Thursday, April 28, 2011

With new team, Obama looks for Afghan exit (AFP)

With new team, Obama looks for Afghan exit (AFP)

With new team, Obama looks for Afghan exit (AFP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:43 AM PDT

Surrendering Taliban militants stand with their weapons as they are presented to the media in Herat on April 27. By naming a new team Thursday to oversee the Afghanistan conflict, President Barack Obama could find it easier to extricate US troops from a grinding war where success has proved elusive.(AFP/Aref Karimi)AFP - Obama and his advisers famously clashed with the top brass and outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates over Afghan war strategy in 2009, with military commanders reluctant to back a troop withdrawal starting this July.

Silver lining as Kozuka lifts Japanese spirits (AFP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:15 AM PDT

Japan's Takahito Kozuka celebrates at the end of the men's free skating event of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Moscow. Kozuka said Thursday he hoped his world figure skating silver medal would help lift Japanese spirits as his country recovers from their quake-tsunami disaster.(AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)AFP - Takahito Kozuka said Thursday he hoped his world figure skating silver medal would help lift Japanese spirits as his country recovers from their quake-tsunami disaster.

India, Pakistan agree to enhance trade (AFP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:14 AM PDT

In this handout photo released by the Press Information Department, Pakistani Commerce Minister Amin Fahim greets with Indian commerce secretary Rahul Khullar (L) in Islamabad. India and Pakistan agreed to set up a joint working group to enhance trade, in a further move designed to ease tensions between the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals, officials said.(AFP/PID)AFP - India and Pakistan agreed Thursday to set up a joint working group to enhance trade, in a further move designed to ease tensions between the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals, officials said.

Clashes erupt as separatist leader held in Kashmir (AFP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:10 AM PDT

An Indian paramilitary trooper watches Kashmiri protestors during a clash in Srinagar. Security forces in Indian Kashmir on Thursday fired teargas to disperse stone-pelting demonstrators protesting against the arrest of a key separatist in the region's main city Srinagar.(AFP/Tauseef Mustafa)AFP - Security forces in Indian Kashmir on Thursday fired teargas to disperse stone-pelting demonstrators protesting against the arrest of a key separatist in the region's main city Srinagar.

Air India strike grounds dozens of flights (AFP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:09 AM PDT

Travellers stand at the ticket window of India's flagship carrier to reschedule their flights in Mumbai on April 27. Air India on Thursday sought a court order against striking pilots as a stoppage over pay entered a second day, grounding dozens of flights and causing widespread disruption for passengers.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - Air India on Thursday sought a court order against striking pilots as a stoppage over pay entered a second day, grounding dozens of flights and causing widespread disruption for passengers.

Bomb hits Pakistan navy bus in Karachi; 5 dead (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:06 AM PDT

Pakistani investigators surround a damaged bus in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, April 28, 2011. A roadside bomb hit the bus taking Pakistani navy employees to work in Karachi on Thursday, killing at least five people in the third such attack this week and just days after the army chief claimed to have 'broken the backbone' of militants.(AP Photo/Fareed Khan)AP - A roadside bomb hit a bus taking Pakistani navy employees to work in Karachi on Thursday, killing five people in the third such attack this week and just days after the army chief claimed to have "broken the backbone" of militants.

Friendster evolves to escape Facebook's shadow (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:41 AM PDT

AP - Faded social networking site Friendster will soon delete nearly a decade's worth of user photos, blog entries and other data in a revamp to set it apart from Facebook, company officials said Thursday.

Policy or not, many urban Chinese only want one child (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:37 AM PDT

Reuters - For many young Beijing parents, debate about China's restrictive "one-child" policy is far less pressing than the task at hand -- how to afford the cost of bringing up even one child.

Obama to unveil national security shakeup (AFP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:34 AM PDT

US CIA Director Leon Panetta, pictured in February 2011. US President Barack Obama was set Thursday to nominate a new defense secretary, CIA chief, ambassador to Kabul and Afghan war commander in a sweeping overhaul of key national security posts.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - US President Barack Obama was set Thursday to nominate a new defense secretary, CIA chief, ambassador to Kabul and Afghan war commander in a sweeping overhaul of key national security posts.

Chinese population ageing, moving to the cities (AFP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:20 AM PDT

Passengers queue up to board a train at a railway station in Hefei in eastern China. The country has said its population -- already the world's largest -- increased by 73.9 million over the past decade to 1.339 billion in 2010, citing the results of the latest national census.(AFP/File)AFP - China's population is ageing and flocking to cities, according to the latest national census results released on Thursday, showing the world's most populous country now counted 1.339 billion people.

US ambassador to India resigns for family reasons (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:01 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. ambassador to India says he is resigning from the post for personal reasons after serving two years — as he warned the president he might.

