Thursday, June 2, 2011

Taliban border attack kills 34 in Pakistan (AFP)

Taliban border attack kills 34 in Pakistan (AFP)

Taliban border attack kills 34 in Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 11:20 AM PDT

Pakistani police and government officials offer funeral prayers for policemen who were killed during a gun battle with Taliban in the northwestern district of Upper Dir. Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban besieged a Pakistani checkpost on the Afghan border for a second day Thursday, killing 28 police and six civilians in the deadliest fighting for months.(AFP/Z. Jan)AFP - Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban besieged a Pakistani checkpost on the Afghan border for a second day Thursday, killing 28 police and six civilians in the deadliest fighting for months.

Gov't says no official email hacked; FBI on case (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 11:13 AM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, accompanied by Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzberg, not shown gestures during their joint news confernece at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - The FBI is investigating allegations that computer hackers in China broke into Google's email system, but no official government email accounts have been compromised, the Obama administration said Thursday.

Pakistan gov't issues demarche over attack (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 11:02 AM PDT

Pakistani army troops patrol in Jhanda, in Pakistan's Mohmand tribal region along the Afghan border, Wednesday, June 1, 2011. A top Pakistani army commander said that the military has no imminent plans to launch an offensive in the North Waziristan tribal region, home to numerous militants who focus on attacking U.S. and NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Islamist militants who flowed out of Afghanistan fought a second day of fierce battles with Pakistani security forces Thursday in one of the deadliest clashes on the Pakistan side of the frontier in months. Authorities said 63 people were dead.

Petraeus vows to keep civilian deaths to minimum (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 10:36 AM PDT

An Afghan disabled man carries used tea pots to sell in Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday, June 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - The top NATO commander in Afghanistan said Thursday that he is committed to reducing the loss of innocent lives to an absolute minimum.

Turkey's opposition tries to turn the AK party tide (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 10:15 AM PDT

Supporters of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) sit on top of a billboard as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses an election rally in Diyarbakir, in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey, June 1, 2011. The billboard reads Reuters - Watching Sebahattin Guney relax with a beer and a cigarette at a seafront cafe it is hard to understand why he feels under siege in his own country.

Myanmar prisoners' hunger strike worries Suu Kyi (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:52 AM PDT

U.S. Sen. John McCain, left, bids farewell to Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi at her lake-side home after holding talks Thursday, June 2, 2011, Yangon, Myanmar. McCain began a brief trip to Myanmar on Wednesday to assess the situation in the country after a new civilian government promising reform took over from a military junta several months ago. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has expressed concern about the health of some political prisoners who are staging a hunger strike.

Li to battle Schiavone in French Open final (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:50 AM PDT

China's Li Na hits a return to Russia's Maria Sharapova during their Women's semi final match in the French Open tennis championship at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Li won 6-4, 7-5.(AFP/Alexander Klein)AFP - China's Li Na will take on defending champion Francesca Schiavone of Italy in the French Open final after both scored straight sets victories on Thursday.

Pakistan bin Laden commission runs into trouble (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:50 AM PDT

A crashed military helicopter is seen near the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after a ground operation by US Special Forces in Abbottabad in May 2011. Pakistan's new commission into how bin Laden lived in the country undetected for so long ran into trouble Thursday as one appointee refused to take part and the political opposition criticised it.(AFP/File)AFP - Pakistan's new commission into how Osama bin Laden lived in the country undetected for so long ran into trouble Thursday as one appointee refused to take part and the political opposition criticised it.

Cricketer Afridi to 'face discipline committee' (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:14 AM PDT

Former Pakistani skipper Shahid Afridi has been summoned by the Pakistan Cricket Board to appear before a disciplinary committee next week for breaching its code of conduct, it said in a statement.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - The Pakistan Cricket Board Thursday summoned former Pakistani skipper Shahid Afridi to appear before a disciplinary committee next week for breaching its code of conduct, it said in a statement.

China denies 'incursion' in Philippine waters (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:06 AM PDT

A photo taken by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs in May 2011 shows a Chinese salvage and research ship is shown anchored in disputed South China Sea waters near the major Philippine island of Palawan. China on Thursday rejected Philippine allegations of recent illegal military incursions into Manila's territorial waters.(AFP/HO)AFP - China on Thursday rejected Philippine allegations of recent illegal military incursions into Manila's territorial waters.

