Sunday, March 27, 2011

As Japan shutdowns drag on, auto crisis worsens (AP)

As Japan shutdowns drag on, auto crisis worsens (AP)

As Japan shutdowns drag on, auto crisis worsens (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 10:39 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2003 file photo, brand new Ford Mondeo cars are parked on the parking lot of the Ford Motor Company plant in Genk, Belgium. Ford Motor Co. said Saturday, March 26, 2011, it will idle their plant in Genk for five days, trying to conserve supplies of Japanese parts that could run low following an earthquake and tsunami. Ford spokesman Todd Nissen said the plant will close beginning April 4. The company had planned to idle the plant in May for another reason. But it moved up the date after auto parts suppliers in Japan were damaged by the twin disaster on March 11. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)AP - The auto industry disruptions triggered by Japan's earthquake and tsunami are about to get worse.

Pakistan to free Indian prisoner after 23 years (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 10:33 AM PDT

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, pictured in 2010, on Sunday agreed to free an Indian national who was jailed for life more than 23 years ago, a presidential spokesman said.(AFP/Ishara S.Kodikara)AFP - Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday agreed to free an Indian national who was jailed for life more than 23 years ago, a presidential spokesman said.

More obstacles impede crews in Japan nuke crisis (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 10:30 AM PDT

This image released by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force via Kyodo News shows the inside of Unit 4 at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Japan Ground Self-Defense Force via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - Mounting problems, including badly miscalculated radiation figures and inadequate storage tanks for huge amounts of contaminated water, stymied emergency workers Sunday as they struggled to nudge Japan's stricken nuclear complex back from the edge of disaster.

Meares completes cycling sprint sweep with third gold (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:51 AM PDT

Australian Anne Meares celebrates as she crosses the finish line of the sprint final before Lithuanian Simona Krupeckaite during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn on March 26. Meares stayed clear of the turmoil in the crash-marred final of the keirin to complete a clean sweep of titles in the sprint events at the world track cycling championships Sunday.(AFP/ANP/File/Vincent Jannick)AFP - Anna Meares stayed clear of the turmoil in the crash-marred final of the keirin to complete a clean sweep of titles in the sprint events at the world track cycling championships Sunday.

Latest in Japan's quake, tsunami, nuclear crisis (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:42 AM PDT

AP - The operator of Japan's stricken nuclear plant initially says radioactivity in water in the Unit 2 reactor tested 10 million times higher than normal, forcing the evacuation of workers.

Developments in Japan's disasters, nuclear crisis (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:40 AM PDT

AP - • UTILITY APOLOGIZES FOR ERROR IN RADIATION DATA.

Taliban claims to have kidnapped 50 Afghan police (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:25 AM PDT

German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere carries a tray with breakfast at a Germany army Bundeswehr field camp in Mazar-i-Sharif March 27, 2011. This is de Maiziere's first trip to Afghanistan since becoming defence minister. REUTERS/Michael Kappeler/Pool (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS)AP - The Taliban claimed Sunday that it kidnapped 50 Afghan policemen in northeastern Afghanistan — part of the insurgents' murder and intimidation campaign against anyone affiliated with the U.S.-backed government.

Radiation scare at Japan nuclear plant (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:58 AM PDT

Japanese police officers search in heavy snow for missing victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the village of Noda, Iwate Prefecture. Dangerous levels of radiation detected in water thought to be leaking from a stricken Japanese reactor have dealt a new setback to efforts to avert a nuclear disaster.(AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Dangerous levels of radiation detected in water thought to be leaking from a stricken Japanese reactor dealt a new setback Sunday to efforts to avert a nuclear disaster.

Japan says very high radiation reading at reactor was wrong (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 08:44 AM PDT

Nils Schmid (C) top candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) watches as Stefan Mappus, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Prime Minister of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg shakes hands with Winfried Kretschmann (R) the top candidate of the Green Party Reuters - The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant said on Monday a very high radiation reading that had sent workers fleeing the No. 2 reactor was erroneous.

Suu Kyi's party seeks talks with Myanmar's generals (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 06:04 AM PDT

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks with youths at the National League for Democracy (NLD) head office in Yangon February 8, 2011. REUTERS/Soe Zeya TunReuters - The party of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, called on Sunday for talks with the country's military rulers to clear up "misunderstandings" before a new government takes office.

