Thursday, October 28, 2010

Computer attack hits dissidents in Vietnam (AP)

Computer attack hits dissidents in Vietnam (AP)

Computer attack hits dissidents in Vietnam (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:47 AM PDT

AP - Political bloggers in Vietnam are under a round of cyberattacks designed to block their websites, a sign of the widening use of targeted hacking to stifle government dissent worldwide, according to a new analysis by U.S. computer experts.

Southeast leaders tackle issues buffeting region (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:44 AM PDT

Myanmar prime minister Thein Sein attends the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leader's retreat at the 17th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi. Southeast Asian leaders met in Vietnam's capital Thursday for talks overshadowed by criticism of pariah member Myanmar's looming elections and pressure to release democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.(AFP/POOL/Barbara Walton)AFP - Southeast Asian leaders tackled issues buffeting the region, including currency tensions, territorial disputes and Myanmar's flawed election plans, at a summit in Vietnam's capital Thursday.

Indonesia tsunami kills 370; toll expected to rise (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:33 AM PDT

Tsunami survivors make their way past damaged houses after their village was hit by Monday's earthquake-triggered tsunami at Parorogat village, Pagai island, West Sumatra, Indonesia, on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)AP - Rescuers searching islands ravaged by a tsunami off western Indonesia raised the death toll to 370 Thursday as more corpses were wrapped in body bags or buried by neighbors. Officials said hundreds of missing people may have been swept out to sea.

NATO: True test of Kandahar to come in June (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 10:14 AM PDT

Afghan men carry the coffins as families are holding funerals for more than 50 people killed when a roof collapsed during a wedding celebration in a remote area in Jalga district of Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 Families of more than 50 people, almost all of them women and children, who died when a ceiling collapsed at a wedding in remote northern Afghanistan have been burying their dead, police said on Thursday. (AP Photo)AP - A senior NATO commander in Afghanistan says it will be next June before the coalition can tell for certain whether its offensive in Kandahar is really working, or if recent progress there merely reflects the season.

Obama, Hu to tackle trade, security in talks: White House (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:20 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao will discuss the global economy, trade, North Korea, Iran and human rights among other issues when they meet on November 11 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Seoul, the White House said on Thursday.

U.S.: North Korean leadership transition in early stages (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:13 AM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C), his son Kim Jong-un (2nd L), secretaries of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee and members of the Party Central Military Commission visit the cemetery for Chinese soldiers who died during the 1950-53 Korean War to lay wreaths before the grave of Mao Anying, son of Mao Zedong, to mark the 60th anniversary of the entry of Chinese troops into the war, in Hoechang County in this October 26, 2010 picture released by North Korea's KCNA news agency on October 27, 2010. REUTERS/KCNAReuters - The White House said on Thursday that North Korea's leadership transition appeared to be only in the early stages and it would still take some time to discern the final outcome.

Funerals held for Afghans killed in roof collapse (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:08 AM PDT

AP - Families are holding funerals for more than 50 people killed when a roof collapsed during a wedding celebration in a remote area of northern Afghanistan.

Afghan wedding collapse kills 65 (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:08 AM PDT

Families of 65 people, almost all of them women and children, who died when a ceiling collapsed at a wedding in remote northern Afghanistan have been burying their dead, police said Thursday.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - Families of 65 people, almost all of them women and children, who died when a ceiling collapsed at a wedding in remote northern Afghanistan have been burying their dead, police said Thursday.

US drone attack kills five in Pakistan tribal belt (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:07 AM PDT

Pakistani army soldiers on patrol in North Waziristan along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. A US drone attack on a militant compound in the troubled tribal area has killed five militants including three Arabs, security officials have said.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - A third US drone attack in 24 hours targeted Islamist fighters in Pakistan's tribal belt on Thursday, killing five militants, including three Arabs, security officials said.

WFP chief says child malnutrition widespread in N.Korea (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:03 AM PDT

World Food Programme (WFP) executive director Josette Sheeran speaks during the press conference in Seoul. More than a third of children in some parts of North Korea suffer from malnutrition, Sheeran said Thursday before a visit to the North.(AFP/Kim Jae-Hwan)AFP - More than a third of children in some parts of North Korea suffer from malnutrition, the UN World Food Programme chief said Thursday before a visit to the North.

