Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Historic political meeting under way in NKorea (AP)

Historic political meeting under way in NKorea (AP)

Historic political meeting under way in NKorea (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:19 AM PDT

In this image made from 1980 file television footage, Kim Jong Il applauds while attending the Workers' Party of Korea convention, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The official Korean Central News Agency announced last week the ruling Workers' Party would hold a conference Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, to select its 'supreme leadership body.' (AP Photo/APTN)AP - North Korea's Kim Jong Il made his youngest son a four-star general, giving the 28-year-old his first known official title in a promotion seen Tuesday as confirmation that he is slated to become the country's next leader.

Kremlin fires iconic Moscow mayor after 18 years (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:25 AM PDT

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov reacts during the Unesco's early childhood care conference in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Yuri Luzhkov, who has been Moscow's mayor for the last 18 years, is back from his vacation and said he wouldn't resign despite a widely reported public power struggle with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Russia's president on Tuesday fired Yury Luzhkov, ending the 18-year rule of the Moscow mayor who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for outdated values and bellicose posturing, and for continuing his vacation while smog from forest fires choked his city.

US envoy to try to salvage Mideast peace talks (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:24 AM PDT

A Jewish settler boy looks at earth-moving equipment working at a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Senior Palestinian official Yasser Abed Rabbo said Monday that President Mahmoud Abbas remains ready to walk out on Mideast peace talks if Israel resumes construction in its West Bank settlements now that building restrictions have expired. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Washington's special Mideast envoy, using a slim lifeline from the Palestinians, rushed to the region on Tuesday on an emergency mission to keep peace talks from collapsing just weeks after they began.

Eastern Afghan official, 5 others killed by bomber (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:03 AM PDT

A British soldier mans his position at the rear of a helicopter as it is flies over Helmand province in Afghanistan in August, 2010. Security forces Monday stepped up the hunt for British woman and three Afghans reportedly working for a US development group who were kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/Pool/File/Andrew Winning)AP - A suicide car bomber killed a deputy governor and five others Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, police said. In an emotional speech, President Hamid Karzai urged Afghans to decry such violence and fretted that young people will choose to flee their country.

Opposition hopes to rein in Chavez after election (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:57 PM PDT

Supporters of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, reacts as they listen the results of congressional elections, outside of Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday , Sept 27, 2010. President Hugo Chavez held on to a congressional majority in elections Sunday, but his opponents made gains that could help them challenge his grip on power.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Opponents of Hugo Chavez won new clout to try to rein in a socialist leader who has ruled largely unchecked, making gains in congressional elections that weaken the president ahead of his next re-election bid and could force him to deal with rivals.

Q&A: Colombia's President on a Counterinsurgency Success (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:45 AM PDT

Time.com - In an interview with TIME, Juan Manuel Santos talks about a major blow against FARC rebels, Venezuela's Hugo ChÁvez and relations with the U.S.

Job optimism boosts German consumer confidence (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:03 AM PDT

AP - German consumer confidence has jumped as economic expectations spiked to their highest level in three years and unemployment continues to fall, according to a survey released Tuesday.

Israel warship approaches Gaza-bound activist boat (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:59 AM PDT

A boat with 9 Jewish activists aboard sets sail from Famagusta harbour in the Turkish-occupied north of ethnically divided Cyprus in a bid to breach the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. The trip came nearly four months after Israeli commandos boarded a flotilla of Gaza-bound ships, killing nine activists. The voyage also came as Israelis, Palestinians and U.S. mediators sought a compromise that would allow Mideast talks to continue after an Israeli settlement slowdown expires at midnight. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) EDS NOTE: NO TRANSLATION AVAILABLE FOR WORDS ON SAIL.AP - An Israeli warship approached a catamaran carrying Jewish activists toward the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday in the waters off Gaza, the captain of the sailboat said.

Chavez says Venezuela studying nuclear energy program (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 08:49 PM PDT

AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Monday that his government is carrying out initial studies into starting a nuclear energy program.

Nigeria: Flood ruins crops as food remains scarce (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 08:54 PM PDT

A man uses a calabash fruit as a flotation device as he swims across flooded farmland in Gudinchin village, near Dutse in northern Nigeria, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Farmers in northern Nigeria said Monday they feared their crops were destroyed in weekend floods that started when two swollen dams overflowed and displaced 2 million people. In the village of Gudinchin, rice and corn stalks poked above a fast-moving river that had washed over the fields. A few houses in the village peered above the water, and people had constructed a makeshift embankment out of the remains of mud houses that had washed away. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - After water nearly overtook his village in northern Nigeria, Ali Gudinchin jumped into the rushing flood with a knife, cutting away ears of corn from stalks barely rising above the muddy surface.

S.Korea raises privacy concerns on smartphone apps (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:01 AM PDT

South Korean customers look at the Apple iPhone 4 at the headquarters of KT in Seoul on September 10, 2010. Seoul prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged a South Korean company with illegally collecting customers' personal information via a smartphone application in a rare legal case.(AFP/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)AFP - Seoul prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged a South Korean company with illegally collecting customers' personal information via a smartphone application in a rare legal case.

Canada vows to protect recovery but end stimulus (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 11:07 AM PDT

Reuters - Canada's government said on Monday it would take action as needed to protect the shaky economic recovery, but resisted pressure to prolong stimulus spending as its focus turns to tackling its budget deficit.

Australia troops to be charged over Afghan deaths (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:12 AM PDT

Australian soldiers fix their target prior to practice firing at their forward operating base (FOB) in southern Uruzgan province in January. Three Australian soldiers will face charges including manslaughter over a raid in Afghanistan that left five children dead, the chief military prosecutor have said.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)AFP - Three Australian soldiers will face charges including manslaughter over a raid in Afghanistan that left five children dead, Australia's chief military prosecutor said on Monday.

Burma says Aung San Suu Kyi can vote. But will house arrest continue? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:58 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Military-ruled Burma (Myanmar) has said the country’s most famous dissident will be allowed to vote in November elections, the first since an annulled 1990 ballot.

North Korea Braces for Kim Jong Un's Congress Debut (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:45 AM PDT

Time.com - The extremely rare staging of a ruling-party congress in Pyongyang this week has regime watchers guessing that Kim Jong Il is preparing the path to power of his son, Kim Jong Un

Attendance of Kim Jong-un at North Korean conference uncertain (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:17 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Excitement surrounding the first North Korea’s Workers’ Party conference in 44 years is building to what analysts expect will be a climax Tuesday of rhetoric and celebrations in Pyongyang.

Colder Weather, Disease Threaten Pakistan's Displaced (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:57 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - QUETTA, Sep 27 (IRIN) - Inside their tent at a camp on the outskirts of Quetta, capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan, Meraj Sindhu helps his wife wrap their six-month-old son and two-year-old daughter in thin cloths widely used in Sindh Province as head scarves or turbans.
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