Sunday, April 24, 2011

Tension persists on Thai-Cambodian border (AFP)

Tension persists on Thai-Cambodian border (AFP)

Tension persists on Thai-Cambodian border (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:56 AM PDT

Cambodian people who live near the Thai-Cambodia border and were evacuated after cross border fighting, cook at a pagoda in Oddar Meanchey province. Cambodia and Thailand exchanged heavy weapons fire for the third straight day on Sunday, officials said, after fierce fighting on their joint border left 10 soldiers dead.(AFP/Tang Chhin Sothy)AFP - Cambodia and Thailand exchanged heavy weapons fire for the third straight day on Sunday, officials said, after fierce fighting on their joint border left 10 soldiers dead.

Tendulkar gets win as birthday gift (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:50 AM PDT

Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar (L) poses with his daughter Sara (C) and wife Anjali (R) following the IPL Twenty20 cricket match between Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians at The Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. Mumbai Indians gifted birthday boy and skipper Tendulkar a 37-run victory in an Indian Premier League match against Deccan Chargers on Sunday.(AFP/Noah Seelam)AFP - Mumbai Indians gifted birthday boy and skipper Sachin Tendulkar a 37-run victory in an Indian Premier League match against Deccan Chargers on Sunday.

Revered Hindu guru Sathya Sai Baba dies at age 84 (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:49 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2010 file photo, Indian spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba looks on at a function to meet his devotees in New Delhi. Dr. A.N. Safaya says Sathya Sai Baba died Sunday morning, April 24, 2011, after more than a week on breathing support and dialysis at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences. He was 86. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi, File)AP - Hindu guru Sathya Sai Baba, revered by millions worldwide, died Sunday after nearly a month of hospital treatment near his southern Indian ashram. He was 84.

Pakistani drones protest keeps NATO trucks at bay (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 10:10 AM PDT

Supporters of a Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e- Islami arrive to join a rally against the U.S. drone strikes in Pakistani tribal areas, Saturday, April 23, 2011, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistan stopped NATO supplies from traveling to Afghanistan on Saturday as thousands of protesters rallied on the main road leading to the border, demanding that U.S. Washington stop firing missiles against militants sheltering inside the country. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The leader of a Pakistani political party protesting U.S. drone strikes demanded Sunday that the attacks end in one month or he would launch more demonstrations aimed at cutting off a key supply route for Western troops in neighboring Afghanistan.

Pakistan re-opens NATO supply route (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 09:25 AM PDT

Supporters of cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) gather at a rally in Peshawar. NATO can resume supplying its troops in Afghanistan through a key Pakistani route on Monday after protesters against US drone strikes lifted a blockade, an official said.(AFP/A Majeed)AFP - NATO can resume supplying its troops in Afghanistan through a key Pakistani route on Monday after protesters against US drone strikes lifted a blockade, an official said.

Turkmenistan goes crazy for horse holiday (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:43 AM PDT

Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov smiles as he rides a horse with a dove on his shoulder in the capital Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on Sunday, April 24, 2011. Wearing a blue caftan and shaggy sheepskin hat, Turkmenistan's president looked every part the accomplished horse-riding tribesman as he effortlessly cantered on his jewel-adorned stallion before cheering crowds. Over the weekend, the country was whipped up into a frenzy of equine-mania that featured a horse show, the grand inauguration of four new race tracks and, more soberly, an academic conference. (AP Photo/Alexander Vershinin)AP - Wearing a blue caftan and shaggy sheepskin hat, Turkmenistan's president looked every part the accomplished horse-riding tribesman as he effortlessly cantered on his jewel-adorned stallion before cheering crowds. The crowning touch came when a white dove gracefully landed on his right shoulder.

Thousands march against nuclear power in Japan (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:42 AM PDT

Women protest against Japan's nuclear policy during a parade for the Earth Day in Tokyo. Organisers estimate that 5,000 took part in the march, demanding an end to nuclear power in Japan and a switch to alternative energy after the crisis at an atomic plant hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Thousands of people marched in Tokyo on Sunday to demand an end to nuclear power in Japan and a switch to alternative energy after the crisis at an atomic plant hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Indian spiritual guru Sai Baba dies (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:28 AM PDT

Reuters - Indian spiritual guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba, revered by millions of followers as a living god, died Sunday in a hospital in southern India. He was 86.

Dubai group looking to buy Afghan bank (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:04 AM PDT

AP - A Dubai-based conglomerate is seeking approval to buy a bank in Afghanistan as authorities there try to restore confidence in the scandal-tainted financial industry.

