Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Former US envoy warns of failure in Pakistan (AP)

Former US envoy warns of failure in Pakistan (AP)

Former US envoy warns of failure in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 10:33 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2010 file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a news conference in London. Interpol on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 placed Assange on its most-wanted list after Sweden issued an arrest warrant against him as part of a drawn-out rape probe รข€AP - The U.S. stands little chance of convincing Pakistan to sever links with militants fighting in Afghanistan using its current strategy, Washington's envoy in Islamabad warned last fall in one of dozens of memos leaked Wednesday that expose America's troubled alliance with the nuclear-armed state.

US announces talks with Japan, SKorea on NKorea (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 10:27 AM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan in Vietnam in October 2010. Clinton will meet on Monday in Washington with her counterparts from South Korea and Japan to discuss tension with North Korea, the State Department said Wednesday.(AFP/POOL/File/Evan Vucci)AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet on Monday in Washington with her counterparts from South Korea and Japan to discuss tension with North Korea, the State Department said Wednesday.

Gambhir leads India to easy win over New Zealand (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 09:56 AM PST

Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir hits a ball during the second one-day international cricket match between India and New Zealand in Jaipu. Gambhir cracked an unbeaten 138 off 116 balls to lift the hosts to an eight-wicket win over New Zealand in the second one-day international.(AFP/Raveendran)AFP - India's stand-in captain Gautam Gambhir cracked an unbeaten 138 off 116 balls to lift the hosts to an eight-wicket win over New Zealand in the second one-day international on Wednesday.

Russian fury on eve of World Cup vote (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 09:55 AM PST

Last-ditch lobbying for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups cranked into overdrive Wednesday as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, pictured in November 2010, launched a scathing attack on England's bid on the eve of the vote.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - Last-ditch lobbying for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups cranked into overdrive Wednesday as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched a scathing attack on England's bid on the eve of the vote.

In boost for Obama, Belarus gives up nuke material (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 09:54 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a statement about WikiLeaks lead at the State Department in Washington November 29, 2010.REUTERS/Yuri GripasAP - In a sudden turnaround, the former Soviet republic of Belarus announced Wednesday that it will give up all its weapons-grade uranium — fresh momentum for anti-proliferation efforts even as the U.S. welcomed Iran's decision to resume talks on its controversial nuclear program.

U.S., Japan, South Korea seen meeting Monday on North Korea (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 09:53 AM PST

North Korean soldiers patrol on a pathway along the bank of the Yalu River, the China-North Korea border river, near North Korea's town of Sinuiju, opposite side of the Chinese border city of Dandong, Sunday Nov. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)Reuters - The foreign ministers of the United States, Japan and South Korea are expected to meet in Washington on Monday to discuss North Korea and other issues, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

Afghan election body declares parliamentary results final (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 09:47 AM PST

Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) President Fazil Ahmad Manawi speaks during a press conference in Kabul. Afghanistan's election body on Wednesday declared that disputed parliamentary poll results were final, throwing a criminal probe into confusion with President Hamid Karzai yet to endorse the outcome.(AFP/Shah Marai)AFP - Afghanistan's election body on Wednesday declared that disputed parliamentary poll results were final, throwing a criminal probe into confusion with President Hamid Karzai yet to endorse the outcome.

China must 'step up' on NKorea: US military chief (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 09:46 AM PST

US Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael G. Mullen, seen in June 2010. Mullen on Wednesday urged China to AFP - US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen on Wednesday urged China to "step up" on North Korea, saying that Beijing's proposed dialogue was not enough to ease soaring tensions.

Clinton smoothes ruffled feathers over Wikileaks revelations (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 09:32 AM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) reaches out to shake hands with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana on Wednesday. Clinton used a global summit to smooth ruffled feathers after embarrassing revelations about world leaders contained in leaked diplomatic cables.(AFP/Alexander Nemenov)AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a global summit here Wednesday to smooth ruffled feathers after embarrassing revelations about world leaders contained in leaked diplomatic cables.

