Thursday, November 25, 2010

Pakistan minister seeks pardon for blasphemy death Christian (AFP)

Pakistan minister seeks pardon for blasphemy death Christian (AFP)

Pakistan minister seeks pardon for blasphemy death Christian (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:55 AM PST

Ashiq Maseeh, husband of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother sentenced to death, along with his daughters Sidra (2R) and Esham submit their application to Pakistani Minister of Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti (R) at his office in Islamabad on November 24.(AFP/Farooq Naeem)AFP - A Pakistani cabinet minister Thursday presented a report to President Asif Ali Zardari recommending a pardon for a Christian mother of five sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam.

After 50 days adrift, 3 teens rescued in S Pacific (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:42 AM PST

AP - Three teens who have been missing in the South Pacific for 50 days — and were already eulogized in a memorial service — have been found alive by a New Zealand fishing boat.

Fans mark 40 years since far-right Japanese author's suicide (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:41 AM PST

Fans attend a ceremony for Japanese far-right author Yukio Mishima (portraits), during the 40th anniversary of his suicide, in Tokyo. Mishima, who was 45 and an international celebrity when he committed a ritual AFP - Hundreds of fans of far-right Japanese author Yukio Mishima gathered in Tokyo on Thursday to mark the anniversary of his shocking samurai-style suicide after a failed coup attempt 40 years ago.

Election flap heats up in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:37 AM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, during a speech about women's rights, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010. President Hamid Karzai said he was happy the results from the Sept. 18 elections were being announced, and called on losing candidates not to take their complaints to the streets but instead to those empowered to deal with them. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - The Afghan attorney general's office on Thursday announced four arrests in its investigation of fraud during the controversial September parliamentary election — a move some Western officials fear is part of efforts by the political elite to overturn the results of certain races.

S.Korea boosts defences as North warns of more strikes (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:16 AM PST

Interactive graphic on relations between North and South Korea as the death toll from the North's shelling of a border island, one of its worst attacks in decades, rises to four.(AFP iactiv)AFP - South Korea said Thursday it would send more troops and guns to frontline islands, as North Korea warned it could follow up this week's deadly shelling with more attacks.

SKorea's defense chief resigns after NKorea attack (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:06 AM PST

A South Korean man walks under a street lamp near the ruins of a neighborhood on Yeonpyeong Island, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. South Korea's president vowed Thursday to boost troops on the island targeted by a North Korean artillery barrage, while the North stridently warned of additional attacks if the South carries out any 'reckless military provocations.' (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - South Korea's president ordered more troops to a front-line island and dumped his defense minister Thursday as the country grappled with lapses in its response to a deadly North Korean artillery strike.

Cambodia holds day of mourning for stampede dead (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 10:05 AM PST

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (2ndR) and his wife Bun Rany (R) attend a mourning ceremony with government officials in front of the bridge in Phnom Penh where a stampede claimed the lives of hundreds of people on Monday.(AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy)AFP - Crowds of mourners offered flowers and incense Thursday at the site of a stampede that killed almost 350 people after panic spread over rumours an overcrowded bridge was about to collapse.

India's finance ministry seeks checks over loan scandal (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 09:45 AM PST

Indian construction workers are seen at a building site close to Kolkata on November 24. India told financial firms Thursday to look into their exposure to a string of public sector and other companies whose executives were arrested on suspicion of taking millions of dollars in bribes.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)AFP - India told financial firms Thursday to look into their exposure to a string of public sector and other companies whose executives were arrested on suspicion of taking millions of dollars in bribes.

In gaffe, Palin supports 'our North Korean allies' (AFP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 09:42 AM PST

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin signs her new book AFP - US conservative favorite Sarah Palin is choosing sides in the latest conflict pitting the two Koreas against one another, but a verbal slip-up saw her make an unexpected pick.

Beauty queen stumbles over Korea crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 09:36 AM PST

Reuters - Venezuela's former Miss Universe Alicia Machado closed her Twitter account after being mocked for confusing the Koreas with China.