Domestic politics fuel Thai-Cambodian dispute (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:30 AM PDT

A Thai soldier stands on a military vehicle as he patrols during clashes between Thai and Cambodia in Surin province, northeastern Thailand,, Thursday, April 28, 2011. Thai and Cambodian military commanders agreed to a cease-fire Thursday after seven days of artillery duels killed at least 15 people, Cambodia said. Thailand did not immediately confirm it, but the contested border was quiet most of the day. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - They waged deadly artillery duels for a week across a disputed jungle frontier dotted with ancient temples. But the bloodiest clashes to hit Thailand and Cambodia in years were probably more about domestic politics than territory, analysts say.

Hope, mistrust among Sri Lankans after UN report (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 06:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 file photo, an internally displaced ethnic Sri Lankan Tamil child sleeps in a makeshift cradle, as his mother watches before they are sent back home from refugee camps, at Kathankulam village in Mannar, about 230 kilometers (144 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka. The violent 26-year war, waged by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for an independent state for ethnic minority Tamils, left up to 100,000 people dead on both sides — including at least 7,000 in the last five months alone, the U.N. has said. Since the war ended in May 2009, civilians left in former war zones have been forced into silence about what they witnessed. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)AP - A United Nations report that gives credence to allegations of human rights abuses during the bloody end of Sri Lanka's civil war has given some victims' families hope for justice, while others say the U.N. action comes too late.

Census: China's 1.34 billion are more urban, older (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:21 AM PDT

Elderly women in wheelchairs are pushed by care workers while touring a park in Beijing, China, Thursday, April 28, 2011. China's population is aging rapidly and half the people now live in cities, the government said Thursday. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - China's population is aging rapidly, the government said Thursday, though its leaders are refusing to relax strict family planning controls that are part of the cause.

Disasters challenge plans to reinvent Japan Inc. (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 24, 2011 file photo, a Japanese flag with a 'cheer up' message tied on a crossover bridge flaps in the wind at an intersection in a tsunami-devastated area of Kesennuma port in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Now, as Japan deals with the aftermath of triple calamities — earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor leaks — the considerable challenges of remaking the world's third-largest economy have become even bigger and may take a backseat to reconstruction. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)AP - Before disaster struck, Japan's leaders were vowing to counter the prospect of long-term economic decline with a new spirit of engagement with the rest of the world.

US envoy says rights talks with China yield little (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:37 AM PDT

AP - An American human rights envoy said Thursday that China provided no useful information when probed about specific cases of individuals who have been detained or who disappeared in a major crackdown on dissent in recent months.

Jimmy Carter says NKorea wants North-South summit (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:59 AM PDT

AP - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il wants direct talks with South Korea's leader — an offer unlikely to be accepted until Pyongyang takes responsibility for violence that killed 50 South Koreans last year.

Unity among North Waziristan groups crumbles (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:35 AM PDT

In this picture taken on March 8, 2011, Pakistan army soldiers patrol in the Pakistani tribal area of Ditta Kheil in North Waziristan where the Pakistan army are fighting against militants and al-Qaida activists along the Afghanistan border. Crumbling unity among militants could provide the Pakistan army an opening to conduct a limited offensive against a particularly vicious Taliban group in a strategic tribal region, according to analysts and a senior military official. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)AP - Crumbling unity among militants could provide the Pakistan army an opening to conduct a limited offensive against a particularly vicious Taliban group in a strategic tribal region, according to analysts and a senior military official.

US Red Cross chief struck by tsunami's destruction (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:54 AM PDT

Gail McGovern, the chief executive officer and president of the American Red Cross looks at a map of tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan dotted with Red Cross signs where Red Cross relief workers are stationed during an interview with the Associated Press at the Japanese Red Cross Society headquarters in Tokyo, Thursday, April 28, 2011. McGovern said the $185 million it received in donations and pledges for Japanese tsunami relief is buying essential household appliances such as rice cookers for people who lost their homes and are living in temporary housing. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - The head of the American Red Cross, who has visited earthquake zones in Haiti and China, said Thursday that she was overwhelmed by the "miles and miles" of devastation along Japan's tsunami-battered northeastern coast.

Road-building plans threaten Indonesian tigers (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 02:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, a female Sumatran tiger that is believed to have killed 3 men is seen inside a trap set up by forest rangers and environmental activists at a palm oil plantation in Sungai Gelam, Jambi province on Sumatra island, Indonesia. Indonesia is preparing to greenlight the construction of several highways through a park that has one of the world's few viable populations of wild tigers, conservationists warned Thursday, April 28. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah, File)AP - Indonesia is preparing to greenlight the construction of several highways through a park that has one of the world's few viable populations of wild tigers, conservationists warned Thursday.
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