Monday, April 4, 2011

Toyota says it will shut North American plants (AP)

Toyota says it will shut North American plants (AP)

Toyota says it will shut North American plants (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 11:01 AM PDT

AP - A Toyota Motor Corp. spokesman says it's inevitable that the company will have to shut down its North American factories due to shortages of parts from Japan.

Quake-hit Japan withdraw from Copa America (AFP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 10:36 AM PDT

The president of the South American football confederation CONMEBOL, Nicolas Leoz(R), listens to the president of Japan's Football Association Junji Ogura during a meeting in Luque, Paraguay. CONMEBOL announced Asian champions Japan withdrew from the Copa America after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami(AFP/Norberto Duarte)AFP - Asian champions Japan on Monday withdrew from the Copa America after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) spokesman Nestor Benitez said.

Afghan policeman kills two American troops: officials (AFP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 10:34 AM PDT

An Afghan border policeman in the north of the country shot dead two American soldiers from the NATO alliance, military officials said. NATO confirmed the deaths, the latest attack on international soldiers, and said it was investigating the incident which occurred inside a police compound while US military advisers were holding talks with a local colonel.(AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)AFP - Two American soldiers from the NATO alliance were Monday shot dead by an Afghan border policeman in the north of the country, military officials said.

Vietnamese dissident lawyer gets 7 years in prison (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 10:14 AM PDT

Dissident lawyer Cu Huy Ha Vu is escorted by police out of a courtroom after being convicted of spreading propaganda against the state and sentenced to seven years in prison and three years of house arrest at the one-day trial in Hanoi, Vietnam on Monday, April 4, 2011. Cu Huy Ha Vu, son of a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader, was sentenced Monday for calling for an end to Vietnam's government and its one-party system. (AP Photo/Vietnam News Agency, Thong Nhat) NO SALESAP - A dissident lawyer and son of a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader was sentenced to seven years in prison and another three years house arrest Monday for calling for an end to Vietnam's government and its one-party system.

Dog gets hugs from owner after tsunami rescue (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 10:05 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, April 1, 2011 file photo released by the Japan Coast Guard, members of the Japan Coast Guard rescue a dog after it was found drifting on the roof of a house floating 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) off Kesennuma, northeastern Japan. The rescued dog named Ban immediately jumped to her owner and wagged her tail at their reunion Monday, April 4, 2011, more than three weeks after Japan's deadly tsunami. (AP Photo/Japan Coast Guard, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - A dog rescued from drifting ocean debris immediately jumped to her owner and wagged her tail at their reunion more than three weeks after Japan's tsunami.

Shooter in Afghan uniform kills 2 US personnel (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Afghan protestors shout anti-US slogans, as they march during a demonstration in Laghman east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, April 4, 2011. Protests erupted in Afghanistan again Monday against a Florida pastor's burning of the Quran, making four straight days of demonstrations — some deadly — against the destruction of Islam's holy book in a country struggling to beat back an insurgency led by Taliban religious extremists. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - A man wearing an Afghan border police uniform shot dead two American military personnel tasked with helping train members of the country's security forces on Monday, NATO and Afghan officials said.

Japan seeks Russian help to end nuclear crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 10:02 AM PDT

A staff member of a radiation check-up point points out a location of the tsunami-crippled nuclear plant on a map, on which a radiation gauge is placed, during a photo opportunity in an evacuation center in Fukushima, northern Japan, April 4, 2011. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonReuters - Japan has asked nuclear superpower Russia to send a special radiation treatment ship used to decommission nuclear submarines to help in its fight to contain the world's worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl, Japanese media said late on Monday.

Search for radiation leak turns desperate in Japan (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 09:59 AM PDT

A Buddhist monk, offering prayer, walks through the area destroyed by a tsunami in Yamada, Iwate prefecture, northern Japan Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCEAP - Workers used a milky bathwater dye Monday as they frantically tried to trace the path of radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant.

Protests against women's policy cripple Bangladesh (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 09:55 AM PDT

AP - Police clashed with demonstrators and arrested dozens in Bangladesh as a hard-line Muslim group enforced a paralyzing general strike Monday protesting a new policy giving women equal inheritance rights.

Tsunami washes away hopes for Japan's young (AFP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 09:16 AM PDT

Graduating students hold hands during their graduation ceremony at Rokugou junior high school in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture on March 2011. The ceremony was held in a class shared with about 200 refugees occupying a gymnasium. Japan's tsunami swept away more than just the buildings in places like Rikuzentakata -- it took people's dreams and their plans for the future.(AFP/File/Yasuyoshi Chiba)AFP - Japan's tsunami swept away more than just the buildings in places like Rikuzentakata -- it took people's dreams and their plans for the future.

