Friday, November 25, 2011

Iceland rejects Chinese bid for resort land (AP)

Iceland rejects Chinese bid for resort land (AP)

Iceland rejects Chinese bid for resort land (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 09:42 AM PST

In this photo taken Sept. 27, 2011, an unnamed location is seen in Iceland. This isolated expanse of land is pocked by steaming fissures, molten mud pools and lava fields — perhaps an unlikely place for a Chinese tycoon to build a resort. But that's exactly what Huang Nubo wants to do. And the deal, if approved, will account for a big chunk of this remote island nation. Nubo is batting back allegations that the deal could give China a strategic foothold into the Arctic Circle, where melting ice caps may one day open more shipping lanes and potentially save a fortune in transporting goods. (AP Photo/Paisley Dodds)AP - A Chinese entrepreneur's bid to create a vast nature retreat in Iceland was turned down by the north Atlantic island nation's government Friday, amid concern the deal would have handed a major chunk of territory to a foreign investor.

Australia to create marine reserve in Coral Sea (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 09:09 AM PST

AP - Australia says it will create the world's largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea.

Australian boy, 14, sentenced in Bali for drugs (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 08:09 AM PST

AP - An Australian teen was sentenced to two months in detention Friday for buying drugs while vacationing with family on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.

India cops accused of beating AP cameraman, others (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 08:03 AM PST

Doctors treat Associated Press cameraman Umar Meraj after he was assaulted by police and paramilitary forces during a protest in Srinagar, India, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Meraj and at least three other journalists said they were assaulted by police and paramilitary forces Friday as they covered a protest in Indian-controlled Kashmir. He was beaten for several minutes by security forces using rifle butts, batons, fists and a barrage of kicks, according to Meraj and other witnesses. Local journalists have repeatedly complained of harassment and assaults by police in the tumultuous Himalayan territory. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)AP - An Associated Press cameraman and at least three other journalists said they were assaulted by police and paramilitary forces Friday as they covered a protest in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Report: Senior Indian Maoist rebel leader killed (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 08:00 AM PST

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - In this Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011 photo, the body of Maoist leader Kishenji is seen after he was killed in an encounter with joint action force inside Burishol forest in West Midnapore, about 200 kilometers (124 miles) west of Kolkata, India. Press Trust of India quoted a top paramilitary official as saying the operation that killed Kishenji was 'clean and successful.' The government has called the rebels, who are now spread across 20 of India's 28 states, the country's greatest internal security threat. (AP Photo)AP - A senior Maoist rebel leader was killed in a gunbattle with security forces in eastern India, news reports said Friday.

India minister: New retail policy has safeguards (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:57 AM PST

Indian women shop at a store in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma told reporters that the Indian cabinet's decision late Thursday allowing 51 percent foreign ownership of supermarkets would vastly improve decrepit infrastructure that causes massive food waste in a country plagued by malnutrition and high inflation. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)AP - India's commerce minister said Friday that the decision to open the country's $400 billion retail sector to global chains such as Wal-Mart has a built-in safety net for small shops and farmers.

'Teflon John' may win big in New Zealand election (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:46 AM PST

In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key, right, talks with voter Alan Parsonage during his last day of campaigning at a shopping center in Paraparaumu, New Zealand. Key enters New Zealand's elections Saturday with an overwhelming popularity undimmed by an eleventh-hour scandal and with a historic chance to win an outright majority for his center-right party. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUTAP - Prime Minister John Key enters New Zealand's elections Saturday with an overwhelming popularity undimmed by an eleventh-hour scandal and with a historic chance to win an outright majority for his center-right party.

China launches probe of US renewable energy policy (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:44 AM PST

AP - China's government announced a trade probe Friday of whether U.S. support for renewable energy companies improperly hurts foreign suppliers, adding to tensions over an industry seen as an important source of jobs and economic growth.

A 'bizarre' saga for British ex-CEO of Olympus (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:24 AM PST

Former Olympus Chief Executive Michael Woodford speaks during a news conference in Tokyo Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. When Woodford took Olympus Corp.'s top job after three decades of toil for the Japanese camera maker, he knew the business inside out — or so he thought. Months later he compared himself to a character in a fictional thriller as his whistleblowing of massive corporate deception puts him at the center of investigations spanning three continents. 'I feel myself in this John Grisham novel,' the 51-year-old Briton said to a packed house at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - When Michael Woodford took Olympus Corp.'s top job after three decades of toil for the Japanese camera maker, he knew the business inside out — or so he thought.

