Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Senators ask nuclear regulators about U.S. risk (Reuters)

Senators ask nuclear regulators about U.S. risk (Reuters)

Senators ask nuclear regulators about U.S. risk (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 11:01 AM PDT

Reuters - Lawmakers, expressing concern and frustration with events unfolding at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, pressed nuclear regulators on what steps the United States was taking to prevent a similar disaster at the country's aging fleet of reactors.

Afghan police: Taliban overrun remote district (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:41 AM PDT

In this Saturday, March 26, 2011 photo, Afghan children play on a destroyed Soviet - made armored tank in Panjshir north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Nazar)AP - About 300 Taliban fighters overran the tiny capital of a remote mountainous district in northeast Afghanistan on Tuesday, forcing police to retreat from their small outpost in the area, an official said.

Officials: Indonesian suspect captured in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:35 AM PDT

In this undated poster released by Philippine National Police and the US Rewards For Justice Program, shows Umar Patek. Intelligence sources say top Indonesian terror suspect Umar Patek has been arrested in Pakistan. Patek is one of the main suspects in the 2002 Bali bombings that left 202 people dead. (AP Photo/ Philippine National Police and the US Rewards For Justice Program)AP - A senior Indonesian al-Qaida terror suspect wanted in the 2002 Bali bombings has been arrested in Pakistan, regional intelligence sources said Tuesday, in a major scalp for the international campaign against Islamist extremists.

Toyota restricts orders to preserve parts supply (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:31 AM PDT

AP - Toyota Motor Corp. wants its U.S. car dealers to stop ordering more than 200 replacement parts made in Japan because it's worried about running out of them.

Sri Lanka reach final in Murali's home farewell (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:27 AM PDT

Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan(C) is carried on the shoulders of his teammates after playing his last match on home soil in their Cricket World Cup semi-final match against New Zealand in Colombo. Sri Lanka won by five wickets.(AFP/William West)AFP - Sri Lanka reached the World Cup final with a five-wicket win against New Zealand on Tuesday as veteran off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan said goodbye to his home crowd.

Japan on 'maximum alert' over nuclear plant (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:23 AM PDT

Damaged cars are piled in a pool of water in Natori, Miyagi prefecture. Japan said Tuesday it was on AFP - Japan said Tuesday it was on "maximum alert" over a crippled nuclear plant where radioactive water has halted repair work and plutonium has been found in the soil.

Pakistan arrests six more in SLanka team attack (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:14 AM PDT

Pakistani policemen stand guard outside The Gaddafi Stadium after an attack by masked gunmen on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in 2009. Pakistani police said Tuesday they had arrested another six alleged plotters over the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team that cost the country its World Cup hosting rights.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - Pakistani police said Tuesday they had arrested another six alleged plotters over the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team that cost the country its World Cup hosting rights.

Pakistan prayers, prizes for win over India (AFP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 10:08 AM PDT

Pakistani seminary students hold a mass prayer service for victory for their national cricket team at a major Islamic madrassa in Karachi.(AFP/Asif Hassan)AFP - Thousands of Pakistanis are expected to take part in mass prayer sessions, asking God to guide them to victory against India in the hotly anticipated World Cup cricket semi-final on Wednesday.

Japan finds plutonium in soil at stricken nuclear plant (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 09:38 AM PDT

A survivor takes a rest at a shelter in the devastated town of Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The March 11 quake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore and disabled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Reuters - Plutonium found in soil at the Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm on Tuesday over Japan's battle to contain the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years, as pressure mounted on the prime minister to widen an evacuation zone around the plant.

Tech firms fret over length of Japan disruption (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 09:34 AM PDT

Reuters - Worries over component supply continued to weigh on the technology sector on Tuesday, in the wake of Japan's devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami which have disrupted production and deliveries of key parts.

Karzai's adviser questioned in corruption case (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 09:17 AM PDT

Amanullah Iman spokesman for the Afghan Attorney General's Office speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. An adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai is being questioned in a corruption case, the latest amid ongoing investigations of current and former officials. The Afghan attorney general's office says Noorullah Delawari was questioned on Tuesday about a case linked to state-owned Ariana airlines. Delawari, a former head of the central bank, was questioned along with former transportation minister, Enayatullah Qasimi, who has been implicated in mismanaging $9 million in government funds for aircraft purchases. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - An adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai was questioned Tuesday in a corruption probe, the latest chapter in investigations of current and former government officials.