Captured bomber in Pakistan vows attacks (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 07:14 AM PDT

EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT A Pakistani security official gets information from an injured suicide bomber at a shrine near Dera Ghazi Khan in Pakistan on Sunday, April 3, 2011. The bomber was wounded when his explosive vest only partially detonated. He was arrested along with a fourth militant who was seized before attacking, police official Ahmad Mubarak said. The Taliban suicide bombers struck one of Pakistan's most important Sufi Muslim shrines on Sunday, killing at least 42 people and wounding over 100 who were celebrating the anniversary of its founder's death with music, meditation and other practices abhorred by Islamist militant groups, police said. (AP Photo/Saleem Raza)AP - His accomplices brought carnage to a Sufi shrine, but the 14-year-old suicide bomber who was captured after his explosives failed to detonate was unrepentant.

Gunmen free child, hold 12 other Filipino hostages (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 06:18 AM PDT

AP - Armed tribesmen freed a boy after getting food and water Monday but kept at least 12 other hostages in jungle captivity to demand the release of jailed relatives and friends in the southern Philippines, a police official said.

Vietnam sacred lake turtle captured for treatment (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:57 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday, April 3, 2011, an injured giant softshell turtle is seen after being pulled from Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam. Veterinarians examined the rare giant turtle, which has a shell the size of a desk and is estimated to weigh about 440 pounds (200 kilograms), considered sacred by many Vietnamese at a makeshift hospital in Hanoi on Monday to check mysterious lesions afflicting one of the last four known members of its species. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)AP - Veterinarians examined a rare giant turtle considered sacred by many Vietnamese at a makeshift hospital in Hanoi on Monday to check mysterious lesions afflicting one of the last four known members of its species.

Artist missing after blocked from leaving China (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2010 file photo, artist Ai Weiwei arrives at the Wenyuhe court to support fellow artist Wu Yuren during his trial in Beijing. China blocked Ai Weiwei, one of its most famous contemporary artists from taking a flight to Hong Kong on Sunday, April 3, 2011 and police later raided his Beijing studio, the man's assistant said. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)AP - One of China's most famous contemporary artists remained missing Monday, more than a day after he was blocked from leaving the country and police raided his home, his wife said.

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

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:50 AM PDT

AP - • WHITE DYE USED TO TRACE LEAK. Engineers trying to halt a leak of radioactive water into the ocean from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant use a milky white bathwater additive as a dye to trace the path of a leak.

700 fishermen missing in Myanmar after storms (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:12 AM PDT

AP - Nearly 700 fishermen from Myanmar are missing after a three-day burst of unseasonable storms that ripped apart rickety fishing boats in the Andaman Sea, news reports said Monday.

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Posted: 04 Apr 2011 01:03 AM PDT

AP - NATO says a person wearing an Afghan police uniform has shot dead 2 service members.

Kazakhstan's president earns crushing election win (AP)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 12:33 AM PDT

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, left, casts his ballot during the Kazakh presidential election at a polling station in Astana, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 3, 2011. At right is Nazarbayev's wife Sara. Voters in Kazakhstan cast their ballots Sunday in a election that is expected to overwhelmingly renew long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev's grip on power. (AP Photo/Nikita Bassov)AP - Oil-rich Kazakhstan's long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Monday was declared the overwhelming winner of elections that had been tainted by claims of violations.

Prison term for executive in Tongan ferry disaster (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 11:29 PM PDT

AP - A shipping company chief was sentenced to five years in prison and his corporation fined more than $1 million on Monday for negligence in a ferry disaster in Tonga that killed 74 people.

Oil rises to above $108 as US jobs market improves (AP)

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 10:29 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gestures, as he speaks with media during his press conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 4, 2011. The president says crude oil prices, now above $108 a barrel, are low, and will reach $150 soon. Oil prices jumped to fresh 30-month highs above $108 a barrel Monday in Asia as signs of a recovering U.S. jobs market bolstered investor optimism that global crude demand will strengthen. Iran is the second largest exporter of crude among the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC and has the world's second largest natural gas reserves. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - Oil prices jumped to fresh 30-month highs above $108 a barrel Monday in Asia as signs of a recovering U.S. jobs market bolstered investor optimism that global crude demand will strengthen.
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