Monday, August 27, 2012

Taliban behead 17 at party in Afghanistan: officials

Taliban behead 17 at party in Afghanistan: officials

Taliban behead 17 at party in Afghanistan: officials

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 10:39 AM PDT

Taliban insurgents are active in Helmand province and they have in the past been blamed for beheading local villagersTaliban insurgents beheaded 17 civilians, including two women, who were holding a party with music in a southern Afghanistan village, officials said Monday.

Myanmar president announces Cabinet reshuffle

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Myanmar's president announced a major Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, a move analysts see as advancing the once-pariah nation's reformist agenda.

Insurgents behead 17 Afghan civilians at a party

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 09:24 AM PDT

Insurgents attacked a large party in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan and beheaded 17 people, officials said on Monday.

Myanmar president shakes up reformist government

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 08:25 AM PDT

Thein Sein has overseen many dramatic changes since taking officeMyanmar's president reshuffled his cabinet on Monday, his office announced, in a long-awaited move seen as promoting reform-minded allies and sidelining a prominent hardliner.

3 traffic accidents leave 56 dead in China

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 08:22 AM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the burnt wreckage of a double-decker sleeper bus and a tanker loaded with highly-flammable methanol sit on a highway in Yan'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi province on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. The 39-seat bus rammed into the tanker early Sunday, causing both vehicles to burst into flames and killing 36 people, state media said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Yibo) NO SALESA commercial van slammed into a truck Monday in northwest China, killing nine people and bringing the overall death toll to 56 in three big accidents on the country's notoriously dangerous roads over the past two days.

Japan ambassador targeted in China amid protests

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:36 AM PDT

Uichiro Niwa was not hurt in the attackThe car carrying Japan's ambassador to China was targeted in Beijing on Monday by a man who ripped off the vehicle's national flag, prompting a protest by Tokyo, Japanese officials said.

World stocks stall without central bank moves

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:01 AM PDT

A electronic stock price board shows the 7.45 percent nosedive of Samsung Electronics Co. share price, to 1,180,000 won (US$1,039.65 ), at a bank in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Asian markets drifted lower Monday in early trading as Apple's court victory in a high-stakes patent dispute sent shares of Samsung Electronics and its affiliates into a tailspin. The letters on a screen read " Samsung Electronics Co". (AP Photo/Yonhap, Suh Myung-gon) KOREA OUTGlobal stock markets stalled Monday as the absence of stimulus action by central banks in the U.S. and China dismayed investors while signs of a weakening economy in Germany showed the increasing impact that the eurozone debt crisis is having.

Pakistani court gives PM more time to obey order

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 06:21 AM PDT

Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf waves upon his arrival at the Supreme Court for a hearing in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Ashraf appeared at Supreme Court to explain why he has not followed instructions from a panel of judges to reopen an old corruption case against the country's president, Asif Ali Zardari. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)Pakistan's top court on Monday gave the country's prime minister three more weeks to decide whether to obey its order to reopen an old corruption case against the president or face the prospect of being ousted from office like his predecessor.

Two killed in Muslim mob attack in Indonesia

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 06:03 AM PDT

Police guard a Shiite boy as he is escorted to safety after the attacks in SampangA mob attack on Shiites in Indonesia saw two men killed with sickles and dozens of homes torched, police and a human rights group said Monday, in the latest sign of rising intolerance in the world's largest Muslim country.

Oil rises as storm barrels thru Gulf of Mexico

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 05:10 AM PDT

Waves pound the boardwalk, the Malecon, during the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac in Havana Cuba, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. The hurricane center said the storm, which was swirling north of the central coast of Cuba in the pre-dawn hours, was expected to be near or over the Florida Keys sometime later Sunday or Sunday night. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)The price of oil rose to near $97 a barrel on Monday as Tropical Storm Isaac barreled across the Gulf of Mexico and toward the U.S. mainland, picking up strength and threatening oil and refining operations. An explosion at a refinery in Venezuela also pushed prices higher.

How China may be the next to land on the moon

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 04:25 AM PDT

Chinese astronauts Liu Wang (centre), Jing Haipeng (left) and Liu Yang in the Shenzhou-9 spacecraftNeil Armstrong's 1969 lunar landing marked a pinnacle of US technological achievement, defining what many saw as the American century, but the next person to set foot on the moon will likely be Chinese.

