Monday, August 23, 2010

9 killed on hijacked Philippine tourist bus (AP)

9 killed on hijacked Philippine tourist bus (AP)

9 killed on hijacked Philippine tourist bus (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:17 AM PDT

A hostage is rushed to a hospital following an assault by police and SWAT members to rescue hostages in a bus at Manila's Rizal Park Monday Aug. 23, 2010 in Manila, Philippines. Philippine police stormed the bus Monday evening after shots were heard from the hostage-taker of 15 Chinese tourists, and at least four of the hostages crawled out of the back door. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - A 12-hour hostage drama aboard a hijacked Philippine bus ended in bloodshed Monday when an angry ex-policeman demanding his job back gunned down eight Hong Kong tourists before police stormed the vehicle and a sniper killed him.

U.S. drone strike kills 20 people in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:11 AM PDT

Reuters - Missiles fired from a U.S. pilotless drone aircraft killed 13 militants and 7 civilians in Pakistan's North Waziristan on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

3 bombs kill 36 in northwest Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 11:07 AM PDT

AP - Three bomb attacks in northwest Pakistan — two in tribal regions near the Afghan border and a third near the region's main city of Peshawar — killed at least 36 people Monday, officials and a witness said.

U.S. Drone strike kills 20 people in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 10:52 AM PDT

A Pakistani man carries belongings along a flooded road in Baseera, Punjab province, Pakistan on Monday Aug. 23, 2010. Workers piled stones and sandbags to plug leaks in a levee protecting a pair of southern Pakistani cities, as the floods that have destroyed homes, farmland and livelihoods moved slowly toward the sea. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Reuters - Missiles fired from a U.S. pilotless drone aircraft killed 13 militants and 7 civilians in Pakistan's North Waziristan on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

Eight Hong Kong tourists killed in Philippine bus hijacking (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 10:51 AM PDT

Philippine policemen take position as they start their attack on a tourist bus hijacked in Manila. Philippine security forces stormed a bus packed with Hong Kong tourists on Monday to end a dramatic hostage crisis that unfolded live on global television, leaving eight people and the gunman dead.(AFP/Ted Aljibe)AFP - Philippine security forces stormed a bus packed with Hong Kong tourists on Monday to end a dramatic hostage crisis that unfolded live on global television, leaving eight people and the gunman dead.

Eight Hong Kong tourists killed in Philippine hostage crisis (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 10:44 AM PDT

Philippine policemen take position as they start their attack on a tourist bus hijacked in Manila. Philippine security forces stormed a bus packed with Hong Kong tourists on Monday to end a dramatic hostage crisis that unfolded live on global television, leaving eight people and the gunman dead.(AFP/Ted Aljibe)AFP - Eight Hong Kong tourists were killed during a dramatic hostage siege in the Philippine capital, President Benigno Aquino said on Tuesday.

Gunman, eight hostages killed in Manila bus siege (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 10:31 AM PDT

The bus driver of the bus with tourists being held hostage runs for his life after escaping from the bus at Quirino Grandstand in Manila August 23, 2010. REUTERS/Cheryl RaveloReuters - Philippine police shot dead a sacked former policeman as they stormed a bus on which he was holding 15 Hong Kong tourists hostage in central Manila on Monday, and the government said eight hostages were killed.

Afghanistan security force more than a year away (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 10:26 AM PDT

British soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard during a patrol in the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province, 2007. US General David Petraeus said that the international troops he commands in Afghanistan have turned the tide on the Taliban's AP - A senior U.S. commander says Afghanistan is still more than a year away from building a security force with enough soldiers and police to protect the country.

US drone strike kills five militants in Pakistan: officials (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 10:08 AM PDT

A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile is seen on the tarmac. A US drone strike on Monday killed five militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - A US drone strike on Monday killed five militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said.