Gunmen attack Japanese consular car in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:59 AM PDT

A US 'Predator' drone passes overhead at a forward operating base near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2009. US drone strikes killed up to six militants in Pakistan's tribal belt on Wednesday, targeting the extremist Haqqani network and a compound harbouring foreign fighters, officials said.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AP - Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a Japanese consular vehicle in Pakistan's largest city Thursday, wounding two local employees and underscoring the fragile security in the country.

Indonesian volcano's spiritual caretaker dies (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 18, 2006 file photo, Maridjan, center, the spiritual guardian of Mount Merapi, with other villagers perform a midnight walk in silence circling their village as a part of a ritual of a prayer for protection from disaster, in Kinahrejo village which lies on the slope of the volcano, Indonesia. For 33 years, Maridjan spoke to Mount Merapi, appeasing its unpredictable spirits by throwing offerings of rice, clothes and chickens into the volcano's gaping crater. As Merapi began spewing 1,800 degree Fahrenheit (1,000 Celsius) gases and thousands of villagers streamed down the mountain's slopes, Maridjan refused to budge. His rigid body was found Wednesday, prostrate on the ground in the typical Islamic prayer position and caked in heavy white soot. (AP Photo /Dita Alangkara, File)AP - For 33 years, Maridjan spoke to Mount Merapi, believing he could appease its unpredictable spirits by throwing offerings of rice, clothes and chickens into the volcano's gaping crater.

Tibetan protester visits 22 countries on motorbike (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:28 AM PDT

Lhakpa Tsering, on the motorbike, is greeted by school children as he arrives at the Tibetan Children's Village School in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. Tsering, a Tibetan refugee living in New York, arrived here after traveling on his motorbike for 8 months spreading awareness about Tibet across 22 countries. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)AP - Tibetan exiles in India cheered a New York-based Tibetan as he arrived by motorcycle Thursday after traveling through 22 countries to call for his homeland's independence.

China party newspaper criticizes Western democracy (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 08:02 AM PDT

AP - China's Communist Party newspaper issued a scathing attack on Western-style democracy Thursday amid growing calls for reform of the country's political system and a resulting push-back by party conservatives.

Baby found in trees days after Indonesia tsunami (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 07:56 AM PDT

Tsunami survivors sit at a destroyed house at Parorogat, Pagai island,West Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010.(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)AP - An official says an 18-month-old baby has been found alive in a clump of trees days after the devastating tsunami that killed at least 343 people.

Bangladesh police hold 20 Islamic party activists (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 06:10 AM PDT

AP - Police said Thursday they have arrested 20 members of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party and seized homemade bombs from a house where they were holding a meeting.

UN chief appeals for more Khmer Rouge trials (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:11 AM PDT

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, front right, arrives in the court hall of the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. Cambodia will not allow the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal to prosecute former low-ranking officers of the genocidal regime because it would endanger national peace, the country's leader told the U.N. chief Wednesday. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made an emotional appeal Thursday for Cambodia to send a message to the world that the Khmer Rouge's crimes against humanity will not go unpunished.

ASEAN presses Myanmar to free Aung San Suu Kyi (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:53 AM PDT

Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyer has told AFP that his client has refused to vote in Myanmar's widely criticised election -- the first poll for 20 years.(AFP/File/Stephen Shaver)AP - Southeast Asia's top diplomats confronted Myanmar by demanding that democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi be freed before the country's elections next month, while the U.N. chief warned Thursday that keeping thousands of political prisoners locked up could destroy the vote's credibility.

Bomb attack in southern Afghanistan kills 3 police (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:35 AM PDT

Afghans work at a brick factory, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - A roadside bomb targeting the car of a district police chief killed three police officers Thursday in southern Afghanistan, where militants have stepped up attacks on government workers in response to increased pressure from international troops.

Iwo Jima mementos bring closure to Japanese family (AP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 02:57 AM PDT

Framed drawing of an air raid drill in homeland Japan during the WWII Japanese Chie Takekawa drew, is seen at a press conference in the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. As a 21-year-old American GI fighting on Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, Franklin Hobbs III found it in the chest pocket of a fallen Japanese soldier and took them home as a souvenir. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - For decades, the faded photograph of a baby Japanese girl and a child's colorful drawing hung on a wall in the home of Franklin Hobbs III in America.
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