Monday, September 6, 2010

Kandahar boardwalk is a world away from war (AP)

Kandahar boardwalk is a world away from war (AP)

Kandahar boardwalk is a world away from war (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:15 AM PDT

Sgt. Charles Reed, from Steam Boat, Colo., of the 715 Military Intelligence Unit, center, celebrates his 34th birthday with his colleagues and the staff at TGI Fridays restaurant on the boardwalk at Kandahar Air Force Base, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Adil Bradlow)AP - It was a broiling fall evening in this southern Afghan battlezone, and U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Reed wanted to celebrate his birthday in style — at T.G.I. Friday's on the boardwalk.

US expects to subsidize Afghan training for years (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:11 AM PDT

Defense Secretary Robert Gates greets Afghanistan National Army troops while visiting soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, at combat outpost Senjaray outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)AP - The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan

Four shot dead in Indian Kashmir protests (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 09:29 AM PDT

Kashmiri Muslim protesters throw stones towards Indian paramilitary soldiers during a protest in Srinagar. Four people were killed Monday when Indian security forces opened fire on stone-throwing protesters during fresh demonstrations against Indian rule in Kashmir, police said.(AFP/Rouf Bhat)AFP - Four people were killed Monday when Indian security forces opened fire on stone-throwing protesters during fresh demonstrations against Indian rule in Kashmir, police said.

Pakistan races to protect two towns from surging floods (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 09:16 AM PDT

Pakistani villagers walk through a flooded area in Maher, Dadu district. Pakistani authorities were Monday racing to protect two southern towns and their 360,000 residents from surging floods, as the nation struggles to cope with its worst natural disaster in living memory.(AFP/Adek Berry)AFP - Pakistani authorities were Monday racing to protect two southern towns and their 360,000 residents from surging floods, as the nation struggles to cope with its worst natural disaster in living memory.

NKorea prepares for biggest convention in 30 years (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 09:14 AM PDT

A large campaign poster is posted in a street, promoting a Workers' Party conference early this month in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. North Korea's ruling communist party members gathered in Pyongyang ahead of their largest political conference in 30 years, state media reported Monday, amid predictions that leader Kim Jong Il would use the meeting to give a key ruling party position to one of his sons. The campaign slogans in the poster reads: 'Let us mark the representatives' meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea as a celebration that will shine in the history of our party and our country.' (AP Photo/APTN)AP - Huge posters plastered across the North Korean capital hailed the nation's biggest political convention in 30 years as a historic event as the world watched Monday for signs that the country's next leader was making his public debut.

NATO asks for more troops for Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 09:11 AM PDT

Afghans burn an effigy of Dove World Outreach Center's pastor Terry Jones during a demonstration against the United States in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. Hundreds of Afghans railed against the U.S. and called for President Barack Obama's death at a rally in the capital Monday to denounce the American church's plans to burn the Islamic holy book on 9/11. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan is asking for 2,000 more soldiers to join the 140,000-strong international force here, NATO officials said Monday. It was unclear how many would be Americans.

NATO eyes 2,000 extra troops for Afghanistan: official (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 08:36 AM PDT

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commander and the head of NATO in Afghanistan General David Petraeus speaks to the media at his office in Kabul in August 2010. Petraeus, the commander of the war in Afghanistan, has requested 2,000 extra troops to bolster a crucial mission to train Afghan security forces, a NATO official said(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - US General David Petraeus, the commander of the war in Afghanistan, has requested 2,000 extra troops to bolster a crucial mission to train Afghan security forces, a NATO official said Monday.

US drone kills five in NW Pakistan: officials (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 08:02 AM PDT

A US 'Predator' drone passes overhead at a forward operating base near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2009. A US drone fired two missiles at a vehicle carrying militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal area, near the Afghan border, killing five rebels, officials said.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - A US drone on Monday fired two missiles at a vehicle carrying militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal area, near the Afghan border, killing five rebels, officials said.