Summary Box: Malaysia carmaker Proton posts profit (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:36 AM PDT

AP - RESULTS: Malaysian national carmaker Proton posted a 55 percent jump in quarterly profit and is taking steps to make it easier for the state-owned company to ally with foreign automakers.

Summary Box: Australian mining stocks rise (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:29 AM PDT

AP - MOVING HIGHER: Shares of Australia's biggest mining companies ticked higher as doubts grew about plan for a new tax on their profits. The nation's closest election in almost 50 years has delivered no clear mandate.

Floods test defenses for southern Pakistani cities (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 08:20 AM PDT

Pakistani men line up as they are given a fresh meal at a camp for families displaced by floods run by the Pakistan Air Force in Sukkar, Sindh province, southern Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Emergency workers worked frantically Monday to shore up a system of levees protecting two southern Pakistani cities from floodwaters that have devastated wide swaths of the country, as a U.N. official warned that the crisis is "outrunning our relief efforts."

NATO: 4 foreign troops killed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 07:36 AM PDT

An Army carry team, holding the remains of Army Specialist Christopher S. Wright, of Tollesboro, Ky., carry the transfer case off the aircraft after its arrival Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Wright died in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Roadside bombs killed four members of the international security force in Afghanistan on Monday, including an American, two French marines, and a Hungarian soldier.

25 Islamic militants escape from Tajik prison (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:51 AM PDT

AP - A group of 25 Islamic militants serving time on terrorism charges have escaped from a prison in Tajikistan's capital after dramatic assaults that left at least five guards dead, the security services said Monday.

Official: Seoul not considering food aid to NKorea (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:25 AM PDT

In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, houses and farmland are inundated by floodwaters in the North Koran city of Sinuiju on Saturday Aug. 21, 2010. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said that about a foot (30 centimeters) of rain had fallen since midnight and the Yalu, or Amnok as its known in Korean, swamped houses, public buildings and farmland in more than five villages near Sinuiju, the city opposite Dandong, northeastern China. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) ** JAPAN OUT **AP - South Korea has no intention of resuming food aid to North Korea, an official said Monday, a day after the ruling party chief questioned whether the assistance should restart because of recent flooding in the impoverished North.

Afghan capital removing its protective blast walls (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 05:11 AM PDT

AP - Even as conflict rages in Afghanistan, authorities are trying to make life in the capital a little more normal by removing or repositioning Kabul's ubiquitous concrete blast walls.

China may drop death penalty for economic crimes (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 12:46 AM PDT

AP - China, which executes more people each year than any other country, said Monday it is considering dropping capital punishment for economic crimes.

Rain batters China; 250,000 evacuated in flood (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:32 PM PDT

** CORRECTS PHOTO NUMBER ** This photo released by China's Xinhua news agency shows the bird's-eye view of a damaged village after flood in Dandong, northeast China's Liaoning province, on Sunday Aug. 22, 2010. Flooding has forced the evacuation of 94,000 people in the north China port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said Sunday. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yao Jianfeng) ** NO SALES **AP - Flooding has forced the evacuation of more than a quarter-million people in northern China along its border with North Korea, state media said Monday.

Malaysia warns of waterborne disease after 10 die (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 10:56 PM PDT

AP - Malaysia has closed parks and warned the public about swimming and dumping trash in rivers after 10 people died from a disease spread by rats.

AP Exclusive: Japanese mayor defends dolphin hunts (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 09:00 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Aug. 14, 2010, men on a rowboat chase a nine-meter (30-foot) mechanized whale during the annual whaling festival in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture in western Japan in a re-creation of the old whale hunts, when hundreds of men in dozens of boats would set out with knives and harpoons. The ancient village has a long and complex relationship with the dolphin. In early September, the waters of this same cove will turn blood red, as it becomes a holding pen for the annual dolphin hunts. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - As children in inner tubes bob on the calm waters of this small ocean cove, a 550-pound (250-kilogram) dolphin zips through the crowd in pursuit of raw squid tossed out by a trainer.
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