Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Obama says sorry to Karzai for civilian deaths (AFP)

Obama says sorry to Karzai for civilian deaths (AFP)

Obama says sorry to Karzai for civilian deaths (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:59 AM PDT

Afghan Abdu Rahman, 7, poses for a portrait at the end of his duty around a bazaar area just outside a US Marines combat outpost, in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan in 2010. US President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed his AFP - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed his "sorrow" in a video conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai over recent civilian casualties in Afghanistan, his spokesman said.

Mishra on the spot as he restricts West Indies (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:36 AM PDT

Indian bowler Amit Mishra (R) celebrates with captain Suresh Raina after taking the wicket of West Indies batsman Dwayne Bravo, during their second ODI against the West Indies at the Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain. West Indies posted 240 for nine.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Amit Mishra upstaged half-centuries from Lendl Simmons and Ramnaresh Sarwan, triggering a batting collapse with a career-best spell, as West Indies posted 240 for nine in the second One-day International against India on Wednesday.

U.S. lawmakers call for reduced role in Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:04 AM PDT

Afghan children play soccer in front of the war-damaged Darul Aman Palace in the suburbs of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)Reuters - U.S. lawmakers called for a reduced U.S. role in Afghanistan on Wednesday, piling pressure on the Obama administration to accelerate the end to a long, costly war as it debates an initial drawdown this summer.

US jurors mull verdict in Mumbai attacks case (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:57 AM PDT

A courtroom drawing shows Tahawwur Rana (left, white hair) during closing arguments of his closely-watched terrorism trial in Chicago on June 7. Rana's trial is being closely watched as it touched on alleged Pakistani military intelligence collusion with terrorism -- a hugely sensitive issue after Osama bin Laden's killing sparked similar US charges.(AFP/L.D. Chukman)AFP - US jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the case of a Pakistan-born Chicago businessman accused of helping to plot the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Ambassador nominee says Afghanistan not hopeless (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:51 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates shakes hands with an Afghan soldier during a farewell ceremony for Gates in Kabul, Tuesday June 7, 2011. In a last farewell to US and international forces in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says they are on track to deliver a decisive blow against the Taliban. (AP Photo//Jason Reed, Pool)AP - President Barack Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said Wednesday the United States must continue its investment in the country to prevent it from backsliding into a safe haven for terrorists.

UN panel presses China on Tibetan monks (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:40 AM PDT

AP - A U.N. human rights panel asked China on Wednesday to disclose the fate of more than 300 Tibetan monks, whose whereabouts it said are unknown since they were allegedly arrested in April.

Indian guru threatens to form yoga militia (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:31 AM PDT

Indian spiritual guru Swami Baba Ramdev performs yoga during his hunger strike at the Pitanjali Yogpeeth in Haridwar, on June 7. Ramdev, who has led protests against corruption in India, has threatened to form a militia as a new demonstration against the government drew thousands in New Delhi.(AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana)AFP - A television yoga guru who has led protests against corruption in India threatened to form a militia on Wednesday as a new demonstration against the government drew thousands in New Delhi.

Elephants kill man, injure others in south India (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:22 AM PDT

A wild elephant gores a security guard to death in Mysore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. News reports said two wild elephants have gone on a rampage and government officials are trying to tranquilize the animals. Every year hundreds of people across India die when wild animals wander into cities as their natural habitats shrink and they have to range farther for food. (AP Photo)AP - News reports say two wild elephants have killed a man and injured other people on a rampage in southern India.

India's Maruti in talks to end strike (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:15 AM PDT

Maruti Suzuki Alto cars are pictured in Mundra in February 2011. India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki said Wednesday talks were on with workers to end a four-day strike at a factory in north India, as losses mounted.(AFP/File/Sam Panthaky)AFP - India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki said Wednesday talks were on with workers to end a four-day strike at a factory in north India, as losses mounted.

