Thursday, May 5, 2011

Japan tsunami children keep baseball dream alive (AFP)

Japan tsunami children keep baseball dream alive (AFP)

Japan tsunami children keep baseball dream alive (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 11:01 AM PDT

Spectators cheer baseball players of a high school at the Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, suburban Osaka in March 2011. Now living in a school gymnasium with hundreds of other disaster victims, 17-year-old Yuki Kikuchi believed his chance of making the national high school baseball tournament had been snatched away by huge waves that left Yamadamachi in ruins.(AFP/File/Jiji Press)AFP - Yuki Kikuchi saw his hometown destroyed by the tsunami which devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, and the teenager thought his dream of playing baseball was gone.

Workers enter Japan reactor for first time since blast (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 11:00 AM PDT

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant's north side of No.1 reactor building is seen in Fukushima prefecture in this frame grab from video taken by a T-Hawk drone aircraft on April 21, 2011 and released by TEPCO April 27, 2011. Mandatory Credit REUTERS/Tokyo Electric Power Co/HandoutReuters - Japanese workers entered the No.1 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Thursday for the first time since a hydrogen explosion ripped off its roof a day after a devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Pakistan slump despite Hafeez fifty (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:55 AM PDT

Pakistani batsman Mohammad Hafeez is bowled out during their fifth ODI against the West Indies at the Providence cricket ground in Georgetown, Guyana. Another fluent half-century from Hafeez failed to inspire Pakistan and their batting crumbled for the first time in the series against West Indies in the fifth one-day international on Thursday.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Another fluent half-century from Mohammad Hafeez failed to inspire Pakistan and their batting crumbled for the first time in the series against West Indies in the fifth one-day international on Thursday.

Pakistan needs support 'more than ever,' says EU (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:51 AM PDT

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton is pictured in April 2011. Pakistan AFP - Pakistan "more than ever" needs support in its efforts to combat terrorism and bolster democracy following the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the European Union said Thursday.

China rules U.S. carmakers are guilty of dumping (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:40 AM PDT

Reuters - China has found some U.S.-made passenger cars benefited from unfair subsidies, damaging its carmakers, although Beijing side-stepped a potential trade row with the United States by not hitting them with duties.

Mixed Messages From Al Qaeda's Indonesian and Filipino Friends (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:39 AM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - Meanwhile, in the Philippines, MILF officials have distanced themselves from those characterizing bin Laden as a martyr. The local newswire ABS-CBN hammered MILF vice-chairman for political affairs Ghazali Jaafar for calling Bin Laden "a martyr of the cause he is fighting for," in a text message to reporter Jojo Malig. Jaafar denied doing so and called the report "a distortion."

Top US Republican seeks stronger US-Pakistan ties (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:32 AM PDT

US Speaker of the House John Boehner at a Capitol Hill press conference called for closer ties to Pakistan and better cooperation in fighting extremists amid simmering anger that Osama bin Laden was found living not far from its capital.(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - US House Speaker John Boehner called Thursday for closer ties to Pakistan and better cooperation in fighting extremists amid simmering anger that Osama bin Laden was found living not far from its capital.

Up to Pakistan to decide US presence: Mullen (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:19 AM PDT

US Admiral Mike Mullen, pictured in Baghdad on April 22. He said Thursday it was up to Pakistan's leaders if they wanted American troops to remain in the country, amid anger in Islamabad over a US raid that killed Osama bin Laden.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - The US military's top officer said Thursday it was up to Pakistan's leaders if they wanted American troops to remain in the country, amid anger in Islamabad over a US raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Study predicts "Made in the USA" revival (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:03 AM PDT

Reuters - The "Made in the USA" label may be poised for a comeback, a new study argues.

Philippine Muslim rebels warn peace talks at risk (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:01 AM PDT

Members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panel attend a forum in Manila. Philippine Muslim rebels who have waged one of Asia's longest insurgencies threatened Thursday to abandon peace talks unless the government quickly submitted its proposal for a political settlement.(AFP/Ted Aljibe)AFP - Philippine Muslim rebels who have waged one of Asia's longest insurgencies threatened Thursday to abandon peace talks unless the government quickly submitted its proposal for a political settlement.

