Thursday, September 30, 2010

Pakistan halts NATO supplies to Afghanistan after attack (AFP)

Pakistan halts NATO supplies to Afghanistan after attack (AFP)

Pakistan halts NATO supplies to Afghanistan after attack (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:59 AM PDT

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand alongside trucks carrying NATO supplies at the border town of Chaman. Pakistan shut down the main land route for NATO supplies into Afghanistan Thursday, accusing the alliance's helicopters of killing Pakistani soldiers in a fourth cross-border attack this week.(AFP/Asghar Achakzai)AFP - Pakistan shut the main land route for NATO supplies into Afghanistan on Thursday, accusing alliance helicopters of killing three Pakistani soldiers in a fourth cross-border attack this week.

Kerry, Pakistan PM Gilani, discuss NATO strike (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:58 AM PDT

Senior US Senator John Kerry, seen here in June 2010, said Thursday he and Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani had discussed a NATO strike inside Pakistan that roiled ties between the uneasy AFP - Senior US Senator John Kerry said Thursday he and Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had discussed a NATO strike inside Pakistan that roiled ties between the uneasy "war on terrorism" allies.

North Korea publishes first photo of heir apparent (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:56 AM PDT

An image grab from state-run Korean Central Television (KCTV) broadcast on South Korean television shows a man whom experts believe is Kim Jong-Un, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il's youngest son and likely heir, attending the Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang. Secretive North Korea published a photograph Kim Jong-un, the first official image of him ever released.(AFP/KCTV)AFP - Secretive North Korea finally put its heir apparent on show to the world Thursday, releasing a photograph of a chubby and serious-faced Kim Jong-Un seated close to his ailing father Kim Jong-Il.

Sri Lanka's ex-army chief begins jail sentence (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:37 AM PDT

Sri Lankan soldiers patrol outside the main prison in Colombo. Sri Lanka's ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, who led troops to victory over Tamil rebels to end a decades-long civil war, on Thursday began 30 months in jail after the president confirmed the sentence.(AFP/Ishara S.Kodikara)AFP - Sri Lanka's ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka, who led troops to victory over Tamil rebels to end a decades-long civil war, on Thursday began 30 months in jail after the president confirmed the sentence.

Pakistan detains 'facilitator' of NY bomb plotter (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:32 AM PDT

This undated booking photo obtained in May 2010 courtesy of the US Department of Justice shows Faisal Shahzad. Pakistani police have arrested an employee of a state Islamic body who allegedly helped New York bomb plot suspect Shahzad visit the nation's tribal belt, security officials said Thursday.(AFP/USDOJ/File)AFP - Pakistani police have arrested an employee of a state Islamic body who allegedly helped New York bomb plot suspect Faisal Shahzad visit the nation's tribal belt, security officials said Thursday.

Hong Kong trio convicted for Tokyo jewellery heist (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:29 AM PDT

A part of Ginza shopping district. A trio of Hong Kong thieves have been convicted for their roles in a 3.5 million US dollar jewellery heist in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district last year, according to a court spokeswoman.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)AFP - A trio of Hong Kong thieves have been convicted for their roles in a 3.5 million US dollar jewellery heist in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district last year, according to a court spokeswoman.

White House urges Chinese currency reforms (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:27 AM PDT

President Barack Obama smiles before a meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in New York on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Pool, Spencer Platt)Reuters - The White House on Thursday reiterated the Obama administration's view that China's yuan is undervalued and that Beijing needs to reform its currency policy.

Car bomber in south Afghanistan kills 3 civilians (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:17 AM PDT

British soldiers with the Royal Gurkha Rifles regiment patrol Helmand Province in June 2010. The commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan has said the Taliban are approaching the Afghan government and foreign forces about laying down arms after almost nine years of insurgency.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AP - A suicide attack on a NATO convoy killed three civilians and wounded nine others Thursday near the airport in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, a local official said.

US says its NKorea policy not 'personality based' (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:14 AM PDT

In this undated photo released on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010, by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, right, poses for a group photo with newly elected members of the central leadership body of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK) and the participants in the WPK Conference in front of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, in Pyongyang, North Korea. A north Korean newspaper which used the photo Thursday identified Kim Jong Un, the third son of Kim Jong Il, as being in the photo, believed to be at left. At center is Vice Marshal Ri Yong Ho. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) JAPAN OUTAP - The United States says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's promotion of his youngest son to a position of power doesn't change Washington's goal of getting the North to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

Philippine leader could be excommunicated over birth control (AFP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 10:12 AM PDT

Philippine President Benigno Aquino, pictured on September 24, on Thursday stood firm on his pledge to provide contraceptives to the poor despite the threat of excommunication by a senior Roman Catholic Church leader.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Thursday stood firm on his pledge to provide contraceptives to the poor despite the threat of excommunication by a senior Roman Catholic Church leader.