Abducted Japanese reporter returns home (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:55 AM PDT

Japanese journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka who was abducted by militants in Afghanistan five months ago, arrives at Kansai International Airport in Izumisano in Osaka, western Japan, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. After being kidnapped on April 1, Tsuneoka, a freelance journalist and veteran of war zones, was released Saturday night, Sept. 4 to a Japanese embassy and appeared tired but otherwise unharmed, the ministry said in a statement. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) ** JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA **AP - A Japanese journalist returned home Monday after militants in Afghanistan released him from five months in captivity.

Well known Afghan journalist murdered outside home (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:51 AM PDT

AP - Police are investigating the murder of a well known Afghan journalist who was found outside his Kabul home this weekend covered in stab wounds.

Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 06:43 AM PDT

Map of Pakistan locating the site of the suicide attack on Monday. At least 17 people were killed and 45 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, destroying the building, police said.(AFP/Graphic/Afp Graphics)AP - A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes.

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

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 06:13 AM PDT

Kashmiri Muslim protesters and Indian soldiers throw stones at each other during a protest in Srinagar, India, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. Anger against Indian rule runs deep in the region, which is divided between Hindu-majority India and predominantly Muslim Pakistan and claimed by both nuclear-armed nations in its entirety. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)AP - Government forces fired on protesters hurling stones at them in Indian Kashmir on Monday, killing three people and wounding at least 17 other demonstrators, police said.

China, US meet amid tensions over trade, military (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 05:22 AM PDT

U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, left, and U.S. National Economic Council Director Larry Summers pause as they wait for journalists to leave before their meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, not in the photo, at the Chinese foreign ministry in Beijing, China, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)AP - Senior U.S. and Chinese officials met Monday to steady relations upset by disputes over currency, trade and military affairs despite calls for a tougher line on Chinese economic policies that some say are contributing to American unemployment.

UN needs far more money for Pakistan floods (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 05:21 AM PDT

In this photo taken Saturday Sept. 4, 2010, Pakistani villagers walk along a flooded road as floodwaters slowly recede at the mostly agricultural lands of Shah Jamal village, Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan. The flooding destroyed 3.6 million hectares (8.9 million acres) of maize, rice, sugar cane and cotton crops and killed 1.2 million livestock and 6 million poultry, according to preliminary estimates by the U.N. and Pakistan government. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - The United Nations says it needs hundreds of millions of dollars in new donations to get food, water, medicine and shelter to Pakistanis hit by flooding.

Philippines asks court to outlaw Abu Sayyaf (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 03:09 AM PDT

AP - The Philippine government has asked a court to outlaw the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist group and blacklist more than 200 of its Islamic fighters blamed for two decades of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings, officials said Monday.

'The Cove' star: Dolphin activists need to ease up (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:36 AM PDT

AP - The star of an Oscar-winning documentary about a Japanese village's infamous dolphin hunt said Monday that activists trying to stop the killing might need to back off and allow the Japanese people to tackle the issue themselves.

2 activists convicted of whale meat theft in Japan (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:18 AM PDT

AP - A Japanese court on Monday convicted two members of the environmental group Greenpeace of stealing whale meat they claim was intended for illegal consumption, giving each suspended jail terms.

NZ economy facing hit from major earthquake impact (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:04 AM PDT

A person cycles past a damaged road near the Avon River following Saturday's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The quake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around the New Zealand city also ripped a new 11-foot- (3.5 meter-) wide fault in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Alexander) **NEW ZEALAND OUT**AP - New Zealand's prime minister warned Monday that the country's economic recovery will be hurt by the weekend's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings and wrecked roads and rail lines in the city of Christchurch.

Malaysian snake smuggler sentenced to 6 months (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 11:32 PM PDT

AP - A Malaysian court sentenced a notorious wildlife trader to six months in prison Monday after he was caught smuggling 95 live boa constrictors in his luggage at the country's main airport.

Malaysia Muslim TV ad scrapped amid Christmas link (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2010 10:53 PM PDT

AP - A Malaysian television station scrapped a commercial tied to the biggest Muslim holiday after viewers complained it appeared influenced by Christmas and Santa Claus.
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