Chinese inflation to ease: government (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 08:03 AM PDT

A fruit and vegetable shop owner watches for customers on a street in central Beijing March 24, 2011. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - China's inflation will fall slightly in the second half of 2011, but it will be tough to keep the full-year rise in consumer prices below the government's 4 percent ceiling, an official said in remarks reported on Sunday.

Thai-Cambodian border fighting enters 3rd day (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 05:23 AM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a commander of Cambodian Royal Armed Forces gives instructions at a military camp in the border disputed area in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia, Sunday, April 24, 2011. Cambodian and Thai troops exchanged artillery fire Sunday in a third day of fighting that has killed 10 soldiers and uprooted thousands of villagers from their homes. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Sovannara) NO SALESAP - Thai and Cambodian troops exchanged artillery fire Sunday in a third day of fighting that has killed 10 soldiers and uprooted thousands of villagers from their homes.

Jimmy Carter, other former leaders to visit NKorea (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 05:12 AM PDT

AP - Ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter and three other former leaders arrived in Beijing on Sunday en route to North Korea to discuss the revival of nuclear disarmament talks.

Roadside bombs kill 3 NATO troops in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:25 AM PDT

In this Saturday, April 23, 2011 photo provided by ISAF Regional Command (South), Maj. (Dr.) Shane McCauley, senior medical officer for Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul, treats a patient's chest wound at Forward Operating Base Smart before a medical evacuation, in Qalat, Afghanistan. Two male children and one male adult arrived at the Zabul Provincial Hospital after an explosion in the district of Mizan. The adult male was pronounced dead on arrival, and the children were medically evacuated by helicopter for surgical care. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson)AP - Roadside bombs killed three NATO service members and a gunman shot dead a prominent local official in southern Afghanistan, where thousands of Afghan and international troops are bracing for an expected spring resurgence of Taliban attacks, officials said Sunday.

Philippines fears new landslides, wants miners out (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 04:17 AM PDT

AP - Philippine officials discovered a dangerous crack Sunday in a mountain hit by a deadly landslide last week and want troops to force dozens of illegal gold miners to leave before another disaster strikes their remote southern village.

Youngest on Hillary's Everest team dies in India (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 03:49 AM PDT

AP - Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, the youngest on Sir Edmund Hillary's climbing team that first scaled Mount Everest in 1953, died on Sunday at his Indian home at the foot of the Himalayas. He was 79.

Japan to launch massive search for quake bodies (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:59 AM PDT

A man talks on his cell phone as he sits on a sofa among the rubble in the area devastated by March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, April 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Japan will send nearly 25,000 soldiers backed by boats and aircraft into its disaster zone Monday on an intensive land-and-sea mission to recover the bodies of those killed by last month's earthquake and tsunami, the military said.

Japan's Christians celebrate Easter amid disaster (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 02:45 AM PDT

Renka Hashimoto, 7, center, and Maika Kakinuma, 8, receive Easter eggs after the Easter service at Kesennuma Bible Baptist Church in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Sunday, April 24, 2011. This Easter, the story of resurrection carried a deeply personal message for the small community of Christians in disaster-hit Japan. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)AP - This Easter, the story of resurrection carried a deeply personal message for the small community of Christians in disaster-hit Japan.

On army anniversary, NKorea threat to destroy US (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 01:43 AM PDT

North Korean soldiers film south side at the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool)AP - North Korea has again threatened to destroy the United States and South Korea. The communist North issued its latest war rhetoric on the eve of its army's anniversary.

Beijing detains illegal church members on Easter (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2011 01:35 AM PDT

Chinese youths detained by police officers from an area where members of a unregistered church planned to hold Easter service are led into a police station in Beijing Sunday, April 24, 2011. Police stopped worshippers from gathering Sunday at a public plaza in the city's university district where they have been trying to meet every week since the congregation was evicted from its usual rented place of worship three weeks ago. At least a dozen congregants were detained. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Chinese police detained at least 30 Christians belonging to an unregistered Beijing church as the congregation gathered Sunday for an Easter service, a church member said.

Chinese tea farmer finds orphaned 'moon bears' (AP)

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 11:27 PM PDT

AP - A farmer in south China found twin black bear cubs alone in a forest while he was out picking tea leaves, state media said. He was planning to raise them until they were big enough to fend for themselves, but an animal welfare group has intervened.
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