Sunday, November 7, 2010

Obama calls for India-Pakistan talks (AP)

Obama calls for India-Pakistan talks (AP)

Obama calls for India-Pakistan talks (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 10:04 AM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with students during a visit to St. Xavier College in Mumbai India, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010. Obama began a 10-day trip through Asia on Saturday. (AP Photo) **INDIA OUT**AP - President Barack Obama appealed Sunday for India and Pakistan to resolve their conflict through dialogue, saying that regional instability will only serve to distract India in its rise as a global economic power.

Azerbaijan ruling party says convinced of poll victory (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 09:54 AM PST

A woman leaves a voting booth during parliamentary elections in the village of Nardaran, some 35 km (22 miles) north-east of Baku, November 7, 2010. REUTERS/Irada HumbatovaReuters - Azerbaijan's ruling party said it was certain it had won a parliamentary election Sunday in the oil-producing former Soviet republic, dismissing opposition allegations of fraud.

Dead from Indonesia's volcano buried in mass grave (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 09:39 AM PST

A farmer ploughs his rice field in Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010. (AP Photo / Achmad Ibrahim)AP - One by one the bodies of dozens killed by Indonesia's most volatile volcano — some too charred to ever be identified — were placed into a mass grave Sunday, as people terrified that another eruption was coming fled the city at the foot of Mount Merapi.

Apathy and fraud charges mar rare Myanmar election (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 09:29 AM PST

Buddhist monks walk past Sule pagoda in downtown Yangon November 5, 2010. REUTERS/stringerReuters - Myanmar held its first election in 20 years on Sunday under tight security, a scripted vote that assures army-backed parties an easy win but brings a hint of parliamentary politics to one of Asia's most oppressed states.

US drone strikes kill nine militants in Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 09:14 AM PST

A US Predator drone passes overhead at a forward operating base near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2009. US drone strikes targeted militant vehicles in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Sunday, killing nine Islamist fighters, security officials said.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - US drone strikes targeted militant vehicles in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Sunday, killing nine Islamist fighters, security officials said.

Hope and surprises in the midst of Pakistan horror (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 09:13 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010 picture, a woman, who was displaced by floods, bathes using a hand pump at a camp in Basira village, Punjab Province, Pakistan. The floods that hit Pakistan in the summer of 2010 took 2,000 lives and affected 20 million people, of whom 7 million remain homeless. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)AP - The floods that hammered Pakistan this summer took 2,000 lives and affected 20 million people, of whom 7 million remain homeless. At their peak, one-fifth of Pakistan was under water, more than 3 meters (10 feet) deep in some places.

Voters choose new parliament in Azerbaijan (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 09:10 AM PST

Electoral poster of a parliamentary candidate, Quliyev Ulvi, is displayed on a tea house in central Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan are due on Sunday. (AP Photo/Manoocher Deghati)AP - Nearly 700 candidates competed Sunday for the 125 seats in the single chamber of the parliament of Azerbaijan, an oil-rich former Soviet republic that is under the firm hold of President Ilham Aliyev and his party.

2 US drone strikes kill 14 militants in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 09:01 AM PST

In this Nov. 2, 2010 picture, Rehmat Khan and a child wait with their family enroute to Mingora from Kalam in Pakistan's Swat Valley ahead of the upcoming winter. The floods that hit Pakistan in the summer of 2010 took 2,000 lives and affected 20 million people, of whom 7 million remain homeless. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - A pair of American drone strikes killed 14 suspected militants in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, local intelligence officials said, in the latest attacks against al-Qaida and Taliban militants seeking sanctuary in the region.

Four militants die in second US drone strike in Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 08:51 AM PST

A US Predator drone passes overhead at a forward operating base near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2009. US drone strikes targeted militant vehicles in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt on Sunday, killing nine Islamist fighters, security officials said.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AFP - A US drone attack in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt killed four militants on Sunday, after five Islamist fighters died in an earlier strike, security officials said.

China offers to help Portugal but silent on debt (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 08:46 AM PST

China's President Hu Jintao listens to a question from the media after his meeting with his Portuguese counterpart Anibal Cavaco Silva at Belem presidential palace in Lisbon November 6, 2010. REUTERS/Rui GaudencioReuters - China will back Portugal's efforts to deal with fallout from the world financial crisis, President Hu Jintao said on Sunday, but he stopped short of promising to buy Portuguese bonds as the debt-ridden country had hoped.

