Thursday, January 26, 2012

Pakistan accuses Iran of killing 6 on border (AP)

Pakistan accuses Iran of killing 6 on border (AP)

Pakistan accuses Iran of killing 6 on border (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 09:30 AM PST

A man fixes wooden grips on knives at a workshop in Quetta January 26, 2012. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS)AP - Iranian security forces on Thursday killed six Pakistani traders taking goats into Iran, a Pakistani official said.

Italy signs deal for long-term aid to Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 10:23 AM PST

AP - Italy signed a pact Thursday aimed at supporting Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw from the country in 2014, while Germany extended its military mission there for another year, developments that came as Afghan President Hamid Karzai began a tour of Europe with a stop in Rome.

Car bomb targeting NATO aid team kills 4 Afghans (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:05 AM PST

An Afghan solider, left, stands guard at the scene of a suicide attack in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2012. A suicide car bomber targeting NATO-sponsored aid workers killed at least three people and wounded 31 on Thursday in southern Afghanistan, an official said. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)AP - A suicide attacker detonated a car laden with powerful explosives Thursday in southern Afghanistan, killing four Afghan civilians and wounding 31 other people, including three British aid workers, officials said.

Papua New Guinea premier rejects mutineers' demand (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:38 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, veteran leader Sir Michael Somare, second right, attends a press conference after claiming to have been reinstated as Papua New Guinea's prime minister in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Rebel soldiers seized the military's headquarters Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 and replaced Papua New Guinea's top defense official with their own leader, who gave Prime Minister Peter O'Neill a week to step aside for his ousted predecessor. The self-proclaimed new leader of the country's defense forces, retired Col. Yaura Sasa, insisted he was not mounting a coup. But he warned that the military will take unspecified action unless O'Neill stands down and former prime minister Somare, is reinstated, as the national Supreme Court ordered last month. (AP Photo/Post-Courier, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Prime Minister Peter O'Neill refused to step down despite a mutiny Thursday by soldiers who seized Papua New Guinea's military headquarters and demanded that he cede power to his ousted predecessor.

Japan's 'Nuclear Alley' conflicted over reactors (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:34 AM PST

Kansai Electric Power Co's Ohi nuclear power plant No. 3, right, and No. 4 reactors are seen in Ohi, Fukui prefecture, north of Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday began their first inspection of the Japanese nuclear power plant that has undergone official 'stress tests' — a key step required to restart dozens of nuclear plants idled in the wake of the Fukushima crisis. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - International inspectors are visiting a rugged Japanese bay region so thick with reactors it is dubbed "Nuclear Alley," where residents remain deeply conflicted as Japan moves to restart plants idled after the Fukushima disaster.

Australian PM stumbles before rowdy protest crowd (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 06:49 AM PST

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard, second from left, is escorted out for safety by body guards and police through a crowd of rowdy protesters following a ceremony to mark Australia's national day in Canberra, Australia, Thursday Jan. 26, 2012. Some 200 supporters of indigenous rights surrounded a Canberra restaurant and banged its windows on Thursday while Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott were inside officiating at an award ceremony. (AP Photo/Lukas Coch) AUSTRALIA OUTAP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stumbled and was caught by a security guard as riot police helped her force a path through a crowd of rowdy protesters following a ceremony to mark Australia's national day Thursday.

Japan's NEC slashing 10,000 jobs worldwide (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 06:33 AM PST

AP - Japanese electronics company NEC Corp. says it is slashing 10,000 jobs worldwide amid deteriorating earnings due to weakness in its mobile phone business and flooding in Thailand that hit its platform business.

New extinction risk to Thai elephants: eating them (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 06:23 AM PST

AP - Thailand's revered national symbol, the elephant, may face a new threat of extinction: being poached not just for their tusks, but for their meat.

US, Philippines eye more war drills, but no bases (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:49 AM PST

AP - U.S. and Filipino defense officials will discuss how to intensify joint war drills in the Philippines without re-establishing vast U.S. military bases, as America tries to reassert its presence in Asia, a Manila official said Thursday.

In Myanmar, a "sham" parliament stirs to life (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:34 AM PST

Reuters - In Myanmar's sprawling parliamentary complex, lawmakers flexed their newly democratic muscles on Thursday. Some drafted anti-graft legislation for one of the world's most corrupt nations or clamored for transparency on a typically secret national budget.

SKorea staging artillery drills at border island (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:08 AM PST

In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, North Korean new leader Kim Jong Un, second from left in foreground, inspects the gym at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang, North Korea on the occasion of Chinese New Year. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSIONAP - South Korea staged live-fire drills Thursday from a front-line island shelled by North Korea in 2010, in the first such exercise since North Korean leader Kim Jong Il died last month. The North called the maneuvers belligerent.

