Friday, February 17, 2012

Pakistan cautions Kabul on Taliban peace hopes (AP)

Pakistan cautions Kabul on Taliban peace hopes (AP)

Pakistan cautions Kabul on Taliban peace hopes (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 10:15 AM PST

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, center, holds the hands of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after their joint news conference at the President house in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. The Afghan president says 'impediments' in ties between Kabul and Islamabad must soon be removed so that progress can be made in peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)AP - Pakistan told Afghanistan on Friday it was "preposterous" to think Islamabad could deliver the Taliban's leader to the negotiating table and warned the neighboring nation against "ridiculous" expectations about peace talks.

China's Xi says no hard landing for China economy in 2012 (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 10:28 AM PST

Reuters - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping said on Friday the Chinese economy would experience stable growth and avoid a hard landing this year, dispelling a scenario economists fear may upset the global economy.

China faces conflict of law, business in iPad row (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:54 AM PST

In this photo taken on Friday, May 6, 2011, customers try out iPad tablet computer at a Apple's authorized dealer outlet in Changsha in south China's Hunan province. Authorities have seized iPads from more Chinese retailers in February 2012 in an escalating trademark dispute between Apple Inc. and a struggling local company that could disrupt global sales of the popular tablet computer. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - Chinese officials face a choice in Apple's dispute with a local company over the iPad trademark — side with a struggling entity that a court says owns the name or with a global brand that has created hundreds of thousands of jobs in China. Experts say that means Beijing's political priorities rather than the courts will settle the dispute if it escalates.

Suicide blast kills 23 Shiite Muslims in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:48 AM PST

AP - A suicide attacker on a motorcycle blew himself up in a market in a Pakistani town close to the Afghan border on Friday, killing 23 Shiite Muslims and wounding 50 people, officials said.

Pakistan vows to progress with Iran pipeline deal (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 06:35 AM PST

AP - Pakistan's president vowed to continue with a proposed pipeline project with Iran despite American warnings of sanctions, saying Islamabad's relations with Tehran would not "be undermined by international pressure of any kind."

Turkmen authoritarian leader sworn in for new term (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:32 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2007 file photo Turkmenistan's new President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov stands in front of the People's Council that approved his election. Voters in this central Asian nation of Turkmenistan headed to the polls Sunday Feb. 12, 2012, in a presidential election with seven candidates running against the 54-year old dentist President Berdymukhamedov, who was elected to his first term with 89 percent of the vote in 2007. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, FILE)AP - Turkmenistan's authoritarian president was sworn in Friday for a second term during a lavish ceremony filled with adulation for the man increasingly referred to as the "protector" of this tightly controlled, resource-rich nation.

Suicide bomber kills 26 in NW Pakistan, ignites protest (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:18 AM PST

Reuters - A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest outside a mosque in a Shi'ite neighborhood Friday in Pakistan's northwestern Kurram tribal region, killing at least 26 people, government officials said.

Afghanistan, Pakistan hold "hard" talks on Afghan peace (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:44 AM PST

Reuters - After two days of high-level talks, Afghanistan appears to have failed to gain more Pakistani support for its bid to advance its reconciliation process with Taliban insurgent.

Sri Lankan police fire tear gas at fuel protesters (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:19 AM PST

AP - Police in Sri Lanka have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of protesters in the center of the capital protesting higher fuel prices.

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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 04:14 AM PST

AP - Official says 17 people now confirmed dead in suicide blast in northwest Pakistan.

Thai cops: Iran suspects cavorted with prostitutes (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:01 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 - The three Iranian men detained for allegedly plotting bomb attacks in Bangkok on Israeli diplomats had more than terror on their minds in Thailand. Police said Friday that they had also cavorted with prostitutes at a beach resort.

Bird flu still a menace in Asia and beyond (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:01 AM PST

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, Nguyen Quang Duong, left, the owner of a poultry farm in Nhat Tan commune, Kim Bang district, Ha Nam province, Vietnam, stands still as a health worker wearing a protective gear sprays disinfectant at Duong's farm where a suspected outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus among ducks was discovered in early February 2012. Some 2,400 ducks from Duong's farm were slaughtered to prevent the spread of the virus. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)AP - Thought bird flu was gone? Recent human deaths in Asia and Egypt are a reminder that the H5N1 virus is still alive and dangerous, and Vietnam is grappling with a new strain that has outsmarted vaccines used to protect poultry flocks.

HK leader-in-waiting hit by basement controversy (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:41 AM PST

Members of the media take pictures and videos of the home of former Hong Kong Chief Secretary Henry Tang, one of the potential candidates in the upcoming Chief Executive election in Hong Kong Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Tang has dismissed a local newspaper report alleging that there is an extravagant private club house built illegally under his Kowloon Tong house. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - The man widely seen as Hong Kong's next leader is mired in a controversy over a luxurious but illegal basement extension that's eating away at his already-low popularity rating and raising concern among his backers in Beijing.

Ex-PM: Japan was unprepared for nuclear crisis (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:40 AM PST

AP - Japan's former prime minister says the country was woefully unprepared for last year's nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

3 Nepali sisters crushed with stones; dad arrested (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:33 AM PST

AP - A man crushed his three young daughters to death with stones as they slept in a remote mountain village, police said Friday.

China's next space mission to carry 3 astronauts (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:23 AM PST

AP - China's next space mission will carry three astronauts who will dock with and live inside an experimental orbiting module launched last year, state media said Friday.

China detains hundreds of Tibetans, group says (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:56 AM PST

AP - China has detained and forced into re-education classes hundreds of Tibetans who went to India to receive religious instruction from the Dalai Lama, a U.S.-based human rights group said.

Japan's emperor enters hospital for heart surgery (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:14 AM PST

Japanese Emperor Akihito, right, is greeted by doctors upon his arrival at the entrance of University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. Akihito has entered the hospital for scheduled heart bypass surgery. (AP Photo/Toshifumi Kitamura, Pool)AP - Japanese Emperor Akihito checked into the hospital Friday for heart-bypass surgery that doctors say will allow him to lead a healthier, more active life.

Vietnam's high court sides with hero fish farmer (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:22 AM PST

AP - Vietnam's high court has reversed rulings approving the attempted eviction of a fish farmer whose armed standoff with police galvanized the nation and earned him widespread sympathy.

China defends voting 'no' to Syria plan at UN (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:11 AM PST

AP - China has defended its "no" vote at the United Nations where the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a resolution backing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and strongly condemning human rights violations by his regime.
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