Mexico City To Punish Tweets On Police Checkpoints (ap)
AP – Some Twitter users are revealing the locations of police drunk-driving checkpoints in Mexico City and the people behind the tweets could be prosecuted, police said Monday. Read more
China’s Africa Footprint: A Makeover For Algeria (ap)
AP – While still struggling with the aftermath of a decade-long Islamic insurgency, oil-rich yet impoverished Algeria is getting a makeover: a new airport, its first mall, its largest prison, 60,000 new homes, two luxury hotels and the longest continuous highway in Africa. Read more
Help Steps Up, But So Does Scale Of Haiti Tragedy (ap)
AP – The staggering scope of Haiti’s nightmare came into sharper focus Monday as authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the heart of this luckless land, where injured survivors still died in the streets, doctors pleaded for help and looters slashed at one another in the rubble. Read more
Judge Sentences ‘toronto 18′ Ringleader (ap)
AP – The ringleader of a homegrown terror plot involving 18 people that planned to set off truck bombs in front of Canada’s main stock exchange and two government buildings was given a life sentence on Monday. Read more
Taliban Attacks Paralyze Afghan Capital For Hours (ap)
AP – Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault Monday on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings and gunbattles near the presidential palace and other government buildings that paralyzed the city for hours. Read more