Thursday, January 19, 2012

Pakistan PM defends president at Supreme Court (AP)

Pakistan PM defends president at Supreme Court (AP)

Pakistan PM defends president at Supreme Court (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 10:56 AM PST

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani waves upon his arrival at the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. Pakistan's prime minister has made a rare appearance before the Supreme Court in attempt to avoid being held in contempt for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against the president. (AP Photo.B.K.Bangash)AP - Pakistan's prime minister struck a conciliatory tone in an appearance before the Supreme Court Thursday, trying to cool down a political and legal crisis destabilizing the nuclear-armed country.

Italian kidnapped in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 10:20 AM PST

AP - Italy says one of its citizen has been kidnapped in Pakistan.

Turkey: Tens of thousands mark journalist's death (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 10:14 AM PST

Placards and a poster left by friends outside his office as tens of thousands of protesters march to mark the fifth anniversary of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's murder in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 as outrage continues to grow over a trial that failed to shed light on alleged official negligence or even collusion. Human rights activists placed red carnations on the spot in Istanbul where Dink was gunned down in broad daylight outside of his minority Agos newspaper office by a nationalist teenage gunman. The case highlights Turkey's uneasy relationship with its ethnic and religious minorities, including at least 60,000 Armenian Christians. Many people carried black banners that read: 'We are all Hrant, we are all Armenian.' (AP Photo)AP - Tens of thousands of protesters marked the fifth anniversary of a Turkish-Armenian journalist's murder on Thursday as outrage continues to grow over a trial that failed to shed light on alleged official negligence or even collusion.

Bangladesh army says it foiled coup in December (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 10:02 AM PST

Reuters - Bangladesh's army said on Thursday it had foiled a coup attempt by retired and serving officers last month that intelligence sources said was driven by a campaign to introduce sharia law throughout the majority Muslim country.

Exclusive: Pakistan-U.S. ties on hold for "re-evaluation" (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:39 AM PST

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar adjusts her head scarf during a press conference with her German counterpart Guido Westerwelle (unseen) at the foreign ministry in Islamabad November 18, 2011. REUTERS/Mian KhursheedReuters - Pakistan's ties with the United States remain on hold following a NATO cross-border air attack, its foreign minister said on Thursday, and Washington should not push Islamabad to go after militant groups or bring them to the Afghan peace process.

Blast in southeast Turkey injures 13 (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:09 AM PST

AP - An explosion apparently targeting a police car wounded at least three officers and 10 civilians in a mostly Kurdish city of Turkey on Thursday, an official said.

Bangladesh military says it has foiled coup plot (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:56 AM PST

Brigadier General Mohammad Masud Razzak addresses a press conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. The Bangladesh military has foiled a plot by a group of hard line officers, their retired colleagues and Bangladeshi conspirators living abroad to overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a military spokesman announced Thursday. (AP Photo/Enamul Haq)AP - The Bangladesh military said Thursday it foiled a plot by a group of hardline officers, their retired colleagues and Bangladeshi conspirators living abroad to overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Maldives journalists say gov't intimidating them (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:46 AM PST

AP - The Maldives government is threatening and harassing the media over their reporting of a political crisis and the military's arrest of the nation's top criminal court judge, a journalists' group said Thursday.

NATO head indicates Afghan forces could be smaller (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:09 AM PST

A British military official with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) adjusts his helmet, as a NATO helicopter lands at the Provincial Reconstruction Team compound in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. The helicopter landed to pick up Afghan officials to take them to the Kajaki district of Helmand one day after a suicide attack. The suicide bomber blew himself at a bridge under construction in Kajaki district of Helmand province, according to Mohammad Ismail, the deputy of the Afghan security forces coordination office in the area. Ismail said NATO troops also were working at the construction site, but it was unclear whether any were injured or killed. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)Reuters - The long-term size of the Afghan security forces could be smaller than the 352,000 NATO has pledged to train and field by October 2012, NATO's secretary-general suggested Friday.

Ethnic Shan leader in Myanmar to re-register party (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:53 AM PST

Hkun Htun Oo, chairman of the his Shan Nationalities League for Democracy Party, speaks during an interview at his residence in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. The prominent ethnic minority leader recently freed from prison said he will register his political party but it will not contest upcoming by-elections. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - A prominent ethnic minority leader recently freed from prison in Myanmar said Thursday he will register his political party but it will not contest upcoming by-elections.