India's DB Realty posts 18% profits rise (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:14 AM PDT

Indian property giant DB Realty, whose chief is on remand in prison over a telecom graft scam, showed an 18.5 percent rise in full-year net profit on Wednesday, pushing its shares up almost nine percent.(DB Realty)AFP - Indian property giant DB Realty, whose chief is on remand in prison over a telecom graft scam, showed an 18.5 percent rise in full-year net profit on Wednesday, pushing its shares up almost nine percent.

Indians with asthma line up to swallow live fish (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:52 AM PDT

Rukmini Bai, 57, from India's Maharashtra state uses an inhaler as she waits to receive the' fish medicine' in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, June 7, 2011.Every June, hundreds of thousands of asthma sufferers gather in Hyderabad to swallow live sardines smeared with secret herbs, convinced the ritual will cure them. The two day free treatment by the Goud family, which claims to have received the formula from a Hindu saint 162 years ago begins Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)AP - Thousands of people seeking relief from asthma gathered in southern India on Wednesday to swallow live sardines smeared with secret herbs that they believe will cure them.

Moderate earthquake rocks northwestern China (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:32 AM PDT

AP - China's state media say a magnitude-5.3 earthquake has sent rocks crashing down onto a road in the country's northwest and caused car crashes that left five injured.

Chinese sentenced to die for Mongol herder's death (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:27 AM PDT

AP - A Chinese truck driver was sentenced to death Wednesday for killing an ethnic Mongol herder by dragging him under his truck in a case that triggered Inner Mongolia's largest demonstrations in 20 years.

Center opens to protect rare turtle in Cambodia (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:12 AM PDT

An eighteen kilograms Cantor's soft-shell turtle lays on the floor before release at an opening of the Mekong Turtle Conservation Center in Kratie province, 160 kilometers (100 miles) northeast Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Conservationists have opened a shelter in Cambodia for a rare type of endangered soft-shell turtle. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - An extremely rare soft-shell turtle species has a new, protected home in Cambodia.

Philippine radio says governor attacked announcer (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:50 AM PDT

AP - A Philippine government radio station has gone off the air to protest an alleged attack on one of its announcers by a provincial governor.

WBengal's new leader claims deal with separatists (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:23 AM PDT

AP - The new leader of a northeastern Indian state says she has resolved a decades-old separatist conflict with a deal offering Gorkhas self-rule in their Himalayan foothill homeland.

Pakistan reduces US military trainers (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:13 AM PDT

AP - Pakistan's army has sent home two-thirds of the U.S. military personnel who were training its forces in counterinsurgency skills along the porous border with Afghanistan.

Defector gets govt post as SKorea focuses on unity (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:31 AM PDT

AP - South Korea handed a high-level government job to a North Korean defector Wednesday as inter-Korean projects languish and Seoul tries to focus on the potential costs of a unified Korean peninsula.

Officials: US missiles kill 23 in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:12 AM PDT

A news cameraman films rain clouds past a red flags warning swimmers at Clifton beach in Karachi June 8, 2011.REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)AP - A pair of U.S. missile strikes hit a vehicle and an alleged insurgent training facility Wednesday in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing 23 suspected Islamist militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

Rights groups: no justice in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:46 AM PDT

FILE This Wednesday, June 16, 2010 file photo shows Kyrgyz special forces on a search operation in the Dustuk neighborhood in the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh. Kyrgyz authorities have failed to ensure justice for victims of last year's ethnic violence in the Central Asian nation, and that could cause a new wave of unrest, leading international human rights groups warned Wednesday June 8, 2011. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International released their reports ahead of the first anniversary of clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and minority Uzbeks in the southern cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad. At least 470 people, nearly three-quarters of whom were ethnic Uzbeks, were killed and some 400,000 fled their homes. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Kyrgyz authorities have failed to ensure justice for victims of last year's ethnic violence in the Central Asian nation, and that could cause a new wave of unrest, leading international human rights groups warned Wednesday.
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