Sunday, January 29, 2012

29 Chinese missing after militant attack in Sudan (AP)

29 Chinese missing after militant attack in Sudan (AP)

29 Chinese missing after militant attack in Sudan (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 09:06 AM PST

AP - Militants apparently captured 29 Chinese workers after attacking a remote worksite in a volatile region of Sudan, and Sudanese forces were increasing security for Chinese projects and personnel there, China said Sunday.

Myanmar's Suu Kyi calls for changes to constitution (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 07:54 AM PST

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers her speech to supporters from her car as she arrives Sunday, Jan.2 9, 2012, in Dawei, about 615 km (380 miles) south of Yangon, Myanmar. Thousands of supporters in Myanmar's countryside cheered opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during her first campaign tour for parliament Sunday, highlighting how quickly and dramatically politics is changing in this long-repressed Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)Reuters - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on Sunday for changes to the military-drafted constitution, on her first political trip since ending a boycott of the country's political system last year and announcing plans to run for parliament.

Suu Kyi galvanizes once-repressed Myanmar politics (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 06:36 AM PST

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, waves her hand to supporters on her arrival in Dawei, about 615 km (380 miles) south of Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Thousands of supporters in Myanmar's countryside cheered opposition leader Suu Kyi on Sunday as she made a political tour ahead of by-elections, highlighting how quickly and dramatically politics is changing in the long-repressed Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - Euphoric seas of supporters waved opposition party flags and offered yellow garlands. They lined crumbling roads for miles and climbed atop trees, cars and roofs as Aung San Suu Kyi spoke at impromptu rallies. Some cried as her convoy passed.

Firing of TV host a victory for Pakistani liberals (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 06:35 AM PST

FILE - In this May 25, 2010 file photo, a Pakistani couple walk by the sea on Clinfton beach in Karachi, Pakistan. In a rare victory for Pakistani liberals, a private TV station decided to fire a popular morning show host after she sparked outrage by running around a public park trying to expose young, unmarried couples hanging out, a taboo in this conservative Muslim country.(AP Photo/Shakil Adil, File)AP - In a rare victory for Pakistani liberals, a private TV station decided to fire a popular morning show host after she sparked outrage by running around a public park trying to expose young, unmarried couples hanging out, a taboo in this conservative Muslim country.

Ruling party gets expected win in Cambodian Senate (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 05:00 AM PST

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen shows off his inked finger after casting his ballot in Senate elections in Ta Khmau, Kandal province, central Cambodia, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Hun Sen's party was expected to sweep Senate elections in a vote that is closed to the general population and criticized for lacking credibility. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's party secured an expected victory at Senate elections Sunday, according to preliminary results following the vote that was closed to the general population and criticized for lacking credibility.

Police open fire at Bangladesh protesters, 3 dead (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 04:41 AM PST

AP - Police fired guns and used batons on crowds of stone-throwing opposition activists in several Bangladesh towns Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100, a news report and doctors at two hospitals said.

Pakistan's PM reassures political crisis has eased (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 02:32 AM PST

A man with his hands decorated with henna wears a flower-shaped 100 Pakistan rupee ($1) bill before a mass wedding ceremony in Karachi January 29, 2012. A total of 50 couples from the rural coastal area of Karachi took wedding vows during a mass ceremony, funded by non-government organizations. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY)Reuters - A political crisis in the past three months that has seen the worst tension between Pakistan's government and military since a coup in 1999 appears to have eased -- for now -- with a delicate balance of power re-established, observers said.

Beijing air pollution soars with fireworks smoke (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 02:20 AM PST

FILE - In this Monday Jan. 23, 2012 file photo, a man prepares firecrackers on the Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve in Beijing, China. Clouds of smoke from Lunar New Year fireworks sent air pollution in Beijing soaring under a new more sensitive measurement system, reports said Sunday, Jan. 29. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)AP - Clouds of smoke from Lunar New Year fireworks sent air pollution readings soaring in the more sensitive measurement system Beijing started using a little more than a week ago, reports said Sunday.

Sudan rebels say holding 29 Chinese workers (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 02:03 AM PST

Reuters - Rebels in Sudan's oil-producing border state of South Kordofan said on Sunday they were holding Chinese workers for their own safety after a battle with the Sudanese army.

China paper says punish Philippines over US ties (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 01:45 AM PST

AP - An official Chinese newspaper says Beijing must punish the Philippines economically for proposing closer military ties with Washington.

Ex-soldier behind Papua New Guinea mutiny arrested (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2012 12:17 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2011 file photo, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Neill addresses the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York. Rebel soldiers seized the military's headquarters Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 and replaced Papua New Guinea's top defense official with their own leader, who gave O'Neill a week to step aside for his ousted predecessor. The self-proclaimed new leader of the country's defense forces, retired Col. Yaura Sasa, insisted he was not mounting a coup. But he warned that the military will take unspecified action unless O'Neill stands down and former prime minister Sir Michael Somare, is reinstated, as the national Supreme Court ordered last month. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)AP - A retired colonel who attempted to take over Papua New Guinea's military and ordered the prime minister to step down has been arrested and charged with mutiny.

Can NATO force weather France's faster exit? (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 11:38 PM PST

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, center, France's Defence and Veterans Minister Gerard Longuet, left, and French General and Paris military governor Bruno Dary, right, pay tribute to the Unknown soldier's tomb, at the Arc of Triomphe, in Paris, Friday Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure, Pool)AP - France's call for a speedier NATO exit from Afghanistan reflects the depth of war fatigue in the West and raises fears that other countries in the U.S.-led coalition will succumb to rising political pressure and pull their troops home early.

China leader stresses communist control over army (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 07:08 PM PST

AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao is stressing the ruling Communist Party's ultimate control over China's rapidly modernizing military.

Despair, crackdowns breed more violence in Tibet (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 06:01 PM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, Tibetan Buddhist monks hold pictures of Tibetans they claim were allegedly shot by Chinese security forces earlier this week, during a candlelight vigil in Dharamsala, India. Three deadly clashes with Chinese security forces in January mark an escalation of a Tibetan protest movement that had expressed itself through scattered individual self-immolations, reflecting both the growing desperation of Tibetans and the harsh response by police. (AP Photo/Angus McDonald, File)AP - A young man posts his photo with a leaflet demanding freedom for Tibet and telling Chinese police, come and get me. Protesters rise up to defend him, and demonstrations break out in two other Tibetan areas of western China to support the same cause.
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