World Politics Review Media Roundup :09 Aug 2011

Media Roundup: 09 Aug 2011

Somali Government Offers Amnesty to Shebab Rebels

By: Mustafa Haji Abdinur | Agence France-Presse

Somalia's embattled government offered an open amnesty on Tuesday to Islamist Shebab fighters after the rebels made a surprise withdrawal from the famine-struck capital over the weekend.

Libyan Rebels Dissolve Cabinet Amid Discord

By: KAREEM FAHIM | The New York Times

Rebel leaders dissolved their own cabinet on Monday, in an effort to placate the family of an assassinated rebel military leader and quiet discord in a movement already struggling to remove the country's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, from power.

U.S. Debt Is Not the Culprit

By: PHILIP BOWRING | International Herald Tribune

Asia is ignoring that America's real problem is sustained international trade imbalances.

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• British Officials Condemn Riots as Violence Continues
  By: Anna Tomforde | Deutsche Presse-Agentur
  
• Iranian Group's Big-Money Push to Get Off U.S. Terrorist List
  By: Scott Peterson | The Christian Science Monitor
  
• Red-Faced Iraq Says It Signed Dodgy Power Deals
  By: Muhanad Mohammed | Reuters
  
• Guatemala Ends Torres Poll Hopes
  BBC
  
• SEALs Killed in Afghan Crash Were Answering Call for Help
  By: Laura King | Los Angeles Times
  
• U.S. Set to Announce $100M in Somalia Famine Funding
  By: Jason Straziuso | The Associated Press
  
• Pentagon to Reconsider Landing Chinooks in Battle Zones
  By: Nancy A. Youssef and Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers
  
• 3 Arab Countries Recall Ambassadors to Syria
  By: NADA BAKRI | The New York Times
  
• South-East Europe: The Clouds Disperse
  By: Neil MacDonald and Neil Buckley | Financial Times
  
• India and Bangladesh: Embraceable You
  The Economist
  
• Kiev Judge Refuses to Free Tymoshenko
  Reuters
  
• Nigeria: Oil-Polluted Ogoniland Could Become Environmental Model
  By: John Vidal | The Guardian
  
• China Closes In on European Gas
  By: Max Colchester | The Wall Street Journal
  
• Tibet PM Vows to Fight China's 'Colonialism'
  By: Girija Shivakumar and James Lamont | Financial Times
  
• The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia
  By: Jeremy Scahill | The Nation