Sunday, September 25, 2011

Afghanistan warns Pakistan about border fighting (AP)

Afghanistan warns Pakistan about border fighting (AP)

Afghanistan warns Pakistan about border fighting (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 10:26 AM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, reacts after a man attempts to kiss his hand as he receives condolences from Afghan and the other nationalities high ranking delegations during a memorial service for former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani at the mosque of presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday Sept. 24, 2011. Rabbani was slain by a suicide bomber claiming to carry a peace message from the Taliban. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP - Afghan defense officials warned Pakistan on Sunday to stop firing rockets and heavy artillery into the northeast of the country or the military will respond with force. Pakistan denied it was responsible.

Pakistani commanders meet after US criticism (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 10:24 AM PDT

Pakistani protesters burn representations of US and Indian flags at an anti-American rally in Multan, Pakistan on Friday, Sept 23, 2011. Pakistan lashed out at the U.S. for accusing the country's most powerful intelligence agency of supporting extremist attacks against American targets in Afghanistan — the most serious allegations against Islamabad since the beginning of the Afghan war. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)AP - Pakistan's army chief convened a special meeting of senior commanders Sunday following U.S. allegations that the military's spy agency helped militants attack American targets in Afghanistan, the army said.

Senator: Consider military action against Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:29 AM PDT

Pakistanis cross a flooded way in Badin district, in Pakistan's Sindh province, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. In Pakistan's Sindh province alone, the floods have killed over 220 people, damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8 million people, according to the United Nations. Neighboring Baluchistan province has also been affected. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said Sunday that the U.S. should consider military action against Pakistan if it continues to support terrorist attacks against American troops in Afghanistan.

Tourist flight crashes in Nepal, killing 19 aboard (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 09:46 AM PDT

AP - A plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal on Sunday, killing all 19 people on board, including 13 foreigners, officials said.

Pakistan army top brass meets amid U.S. tensions (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 08:11 AM PDT

Pakistan's Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani (R) listens to U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen at the start of the NATO MC conference in Seville September 16, 2011. REUTERS/Javier DiazReuters - Pakistan's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani met with his top commanders on Sunday in a "special" meeting to discuss the security situation, the military said, as the war of words with the United States escalated.

Suicide bombing at Indonesian church injures 22 (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:34 AM PDT

AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside an Indonesian church as hundreds of worshippers were filing out after the Sunday service, injuring at least 22 people, police said.

Senator says "all options on table" on Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:31 AM PDT

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to the media before voting on a bill allowing a rise in the debt ceiling on Capitol Hill in Washington August 2, 2011. REUTERS/Joshua RobertsReuters - The United States will have to consider all options "including defending our troops" in confronting Pakistani support for militant networks fighting U.S. soldiers in the region, a senator said on Sunday.

Pakistan army shelling Afghan border areas: officials (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:33 AM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan's military has fired hundreds of mortars and rockets into border provinces in neighboring Afghanistan, killing at least one civilian, destroying homes and forcing scores of villagers to flee, Afghan officials said on Sunday.

Pro-nuclear mayor re-elected in western Japan town (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:13 AM PDT

Reuters - A mayor who backs a plan to build a new nuclear reactor in his western Japanese town was reelected on Sunday, Kyodo news reported, a sign that atomic power still has pockets of support in the country despite the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Suicide bomber attacks church in Indonesia (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 05:13 AM PDT

A policeman stands guard as residents watch the site of an explosion in front of a church in Solo, Central Java September 25, 2011. An explosion caused by a suspected suicide bomber outside a church in the Indonesian city of Solo killed one person on Sunday, local media reported. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A suspected suicide bomber attacked a church on Indonesia's Java island on Sunday, killing himself and injuring 17 people, police said.

16 killed as Filipino troops clash with militants (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 03:33 AM PDT

AP - Suspected Muslim militants attacked government troops guarding a school construction site in a rebel stronghold on Sunday, igniting a clash that killed 13 gunmen, two marines and at least one villager, a marine commander and a resident said.

China vows probe to defuse violent land protest (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 10:33 PM PDT

AP - Officials promised an investigation into land sales to defuse days of large, sometimes violent protests by villagers in southern China who say they are being pushed off farmland for property development, state media and local villagers said Sunday.

Taiwan VP: President wants China political talks (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 10:21 PM PDT

AP - Taiwan's president will open political talks with China if he is re-elected to a second term, a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks cites Taiwan's vice president as saying.

AP Enterprise: In Myanmar, living in fear of army (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT

In this Aug. 21, 2011 photo, Sai Noom Mong, a 15-year old Shan teenager, speaks during an interview at a dorm in the Shan State Army headquarters of Loi Tai Leng in Myanmar's Shan state. The soldiers arrived unexpectedly in the teen's village in eastern Myanmar with a brutal message: Leave your homes, they told hundreds of startled residents, or we'll burn them to the ground. Fearful of their fate but too frail to flee themselves, the his parents made a painful decision the following night. They secretly delivered their son to sympathetic rebels from their minority Shan ethnic group and said goodbye, unsure if they'd ever see him again. He arrived in May after an arduous monthlong escape through the forest on foot and has lived as an orphan ever since. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - The soldiers arrived unexpectedly in 15-year-old Sai Noom Mong's village in eastern Myanmar with a brutal message: Leave your homes, they told hundreds of startled residents, or we'll burn them to the ground.

Plane with 19 people aboard missing in Nepal (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 08:28 PM PDT

AP - Nepal's air rescue office says a plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest is missing and has been out of contact with the control tower for more than an hour.
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