Friday, April 8, 2011

UN rights panel raps China over 'disappeared' (AFP)

UN rights panel raps China over 'disappeared' (AFP)

UN rights panel raps China over 'disappeared' (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 11:06 AM PDT

Protestors demanding the release of Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo hold his portrait during a torch parade in Oslo. A UN human rights panel on Friday expressed rare public concern at a wave of reported arrests of activists and lawyers in China, warning that so-called enforced disappearances were a crime under international law.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - A UN human rights panel on Friday expressed rare public concern at a wave of reported arrests of activists and lawyers in China, warning that so-called enforced disappearances were a crime under international law.

N. Korea threatens action for US-SKorea drills (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:55 AM PDT

US and South Korean soldiers stand guard at a beach in Taean, 170 kms southwest of Seoul, during a joint logistics drill in March 2011. North Korea warned Friday that its military would not remain a AFP - North Korea warned Friday that its military would not remain a "passive onlooker" if South Korea and the United States continued joint military drills, state media reported.

Hong Kong restricts mainland babies (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:36 AM PDT

A woman carries her baby at a child hospital in Beijing 2008. Hong Kong said Friday its public hospitals would not accept women arriving from China to give birth in the territory which has been struggling to cope with the tens of thousands who land each year.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Hong Kong said Friday its public hospitals would not accept women arriving from China to give birth in the territory which has been struggling to cope with the tens of thousands who land each year.

Choi, Quiros share lead of Master golf (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:21 AM PDT

South Korean K.J. Choi, seen here on the second hole, birdied the par-5 second and par-3 fourth and six holes to stand atop the leaderboard on eight-under par.(AFP/Getty Images/Andrew Redington)AFP - South Korean K.J. Choi birdied three of the first six holes Friday to seize a share of the lead with Spain's Alvaro Quiros early in the second round of the 75th Masters.

Teen says 400 Pakistan suicide bombers in training (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:15 AM PDT

Pakistani devotees stand among the bodies of blast victims following a suicide bomb attack outside the shrine of 13th century Sufi saint Ahmed Sultan, in Dera Ghazi Khan district on April 3. A teenager arrested as an accomplice to Pakistan's deadliest suicide bombing of the year has said that up to 400 suicide bombers are being groomed to wage carnage in the nuclear-armed nation.(AFP/File)AFP - A teenager arrested as an accomplice to Pakistan's deadliest suicide bombing of the year has said that up to 400 suicide bombers are being groomed to wage carnage in the nuclear-armed nation.

Official: Pakistani troops kill 30 militants in NW (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 10:03 AM PDT

Pakistani officials visit the site of bombing in Quetta, Pakistan on Thursday, April 7, 2011. A suicide car bomber targeted the residence of a senior police officer killing his guard and wounding eight others, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - Pakistani security forces killed 30 alleged Islamist militants Friday in a region close to the Afghan border, a government official said, bringing to more than 80 the number purportedly killed in two days of fighting there.

AP Exclusive: Terror suspects held weeks in secret (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:43 AM PDT

In this March 23, 2011 photograph, an Afghan detainee is seen through iron mesh inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. “Black sites,” the secret network of jails that grew up after the Sept. 11 attacks, are gone. But suspected terrorists are still being held under hazy circumstances with uncertain rights in secret, military-run jails across Afghanistan, where they can be interrogated for weeks without charge, according to U.S. officials who revealed details of the top-secret network to The Associated Press. The Pentagon has previously denied operating secret jails in Afghanistan, although human rights groups and former detainees have described the facilities. U.S. military and other government officials confirmed that the detention centers exist but described them as temporary holding pens whose primary purpose is to gather intelligence. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)AP - The CIA's infamous secret network of "black site" interrogation centers is gone. But suspected terrorists in Afghanistan are being held and interrogated for weeks at temporary sites, including one run by the elite special operations forces at Bagram Air Base, according to U.S. officials who revealed details of the detention network to The Associated Press.

Rich, poor nations feud at UN climate talks (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:38 AM PDT

A view of a melting glaciar in Ecuador. The first UN climate talks for the year have entered their final phase with negotiators still trying to hammer out a deal after familiar feuds between rich and poor nations flared.(AFP/File/Jorge Vinueza)AFP - Rich and poor nations agreed Friday on a roadmap for UN climate talks this year, but only after long-running feuds flared over a wide range of actions they must take to combat global warming.

Japan to stop pumping radioactive water into sea (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:30 AM PDT

A woman rides her bike at darkness after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, in Yamagata, northern Japan April 8, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaReuters - Japan expects to stop pumping radioactive water into the sea from a crippled nuclear plant on Saturday, a day after China expressed concern at the action, reflecting growing international unease at the month-long nuclear crisis.

