Sunday, July 3, 2011

Border strife in Afghanistan shows wider tensions (AP)

Border strife in Afghanistan shows wider tensions (AP)

Border strife in Afghanistan shows wider tensions (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 11:13 AM PDT

In this June 28, 2011 photo, Afghan Border Policemen walk to a village which was threatened by a five-week barrage of rockets from Pakistan in Sirkanay, Kunar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan. As travelers moved eastward toward Kunar province's mountain-studded southeastern border with Pakistan, the explosions became louder, more constant, and finally visible as puffs of smoke on distant peaks and in low-lying valleys. (AP Photo/Solomon Moore)AP - On a mountain trail toward the border with Pakistan, the explosions became louder, more constant and finally visible as puffs of smoke on distant peaks and rising from valleys.

Matildas defeat E. Guinea in Women's World Cup (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 11:11 AM PDT

Australia's striker Lisa de Vanna (R) and defender Kim Carroll celebrate after scoring. Australia kept their World Cup dream alive with goals from Leena Khamis, Emily Van Egmond and Lisa De Vanna giving them a hard-fought 3-2 Group D win over Equatorial Guinea in Germany.(AFP/Patrik Stollarz)AFP - Australia kept their World Cup dream alive with goals from Leena Khamis, Emily Van Egmond and Lisa De Vanna giving them a crucial 3-2 Group D win over Equatorial Guinea on Sunday.

Sri Lanka beat England to win third ODI (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 11:06 AM PDT

Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka plays a shot during the third One Day International (ODI) cricket match between England and Sri Lanka at Lord's Cricket Ground in London. Sri Lanka beat England by six wickets to win the third one-day international at Lord's here on Sunday and take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Dinesh Chandimal's unbeaten 105 saw Sri Lanka to a six-wicket one-day international victory against England at Lord's here on Sunday as the tourists took a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.

McCain: Afghan drawdown `unnecessary risk' (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 11:00 AM PDT

U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz, speaks with other U.S. Senators Joe Lieberman, I-Conn, and Lindsay Graham, R-SC, unseen, during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday, July 3, 2011. Three U.S. Senators visiting Kabul on Sunday say they worry that President Barack Obama's planned withdrawal of 33,000 American troops by September 2012 could undermine Afghan morale, embolden the insurgency, and hamper efforts to defeat Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Three U.S. senators visiting Kabul said Sunday they are worried that President Barack Obama's planned withdrawal of 33,000 American troops by September 2012 could undermine Afghan morale, embolden the insurgency and hamper efforts to defeat Taliban fighters.

India's rural poor give up on power grid, go solar (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:53 AM PDT

In this May 24, 2011 photograph, Pushpa Gowda, center, laughs with her family and neighbors on the evening after they installed solar-powered light in her house in Nada village on the outskirts of Mangalore, India. Across India, thousands of homes are receiving their first light through small companies and aid programs that are bypassing the central electricity grid to deliver solar panels to the rural poor. Those customers could provide the human energy that advocates of solar power have been looking for to fuel a boom in the next decade. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - Boommi Gowda used to fear the night. Her vision fogged by glaucoma, she could not see by just the dim glow of a kerosene lamp, so she avoided going outside where king cobras slithered freely and tigers carried off neighborhood dogs.

Afghan drawdown plan 'unnecessary risk': McCain (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:50 AM PDT

Sen. John McCain (R) and retired Army Gen. Jack Keane participate in a discussion on Afghanistan in June 2011 in Washington, DC. McCain slammed President Barack Obama's military drawdown plans for Afghanistan as AFP - Top US lawmakers on Sunday slammed President Barack Obama's military drawdown plans for Afghanistan as "risky", unsupported by his military commanders and a threat to progress made in the last year.

Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes first landing in Japan (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:46 AM PDT

Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing 787 Dreamliner lands at Tokyo's Haneda International Airport as the first delivery to the Japanese airline in Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, July 3, 2011. ANA plans to purchase a total of 55 Dreamliners to replace the current fleet. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - Boeing Co.'s long-delayed 787 completed its maiden trans-Pacific journey and landed in Japan, where the more fuel-efficient jet will undergo testing this week with All Nippon Airways in preparation for its first commercial launch.

Party of ousted PM's sister wins Thai elections (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 09:30 AM PDT

Opposition Pheu Thai party leader Yingluck Shinawatra greets upon her arrival at a polling station to cast her ballot in a general election in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, July 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - The sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra led Thailand's main opposition party to a landslide victory in elections Sunday, heralding an extraordinary political turnaround five tumultuous years after her fugitive billionaire brother was toppled in an army coup.

Goals galore in World Cup qualifiers (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 09:29 AM PDT

Philippine forward Phil Younghusband (L) embraces midfielder Emelio Caligdong (R) after Caligdong scored the first goal against Sri Lanka during their 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying football match in Manila. The Philippines won 4-0.(AFP/Jay Directo)AFP - There was a goal glut in Asian qualifying for the 2014 World Cup on Sunday with Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Myanmar among those who advanced into the second round.

