Friday, February 3, 2012

Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life in prison (AP)

Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life in prison (AP)

Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life in prison (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:44 AM PST

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, former Khmer Rouge S-21 prison commander Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, greets judges on his arrival in the courtroom for a session of U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as the court gives verdict on appeal filed by Duch against his conviction Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. Duch was sentenced last July to 35 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 'killing fields' regime of the 1970s. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nhet Sok Heng) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - A U.N.-backed tribunal's Supreme Court lengthened the sentence for the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer to life imprisonment on Friday because of his "shocking and heinous" crimes against the Cambodian people.

More leaks found at crippled Japan nuclear plant (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:20 AM PST

AP - Leaks of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was declared basically stable.

Filipino troops still searching for terrorist (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:10 AM PST

Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Col. Marcelo Burgos shows a picture of Malaysian Zulkipli bin Hir, also known as Marwan, a top leader of the regional, al Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network, during a press conference Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. The military said it killed Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants Thursday in a U.S.-backed airstrike that would mark one of the region's biggest anti-terror successes in recent years. The dead included Zulkipli bin Hir, leader of the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf militants, Umbra Jumdail, and a Singaporean leader in Jemaah Islamiyah, Abdullah Ali. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - A day after proclaiming the death of a top regional terrorist suspect in a U.S.-backed airstrike, the Philippine military acknowledged Friday that his remains still have not been found.

Gas blast kills 11 coal miners in southwest China (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:46 AM PST

AP - State media say an explosion at a coal mine in southwestern China has killed 11 miners and injured six.

Philippines: No ransom demand yet for 2 Europeans (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:43 AM PST

In this Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012 photo released by the Tawi-Tawi Provincial Police Office, Dutch Ewold Horn, left, Swiss Lorenzo Vinciguerra, center, and Filipino wildlife photographer Ivan Sarenas, gather at an undisclosed place in the southernmost island province of Tawi-Tawi in the Philippines before heading out to a mountain forest to take pictures of the rare Sulu hornbill. The three were heading back to the provincial capital of Bongao when abducted by five gunmen Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Sarenas escaped by jumping overboard. (AP Photo/Tawi-Tawi Police Provincial Office) NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Police said Friday that local thugs, not al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf militants, were likely to have abducted two European tourists this week in the southern Philippines.

Nepal's ex-rebel fighters begin leaving camps (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:59 AM PST

AP - Nepal's former communist rebel fighters began leaving the camps they have called home for five years on Friday after receiving government checks as part of a plan to integrate them into society.

More than 110 missing from Papua New Guinea ferry (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:34 AM PST

Three life rafts from the MV Rabaul Queen float above the sunken hull of the ferry in the open waters off Papua New Guinea Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Rescuers plucked more than 200 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after the ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said. (AP Photo/Post Courier) PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUTAP - More than 110 people were missing Friday after a ferry sank off Papua New Guinea's east coast, and rescuers feared many had been trapped inside.

Old land mine kills 8 Cambodian farmers (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:24 AM PST

AP - Eight farmers have died after their tractor ran over an anti-tank mine left over from Cambodia's 1980s civil war.

Pakistani Taliban kill 7 soldiers, abduct 4 (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:11 AM PST

A Pakistani man washes clothes at a local washing pool in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)AP - A large group of Islamist militants attacked a Pakistani army checkpoint near the Afghan border on Friday, killing seven paramilitary soldiers and abducting four, a government official and a spokesman for the insurgents said.

Analysis: India's military build up may be too little too late? (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:36 AM PST

Reuters - India's 1.3 million-strong armed forces, hobbled by outdated equipment and slow decision-making, are undergoing an overhaul as defence priorities shift to China from traditional rival Pakistan.

Chinese lawyer barred from meeting with Merkel (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:23 AM PST

AP - A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer said Friday that Beijing police prevented him from meeting with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a sign of continuing heavy restrictions on the country's beleaguered rights advocates.

Japanese entrepreneurs aim for Silicon Valley (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 01:31 AM PST

In this Dec. 1, 2011 photo, Noaoki Shibata, a co-founder of the AppGrooves, an iPhone application discovery tool, holds a smart phone in Tokyo. Small but growing numbers of Japanese entrepreneurs are jumping into the startup scene in northern California, particularly since the earthquake and tsunami last March. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - For an emerging generation of Japanese innovators, the dream isn't a job for life at a big company. They have new ambitions, and they're determined to go places. Especially Silicon Valley.

World stock markets fall ahead of US jobs report (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:32 AM PST

A specialist trader watches his screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, February 3, 2012. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)AP - World stock markets were mostly lower Friday ahead of a U.S. jobs report that is a key gauge of how robust the world's No. 1 economy is.

Oil hovers above $96 ahead of key US jobs report (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 12:16 AM PST

FILE- A gas pipeline worker, checks the valves at the gas pumping station at Pisarevka, Russia, in this file photo dated Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. European nations, that get much of their natural gas supplies from a trans-Russia-Ukraine pipeline, reported significant cutbacks in supplies Thursday Feb. 2, 2012, although the cut is disputed by Ukraine, as winter temperatures across Europe plunged to record lows. (AP Photo/Svetlana Kozlenko, file)AP - Oil prices hovered above $96 a barrel Friday in Asia as traders awaited a key jobs report for evidence about the strength of the U.S. economy.

Train hits bulldozer, derails in India; 3 dead (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 09:53 PM PST

AP - A railway official says a train hit a bulldozer and derailed in northeastern India, killing three passengers.

North Korea opens door to talks with South Korea (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 08:39 PM PST

CORRECTS SPELLING OF COLONEL'S NAME - Ri Son Gwon, left, a colonel working for the Policy Department of North Korea’s National Defense Commission, accompanied by an unidentified official, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Pyongyang Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The powerful defense commission issued a list of nine conditions for resuming talks with the South, including demands that South Korea apologize for failing to show proper respect to Kim Jong Il during the mourning period that followed the leader's Dec. 17 death. 'If clear answers are given, dialogue will resume immediately, and the inter-Korean relations that have been moving toward complete destruction will improve,' Ri told The AP. (AP Photo)AP - North Korea is open to immediate talks with rival South Korea if Seoul responds to several preconditions for dialogue, a North Korean military official told The Associated Press on Thursday.

A look at major terror attacks in Southeast Asia (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 06:27 PM PST

AP - A look at major attacks in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia attributed to the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group and their allies from the regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah.

Chernobyl experts hopeful on Fukushima (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 06:26 PM PST

Oleg Nasvit, principal expert of Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies Environmental and Technogenic Safety Department, right, and Dmytro Bobro, first deputy head of Ukraine's State Agency for Exclusion Chernobyl NPP Zone Management, speak at each other during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The Ukrainian nuclear experts said residents of Fukushima who had to flee their homes after the Fukushima nuclear crisis should be able to return home as long as cleanup and close monitoring are ensured. They said such a decision should be based on radiation dose levels rather than distance from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, where three of its six reactors suffered meltdowns after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami destroyed power and cooling systems. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Ukrainian nuclear experts say Japanese evacuated from around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant should be able to return to their homes — unlike the Chernobyl site, which remains inside a wide no-go zone a quarter-century after the accident there.
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