Monday, June 27, 2011

Philippines, Singapore off US trafficking watchlist (AFP)

Philippines, Singapore off US trafficking watchlist (AFP)

Philippines, Singapore off US trafficking watchlist (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:15 AM PDT

Geralyn Quezo, 17, (R) looks on as she stands by a fellow victim of human trafficking at the Visayan Forum Foundation's halfway house in Manila in 2007. The United States removed the Philippines and Singapore from a human trafficking watchlist that drew concerns from the close allies, but it reported persistent abuses around Asia.(AFP/File/Jason Guitierrez)AFP - The United States on Monday removed the Philippines and Singapore from a human trafficking watchlist that drew concerns from the close allies, but it reported persistent abuses around Asia.

US drone kills 12 at Pakistan militant camp: officials (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:09 AM PDT

A Pakistani soldier armed with a machine gun mans a bunker in Shakai, South Waziristan in 2004. A US drone strike late Monday destroyed a militant training camp in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, killing 12 local Taliban fighters, officials said.(AFP/File)AFP - A US drone strike late Monday destroyed a militant training camp in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, killing 12 local Taliban fighters, officials said.

Pakistan coalition partner quits government: party (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:49 AM PDT

Leader of the Pakistani political party Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Farooq Sattar, announces his parties decision to quit the coalition government in front of the portrait of MQM's self-exiled chief Altaf Hussain during a press conference in Karachi.(AFP/Rizwan Tabassum)AFP - The Pakistan government's main coalition partner said Monday it had quit the beleaguered administration, citing the "dictatorial" and "brutal" approach of the ruling Pakistan People's Party.

U.S. drones kill 21 militants in NW Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:42 AM PDT

Pakistani devotees who visit the local shrine of famous saint Barri Imam in the suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan apply the vapour from oil of lamps, they consider a cure for different skin related diseases Monday, June 27, 2011. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)Reuters - Missile strikes from two

Suu Kyi sees Myanmar parallels with Arab Spring (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:37 AM PDT

Reuters - Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said there were "notable similarities" between December's revolution in Tunisia and the 1988 uprising in her own country that led to her original detention by military authorities.

China's Wen calls for greater democracy, reforms (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:33 AM PDT

Reuters - Premier Wen Jiabao called on Monday for freedom and real democracy in China, even though Beijing has clamped down on dissent this year following scattered online calls for a "Jasmine" revolution similar to uprisings in the Arab world.

China, Britain boost trade ties (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:31 AM PDT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) reviews a guard of honour at the Foreign Office in central London, before a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Wen and Cameron unveiled trade deals worth £1.4 billion at a summit Monday, but their efforts to boost closer bilateral ties were undermined by differences on Libya and human rights.(AFP/POOL/Andy Rain)AFP - China's Wen Jiabao and Britain's David Cameron unveiled trade deals worth £1.4 billion at a summit Monday, but their efforts to boost closer bilateral ties were undermined by differences on Libya and human rights.

Top surviving Khmer Rouge leaders go on trial (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:25 AM PDT

Human skulls of the Khmer Rouge's victims are on display at Choeung Ek stupa, former Khmer Rouge killing field in the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, June 25, 2011. On Monday a U.N.-backed tribunal, comprising Cambodian and foreign jurists, will begin trying four of the top surviving members of the Khmer Rouge's ruling elite on charges including crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture in the tribunal called Case 002. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - The top four surviving members of the brutal Khmer Rouge went on trial Monday before a tribunal aimed at finding justice for the estimated 1.7 million people who died in Cambodia's "killing fields" of the 1970s.

Afghan government says cenbank governor on prosecution list (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:24 AM PDT

Reuters - The Afghan government said on Monday it was not aware that central bank governor Abdul Qadir Fitrat had resigned but said he was partly responsible for a fraud scandal that led to the collapse of Kabulbank, the country's biggest private lender.

Gunmen kill senior Pakistani Taliban commander (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:22 AM PDT

Pakistani police officers examine the damaged vehicles, a day after Taliban militants attacked at a police station, Sunday, June 26, 2011 in Kolachi near Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. The Pakistani Taliban say they used a female suicide bomber for the first time in an attack on the police station in northwestern Pakistan. (AP Photo/Kashif Naveed)AP - Gunmen killed a senior Pakistani Taliban commander Monday who helped train and deploy the group's suicide bombers, while suspected U.S. drone missile strikes killed 20 alleged militants elsewhere in the northwest, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

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Posted: 27 Jun 2011 09:58 AM PDT

AP - Pakistani intelligence officials: Suspected US drone-fired missiles kill 12 alleged militants.

