reactors. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and three Cabinet ministers in charge of nuclear energy...
Voter Turnout Is Low in Egypt
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY CAIRO—Turnout on Egypt's final day of a presidential run-off appeared low Sunday as the military leadership seemed poised to cement its hold on the nations legislative authority and clarified the incoming president's powers. Citing official sources in the Supreme Council...
Going green globally from the grassroots
Denver Post
Denver Post
Inaction at the United Nations' Rio+20 summit this week would be disastrous to global crisis. Much is riding on the United Nations Rio+20 summit this week. Many are billing it as Plan A for Planet Earth and want leaders bound to a single international agreement to protect our life-support system and...
Greeks to vote in crucial elections
Zeenews
Zeenews
Zeenews Bureau Athens: Greeks will go to the polls on Sunday again in key elections which could determine the country's future in the eurozone. Elections in Greece are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the...
UN mission suspends activities in Syria
Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes
The UN observer mission to Syria has suspended its activities, saying escalating violence is impeding the monitors' ability to carry out its mandate. "UN observers will not be conducting patrols and will stay in their locations until further notice," the mission's chief General Major...
Nobel peace prize 'showed the world had not forgotten Burma'
The Guardian
The Guardian
Aung San Suu Kyi calls on humanity to never stop in the pursuit of peace during moving acceptance speech in Oslo Aung San Suu Kyi receives a standing ovation after her Nobel peace prize acceptance speech. Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP...
Japan gives unpopular go-ahead to restart two reactors
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle
The first of Japan's nuclear reactors could come back online in as little as three weeks' time after all of the country's nuclear plants were shut down pending safety checks following last year's Fukushima disaster. The Japanese government has given its approval to a plan that would...
