Thursday, October 25, 2012

2 US troops die in apparent Afghan insider attack

2 US troops die in apparent Afghan insider attack

2 US troops die in apparent Afghan insider attack

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 10:32 AM PDT

A man in an Afghan police uniform shot and killed two American service members Thursday, in what appeared to be the latest in a rash of attacks on international forces this year by their Afghan partners.

56 dead in new ethnic violence in Myanmar

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:48 AM PDT

Myanmar Buddhist monks hold banners and placards during a rally against recent violence in Rakhine state, outside the city hall in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Nearly 200 protesters including Buddhist monks called for the stop of renewed violence in western coast of Myanmar. Rakhine state spokesman Myo Thant said clashes between Rohingya Muslims and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists - reported in other parts of the coastal region Sunday - engulfed the townships of Kyaukphyu and Myebon late Tuesday. (AP Photo)At least 56 people were killed and nearly 2,000 homes destroyed in the latest outbreak of ethnic violence in western Myanmar, a government official said Thursday.

Ai Weiwei goes 'Gangnam Style' _ with handcuffs

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 08:12 AM PDT

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei plays a video clip he uploaded on Youtube on a computer in Beijing, China, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. In the video, Ai sports a neon-pink T-shirt, black jacket and dark sunglasses and energetically mimics rodeo-style dance moves made famous by South Korean rapper PSY whose original video became an Internet sensation. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is the latest to go "Gangnam Style" — but in a trademark act of irreverence, he's thrown in a pair of handcuffs and a poke at Chinese censors.

AP Interview: Japan nuke plant water worries rise

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 06:25 AM PDT

FILE - This Saturday May 7, 2011 file image from video footage released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) shows spent fuel storage pool of the Unit 4 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan's crippled nuclear power plant is struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water used to cool its broken reactors. Up to 200,000 tons of radioactive water - enough to fill more than 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools - are being stored in hundreds of gigantic tanks built around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. The amount is expected to more than triple within three years, mainly because ground water is leaking into damaged reactor buildings. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co., File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYJapan's crippled nuclear power plant is struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water used to cool the broken reactors, the manager of the water treatment team said.

US: 2 troops die in apparent Afghan inside attack

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 06:36 AM PDT

The U.S. military says two of its service members have been killed in an apparent insider attack by an Afghan police officer.

Activist girl's dad vows she'll return to Pakistan

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 06:01 AM PDT

Pakistani girls stand next to a banner with the picture of Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women, during a rally in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)The father of a 15-year-old Pakistani activist girl who was shot and wounded by a Taliban gunman vowed Thursday that she would return home after finishing medical treatment abroad despite new insurgent threats against her.

Philippines rolls out welcome mat for US warship

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 04:48 AM PDT

U.S. sailors of Filipino descent Marvin Balbuena, left, Ryan Regondola, center, and Spencer Rhoades pose in front of a US Navy FA-18 fighter jet and a giant Philippine flag as they are presented for the media during a tour of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George Washington, off Manila Bay in Manila, Philippines, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. The U.S. aircraft carrier group cruised through the disputed South China Sea last Saturday in a show of American power in waters that are fast becoming a focal point of Washington's strategic rivalry with Beijing. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike force's visit to Manila is the latest show of American military might partly aimed at countering China's grip in Asia. But it also provides hundreds of Filipino American sailors a chance to briefly soak in the warm embrace of a second home.

China ends nuke plant ban set after Japan disaster

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 07:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 10, 2005 file photo, workers walk past a part of Qinshan No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant, China's first self-designed and self-built national commercial nuclear power plant in Qinshan, about 125 kilometers (about 90 miles) southwest of Shanghai, China. China is ready to approve new nuclear power plants as part of ambitious plans to reduce reliance on oil and coal, ending a moratorium it imposed because of Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011. The Cabinet on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, passed plans on nuclear power safety and development that said construction of nuclear power plants would resume "steadily." (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)China has decided to approve new nuclear power plants as part of plans to reduce reliance on oil and coal, ending the moratorium it imposed to review safety in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster last year.
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