Friday, July 30, 2010

July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US (AP)

July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US (AP)

July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:59 AM PDT

NATO and US soldiers are seen standing guard in Kabul. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said Friday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - NATO announced Friday that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.

Birthday boy Anderson leads rout of Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:51 AM PDT

James Anderson of England celebrates the wicket of Azhar Ali of Pakistan, on the second day of their first NPower Test cricket match at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. Pakistan slumped to 147 for nine.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - James Anderson marked his 28th birthday with five wickets as Pakistan slumped to 147 for nine on the second day of the first Test against England at Trent Bridge here on Friday.

Four dead, 19 hurt in China tax office blast: state media (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:39 AM PDT

A night view of a part of Changsha city, central China's Hunan province. Four people were killed and 19 injured Friday in a blast at a tax office in central China that police said appeared to be a deliberate attack, state media reported.(AFP/File)AFP - Four people were killed and 19 injured Friday in a blast at a tax office in central China that police said appeared to be a deliberate attack, state media reported.

Malaysia talent show picks 26-year-old as top 'Young Imam' (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:39 AM PDT

Chief judge Imam Hasan Mahmood (R) gives a symbolic cap of Imam to the winner Muhammad Asyraf on the final day of Malaysia's reality TV competiton AFP - A 26-year-old scholar was late Friday named winner of a hugely popular Malaysian TV talent show search for a top young Islamic leader which has gained worldwide attention.

White House urges halt to spilling of war secrets (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:34 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen hold a press briefing, Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - %mlink(STRY:; PHOTO:; AUDIO:%)

U.N. sanctions dropped against 5 senior Taliban (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:27 AM PDT

Reuters - Five Taliban have been struck off a U.N. Security Council list of militants subject to sanctions -- a move sought by Kabul to ease reconciliation talks with insurgents, the United Nations said on Friday.

Cambodia claims win in UNESCO tussle over temple (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:26 AM PDT

AP - Cambodia declared victory Friday in a diplomatic standoff with Thailand after the U.N. cultural agency agreed to consider its plan for managing a temple that is on land claimed by both countries.

Five Taliban taken off UN sanctions list: Austria (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:10 AM PDT

UN Security Council members vote at the UN headquarters in June 2010 in New York. Five Taliban members, including a former Afghan ambassador to the United Nations, have been taken off a UN sanctions terrorism list, Austria's UN mission said Friday.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Five Taliban members, including a former Afghan ambassador to the United Nations, have been taken off a UN sanctions terrorism list, Austria's UN mission said Friday.

Floods kill more than 400 in Pakistan's northwest (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 11:35 AM PDT

A boy hangs on to the front of a cargo truck while passing through a flooded road in Risalpur, located in Nowshera District, in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province July 30, 2010. REUTERS/Adrees LatifReuters - Heavy monsoon rains have triggered the worst floods in decades in Pakistan's northwest, killing more than 400 people and forcing thousands from their homes as authorities struggle to reach stranded villagers.

SKorea cracks down on marriage brokers after death (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:30 AM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 20, 2010, immigrant women stage a rally in memory of a killed Vietnamese bride in front of the Human Rights Commission in Seoul, South Korea. Eight days after moving to South Korea, 20-year-old Thach Thi Hoang Ngoc was beaten and stabbed to death by her 47-year-old husband, who police said confessed that 'voices' ordered him to kill his young bride. She was never told about his mental illness, police said. The Korean letters at right bottom read ' We console to parents of Thach Thi Hoang Ngoc '. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Shin Jun-hee) ** KOREA OUT **AP - Young and poor, the Vietnamese woman jumped at the chance to marry a South Korean introduced to her through a matchmaking agency.

Floods ravage NW Pakistan, kill 430 people (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:20 AM PDT

A Pakistani woman sits at the bank of the swollen Nelum river flooded by monsoon rains in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Aftab AhmedAP - Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929.

