Saturday, January 28, 2012

Afghans blast French plan to withdraw troops early (AP)

Afghans blast French plan to withdraw troops early (AP)

Afghans blast French plan to withdraw troops early (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 09:26 AM PST

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, center, France's Defence and Veterans Minister Gerard Longuet, left, and French General and Paris military governor Bruno Dary, right, pay tribute to the Unknown soldier's tomb, at the Arc of Triomphe, in Paris, Friday Jan. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure, Pool)AP - France's plans to withdraw its combat troops from Afghanistan a year early drew harsh words Saturday in the Afghan capital, with critics accusing French President Nicolas Sarkozy of putting domestic politics ahead of Afghans' safety.

Myanmar shift to democracy not over, more reform ahead: minister (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 08:13 AM PST

Reuters - Myanmar has already done a lot to reconnect with the international community and win investment, but the return to democracy is not complete and more political and economic reforms are needed, its trade minister said on Saturday.

Britain sticks to 2014 Afghan troop pullout goal (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 08:08 AM PST

Reuters - British Prime Minister David Cameron said Saturday he was sticking to an end-2014 deadline for withdrawing British combat troops from Afghanistan despite French proposals to speed up NATO's handover of security to Afghan forces.

Opposition rally organizers jailed in Kazakhstan (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 07:03 AM PST

All-National Social Democratic Party co-leader Zharmakhan Tuyakbay speaks at a rally organized in protest at the results of recent elections and the violent suppression of an oil workers protest last month, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. Hundreds of opposition supporters gathered Saturday in Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty, to protest the results of recent elections and the violent suppression of an oil workers protest last month. The meeting took place peacefully and was not broken up by police, as is common at unauthorized political rallies in the former Soviet Central Asian nation. (AP/Peter Leonard)AP - Some 300 opposition activists staged a rare rally in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Saturday to protest recent elections and the violent suppression of a group of oil workers. Hours later, speakers at the rally handed two-week jail sentences for holding the unsanctioned gathering.

Kyrgyz prisoners sew lips shut; is mafia to blame? (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 06:24 AM PST

In this video image of Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, a prisoner with his lips stitched shut looks up in a prison cell in a pre-trial detention center 1 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Some 391 inmates have sewn their lips together in the pre-trial detention center in a sign of protest at what they describe as the mistreatment they say they have suffered at the hands of prison authorities. Around 1,000 prisoners across Kyrgyzstan have declared a hunger strike and sewn their lips together this week. (AP Photo/APTN)AP - More than 1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan have sewn their lips together, a grotesque act inmates describe as a protest of their dismal conditions, but which authorities blame on organized criminal gangs who resent attempts to break the power they wield in prisons.

Police: Rebels kill 4 at Indian polling station (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 06:16 AM PST

Women voters show their election cards as they stand queue to cast their votes in a polling station in Thoubal constituency on the outskirts of Imphal, in northeastern Indian state of Manipur, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. A separatist Naga rebel opened fire at a police station where election voting was being held, killing several people before he was shot in the state of Manipur, police said. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)AP - A suspected Naga rebel opened fire at a police station packed with voters on a tense election day Saturday in northeast India, killing four people before he was shot dead, police said.

Despair, crackdowns breed more violence in Tibet (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 03:22 AM PST

AP - A young man posts his photo with a leaflet demanding freedom for Tibet and telling Chinese police, come and get me. Protesters rise up to defend him, and demonstrations break out in two other Tibetan areas of western China to support the same cause.

Afghanistan's Karzai in UK for talks with Cameron (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 02:44 AM PST

U.S. soldiers part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walks, as a U.S. Chinook helicopter is seen on the back ground near the place where the foundation of a hospital was laid in Shindand, Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The foundation of a U.S. military funded 50 beds hospital was laid with the cost of 400, 000 US dollar in Shindand of Herat, the hospital project is expected to be completed in 18 months. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Britain for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron, a day after France announced it would withdraw its troops a year earlier than the 2014 date agreed by NATO.

SKorean activists send socks to NKorea in balloons (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 01:41 AM PST

Members of the North Korean Peace Foundation prepare to release balloons carrying 1,000 warm socks and messages of hope and love toward North Korea near the Unification Observatory Post near the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - South Korean activists have floated giant balloons carrying boxes of socks into North Korea.

Five dead in poll violence in India's Manipur state (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 01:39 AM PST

Reuters - Five people were killed in election related violence in India's isolated, northeastern state of Manipur, police said on Saturday.

Japan, Russia to boost ties despite islands row (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2012 01:13 AM PST

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and his counterpart Koichiro Gemba, smile before a joint press conference in Tokyo, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. The foreign ministers of Japan and Russia have agreed to strengthen economic and security cooperation but made no progress on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute over islands off northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - The foreign ministers of Japan and Russia agreed Saturday to strengthen economic and security cooperation but made no progress on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute that has kept the two nations from concluding a peace treaty.

Information from Australian PM's aide led to clash (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 11:34 PM PST

AP - A clash between protesters and Australian police that forced bodyguards to rush Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of an event appears to have been set off by information released by one of Gillard's own aides.

Magnitude 5.5 quake shakes Japan (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 03:16 PM PST

AP - A magnitude-5.5 earthquake rattled Yamanashi prefecture in central Japan on Saturday morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and no tsunami warning was issued.
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