Pakistan army wants cuts in US military personnel (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 09:45 AM PDT

Pakistani men stand looking at the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 5, 2011. The residents of Abbottabad were still confused and suspicious about the killing of bin Laden, which took place in their midst before dawn on Monday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - Pakistan's army on Thursday called for cuts in the number of U.S. military personnel inside the country to protest the American commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and threatened to cut cooperation with Washington if it stages more unilateral raids on its territory.

Workers enter Japan nuclear reactor building (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 09:33 AM PDT

A volunteer worker has dirt and dust off by water spray after the day's work in the area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)AP - Workers entered one of the damaged reactor buildings at Japan's stricken nuclear power plant Thursday for the first time since it was rocked by an explosion in the days after a devastating earthquake, the plant's operator said.

Superheroes cheer children in Japan's tsunami zone (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 08:34 AM PDT

Children watch their hero 'Sea Jetter Kaito' in action at a Children's Day event in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, May 5, 2011. Nearly two months after their lives were turned upside down by the March 11 massive tsunami, the boys and girls of Ishinomaki, many who live still live in shelters or half-ruined homes surrounded by debris, were treated to the stage show as part of the country's annual Children's Day celebrations. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)AP - The battle between the buggy-eyed blue superhero and the evil sea monster and his ninja henchmen was a brief but refreshing return to normalcy for children in this Japanese coastal city.

(AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 07:21 AM PDT

AP - Pakistan army: US military personnel in Pakistan to be cut to "minimum essential" levels.

Last World War I combat vet dies in Australia (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 07:01 AM PDT

In this Sept. 11, 2009 photo supplied by the Royal Australian Navy, World War I Navy Veteran Claude Choules sits in the Gracewood Retirement Village lounge room in Salter Point, on the suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, has died, Thursday, May 5, 2011 at a nursing home in the Western Australia city of Perth, his family says. He was 110.. (AP Photo/Royal Australian Navy, LSIS Nadia Monteith) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESAP - The last known combat veteran of World War I was defiant of the tolls of time, a centenarian who swam in the sea, twirled across dance floors, and published his first book at 108. He also refused to submit to his place in history, becoming a pacifist who wouldn't march in parades commemorating wars like the one that made him famous.

Vietnam quashes rare Hmong uprising lasting days (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 06:29 AM PDT

AP - Vietnamese security forces quashed a rare protest of hundreds of ethnic Hmong Christians calling for an independent state, officials said Thursday.

Philippine diplomat praised for Mideast rescues (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 06:21 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, May 4, 2011 photo, Secretary of Foreign Affairs Albert del Rosario narrates his experiences during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in suburban Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines. The pro-democracy uprisings raging in the Middle East have trapped thousands of overseas Filipino workers and quickly tested the Philippines' new top diplomat. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - The pro-democracy uprisings raging in the Middle East have trapped thousands of overseas Filipino workers and quickly tested the Philippines' new top diplomat.

Afghan protesters criticize overtures to Taliban (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 05:26 AM PDT

Former Afghan intelligence Chief Amrullah Saleh, wears a green wristband which reads ' Basij e Melli' which is a symbol of the National Movement, during an Afghan government opposition rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP - About 2,000 protesters gathered Thursday to criticize President Hamid Karzai's willingness to start peace talks with the Taliban.

Ship hijacked with 24 Chinese crew in Arabian Sea (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 04:47 AM PDT

An armed Somali pirate stands along the coastline of Hobyo town in northeastern Somalia in 2010. The 25-strong crew of a Singaporean chemical tanker boarded by pirates off Kenya are safe, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, citing Seoul's foreign ministry.(AFP/File/Mohamed Dahir)AP - Chinese state media say pirates have hijacked a cargo ship with 24 Chinese sailors in the Arabian Sea.

China: Bin Laden burial ship applies to visit HK (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 03:51 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. aircraft carrier that conducted Osama bin Laden's burial at sea has applied to make a port call in Hong Kong later this month, Chinese authorities said Thursday.
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