Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Militants kill journalist in Pakistani mosque (AP)

Militants kill journalist in Pakistani mosque (AP)

Militants kill journalist in Pakistani mosque (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 09:30 AM PST

A snake charmer is silhouetted against a setting sun at as he performs for onlookers at Clifton Beach in Karachi January 17, 2012. The snake's owner makes 10 Pakistan Rupees ($0.11) every time bystanders come to see a snake perform from its basket. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY)AP - Islamist militants on Tuesday killed a Pakistan journalist who was working for an American government funded broadcasting service, according to police, a militant spokesman and a colleague.

Turkey reacts to Rick Perry's terrorist accusation (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 10:22 AM PST

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, left, speaks as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum listens at the South Carolina Republican presidential candidate debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)AP - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry drew Turkey's ire on Tuesday after suggesting the country is ruled by Islamic terrorists and questioning its NATO membership.

Turk gets life term for role in journalist killing (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 09:00 AM PST

Hundreds of people hold placards that read 'This case won't end this way' outside a courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. A prosecutor is demanding life imprisonment for seven men accused of involvement in the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink. Dink was shot outside his office in 2007 in an alleged nationalist killing. In July, a juvenile court sentenced a now 21-year-old hardliner to nearly 23 years in prison for killing Dink.(AP Photo)AP - A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced a man to life in prison for masterminding the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist hated by hardline nationalists, but acquitted all 19 suspects of charges of acting under a terrorist organization's orders.

Indonesia tries to deter train 'surfers' — again (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 07:58 AM PST

Workers install a frame with concrete balls suspended on it above railway tracks in Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains by suspending rows of grapefruit-sized concrete balls above railway lines a few inches (centimeters) above the tops of carriages at points where trains enter or pull out of stations, or where they go through crossings. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)AP - Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from illegally riding the roofs of trains — hosing down the scofflaws with red paint, threatening them with dogs and appealing for help from religious leaders.

India army chief asks Supreme Court: How old am I? (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 07:53 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2012 file photo, Indian Army Chief, Gen. Vijay Kumar Singh, center, smiles on the occasion of the Indian Army Day in New Delhi, India. Singh said he was born in May 1951 and will not reach the mandatory retirement age of 62 until next year but India's Defense Ministry said its records show he was born a year earlier and must retire in four months. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi, File)AP - The Indian government and its army chief are asking the Supreme Court to answer a peculiar question: Just how old is the nation's top soldier?

Turk court gives man life sentence over Dink murder case (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 10:26 AM PST

Rakel Dink (2nd L), widow of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, attends a demonstration organized by Dink's friends in front of a courthouse in Istanbul January 17, 2012. REUTERS/Murad SezerReuters - An Istanbul court convicted a man Tuesday for instigating the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink five years ago, sentencing him to life imprisonment in a case closely watched by human rights groups.

Top official dismisses concerns about Kim Jong Un (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:54 AM PST

FILE - In this MOnday, Jan. 16, 2012 file photo, Yang Hyong Sop, vice president of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly, meets with a delegation from The Associated Press at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea. In the first high-level interview with foreign journalists since North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's Dec. 17 death, Politburo member and Kim family confidante Yang dismissed concerns about Kim Jong Un's readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helped him make key policy decisions on the economy as well as military affairs. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)AP - A senior North Korean party official dismissed concerns about Kim Jong Un's readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helped him make key policy decisions on economic and military affairs.

China's economic growth ebbs to lowest in 2 years (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:52 AM PST

Customers look at meat at a shop Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 in Shanghai. China appears on track to avoid an abrupt economic slowdown with possible global repercussions after growth eased to its lowest level in 2 1/2 years in the last quarter of 2011. The world's second-largest economy grew by a still-robust 8.9 percent, down from 9.1 percent the previous quarter, while December retail sales and factory output accelerated, data showed Tuesday. (AP Photo)AP - China appears on track to avoid an abrupt economic slowdown with possible global repercussions after growth eased to a still robust 8.9 percent in the last quarter of 2011.

