Friday, December 9, 2011

Suicide bombing kills 4 at Afghan mosque (AP)

Suicide bombing kills 4 at Afghan mosque (AP)

Suicide bombing kills 4 at Afghan mosque (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 10:34 AM PST

An Afghan man prays at a grave in a cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. The fallout from Tuesday's deadly suicide bombing in Kabul has further splintered Afghanistan's relations with neighboring Pakistan and set back the U.S.-led military campaign to stabilize the region before international troops leave at the end of 2014. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)AP - A suicide bomber struck a Sunni mosque Friday in northeastern Afghanistan, killing four people, just days after a deadly attack targeted Shiites in a rare sectarian attack in the capital.

Hospital fire kills at least 84 in eastern India (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 09:59 AM PST

A fire fighter evacuates a patient from a hospital after it caught fire in Kolkata December 9, 2011. REUTERS/Rupak De ChowdhuriReuters - A fire tore through a seven-story private hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata before dawn Friday, killing at least 84 people, most of them intensive care patients who were asleep and suffocated in the fumes.

Summary Box: Toyota cuts profit outlook (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 09:39 AM PST

AP - PUTTING ON THE BRAKES: Toyota Motor Corp. on Friday sharply downgraded its earnings forecast for this fiscal year through March, blaming a strong yen and the massive flooding in Thailand. Japan's biggest automaker expects a net profit of $2.3 billion, down 54 percent from what it projected in August.

Pakistan truckers back NATO supply route blockade (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 09:28 AM PST

In this picture taken on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, Pakistani truck drivers and their assistants gather at a terminal in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistan closed its two Afghan crossings in Chaman and Torkham, in the northwest Khyber tribal area, almost immediately after NATO aircraft attacked two army posts along the border before dawn on Nov. 26. The supply lines account for 40 percent of the fuel, clothes, vehicles and other 'non lethal' supplies for the Afghan war. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)AP - Sleeping in a freezing cab, running out of money and worried about militant attacks, Ghulab is one of thousands of truck drivers stranded as a result of Pakistan's blockade of the Afghan border to NATO and U.S. war supplies.

Pakistan army believes NATO attack planned: reports (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 07:59 AM PST

Reuters - A senior Pakistani military officer said a NATO air strike killing 24 Pakistani troops on the Afghan border last month was pre-planned and warned of more attacks, comments likely to fuel tension with the United States.

Turkey warns Syria not to provoke regional crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 07:45 AM PST

Reuters - Turkey warned Syria on Friday it would act to protect itself if a Syrian government crackdown on protesters threatened regional security and unleashed a tide of refugees on its borders.

Fire at Indian hospital kills 89 as staff flees (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 07:09 AM PST

Rescue workers use ropes to evacuate people after a fire broke at a hospital, in Kolkata, India, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. A fire swept through a hospital in the Indian city of Kolkata early Friday, trapping many and sending emergency workers scrambling to evacuate patients and medical staff from the smoke-filled building, officials said. (AP Photo)AP - Fleeing medical staff abandoned patients to a fire that killed 89 people Friday as smoke poured through the seven-story hospital in this city in eastern India, officials said. Six administrators were arrested.

Pakistani president in hospital for 2 more days (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 06:11 AM PST

In this picture taken on Aug. 15, 2010, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari listens to a reporter at a press conference in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Zardari traveled to Dubai for medical tests on his heart after falling ill, officials and associates said on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, describing his condition as not life-threatening. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - A member of Pakistan's ruling party says President Asif Ali Zardari will remain in a Dubai hospital for at least two more days after undergoing tests for a heart condition.

Suicide bomb kills Afghan police commander, 5 others (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 05:56 AM PST

Reuters - A suicide bomber killed a district police chief from restive eastern Kunar province and at least five other people in an attack at the gate of a mosque after Friday prayers, the provincial police commander said.

Afghan police arrest spurned brothers for acid attack (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 05:36 AM PST

Reuters - Afghan police have arrested four brothers who threw acid over a woman who had refused to marry one of them, also attacked her mother and two sisters with acid, and brutally beat her father, the interior ministry said on Friday.

