Sunday, February 19, 2012

Gunmen attack Philippine city jail, 1 dead (AP)

Gunmen attack Philippine city jail, 1 dead (AP)

Gunmen attack Philippine city jail, 1 dead (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 08:35 AM PST

AP - A Philippine police official says suspected Muslim rebels have attacked a jail in a southern city to free a comrade but were repulsed by authorities.

Guns and Androids: Pakistan air force making iPads (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 08:35 AM PST

AP - Inside a high-security air force complex that builds jet fighters and weapons systems, Pakistan's military is working on the latest addition to its sprawling commercial empire: a homegrown version of the iPad.

India detains Italians accused in fatal shooting (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 06:31 AM PST

Members of the security crew of Italian cargo ship Enrica Lexie, Latore Massimiliano, center left, and Salvatore Girone, background center with beard, are brought to shore after being detained by the Indian police for allegedly shooting two Indian fishermen to death in Kochi, India, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. In the foreground are Consul General of Italy in Mumbai, Giampaolo Cutillo, center and Indian police officer M.R.Ajitkumar, right. The Italian cargo ship Wednesday fired at an Indian fishing boat that it mistook for a pirate vessel, killing two fishermen, India's navy said Thursday. (AP Photo)AP - Indian police on Sunday detained two Italian marine security guards for allegedly shooting to death two Indian fishermen they mistook for pirates.

Stumbling Afghan peace talks need re-think: advisor (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 05:29 AM PST

Reuters - Afghan government efforts to bring the Taliban into peace talks are stumbling and bold steps were needed to ensure that a council spearheading the reconciliation process can win the trust of insurgents, said a presidential advisor Sunday.

Myanmar state media: dissident monk to be charged (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 05:00 AM PST

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 file photo, Shin Gambira, a prominent Buddhist monk who was one of hundreds of political prisoners freed in Myanmar, attends a ceremony of 'Pray for Peace and Religious Unity' at a church in Yangon, Myanmar. The dissident monk who helped lead Myanmar's 2007 anti-government uprising is facing fresh legal action, state media reported Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. Gambira is facing charges of 'squatting' illegally in a government-sealed monastery and breaking into two others, the state-run New Light of Myanmar said. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, File)AP - A dissident monk who helped lead an anti-government uprising is facing new legal action, in part for breaking into monasteries sealed by the former military junta after the mass street protests five years ago, state media reported Sunday.

Roadside bomb kills 4 civilians in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 04:52 AM PST

An Afghan man shovels snow into a wheelbarrow as he clears his fire wood shop during a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - An Afghan official says a roadside bomb has killed four civilians in southern Kandahar province.

NKorea threatens to attack SKorea over drills (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 04:36 AM PST

The art group members at the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace put up a performance to mark the birth anniversary of North Korea's late leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang February 17, 2012 in this picture released by the North's KCNA on Friday. February 16, 2012 was the 70th birthday of the late leader Kim Jong-Il. REUTERS/KCNA (NORTH KOREA - Tags: ANNIVERSARY SOCIETY) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORSAP - North Korea will launch "merciless" strikes if South Korea goes through with planned live-fire drills near their disputed sea border, a North Korean officer said Sunday, amid persistent tension on the divided peninsula.

Bomb kills 8 anti-Taliban tribesmen in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 04:25 AM PST

In this Feb. 8, 2012 photo, Mohammad Imran holds a Pakistani-made PACPad computer tablet at his electronics store in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Pakistani military engineers who make high-tech air force instruments are being put to work on the device, which is built from Chinese-made components and runs on Google's Android system. The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) also makes an e-reader and small laptop. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)AP - A bomb planted at a checkpoint manned by members of a Pakistani militia fighting a radical group similar to the Taliban exploded Sunday and killed eight militia members in northwest Pakistan, a government official said.

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

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 03:52 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 1982, file photo, Michael and Lindy Chamberlain leave a courthouse in Alice Springs, Australia. 'The dingo's got my baby!' With those panicked words, the mystery of Azaria Chamberlain's disappearance in the Australian Outback in 1980 became the most notorious, divisive and baffling legal drama in the country's history. Had a wild dog really taken the baby? Or had Azaria's mother, Lindy, slit her daughter's throat and buried her in the desert? Thirty-two years later, Australian officials hope to finally, definitively, determine how Azaria died when the Northern Territory coroner opens a fourth inquest on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. (AP Photo)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!"

AP Exclusive: al-Qaida links with SE Asia fraying (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 03:32 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, Umar Patek, an Indonesian militant charged in the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks, arrives to his trial in Jakarta, Indonesia. The top Indonesian terror suspect captured in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed insists he was unaware of the al-Qaida leader's presence there, according to the video of his interrogation obtained by The Associated Press. Patek, whose trial resumes Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, in Jakarta for his alleged role in the Bali bombings that killed more than 200, was one of the last few remaining ranking Jemaah Islamiyah militants still on the run when Pakistani intelligence agents arrested him a year ago in the northwestern town of Abbottabad. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)AP - A top Indonesian terror suspect captured in the Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was later killed insists he was unaware of the al-Qaida leader's presence there, according to the video of his interrogation obtained by The Associated Press.

Manila refrained from Syria vote to save workers (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 02:30 AM PST

AP - The Philippines says it did not take part in a U.N. vote on a resolution calling on Syrian leader Bashar Assad to step down as it seeks Syria's help in moving Filipinos from the troubled nation.

Report: Tibetan writer detained in China crackdown (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 10:34 PM PST

AP - Chinese police have detained a Tibetan writer in a western county recently hit by anti-government protests, an overseas Tibetan news service reported, as China's crackdown against persisting unrest spreads.

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

Posted: 18 Feb 2012 04:35 PM PST

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun speaks to the media in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Jun said China was 'extremely concerned' about the escalation of the crisis in Syria. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)AP - China said Saturday that it supports the Arab League's proposals for ending the violence in Syria, a striking show of support just two weeks after Beijing vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution backing the league's plans.
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