Thursday, October 20, 2011

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Report: Gadhafi captured as final stronghold falls
October 20, 2011 at 3:38 PM
 
NTC fighters say they've entered Sirte, Moammar Gadhafi's hometown, as Libya TV reports that the revolutionary fighters have captured the deposed leader.
   
   
Violence erupts in Syrian village
October 20, 2011 at 3:04 PM
 
Military personnel were killed and injured when Syrian soldiers and gunmen believed to be dissidents battled on Thursday, an activist group said.
   
   
Libya's NTC fighters say they've entered Sirte
October 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM
 
National Transitional Council fighters say they have entered Sirte, Moammar Gadhafi's hometown and the last holdout of forces loyal to the deposed leader.
   
   
Libya's NTC 'take control' of Sirte
October 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM
 
Libyan fighters said Wednesday they have taken control of the last holdout of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in his hometown of Sirte.
   
   
Clinton: U.S. to 'push Pakistanis hard'
October 20, 2011 at 2:44 PM
 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took off her diplomatic gloves Thursday, challenging Pakistan to crack down on terrorist havens on their side of the border.
   
   
UK cops free Britons arrested in Kenya
October 20, 2011 at 2:32 PM
 
Two 18-year-old men questioned under anti-terrorism legislation after arriving in Britain from Kenya, where they were initially arrested, were released Thursday, police said.
   
   
Hillary Clinton in talks with Karzai
October 20, 2011 at 1:58 PM
 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met the Afghan president and other government officials Thursday for talks aimed at boosting reconciliation efforts in the nation.
   
   
Thousands protest in Greece over austerity measures
October 20, 2011 at 1:27 PM
 
Tens of thousands protest outside parliament in Athens as lawmakers prepare to pass another round of budget-cutting measures in an attempt to curb Greece's debt.
   
   
Thais seek refuge as floods inch towards Bangkok
October 20, 2011 at 12:06 PM
 
The most severe flooding in half a century in Thailand continues, and Bangkok residents prepare for the worst as floods are predicted to enter the capital Friday.
   
   
Chavez heads home after tests in Cuba
October 20, 2011 at 11:36 AM
 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez heads home Thursday after undergoing five days of medical tests in Cuba.
   
   
Floods threaten Bangkok; refuge sought
October 20, 2011 at 11:25 AM
 
Thais waded through flooded streets Thursday, their belongings and children perched on their shoulders, as relentless floodwaters inched toward Bangkok.
   
   
No more animals on loose in U.S. state
October 20, 2011 at 10:48 AM
 
An Ohio sheriff believes no more exotic animals are on the loose after his deputies killed 49 lions, tigers and other wild animals freed from a local farm by its suicidal owner.
   
   
Group: 300 arrested at Indonesia protest
October 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM
 
Indonesian security forces arrested about 300 protesters who gathered Wednesday in the eastern province of West Papua to declare independence, Human Rights Watch said.
   
   
Hillary Clinton in talks with Karzai
October 20, 2011 at 10:21 AM
 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets the Afghan president and other government officials Thursday for talks aimed at boosting reconciliation efforts in the nation.
   
   
Protests planned near Clinton-Bush event
October 20, 2011 at 10:07 AM
 
Canadian authorities are bracing for protests near Vancouver, where former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are to appear, demanding Bush's arrest.
   
   
China activists keep 800 dogs off menu
October 20, 2011 at 8:42 AM
 
Nearly 800 dogs were rescued by a Chinese animal protection group last Saturday night in the city of Zigong, in southwest Sichuan province.
   
   
Humane Society: Authorities not to blame
October 20, 2011 at 8:15 AM
 
The Humane Society of the United States says it does not fault authorities in the state of Ohio for using lethal force against 49 exotic animals running loose.
   
   
Mexico: Women's shelter investigated
October 20, 2011 at 4:50 AM
 
The director of a battered women's shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was being held Wednesday on charges that she trafficked and prostituted the women she cared for and allegedly forced them to commit sex acts with strangers, local authorities told CNN.
   
   
It's a girl for France's Sarkozy, Bruni
October 20, 2011 at 2:33 AM
 
Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has given birth to a girl, a very close family friend told CNN on Wednesday.
   
   
Sanitation cited for U.S. listeria outbreak
October 20, 2011 at 1:25 AM
 
Unsanitary conditions at a Colorado cantaloupe farm's packing facility are a possible contributing cause of one of the nation's worst outbreaks of listeria contamination in food, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
   
   
Clashes break out amid Greek strikes
October 19, 2011 at 11:21 PM
 
Protesters and police clash violently in front of the Greek parliament building in Athens on the first day of a two-day general strike over austerity measures.
   
   
U.S. deputies shoot escaped animals
October 19, 2011 at 10:55 PM
 
Law enforcement officials said Wednesday afternoon they had accounted for all but two in a menagerie of animals released from a Ohio farm. Only a wolf and a monkey were still on the loose.
   
   
Clinton arrives in Afghanistan
October 19, 2011 at 9:58 PM
 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit Wednesday, just one day after landing in Libya.
   
   
Murray trial resumes
October 19, 2011 at 9:18 PM
 
The trial of Conrad Murray resumed Wednesday with an anesthesiology expert who is likely to be the last witness before the prosecution rests its direct case.
   
   
U.S. deputies shoot escaped animals
October 19, 2011 at 9:02 PM
 
Flashing signs on the highways in eastern Ohio warned motorists Wednesday: "Caution. Exotic animals."
   
   
Report: Civilians killed in Syria clashes
October 19, 2011 at 9:00 PM
 
Fifteen civilians were killed and dozens injured Wednesday as clashes and shooting broke out across the Syrian city of Homs, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
   
   
U.S. deputies shoot escaped animals
October 19, 2011 at 8:05 PM
 
Flashing signs on the highways in eastern Ohio warned motorists Wednesday: Exotic animals on the loose. Call 911.
   
   
UK riot police clear controversial homes
October 19, 2011 at 5:53 PM
 
British riot police moved in Wednesday morning to clear a controversial group of illegal homes after a long legal battle -- and despite the United Nations' urging for a different resolution.
   
   
Strikes shut down Greece ahead of austerity vote
October 19, 2011 at 5:02 PM
 
Protesters and police clash by Greece's parliament building, as thousands of demonstrators gather in a two-day general strike over austerity measures
   
   
Strikes shut down Greece ahead of austerity vote
October 19, 2011 at 5:02 PM
 
Protesters and police clashed in front of the Greek parliament building Wednesday, as tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Athens on the first day of a two-day general strike over austerity measures
   
   
Strikes shut down Greece ahead of austerity vote
October 19, 2011 at 4:03 PM
 
Tens of thousands of Greeks join strikes in protest against lawmakers' plan to vote on another tough round of cost-cutting measures for the cash-strapped country.
   
   
Frenchwoman abducted in Kenya dies
October 19, 2011 at 3:09 PM
 
A Frenchwoman kidnapped from her holiday home in northern Kenya and taken to Somalia has died, the French Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
   
   
Southeast Asia floods kill more than 700
October 19, 2011 at 2:51 PM
 
At least 745 people have died in flooding in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines since July, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific said.
   
   
Queen on possible last visit to Australia
October 19, 2011 at 2:32 PM
 
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Canberra Wednesday for her 16th -- and possibly last -- official visit to Australia.
   
   
Small plane crashes in Nepal
October 19, 2011 at 2:05 PM
 
Six people were killed when an army plane crashed in western Nepal, authorities said Wednesday.
   
     
 
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