World Politics Review Media Roundup :25 Jul 2011

Media Roundup: 25 Jul 2011

Rebel Chief: Gadhafi Can Stay in Libya

By: CHARLES LEVINSON | The Wall Street Journal

Libyan opposition leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Sunday that Col. Moammar Gadhafi and his family could remain in Libya as part of a political solution to the five-month-old conflict.

A Catastrophe in the Making

By: Clemens Höges and Horand Knaup | Der Spiegel

Aid workers have long been warning that a famine was approaching in East Africa. Now that it is here, they are struggling to feed millions of victims of what is said to be the worst drought since 1950. The situation is likely to get even worse.

Hugo Chávez Defies Illness to Run For Re-election in 2012

Reuters

The Venezuelan president, recovering from surgery to remove a large tumour, has said he will seek another six-year term.

More News

• New Loyalties and Old Feuds Collide in Syria
  By: ANTHONY SHADID | The New York Times
  
• Half of Syrians Fleeing to Turkey Have Returned Home
  Today's Zaman
  
• U.S. Trucking Funds Reach Taliban
  By: Karen DeYoung | The Washington Post
  
• Nuclear Scientist or Student Killed in Tehran? Either way, Iran Blames U.S., Israel
  By: Kristen Chick | The Christian Science Monitor
  
• Clinton Urges Action on South China Sea
  By: Matthew Lee | The Associated Press
  
• Tamils Call For Change After Elections in Sri Lanka
  By: Andrew Buncombe | The Independent
  
• North Korean Envoy to Visit U.S. for Nuclear Talks
  By: CHOE SANG-HUN | The New York Times
  
• Vietnam Names New President
  By: NGUYEN PHAM MUOI | The Wall Street Journal
  
• No Permanent U.S. Bases in Afghanistan: U.S. Ambassador
  By: Michelle Nichols | Reuters
  
• Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.
  By: Scott Shane | The New York Times
  
• Australia and Malaysia Sign Refugee Swap Agreement
  BBC
  
• Suu Kyi Holds First Talks With New Myanmar Govt
  By: Hla Hla Htay | Agence France-Presse
  
• Juarez Lawman Brings Confidence, and a Troubled Past
  By: Nick Miroff | The Washington Post
  
• Colombia: Native Groups Mobilise Against Escalation of War
  By: Constanza Vieira | Inter Press Service
  
• The Half-Finished Revolution
  The Economist
  
• U.S. Debt Ceiling: What the Experts Say
  By: Graeme Wearden | The Guardian
  
• German Energy Sector Open For Russian Grabs After Merkel Medvedev Meeting
  By: Vladimir Socor | Eurasia Daily Monitor
  
• Italy Is Venal, But It's Not Greece
  By: Rosemary Righter | Newsweek