China peace prize honors Putin for enhanced Russia (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 05:24 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken in April 2008, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo poses for a photographer in China. Five Nobel Peace Prize winners have launched a campaign urging the release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu, a fellow Nobel recipient, a statement from the group said Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP - Two exchange students accepted a Chinese peace prize Friday on behalf of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was honored for enhancing Russia's status and crushing anti-government forces in Chechnya, the prize organizers said.

Dutch state apologizes for 1947 Indonesia massacre (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:57 AM PST

Surviving widows and relatives of men killed in a notorious massacre gather for commemoration in Rawagede, West Java, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. After six decades of waiting, relatives of men killed in a notorious massacre during Indonesia's bitter struggle for independence finally got what they wanted: An official apology from the Dutch state.(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)AP - After six decades of waiting, relatives of men killed in a notorious massacre during Indonesia's bitter struggle for independence finally got what they wanted: an official apology from the Dutch state.

Pakistan mulls deploying air defenses to border (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 04:45 AM PST

Pakistanis take part in an anti NATO rally in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011. Hundreds Pakistanis from different groups rallied in the capital Islamabad to condemn NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops. The placard and banner in center reading as 'there is only one treatment for American aggression holy war holy war' and completely stop the NATO supplies route . (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Pakistan may deploy air defense weapons to the Afghan border to prevent future NATO airstrikes such as the ones last month that the Pakistani military claims were pre-planned and that killed 24 of the country's soldiers, a senior lawmaker said Friday.

Prime Indonesian jungle to be cleared for palm oil (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 03:50 AM PST

In this Nov. 27, 2011 photo, villagers use boats to cross a river in Tripa swamp forest in Nagan Raya, Aceh province, Indonesia. Villagers who live around the forest filed a law suit against Aceh's charismatic governor Irwandi Yusuf who was known as 'green governor' for giving a private company a permit to convert it into a palm oil plantation. (AP Photo/Heri Juanda)AP - The man known as Indonesia's "green governor" chases the roar of illegal chainsaws through plush jungles in his own Jeep. He goes door-to-door to tell families it's in their interest to keep trees standing.

Japan PM: Crippled nuke plant stable by year's end (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 03:46 AM PST

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. Noda said Japan plans to declare a tsunami-hit nuclear power plant is stable by the end of the year as planned. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Work to stabilize Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear power plant is on track and the government plans to declare it stable by the end of the year as planned, the prime minister said Friday.

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Posted: 09 Dec 2011 03:44 AM PST

AP - Afghan police: Suicide bombing kills 4, wounds 5 people in country's northeast.

4-nation Mekong security patrols to begin Saturday (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 02:46 AM PST

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, fully-armed Chinese police officers line up on their boats as their patrol missions along the Mekong River are ready to start in Guanlei, Dai Autonomous Prefecture of Xishuangbanna, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. China said joint Mekong River security patrols with forces from Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand will begin on Saturday, a development likely to deepen Beijing's influence in the region on its southern flank. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Lin Yiguang) NO SALESAP - China says its armed police will join Mekong River security patrols with forces from Myanmar, Laos and Thailand starting Saturday, a development likely to deepen Beijing's influence in an unstable region on its southern flank.

Arrested Filipino ex-leader moved to army hospital (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST

Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo poses in her hospital suite at St.Luke's Medical Center in Taguig near Manila, Philippines, Friday Dec. 9, 2011. Arroyo is charged with electoral sabotage and is being transferred to a Government hospital upon order of the court for a hospital arrest. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, Pool)AP - Former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was transferred to a military hospital Friday to be detained on electoral fraud charges in the next chapter in the Philippines' political drama pitting her against a popular, reformist successor.

Tibetan who set self on fire in protest dies:group (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 01:50 AM PST

AP - A former Buddhist monk in Tibet has died from burns after he set himself on fire about a week ago, a Tibetan rights group said Friday.

China farmer gets death penalty for poisoning milk (AP)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 01:41 AM PST

AP - A Chinese dairy farmer has been sentenced to death for lacing her rival's milk supply with industrial salt, causing the deaths of three young children, state media said Friday.
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