UN report: North Korean harvest improves (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 07:16 AM PST

AP - U.N. food agencies say that North Korea's main harvest has improved but warn that malnutrition persists.

Strong winds leave 7 dead in southern Sri Lanka (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 06:55 AM PST

AP - Strong winds have killed seven people along Sri Lanka's southern coast.

China, Pakistan boost anti-terror cooperation (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:31 AM PST

Pakistan and Chinese soldiers take part in a joint exercise in Jhelum, Pakistan Thursday, Nov 24, 2011. At the conclusion of the joint exercise, Pakistan army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said that elements of East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) are operating in the border area of Pakistan and Afghanistan even there we have exchange of intelligence and we have done utmost to eliminate this threat of ETIM and other extremists for China. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - The Pakistani and Chinese attack choppers swoop low across the valley, strafing a mock terrorist hideout and a bomb-making factory. Then a joint commando team storms the camp — to the gentle applause of top brass from both nations watching from the stands.

Healthier Philippine ex-leader seeks house arrest (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 05:30 AM PST

Three doctors of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Dr. Mario Ver, right, Dr. Juliet Gopez-Cervantes, center, Dr. Roberto Mirasol leave the court room after the hearing Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 in suburban Pasay City, south of Manila, Philippines. Former Philippine President Arroyo, who tried to leave the country on medical grounds while the government scrambled to file charges against her, is well enough to leave the hospital where she was arrested last week, she and her doctors agree. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - Former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who tried to leave the Philippines on medical grounds while election fraud charges were being prepared against her, is well enough to leave the hospital where she was arrested, she and her doctors agree.

Taiwan leader calls for artistic freedom in China (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 03:24 AM PST

A museum employee passes an instillation entitled 'Forever Bicycles' during the “Ai Weiwei, Absent” exhibition by Chinese outspoken artist Ai Weiwei at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou visited the exhibition shortly after and in comments to the media, called on China to respect artist Ai and protect his freedom of artistic expression. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - Taiwan's president urged China on Friday to respect the artistic freedom of outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was detained for nearly three months earlier this year and is currently confined to Beijing.

Australia to free some asylum seekers from centers (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 02:50 AM PST

AP - Australia on Friday loosened its highly charged policy of mandatory detention for asylum seekers who arrive by boat, freeing 27 from overcrowded, prison-like conditions and estimating more than 100 would be released monthly.

SKorean official travels to NKorea to monitor aid (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:38 AM PST

North Korea's Hwanghae province is seen from South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. North Korea threatened Thursday to turn Seoul's presidential palace office into a 'sea of fire,' stepping up its rhetoric one day after South Korea conducted large-scale military drills near the front-line island attacked by North Korea last year. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - A South Korean official will help monitor the distribution of humanitarian aid to North Korean children for the first time in three years, the Seoul government said Friday.

Pakistani suspected of boiling husband's flesh (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 01:24 AM PST

AP - Police say they have arrested a woman in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi suspected of murdering her husband, then chopping his body into pieces and boiling them to try to get rid of the evidence.

Top Marine spends Thanksgiving in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:49 AM PST

In this photo taken with a cell phone, Marine Gen. James Amos visits Combat Outpost Geronimo in southern Afghanistan Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, as he visits troops. The U.S. Marines' top general, James Amos, sprinted up and down the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, visiting frontline Marines at nine remote outposts to share Thanksgiving and applaud their gains against the Taliban in a region where al-Qaida hatched the 9/11 plot a decade ago. (AP Photo/Bob Burns)AP - A turkey trot it was not.

World stocks fall on Europe debt crisis impasse (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:46 AM PST

People check share prices on an electronic indicator in Tokyo, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 as the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, shown top row center, lost 5.17 points to close at 8,160.01. Asian stock markets were mostly lower Friday after Germany continued to oppose a bigger role for the European Central Bank in managing the continent's debt crisis and Portugal's credit rating was lowered to junk. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - World stock markets were mostly lower Friday after Germany continued to oppose a bigger role for the European Central Bank in managing the continent's debt crisis and Portugal's credit rating was lowered to junk.

Oil hovers above $96 amid Europe debt worries (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2011 12:40 AM PST

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speak at a meeting of Russian and Belarusian leadership in the Gorki residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Russia's state-controlled natural gas company on Friday bought the remaining stake in Belarus' gas pipeline system to become its sole owner in a move that would strengthen Moscow's control over gas exports to western europe. (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool)AP - Oil prices hovered above $96 a barrel Friday in Asia as Europe's debt crisis undermined confidence the continent will avoid recession next year.
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