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

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• APNewsBreak: Afghan asylum bids hit 10-year high (AP)
• Taliban video highlights revenge on Pakistan military (Reuters)
• India Plans Mars Probe in Drive to Become Asian Space Power (ContributorNetwork)
• Turks march in Paris to denounce genocide bill (AP)
• Maldives vice president ashamed by judge's arrest (AP)
• South Korea lifts ban on imports of Canadian beef (AP)
• Karzai says he's met with Afghan insurgent faction (AP)
• Thai police find 3.8 million methamphetamine pills (AP)
• Generation 88 activists back Myanmar's reform path (AP)
• Rare, once-royal turtle to be tracked in Cambodia (AP)
• Suspected rebels kill 13 Indian police by landmine (AP)
• Beijing releases key air pollution data (AP)
• Indonesian girl eaten by crocodile (AP)
• Indonesian charged with blasphemy for atheist post (AP)
• Key lawmaker withdraws support for Aussie gov't (AP)

APNewsBreak: Afghan asylum bids hit 10-year high (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:51 AM PST 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.

Taliban video highlights revenge on Pakistan military (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:19 AM PST Reuters - Fifteen Pakistani soldiers stood blindfolded, handcuffed to each other on a barren hilltop as one of their bearded Taliban captors held an AK-47 rifle and spoke with fury about revenge.

India Plans Mars Probe in Drive to Become Asian Space Power (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:14 AM PST ContributorNetwork - According to Asian Scientist, India's next space mission might be one to Mars, with a probe designed to orbit the red planet and to study it with a variety of instruments. This effort would be another feat for a burgeoning space power.

Turks march in Paris to denounce genocide bill (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:08 AM PST AP - Thousands of Turks have marched through Paris denouncing a bill that would make it a crime to deny that the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide.

Maldives vice president ashamed by judge's arrest (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 09:14 AM PST AP - The Maldives vice president said Saturday that he is "ashamed and totally devastated" that the government in which he is a member has arrested a criminal court judge in violation of his freedom from arbitrary arrest.

South Korea lifts ban on imports of Canadian beef (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 08:10 AM PST AP - South Korea has lifted an eight-year ban on imports of Canadian beef.

Karzai says he's met with Afghan insurgent faction (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:06 AM PST AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he personally held peace talks recently with the insurgent faction Hizb-i-Islami, appearing to assert his own role in a U.S.-led bid for negotiations to end the country's decade-long war.

Thai police find 3.8 million methamphetamine pills (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:46 AM PST AP - Police have seized 3.8 million methamphetamine tablets in Thailand's largest drug bust in years.

Generation 88 activists back Myanmar's reform path (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:37 AM PST AP - Prominent student activists recently released from prison in Myanmar said Saturday they will work with political reformers and support pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in upcoming by-elections.

Rare, once-royal turtle to be tracked in Cambodia (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 04:41 AM PST AP - One of the world's most endangered turtles has been released into a Cambodian river with a satellite transmitter attached to its shell to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds and other man-made hazards.

Suspected rebels kill 13 Indian police by landmine (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 03:57 AM PST AP - Suspected Maoist rebels triggered a powerful land mine Saturday that killed 13 policemen in eastern India, a top police official said.

Beijing releases key air pollution data (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 02:31 AM PST 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.

Indonesian girl eaten by crocodile (AP) Posted: 21 Jan 2012 02:06 AM PST AP - Officials say a crocodile swallowed a girl in Indonesia as her father looked on helplessly.

Indonesian charged with blasphemy for atheist post (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2012 10:52 PM PST AP - Indonesian police say a civil servant who posted "God does not exist" on Facebook faces a maximum penalty of five years behind bars for blasphemy.

Key lawmaker withdraws support for Aussie gov't (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2012 10:11 PM PST AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard's tenuous grip on power weakened on Saturday when a key independent lawmaker withdrew his support for her minority government.

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