An Australian labor tribunal mediating a strike by Qantas Airways employees has ordered worker’s unions to end their job action and return to the negotiating table. The order came early Monday, less than two days after a walkout over pay and working conditions prompted the airline to ground its fleet, stranding tens of thousands of […]
Australia Panel Orders End to Qantas Strike
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 12:15 pm (UTC-5)
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Arab League to Press Syrian FM to End Crackdown
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 11:30 am (UTC-5)
Arab League representatives are scheduled to meet Sunday with Syria’s foreign minister to demand an end to killings of civilians during the government’s crackdown on an opposition uprising. The Arab League ministerial delegation was due to hold talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem in the Qatari capital, Doha. The 22-member Arab bloc sharpened its […]
Dozens Feared Dead in India Bridge Collapse
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 11:30 am (UTC-5)
Dozens of people are missing or feared dead after a pedestrian bridge collapsed into a river in northeast India. Authorities say at least 29 people were rescued after the footbridge collapsed Saturday over the Kemeng river in Arunachal Pradesh State. At least two bodies have been recovered, while dozens more remain missing. Police and paramilitary […]
Burmese Democracy Leader Meets Again with Government Minister
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 11:25 am (UTC-5)
Burma’s Labor Minister met Sunday with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for further talks on issues blocking a breakthrough in the country’s long-standing political stalemate. The meeting was the fourth such effort by the new, nominally-civilian, military-backed government to woo Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy into re-registering as a political party. […]
Two Britons Among Dead in Kabul Attack
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 11:20 am (UTC-5)
The British embassy says two Britons were among 17 people killed in a suicide attack on a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul. A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into an armored NATO bus Saturday, killing five service members, including one Canadian soldier, eight civilian contractors and four Afghans. Earlier […]
Voters in Kyrgyzstan Cast Presidential Ballots
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 10:50 am (UTC-5)
Voters in the turbulent Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan are going to the polls in the first presidential election since the deadly 2010 uprising that toppled former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Pre-election polls showed moderate ex-Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev, a wealthy businessman from the north, leading 15 other candidates in Sunday’s multi-party election. His main challengers […]
Report: US Plans Post-Iraq Buildup in Gulf
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 10:20 am (UTC-5)
The New York Times reports the United States is negotiating with Kuwait to allow American combat troops to be based in the Persian Gulf area after completing the announced withdrawal from Iraq by the end of this year. The report says the talks are part of U.S. plans to boost its military presence in the […]
Voters in Kyrgyzstan Cast Presidential Ballots
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 9:55 am (UTC-5)
Voters in the turbulent Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan are going to the polls to elect a new president, in the first multi-party election since the 2010 deadly uprising that toppled former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Pre-election polls showed moderate ex-Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev, a wealthy businessman from the north, leading 15 other candidates in Sunday’s […]
More Israeli Airstrikes, Palestinian Rockets
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 9:55 am (UTC-5)
Israeli aircraft attacked a group of Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip Sunday, killing one person, hours after militants fired rockets into southern Israel for a second day. Medics say the Palestinian was killed Sunday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt. Israel says it struck militants who were preparing a […]
Somalia Militants: American Suicide Bomber Behind Attack
Posted October 30th, 2011 at 9:30 am (UTC-5)
Somalia’s al-Shabab militants say an American citizen was one of two suicide bombers behind a recent attack on an African Union military base in the capital. A pro-Shabab radio station and website identified the Somali-American bomber as a young man named Abdisalan. It said he emigrated to the United States at the age of two. […]
