Saturday, October 2, 2010

Indonesian train crash kills at least 36 (AP)

Indonesian train crash kills at least 36 (AP)

Indonesian train crash kills at least 36 (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 11:36 PM PDT

Rescuers carry the body of a victim of a train crash near a station in Petarukan, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The early morning train crash in central Indonesia killed dozens of people and injured another dozens, many of them critically, officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo)AP - A train crash in central Indonesia on Saturday killed at least 36 people and injured dozens, several with severe burns and broken bones, officials and witnesses said.

9/11 conspiracy theories rife in Muslim world (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2010 12:21 AM PDT

AP - About a week ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared to the United Nations that most people in the world believe the United States was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Nobel experts predict low-key prize after Obama (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2010 12:12 AM PDT

Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, speaks to The Associated Press at the academy's headquarters in Stockholm, Monday Oct. 1, 2010. Englund said the academy has chosen this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, and will announce it on Oct. 7 after a formal vote.(AP Photo/Scott Lakey)AP - As the secretive Nobel Prize committees huddle for their final deliberations to select the 2010 winners, the question looms large: Are the jurors preparing another Obama-style shocker?

Intel: US missiles kill 8 militants in NW Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 11:57 PM PDT

Pakistani flood affected residents pass by the still smoldering oil trucks in Shikarpur, southern Pakistan on Friday Oct. 1, 2010. Suspected militants set ablaze at least 27 tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday, police said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - A suspected American missile strike killed eight alleged militants in a northwest Pakistani tribal region Saturday, two intelligence officials said, a sign the U.S. is unwilling to stop using the unpopular tactic despite heightened tensions between the two countries over recent border incursions by NATO.

NATO claims insurgent captures; 2 Romanians killed (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 09:14 PM PDT

A NATO soldier is pictured looking out from a Blackhawk helicopter, during a flight in eastern Afghanistan. Two soldiers from NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in a bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan, according to the alliance.(AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)AP - NATO said Friday it captured several insurgent leaders in recent days and detained at least 438 suspected militants over the last month, as three coalition soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan.

New Iraq Government Set, as al-Sadr Okays al-Maliki as PM (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Time.com - After the longest postelection hiatus in world parliamentary history, Iraq looks set to finally have a new government. And it won't look much different from the current one

Armed forces stuck in Cold War era, says chancellor (AFP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 10:32 PM PDT

Members of the Royal Artillery fire towards insurgents from their base in Helmand, Afghanistan. The country's armed forces are stuck in the Cold War era and ill-equipped for 21st-century warfare, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said in an interview published Saturday(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AFP - The country's armed forces are stuck in the Cold War era and ill-equipped for 21st-century warfare, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said in an interview published Saturday.

Anti-American cleric vies for more power in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 11:22 PM PDT

Supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold a demonstration following Friday prayers in Kufa, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has agreed to support the bid by Iraq's prime minister to retain power, aides said Friday, in a move that could speed an end to the seven-month political impasse and bring dealmaking that may give key concessions to al-Sadr's anti-American bloc. The decision by al-Sadr would mark a significant boost for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite-led coalition to secure enough parliament seats to form a new government.(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - A Muslim cleric who once used a militia to resist the American invasion positioned himself as a big winner in Iraq's monthslong political deadlock Friday when his party threw its support behind the beleaguered prime minister.

Ecuador revolt: Attempted coup or uprising? (AP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 05:14 PM PDT

People demonstrate in front of soldiers at the surroundings of the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Ecuador is under a state of siege, with the military in charge of public order, after soldiers rescued Ecuador's President Rafael Correa from a hospital where he'd been surrounded by police who roughed him up and tear-gassed him earlier. (AP Photo/Patricio Realpe)AP - It was the biggest test of Rafael Correa's nearly 4-year-old presidency, a bloody trial by fire for a tenacious politician whose popular government had brought relative calm to a chronically unstable country.

S.Korea, S.Africa to sign nuclear power deal: report (AFP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 11:48 PM PDT

South Korea will sign an agreement with South Africa in the coming week to design and build nuclear power plants in the African country, it was reported Saturday. The agreement will be signed when South African Deputy President Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe (pictured) comes to Seoul on Friday for a two-day trip, Yonhap news agency said, quoting an unidentified South Korean foreign ministry official.(AFP/File/Fethi Belaid)AFP - South Korea will sign an agreement with South Africa in the coming week to design and build nuclear power plants in the African country, it was reported Saturday.

33 killed in Indonesia train crash: official (AFP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2010 12:58 AM PDT

Indonesian policemen evacuate a dead body after a train crash in Pemalang, on October 2. At least 33 people were killed when a passenger train slammed into the back of another train, leaving dozens trapped in the mangled wreckage, according to an official.(AFP/Agus Wijanarko)AFP - At least 33 people were killed Saturday when a passenger train slammed into the back of another train in Indonesia, with rescuers freeing dozens more from the mangled wreckage, an official said.

Congo opposition figure allegedly escapes kidnapping attempt (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 02:24 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A top member of the Congo's main opposition party says he has narrowly escaped a kidnapping attempt in Johannesburg, South Africa. The incident comes three months after an attempt on the life of a Rwandan opposition figure also living in South Africa.

E.U. Threats to Sue Won't Stop France from Deporting Roma (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Time.com - The European Commission is challenging France's forceful expulsion of Gypsies. But with that action falling short of discrimination charges, Paris is likely to ignore the warnings and keep on deporting

State of siege in Ecuador as Rafeal Correa takes on rebel police (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 02:02 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The streets of Ecuador remained quiet today, a day after a dramatic standoff left President Rafael Correa holed up in a hospital for 12 hours and claiming that a coup attempt was underway.
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