Official: Germans, Brits behind Europe terror plot (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:33 AM PDT

AP - Eight Germans and two British brothers are at the heart of an al-Qaida-linked terror plot against European cities, but the plan is still in its early stages, with the suspects calling acquaintances in Europe to plan logistics, a Pakistani intelligence official said Thursday. One of the Britons died in a recent CIA missile strike, he said.

Pakistan cuts NATO supply line after border firing (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:15 AM PDT

A US Army Chinook helicopter with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is seen in 2009 close to the Pakistan border. NATO helicopters Thursday shelled a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint and killed three soldiers in a cross border attack, security officials said.(AFP/File/Romeo Gacad)AP - Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier soldiers.

Inter-Korean military talks end with no progress (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 08:12 AM PDT

Head of North Korean delegate Col. Ri Shin Kwon, front, and others leave after they finished a military meeting at the south side of the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. North and South Korea ended their first working-level military talks in two years Thursday with no progress as the meeting stumbled over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang, Seoul's Defense Ministry said. (AP Photo/ Korea Pool) ** KOREA OUT **AP - North and South Korea ended their first working-level military talks in two years Thursday with no progress as the meeting stumbled over the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang, Seoul's Defense Ministry said.

Indian court: Hindus, Muslims must share holy site (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 07:49 AM PDT

Hindu priests celebrate after hearing the first reports on the court verdict in Ayodhya, India, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. An Indian court ruled Thursday that a disputed holy site that has sparked bloody communal riots across the country in the past should be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities. However, the court gave the Hindu community control over the section where the now demolished Babri Mosque stood and where a small makeshift tent-shrine to the Hindu god Rama rests. While both Muslim and Hindu lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court, the compromise ruling seemed unlikely to set off a new round of violence, as the government had feared. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)AP - An Indian court ruled Thursday that a disputed holy site that sparked bloody riots in the past should now be divided between the Hindu and Muslim communities.

Nepal lawmakers fail to elect PM for the 9th time (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:35 AM PDT

AP - Nepal's parliament failed to elect a new prime minister for the ninth time Thursday, leaving the Himalayan nation in a political limbo that has delayed its annual budget and stalled a peace process with former insurgents.

Myanmar courts sentence activists, monk to jail (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:25 AM PDT

AP - Courts in military-ruled Myanmar have given long prison sentences to 13 people, including a Buddhist monk, who were accused of planning bombings and other activities to disrupt upcoming elections, lawyers said Thursday.

NKorea prints photos of heir apparent Kim Jong Un (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:13 AM PDT

Kim Jong-un (8th L, seated), the youngest son of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il (C), poses with the newly elected members of the central leadership body of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the participants in the WPK Conference, at the plaza of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang in this picture released by the North's KCNA news agency September 30, 2010. North Korean state media released a photograph on Thursday of the reclusive state's leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il anointed his youngest son as successor this week, promoting him to senior political and military positions. REUTERS/KCNA (NORTH KOREA - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORSAP - North Korea introduced its heir apparent to the world Thursday, a chubby-faced young man with a serious expression, combed back hair cut high and tight on the sides and wearing a communist-style black suit.

UN: Afghan opium farming stable despite efforts (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:05 AM PDT

Executive Director from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, Yury Fedotov arrives for a press conference in the UN headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. The UNODC said Afghanistan's opium production in 2010 is estimated at 3,600 metric tons (3968 tons), a 48 percent decrease from 6,900 tons in 2009 and the lowest since 2003. Opium is the main ingredient in heroin.(AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - KABUL, Afghanistan (AP — Opium poppy cultivation remained stable in Afghanistan in 2010 after two years of declines, while rising prices suggested next year may cause a spike in the illicit crop, the U.N. said Thursday.

Sri Lanka president OKs ex-army chief's jail term (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:28 AM PDT

AP - Sri Lanka's president approved a 30-month jail term for his former army chief and political rival Thursday, confirming a military court verdict that he was guilty of fraud. The decision may disqualify the ex-general from continuing as an opposition lawmaker.

Pakistan holds government worker in NYC plot (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:15 AM PDT

Suspected Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad makes his first court appearance since his arrest two weeks ago, as seen in this courtroom sketch in New York, May 18, 2010. REUTERS/Christine CornellAP - An employee at Pakistan's state-run Islamic advisory body has been detained for allegedly playing an important role in assisting the failed New York Times Square car bomber, an intelligence officer said Thursday.
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