Friday, April 1, 2011

Ford closing Louisville truck plant for 1 week (AP)

Ford closing Louisville truck plant for 1 week (AP)

Ford closing Louisville truck plant for 1 week (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 11:21 AM PDT

AP - Ford Motor Co. is closing its Louisville, Ken., truck plant next week because of potential supply disruptions stemming from the earthquake in Japan, and because demand is down for the vehicles.

Japanese, US military search for tsunami victims (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 11:21 AM PDT

In this Thursday, March 24, 2011, photo available Friday, April 1, 2011, inside of the Unit 4 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan. Steam comes out of debris by a crane device, in green, at the unit, Kyodo reports. The March 11 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore and disabled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Co. via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - SENDAI, Japan — Japanese and U.S. military ships and helicopters trolled Japan's tsunami-ravaged coastline looking for bodies Friday, part of an all-out search that could be the last chance to find those swept out to sea nearly three weeks ago.

Two U.N. staff killed in Afghanistan were beheaded: police (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 11:11 AM PDT

Reuters - Afghan protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by an obscure U.S. pastor killed up to 20 U.N. staff, beheading two foreigners, when they over-ran a compound in a normally peaceful northern city on Friday in the worst ever attack on the U.N. in Afghanistan.

Pakistan extends tenure of military intelligence chief (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 11:03 AM PDT

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, pictured in March 2011, said the chief of the country's powerful military spy agency was given an extra year in the job after he had been set to retire.(AFP/POOL/File/Raveendran)AFP - Pakistan said Friday it had given the chief of the country's powerful military spy agency an extra year in the job after he had been set to retire.

Seven UN workers killed in Afghan Koran protest (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:59 AM PDT

Smoke billows from the UN headquarters after protesters attacked the compound in Mazar-i-Sharif. Seven foreign UN workers were killed Friday in Afghanistan by protesters angered by a Koran burning in the United States, the provincial governor said, in what appeared to be the deadliest attack on the United Nations there since the 2001 invasion.(AFP)AFP - Seven foreign UN workers were killed Friday in Afghanistan by protesters angered by a Koran burning in the United States, the provincial governor said, in what appeared to be the deadliest attack on the United Nations there since the 2001 invasion.

Afghanistan: 12 killed in protest at UN office (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:48 AM PDT

Afghans carrying a man, who got wounded following an attack on UN's office during a demonstration to condemn the burning of a copy of the Muslim holy book by a Florida pastor, in Mazar-i- Sharif north of Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, April. 1, 2011. An Afghan official says seven people have been killed at a U.N. office in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif when a Quran burning protest turned violent. (AP Photo/Mustafa Najafizada)AP - Thousands of protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida pastor stormed a U.N. compound Friday in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 12 people, including eight foreigners. The desecration of the Muslim holy book fueled resentment against the West at a critical moment in the Afghan war.

Obama condemns attack on UN compound in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:39 AM PDT

Smoke billows from the UN headquarters after protesters attacked the compound in Mazar-i-Sharif. US President Barack Obama condemned Friday's brutal attack on a UN compound in northern Afghanistan in which at least 12 people, including seven UN employees, were killed.(AFP)AFP - US President Barack Obama condemned Friday's brutal attack on a UN compound in northern Afghanistan in which at least 12 people, including seven UN employees, were killed.

Obama condemns killing of U.N. workers in Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 10:33 AM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama strongly condemned the killing of eight U.N. employees in an attack in northern Afghanistan on Friday, offering condolences to the families and urging the parties to resolve their differences through dialogue.

Radiation eases in Japan village near no-go zone: IAEA (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 11:37 AM PDT

Reuters - Radiation measured at a village 40 km (25 miles) from Japan's crippled nuclear plant is falling by the day, the U.N. atomic agency said on Friday, two days after warning the level exceeded a criterion for evacuation.

"Jumpers" offered big money to brave Japan's nuclear (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 09:57 AM PDT

An aerial view of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is seen in Fukushima Prefecture in this photo taken by the Air Photo Service on March 24, 2011. REUTERS/Air Photo ServiceReuters - It's a job that sounds too good to be true -- thousands of dollars for up to an hour of work that often requires little training.

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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 06:52 AM PDT

AP - Afghan officials: 7 killed at UN office when Quran burning protest turns violent.

25 dead in Thai floods; rains finally ease (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 05:32 AM PDT

AP - Heavy rains have finally eased in southern Thailand, where flooding and mudslides over the past week killed 25 people.

Kazakh leader set to coast to election victory (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 04:58 AM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday March 29, 2011, children are seen through a glass wall of a bus stop in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan's president is so certain of victory in Sunday's snap election that he hasn't bothered hitting the campaign trail and only published his manifesto days before the vote. People of Kazakhstan will take part in presidential elections on Sunday, April 3. Election poster with the portrait of president Nursultan Nazarbayev reads: 'Vote for the leader'. (AP photo/Nikita Basov)AP - Kazakhstan's president is so certain of victory in Sunday's snap election that he hasn't bothered hitting the campaign trail and only published his manifesto days before the vote.

Cambodian PM declares assets to anti-graft board (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 04:52 AM PDT

AP - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged civil servants to meet an upcoming deadline for making a mandatory declaration of their assets, as he took his turn.

3 guards killed at NATO terminal in NW Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 04:23 AM PDT

Adar Gul, 80, an elderly Afghan refugee, arranges bricks while working in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, April 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Nathalie Bardou)AP - Islamist militants on Friday attacked a terminal in northwestern Pakistan used by trucks carrying supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, killing three Pakistani guards at the site. Elsewhere in the northwest, a child was killed in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber fleeing from residents who opened fire at him.

Indian gov't reviews Commonwealth Games report (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 03:48 AM PDT

AP - India's government is reviewing a report on last year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi that says organizers spent hundreds of millions of dollars more than needed, the prime minister said Friday.

Sports resort becomes base camp for nuke workers (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 03:23 AM PDT

AP - At the edge of a no man's land around Japan's tsunami-slammed reactor complex lies a grassy athlete's village that now serves as base camp for an army of workers battling the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Developments in Japan's disasters, nuclear crisis (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 03:22 AM PDT

AP - • SAFETY AGENCY ORDERS RADIATION DATA REVIEW. Japan's nuclear safety agency orders a review of the latest radiation measurements at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, saying they seem suspiciously high. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which runs the plant, has repeatedly made mistakes in analyzing radiation, which appears to be still streaming out of the plant.

Thais seize 2 tons of ivory in largest bust ever (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 01:28 AM PDT

AP - Thailand has confiscated two tons of African elephant tusks worth millions of dollars being smuggled through a Bangkok port, in what authorities said Friday was the country's largest ivory seizure.

Malaysia clerics ban 'poco-poco' dance for Muslims (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 10:30 PM PDT

AP - Islamic clerics in a Malaysian state want Muslims to avoid a popular dance they claim has Christian influences.
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