Sunday, January 22, 2012

AP Exclusive: US talks to Afghan insurgent group (AP)

AP Exclusive: US talks to Afghan insurgent group (AP)

AP Exclusive: US talks to Afghan insurgent group (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 10:48 AM PST

In this Feb. 13, 1996 file photo shows Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan rebel leader and chief of the insurgent group Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, speaking at a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. Anxious to accelerate peace moves, top-level U.S. officials have held talks with a representative of a major Afghan insurgent movement led by a former prime minister that Washington had branded as a terrorist. The meetings with the group led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar show not only the degree of U.S. interest in pursuing a settlement but also the complexity of putting together an agreement acceptable to all sides in factious Afghanistan. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)AP - Anxious to accelerate peace moves, top-level U.S. officials have held talks with a representative of an insurgent movement led by a former Afghan prime minister who has been branded a terrorist by Washington, a relative of the rebel leader says.

Maldives asks UN help to resolve "judicial crisis" (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 10:37 AM PST

AP - The Maldives has asked the United Nations to send a group of experts to resolve what it calls a judicial system failure that has resulted in the military's detention of a senior judge.

Buffett sings in video for China's New Year gala (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 09:42 AM PST

AP - A hugely popular Chinese Lunar New Year variety show has a special guest star playing the ukulele: American billionaire Warren Buffett.

U.S. envoy says no decision on Taliban transfers (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 07:02 AM PST

Reuters - The United States has not taken a decision on whether to release five prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay to support a nascent peace process with the Taliban, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Sunday.

Afghan president sends condolences to France (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 05:36 AM PST

France's Minister of Defense Gerard Longuet (2nd R) and France's Ambassador to Afghanistan Bernard Bajolet (R) attend a ceremony for four slain soldiers at the military air base at Kaia January 22, 2012. Four French soldiers were killed and 17 wounded on Friday by an Afghan soldier in the Taghab valley of Eastern Kapisa province. REUTERS/ECPAD/Ghislain Mariette/Handout (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY OBITUARY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSAP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai offered his condolences to France's defense minister on Sunday, following the killing of four French troops by an Afghan soldier.

Sri Lanka donates eyes to the world (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 05:32 AM PST

In this Oct. 16, 2011 photo, a worker at the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society holds three corneas in bottles with preservatives, ready to be sent abroad, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This gift of sight has become an unwritten symbol of Sri Lanka's pride and culture. Despite being a poor island nation of about 20 million people that has recently emerged from a quarter century of civil war, the country is among the world's largest cornea providers, sending more than 60,000 eyes to 57 nations since its first donation nearly 50 years ago, according to the nonprofit Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society. Nearly 900,000 people have also signed up to give their eyes in death through the Eye Donation Society's longstanding eye bank. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP - At 10:25 a.m., a dark brown eye was removed from a man whose lids had closed for the last time. Five hours later, the orb was staring up at the ceiling from a stainless steel tray in an operating room with two blind patients — both waiting to give it a second life.

In bin Laden town, father mourns another militant (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 05:12 AM PST

In this Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 photo, plainclothes Pakistani security men stand outside the family house of al-Qaida militant Aslam Awan, who was killed in an American drone attack at a house along the Afghan border. On Jan. 14 at 8:12 pm, Khushal Khan's wife got a call on her cell phone. 'Your son has been martyred,' the voice said at the other end of the line. The man then rang off. Four days earlier, an American drone fired a missile at a house along the Afghan border just before midnight, killing Khan's youngest son, Aslam Awan, and three other suspected militants. American officials have since described Awan as an 'external operations planner' for al-Qaida. British prosecutors in 2007 said he a member of a militant cell who had fought in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed)AP - On Jan. 14 at 8:12 p.m., Khushal Khan's wife got a call on her cell phone.

Complication in first triple limb transplant (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:54 AM PST

AP - A Turkish doctor whose 25-member team performed the world's first triple limb transplant — two arms and a leg — says the leg has been removed due to tissue incompatibility.

Military: Filipino rebels kill 100 troops in 2011 (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 04:02 AM PST

AP - Communist guerrillas killed about 100 government troops and police and waged 447 attacks last year despite a continuing decline in their 43-year insurgency, the military said Sunday.

Exclusive: How Pakistan helps the U.S. drone campaign (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jan 2012 02:12 AM PST

Reuters - The death of a senior al Qaeda leader in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal badlands, the first strike in almost two months, signaled that the U.S.-Pakistan intelligence partnership is still in operation despite political tensions.

2 cargo ships sink in Philippines; 32 aboard saved (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:55 PM PST

AP - A cargo ship loaded with cement sank in the central Philippines on Sunday and another vessel carrying iron ore went down off the country's eastern coast, the coast guard said. All 32 crewmen from both ships were rescued.

APNewsBreak: Afghan asylum bids hit 10-year high (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 08:29 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers, among 74 illegal migrants who were trying to reach Australia by boat, sit at an immigration office in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. More Afghans fled the country and sought asylum abroad last year than any since the start of the war 10 years ago, suggesting that many are looking for their own exit strategy amid worry as international troops prepare to withdraw. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi, File)AP - More Afghans fled the country and sought asylum abroad in 2011 than in any other year since the start of the decade-long war, suggesting that many are looking for their own exit strategy as international troops prepare to withdraw.

Beijing releases pollution data; US figures higher (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:16 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 file photo, a man rides an electric bike crossing a street shrouded by haze in Beijing, China. Caving to public pressure, Beijing environmental authorities started releasing more detailed air quality data Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, that may better reflect how bad the Chinese capital's air pollution is. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)AP - Caving to public pressure, Beijing environmental authorities started releasing more detailed air quality data Saturday that may better reflect how bad the Chinese capital's air pollution is. But one expert says measurements from the first day were low compared with data U.S. officials have been collecting for years.
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