Saturday, March 27, 2010

Weekend World Watch: Lights out

* World: Locales around the world including Big Ben (image), the Sydney Opera House, and New York’s Times Square briefly shut off their lights Saturday night as part of Earth Hour 2010.

* India: According to the Indian press the military successfully fired two short-range ballistic missiles.

* Middle East: "We cannot resume indirect negotiations as long as Israel maintains its settlement policy and the status quo," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said at a summit of the Arab League.

* Thailand: The military is withdrawing from certain areas in order to avoid conflict with tens of thousands of protesters rallying in favor of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Image – The Telegraph
Online Sources- Reuters, Xinhua, CNN, BBC News

1 comment:

Joni Roscoe said...

the earth hour has really contributed to the conservation of energy..a report from my report scheduler shows a drastic change on the energy conservation