Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Pakistan says world shares bin Laden blame (AFP)

Pakistan says world shares bin Laden blame (AFP)

Pakistan says world shares bin Laden blame (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:21 AM PDT

Local residents look at a burnt compound at the hideout house of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. Pakistan said Wednesday the world must share the blame for failing to unearth Osama bin Laden as a furore swelled over how the slain Al-Qaeda kingpin had managed to live undisturbed near Islamabad.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - Pakistan said Wednesday the world must share the blame for failing to unearth Osama bin Laden as a furore swelled over how the slain Al-Qaeda kingpin had managed to live undisturbed near Islamabad.

UN Security Council powers dispute coalition attacks (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:04 AM PDT

Li Baodong, China's ambassador to the United Nations, is pictured in March 2011. UN Security Council powers publicly crossed swords over the Libya conflict on Wednesday with Russia and China leading criticism of international coalition air raids.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AFP - UN Security Council powers publicly crossed swords over the Libya conflict on Wednesday with Russia and China leading criticism of international coalition air raids.

Obama won't release bin Laden death photos: US media (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:01 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama, pictured May 2, has decided not to release pictures of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's dead body.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - US President Barack Obama has decided not to release a photograph showing the body of Osama Bin Laden after he was killed by US commandos, US television networks said Wednesday.

Property records give new insights into bin Laden (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:47 AM PDT

Pakistani police officers stand guard at the main gate of a house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. The residents of Abbottabad, Pakistan, were still confused and suspicious on Wednesday about the killing of Osama bin Laden, which took place in their midst before dawn on Monday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - The Pakistani who owned the compound that was Osama bin Laden's final hideaway meticulously bought up adjoining plots of land over two years and once cryptically told a seller that the property he bought for "an uncle" had become very valuable.

UN health agency upholds research on nuclear radiation (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:38 AM PDT

Farmer Magoichi Shigihara checks radiation at his cucumber farm at Nihonmatsu city in Fukushima prefecture, 50km west of stricken nuclear power plant. The World Health Organisation said Wednesday that independent research on the health impact of radiation must be pursued without being influenced by the nuclear industry.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - The World Health Organisation said Wednesday that independent research on the health impact of radiation must be pursued without being influenced by the nuclear industry.

Crew of hijacked Singaporean tanker 'safe': report (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:34 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)AFP - 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.

China demands Nobel Prize apology from Norway (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:33 AM PDT

Demonstrators hold a portrait of China's detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo demanding his release in Taipei in 2010. China is demanding an apology from Norway before agreeing to restore relations soured when dissident Liu Xiaobo received the Nobel Peace prize, Beijing's ambassador was quoted Wednesday as saying.(AFP/File/Patrick Lin)AFP - China is demanding an apology from Norway before agreeing to restore relations soured when dissident Liu Xiaobo received the Nobel Peace prize, Beijing's ambassador was quoted Wednesday as saying.

Japanese language traced to Korean Peninsula: study (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:25 AM PDT

This photo from 2007 shows a man driving a rice transplanter machine while his wife (R) looks on at their paddy field in Shizuoka, west of Tokyo. Japan's many dialects originate in a migration of farmers from the Korean Peninsula some 2,200 years ago, a groundbreaking study borrowing the tools of evolutionary genetics reported Wednesday.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Japan's many dialects originate in a migration of farmers from the Korean Peninsula some 2,200 years ago, a groundbreaking study borrowing the tools of evolutionary genetics reported Wednesday.

Indonesia: Terror suspect went to meet bin Laden (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:05 AM PDT

AP - Officials here say a top Indonesian terror suspect arrested this year in the town where Osama bin Laden was killed this week was intending to meet the al-Qaida chief, although a senior American counterterrorism official said the two never met and Umar Patek's arrest in Abbottabad "appears to have been pure coincidence."

Gunmen attack Turk police after PM's rally; one dead (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2011 09:58 AM PDT

Reuters - Suspected separatist gunmen ambushed a Turkish police escort, killing one officer and wounding two, in northern Turkey near where Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan held an election rally Wednesday.