Khmer Rouge tribunal halts salaries for Cambodians (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:22 AM PST

U.N. Special Expert on Khmer Rouge Trial David Scheffer, left, speaks during a press conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. David Scheffer said despite Cambodian Supreme Council Magistracy doesn't appoint Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as co-investigating judge within the Khmer Rouge tribunal, Kasper-Ansermet by law has full authorizations to fulfill his work in Cambodia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - About 300 Cambodians working at the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal will not be paid this month — and some have worked without pay since October — because funds from donor countries have dried up, a tribunal spokesman said Thursday.

Exile leader says killing of Tibetans unacceptable (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:00 AM PST

a Tibetan Buddhist monk shouts as he and others hold pictures of Tibetans they claim were allegedly shot by Chinese security forces earlier this week, during a candlelight vigil in Dharamsala, India, Wednesday. Jan. 25, 2012. Deadly clashes between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese security forces have spread to a second area in southwestern China, the government and an overseas activist group said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Angus McDonald)AP - The Tibetan government-in-exile denounced the slayings of Tibetan protesters by security forces in China and urged the Beijing government Thursday to address the region's grievances.

Severe flooding, landslides kill 6 in Fiji (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 10:59 PM PST

Floodwaters rise on the main shopping street of Nandi, Fiji, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Authorities said that severe flooding and landslides have killed several people and forced thousands into temporary shelters. (AP Photo/Pita Ligaiula)AP - Severe flooding and landslides in Fiji have killed six people and left hundreds more homeless.

33 whales shot in New Zealand after rescues failed (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 05:34 PM PST

AP - Conservation staff in New Zealand have put down 33 stranded whales after several attempts to refloat them failed.

Spate of kidnappings in Pakistan triggers unease (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 10:47 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken on Jan 5, 2012 visitors are standing outside the Red Cross office from where armed men seized a Red Cross worker in Quetta, Pakistan. Kidnappers have snatched seven foreigners in Pakistan in the last six months, four of them in January alone, highlighting the country's perilous security situation and hampering international aid efforts in the nation. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt, File)AP - Seven foreigners have been kidnapped in Pakistan in the last six months, four in January alone, highlighting the security threat in the country and hampering aid efforts.

Driver rams bus down busy Indian streets, kills 9 (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 08:02 AM PST

Indians look at a damaged vehicles at the scene where a bus was driven into numerous vehicles and pedestrians in the city of Pune, central India, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. An on-duty bus driver went on a rampage on the crowded streets of the central Indian city Wednesday as he mowed down pedestrians and rammed other vehicles, witnesses said. (AP Photo)AP - A bus driver mowed down pedestrians and rammed cars, scooters and food stalls in a rampage through crowded Indian streets Wednesday that killed nine people and injured more than two dozen.

AP IMPACT: Delhi ignores own quake peril warnings (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 08:01 AM PST

In this Dec. 20, 2011 photo, commuters move past congested houses built close to each other in India's most crowded northeast district of New Delhi, India. If a major earthquake were to strike India's seismically vulnerable capital, this neighborhood, home to 2.2 million people and India's most crowded district, would likely collapse into an apocalyptic nightmare. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)AP - The ramshackle neighborhoods of northeast Delhi are home to 2.2 million people packed along narrow alleys. Buildings are made from a single layer of brick. Extra floors are added to dilapidated buildings not meant to handle their weight. Tangles of electrical cables hang precariously everywhere.

Clashes between Tibetans, gov't spread in China (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 07:55 AM PST

In this undated photo released by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, Yonden, the brother of a religious leader in a local monastery in Luhuo in Ganzi prefecture of Sichuan province, southwestern China, is shown. The ICT said three Tibetans, including Yonden, were killed by police in Luhuo, also known as Draggo in Tibetan, Monday, Jan. 23 in a clash between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese security forces. (AP Photo/International Campaign for Tibet) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESAP - Deadly clashes between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese security forces have spread to a second area in southwestern China, the government and an overseas activist group said Wednesday.

Japan kept silent on worst nuclear crisis scenario (AP)

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 07:04 AM PST

FILE - In this March 18, 2011 file photo, evacuees and regular passengers crowd a check-in area at Narita airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, following advisories from foreign governments recommending citizens leave the country as the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in the northeast deepened. The Japanese government's worst-case scenario at the height of the nuclear crisis last year had warned that a massive evacuation might needed, including for Tokyo residents, according to a report obtained Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 by The Associated Press. But officials kept silent, fearing widespread panic and are still trying to keep the report secret. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)AP - The Japanese government's worst-case scenario at the height of the nuclear crisis last year warned that tens of millions of people, including Tokyo residents, might need to leave their homes, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press. But fearing widespread panic, officials kept the report secret.
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