Friday, February 25, 2011

Sarkozy tells Turkey it is not fit for EU membership (AFP)

Sarkozy tells Turkey it is not fit for EU membership (AFP)

Sarkozy tells Turkey it is not fit for EU membership (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 11:03 AM PST

Turkish President Abdullah Gul (R) and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy (L) give a press conference at the presidential palace in Ankara. Sarkozy told Turkey on Friday it is unfit for EU membership, urging an alternative partnership for the mainly Muslim nation before its struggling accession talks hit a AFP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy told Turkey on Friday it is unfit for EU membership, urging an alternative partnership for the mainly Muslim nation before its struggling accession talks hit a "deadlock."

Mongolian spy chief appeals British extradition ruling (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 11:02 AM PST

A statue of legendary Mongol leader Genghis Khan in Ulan Bator, pictured in 2008. A top Mongolian security official has lodged an appeal against a ruling by a British judge last week that he can be extradited to Germany on an arrest warrant for kidnapping, his lawyer said Friday.(AFP/File)AFP - A top Mongolian security official has lodged an appeal against a ruling by a British judge last week that he can be extradited to Germany on an arrest warrant for kidnapping, his lawyer said Friday.

US national held in Pakistan: police (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 09:29 AM PST

Pakistani police block a street during a protest outside the US consulate in Lahore on February 18. Pakistani security forces Friday arrested an American national on charges of illegally staying in the country, police and intelligence officials said.(AFP/File/Arif Ali)AFP - Pakistani security forces Friday arrested an American national on charges of illegally staying in the country, police and intelligence officials said.

Russian parliament ratifies US Afghan transit deal (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 09:28 AM PST

AP - Russia's lower house of parliament ratified an agreement Friday to allow the United States to ferry troops and supplies across Russian territory for military operations in Afghanistan.

Russia may send French-built warship to Kurils (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 09:01 AM PST

Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (L) and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov leave a joint press conference in Moscow February 11. Russia may send one or even two French-designed Mistral warships to the Pacific to protect a chain of islands that are bitterly claimed by Japan, its top general said Friday.(AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov)AFP - Russia announced Friday that it may send one or even two of the high-tech warships it is buying from France to help protect a chain of islands that are being bitterly claimed by Japan.

German scientists eye Afghan Buddha reconstruction (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:35 AM PST

Afghan men herd their sheep in the city of Bamiyan, near the ruins of the ancient Buddha statues that once stood in the city, in central Afghanistan in 2010. German scientists said Friday they believed it possible to reconstruct one of the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas dynamited by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, prompting worldwide condemnation.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - German scientists said Friday they believed it possible to reconstruct one of the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas dynamited by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, prompting worldwide condemnation.

Aussies cruise past Kiwis, Irish heartbroken (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:33 AM PST

Australian batsman Brad Haddin (right) is watched by New Zealand wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum as he plays a stroke during the Cricket World Cup match at The Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. Australia racked up a 25th consecutive World Cup victory, defeating New Zealand in an emotional encounter while Ireland wasted a golden opportunity to heap more pain on Bangladesh.(AFP/William West)AFP - Australia racked up a 25th consecutive World Cup victory on Friday, defeating New Zealand in an emotional encounter while Ireland wasted a golden opportunity to heap more pain on Bangladesh.

Pakistan ruling party forced from Punjab coalition (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:27 AM PST

Pakistan's opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, pictured in January 2010, on Friday expelled the nationally ruling Pakistan People's Party from the Punjab provincial government, where it has been in coalition with his own party.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - Pakistan's opposition leader Nawaz Sharif Friday expelled the nationally ruling Pakistan People's Party from the Punjab provincial government, where it has been in coalition with his own party.

N. Zealand earthquake toll reaches 113 (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:21 AM PST

Rescue workers are seen digging at the site of the collapsed CTV building in quake-hit Christchurch on February 24, 2011. Emergency crews have been scouring the mangled wreckage of the city for a fourth day but have found only bodies and no signs of life as the death toll climbed to 113.(AFP/Marty Melville)AFP - New Zealand warned frantic relatives to brace for the worst on Friday as toiling rescuers failed to find any more survivors after a devastating earthquake left at least 113 dead.

