Friday, December 30, 2011

Kim Jong Il's presence is felt in series of images (AP)

Kim Jong Il's presence is felt in series of images (AP)

Kim Jong Il's presence is felt in series of images (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:45 AM PST

AP - It's hard to imagine a North Korea without Kim Jong Il, who led the nation for 17 years until his death in December.

US wants 2012 talks for Taliban political office (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:34 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in New York. The Obama administration hopes to restore momentum in the spring to U.S. talks with the Taliban insurgency that had reached a critical point before falling apart this month because of objections from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, U.S. and Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - The Obama administration hopes to restore momentum in the spring to U.S. talks with the Taliban insurgency that had reached a critical point before falling apart this month because of objections from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, U.S. and Afghan officials said.

Maldives closes hundreds of luxury resort spas (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:27 AM PST

AP - Maldives ordered hundreds of its luxury resorts to close their spas nearly a week after a protest led by opposition parties demanding a halt to "anti-Islamic" activities, the government said Friday.

Myanmar sets parliamentary by-election for April 1 (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:02 AM PST

AP - Myanmar set parliamentary by-elections for April 1, scheduling a highly anticipated vote that will return pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party to mainstream politics after two decades.

Turkey's PM pledges full probe into deadly raid (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:43 AM PST

Reuters - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Friday promised a full investigation into airstrikes on the Iraqi border that killed 35 villagers whom the military had mistaken for Kurdish militants - an attack that has infuriated minority Kurds in Turkey and Iraq.

Pakistan judicial commission to probe memo scandal (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:35 AM PST

Asma Jehangir, the lawyer of Pakistan's former ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani, talks to the media at Supreme Court, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan state television says the Supreme Court has set up a three-judge commission to investigate a secret memo scandal that threatens the government. The government had opposed the court investigation, announced Friday, claiming it was unnecessary because parliament was already looking into the matter. The scandal centers on a memo sent to Washington in May asking for help in stopping a supposed military coup in the wake of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Pakistan's Supreme Court set up a judicial commission Friday to investigate a secret memo scandal that threatens the government, lawyers said, dealing a blow to the country's leaders, who have argued that such a probe is unnecessary.

Car-bombing in Pakistan's Quetta kills at least 8 (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:29 AM PST

Reuters - A bomber remotely detonated an explosive-laden car outside the home of a Pakistani former minister, killing at least eight people and wounding 30, police officials in the city of Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan, said on Friday.

Turkish Kurds vent fury over botched air strike (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 10:48 AM PST

People carry the coffins of victims as thousands of mourners gathered in Gulyazi village at the border with Iraq, southeast Turkey, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 for the funerals of 35 Kurdish civilians who were killed in a botched raid by Turkish military jets that mistook the group for Kurdish rebels based in Iraq. Turkish television footage showed people, many weeping and lamenting the dead, as they gathered after the air strikes Wednesday that killed a group of smugglers along the border, one of the deadliest episodes in the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebels who took up arms in 1984.(AP Photo)AP - Turkish Kurds vented their rage Friday over a botched military airstrike aimed at Kurdish rebels that instead killed 35 civilians, with thousands lamenting the dead at funerals and scores clashing with police at demonstrations.

'Octomom' case stuns one-child public in China (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:08 AM PST

AP - The photo was undeniably cute: a studio portrait of eight babies in identical onesies and perky white cotton hats, sporting an array of expressions from giggly to goofy, baffled to bawling.

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Posted: 30 Dec 2011 07:02 AM PST

AP - Police: Car bomb explodes outside home of politician in southwest Pakistan, killing 9 people.

Samoa skips Friday in leap across int'l date line (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 06:31 AM PST

Map locates Samoa; country plans to move their calendar forward one day by moving across the International DatelineAP - The weekend came sooner than usual for the tiny South Pacific island nation of Samoa.

North Korea vows no softening under its new leader (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 05:18 AM PST

In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, a commemorative postage stamp featuring late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and his son Kim Jong Un is shown. The words on the top read 'The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il will always be with us.' (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSIONAP - North Korea warned the world Friday there would be no softening of its position toward South Korea's government after Kim Jong Il's death as Pyongyang strengthened his son and heir's authority with a new title: Great Leader.

Suspect confesses to biggest China corruption case (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 04:47 AM PST

AP - Prosecutors said Friday they indicted a former fugitive at the center of China's biggest corruption scandal and that he has confessed to bribery and smuggling.

NATO soldier killed, Afghan casualties mount (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 04:22 AM PST

An Afghan refugee child, center, sits in a cart left in an alley of a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - A NATO service member died Friday in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, while allied and Afghan forces killed three senior Taliban figures and captured 11 fighters and sympathizers, the alliance said.

11 killed as Cyclone Thane hits southeast India (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:29 AM PST

People run for cover from heavy winds in Pondicherry, India, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. India's weather office has warned residents along parts of the country's southeastern coast that Cyclone Thane is likely to cause heavy rains and gale-force winds. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)AP - A cyclone brought heavy rains and gale-force winds to India's southeastern coast, killing at least 11 people, uprooting trees and damaging homes.

Camera at nature reserve spies panda eating meat (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:14 AM PST

AP - A camera at a Chinese nature reserve has spied a wild panda eating meat.

World stocks waver on last trading day of 2011 (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 02:08 AM PST

Participants conduct a traditional handclap at the end of the ceremony to wrap up the year's trading at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost nearly a fifth of its value over the past year. It nose-dived right after the March 11 tsunami and earthquake disaster, recouped some of those losses in July, but then started a decline that has the benchmark hovering at below the March value. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Global stock markets were mixed Friday on 2011's last trading day and turned in heavy losses for the year after Europe's debt crisis and natural disasters battered a struggling global economy. Japan's benchmark hit its lowest close in 29 years.

Virus sickens 110,000 in Vietnam, kills 166 (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 01:38 AM PST

AP - Vietnam says an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease has infected more than 110,000 people this year and killed 166, most of them children under 5 years old.

Philippine police rescue dogs, raid slaughterhouse (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 11:13 PM PST

AP - Police in the northern Philippines say they've rescued dozens of dogs that were on their way to a slaughterhouse.

Thai flood death toll hits 780 (AP)

Posted: 29 Dec 2011 10:16 PM PST

AP - Thai authorities say the death toll from floods that devastated vast parts of north and central Thailand has reached 780 confirmed dead with three people still missing.
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