Thursday, February 2, 2012

Philippines: Most-wanted terror leaders killed (AP)

Philippines: Most-wanted terror leaders killed (AP)

Philippines: Most-wanted terror leaders killed (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 10:04 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 - The Philippine military said it killed Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants Thursday in a U.S.-backed airstrike marking one of the region's biggest anti-terrorism successes in recent years.

Plan to scale back U.S. Afghan role worries, surprises (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 09:37 AM PST

U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Company 2nd battalion 35th infantry regiment, Task Forces Bronco survey a village during a foot patrol in eastern Afghanistan Chaw Kay district in Kunar province, August 18, 2011. REUTERS/Nikola SolicReuters - U.S. forces will stop taking a lead role in combat operations in Afghanistan next year but continue to support Afghan combat missions under a plan announced by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that worried Afghans and surprised allies.

The $23 Android Tablet You Can Buy in India (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 09:01 AM PST

ContributorNetwork - You can buy it in India if you're a student, that is. According to Jamie Yap of ZDNet Asia, the Aakash tablet is priced at 2,200 rupees, or 45 U.S. dollars, while students pay a special subsidized price thanks to a government contract. 25,000 students have already requested one from the University of Mumbai, and more than 1.4 million people have ordered the tablet so far, with three new factories being set up to meet the demand.

Angelic "Steve Jobs" loves Android in Taiwan TV ad (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 08:43 AM PST

Reuters - He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one -- or at least that's the story a Jobs look-alike tells in a recent TV commercial for a Taiwanese electronics company's new product.

Snow paralyzes northern Japan; 3 die in avalanche (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 08:41 AM PST

A woman shovels snow from the roof of a house in Yuzawa, Niigata prefecture, north of Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. A storm coming in over the Sea of Japan brought snow and wind to Japan's west coast Wednesday. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - An avalanche has killed three bathers at a hot spring in northern Japan, where heavy snow also paralyzed traffic and forced schools to close.

Chernobyl experts hopeful on Fukushima (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 08:38 AM 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.

Myanmar's Suu Kyi postpones planned political trip (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 08:01 AM PST

AP - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has postponed a trip to central Myanmar because she could not obtain permission to hold a political gathering at a football stadium there, a party official said Thursday.

Supreme Court to charge Pakistani PM with contempt (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 07:41 AM PST

A Pakistan paramilitary soldier and women police officers stand guard at the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. The Supreme Court proceeds contempt of court against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for failing to carry out its order to reopen a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Pakistan's Supreme Court vowed Thursday to charge the prime minister with contempt for his failure to reopen an old corruption case against the president, ramping up a destabilizing political crisis just as Washington seeks to rebuild a troubled anti-terror alliance with the country.

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

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 07:15 AM 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.

Myanmar's Mon ethnic rebels agree on cease-fire (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 06:44 AM PST

AP - A mediator says Myanmar's government has reached a cease-fire agreement with another ethnic rebel group in its latest effort to ensure political stability.

Papua New Guinea ferry sinks with up to 350 aboard (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 05:56 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 - Rescuers plucked more than 230 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said.

US diplomat urges Vietnam to improve human rights (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 05:51 AM PST

AP - A senior U.S. diplomat says Vietnam should improve its human rights record in order to make progress in its relationship with the United States.

AP Interview: Kidnapped Filipino's daring escape (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 05:36 AM PST

In this photo taken on April 19, 2011, Filipino wildlife photographer Ivan Sarenas goes mountain-hiking in Palanan, Isabela northeast of the Philippines. Sarenas, who was seized with Swiss and Dutch tourists Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, during a bird-watching trip in the southernmost province of Tawi-Tawi said Thursday Feb. 2, 2012, he made a daring escape from a speeding boat driven by armed kidnappers when he sensed they could be moved to a southern island stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants notorious for ransom kidnappings. (AP Photo/Audie Dela Cruz)AP - As his kidnappers took him in a speeding boat toward a notorious militant stronghold in the southern Philippines, Ivan Sarenas decided that he would die if he didn't try to escape. When he saw some fishermen, he took his chance, diving deep and hoping his armed captors wouldn't shoot.

Tajik troops clash with heroin traffickers (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 04:53 AM PST

AP - Border troops in Tajikistan say they have clashed with a gang of heroin traffickers attempting to smuggle drugs into the country from neighboring Afghanistan.

Pakistan willing to push Taliban to make peace (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 04:16 AM PST

Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar speaks during a joint press conference with her Afghan counterpart Zalmai Rasool, unseen, at the foreign ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)AP - Pakistan's foreign minister said Thursday that the country would be willing to push the Taliban and their allies to make peace if asked to do so by the Afghan government, an action seen as key to the reconciliation process.

Nepal gov't monitors to hand checks to ex-rebels (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 03:36 AM PST

AP - Government monitors in Nepal on Thursday headed to camps where thousands of former Maoist rebels have lived for years to hand out checks to the ex-fighters, who are about to move back into society.

Kyrgyzstan seeks culprits over radioactive coal (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 02:25 AM PST

AP - Kyrgyzstan's government says it will reprimand officials responsible for allowing contaminated radioactive coal to be imported into the country from neighboring Kazakhstan.

South Korea to hand over apparent US war remains (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 01:58 AM PST

AP - South Korea says it will hand over to the United States what are believed to be the remains of an American soldier killed in the early days of the 1950-53 Korean War.

Global stocks extend 2-day rally on economy hopes (AP)

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 12:39 AM PST

Specialist trader Frank Masiello (R) wears a New York Giants football jersey on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange February 1, 2012. Wall Street has long been known as a place for trying to one-up one another regardless of how mundane the event, so it's natural that the Super Bowl - the biggest U.S. sporting event of the year - becomes a big event for casual betting. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)AP - Global stocks extended a rally Thursday amid investor optimism that the U.S. economy may grow more than previously expected this year.

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Posted: 02 Feb 2012 12:12 AM PST

AP - Supreme Court says it will charge Pakistani prime minister with contempt over corruption case.
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