Radiation, rusty metal seen in tsunami-hit reactor (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 06:26 AM PST

This photo taken by a remote-controlled endoscope and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) shows a scaffolding, bottom, and the wall inside the beaker-shaped containment vessel of No. 2 reactor at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. The radiation-blurred photos taken Thursday, that were the first inside look since the disaster, found none of the reactor's melted fuel but confirmed stable temperatures and showed no major damage or ruptures caused by the earthquake last March, said Junichi Matsumoto, spokesman for the plant operator, TEPCO. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Radiation-blurred images taken inside one of Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear reactors Thursday showed steam, unidentified parts and rusty metal surfaces scarred by 10 months' exposure to heat and humidity.

Car bomb at Afghanistan air base kills 7 civilians (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 04:42 AM PST

A British military official with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) adjusts his helmet, as a NATO helicopter lands at the Provincial Reconstruction Team compound in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. The helicopter landed to pick up Afghan officials to take them to the Kajaki district of Helmand one day after a suicide attack. The suicide bomber blew himself at a bridge under construction in Kajaki district of Helmand province, according to Mohammad Ismail, the deputy of the Afghan security forces coordination office in the area. Ismail said NATO troops also were working at the construction site, but it was unclear whether any were injured or killed. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)AP - A suicide attacker set off a vehicle laden with explosives Thursday outside a gate at a sprawling base for U.S. and NATO operations, killing seven civilians in a second suicide bombing in as many days in southern Afghanistan, officials said.

Myanmar holds new cease-fire talks with Kachin (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:54 AM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 28, 2011, refugees take a rest in their camp in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar. Myanmar's government and ethnic Kachin rebels met Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, for cease-fire talks to end several months of armed clashes near the northern border with China. After two days of negotiations, a high-level government team and members of the Kachin Independence Organization agreed to continue talks later and in the meantime to inform the other side before deploying troops, according to an official at the talks who declined to be named. (AP Photo)AP - Myanmar's government and ethnic Kachin rebels met Thursday for cease-fire talks to end several months of armed clashes near the northern border with China, but their preliminary meeting did not make any major breakthroughs.

US, Filipino forces plan drills near disputed area (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:52 AM PST

AP - U.S. and Philippine marines plan to hold combat drills at an oil rig in the South China Sea to bolster the defense of such sensitive facilities in a bold move that may provoke protests from China, which claims waters in or near the location.

Battle for control of Asia's seas goes underwater (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:49 AM PST

FILE - In this April 23, 2009 file photo, a Chinese Navy nuclear-powered submarine sails during an international fleet review in the waters off Qingdao, China, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of People's Liberation Army Navy. Nearly every Asian country with a coastline is fortifying its submarine fleet amid territorial disputes stirred up by an increasingly assertive China and the promise of bountiful natural resources in the Pacific. (AP Photo/Guang Niu, Pool, File)AP - It's getting a bit more crowded under the sea in Asia, where Andrew Peterson commands one of the world's mightiest weapons: a $2 billion nuclear submarine with unrivaled stealth and missiles that can devastate targets hundreds of miles (kilometers) away.

China to again close Tibet during sensitive period (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 03:10 AM PST

AP - For a fifth straight year, China plans to close Tibet to foreign travelers during a sensitive period starting in mid-February, travel agents said Thursday.

Chinese hunker down for annual holiday travel rush (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:19 AM PST

Passengers queue up to board a train at Shanghai Railway Station, as millions of Chinese head home to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year, in Shanghai, China on Thursday Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Desperate to return home for China's most important holiday, migrant worker Li Zhuqing lined up for six chilly days and nights at a train station ticket counter only to be told that all the seats were sold out.

World sea piracy drops in 2011, Somali attacks up (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:36 AM PST

AP - Sea piracy worldwide dropped slightly in 2011 for the first time in five years but Somali pirates have intensified attacks and remained the greatest threat, a global maritime watchdog said Thursday.

Indian supplies to Kashmir stop as snow shuts road (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:03 AM PST

A Kashmir Muslim boy along with his sheep crosses a foot bridge on a cold day in the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)AP - Officials say food and fuel supplies to the Kashmir valley have stopped after heavy snowfall blocked the only road into India's portion of the disputed Himalayan region.

Strong earthquake strikes off New Zealand (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 11:23 PM PST

AP - A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of New Zealand's South Island, but there are no reports of damage or injuries and no tsunami warning has been issued.
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