WikiLeaks website blocked behind Chinese firewall (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 09:25 AM PST

FILE - In this March 25, 2010 file photo, a Chinese flag blows in the air below the Google logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing. The classified diplomatic cables released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks and reported on by The New York Times cited a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing that included allegations from a Chinese contact that China's Politburo directed a cyber intrusion into Google's computer systems as part of a 'coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws.' (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)AP - China, one of the biggest Internet policers, took no chances with the latest online sensation and blocked the WikiLeaks website Wednesday amid potentially embarrassing claims made in leaked U.S. diplomatic memos posted there.

NKorean soldier at border wishes for peace (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 07:53 AM PST

North Korean army Lt. Choe Song Il answers questions during an interview at Panmunjom, inside the Demilitarized Zone that separates two Koreas, Wednesday, Dec 1, 2010. The soldier told the television news agency APTN that he hoped tensions between the sides would be eased 'as soon as possible, in a peaceful way.' The artillery barrage killed four South Koreans marine and two civilians on Nov. 23. (AP Photos/APTN)AP - As the U.S. and South Korea ended war maneuvers following North Korea's deadly bombardment of a front-line island, a North Korean soldier at the heavily armed border said Wednesday he hoped for peace.

Former Soviet republic giving up nuclear materials (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:58 AM PST

AP - The former Soviet republic of Belarus announced Wednesday that it will give up its stockpile of material used to make nuclear weapons by 2012.

Taliban kidnap demining team in east Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:38 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2001 file photo, defecting Taliban fighters sit in the back of a truck in the village of Amirabad in northern Afghanistan. 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/Dusan Vranic, File)AP - Taliban militants seized 16 Afghan demining experts in an ambush near the Pakistan border Wednesday and released all but seven of them hours after the attack, officials said.

Myanmar junta chief praises 'successful' elections (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:27 AM PST

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves to supporters as she leaves National League for Democracy party headquarters following the party's celebration of the 90th National Day in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. National Day, a public holiday, commemorates the boycott by Rangoon University students against the British education system 90 years ago. The university strike spread to schools all over the country and the rebellion inspired Myanmar's independence movement. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - Myanmar's ruling strongman said Wednesday that the country's recent elections — condemned by the international community as rigged — were free and fair and a step toward handing power to the people.

4 die in shootout as rebels seize Philippine bus (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 03:52 AM PST

AP - Suspected communist guerrillas seized a passenger bus Wednesday then opened fire on pursuing government forces in a running gunbattle that killed at least four people in a province east of Manila.

Clinton calls new Iran nuclear talks encouraging (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 03:44 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, reads a document as she sits next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the start of the OSCE Summit at the Palace of Independence in Astana, Kazakhstan, Wednesday Dec. 1, 2010. The OSCE Summit, the first ever to be held in Central Asia, offers an opportunity to address urgent security challenges including transnational threats such as terrorism and trafficking, and the recent unrest in Kyrgyzstan and the situation in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - The Obama administration is encouraged that Iran has agreed to return to Geneva for a new round of international talks on its disputed nuclear program, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.

China says avoid acts inflaming Korea tensions (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:27 AM PST

A South Korean islander is checked by a South Korean police officer as a marine looks on before leaving from a port of Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. The United States and South Korea were finishing up war maneuvers Wednesday aimed at North Korea after a deadly attack on the island and discussing whether to hold more, as China tried to restart the aid-for-nuclear-disarmament talks coveted by the North. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - China's foreign minister called Wednesday on all parties to avoid acts that risk further inflaming heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula.

China school stampede triggered by lost shoe (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:19 AM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010, an AIDS patient rests in bed at the infectious diseases hospital in Kunming in southwestern China's Yunnan province. In his dying days, a retired Chinese health official is calling on the government to come clean about a 1990s blood-selling scandal that infected tens of thousands of people with the virus that causes AIDS. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - A young girl's lost shoe triggered a stampede that injured dozens of students at an elementary school in western China, state media reported Wednesday.

Sri Lankan war zone to become wildlife sanctuary (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST

AP - Sri Lanka's wildlife department is to declare the former Tamil Tigers' jungle stronghold a wildlife sanctuary, the government said Wednesday, a year and a half after the country's civil war ended.

Diplomatic memo leaks complicate picture in NKorea (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 09:02 PM PST

** CORRECTS DATE ** South Korean marines patrol on the Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - A top South Korean official dismisses China's nuclear negotiator as "incompetent." A Chinese envoy mocks North Korea as a "spoiled child."
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