Saturday, September 24, 2011

Afghan police: Gunmen kill German, Afghan citizens (AP)

Afghan police: Gunmen kill German, Afghan citizens (AP)

Afghan police: Gunmen kill German, Afghan citizens (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 10:28 AM PDT

Afghan men leave after a funeral service for former president Burhanuddin Rabbani at the presidential palace mosque in Kabul September 24, 2011. REUTERS/Omar SobhaniAP - Afghan police say militants have killed a German tourist and an Afghan civilian in a relatively stable area of central Afghanistan.

Rabbani death shuts Afghan "door of stability": colleague (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 10:17 AM PDT

Reuters - The killing of chief peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani has robbed Afghanistan of the only figure with the range of international contacts to end the conflict there, an influential Arab colleague said on Saturday.

Time ticking for Assad in Syria: Turkey's Erdogan (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 10:13 AM PDT

Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will be ousted "sooner or later" by his own people as the time of dictatorial rule fades around the world, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said.

Afghan police say gunmen kill German tourist (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 09:28 AM PDT

Reuters - Unknown gunmen killed a German tourist and his Afghan companion in central Afghanistan on Saturday and wounded two other Afghans when they opened fire on the van the tourist was traveling in, a senior police officer said.

2 Filipino maids for Gadhafi relative return home (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 06:42 AM PDT

Filipina maids Diana Jill Rivera, right, and Mary Ann Ducos huddle together upon their arrival Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011 in suburban Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines. The two Filipina maids who had fled the house of a relative of ousted Libyan leader Moamar Gadhafi with nothing but the clothes on their back have returned home to the Philippines. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - Two Filipino maids returned home Saturday after making a daring escape from their employer in Libya, a relative of ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Dalai Lama: will spell out reincarnation details (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 06:33 AM PDT

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures as he arrives to lead a prayer session attended by leaders of the four Tibetan Buddhist sects and pre-Buddhism Bon in Dharmsala, India, Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. Dalai Lama said that the leaders were discussing his reincarnation among other religious issues during a three-day meet in Dharmsala ending Saturday. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)AP - The Dalai Lama said Saturday if he is to be reincarnated he will leave clear written instructions about the process, but that the matter is unlikely to come up for a number of years.

AP Enterprise: In Myanmar, living in fear of army (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 05:03 AM PDT

In this Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011 photo, Sai Noom Mong, a 15-year old Shan teenager, speaks during an interview at a dorm in the Shan State Army headquarters of Loi Tai Leng in Myanmar's Shan state. The soldiers arrived unexpectedly in the teen's village in eastern Myanmar with a brutal message: Leave your homes, they told hundreds of startled residents, or we'll burn them to the ground. Fearful of their fate but too frail to flee themselves, the his parents made a painful decision the following night. They secretly delivered their son to sympathetic rebels from their minority Shan ethnic group and said goodbye, unsure if they'd ever see him again. He arrived in May after an arduous monthlong escape through the forest on foot and has lived as an orphan ever since. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - The soldiers arrived unexpectedly in 15-year-old Sai Noom Mong's village in eastern Myanmar with a brutal message: Leave your homes, they told hundreds of startled residents, or we'll burn them to the ground.

Military dogs and handlers patrol in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 04:25 AM PDT

In this Sept. 14, 2011 photo, a U.S. Marine dog handler works with military working dog Fuli, at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Handlers and their dogs, that sniff for explosives or narcotics or track down wanted persons, patrol together, day after day. Sometimes, they sleep side by side in military cots. They face the same dangers together. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - After the suicide bombing, the U.S. Marine dog handler lay on a stretcher, his bloodied legs laced with shrapnel. They brought in his wounded dog, too. Blood dripped from the haunches of the Belgian Malinois.

Pakistan warns US against hot pursuit on its soil (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 04:24 AM PDT

Pakistani protesters shout slogans at an anti-American rally in Multan, Pakistan on Friday, Sept 23, 2011. Pakistan lashed out at the U.S. for accusing the country's most powerful intelligence agency of supporting extremist attacks against American targets in Afghanistan — the most serious allegations against Islamabad since the beginning of the Afghan war. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)AP - Pakistan's foreign minister on Saturday warned the United States against sending ground troops to her country to fight an Afghan militant group that America alleges is used as a proxy by Pakistan's top intelligence agency for attacks in neighboring Afghanistan.

U.S. to provide drones to Turkey: Erdogan (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 03:00 AM PDT

Reuters - The United States has agreed in principle to deploy U.S. Predator drones on Turkish soil to aid in the fight against Kurdish separatist rebels, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said.

Explosion inside car wash kills 3 people in SKorea (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:23 AM PDT

AP - South Korean fire officials say an explosion inside a car wash has killed two drivers and an employee at a gas station in a city south of Seoul.

Australian man charged in 'collar bomb' hoax (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:24 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2011 file photo, Paul Douglas Peters, left, of Sydney, Australia, is escorted from the Federal Courthouse in Louisville, Ky., after he was arraigned in connection with a bomb hoax in Australia. The Australian man accused of chaining a fake bomb to a teenage girl's neck as part of an extortion attempt is being extradited from the U.S. to Australia. New South Wales police said Friday Sept. 23, 2011 that Australian detectives were sent to the U.S. to assist in the extradition (AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, Sam Upshaw Jr., File)AP - An Australian investment banker accused of chaining a fake bomb to a teenage girl's neck in a bizarre extortion attempt was charged Saturday with kidnapping and other offenses after being extradited from the U.S.

Massacred village in Indonesia awaits Dutch amends (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:34 PM PDT

In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 photo, Cawi binti Baisa gestures at the heroes' cemetery in Rawagede, West Java , Indonesia. Six decades after dutch troops massacred hundreds of men and boys in the village, relatives of the dead are still waiting for justice and compensation. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)AP - Six decades have passed, but Kadun bin Siot's voice still trembles as he recalls the morning Dutch troops surrounded his tiny Indonesian village and nearly wiped out its entire male population.
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