Monday, November 1, 2010

Medvedev stokes Japan ire with visit to disputed isles (AFP)

Medvedev stokes Japan ire with visit to disputed isles (AFP)

Medvedev stokes Japan ire with visit to disputed isles (AFP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 12:34 PM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) visits a family in Yuzhno-Kurilsk during a visit to the Kuril Islands. Medvedev has stoked Japan's ire with a visit to the Kuril islands, a remote territory at the heart of a decades-long dispute with Tokyo.(AFP/Pool/Mikhail Klimentyev)AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev infuriated Japan on Monday with a visit to the Kuril Islands, a remote territory at the heart of a decades-long dispute with Tokyo.

Summary Box: Chinese manufacturing gains speed (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 12:13 PM PDT

AP - CHINA GEARS UP: Chinese manufacturing accelerated in October with spending on infrastructure projects spurring a jump in new equipment orders. Export demand remained subdued.

Summary Box: China starts world's biggest census (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 12:01 PM PDT

AP - CENSUS: China has kicked off a once-a-decade census, a whirlwind 10-day head count that sees 6 million census takers scrutinize apartment blocks, scour migrant areas and scan rural villages to document massive demographic changes in the world's most populous country.

U.S. says won't solve China currency issue at Seoul G20 (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 11:28 AM PDT

Reuters - The United States said on Monday it does not foresee China bowing to pressure over its yuan currency during a Group of 20 summit in Seoul, playing down expectations for major progress on global economic imbalances.

White House seeks South Korea trade deal before Seoul meet (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 10:57 AM PDT

Reuters - Negotiators will put "maximum effort" toward resolving objections in the Congress to a U.S.-South Korean free-trade agreement by the time President Barack Obama goes to Seoul on November 10, an administration official said on Monday.

UN leader Ban meets with Chinese President Hu (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 10:21 AM PDT

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, meets with China's President Hu Jintao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/David Gray, Pool)AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked China to play a greater role in solving African crises during a meeting Monday with the president, but did not discuss the country's human rights record or the imprisonment of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.

OSCE welcomes end of Turkey YouTube ban (AFP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 10:03 AM PDT

Logo of the popular video-sharing website YouTube. The OSCE on Monday welcomed a Turkish court's decision to end a three-year ban on video-sharing site YouTube, and urged the country to allow access to thousands of other blocked websites.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - The OSCE on Monday welcomed a Turkish court's decision to end a three-year ban on video-sharing site YouTube, and urged the country to allow access to thousands of other blocked websites.

Japan in diplomatic row after Russian isle visit (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 09:37 AM PDT

An aerial view shows Kunashiri Island, one of four islands known as the Southern Kuriles in Russia and Northern Territories in Japan, is seen in this photo taken 2005. REUTERS/KyodoReuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited an island outpost seized by Russia from Japan at the end of World War Two stirring a diplomatic row with Tokyo, which demands their return.

Clinton cultivates ties with moderate Muslim Malaysia (AFP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 09:29 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exits her aircraft following her arrival in Malaysia. Clinton was set Tuesday to meet top officials in Malaysia as the Obama administration cultivates ties with the moderate Muslim-majority country.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set Tuesday to meet top officials in Malaysia as the Obama administration cultivates ties with the moderate Muslim-majority country.

Robots are lords of the dance at South Korean festival (AFP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 09:13 AM PDT

This picture taken on October 2010, shows a South Korean guide robot making a facial expression at an exhibition centre in Goyang, a satellite city northwest of Seoul. AFP - "That's cool!" shouted a packed crowd as five dancing robots flashing red and blue lights started rocking and grooving to popular Korean songs.

Indian politicians get homes meant for war widows (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 07:55 AM PDT

Indian boys chat in the backdrop of the Adarsh Housing Society apartments, center, in Mumbai, India, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. The apartments in the upscale Colaba neighborhood of Mumbai appears to have been a huge scam, with nearly every one of the valuable units being sold for a song to a clutch of top politicians, their kin and retired generals in a scandal that has rocked India's ruling Congress Party. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)AP - The apartments in the upscale Colaba neighborhood of Mumbai were for the noblest of causes: giving shelter to wounded Indian war veterans and the widows of those slain in battle.