Minority Islamic sect under fire in Indonesia (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:03 AM PDT

AP - A minority Islamic sect told followers Friday to prepare for war after rock-throwing mobs attacked one of their mosques in central Indonesia, calling its members heretics.

Soldiers fire on protesters in Kashmir, 3 killed (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:00 AM PDT

Paramedics carry a wounded Kashmiri man on a stretcher inside a local hospital in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 30, 2010. Paramilitary soldiers fired on hundreds of demonstrators in Indian Kashmir on Friday, killing two men and wounding at least 12 others, police said as protests against Indian rule spread across the region. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)AP - Paramilitary soldiers fired on thousands of demonstrators in Indian Kashmir on Friday, killing three men and wounding at least 80 others as protests against Indian rule spread across the disputed region.

China says it opposes EU sanctions against Iran (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 06:26 AM PDT

AP - China said Friday that it opposes the sanctions the European Union is imposing on Iran over its disputed nuclear program, saying it supports Iran's renewed efforts to hold talks on a possible swap of nuclear fuel.

Grenade wounds 1; Thai court frees protest leader (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 05:07 AM PDT

Veera Musikapong, a senior leader of the anti-government AP - A grenade exploded near a Bangkok shopping mall early Friday, wounding one person in the second explosion in a week in the Thai capital still rattled by deadly political clashes and living under emergency rule.

US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 04:25 AM PDT

North Korea's Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun, left, looks at a jade Buddha statue while visiting Myanmar's famed Shwedagon Pagoda Thursday, July 29, 2010, in Yangon, Myanmar. North Korea's foreign minister visited Myanmar on Thursday for high-level talks that come on the heels of a U.S. warning against any cooperation between the two nations on nuclear technology. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday.

Luxuries from China's Forbidden City to travel US (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 03:14 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, Nancy Berliner, left, curator of Chinese art and culture at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem and Henry Ng, executive vice president of the World Monuments Fund stand on a pavillion as they tour a rock garden outside the courtyard complex, where Chinese emperor Qianlong used for his retirement located inside Forbidden City in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Deep in a long-forgotten corner of the Forbidden City and up a twisting stairway are four sets of twin doors, shut for more than eight decades. They reveal rare sweeping views to the north, south, east and west above the golden-tiled rooftops of the imperial palace.

5 soldiers killed in land mine attack in India (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 02:40 AM PDT

Indian paramilitary soldiers carry their injured colleague at a hospital in the town of Goalpara, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of the state capital, Gauhati, India, Friday, July 30, 2010. Suspected separatist rebels triggered a land mine explosion Friday, killing at least four paramilitary soldiers and injuring 25 others in India's remote northeastern state of Assam, police said. (AP Photo)AP - Separatist rebels triggered a land mine Friday that killed at least five paramilitary soldiers and wounded 41 others in India's remote northeastern state of Assam, where a deadly separatist insurgency has long raged.

Taiwanese wary about China amid warming ties (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 02:07 AM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, July 23, 2010, local Taiwanese watch a mainland Chinese Kung-fu troupe perform in Taipei, Taiwan. Despite closer ties between Taiwan and China, the common language, and the attempts by Beijing to play up both sides' common cultural history many Taiwanese insist the island's 23 million people don't identify culturally with the mainland because 50 years of Japanese colonial rule and another six decades of political separation has created a distinct Taiwanese identity. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - In the crowded Taipei theater, Eddy Fang laughs politely at the Chinese ensemble's comic references to jealous husbands and overweight wives but can't help thinking it's all a bit lowbrow in relatively sophisticated Taiwan.

China criticizes Clinton comments on island chains (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 01:50 AM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency taken on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, a Chinese soldier jumps through a fire obstacle during psychological training at an army training field before the upcoming 83rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, which will be celebrated on Aug. 1, in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong Province. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Gang) ** NO SALES **AP - China's military on Friday criticized remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Washington had a strong interest in seeing territorial disputes in the South China Sea resolved peacefully.
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