Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Lower Indian house passes anti-graft bill (AP)

Lower Indian house passes anti-graft bill (AP)

Lower Indian house passes anti-graft bill (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:43 AM PST

Supporters of Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare sing at a protest in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. Hazare began a three-day hunger strike in Mumbai Tuesday even as the country's Parliament prepared to debate legislation to create an anti-corruption watchdog. Hazare, who claims inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi has called his protest against corruption the second freedom struggle and has fasted three times already to garner support for his demands. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)AP - The powerful lower house of India's Parliament passed a contentious anti-corruption bill Tuesday after hours of fierce debate even as a protest leader began a three-day hunger strike demanding Parliament adopt his tougher proposals.

Afghanistan would accept Taliban office in Qatar (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:10 AM PST

AP - President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that his government would accept Taliban insurgents' opening a representative office in the Gulf state of Qatar for the purpose of holding peace talks, although Saudi Arabia or Turkey would be preferable venues.

Funeral for North Korean leader amid worry about future (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 10:08 AM PST

Reuters - North Korea will hold a funeral procession on Wednesday for its deceased "dear leader", Kim Jong-il, making way for his son, Kim Jong-un, to become the third member of the family to run the isolated and unpredictable Asian country.

No-man's land attests to Japan's nuclear nightmare (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 08:58 AM PST

In this July 10, 2011 photo, traffic lights blink on the deserted main street in the radiation-contaminated and abandoned town of Namie, Japan. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)AP - Fukushima was just emerging from the snows of winter when the disaster hit — a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, the strongest in Japan's recorded history, followed by a tsunami.

What to expect at NKorea funeral for Kim Jong Il (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 08:39 AM PST

In this Dec. 26, 2011 image made from KRT television, Kim Jong Un, center, North Korea's next leader and the son of late leader Kim Jong Il, cries as he pays respect to the body of his father in a glass coffin, not in photo, at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/KRT via APTN) TV OUT, NORTH KOREA OUTAP - Wailing and sobbing mourners beat their chests and dropped to their knees as North Korean President Kim Il Sung's hearse, draped with a red flag and bedecked with white magnolias, crawled through the streets of Pyongyang in 1994.

China premier urges protection of farmers' rights (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 07:50 AM PST

AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has urged officials to share profits from the development of rural land with the millions of farmers who have to give it up.

India tycoon's got tons of cash, nowhere to invest (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 07:12 AM PST

In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2011 photo, billionaire Indian tycoon Ajay Piramal speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in Mumbai, India. In May last year, Piramal's healthcare business sold its generic drug operations to U.S. pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories for $3.8 billion. Piramal was eager to set that cash pile to work and wanted to expand one of his chemical plants, but was told it would take five years. With the country mired in corruption, bureaucratic red tape and unclear and changing government policies, many of the men who made their billions here are saying maybe it's time to quit India. It's got to be easier to do business elsewhere. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - Ajay Piramal is sitting on a mountain of cash. Yet the billionaire Indian tycoon, working in one of the world's fastest growing economies, is struggling to figure out what to do with the money.

Pakistani president warns top court in scandal (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 06:47 AM PST

A Pakistan Air Force cadet is silhouetted while he stands guard during a change of guard ceremony to mark the 135th anniversary of the birth of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, at the Jinnah mausoleum in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)AP - Pakistan's president on Tuesday warned the Supreme Court not to take action in violation of the constitution, referring to a judicial hearing into a secret memo seeking to rein in the powerful military, a scandal that threatens the Pakistani leader.

Greece: Top prosecutor probes Turkey-arson claim (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 06:33 AM PST

AP - Greece's top prosecutor on Tuesday ordered an emergency inquiry into a Turkish newspaper report that Turkish government-funded agents set forest fires in Greece in the mid-1990s.

NKorea: Economic agreements discussed with South (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 06:17 AM PST

Members of the South Korean mourners group including Chairwoman of Hyundai Group Hyun Jeong-eun, center, pay their respects over the body of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Dec. 26, 2011. (AP Photo)AP - A South Korean mourning delegation returned home Tuesday after meeting with North Korea's next leader, who has rapidly gained prominence since his father's death.

Japanese judo champ charged with rape (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 03:14 AM PST

AP - Japanese prosecutors have filed rape charges against a two-time Olympic judo gold medalist.

Philippine storm death toll goes down to 1,249 (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:41 AM PST

A Philippine army medic wearing a Santa hat prepares to examine a baby during a medical mission for flash flood victims at an evacuation center in Cagayan de Oro city, southern Philippines on Christmas day Sunday Dec. 25, 2011. Thousands of residents continue to be housed in evacuation centers after flash floods brought about by tropical storm Washi, that washed away their homes and killed more than a thousand people. The government disaster agency NDRRMC said more than a thousand others remain missing. (AP Photo/Froilan Gallardo)AP - Philippine disaster management officials say the number of people who died in massive flash floods in the southern Mindanao region a week ago was smaller than earlier reported.

Repairs to stricken boat in Antarctica going well (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:05 AM PST

AP - Repairs were going well on a damaged Russian fishing ship listing in frigid waters off Antarctica for 11 days, New Zealand authorities said.

Japan eases ban on weapons exports (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 01:23 AM PST

AP - Japan on Tuesday announced a decision to ease its decades-long weapons export ban in a bid to lower purchase and production costs and take part in arms-development projects with other countries.

China: Mildewed feed behind toxin in milk (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:42 AM PST

AP - Mildewed feed given to cows caused the high levels of a cancer-causing toxin found in milk from China's biggest dairy company and a smaller one, according to a government safety agency investigating the troubled dairy industry's latest scandal.

Facebook unwelcome in Vietnam, but Zuckerberg OK (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2011 11:43 PM PST

AP - Vietnam may block its citizens from using Facebook, but that didn't stop website founder Mark Zuckerberg from spending his vacation in the communist country.
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