Six In The Morning

Bin Laden death ‘not an assassination’ – Eric Holder



The BBC  12 May 2011

US Attorney General Eric Holder has said that the raid on Osama Bin Laden’s hideout, in which the al-Qaeda leader was killed, was “not an assassination”.

Mr Holder told the BBC the operation was a “kill or capture mission” and that Bin Laden’s surrender would have been accepted if offered.

The protection of the Navy Seals who carried out the raid was “uppermost in our minds”, he added.

Libyan TV shows first footage of Gaddafi in two weeks

The Libyan leader, not seen in public since 30 April air strike that killed his son, has appeared on state television

Reuters

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011

Libyan state television has shown footage of Muammar Gaddafi meeting officials in a Tripoli hotel, ending nearly two weeks of doubt over his fate since a Nato air strike killed his son.

The Libyan leader, who had not been seen in public since the 30 April bombing of his Tripoli compound killed his youngest son and three of his grandchildren, appeared on Wednesday in his trademark brown robe, dark sunglasses and black hat accompanied by officials.

Thousands sleep in open as Spanish quake kills eight



AP Thursday, 12 May 2011

Thousands of people spent the night outdoors in the south-eastern Spanish city of Lorca in fear of further tremors after Spain’s worst earthquakes in 50 years killed eight people and injured dozens.

People draped in blankets to protect them from the morning cold queued up for hot drinks handed out by voluntary workers at the five makeshift camps in parks and a trade show center set up in the small city of Lorca that was hit by the two quakes – with magnitudes of 4.4 and 5.2 – a day earlier.

‘We Were Not a Very Open Company Before’

An Inside Look at Apple Supplier Foxconn  

By Hannes Koch in Chengdu, China

They jog in orderly rows of twos through the industrial area. The young people, who look about 19 or 20, hope to be future builders of the iPad. Each of them holds a brown envelope in his or her left hand that contains their job application. At the foreman’s command, they turn a corner onto the steps of the recruitment office.

They are here because of electronic component manufacturer Foxconn, which is hiring tens of thousands of employees. The company has built new factories in the Chinese city of Chengdu to produce millions of iPads for Apple. The supplier is known for the strict rules it imposes on its employees. Last year, that strict discipline may have helped lead to the suicide of 13 workers at a Foxconn facility in Shenzhen. At the time, observers spoke of terrible working conditions there.

Boy who ran away to find his mother ends up in different country



May 12, 2011  

A 10-year-old boy, who ran away from his home in Bolivia’s highlands to find his mother, mistakenly ended up in Chile after travelling 1000 kilometres hidden in a metal container under a transport truck.

Franklin Villca Huanaco was trying to reach Cochabamba where his mother had been serving a 3½-year jail sentence for transporting chemicals used to make cocaine, authorities said on Wednesday.

The boy hid in a roughly body-length container among the truck’s wheels, thinking it was heading to the Bolivian city.

Riots in Uganda after Besigye booted off Kenyan flight



JASON STRAZIUSO NAIROBI, KENYA

Kizza Besigye said he was waiting to board a flight when a Kenya Airways official informed him that the plane would not be allowed to land in Uganda with Besigye on it. A government spokesperson in Uganda denied that authorities had interfered with his return.

Anti-government marches led by Besigye over the last month have been the most serious unrest in sub-Saharan Africa since protests swept out leaders in Egypt and Tunisia. Human Rights Watch says that Uganda security forces have killed nine people during the protests.