Sunday, October 3, 2010

Pakistan: Key NATO supply route to reopen soon (AP)

Pakistan: Key NATO supply route to reopen soon (AP)

Pakistan: Key NATO supply route to reopen soon (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 11:03 AM PDT

A Pakistan child pedals past a truck, carrying supplies for NATO forces, parked on the roadside in Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. Some 150 trucks were still waiting for Pakistan to reopen the border crossing at Torkham so they could deliver their supplies to Western troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Pakistan will soon reopen a key NATO supply route into Afghanistan that it shut last week after three Pakistani troops were killed in a helicopter strike by the military alliance in a border area, officials said Sunday.

Afghan poll body declares thousands more votes invalid (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:50 AM PDT

Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) President Fazil Ahmad Manawi speaks during a press conference in Kabul in September 2010. Afghanistan's electoral body Sunday cancelled thousands more votes cast in last month's parliamentary poll due to evidence of fraud.(AFP/File/Daud Yardost)AFP - Afghanistan's electoral body Sunday cancelled thousands more votes cast in last month's parliamentary poll due to evidence of fraud.

Pakistan: Dozens of Europeans in terror training (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:48 AM PDT

AP - Dozens of Muslim militants with European citizenship are believed to be hiding out in the lawless tribal area of northwestern Pakistan, Pakistani and Western intelligence officials say, training for missions that could include terror attacks in European capitals.

Afghan violence kills 13 civilians (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:48 AM PDT

Afghan women leave after they received food donations from Turkish soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul. Thirteen Afghan civilians were killed in separate incidents across Afghanistan over the weekend as a result of Taliban insurgent attacks and NATO action, officials said Sunday.(AFP/Shah Marai)AFP - Thirteen Afghan civilians were killed in separate incidents across Afghanistan over the weekend as a result of Taliban insurgent attacks and NATO action, officials said Sunday.

British soldier dies in Afghanistan blast: ministry (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:45 AM PDT

British soldiers and soldiers from the Afghan National Army patrol near Nahr e Saraj village, in Afghanistan's Helmand province in June 2010. A British soldier was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the defence ministry said Sunday, taking the country's military death toll there since the 2001 invasion to 339.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AFP - A British soldier was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the defence ministry said Sunday, taking the country's military death toll there since the 2001 invasion to 339.

Pakistan to reopen NATO supply line 'relatively quickly' (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:39 AM PDT

Pakistani security personnel stand beside trucks carrying NATO supplies at Torkham, the main border crossing in Pakistan's Khyber district, on October 1. A main land route used by NATO to deliver supplies to troops in Afghanistan will reopen AFP - A main land route used by NATO to deliver supplies to troops in Afghanistan will reopen "relatively quickly", Pakistan said Sunday, as Islamabad sent a team to probe a cross-border attack.

Afghanistan denies asking UN not to publish rights report (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:36 AM PDT

A Turkish soldier with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) distributes food to an Afghan woman in Kabul. Afghanistan denied Sunday that it asked the United Nations not to publish a report into rights violations in the country between 1978 and 2001.(AFP/Shah Marai)AFP - Afghanistan denied Sunday that it asked the United Nations not to publish a report into rights violations in the country between 1978 and 2001.

Troubled Games come alive in fortress Delhi (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 09:50 AM PDT

Britain's Prince Charles addresses the XIX Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi.(AFP/Prakash Singh)AFP - The troubled Commonwealth Games sparked into life with a pulsating opening ceremony on Sunday in a fortress-like New Delhi after a shambolic run-up that threatened to derail the event.

Indian wunderkind steals hearts at Games' show (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 09:41 AM PDT

Fireworks light up the sky as performers dance underneath the aerostat during the XIX Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. Keshava, all of seven, enthralled spectators Sunday at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games with his breathtaking display on the 'tabla'.(AFP/Francois Xavier Marit)AFP - Keshava, all of seven, enthralled spectators Sunday at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games with his breathtaking display on the 'tabla'.