P&G's Asian chief: Growth is speeding up (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 09:27 AM PDT

In this photo taken March 14, 2011, Deb Henretta, president of Procter & Gamble's Asia Group, stands inside the company's headquarters, in Cincinnati. Henretta recently discussed the consumer products maker's ambitious growth goals in the region that includes China, India, Japan and many other fast-growing nations. The maker of Tide detergent and Pampers diapers sees healthy and accelerated growth there, she said in an interview. (AP Photo/David Kohl)AP - The head of Asian operations for the world's largest consumer products maker says Procter & Gamble Co.'s growth in the region with half the world's population is picking up speed.

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

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 08:31 AM PDT

AP - • AFTERSHOCK PILES ON MISERY. Shoppers empty stores, traffic snarls and drivers wait for scarce gasoline as a 7.1-magnitude aftershock brings new misery to northeast Japan. The quake kills three people and a half-million homes lack power, including some spared in the first quake.

Japan aftershock raises anxiety, knocks out power (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 08:27 AM PDT

Japanese people buy food at a supermarket with no electricity in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011. A big aftershock rocked quake-weary Japan late Thursday, rattling nerves as it knocked out power to the northern part of the country and prompted tsunami warnings that were later canceled. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - Shoppers emptied store shelves, traffic snarled after stoplights lost power and drivers waited in long lines to buy gasoline in a new wave of anxiety Friday after a magnitude-7.1 aftershock struck disaster-weary northeastern Japan.

Thailand seizes 1,800 monitor lizards from trucks (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 07:41 AM PDT

A Thai customs official displays one of 1,800 seized Bengal monitor lizards smuggled on pickup trucks to the capital from south of Thailand during a press conference at the customs headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April 8, 2011. Customs Department chief suspects the lizards were destined to be eaten. He said their meat sells for US$7.50-$15 per pound (US$16-$33 per kilogram) in China, making them worth more than US$60,000. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - Authorities in Thailand have seized 1,800 monitor lizards being smuggled on pickup trucks to the capital.

Blast kills religious leader in Indian Kashmir (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 07:13 AM PDT

Kashmiri Muslims crowd around the body of Moulvi Showkat Ahmed Shah, the president of the religious group Jamiat-e-ahle Hadith, who was killed in a blast as he was entering a mosque in Srinagar, India, Friday, April 8, 2011. A blast outside a mosque in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Friday killed the prominent Muslim religious leader and wounded a bystander, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)AP - A blast outside a mosque in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Friday killed a prominent Muslim religious leader and wounded a bystander, police said.

Indian activist's hunger strike goes on amid talks (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 07:11 AM PDT

Indian activist Anna Hazare, 73, gestures during his hunger strike against corruption, besides a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 8, 2011. Hazare, harnessing the tactics of Gandhi, has galvanized public anger at rampant corruption with a high-profile hunger strike demanding the government adopt immediate reforms. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)AP - A 73-year-old Indian activist on a hunger strike to combat government corruption on Friday defiantly rejected government efforts to negotiate a compromise to end his high-profile protest.

Insurgents kill Afghan police official in north (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 07:00 AM PDT

U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander of International Security Assistance Force and commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan (C) walks with Kandahar Governor Tooryalai Wesa to a joint news conference at the Kandahar Media Information Center in Kandahar, Afghanistan in this photo taken April 7, 2011. REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Haraz N. Ghanbari/Handout (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSAP - Insurgents gunned down a local police chief Friday in northern Afghanistan, where the Taliban has intensified attacks, especially against those aligned with the government.

Correction: Nuclear-Climate Change (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 06:21 AM PDT

AP - In a story April 7 about the future of nuclear power, The Associated Press erroneously attributed to the International Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body set up the U.N., a statement that a global phase-out of nuclear power plants is feasible at moderate costs.

Correction: AIDS-Goals (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 05:33 AM PDT

AP - In an April 1 story about new United Nations goals to combat AIDS, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the U.N. was aiming for zero new HIV infections and zero AIDS-related deaths by the year 2015.

Pakistani boy apologizes for suicide mission (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 05:29 AM PDT

AP - A Pakistani boy who took part in a bloody suicide mission on a Sufi shrine has sought forgiveness from his victims in a television interview from his hospital bed.

Kazakhstan's president sworn in for new term (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 04:32 AM PDT

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev takes an oath during an inauguration ceremony at Astana, Kazakhstan's capital on Friday, April 8, 2011. Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev was sworn in for a new five-year term Friday after securing a devastating victory in an election criticized by international observers. (AP Photo/Sergei Bondarenko, Presidential Press Service, Pool)AP - Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev was sworn in for a new five-year term Friday after securing a devastating victory in an election criticized by international observers.
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