Water recycling at Japan nuclear plant stops again (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 08:43 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, March 21, 2011 photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Japanese officials ordered those living within 12 miles of the site to leave; the U.S. government told its citizens within 50 miles to evacuate. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)AP - A water recycling system at Japan's damaged nuclear power plant was halted for repairs Monday after a brief run that had been hailed as major progress in restoring control and improving conditions at the crippled plant.

Lost penguin more lively, eating fish post-surgery (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 07:23 AM PDT

Veterinary nurse Sarah Papageorgiou cares for an Antarctic penguin that wound up stranded on a New Zealand beach and resorted to eating sand, at Wellington Zoo in Wellington, Monday, June 27, 2011. The penguin was recovering Monday after a very human treatment: an endoscopy performed by one of the country's leading surgeons. It may be months before the young emperor penguin - affectionately dubbed Happy Feet - fully recovers, and officials are uncertain about when or how it could return home about 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) away. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUTAP - New Zealand's favorite penguin visitor is more lively and eating fish after undergoing endoscopic surgery Monday to remove some of the beach sand and twigs it swallowed, apparently mistaking it for snow.

Japan PM adds Cabinet jobs on tsunami, nuke crisis (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 06:55 AM PDT

In this April 25, 2011 photo, then Special advisor to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on management of the nuclear crisis Goshi Hosono speaks during a joint press conference on the latest development of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dia-ichi nuclear power plant, in Tokyo, Japan. Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Monday, June 27, 2011, created two Cabinet posts to oversee the nuclear crisis and tsunami reconstruction efforts as he hopes to shore up his administration against criticism of its handling of the crises. Hosono was named by Kan as his minister in charge of handling the crisis at the nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - Japan's prime minister on Monday created two Cabinet posts to oversee the nuclear crisis and tsunami reconstruction efforts as he hopes to shore up his administration against criticism of its handling of the crises.

Sudan president's trip to China delayed a day (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 06:52 AM PDT

In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, talks, during a meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, rear, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 26, 2011. A portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini hangs on the wall. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESAP - The plane carrying Sudan's president to China was forced to turn back Monday over Turkmenistan, delaying his scheduled visit to the major economic partner that invited him despite an international warrant accusing him of war crimes.

Philip Morris fights Australian packaging rules (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:33 AM PDT

FILE - This artist's impression provided by the the Minister from the Department of Health and Ageing shows a proposed cigarette packaging stripped of all logos and replaced with graphic images that tobacco companies in Australia will be forced to use. Tobacco giant Philip Morris launched legal action Monday, June 27, 2011, against the Australian government over the country's plans to strip all logos from cigarette packages. (AP Photo/Minister for Health and Ageing, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Tobacco giant Philip Morris launched legal action on Monday against the Australian government over the country's plans to strip company logos from cigarette packages and replace them with grisly images of cancerous mouths, sickly children and bulging, blinded eyes.

US: Pakistan must show it wants Afghan peace (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:20 AM PDT

An Afghan man prepares coal to make a fire for cooking, outside of a local restaurant, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, June. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Ahmad Nazar)AP - Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan said Monday that Pakistan must prove it wants an end to the war by preventing militants from hiding out on its soil and enabling those who launch attacks on the Afghan side of the border.

Freed critics not a sign China is soft on dissent (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 05:01 AM PDT

This Sunday, June 26, 2011 photo released on Monday June 27, 2011 by Zeng Jinyan shows her husband Hu Jia at their home in Beijing, China. Hu, a prominent Chinese political activist imprisoned for sedition, was released Sunday at the end of his more than three-year sentence, his wife said, though his freedom could be limited by continued surveillance. (AP Photo/Zeng Jinyan) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Despite recent releases of high-profile critics, China's authoritarian government seems as determined as ever to silence dissidents and run roughshod over their thin legal protections, activists and academics said Monday.

Pakistan orders UK to withdraw military trainers (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:52 AM PDT

AP - Pakistan has ordered Britain to withdraw some of its military training teams from the country, the British Embassy said Monday. The demand is likely related to fallout from the covert U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden last month.

Cambodian tribunal tries Khmer Rouge leaders (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:33 AM PDT

Human skulls of the Khmer Rouge's victims are on display at Choeung Ek stupa, former Khmer Rouge killing field in the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, June 25, 2011. On Monday a U.N.-backed tribunal, comprising Cambodian and foreign jurists, will begin trying four of the top surviving members of the Khmer Rouge's ruling elite on charges including crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture in the tribunal called Case 002. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - Now old and infirm, the four top surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime went on trial before a U.N.-backed court for the first time Monday, facing justice three decades after their plan for a communist utopia left an estimated 1.7 million people dead.
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