Monday, October 31, 2011

China's Hu says Europe can solve its economic woes (Reuters)

China's Hu says Europe can solve its economic woes (Reuters)

China's Hu says Europe can solve its economic woes (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:49 AM PDT

China's President Hu Jintao makes a press statement in the historic Hofburg palace in Vienna October 31, 2011. Hu arrived for an official three day visit to Austria. REUTERS/Herwig PrammerReuters - China believes Europe can overcome its economic problems, President Hu Jintao said on Monday, without mentioning whether Beijing will play any major role in helping to solve the euro zone's debt crisis.

G20 to keep focus on China currency flexibility: U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:48 AM PDT

Reuters - Greater currency flexibility from China and other emerging economies will be reviewed by G20 leaders this week as they focus on the need for balanced global economic growth, a top U.S. Treasury official said on Monday.

Afghans, Pakistan may use talks to ease tensions: Turks (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:23 AM PDT

Reuters - Afghanistan and Pakistan have a chance at talks in Istanbul to end a blame game over a series of militant attacks that have deepened their mutual mistrust, officials from the Turkish host government said on Monday.

U.S. presses China on WTO financial services promises (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:16 AM PDT

Reuters - The United States criticized China on Monday for failing to implement commitments to open its financial services markets that it made a decade ago in order to join the World Trade Organization.

US missiles kill 4 in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:14 AM PDT

Large numbers of cars fill a highway leading to Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. Beirut's streets are overcrowded with vehicles as the number of drivers increase every year. According to the U.N. Population Fund, there will be 7 billion people sharing Earth's land and resources. Experts say most of Africa - and other high-growth developing nations such as Afghanistan and Pakistan - will be hard-pressed to furnish enough food, water and jobs for their people, especially without major new family-planning initiatives. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)AP - U.S. drone-fired missiles killed four suspected militants Monday close to the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said.

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Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:59 AM PDT

AP - Pakistani officials say US missile strike kills 4 suspected militants close to Afghan border.

Tempers flare on front lines of Thailand's floods (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:34 AM PDT

Manit Gongpeng, 52, an agitated Thai flood victim, yells at policemen, unseen, as he and other residents try to force authorities to let some floodwater flow out from their area on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. Higher than normal tides pushing up the Chao Phraya River from the Gulf of Thailand in recent days have complicated efforts to drain the floodwater that has been surging through the city as it makes its way from provinces that have been submerged and suffering for up to two months. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)AP - Tempers flared along a flood barrier protecting Thailand's capital from a record deluge surging into the city, with angry residents scuffling with security forces Monday in an attempt to force open a floodgate that left their homes swamped.

Asia to Africa, '7 billionth' babies celebrated (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:16 AM PDT

Seun Dupe, 32, stands next to her unnamed newborn twins in a ward of the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. Amid the millions of births and deaths around the world each day, it is impossible to pinpoint the arrival of the globe's 7 billionth occupant. But the U.N. chose Monday to mark the day with a string of festivities worldwide, and a series of symbolic 7-billionth babies being born. Nigeria is Africa's most populous country with more than 160 million people. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - At a crowded public hospital, Seun Dupe's twin boys squirm underneath a bundled-up mosquito net as they share the same bassinet. Already they are part of the swelling tide of history, as the U.N. on Monday marked the world population reaching 7 billion amid fears of how the planet will cope.

Analysis: Three ways to invest in China without fear (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:12 AM PDT

An employee views the Port of Shanghai from an office window, January 19, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaReuters - Everyone's obsessed with the euro zone these days, and every little rumor sends global stock markets into wild gyrations. But here's a little secret: If you really want to know what could blow up your portfolio for years to come, forget Europe. What you should really be concerned about is a potential Chinese bust.

Panasonic posts loss, forecasts full year red ink (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:40 AM PDT

A man inspects Panasonic TVs at an electronics retailer in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. Panasonic Corp. stayed in the red in the latest quarter and projected a huge annual loss due to slumping TV sales and the strong yen. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Panasonic Corp. stayed in the red in the latest quarter and projected a huge annual loss due to slumping TV sales and a strong yen.