China policy easing ahead as growth hits 2-year low (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:50 AM PST

Employees weld automobiles at Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co. Ltd (JAC Motors) in Hefei, Anhui province October 18, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - China's economy expanded at its weakest pace in 2-1/2 years in the latest quarter, with the sagging real estate and export sectors heralding a sharper slowdown in coming months and fresh pro-growth measures from the government.

Philippines seeks lifting of Myanmar sanctions (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:34 AM PST

AP - The Philippines says international sanctions against Myanmar should be lifted amid the political reforms taking place there.

Maldives military arrests top judge, spark protest (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:52 AM PST

AP - The Maldives' military has arrested the chief justice of the country's criminal court after he released an opposition leader who had been detained without a warrant for allegedly defaming the government.

Anti-Taliban Afghan tribal leader killed in mosque (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:33 AM PST

A former Taliban militant, center, holds the national flag of Afghanistan as others stand while they are seen face covered during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government in Ghazni, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. About 25 former Taliban militants from Ghazni province handed over their weapons and joined with Afghan government as part of a peace-reconciliation program. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)AP - Assailants gunned down a prominent anti-Taliban tribal leader as he was praying in a mosque Tuesday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, authorities said, the latest in a steady campaign of assassinations of pro-government officials.

US senators see no clash with China in Asia (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:11 AM PST

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks as Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., left, smiles during a press conference at the U.S. embassy Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 in Manila, Philippines. The U.S. senators visited the country to meet with government leaders to re-affirm the alliance and cooperation. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - A U.S.-China confrontation in Asia is unlikely but Washington is committed to help bolster the military firepower of its allies like the Philippines amid territorial disputes with Beijing, two U.S. senators said Tuesday.

More Chinese living in cities than countryside (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:17 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2012 file photo, people rush to catch their train at Beijing station in Beijing, China as millions of Chinese are expected to cramp onto China's train network in the coming weeks to return home for the Chinese lunar new year that starts on Jan. 23, 2012. Beijing says more Chinese are living in cities than in the countryside for the first time in the nation's history. The National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday, Jan. 17, that urban dwellers accounted for 51.27 percent of China's 1.34 billion people at the end of last year. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)AP - Beijing says more Chinese are living in cities than in the countryside for the first time in the nation's history.

Beijing rejects US envoy's human rights critique (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:05 AM PST

AP - A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday that U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke was wrong in saying this week that China's human rights situation has deteriorated.

Vietnam PM orders probe into violent land eviction (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:04 AM PST

AP - Vietnam's prime minister called for an investigation Tuesday into a guerrilla-style clash between authorities and farmers who tried to fend off a land eviction by laying homemade land mines and firing improvised shotguns.

Police: Explosives were to be sent out of Thailand (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:13 AM PST

Atris Hussein, a Swedish national of Lebanese origin, is escorted to arrive at criminal court Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. Hussein, 48, a suspect with alleged links to Hezbollah militants who was arrested last Thursday, led Thai police to a warehouse filled with materials commonly used to make bombs, as Thailand and the U.S. disagreed over whether Bangkok was the target of a terror plot. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - Police say a Lebanese-Swedish man detained in a Thai terror investigation was storing explosive materials in Bangkok before shipping them to another destination.

Dozens of Tibetans gather with Dalai Lama picture (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 12:11 AM PST

AP - Dozens of Tibetans, including monks, held up a portrait of the Dalai Lama in a community in southwestern China in an act of defiance days after other Tibetans set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule.

Filipino suspect in 2001 US abductions captured (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 10:20 PM PST

AP - An official says Philippine troops have captured an Abu Sayyaf militant suspected of involvement in the 2001 kidnappings of three Americans and 17 Filipino tourists.

US urges South Korea to cut oil imports from Iran (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 07:32 PM PST

AP - A senior U.S. official is urging South Korea to reduce its crude oil imports from Iran to put pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
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