Johnson strikes after Tendulkar misses ton (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 09:14 AM PDT

Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson celebrates after taking the wicket of Indian batsman Zaheer Khan during the third day of the first Test between India and Australia in Mohali. Johnson grabbed three quick wickets to help Australia gain a slender advantage in the opening Test after India's Sachin Tendulkar missed out on his 49th century on Sunday.(AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)AFP - Mitchell Johnson grabbed three quick wickets to help Australia gain a slender advantage in the opening Test after India's Sachin Tendulkar missed out on his 49th century on Sunday.

Crisis-plagued Commonwealth Games get hit again (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 09:01 AM PDT

The opening ceremony for the 19th Commonwealth Games are performed at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - The crisis-plagued Commonwealth Games took another hit Sunday only hours before they were declared open when an Indian team official who had been living at the athletes' village was diagnosed with dengue fever.

Afghan starts to close private security firms (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 08:05 AM PDT

In this Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 photo, An Afghan policeman sorts out weapons confiscated from a disbanded private security company in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan government said it has started the process of dissolving private security firms in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - The Afghan government said Sunday it has started dissolving private security firms in the country by taking steps to end the operations of eight companies, including the firm formerly known as Blackwater and three other international contractors.

Police arrest engineer in Indonesia train crash (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 07:49 AM PDT

Rescuers search for victims of a train crash near a station in Petarukan in Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The early morning train crash killed dozens of people and injured another dozens, many of them critically, officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo)AP - Police on Sunday arrested the engineer of a train that plowed into another at a station in central Indonesia, killing 36 people, and accused him of negligence, an official said.

Thailand's queen discharged from hospital (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 05:15 AM PDT

In this July 8, 2007 file photo,Thailand's Queen Sirikit tours a museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Sirikit ended a four-day hospital stay in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 after receiving treatment for what the palace described as a rapid heartbeat. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)AP - Thailand's Queen Sirikit ended a four-day hospital stay Sunday after receiving treatment for what the palace said was a rapid heartbeat.

SKorea: Libya releases South Korean pastor (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 03:13 AM PDT

AP - Libya released a South Korean Christian pastor and a businessman on Sunday who had been detained on accusations of proselytizing in the predominantly Muslim country, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said.

Building, factory wall in China topple, killing 14 (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 02:24 AM PDT

AP - A four-story building under construction in China's northwest and a factory wall in an eastern city collapsed in separate accidents, killing at least 14 people and injuring eight others, state media said Sunday.

Pakistanis push trade, not just aid, after floods (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 12:47 AM PDT

In this picture taken on Sept. 28, 2010, Pakistanis work at a textile factory in Faisalabad, Pakistan. This eastern Pakistani city is known for the roar of its power looms and the buzz of its sewing machines. Now, following massive floods that devastated the cotton crop, another noise is threatening to drown those out: the pleas of a struggling textile industry begging the U.S. and Europe to open their markets further. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - This eastern Pakistani city is known for the roar of its power looms and the buzz of its sewing machines. Now, following massive floods that devastated the cotton crop, another noise is threatening to drown those out: the pleas of a struggling textile industry begging the U.S. and Europe to open their markets further.

Contender for Nobel prize is in Chinese prison (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2010 05:12 PM PDT

This Oct. 28, 2008 photo shows Liu Xiaobo, right, reading a letter beside the grave of Bao Zunxin, a Chinese historian and political dissident who was arrested and jailed for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy protests in Beijing, China. When the police came for Liu Xiaobo, China's best chance in decades to win the Nobel Peace Prize, they couldn't tell him why they were taking him away this time. The line in the detention order for 'motive' was blank. (AP Photo) NO SALES, CHINA OUTAP - When the police came for Liu Xiaobo on a December night nearly two years ago, they didn't tell the dissident author why he was being taken away again. The line in the detention order for his "suspected crime" was left blank.
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