This month America's deadliest in long Afghan war (AP)

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• This month America's deadliest in long Afghan war (AP)
• Japan's new leader Noda sparks wariness in China (AP)
• China announces plans to boost secret detention powers (Reuters)
• Former Gitmo detainee calls Sept. 11 'disgusting' (AP)
• SKorea's president replaces point man on NKorea (AP)
• Fruit and vegetables rot as hunger stalks India (AP)
• Talks on new US-Afghan pact strains relations (AP)
• Japan elects new PM, may be ruling party's last chance (Reuters)
• China low-fuel landing row reflects growing pains (AP)
• Rough seas stall rescue of 20 on ship off Taiwan (AP)
• 19 China miners rescued after week, 3 more missing (AP)
• Assailant subdued as police end China bus standoff (AP)
• 3 Australian commandos cleared of 6 Afghan deaths (AP)
• Powerful quake hits off East Timor; no damage (AP)
• Kashmir literary festival nixed after opposition (AP)
• Myanmar jails ex-army captain for dissent (AP)
• Pakistan: Bomber, companion die in premature blast (AP)
• China's air force to debut 2 new aerial teams (AP)
• Asian stocks rise on US spending data (AP)
• Cost of New Zealand quakes rises to $17 billion (AP)

This month America's deadliest in long Afghan war (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 10:59 AM PDT AP - August has become the deadliest month yet for U.S. forces in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, increasing pressure on the Obama administration to bring troops home sooner rather than later.

Japan's new leader Noda sparks wariness in China (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:57 AM PDT AP - Yoshihiko Noda was elected Tuesday as Japan's sixth prime minister in five years, facing such a staggering array of domestic problems that the last thing he needs is a sour relationship with China, his country's biggest trading partner.

China announces plans to boost secret detention powers (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:35 AM PDT Reuters - China wants to cement in law police powers to hold dissidents and other suspects of state security crimes in secret locations without telling their families, under draft legislation released on Tuesday that has been decried by rights advocates.

Former Gitmo detainee calls Sept. 11 'disgusting' (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:19 AM PDT AP - The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to plead guilty to a terrorism offense said in a television interview broadcast Tuesday that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States were a "disgusting act."

SKorea's president replaces point man on NKorea (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:19 AM PDT AP - South Korea's president replaced the conservative Cabinet minister who has handled North Korean relations in an appointment Tuesday seen as signaling his willingness to improve ties with Pyongyang after more than a year of troubling tension.

Fruit and vegetables rot as hunger stalks India (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:45 AM PDT AP - Sunil Sharma, a young tomato farmer in northern India, must navigate decripit roads, corrupt policemen and blazing heat to deliver his produce in an unrefrigerated truck to New Delhi's wholesale vegetable market.

Talks on new US-Afghan pact strains relations (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 04:16 AM PDT AP - A pact aimed at clearing up mistrust and confusion between Washington and Kabul about the future of U.S. troops and aid in Afghanistan has instead sowed more of the same.

Japan elects new PM, may be ruling party's last chance (Reuters) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:43 AM PDT Reuters - Japan's parliament voted in a new prime minister on Tuesday, perhaps the last, best chance for the ruling Democratic Party to begin pulling the country out of decades of stagnation.

China low-fuel landing row reflects growing pains (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:33 AM PDT AP - Aviation authorities have ordered stiff punishment for a local airline whose pilot refused to yield to a Qatar Airways jet requesting to land because it was short of fuel, highlighting growing concerns over safety in China's overcrowded skies.

Rough seas stall rescue of 20 on ship off Taiwan (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:24 AM PDT AP - Rough seas have stalled a rescue of 20 sailors on a Panama-registered oil freighter that became grounded off southern Taiwan during a typhoon.

19 China miners rescued after week, 3 more missing (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:13 AM PDT AP - Their faces black with coal dust, 19 miners trapped for a week underground were pulled to safety Tuesday in northeastern China as rescuers searched for three missing colleagues.

Assailant subdued as police end China bus standoff (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:35 AM PDT AP - Chinese police subdued a knife-wielding assailant and freed a busload of passengers he'd taken captive Tuesday outside a major eastern city, authorities and state media reported.

3 Australian commandos cleared of 6 Afghan deaths (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:31 AM PDT AP - All charges have been dropped against three commandos who faced Australian courts-martial over the deaths of five children and an adult during a night raid on a home in Afghanistan in 2009, officials said Tuesday.

Powerful quake hits off East Timor; no damage (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:28 AM PDT AP - A powerful earthquake hit waters off East Timor on Tuesday, but officials said it was too deep to trigger a tsunami. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

Kashmir literary festival nixed after opposition (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 11:24 PM PDT AP - Indian Kashmir's first major literature festival has been canceled after several writers and artists said it would give a false impression about the existence of basic freedoms in the troubled region.

Myanmar jails ex-army captain for dissent (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 11:13 PM PDT AP - A special court inside Myanmar's Insein prison has sentenced an ex-army captain to 10 years imprisonment for writing and sending critical articles to the Democratic Voice of Burma and other dissident groups.

Pakistan: Bomber, companion die in premature blast (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 09:43 PM PDT AP - A senior police official says a suspected suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle in Pakistan's largest city prematurely detonated his explosives, killing himself and his companion.

China's air force to debut 2 new aerial teams (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 09:41 PM PDT AP - China's air force will debut two new aerial demonstration teams this week as part of its growing sophistication and increasingly prominent public role, the Defense Ministry announced Tuesday.

Asian stocks rise on US spending data (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 07:46 PM PDT AP - Asian markets opened higher Tuesday, as investors took heart from strong consumer spending in the U.S. and a merger of two major banks in debt-stricken Greece.

Cost of New Zealand quakes rises to $17 billion (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 05:16 PM PDT AP - The cost of the deadly sequence of earthquakes in the New Zealand city of Christchurch has gone up, and will now likely top $17 billion.

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