India, Pakistan agree to cooperate on terror probe (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 08:04 AM PDT

Indian Home Secretary G.K. Pillai, right, shakes hand with Pakistan's Interior Secretary Qamar uz Zaman during talks in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 28, 2011. India and Pakistan have begun two days of diplomatic talks amid a surge in good will before a seminal cricket match between the two sides. Both cricket-crazed countries are abuzz with excitement for the World Cup semifinal match Wednesday. (AP Photo)AP - Pakistan has agreed to host Indian investigators looking into the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks blamed on Pakistan-based militants, the two countries announced Tuesday after talks aimed at building trust between the sides.

High school baseball unifies tsunami-hit Japan (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 04:04 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 23, 2011, Shinsuke Noyama of Soshi Gakuen High School makes a speech in front of home plate during the opening ceremony of the national high school baseball invitational tournament at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan. 'We were born 16 years ago, in the year of the great Kobe earthquake,' said Noyama, his face grim and chest proud. 'Today, in the great East Japan earthquake, many precious lives have been lost, and our souls are filled with sorrow.' (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - If Japan has a field of dreams, it's a well-groomed patch of grass and dirt called Koshien.

Missing Australian writer feared detained in China (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 03:03 AM PDT

AP - Australia has asked China for information on a Chinese-born Australian writer who disappeared in the country, the government said Tuesday as a friend claimed Yang Hengjun had been detained in Beijing's ongoing crackdown on political expression.

India-Pakistan cricket showdown boosts diplomacy (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 02:53 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 29, 2010 file photo, Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, right, walks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh prior to 16th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit in Thimphu, Bhutan. Pakistan's prime minister will visit India to watch a World Cup semifinal between the two rival nations next week, the government said on Sunday, March 27, 2010, adding a dollop of international diplomacy to what is already a highly anticipated cricket match. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, FILE)AP - The decades-old rivalry between India and Pakistan moves back onto the cricket pitch Wednesday in a match that brings the Pakistani prime minister to India on a rare visit that may even nudge the nuclear-armed neighbors a step closer to peace.

2 Koreas agree on need for joint volcano research (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 02:44 AM PDT

North Korean delegation arrive to hold a meeting with their South Korean counterpart to discuss a joint research on volcanic activity at the North's highest Paektu mountain, at the Inter-Korean Transit Office in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Experts from the two Koreas have begun rare talks on an active volcano touted in the North as leader Kim Jong Il's sacred birthplace. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - North and South Korean experts have agreed on the need for joint research into an active volcano amid worries over natural disasters after Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

Stiffer penalty sought for Khmer Rouge torturer (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 02:39 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng detention center, greets court officers during his appeal at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The man who admitted to overseeing the torture and killing of 16,000 people as the Khmer Rouge's chief prison warden returned to the courtroom in Cambodia to appeal his 19-year prison sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Mark Peters, HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Prosecutors in Cambodia urged a U.N.-backed tribunal Tuesday to stiffen the sentence against the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer to life in prison and to convict him of new, separate crimes against humanity.

Philippine TV host sorry for 6-yr-old's sexy dance (AP)

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 02:19 AM PDT

AP - A popular Philippine television game show host and his network apologized Tuesday after an uproar over a segment showing a 6-year-old boy crying while gyrating and mimicking a striptease dancer.

Tsunami-swept island cut off from power and water (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 11:56 PM PDT

Reiko Kikuta, right, and her husband Takeshi Kikuta stand on the port as workers attempt to attach ropes to their submerged home to try to pull it ashore with construction equipment on Oshima Island in northeastern Japan Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - After more than two weeks without a proper bath, some residents on this tsunami-hit island decided to take matters into their own hands.

Friendly fire kills 13 Pakistani troops (AP)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 11:47 PM PDT

Indian Border Security Force soldiers and Pakistani Rangers, in black, are face-to-face during the daily retreat ceremony on the Pakistan-India border at Wagah near Lahore, Pakistan on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Pakistan will face its arch-rival India on Wednesday as hundreds of millions of fans tune in to follow the semifinal match in the Cricket World Cup in the northern Indian city of Mohali. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - Friendly fire killed 11 Pakistani troops and two officers caught up in a militant ambush close to the Afghan border, a top commander said Tuesday.
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