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Posted: 07 Nov 2010 08:25 AM PST

AP - Intel officials say second US missile strike kills 4 suspected militants in northwest Pakistan.

Gates urges Congress to repeal gay ban now (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 07:45 AM PST

FILE - Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks during a joint new conference with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, not seen, in this Oct. 14, 2010 file photo, at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Gates said Saturday Nov. 6, 2010, as he traveled to defense and diplomatic meetings in Australia, 'I would like to see the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' but I'm not sure what the prospects for that are.' (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Congress should act quickly, before new members take their seats, to repeal the military's ban on gays serving openly in the military.

Myanmar holds rare elections amid heavy criticism (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 07:36 AM PST

Voters line up out side a local polling station for the elections Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010, in Bago, about 90 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Yangon, Myanmar. Voters in Myanmar's first elections in 20 years cast their ballots Sunday amid a barrage of criticism that the balloting was rigged in favor of the ruling military, as well as hope that some change toward democratic reform might nonetheless follow. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - Voters in the secretive military-ruled nation of Myanmar cast their first ballots in 20 years on Sunday, as slim hopes for democratic reform faced an electoral system engineered to ensure that most power will remain in the hands of the junta and its political proxies.

Bodies of 5 Afghan police found in east (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 06:22 AM PST

Afghan police forces arrived to secure area where the former legislators and there supporters march towards the US embassy during a protest against the September's parliamentary poll in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Nov 7, 2010. Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets of Kabul on Sunday to protest against the irregularities during September's parliamentary poll and the counting of the ballots, underscoring persistent concerns about the Afghan government's ability to carry out elections. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - The bodies of five Afghan policemen have been found in eastern Afghanistan nearly a week after they went missing after an attack by Taliban fighters on a local government headquarters, police said Sunday.

Workers, citizens rally against G-20 in SKorea (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 04:27 AM PST

South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally against upcoming G20 Seoul Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010. About 20,000 workers and activists took part in the rally, the first major anti-globalization protest before South Korea hosts a gathering of leaders from the G-20 advanced and emerging economies on Thursday and Friday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - Thousands of people chanted anti-globalization slogans in South Korea's capital Sunday to protest this week's Group of 20 summit. Part of the crowd attempted to march down nearby streets but were stopped by riot police, who fired pepper spray.

Confidant of North Korea's Kim Jong Il dies (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 03:57 AM PST

In this April 23, 2003 file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, Jo Myong Rok, first vice chairman of North Korea's powerful National Defense Commission, writes an inscription for the University of National Defense of China during his visit to the university in Beijing. Jo, a longtime confidant of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il who traveled to Washington in 2000 on then an unprecedented goodwill mission, has died Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 of an inveterate heart disease. He was 82. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Gao Jie, File) ** NO SALES **AP - Top North Korean military official Jo Myong Rok, a longtime confidant of leader Kim Jong Il who traveled to Washington in 2000 on a then-unprecedented goodwill mission, has died. He was 82.

India's Punjab celebrates Nikki Haley's election (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 03:54 AM PST

South Carolina Gov.-elect Nikki Haley, center, speaks to the media as she visits a BBQ restaurant to thank supporters the day after becoming the first woman elected to the position in the state and the second Indian-American governor in the country, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, in Lexington, SC. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - When Nikki Haley won election last week as governor of South Carolina, a small town halfway across the world in India's Punjab exploded in celebration.

Missing turbine part key to A380 emergency probe (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 03:53 AM PST

This undated image provided by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau shows a jagged and bent piece of a turbine disc from a Qantas superjumbo Rolls-Royce engine that exploded Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is leading an international investigation into the blowout on the world's newest and largest airliner, appealed for help from residents of Indonesia's Batam island to find the missing chunk of a turbine disc. (AP Photo/ATSB) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Investigators of last week's engine explosion on a Qantas superjumbo focused their search Sunday on a missing piece of turbine from the Rolls-Royce engine, and the airline said it hoped to have its grounded fleet of A380s back in service within days.

Supporters of Chinese artist gather at studio (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 02:10 AM PST

AP - A few hundred supporters of Chinese avant-garde artist Ai Weiwei gathered peacefully at his soon-to-be-demolished studio in Shanghai on Sunday as the artist remained under house arrest in Beijing.

US, Australia expand ties with an eye on China (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2010 01:25 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd take part in a joint news conference on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)AP - The United States plans to expand its military presence in Australia as the two nations maneuver to rein in an increasingly assertive China.
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