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Saudi sends troops, Bahrain Shi'ites call it "war"
Reuters – 2 hrs 25 mins agoMANAMA (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain on Monday to help put down weeks of protests by the Shi'ite Muslim majority, a move opponents of the Sunni ruling family on the island called a declaration of war. Full Story »
France pushing for swift G8 agreement on Libya
Reuters – 23 mins agoPARIS (Reuters) - France pressured G8 foreign ministers on Monday to agree action on Libya and back its efforts to speed up a U.N. Security Council decision on imposing a no-fly zone in Libya sought by anti-Gaddafi rebels. Full Story »
Tokyo: Bicycles Sell Out as Stranded Commuters Turn to Pedal Power
Time.com – 2 hrs 30 mins agoTokyo dwellers scrambled to buy bicycles at inflated prices in the wake of the calamitous quake, some preferring to stand in snaking queues rather than face the prospect of walking Full Story »
France, Britain pushing for action on Libya
AP – 16 mins agoPARIS - France and Britain stepped up calls Monday for other world powers to isolate Libya's Moammar Gadhafi with a no-fly zone, amid diplomatic differences over how much backing to give Libyan rebels. Full Story »
Bahrain 'arena' for Gulf forces and wider fears
AP – 12 mins agoMANAMA, Bahrain - A Saudi-led military force crossed into Bahrain Monday to prop up the monarchy against widening demonstrations that have sent waves of fear through Gulf states over the potential for enemy Iran to take new footholds on their doorsteps. Full Story »
Haiti candidates unfazed by Aristide's return
AP – 58 mins agoPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The two candidates in Haiti's presidential runoff say former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's impending return from exile should not disrupt the vote. Full Story »
Air and ground: Gadhafi, rebels each claim control
AP – 6 mins agoTOBRUK, Libya - Moammar Gadhafi's warplanes, artillery and mortar shells can control huge swaths of territory by day, including oil ports, rebel supply routes and even hostile towns. Rebels say anti-government forces can still return in darkness to take advantage of Gadhafi's own thin supply lines and overstretched ground troops. Full Story »
Nuclear industry in turmoil after Japan quake
Reuters – 5 mins agoTORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors hammered companies that build nuclear reactors and supply them with fuel on Monday as Japan struggled to avert a meltdown at a stricken reactor, on fear that the whole sector could be in for a downturn, in the short and medium term at least. Full Story »
Canada Q4 industrial capacity use disappoints
Reuters – Mon Mar 14, 11:43 am ETOTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's fourth-quarter industrial capacity use came in at an unexpectedly low 76.4 percent on Monday, adding to a series of soft data that has taken pressure off the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates. Full Story »
China wants 'one-child' compensation over NZ quake
AP – Mon Mar 14, 2:45 am ETWELLINGTON, New Zealand - A Chinese official said Monday that New Zealand should consider special compensation to parents of Chinese students killed in an earthquake last month because their loss was magnified under the country's one-child policy. Full Story »
Hilltop city in Japan becomes a refuge for earthquake, tsunami survivors
The Christian Science Monitor – 1 hr 18 mins agoHitachi, Japan - The small industrial city of Hitachi emerged relatively unscathed from what Prime Minister Naoto Kan has described as Japan’s “worst crisis since the Second World War," making it something of a refugee center for evacuees from cities to the north. Full Story »
Lost No Longer? Researchers Claim to Have Found 'Atlantis' Off Mainland Spain
Time.com – 2 hrs 30 mins agoJust days after the world witnessed the devastating power of natural disasters in Japan, some scientists say they have strong proof of the location of the mythical "lost City of Atlantis," destroyed by a tsunami thousands of years ago Full Story »
Lebanon's cautionary tale for Arab uprisings
The Christian Science Monitor – 1 hr 34 mins agoBeirut, Lebanon - Picture the following: hundreds of thousands of demonstrators take to the streets of a leading Arab capital, demanding a change of regime and greater independence. The regime struggles to check this unexpected opposition, but fails and collapses. Full Story »
Meltdown threat rises at Japanese nuclear plant
AP – 7 mins agoSOMA, Japan - Water levels dropped precipitously Monday inside a Japanese nuclear reactor, twice leaving the uranium fuel rods completely exposed and raising the threat of a meltdown, hours after a hydrogen explosion tore through the building housing a different reactor. Full Story »
Hundreds of bodies wash ashore in quake-hit Japan
AP – 1 min agoTAGAJO, Japan - There are just too many bodies. Full Story »
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