Wednesday, January 18, 2012

NATO: Taliban chief has lost control of insurgents (AP)

NATO: Taliban chief has lost control of insurgents (AP)

NATO: Taliban chief has lost control of insurgents (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:11 PM PST

Italian soldiers part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) walk to their military compound after attending at the second phase of transfer of authority ceremony from the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops to Afghan security forces in Guzara, Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. The security responsibilities of 12 out of 15 districts of Herat province are handed over from the NATO forces to Afghan security forces. The process of taking over security from over 130,000-strong NATO-led ISAF forces by Afghan troops would be completed by the end of 2014 when Afghanistan will take over the full leadership of its own security duties from U.S. and NATO forces. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)AP - Dozens of civilians, NATO coalition troops and Afghan security forces were killed and wounded Wednesday when a suicide attacker blew himself up in a bazaar, according to the top commander of international troops in Afghanistan, who alleged that the Taliban's leader had "lost all control" of his footsoldiers.

Suspicion grows China was behind hack of U.S. commission (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:20 PM PST

Reuters - Suspicion is growing that operatives in China, rather than India, were behind the hacking of emails of an official U.S. commission that monitors relations between the United States and China, U.S. officials said.

Pakistan scandal's latest twist: naked wrestling (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 11:00 AM PST

In this Monday, Jan 9, 2012 photo, Pakistan's former ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani arrives to appear before a judicial commission in the secret memo case accused by Mansoor Ijaz at high court in Islamabad, Pakistan. A scandal over a memo to Washington that could bring down the Pakistani president took a strange turn Wednesday when a music video surfaced featuring the chief accuser Ijaz acting as a commentator for a naked female wrestling bout. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - A scandal over a secret memo to Washington that could bring down the Pakistani president took a strange turn Wednesday when a music video surfaced featuring the chief accuser acting as a commentator for a naked female wrestling bout.

Legislators oppose Armenian genocide bill (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:49 AM PST

AP - A French Senate panel dealt a blow Wednesday to the government's plans to make it illegal to deny that mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago amounted to genocide.

Two attacks kill 13 in Afghan south (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 09:27 AM PST

Reuters - A suicide bomber and a remotely detonated mine killed 13 people including a security official on Wednesday in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, an area where NATO-led forces have claimed security improvements over the past year.

Thai 'Red Shirt' firebrand appointed to Cabinet (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 08:43 AM PST

AP - A firebrand 'Red Shirt' leader charged with terrorism over the movement's 2010 protests was appointed Wednesday to Thailand's Cabinet, and a second appointee is a businesswoman blacklisted from certain U.S. financial transactions.

Book claims Kim's eldest fears NKorea may collapse (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 07:17 AM PST

Copies of a new book on the eldest son of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il by Tokyo-based journalist Yoji Gomi are sold at a book store in Tokyo as it goes on sale Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. The new book titled 'My father, Kim Jong Il, and Me' claims that the late leader's eldest son Kim Jong Nam, shown on the cover, believes the impoverished regime is in danger of collapse and that his young half-brother Kim Jong Un, chosen to lead after Kim's death, is merely a figurehead. Red letters on the left side of the book read: Kim Jong Nam exclusive confession. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - A new book claims that the eldest son of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il believes the impoverished regime is in danger of collapse and that his young half-brother, chosen to lead after Kim's death, is merely a figurehead.

Rocket hits Turkish embassy in Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 06:53 AM PST

Reuters - A rocket hit the Turkish embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday, striking its perimeter without causing any injuries, Iraqi security and Turkish sources said.

China says government to be more open (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 06:22 AM PST

AP - China will be more open about the often secretive workings of the government and ruling Communist Party in the coming year, although strict controls over the Internet would remain in place, a senior propaganda official said Wednesday.

Two UK soldiers arrested after Afghan child abuse report (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 06:20 AM PST

Reuters - Two British soldiers have been arrested for "inappropriate behavior" in Afghanistan, the British Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday after a newspaper report of child abuse.

CIA past of Bangkok's American 'Silk King' emerges (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:15 AM PST

FILE - In this undated file photo, Jim Thompson smiles shortly before he disappeared. Thompson mysteriously disappeared while going for a walk on Easter Sunday, March 26, 1967 in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia. It's the cloak and dagger stuff, rather than the glitz and glamor, that's the focus of a recent book 'The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War' by Joshua Kurlantzick, an author on Asian affairs with the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. (AP Photo/File)AP - Forty-five years after vanishing into a jungle without a trace, "Silk King" Jim Thompson remains a daily presence in Thailand: Shoppers crowd his elegant stores and the American expatriate's antique-rich residence is one of the capital's top tourist attractions.

Suu Kyi registers for seat in Myanmar's Parliament (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:39 AM PST

Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, center, receives flowers from supporters as she leaves the Yangon District Election Commission after submitting a candidates' list of her National League for Democracy for the upcoming parliamentary by-election on Wednesday, Jan.18, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. Suu Kyi registered to run for a seat representing Kawhmu, a poor district south of Yangon where villagers' livelihoods were devastated by Cyclone Nargis in 2008. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - Ecstatic cheers of "Long Live Aung San Suu Kyi!" echoed through the streets of this impoverished Yangon suburb Wednesday as she registered for elections, a sign of how vastly Myanmar has changed since the junta gave up power after decades of iron-fisted rule.

Opponents praise Turkmen leader ahead of vote (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:26 AM PST

AP - Eight candidates are registered to compete in the presidential election in this isolated, energy-rich Central Asian nation, but the all-powerful incumbent's victory is so predictable his opponents are praising him.

US Peace Corps to return to Nepal after 7 years (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:08 AM PST

AP - The U.S. Embassy in Katamandu says Peace Corps volunteers will return to Nepal seven years after they left during the peak of a Maoist rebel insurgency.

Second Aussie surfer this month attacked by shark (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:59 AM PST

AP - A 44-year-old surfer suffered serious wounds to his thigh and buttocks in Australia's second shark attack this month.

Afghan air force learns to fly — and fix aircraft (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:06 AM PST

An Afghan former air force pilot Maj. Abdul Aziz walks past by a Soviet made Jet, as he heads to teach a class at the air force university in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. Twenty years ago, Afghan Air Force pilot Maj. Abdul Aziz was streaking across the sky in the Soviet Union's deadliest fighter-bomber. (AP Photo/Musadqe Sadeq)AP - Twenty years ago, Afghan Air Force pilot Maj. Abdul Aziz was streaking across the sky in the Soviet Union's deadliest fighter-bomber.

Anti-whaling group says 3 activists injured (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 09:38 PM PST

In this photo released by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a crew member aboard Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru No. 2 prepares to drop a grappling hook on Sea Shepherd's inflatable boat as the latter tries to distract the former from pursuing the Sea Shepherd's ship Steve Irwin in the Antarctic Ocean Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. The anti-whaling group said three of its members suffered minor injuries with the thrown hooks. (AP Photo/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Billy Danger) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - An anti-whaling group says three of its members suffered minor injuries when they attempted to slow a Japanese harpoon boat in the Antarctic Ocean.

Top official dismisses concerns about Kim Jong Un (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:20 PM 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 official dismissed concerns about Kim Jong Un's readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helping him make key policy decisions on economic and military affairs.
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