Monday, September 24, 2012

China's first aircraft carrier enters service

China's first aircraft carrier enters service

China's first aircraft carrier enters service

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 10:43 PM PDT

China's first aircraft carrier -- a former Soviet ship it bought from Ukraine and refurbished -- entered service Tuesday, the defence ministry in Beijing said, naming it as the Liaoning.

Japan fires water cannon to turn away Taiwan boats

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 10:34 PM PDT

Japanese Coast Guard vessels fired water cannon to turn away about 40 Taiwan fishing boats and eight Taiwan Coast Guard vessels from waters Japan considers its own on Tuesday in the latest twist to a ...

Pakistan paid biggest price for conflict in Afghanistan: Zardari

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 10:10 PM PDT

Pointing that Pakistan has paid the biggest price for conflict in Afghanistan, President Asif Ali Zardari told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that peace and stability in his country were tied t...

In Arab Spring, Obama finds harsh lessons on diplomacy

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 10:06 PM PDT

In the almost two years of political turmoil in the Arab world, President Obama has learned that bold words and support for democratic aspirations are not enough to engender good will in the region.

YouTube-funded show makes first leap to network TV

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:53 PM PDT

US TV network ABC will in October start broadcasting a cooking show that began as part of YouTube's "Original Channels" initiative, the first such deal to take a YouTube-funded programme to national T...

Pakistan's top court struggles to deliver justice

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:46 PM PDT

Each day, the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court confronts a stack of blue folders stuffed with desperate pleas from residents claiming that corrupt police, inept prosecutors or moribund lower ...

Obama offers himself up as 'eye candy' on 'The View'

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:26 PM PDT

President Barack Obama on Monday sought to woo women voters at a taping of the daytime talk show "The View," by flirting with his wife and bearing gifts for the hosts, but he could not escape tough qu...

Inflammatory jihad ad debuts in New York City subway

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:11 PM PDT

An inflammatory ad equating Islamic jihad with savagery was posted on Monday in 10 New York City subway stations, even as much of the Muslim world was still seething over a California-made movie ridic...

Iran's President Ahmadinejad shrugs off military strike threat

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:05 PM PDT

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shrugged off threats of a military strike on his country's nuclear facilities, showing defiance ahead of his final appearance at the UN General Assembly this week....

Iran pulls movie from Oscars race over US anti-Islam film

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 08:46 PM PDT

Iran announced on Monday that it was yanking its entry in the Oscars race because of the "intolerable insult" of the US-made anti-Islam film that has angered Muslims in several countries.

Ex-Intel exec avoids jail in Rajaratnam case

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 08:36 PM PDT

A former Intel Corp executive, whose trial testimony helped convict hedge fund titan Raj Rajaratnam, avoided prison time on Monday for his role in the biggest insider-trading prosecution of a generati...

Hamas head Mashaal says he will resign

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 07:33 PM PDT

The supreme leader of the Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas has decided to step down, clearing the way for the movement to choose a new head for the first time in more than 15 years, two senior...

US marines face criminal charges over Afghan urination video

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 12:11 PM PDT

Two US Marines are facing criminal charges for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, actions caught on a video that was widely circulated on the Internet, the Marine Corps s...

US drone kills five militants in Pakistan: Officials

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 11:10 AM PDT

A US drone strike on Monday killed at least five Islamic militants in Pakistan's restive tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said.

Thousands protest in Nigeria over anti-Islam film

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 10:20 AM PDT

Thousands of people marched through the Nigerian city of Kaduna on Monday in the latest protest in the country's mainly Muslim north against a US-made anti-Islam film.

Hillary Clinton meets Pakistani president Zardari

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 09:39 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday and thanked him for Pakistan's handling of several days of violent anti-US protests.

Anti-Islam film: Actress to sue filmmaker in federal court: Lawyer

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 07:41 AM PDT

An actress suing the producer of an anti-Islam movie that has spawned violent protests across the Muslim world plans to drop her suit and file a new case in federal court over copyright claims, her la...

Proposal to make Hindi a UN official language

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 07:28 AM PDT

A proposal was passed on the concluding day of the Ninth World Hindi Conference in Johanesburg on Monday for initiating time-bound action to make Hindi one of the official languages of the UN.

Japan protests as Chinese ships enter disputed waters

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 07:15 AM PDT

Four Chinese ships briefly entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea on Monday, prompting an official protest from Tokyo and renewed diplomatic ef...

New SARS-like virus detected in Middle East

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 07:01 AM PDT

Global health officials are closely following a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left another person in critical condition ...

'We heard a roar... then it hit': Avalanche survivors

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 06:06 AM PDT

Huddled in their sleeping bags, the climbers first heard the avalanche roar towards them and then the sound of screaming before being swept hundreds of metres down the slopes of "Killer Mountain".

Egypt sentences 14 to death over Sinai attacks

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 05:12 AM PDT

An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced 14 militant Islamists to death by hanging and four to life imprisonment over attacks on army and police forces in the Sinai Peninsula last year.

Floods affect 700,000 in Pakistan: Officials

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 05:01 AM PDT

Flash floods triggered by record rains in southwestern Pakistan have affected around 700,000 people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of crops, officials said on Monday.

Massive anti-American protest in Sri Lankan capital

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 03:58 AM PDT

Thousands of Sri Lankan Muslims marched towards the heavily barricaded US embassy on Monday calling for ban of American brands, denouncing an anti-Islam film that has triggered protests across the wor...

Deadly Libya attack was major blow to CIA efforts

Posted: 24 Sep 2012 02:58 AM PDT

The attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J Christopher Stevens and three other Americans has dealt the Central Intelligence Agency a major setback in its intelligence-gathering efforts at...
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