The Irrawaddy News Magazine Grenade fails to scare hardcore Thai protesters Reuters - 2 hours ago By Chaiwat Ketsom BANGKOK (Reuters) - Diehard protesters occupying the Thai prime minister's offices brushed off a grenade attack that killed one person and wounded 23 on Thursday, saying they would continue their three-month sit-in to oust the ...
guardian.co.uk Somali tanker pirates 'want $25m' BBC News - 1 hour ago Pirates who hijacked a Saudi oil tanker off the Somali coast are reported to have demanded a $25m (£17m) ransom. The AFP news agency, quoting one of the pirates, says the owners have been set a 10-day deadline to hand over the sum.
BBC News Pakistan protests over US missile strikes Reuters - 1 hour ago By Simon Cameron-Moore ISLAMABAD, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Pakistan summoned US ambassador Anne Patterson on Thursday to lodge a protest over missile strikes launched by drone aircraft against militant targets in Pakistan, a Pakistani foreign ministry ...
The Citizen Daily Zimbabwe: The Despot, His Friends and the Twisted 'Road to Zero' AllAfrica.com - 34 minutes ago ON NOVEMBER 9, the world witnessed another failed Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit on Zimbabwe. Rather unrealistically, President Kgalema Motlanthe (the current SADC chairman) was mooted as the person who could break the deadlock.
GulfNews Al Qaeda Coldly Acknowledges Obama Victory New York Times - 6 hours ago By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON - In a propaganda salvo by Al Qaeda aimed at undercutting the enthusiasm of Muslims worldwide about the American election, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy condemned President-elect Barack Obama as a “house ...
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