Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Pirates free Thai ship for $5 million (AFP)

Pirates free Thai ship for $5 million (AFP)

Pirates free Thai ship for $5 million (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 10:49 AM PDT

A pirate stands on a rocky outcrop on the Somali coast. Somali pirates on Tuesday said they received a ransom of five million dollars to release the MV Thor Nexus, a Thai cargo vessel hijacked on December 25 last year.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)AFP - Somali pirates on Tuesday said they received a ransom of five million dollars to release the MV Thor Nexus, a Thai cargo vessel hijacked on December 25 last year.

Afghan opposition cautions US on Taliban talks (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 10:39 AM PDT

Afghanistan's main opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah, pictured in 2010, is warning that talks with the Taliban could set back efforts on the ground and is telling the United States that the real problem is President Hamid Karzai.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - Afghanistan's main opposition leader is warning that talks with the Taliban could set back efforts on the ground and is telling the United States that the real problem is President Hamid Karzai.

EU eases Myanmar sanctions (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 10:38 AM PDT

AP - The European Union has eased sanctions on Myanmar's government, with the lifting of a visa ban on some civilian members of the regime.

Bangladesh coach Siddons on his way out (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 10:16 AM PDT

Bangladesh on Tuesday showed the door to coach Jamie Siddons, seen here in March 2011, just days after the national team failed to make it to the quarter-finals of the World Cup.(AFP/File/Munir Uz Zaman)AFP - Bangladesh on Tuesday showed the door to coach Jamie Siddons, just days after the national team failed to make it to the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

Shane Warne's Rajasthan post second IPL win (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 10:09 AM PDT

Rajasthan Royals batsman Rahul Dravid (R) plays a shot as Delhi Daredevils wicketkeeper Naman Ojha looks on during the IPL Twenty20 cricket match at the Swai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur. Rajasthan Royals thrashed Delhi Daredevils by six wickets to pocket their second successive IPL win.(AFP/Prakash Singh)AFP - Shane Warne's Rajasthan Royals thrashed Delhi Daredevils by six wickets to pocket their second successive victory in the Indian Premier League on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka recalls players from IPL (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 10:08 AM PDT

Kumar Sangakkara in action behind the stumps for Deccan Chargers in an IPL Twenty20 match against Rajasthan Royals at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on April 9. Sri Lanka's sports authorities on Tuesday ordered its cricketers playing in the ongoing Indian Premier League to return home for training ahead of next month's tour of England.(AFP/File/Noah Seelam)AFP - Sri Lanka's sports authorities on Tuesday ordered its cricketers playing in the ongoing Indian Premier League to return home for training ahead of next month's tour of England.

Japan welcomes start of quake-delayed season (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 10:04 AM PDT

Sendai-based Japanese professional baseball team Rakuten Golden Eagles members(L) offer silent prayers for earthquake and tsunami victims before the start the opening game of the season against the Lotte Marines in Chiba, suburban Tokyo. Baseball-crazy Japan welcomed the start of a new season, more than two weeks behind schedule.(AFP/JIJI PRESS)AFP - Baseball-crazy Japan on Tuesday welcomed the start of a new season, more than two weeks behind schedule after the country's biggest post-war natural disaster threw the sport into disarray.

Japan equates nuclear crisis severity to Chernobyl (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:59 AM PDT

People in radiation protect suits walk in J-Village in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan Tuesday, April 12, 2011. J-Village was a sports complex which has been converted to a base for workers at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)AP - Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale — the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster — even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation leaks are declining at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.

Japan says nuclear crisis stabilizing, time to rebuild (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:58 AM PDT

Reuters - Japan's nuclear crisis is slowly stabilizing and the country must now focus on repairing the damage wrought by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeast coast a month ago, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said.

Japan raises nuclear disaster to Chernobyl level (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:34 AM PDT

The fourth stricken reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Japan has upgraded its month-old nuclear emergency to a maximum seven on an international scale of atomic crises, placing it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster a quarter-century ago.(AFP/HO/TEPCO/FILE)AFP - Japan upgraded its month-old nuclear emergency to a maximum seven on an international scale of atomic crises Tuesday, placing it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster a quarter-century ago.

Roadside bomb kills 5 Afghan workers (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:56 AM PDT

An Afghan laborer works at the brick factory in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - A roadside bomb on Tuesday killed five construction workers in eastern Afghanistan who were in a car driving near the Pakistani border, an Afghan official said.

China milk poisoning case caused by grudges (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 06:41 AM PDT

AP - State media say police suspect a couple in northwest China poisoned milk from a local farmer, causing three deaths, because of anger over business disputes.

Army: Filipino contact of Jemaah Islamiyah caught (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:46 AM PDT

AP - The Philippine army chief says a Filipino militant who is a local contact of the Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiyah militant network has been arrested in southern Sultan Kudarat province.

EU official urges China to halt arbitrary arrests (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:57 AM PDT

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is pictured in the courtyard of his home in Beijing in 2010. China refused to provide any details about the whereabouts of detained outspoken artist Ai and chided foreign countries for supporting a AP - The EU's foreign policy chief expressed alarm at the "deterioration of human rights" in China and called Tuesday for a halt to arbitrary arrests and disappearances, joining a growing international outcry against the crackdown.

Divorces rise as taboo falls in urbanizing India (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:44 AM PDT

In this photo taken on April 7, 2011, Indian divorce lawyer Geeta Luthra, left, talks to an unidentified client in New Delhi, India. As recently as a decade ago, divorce was a dirty word in this socially conservative and family oriented country, where even couples in the most unhappy and violent marriages would have little choice but to to stick it out.But as the economy here has boomed, the rigid boundaries governing traditional Indian life are beginning to fall, especially among the growing ranks of the urban middle class where women have more economic freedom than ever before. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)AP - In a crowded courtroom on the city's outskirts, the once unthinkable is reality: dozens of couples — rich and poor, educated and barely literate — seek divorce for reasons as varied as domestic violence to a simple inability to live together.

Japan leader urges no panic in nuclear crisis (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:17 AM PDT

AP - Japan's prime minister is urging the public not to panic after the government boosted the severity level of the crisis at a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant to the highest rating — on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

World markets lower on Japan nuclear worries (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:35 AM PDT

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, April 8, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidAP - Markets in Europe and Asia, weighed down by a darkening outlook for global growth, fell Tuesday after Japan said the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant is as severe as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Bangladesh to teachers: No cellphones in classroom (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:41 AM PDT

AP - Education authorities thought the ban on student cellphones in class would be enough to prevent disruptions.

Malaysia unveils blueprint to boost capital market (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:46 AM PDT

AP - Malaysia aims to more than double the size of its capital market to 4.5 trillion ringgit ($1.5 trillion) by 2020 under a new 10-year blueprint unveiled Tuesday to boost competitiveness.

Taiwan air drill highlights US arms sale dilemma (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:24 AM PDT

Taiwan air force F-16 fighter lands on one section of a highway during the Hanguang military drill in Madou, Tainan city, south of Taiwan, Tuesday, April 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)AP - Taiwan's equipment-challenged air force demonstrated its improvisational skills Tuesday, landing six war planes on a normally busy highway to simulate a response to a Chinese attack on its air fields.
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