Sunday, March 28, 2010

World News Briefs -- March 28, 2010



Big Ben In Darkness As 4,000 Cities Switch Off For Earth Hour -- The Telegraph

Office blocks and floodlit landmarks around the world have been plunged into darkness in a gesture to highlight environmental concerns as part of the fourth annual Earth Hour, organized by the World Wildlife Fund.

Some 4,000 cities in more than 120 countries switched off to reduce energy consumption at 8.30pm local time.

In Britain, the lights went out at Buckingham Palace and Downing Street as well as Big Ben and other UK landmarks.

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MIDDLE EAST

Kirkuk: Arabs, Baathists, insurgents and Turkmens united against the Kurds.

Israeli security forces seal off West Bank.

Israeli-Palestinian peace process at critical stage, Arab leaders say.

Agencies suspect Iran is planning new atomic sites.

ASIA

U.S. troop deaths double in Afghanistan.

Pakistani airstrikes target militant hideouts in northwest.

Thai PM talks with protesters live on television.

AFRICA

Rights group: rebels massacred 321 DRC villagers.

White farmers 'being wiped out'.

Mubarak returns to Egypt; succession debate persists.

EUROPE

NATO chief welcomes new Russia-U.S. nuclear arms cuts deal.

Berlusconi party scandals figure in Italy vote.

EU, Libya lift bans on visas.

IRA used QE2 to smuggle weapons from New York.

AMERICAS

Chavez criticizes US as arrests stir concern.

Quake accentuated chasm that has defined Haiti.

Amid recession, Memphis becomes America's hunger capital.

TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR

Saudis fund Balkan Muslims spreading hate of the West.

New West Point report details meticulous training Taliban kids go through at Pakistani terror school.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

Greece to sell Eurobonds next week in rescue test, FT says.

AT&T to book $1 billion cost on health-care reform.

Gulf sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahyan missing after plane crash.

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