Friday, December 28, 2012

Indian rape victim's condition deteriorates

Indian rape victim's condition deteriorates

Indian rape victim's condition deteriorates

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:42 AM PST

Indian students protesting against the brutal gang-rape of a woman on a bus last week in New Delhi, hold placards during a protest in Allahabad, India, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)NEW DELHI (AP) — The victim of a gang-rape in New Delhi fought for her life at a Singapore hospital Friday as officials in the Indian state of Punjab fired and suspended police officers accused of ignoring the rape of another woman, who then committed suicide.

China requiring people to visit their aged parents

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 07:39 AM PST

FILE - In this April 28, 2011 file photo, elderly men rest on a bench as a family with their new born baby walk past at a park in Beijing, China. Visit your parents. That's an order. So says China, whose national legislature on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012 amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children visit their aged parents "often" - or risk being sued by them. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)BEIJING (AP) — Visit your parents. That's an order.

Pakistan seeks help to rescue 23 missing police

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 06:13 AM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials pressured tribal elders Friday to help rescue 23 policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban during attacks on their posts in the country's troubled northwest tribal region.

Myanmar to allow daily private newspapers

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 03:17 AM PST

Customers buy weekly news journal at a roadside newspaper shop in Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Myanmar said Friday it will allow private daily newspapers starting in April for the first time since 1964, in the latest step toward allowing freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar said Friday it will allow private daily newspapers starting in April for the first time since 1964, in the latest step toward allowing freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation.

Vietnam police arrest well-known dissident lawyer

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 03:15 AM PST

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese police have detained a well-known dissident lawyer, escalating a crackdown on those who speak out against the country's one-party, authoritarian rule.

Nowhere to use Japan's growing plutonium stockpile

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 01:58 AM PST

In this Nov. 7, 2012 photo, farmer Keiko Kikukawa walks through her field where she just finished harvesting organic-grown rhubarbs in Rokasho village, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan. By hosting a high-tech facility that would convert spent fuel into a plutonium-uranium mix designed for the next generation of reactors, Rokkasho was supposed to provide fuel while minimizing nuclear waste storage problems. Those ambitions are falling apart because years of attempts to build a ROKKASHO, Japan (AP) — How is an atomic-powered island nation riddled with fault lines supposed to handle its nuclear waste? Part of the answer was supposed to come from this windswept village along Japan's northern coast.

Indian rape victim fighting for her life

Posted: 28 Dec 2012 12:30 AM PST

NEW DELHI (AP) — The victim of a gang-rape in New Delhi fought for her life at a Singapore hospital Friday as officials in the Indian state of Punjab fired and suspended police officers accused of ignoring the rape of another woman, who then committed suicide.

Sweater knit by Myanmar's Suu Kyi sells for $49K

Posted: 27 Dec 2012 09:44 PM PST

In this Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 photo, presenters show a hand-knit woolen sweater, made by Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu kyi, during an auction at a fundraising concert to mark the 2nd anniversary of her National League for Democracy Party's education network, at Peoples Square in Yangon, Myanmar. The sweater was sold at an auction in Myanmar for almost $50,000. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A hand-knit woolen sweater made by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has sold at an auction in Myanmar for $49,000.

AP Exclusive: Photos show NKorea nuclear readiness

Posted: 27 Dec 2012 09:14 PM PST

This satellite image taken Dec. 2, 2012, by DigitalGlobe and annotated and distributed Friday, Dec. 28, 2012 by 38 North, the website of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, shows the traffic flow pattern at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Facility in North Korea, where experts suspect Pyongyang will conduct its next detonation. The 38 North Analysis says the road is dark where movement has melted the snow, and the traffic appears limited to the bypass road, the tunnel entrance and the two southern area support buildings. The analysis says the North SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has repaired flood damage at its nuclear test facility and could conduct a quick atomic explosion if it chose, though water streaming out of a test tunnel may cause problems, analysis of recent satellite photos indicates.
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