Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Plane carrying 152 crashes in Pakistan (AP)

Plane carrying 152 crashes in Pakistan (AP)

Plane carrying 152 crashes in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:34 AM PDT

A Pakistani private Airblue plane crashed into hills behind Islamabad on Wednesday while preparing to land after a flight from Karachi with 152 people on board, a civil aviation spokesman said.(AFP/Graphic)AP - A passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid rain Wednesday, officials said. At least five people were killed and five wounded, but many more were feared dead.

British PM visits India to boost trade links (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:09 AM PDT

British Treasury chief George Osborne poses for photographs with a bull sculpture at the Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. British Prime Minister David Cameron and a massive delegation of Cabinet ministers and dignitaries fanned out across India on Wednesday in a visit aimed at rebuilding trade relations and other ties between the two nations. (AP Photo)AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron and a massive delegation of Cabinet ministers and dignitaries fanned out across India on Wednesday in a visit aimed at rebuilding trade relations and other ties between the two nations.

France declares war against al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:11 PM PDT

A photo released Monday July 26, 2010 by the City of Marcoussis, south of Paris, showing French aid group Enimilal member, Michel Germaneau, in 2007. The leader of al-Qaida's North African branch (AQIM) said in a message broadcast Sunday that the 78-year-old French engineer was killed in retaliation for the killing of six al-Qaida members in a raid. Humanitarian worker Michel Germaneau was abducted April 22 in Niger. (AP Photo/Mairie de Marcoussis/Enmilal)AP - France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.

China floods test massive Three Gorges Dam (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:01 AM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, July 27, 2010, a landslide sweeps aside buildings at the village of Wangong village in Hanyuan county in Ya'an of southwest China's Sichuan province. Rescuers searched for 21 people missing after a landslide in Hanyuan County in China's southern province of Sichuan on Tuesday morning, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Rocks and mud buried 58 homes and about 4,000 villagers were evacuated from their homes. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Record-high water levels put the capacity of China's massive Three Gorges Dam to the test Wednesday after heavy rains raged on across the country, compounding flooding problems that already have left more than 1,200 people dead or missing.

Afghan govt: Bus hits bomb, killing 25 (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 11:36 PM PDT

Democrat Representative Dennis Kucinich, seen in March 2010, is one of several lawmakers opposed to the Afghan war. Foes of the war were drawing strength from the leaks by the whistleblower's website, which seemed to buttress criticisms of what Kucinich dubbed AP - A packed bus hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 people aboard, as NATO announced another U.S. death in a rapidly rising monthly death toll.

India and Burma Get Down to Business (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 11:25 PM PDT

Time.com - General Than Shwe, leader of the junta that has ruled Burma since 1988, arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday as part of a five-day state visit to discuss energy and insurgents

Alcohol eases rheumatoid arthritis: study (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:58 AM PDT

Drinking alcohol may help reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis and cut the risk of developing the painful and crippling disease, a study published Wednesday has shown for the first time.(AFP/File/Jeff Pachoud)AFP - Drinking alcohol may help reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis and cut the risk of developing the painful and crippling disease, a study published Wednesday has shown for the first time.

Iraq: 6 killed in Baghdad bomb blast (AP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:38 AM PDT

File photo shows Iraqi women looking on as a SWAT team passes in Karbala, Iraq. A mortar attack killed seven people and wounded 46 in the southern Shiite holy city of Karbala as pilgrims gathered for a ceremony, Iraqi police said on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AP - Iraqi police and health officials say a bomb explosion has killed six civilians and injured 15 others in a Shiite slum in eastern Baghdad.

AP Impact: Mexico justice means catch and release (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 11:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2008 file photo, Julio Cesar Mondragon, left, Juan Carlos Castro, center, and Alfredo Rosas, right, are shown to the press in Mexico City. The three men are being held as suspects in the Sept. 15 grenade attack on Mexican Independence Day revelers in Morelia, Mexico that killed eight people in an unprecedented attack on civilians. A federal judge has dismissed nearly all charges against the men, who have spent nearly two years in jail and say they were beaten into false confessions. (AP Photo/File)AP - It's practically a daily ritual: Accused drug traffickers and assassins, shackled and bruised from beatings, are paraded before the news media to show that Mexico is winning its drug war. Once the television lights dim, however, about three-quarters of them are let go.

We can build United States of Africa, Gaddafi says (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addresses the media as he leaves the venue of the African Union (AU) Summit in Uganda's capital Kampala July 27, 2010. REUTERS/Xavier ToyaReuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday his dream of a United States of Africa was still alive and this week's African Union summit was another step toward that objective.

Indonesian clerics forbid TV gossip shows (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 12:58 AM PDT

Indonesians watch television on a sidewalk in Jakarta. The country's highest Islamic body has issued a fatwa banning Muslims from watching gossip shows. The increasingly assertive Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) said gossip shows about the intimate details of people's private lives -- a popular genre on Indonesian television -- were immoral and threatened society.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)AFP - Indonesia's highest Islamic body has followed up a series of contentious fatwas with a new edict banning Muslims from watching TV gossip shows or having sex-change operations.

TSX urged to do more to prevent conflicts of interest (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 09:06 AM PDT

Reuters - The Toronto Stock Exchange falls short of global listing standards and should do more to manage potential conflicts of interests in how it regulates listed companies, according to report published on Tuesday.

Australian PM hits back at pre-election leaks (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 11:48 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard debates with opposition leader Tony Abbott during a debate in Canberra. Gillard has angrily denied opposing popular welfare increases after damaging cabinet leaks rocked her campaign for next month's elections.(AFP/Pool/File/Andrew Meares)AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday angrily denied opposing popular welfare increases after damaging cabinet leaks rocked her campaign for next month's elections.

Search continues for missing sailor in Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:28 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The body of a sailor who was killed in a Taliban ambush arrived home in the United States Tuesday as the military continued a massive search for his comrade, whom the Taliban claimed it kidnapped last week in eastern Afghanistan.

Introducing the Oprah of Afghanistan: Mozhdah! (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 11:25 PM PDT

Time.com - She's also the Hannah Montana of the nation -- adored by everyone and, somehow, finding ways of discussing taboo social issues

Mass Grave Cover-Ups in Afghanistan (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 07:43 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - KABUL, July 27 (IRIN) - Three years after President Hamid Karzai appointed a commission to investigate a mass grave site in the Chimtala plains, north of Kabul city, the site, the commission and the truth are missing.
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