Tuesday, January 31, 2012

US diplomat sees 'hope in diplomacy' with NKorea (AP)

US diplomat sees 'hope in diplomacy' with NKorea (AP)

US diplomat sees 'hope in diplomacy' with NKorea (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 07:25 AM PST

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell delivers a speech during a dinner hosted by the Korea Society in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia is reassuring South Korea that any diplomatic dealings with North Korea will be backed up by an unwavering U.S.-South Korea military presence. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Bae Jung-hyun) KOREA OUTAP - A senior U.S. diplomat on Tuesday expressed "hope in diplomacy" for settling differences with North Korea, but he reassured ally Seoul that a lasting U.S.-South Korea military presence will back up any talks.

Saudi Arabia cautious on possible Afghan talks (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 07:15 AM PST

Reuters - Saudi Arabia is reluctant to host talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban without concessions from the Islamist movement including renouncing its ties to al Qaeda, sources in Riyadh and Kabul said on Tuesday.

India to buy 126 Rafale fighter jets in $11B deal (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 08:57 AM PST

FILE - In this June 21, 2001 file photo, a French Air Force Rafale manufactured by France's Dassault Aviation speeds above Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, during the 44th Paris Air Show, in France. India has decided to buy 126 French-made Rafale combat aircraft for the Indian air force, clinching a massive US$11 billion defense deal, a top government official said Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)AP - India is buying 126 French-made combat aircraft in a massive $11 billion deal that will increase the might of the world's fourth largest air force with the first exported Rafale jets, officials said Tuesday.

UN poll: Afghan police weak, but ready by 2014 (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 05:35 AM PST

Afghan newly graduated border police officers clap after taking the oath during a graduation ceremony at the border police headquarter in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. Over 40 border police officers graduated after receiving 10 weeks of training in Jalalabad. Less than 25 percent of Afghans say the national police are now strong enough to handle security without international forces' help, but three-quarters believe they will be ready by the 2014 NATO handover, according to a U.N. survey released Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Less than 25 percent of Afghans say their national police are strong enough to handle security without international forces' help, but three-quarters believe they will be ready by the 2014 NATO handover, according to a U.N. survey released Tuesday.

China's concern grows over 29 abducted in Sudan (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:49 AM PST

AP - China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned a leading Sudanese diplomat to express "deep shock" over the abduction of 29 Chinese workers after an attack in a volatile region of the country.

Eight in 10 Afghans think police weak, U.N. report shows (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:36 AM PST

Reuters - Eight in 10 Afghans do not believe their police force is ready to take charge of law and order, a United Nations report showed Tuesday, underscoring worries about the pace of transition to Afghan security control.

China rare earths safe from WTO ruling on export curbs (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:34 AM PST

Reuters - A World Trade Organisation ruling against China's restrictions on raw material exports could force changes to some of its rare earth policies but is unlikely to yield the boost in exports of the metals that consumers want to see.

French court asked to rule on genocide bill (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 07:38 AM PST

AP - France's Constitutional Council has been asked on Tuesday to determine whether a bill concerning the mass killings of Armenians a century ago violates the constitution.

Dozens killed as Pakistani army, militants clash (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:04 AM PST

Reuters - Dozens of people were killed in clashes between Pakistani soldiers and militants in the northwest region on Tuesday, security officials said, casting further doubts on exploratory peace talks with the rebels.

French lawmakers seek rejection of genocide law (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:00 AM PST

Reuters - French lawmakers appealed to their country's highest court on Tuesday to overturn a law that makes it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide.

China raises security to contain Tibet protests (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:09 AM PST

Armed Chinese police officers patrol a Tibetan area of Chengdu in China's Sichuan province, neighboring Tibet, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. Tibetan areas in Sichuan, on tenterhooks for more than a year as more than a dozen monks, nuns and lay people separately set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule, saw large demonstrations last week. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP - A senior official in Chinese-ruled Tibet is ordering heightened security in Buddhist monasteries and along key roadways as the government tries to prevent protests that erupted in neighboring Tibetan communities from spreading.

Fighting over Pakistani mountaintop kills over 60 (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:46 AM PST

Members of lashkar , or local peace force, stand guard at the site of a suicide attack in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Jan 30, 2012. A suicide bomber killed a leader of a militant group that has been fighting a rival outfit in northwest Pakistan close to the Afghan border, said police officer Imtiaz Khan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Fighting between soldiers and Taliban militants over a strategic mountaintop in northwestern Pakistan has killed more than 60 people, a government official said Tuesday.

Aussie mom clueless about US murder victim's ashes (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:41 AM PST

AP - The Australian mother of a 10-year-old disabled girl who was murdered by her American stepmother in North Carolina said Tuesday she has no idea what became of her daughter's ashes since the child's father brought them to Australia.

World markets rise as investors watch Europe (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:18 AM PST

A masked man is reflected on an electronic stock board at a securities firm in central Tokyo, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. Asian stock markets fell Monday, with slower-than-expected growth in the U.S. and uncertainty about a tentative deal to resolve Greece's debt crisis weighing on investor sentiment. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - World markets rose Tuesday as traders watched for a possible deal to cut Greece's debts and Japanese factory output rebounded.

Oil above $99 in Asia on Europe's austerity move (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 12:35 AM PST

In this photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, traffic heads south along Route 220 at intersection with Witamy Lane near Lisa Richlin’s home near Laporte, Pa. Richlin is in court with Central New York Oil and Gas Company LLC on trying to get them to move a proposed entrance road for building the MARC 1 pipeline from a couple hundred yards north of her home at Thorndale Road to a site a couple hundred yards south of her home at Witamy Lane. (AP Photo/Jimmy May)AP - Oil rose above $99 a barrel Tuesday in Asia in sync with gains in regional equity markets after Europe took measures to battle its debt crisis.

Another Chinese dissident on trial for subversion (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 12:17 AM PST

AP - Prosecutors cited a Chinese dissident's poem urging his countrymen to go to a public square and make a stand as evidence Tuesday in a trial accusing him of inciting to subvert state power, the man's lawyer said.

China's state TV making huge global expansion (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 11:03 PM PST

In this Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 photo, a man talks on his mobile phone outside a construction site near the new China Central Television (CCTV) headquarters building in Beijing, China. CCTV is gearing up to supersize its global footprint this year in pursuit of swaying a foreign audience to China's views and confronting what Beijing considers the Western media's innate anti-China bias. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)AP - The killing of a South Korean coast guard officer by a Chinese fisherman should have been tailor-made for China's CCTV News as it embarks on an ambitious plan to become a global network with assertive international coverage.

NKorea's young leader gets rock star treatment (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 07:12 PM PST

In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service on Jan. 25, 2012, North Korean new leader Kim Jong Un greets students at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang, North Korea, on the occasion of Chinese New Year. Young Kim gets rock star treatment when he visits his troops, just as his father did. But while the late Kim Jong Il mostly stayed aloof in dark shades, his son holds hands and hugs. He seems to want to bond. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSIONAP - North Korea's young new leader gets rock star treatment when he visits his troops — just as his father did. But while the late Kim Jong Il mostly stayed aloof in dark shades, his son holds hands and hugs his soldiers.

Japan Cabinet approves bill to cap reactor life (AP)

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 06:51 PM PST

AP - Japan's Cabinet has approved a bill designed to put a 40-year cap on the operational life of nuclear reactors as one of several steps to improve safety after last year's Fukushima disaster.
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