Luggage stuffed with 431 reptiles found in Bangkok (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 08:55 AM PDT

Mud turtles crawl inside a basket as they are shown to the press during a news conference by Thai customs in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, June 2, 2011. Thai customs authorities say 431 turtles and other rare reptiles were stuffed into four suitcases and smuggled into the Bangkok airport. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - Thai customs authorities say 431 turtles and other rare reptiles were stuffed into four suitcases and smuggled into the Bangkok airport.

Japan's PM beats censure, hints at resignation (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 08:11 AM PDT

AP - Prime Minister Naoto Kan defeated a no-confidence motion Thursday over his handling of Japan's triple disasters, but the victory may be short lived — he said he is willing to resign once the country's recovery takes hold.

Sri Lanka army chief says execution video doctored (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:28 AM PDT

AP - Sri Lanka's army chief on Wednesday dismissed as "doctored" a video clip that shows soldiers shooting bound, blindfolded prisoners and abusing corpses in the final days of the country's 26-year civil war.

Philippines to file new UN protest on China (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 06:41 AM PDT

AP - The Philippines president says his country will file a new protest at the United Nations accusing China of territorial incursion in disputed South China Sea islands.

Thailand seeks to ban tourists' Buddha tattoos (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 04:52 AM PDT

In this March 19, 2011 photo, a foreign tourist has his tattoos admired during a tattoo festival at Wat Bang Pra in Nakhon Chaisi, Thailand. Thailand's Culture Minister Niphit Intharasombat has announced that foreign tourist should be banned from getting religious tattoos while visiting Thailand, saying the practice is culturally insensitive. 'Foreigners see these tattoos as a fashion,' Niphit said in the statement posted on his ministry's website Thursday, June 2, 2011. 'They do not think of respecting religion, or they may not be aware' that it can be offensive. As of yet the practice is still not illegal under Thai law. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Thailand's Culture Ministry says foreign tourists should be barred from getting Buddhist tattoos while visiting because the practice is culturally insensitive.

US soldiers cite buried toxic chemical in SKorea (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 03:44 AM PDT

South Korean technicians conduct a ground-penetrating radar survey of alleged burial of a highly toxic defoliant at Camp Carroll, a US army logistics base, in Waegwan in Chilgok county, 216-km (135 miles) southeast of Seoul, Thursday, June 2, 2011. South Korea and the United States are on a joint investigation after American veterans claimed they buried large amounts of Agent Orange at Camp Carroll in 1978. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je, Pool)AP - Steve House can't stop thinking about the day in 1978 when he says he helped bury toxic Agent Orange at a U.S. military base in South Korea, hauling rusting drums to a ditch from a warehouse that soldiers called "voodoo land."

4 SKoreans found dead in apparent group suicide (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 03:13 AM PDT

AP - Police say four South Koreans have been found dead in an apparent group suicide.

Vulture comeback: Rebirth among birds of death (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 02:33 AM PDT

In this April 26, 2011 photo, a young vulture flies while looking for food near a vulture restaurant in Dangplat, Cambodia. These super scavengers may be regarded as messengers of death and doom, but in Asia, it is they who have suffered one of the natural world's greatest population crashes of recent times. (AP Photo/Jonathan C Eames)AP - A wake of vultures perches on the bare branches of a towering tree, dark shapes silhouetted against a pale sky, sharp beaks and talons ready to tear apart a dead cow laid out in a Cambodian jungle clearing.

Gates: Obama aimed for unity on national security (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 02:00 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks to the media aboard his aircraft over the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Singapore, Wednesday, June 2, 2011. Gates is traveling to Asia and Europe on his last foreign trip as Secretary of Defense. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)AP - The first major reshaping of President Barack Obama's national security team, including new chiefs at the Pentagon, CIA and Joint Chiefs of Staff, took a full year of planning, with a focus on finding people who could work well together during wartime, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.

Report: China to name bishop without pope approval (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 01:26 AM PDT

AP - China's government-controlled Catholic church is preparing to ordain a new bishop, and the leading candidate is a priest who lacks the Vatican's backing, potentially adding fuel to a long-running feud between Beijing and the Holy See.
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