China scraps death penalty for some crimes (AFP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:06 AM PST

A group from Amnesty International protests over the death penalty in Hong Kong in 2009. China on Friday eliminated capital punishment for some economic crimes, as it moved to curb use of the death penalty in a country believed to execute more people than the rest of the world combined.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - China on Friday eliminated capital punishment for some economic crimes, as it moved to curb use of the death penalty in a country believed to execute more people than the rest of the world combined.

Jailed Christian convert is freed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 07:16 AM PST

AP - An Afghan man who was jailed for nine months for converting to Christianity has been released after an intense campaign by international diplomatic missions and Christian activists, an official said Friday.

Thailand seizes ton of elephant tusks from Africa (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 05:20 AM PST

Thai customs officials display seized elephant tusks smuggled into Thailand from Nigeria during a news conference in Bangkok Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. A total of 118 elephant tusks, worth about $1.7 million, hidden in cases, were seized at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - Thai authorities on Friday displayed a ton of illicitly smuggled African elephant ivory and rhino horns seized at Bangkok's airport, a haul described as a victory for better international intelligence sharing among wildlife officials.

American CIA contractor appears in Pakistani court (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:55 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2011 file photo, Pakistani security officials escort Raymond Allen Davis, a U.S., center, to a local court in Lahore, Pakistan. The Associated Press has learned that an American jailed in Pakistan after the fatal shooting of two armed men was secretly working for the CIA. The arrest last month of 36-year-old Raymond Allen Davis has caused an international diplomatic crisis. The U.S. has repeatedly asserted that Davis had diplomatic immunity and should have been released immediately. But former and current U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about the incident, told the AP that Davis had been working as a CIA security contractor for the U.S. consulate in Lahore. (AP Photo/Hamza Ahmed, File)AP - An American CIA employee accused of murdering two Pakistanis appeared handcuffed in a Pakistani court on Friday, where he refused to sign a charge sheet after claiming diplomatic immunity, officials said.

China's Web police block US ambassador's name (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:07 AM PST

AP - China widened its Internet policing after online calls for protests like those that swept the Middle East, with social networking site LinkedIn and searches for the U.S. ambassador's name both blocked on Friday.

China drops death penalty for some economic crimes (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 03:54 AM PST

AP - China dropped the death penalty for more than a dozen nonviolent crimes Friday and banned capital punishment for people over the age of 75 in largely symbolic moves that are not expected to significantly reduce executions.

From NZ rubble, haunting texts to Mom beg for help (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 03:30 AM PST

Search and recovery operation personnel work at the destroyed CTV building in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 after the city was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake Tuesday, Feb 22.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - The first text message said: "Mommy, I got buried." About 40 minutes later: "Mommy, I can't move my right hand." Then, a brief call from New Zealand's earthquake rubble to parents in the Philippines pleading to send help.

Text messages from the rubble in New Zealand (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 02:38 AM PST

AP - A chronology of cell phone communication between Louise Amantillo, missing in the rubble of a quake-collapsed building in New Zealand, and her parents in the Philippines as dictated by her mother, Linda Amantillo.

Remembering revolt that ousted Filipino dictator (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 02:31 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 1986 file photo, then Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Fidel Ramos jumps in joy after hearing an announcement that President Ferdinand Marcos has left the presidential palace as a sign of capitulation following the four-day 'People Power' revolt. Ramos later took over power in 1993 from President Corazon Aquino who was catapulted to power after Marcos fled. On Feb. 25, 1986, the Philippines was a country that appeared to be on the edge of chaos or civil war with some of the same fear and uncertainty now spreading across the Arab world. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)AP - In the end, it was more like a big fiesta than an angry protest.

4 killed in an attack on NATO convoy in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 01:46 AM PST

Pakistani security officials look at burning NATO tankers in suburbs of Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. Militants in Pakistan attacked tankers bringing fuel to NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Friday, killing four people and causing a massive nighttime blaze. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Militants in Pakistan attacked tankers bringing fuel to NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Friday, killing four people in the latest strike on an important supply line to the Western-led war.

South Korea indicts 5 suspected Somali pirates (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 01:16 AM PST

This undated combination of photos provided Tuesday Feb. 22, 2011 by the Del Rey Yacht Club, shows Scott, left, and Jean Adam of Marina del Rey, Calif. The couple were killed by pirates Tuesday after being taken hostage several hundred miles south of Oman. (AP Photo/Del Rey Yacht Club) NO SALESAP - South Korean prosecutors say they have indicted five suspected Somali pirates for attempted murder, hostage taking and robbery. If convicted, they could face life imprisonment.
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