US presence in Afghanistan as long as Soviet slog (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 09:04 AM PST

FILE - In this 1987 file photo, mujahedeen guerrillas sit atop a captured Russian T-55 tank. The US military presence in Afghanistan has surpassed the Soviet occupation of the country. The Soviet Union couldn't win in Afghanistan, and now the United States is about to have something in common with that futile campaign: nine years, 50 days. The U.S.-led coalition has now been fighting for as long as the Soviets did, and while two invasions had different goals — and dramatically different body counts — whether they have significantly different outcomes remains to be seen. (AP Photo/File)AP - The Soviet Union couldn't win in Afghanistan, and now the United States is about to have something in common with that futile campaign: nine years, 50 days.

Myanmar allows HIV shelter to continue operating (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 08:32 AM PST

AP - Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar gave a last-minute reprieve Thursday night to HIV patients living in a shelter run by supporters of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, after earlier saying it had to be shut down.

No quick pardon for condemned Pakistani Christian (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 06:37 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2010, file photo, Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi listens to Governor of Pakistani Punjab Province Salman Taseer at a prison in Sheikhupura near Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan's president will not immediately pardon the Christian woman sentenced to die for insulting Islam but may do so later if an appeals court delays her case too long, an official said Thursday Nov. 25, 2010. (AP Photo)AP - Pakistan's president will not immediately pardon a Christian woman sentenced to die for insulting Islam but may do so later if an appeals court delays her case too long, an official said Thursday.

India wants action from Pakistan on Mumbai attacks (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 06:10 AM PST

Women and children light candles in front of a portrait of Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg and his wife, both killed during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, during special prayers at the Jewish Center Nariman House in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. India rebuked Pakistan again Thursday for not punishing the masterminds of the 2008 assault on the Indian financial capital that killed 166 people. Six people were killed at Chabad House, a Jewish center run by the Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - India rebuked Pakistan on Thursday for not punishing the alleged masterminds of the 2008 terror attack on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai that killed 166 people.

Cambodia holds day of mourning for stampede dead (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 04:26 AM PST

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife Bun Rany pray with incenses sticks during a Buddhist ceremony for the victims near the site where people stampeded during Monday's water festival in Phnom Penh, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - Cambodia's prime minister cried as he lit candles and incense to mourn the hundreds of festival-goers who were trampled to death this week in a riverside stampede

Aust. deports US man convicted in wife's death (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 04:15 AM PST

FILE - In this undated file photo released by Townsville Coroners Court on June 20, 2008, Gabe Watson, left, and his wife, Tina, pose on their engagement. Watson, convicted of manslaughter in his wife's honeymoon death, was deported Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010, from Australia to the United States, where he is likely to face murder charges for the 2003 drowning. (AP Photo/Townsville Coroners Court, File) NO SALES; EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - An American man returns on Thursday to the United States where he could face prosecution for drowning his wife during their 2003 honeymoon on the Great Barrier Reef, a crime for which he has served 18 months in an Australian prison.

Mumbai Jewish center caught in court battle (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 02:19 AM PST

Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg, right, along with his wife lights a candle before a portrait of his son Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and daughter in law, Rivkah Holtzberg during special prayers at the Chabad House, a Jewish community center in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. Gavriel and Rivkah, were among the six murdered during a spasm of violence that left the center scarred with bullet holes and grenade blasts in the Nov. 26, 2008 terror attacks. In all, 166 people across the city were killed in the rampage. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - The lights and water have been turned off at the Jewish center stormed by Pakistani gunmen during their 2008 rampage through the Indian financial capital, and the windows remain gaping holes that let in the wind.

Roadside bomb in NW Pakistan kills 1 soldier (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 02:13 AM PST

Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin speaks outside the financial investigation unit in Paris November 25, 2010 after he was questioned by judges in the investigation on a 2002 bomb attack in Karachi in Pakistan that killed 11 French people. Villepin said last week that he had AP - A roadside bomb hit a security convoy in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least one soldier Thursday and wounding six others, police said.

India test-fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 01:20 AM PST

AP - India successfully tested a short-range version of its most powerful nuclear-capable missile on Thursday during an army training exercise, the Defense Ministry said.

Pakistan, Afghanistan to begin joint drug ops (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:03 AM PST

AP - Pakistan and Afghanistan say they plan to begin joint operations to fight drug trafficking.
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