Poor monsoon rains hit millions of Indian farmers

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 04:06 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 photo, an Indian farmer Satyavan Narwal gestures to a parched pond that would usually provide drinking water for cattle in Kathura village, in Haryana, India. The showers, which normally run from June to September, are crucial in a country where 60 percent of the population works in agriculture and less than half the farmland is irrigated. India's Meteorological Department has said it expects the country to get at least 10 percent less rain this year than during a normal monsoon, but large parts of the country have been hit much harder. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)The farmer walks past muddy fields of stunted sugarcane and damaged rice paddies as a light drizzle falls. "Too late, too late," he says of the rains he has been praying for since many weeks ago.

17 Afghans beheaded in insurgent attack on party

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 03:55 AM PDT

Insurgents beheaded 17 civilians in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan, apparently because they attended a dance party that flouted the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants, officials said Monday.

Young South Koreans face jobless woes with 'graduate glut'

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 03:21 AM PDT

A university education in South Korea is seen as vital to prosperity, social standing and even marriage prospectsSong A-Hyun was once confident she would follow in her father's footsteps -- graduate from one of the nation's best universities, land a plum job at a top firm and enjoy a high-flying career.

S. Korea on alert as major typhoon Bolaven nears

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 02:27 AM PDT

A Nasa satellite image shows Typhoon Tembin (left) and then-Tropical Storm Bolaven (right) on August 21South Korea was Monday bracing for the arrival of major typhoon Bolaven with a main port and ferry routes closed, classes cancelled and officials put on high alert.

Typhoon Tembin seen looping back on Taiwan

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 01:51 AM PDT

High waves pound the shore in Yonabarucho, Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, Sunday morning, Aug. 26, 2012. The strongest typhoon to hit Okinawa in several years lashed the island and surrounding areas Sunday, injuring several people and cutting off power to about 30,000 households. (AP Photo/Ryukyu Shimpo, Futoshi Hanashiro) JAPAN OUT, NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDITTyphoon Tembin, which drenched southern Taiwan last week before going out to sea, appeared to be looping back Monday for another run at the island.

27 Afghans, 2 US soldiers killed in attacks

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 01:30 AM PDT

Attackers hit international forces, the Afghan army and Afghan civilians in two days of violence that by Monday morning had left 29 people dead — two of them Americans soldiers killed by an Afghan colleague.

Gunmen kill 8 in Pakistan's troubled Baluchistan

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 01:16 AM PDT

A Pakistani official says two gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire on a car carrying Shiite Muslims in southwestern Pakistan, killing three of them.

Pakistan PM wins time in legal wrangle over president

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:33 AM PDT

Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf (C) waves upon his arrival at The Supreme Court in IslamabadPakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf Monday won a few more weeks' breathing space in a long-running legal wrangle over the reopening of graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.

Afghan officials: Insurgents behead 17 civilians

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:15 AM PDT

Afghan officials say Taliban insurgents have beheaded 17 Afghan civilians for taking part in a music event in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan.

Tens of thousands flee Myanmar floods: government

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:08 AM PDT

More than 68,000 people are staying in 308 camps around MyanmarHeavy monsoon rains in Myanmar have forced tens of thousands of people to seek shelter in emergency camps and submerged vast swathes of cropland, officials said on Monday.

Officials confident no Australian Open boycott

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:57 PM PDT

ATP players are considering a boycott in a bid to gain a higher percentage of Grand Slam event revenues, a report saysTennis Australia said Monday it was confident players would not boycott the Australian Open over a prize money disagreement, but it was taking the threat seriously.

Samsung shares plunge after Apple patent ruling

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:46 PM PDT

Samsung shares tumbled 7.5%, the biggest single-day percentage drop the electronics giant has seen in nearly four yearsSouth Korea's Samsung sought Monday to rally employees after a $1.05 billion US court judgment in favour of arch-rival Apple pushed its shares sharply lower amid fears about the fallout in the key American market.

NATO says Afghan ally fires on coalition, kills 2

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:16 PM PDT

An Afghan soldier turned his weapon on international allies in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing two soldiers, the NATO military coalition said.

17 civilians beheaded in Afghanistan: officials

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 10:30 PM PDT

Seventeen civilians including two women were beheaded in a southern Afghanistan village on Sunday nightSeventeen civilians including two women were beheaded in a southern Afghanistan village in a region plagued by the Taliban insurgency, officials said Monday.
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