Attack near UN office kills 5 in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:30 AM PDT

A US soldier checks the damage at offices of the U.N.'s refugee agency, the UNHCR, caused by a suicide bomber, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. A suicide vehicle bomb struck a checkpoint in a neighborhood housing United Nations and international aid groups' offices in the southern city of Kandahar early Monday, killing four people and severely damaging a U.N. agency's building, Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Insurgents driving a suicide truck bomb and attacking on foot killed five people, including three United Nations employees, near the offices of the U.N.'s refugee agency in the southern city of Kandahar on Monday, officials said. Afghan forces and the militants exchanged fire for nearly seven hours before the militants were killed.

Kyrgyz vote draws critical monitor report, protest (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:34 AM PDT

A Kyrgyz woman casts her ballot at a polling station in the Lenin School in Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan, during the presidential elections on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. Voters in the turbulent Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan headed to polling stations Sunday to cast their ballots in a presidential election that could set a democratic precedent for the region. (AP Photo/Nicolas Tanner)AP - Almazbek Atambayev may have won Kyrgyzstan's presidential election, but his moment of glory was soured Monday by a stinging assessment from international vote monitors and news of protests in the turbulent south of the country.

Filipino offensive kills 5 militants; leaders flee (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 04:01 AM PDT

AP - A Philippine military air and ground assault killed three Abu Sayyaf commanders and two other militants but failed to snare a key Southeast Asian terror suspect in the south, officials said Monday.

Qantas returns to the skies after fleet grounding (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:34 AM PDT

Idle Qantas planes are reflected in a window at Sydney Airport in Sydney, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. Qantas Airways grounded all of its aircraft around the world indefinitely Saturday due to ongoing strikes by its workers. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - Qantas Airways planes returned to the skies Monday after an Australian court ruled on a bitter labor dispute that had prompted the world's 10th-largest airline to ground its entire fleet.

Pakistani Sesame Street preaches tolerance (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 03:32 AM PDT

In a Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 photo, a Pakistani artist gives final touches to characters of Pakistani Sesame Street in Lahore, Pakistan. Sesame Street is coming to Pakistan, but not as generations of Americans know it. The U.S. is bankrolling the initiative with $20 million, hoping it will improve education in a country where one-third of primary school age children are not in school. Washington also hopes the program will increase tolerance at a time when Pakistan is wracked by a Taliban insurgency and the influence of radical views is growing. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch are nowhere in sight. But there's Elmo. And new creatures too, like Baily, a kindly donkey who loves to sing, and Haseen O Jameel, a vain crocodile who lives at the bottom of a well.

Oil falls below $93 amid slowing global economy (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:58 AM PDT

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell sits at the head table of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association annual luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in Anchorage, Alaska. Parnell told the audience that Alaska must be prepared to sell liquefied natural gas overseas if demand has shifted away from other states. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)AP - Oil prices fell below $93 a barrel Monday in Asia as investors mulled whether slowing global economic growth justified a surge in crude this month.

Malaysians living overseas sue for right to vote (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:13 AM PDT

AP - A group of Malaysians have sued election authorities in what they described Monday as an attempt to extend voting rights to nearly 1 million citizens living abroad.

China, 3 countries meet over Mekong River security (AP)

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:20 AM PDT

AP - Officials from China, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar have agreed to cooperate on law enforcement on the Mekong river, where 13 Chinese sailors were killed earlier this month.

Trial begins for wife of Bali bombing suspect (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 11:25 PM PDT

AP - The wife of the top suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings has gone on trial in the Indonesian capital on charges of immigration violations.

Activists slam US studio for filming in China city (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 10:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo released by his supporters, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, right sits in a village in China. Rights activists have criticized a Hollywood studio for filming a buddy comedy in an eastern Chinese city where the blind, self-taught activist lawyer is being held under house arrest and reportedly beaten. Relativity Media is shooting part of the comedy '21 and Over' in Linyi, a city in Shandong province where the activist Chen's village is located. Authorities have turned Chen's village of Dongshigu into a hostile, no-go zone and activists, foreign diplomats and reporters have been turned back, threatened and had stones thrown at them by men patrolling the village. (AP Photo/Supporters of Chen Guangcheng, File)AP - Rights activists have criticized a Hollywood studio for filming a buddy comedy in an eastern Chinese city where a blind, self-taught activist lawyer is being held under house arrest and reportedly has been beaten.
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