Afghanistan: Pakistan had to know bin Laden there (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 08:02 AM PDT

In this May 3, 2011, photo, media and local residents gather outside the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed, in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The nail-biting, 40-minute clandestine operation that resulted in Osama bin Laden’s death could have been a calamitous political and military failure; a bloodbath in Pakistan that left U.S. forces and scores of civilians dead or captured by America’s most ferocious enemy. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - The Afghan government said Wednesday that Pakistan must have known Osama bin Laden was living in a military garrison town near the capital, echoing international suspicions about Islamabad in the aftermath of the deadly strike against al-Qaida's chief.

Groups fear Khmer Rouge tribunal may halt trials (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 08:00 AM PDT

AP - Legal and human rights groups say they fear Cambodia's U.N.- backed genocide tribunal will shut its doors prematurely without prosecuting former second-tier Khmer Rouge officials accused of atrocities.

Friend says Chinese civil rights lawyer resurfaces (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:25 AM PDT

A supporter of prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei holds a picture of him at Weiwei's art studio to protest the demolition of the place by the government in Shanghai November 7, 2010. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaAP - The wife and a friend of a prominent Chinese civil rights lawyer said he returned home Wednesday after disappearing for five days amid an ongoing government crackdown on dissent.

US urges Sri Lanka to address abuse allegations (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:23 AM PDT

AP - A U.S. diplomat Wednesday asked Sri Lanka to address allegations of possible war crimes toward the end of the country's civil war and to share political power with an estranged Tamil minority for a lasting peace.

Afghan translator for US forces nabbed for bribery (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 04:39 AM PDT

AP - The Afghan attorney general's office says it has arrested a translator for U.S. forces on allegations of taking bribes to help those who paid up get U.S. contracts.

South Korean man found crucified, wearing crown (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 04:24 AM PDT

In this Monday, May 2, 2011 photo released by Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency Wednesday, May 4, 2011, police officers stand near the body of a man found crucified in Mungyong, south of Seoul, South Korea. The body of a South Korean man with his hands and feet nailed to a wooden cross and a crown of thorns on his head has been found in an abandoned stone quarry, South Korean police said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - The body of a man with his hands and feet nailed to a wooden cross and a crown of thorns on his head has been found in an abandoned stone quarry, South Korean police said Wednesday.

China says US report on religious policy biased (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 03:36 AM PDT

AP - A U.S. commission that accused Beijing of restricting religious freedom is biased and is meddling in China's internal affairs, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

Despite rapid growth, India lets its girls die (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 03:31 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2011, one year and 9-month-old Sania cries as she is weighed only 5 kilograms (11 pounds) on a scale after eating a meal at a ward for malnourished children at a government hospital in Morena in the Central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh. The starving girls point to a painful reality revealed in India's most recent census: Despite a booming economy and big cities full of glittering malls and luxury cars, the country is failing its girls. Early results show India has only 914 girls under age 6 for every 1,000 boys. The census in Morena showed that for every 1,000 boys only 825 girls in the district made it to their sixth birthdays, down from an already troubling 829 a decade ago. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)AP - The room is large and airy, the stone floors clean and cool — a welcome respite from the afternoon sun. Until your eyes take in the horror that it holds. Ten severely malnourished children — nine of them girls.

North Korea hands over British pilot's remains (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 02:58 AM PDT

British Ambassador to North Korea Peter Hughes holds a case containing the remains thought to be of a British pilot shot down during the Korean War, at a brief ceremony with North Korean military officers and U.N. Military Armistice Commission representatives at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea, Wednesday May 4, 2011. North Korea handed back the remains to British representatives at Panmunjom. (AP Photo/APTN)AP - North Korea said Wednesday it has handed over the remains of a British pilot shot down during the Korean War.

Nepal bus accident kills 16, injures 20 (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 02:26 AM PDT

AP - Police say a bus veered off a mountain road in western Nepal, killing at least 16 people and injuring 20 others in the country's second serious bus accident in two days.
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