Saturday, February 18, 2012

China supports Arab League's proposals for Syria (AP)

China supports Arab League's proposals for Syria (AP)

China supports Arab League's proposals for Syria (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 08:32 AM PST

AP - China said Saturday it favored a solution to Syria's violence within the Arab League framework and based on the group's proposals, a striking show of support just two weeks after Beijing vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution backing the league's plans.

China to crank up credit as lending, economy slow (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 08:10 AM PST

Reuters - China's central bank cut the amount of cash banks must hold in reserves on Saturday, boosting lending capacity by an estimated 350-400 billion yuan ($55.6-$63.5 billion) in a bid to crank up credit creation as the world's second-biggest economy faces a fifth successive quarter of slowing growth.

Afghan leader meets Taliban-linked cleric (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 06:52 AM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, arrives with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani at the prime minister's house in Islamabad, Pakistan for bilateral talks on Thursday, Feb 16, 2012. Karzai has arrived in Pakistan for talks on how Islamabad can facilitate peace negotiations with the Afghan Taliban. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)AP - The Afghan president met Saturday with a Pakistani cleric linked to Taliban insurgents, a meeting that marked the first public contact between an Afghan official and members of the Afghan Taliban's support network in Pakistan in Afghanistan's bid to bring the militant movement to the negotiating table.

China cuts bank reserve ratio to spur growth (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 06:37 AM PST

AP - China's central bank will lower the ratio of funds that banks must hold as reserves in a move that frees tens of billions of dollars for lending and aims to help spur slowing economic growth.

School bus falls into river, 7 dead in India (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 05:54 AM PST

AP - Police say a school bus plunged into a river and at least seven people were killed in the west-coast Indian resort state of Goa.

Afghanistan hopeful of Pakistan's help in peace drive (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 05:08 AM PST

Reuters - Afghanistan is optimistic that regional power Pakistan will help the Kabul government advance a reconciliation process with the Taliban, the Afghan president's spokesman said Saturday.

Delhi court to try US terrorist Headley, 8 others (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 05:06 AM PST

AP - A New Delhi court agreed Saturday to try admitted American terrorist David Headley and eight others for allegedly carrying out the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai, local media reported.

Australia asks — again: Did a dingo kill the baby? (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 04:54 AM PST

FILE -- In this Feb. 2, 1982, file photo, Michael and Lindy Chamberlain leave Alice Springs courthouse. The Northern Territory coroner is opening a fourth inquest on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 into the case of Chamberlain's 9-week-old daughter Azaria, who vanished from her tent in the Australian Outback in 1980. Chamberlain, who was accused and later cleared of killing Azaria, said a dingo took the baby. (AP Photo/File)AP - The growl came first, low and throaty, piercing the darkness that had fallen across the remote Australian desert. A baby's cry followed, then abruptly went silent. Inside the tent, the infant girl had vanished. Outside, her mother was screaming: "The dingo's got my baby!"

Groups report another Tibetan self-immolation (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 04:10 AM PST

AP - Another Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire in western China amid a wave of such protests against China's handling of the vast Tibetan areas it rules, overseas groups said Saturday.

Japan's emperor, 78, has successful heart surgery (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 03:57 AM PST

Empress Michiko, right, returns to the Imperial Palace from the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Japan's 78-year-old Emperor Akihito underwent successful heart bypass surgery Saturday, doctors and palace officials said. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP - Japan's 78-year-old Emperor Akihito underwent successful heart bypass surgery Saturday and should begin rehabilitation in a few days, doctors and palace officials said.

Thailand questions 'open door' after terror plot (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 12:19 AM PST

Thai immigration officers escort detained Iranian Mohammad Kharzei, center, at the immigration headquarters in Bangkok on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Kharzei and two fellow Iranians arrested after accidentally setting off an explosives cache in Bangkok were planning to attack Israeli diplomats, Thailand's police chief said Thursday, the first confirmation by local officials that the group was plotting terror attacks in the Southeast Asian country.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)AP - Unwinding at a beach town with bar girls came first. Building bombs was allegedly for later.

Toll from Pakistan suicide blast reaches 32 (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 10:19 PM PST

AP - A local official says the death toll from a suicide attack in a majority-Shiite Pakistan town close to the Afghan border has reached 32.

Chinese political scandal sees further twists (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 10:14 PM PST

AP - A city in southwest China at the center of a brewing political scandal has appointed a new police chief and renewed a controversial campaign against organized crime.

China concert seating collapse injures 64 (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 08:20 PM PST

AP - A seating section has collapsed at a concert by Hong Kong pop star Wang Fei in southwest China, injuring 64 people.
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