Sunday, November 20, 2011

13 eunuchs killed in fire in India (AP)

13 eunuchs killed in fire in India (AP)

13 eunuchs killed in fire in India (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 11:10 AM PST

AP - A fire tore through a makeshift tent at a gathering of thousands of eunuchs in the Indian capital on Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring at least 33 others, police said.

(AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 10:34 AM PST

AP - Indian police say 13 eunuchs killed in fire that raged through prayer ceremony

Secretive North Korea opens up to cellphones (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 10:05 AM PST

Reuters - Secretive North Korea is expected to register the 1 millionth cellphone user on its new 3G network by the end of the year, barely four years after people were thrown into prison camps, or possibly even executed, for owning one.

Pakistan spy chief intervenes in memo scandal (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 09:17 AM PST

FILE - In this July 19, 2010 file photo Pakistani ambassador in Washington Husain Haqqani, left, talks with Richard Holbrooke, former U. S. Special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan says it has not decided whether to accept a resignation offer from its ambassador to the U.S. over a reported attempt to enlist Washington's help to rein in the country's military after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in June. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, file)AP - Pakistan's powerful army intelligence chief personally intervened to check details surrounding a secret memo asking Washington to rein in Pakistan's military following the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the man who made the memo public said Sunday.

Sri Lankan president receives report on war abuses (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 08:45 AM PST

AP - A Sri Lankan commission that investigated alleged abuses during the country's civil war delivered its final report to President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday, amid rising international pressure for an independent probe on war crimes allegations.

Future cancers from Fukushima plant may be hidden (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 07:58 AM PST

A worker pushes a wheelbarrow across a baseball diamond after helping scrape off the top layer of contaminated soil at a sports ground in Minamisoma, northeastern Japan, just outside the 20 kilometer exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. The soil, which was contaminated by radioactivity when the nuclear plant was crippled by the March 11 tsunami, is being replaced by fresh soil to protect children playing on the ground. (AP Photo/ Greg Baker)AP - Even if the worst nuclear accident in 25 years leads to many people developing cancer, we may never find out.

Hundreds of Afghans protest long-term pact with US (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 05:41 AM PST

Afghan delegates listen to a speach by Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the last day of Loya Jirga or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. A traditional Afghan national assembly on Saturday endorsed President Hamid Karzai's decision to negotiate a long-term security pact with the U.S. but imposed some conditions, including an end to unpopular night raids by military forces searching for insurgents. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - More than 1,000 university students blocked a main highway in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday to protest any agreement that would allow U.S. troops to remain in the country after a planned transfer of authority in 2014.

'Killing fields' victims await Khmer Rouge trial (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 04:33 AM PST

CORRECTS SPELLING TO CHOEUNG EK THROUGHOUT - A tourist takes pictures of human skulls of Cambodian Khmer Rouge victims at Choeung Ek stupa, better known 'Killing field' on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011. Some 200 Khmer Rouge victims on Sunday gathered at Choeung Ek for a Buddhist ceremony to dedicate to the souls of the dead before the start of the trial for former Khmer Rouge leaders. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - Survivors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime held a remembrance ceremony in an infamous "killing field" Sunday, a day before a U.N.-backed tribunal begins a trial for three of the accused architects of some of the 20th century's worst atrocities.

Calm in Philippines after ex-president's arrest (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 03:13 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov.8, 2011 file photo, former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, wearing a head and neck brace, poses following an interview with a local reoporter at her residence in suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Philippine officials say it's business as usual in the country and there is no army unrest despite the dramatic arrest of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and a looming legal battle. (AP Photo/Manila Standard Today) PHILIPPINES OUT, MANDATORY CREDITAP - It's business as usual in the Philippines, with no army unrest or fears of massive street protests despite the dramatic arrest of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and a looming legal battle by her lawyers to seek her release, officials said Sunday.

Protest flares in east Afghanistan against U.S. deal (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 03:13 AM PST

U.S. Army Specialist Katie Dirkints of the C Company 3/82 Dustoff MEDEVAC checks an Afghan National Army soldier injured by an IED (improvised explosive device) in a MEDEVAC helicopter in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan November 20, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY HEALTH)Reuters - Around 1,000 people, mostly students, took to the streets in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday to protest against plans for a long-term partnership deal with the United States, which they fear could lead to an extended presence of U.S. troops.

Death toll from Thailand's floods tops 600 (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 01:56 AM PST

Thai volunteers and city workers sweep an intersection during a cleaning drive after floodwaters receded in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Hundreds of city workers, police, army personnel and civilian volunteers performed the cleaning at various sites which were flooded earlier. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)AP - The death toll from Thailand's worst flooding in more than half a century has passed 600.

Megachurch rises in Pakistani city of Karachi (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 01:19 AM PST

In this Nov. 14, 2011, photo, the exterior of the newly built St. Peter's church is seen in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistan's tiny and underfire Christian community thought big when constructing its latest church — a domed, three-story building that towers over the sprawling slum it serves and is the largest yet in the violent, Muslim country. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)AP - Pakistan's tiny and downtrodden Christian community thought big when constructing its latest church — a domed, three-story building that towers over the sprawling slum it serves and is the largest yet in the violent, Muslim country.

Himalayan nations agree on climate adaptation plan (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 01:15 AM PST

AP - Four Himalayan nations facing the threat of weather changes have agreed to collaborate on ways to adapt to climate change after a two-day summit in Bhutan.

Reports: Blast hits Uzbekistan railroad (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 12:13 AM PST

AP - Uzbekistan media have reported an explosion on a railway line on the Central Asian nation's border with Afghanistan.

Details on Obama's Australian visit lost in street (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 10:23 PM PST

AP - The Australian government says it is investigating how a classified booklet detailing Barack Obama's itinerary came to be lost in a gutter during the president's visit last week.

Death toll in Sydney nursing home fire climbs to 6 (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 09:40 PM PST

AP - A 79-year-old woman has died from injuries suffered when a Sydney nursing home erupted in flames, raising the death toll to six.

School in China that ran overcrowded bus to close (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 09:07 PM PST

AP - The kindergarten that operated a crowded, makeshift bus that crashed, killing 19 children, has closed and a new public school will open at the same location Monday, state-run media and a city government said.

Chemical plant blast in China kills 14 workers (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 06:07 PM PST

AP - An explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China has killed 14 workers and injured five others.

Nepal ex-rebels decide future after 5 yrs in camps (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 05:21 PM PST

ADDS YEAR - A former Maoist rebel carries her child and gathers along with other combatants for an integration program at Shaktikhor Cantonment in Chitwan, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) southwest of Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Government monitors in Nepal began interviewing 19,000 former communist rebel fighters Saturday in the camps they have lived in for five years. The interviews are to determine who will join the national army and who will return home with cash to start new lives. The former Maoist fighters have lived in seven camps spread across Nepal since ending their bloody revolt in 2006. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)AP - Nepal's political parties long stumbled over what to do with 19,000 disarmed Maoist fighters who have lived five years in monitored camps surrounded by barbed wire. On Saturday, the ex-rebels began telling officials what future they wanted: joining the army or leaving the camps with cash to begin new lives.
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