Taliban briefly overrun east Afghanistan district (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 07:23 AM PDT

Local residents look at a burnt-out NATO supply truck after a militant attack in Shah Kas village in Khyber district of Pakistan in October, 2010. Taliban fighters armed with assault rifles fired at two NATO tankers in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, wounding three people, police said.(AFP/File)AP - The Taliban briefly overran a district seat in eastern Afghanistan and torched government buildings there, officials said Monday.

Indonesia to try Papua torture video accused (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 06:02 AM PDT

AP - Indonesia's president pledged Monday that the soldiers accused of torturing suspected separatists in footage posted online would go on trial before a military tribunal.

US missile attack kills 5 in NW Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 05:36 AM PDT

A Pakistani farmer sorts the wheat during the harvest in Muzaffargarh in Punjab province, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - A U.S. drone attack killed five people in northwest Pakistan on Monday, local intelligence officials said, the latest in a barrage of such strikes against al-Qaida and Taliban militants seeking sanctuary in the region.

China goes door-to-door for world's biggest census (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 05:08 AM PDT

A man and woman ride an electric bicycle past a publicity board for the 6th China Census in Beijing Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. China kicked off its once-a-decade census Monday, a whirlwind 10-day head count that will see 6 million census takers go door-to-door to document the massive demographic changes taking place in the world's most populous country. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - China kicked off a once-a-decade census Monday, a whirlwind 10-day head count that sees 6 million census takers scrutinize apartment blocks, scour migrant areas and scan rural villages to document massive demographic changes in the world's most populous country.

American seeks to stop 'milkshake murder' retrial (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 04:49 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2010 file, American expatriate Nancy Kissel is escorted in a van from Hong Kong Correctional Services at the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. Lawyers for Kissel convicted of drugging then bashing her banker husband to death in a luxury Hong Kong apartment seven years ago on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010, urged a judge to stop her retrial. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, FILE)AP - Lawyers for an American housewife accused of drugging then bashing her banker husband to death in a luxury Hong Kong apartment seven years ago urged a judge Monday to stop her retrial.

Russia leader visits disputed isle; Tokyo protests (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 04:43 AM PDT

AP - Russia's president visited an island in the Pacific Ocean claimed by both Russia and Japan on Monday, triggering immediate protests from Tokyo, which is already involved in a heated dispute with China over islands to the south.

Indonesian volcano unleashes new powerful eruption (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 04:13 AM PDT

Mount Merapi volcano spews smoke as seen from Deles village in Klaten, near the ancient city of Yogyakarta, November 1, 2010. Indonesia's Mount Merapi erupted again on Saturday morning, spewing ash into the sky, and prompting authorities to extend the danger radius by two kilometres (1.24 miles). REUTERS/Dwi Oblo (INDONESIA - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)AP - Indonesia's most volatile volcano — one of 22 that have been increasingly active — spewed searing clouds of gas and debris for hours Monday in its most powerful eruption in a deadly week. No new casualties were immediately reported.

Clinton urges rights progress in Cambodia (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 03:55 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton looks at a wall of faces of those killed by the Khmer Rouge regime, during a tour of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, formerly the regime's notorious S-21 prison, on Monday, Nov. 1, 2010, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Clinton urged Cambodia to improve its human rights record and ensure the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its troubled past by ensuring Khmer Rouge leaders are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.

In China, hit-and-run death exposes class anger (AP)

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 03:13 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Oct. 29, 2010, Chen Guangqian holds portraits of his daughter Chen Xiaofeng at a hotel room in Baoding in northern China's Hebei province. Chen's daughter was killed in a hit-and-run that has become the country's hottest crime in months because of what the driver reportedly shouted when a crowd stopped his car. 'My father is Li Gang!', the deputy chief of the district police. (AP Photo/Cara Anna)AP - The more he heard about the person accused of killing his 20-year-old daughter in a drunken hit-and-run, the more terrified Chen Guangqian became.
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