Pakistan cancels prison sentence of Indian man (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 05:44 AM PDT

AP - Pakistan's president has canceled the remaining sentence of an Indian man imprisoned in Pakistan for the last 27 years.

Filipino rebels: Radical commander faces expulsion (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:55 AM PDT

AP - A radical commander opposed to peace talks has a month to decide whether to stay in the Philippines's largest Muslim rebel group or be expelled with a few hundred loyalists, a rebel leader said Sunday.

Indonesian Muslims protest Gadhafi, int'l strikes (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:26 AM PDT

A student holds a poster of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi during a rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, March, 27, 2011. More than 10,000 Indonesians held a peaceful rally in the capital of the world's most populous Muslim nation to support pro-democracy movement in Libya, Yemen, and Bahrain. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)AP - More than 10,000 Muslims marched Sunday in Indonesia to support pro-democracy and reform movements in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, calling for the immediate resignation of Libya's leader and protection of civilians.

US-Philippine military drills may be scaled back (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:01 AM PDT

AP - Officials say annual exercises involving thousands of U.S. and Filipino troops will be held next month as scheduled but may be scaled back because of U.S. military relief operations in Japan following its massive earthquake and tsunami.

Factory boss in China arrested over lead poisoning (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 04:00 AM PDT

AP - State media say a battery factory manager was arrested after 168 villagers living near the manufacturer in eastern China suffered lead poisoning.

To rebuild or not? Japan's tsunami coast wonders (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:50 AM PDT

A Japanese walks through a flooded street in the tsunami and earthquake ravaged city of Kesennuma, northeastern Japan, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Japan is starting to confront years of post-tsunami reconstruction along its northeastern coast. For the towns and farming villages, places like Kesennuma that have been battered for decades by economic decline, an exodus of young people and a rapidly aging population, the challenge could prove impossible. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - When he was younger, the carpenter picked a spot just off the Shikaori River and built his house. Toshio Onodera chiseled the joints for the wooden roof beams and cemented the tiles onto the front porch. He mounted ivory-colored siding on the outside walls.

Myanmar marks unusually low-key Armed Forces Day (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 03:39 AM PDT

AP - Myanmar's military government on Sunday held an unusually low-key ceremony marking Armed Forces Day, as anticipation mounts that it will soon turn over power to a nominally civilian administration.

Burials in quake-hit towns deepen Japan's tragedy (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2011 02:05 AM PDT

Relatives of a victim react in front of a coffin before burial in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami-destroyed city of Kesennuma northern Japan Friday, March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - The funeral for Chieko Mori's daughter and granddaughter was an affront to Japanese sacred customs — the two were placed in simple wooden coffins that soldiers lowered into a ditch in a vegetable patch as a backhoe poured in earth, burying them alongside scores of other bodies.

South Korea returns 27 to North whose boat drifted (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 11:29 PM PDT

North Koreans board a South Korean navy ship to return the North at a port in Incheon, South Korea, Sunday, March 27, 2011. Twenty-seven North Koreans were scheduled to be sent home later Sunday, nearly two months after their wooden boat drifted across the western border into South Korea. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Ha Sa-hun) KOREA OUTAP - The Red Cross says South Korea has repatriated 27 North Koreans whose status was uncertain for more than a month because others on their drifting fishing boat defected.

Quake and blossoms: Japan's reminder of mortality (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 17, 2011 file photo, survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami huddle around an open fire to keep warm outdoors in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture. The cherry trees will soon blossom in Japan. Even in normal times, the flowers are a cause for rejoicing tinged with sadness, because they fall at the moment of their greatest beauty. They are the embodiment of a notion that is central to Japanese culture - 'hakanasa,' a hard-to-translate word that conveys the fragility, or evanescence, of life. In this time of national grieving, the cherry blossoms will bring home the awareness of hakanasa with a strange kind of force, one that doesn't strike but sinks into the soul like heat from a hot spring or fire from a sake bottle, bringing sorrow and solace in equal measure. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Hirokazu Ono) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDITAP - The cherry trees will soon blossom in Japan.
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