World Politics Review Media Roundup: 19 Jul 2011

Media Roundup: 19 Jul 2011

Afghanistan Government Under Threat After Second Assassination in a Week

 

By: Julian Borger | The Guardian

The assassination of a close ally and mentor of Hamid Karzai a week after the killing of the president's powerful half-brother has raised new questions over whether Afghanistan's precarious power structure could collapse even before the departure of western combat troops in 2014.

Iran May Deploy Warships in Atlantic

 

Agence France-Presse

The Iranian navy plans on deploying warships to the Atlantic Ocean as part of a programme to ply international waters, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayari said in statements published Tuesday.

Chávez, Cancer, and Cuba

 

By: Jon Lee Anderson | The New Yorker

These are traumatic times for Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, who recently revealed that he was suffering from an unspecified form of cancer. Last week, Chávez asked his National Assembly for permission to return to Cuba, where he spent most of June, for chemotherapy treatment.

More News

 

• China Blames "Terrorists" for Attack in Xinjiang
   
  
  By: Sabrina Mao and Sui-Lee Wee | Reuters
  
• Pakistani Legal Action Targets U.S. Drone Program
   
  
  By: Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers
  
• Guinea President Survives Attack
   
  
  The Associated Press
  
• Agitators 'Derailing Elections' in Tunisia, PM Claims
   
  
  By: John Thorne | The National
  
• Egypt Revamps Cabinet as Protesters Seem to Lose Steam
   
  
  By: DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | The New York Times
  
• 'Putin's Army' Tries Sexy Messaging Ahead of 2012 Elections
   
  
  By: Fred Weir | The Christian Science Monitor
  
• Israel Troops Board Gaza Protest Boat Dignite-al Karama
   
  
  BBC
  
• In Philippines, Aquino's Peace Drive Still Stuck in First Gear
   
  
  By: Fabio Scarpello | World Politics Review
  
• British Prime Minister on the Defensive
   
  
  By: Henry Chu | Los Angeles Times
  
• Al Qaeda Seen Aiming at Targets Outside U.S.
   
  
  By: SIOBHAN GORMAN, JULIAN E. BARNES AND ADAM ENTOUS | The Wall Street Journal
  
• Clinton Says U.S. Encouraged by India-Pakistan Talks
   
  
  By: Matthew Lee and Ravi Nessman | The Associated Press
  
• Kirkuk Is a 'Land Mine' Where All Sides Want U.S. to Stay
   
  
  By: Roy Gutman | McClatchy Newspapers
  
• In Libya, Rebel Casualties Tell the Story Behind Fight for Key City
   
  
  By: David Zucchino | Los Angeles Times
  
• Deaths in Syria Tied to Rift Between Sects
   
  
  By: NADA BAKRI | World Politics Review
  
• China's Internet Population Hits 485 Million
   
  
  Agence France-Presse
  
• U.S. Rebuffs Russian Ingenuity on Iran
   
  
  By: Kaveh L Afrasiabi | Asia Times
  
• Venezuela's Oil Reserves Top Saudi Arabia's, OPEC Says
   
  
  By: BENOIT FAUCON | The Wall Street Journal
  
• Hugo Chávez to Stand for Re-election in 2012
   
  
  The Associated Press