Bangladesh court orders arrest of ex-premier's son (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 09:21 AM PDT

AP - A court in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant Sunday for a son of ex-premier Khaleda Zia over a 2004 grenade attack that killed 24 people at an opposition rally.

How first 24 hours shaped Japan's nuclear crisis (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 08:25 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2011 file photo, the arm of a mannequin sticks out from the rubble in a devastated neighborhood in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, in northeastern Japan which was destroyed in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Soon after the tsunami hit, reports of massive damage up and down the coast began to pour in. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)AP - When Unit 2 began to shake, Hiroyuki Kohno's first hunch was that something was wrong with the turbines. He paused for a moment, then went back to logging the day's radioactivity readings.

Reports: Woman catches toddler who fell 10 stories (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 07:34 AM PDT

AP - A two-year-old Chinese girl left unattended fell 10 stories from her family's apartment window and survived after being caught by a woman passing by, state media reported Sunday.

Key dates in recent Thai politics (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 06:48 AM PDT

Opposition Phue Thai party's Yingluck Shinawatra arrives at the party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, July 3, 2011. Exit polls are showing the party allied to ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has won an absolute majority in the fractious country's tense election Sunday. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - Key recent events leading to Sunday's general election in Thailand:

AP Exclusive: US ignores vet graves in Philippines (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 02:12 AM PDT

In this July 1, 2011 photo, a private guard walks along soil-covered grave markers at Clark Veterans Cemetery at the sprawling Clark Economic Zone, a former U.S. Air Force base in Dau, Pampanga province in northern Philippines. Retired U.S. soldiers, who voluntarily are keeping watch over the burial grounds, where some of their comrades lay, are waging a low-key battle to prod Washington to fund and take charge of the 2-acre (eight-hectare) cemetery. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - Walking along the rows of tombstones here offers a glimpse of the wars America has fought and the men and women who waged them. But most of the grave markers have been half-buried for 20 years, and there is little hope that the volcanic ash obscuring names, dates and epitaphs will be cleared any time soon.

4 SKoreans missing after apparent suicide attempt (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 01:48 AM PDT

AP - Four South Koreans were missing and one was hospitalized Sunday after they jumped into a rain-swollen river in an apparent group suicide attempt first conceived online, police said.

A look at Thailand's general election (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 12:13 AM PDT

AP - Thailand held a general election on Sunday, July 3, its second since a 2006 military coup unseated the elected government of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Thailand is a constitutional monarchy with a population of about 66 million, but its democracy has been plagued by corruption and repeated interference by the military.

Australia military may scrap all gender barriers (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2011 11:02 PM PDT

In this May 11, 2011 image provided by the Australian Defense Force, recruit Pvt. Melissa Jessop, a driver with 2nd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, poses during mission rehearsal exercises at High Range Training Area, Townsville, Australia, prior to deploying to Afghanistan. Women fight for militaries around the world but rarely if ever are allowed to take the jobs most closely associated with soldiering — those focused on ground combat in close quarters and even hand to hand. That may be about to change in Australia. (AP Photo/Australian Defense Force, LAC, or Leading Air Craftsman Aaron Curran) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Women fight for militaries around the world but rarely if ever are allowed to take the jobs most closely associated with soldiering — those focused on ground combat in close quarters and even hand to hand. That may be about to change in Australia.

Militants in northwestern Pakistan kill 3 police (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2011 11:01 PM PDT

In this June 28, 2011 photo, an Afghan border policeman holds a banner of the Taliban militants, which has been confiscated during the last operations in Sirkanay, Kunar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.' The first line of the banner reads: 'In the name of Allah the most merciful and the most beneficent.' The second line reads 'There is no God, but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger.' The third line reads 'Long live the Islamic Emarate Movement of Taliban,' and the bottom line reads 'from Sirkanay, district of Kunar province.' As travelers moved eastward toward Kunar province's mountain-studded southeastern border with Pakistan, the explosions became louder, more constant, and finally visible as puffs of smoke on distant peaks and in low-lying valleys. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Police say militants attacked a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing three police officers and wounding one.

Volcano in central Indonesia erupts; no evacuation (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2011 10:34 PM PDT

AP - A volcano in central Indonesia has erupted in clouds of smoke and searing gas that shot up nearly 20,000 feet (six kilometers) into the air.

Rescuers rush to reach 40 trapped Chinese miners (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2011 08:44 PM PDT

AP - A buildup of volatile gas hampered rescue efforts in one Chinese coal mine and high levels of water slowed them in another as emergency crews raced to reach 40 miners trapped Sunday for a second day, officials and state media reports said.
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