Monday, February 20, 2012

Suspected police kill 2 Albanians in Afghanistan (AP)

Suspected police kill 2 Albanians in Afghanistan (AP)

Suspected police kill 2 Albanians in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:13 AM PST

US- soldiers part of the NATO- led International Security Forces (ISAF) are seen at the scene of a suicide attack with Afghan security forces in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. A suicide car bomber attacked the police station in southern Afghanistan's largest city on Monday, killing one police officer in the blast, officials said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Gunmen in Afghan police uniforms opened fire on NATO troops on Monday in southern Afghanistan, killing two Albanian soldiers and wounding another international service member, officials said.

China impressed by Ireland's hi-tech industries (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:10 AM PST

Reuters - Ireland's reputation as a technology hub is a big draw for China, the Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping said at the end of a three-day visit, his only European Union stop on a world tour.

2 Albanian soldiers shot dead in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 11:05 AM PST

AP - Suspected Afghan police opened fire on Albanian and other foreign troops in the war-wracked country's south Monday, killing two Albanian soldiers and prompting the arrest of 11 Afghan policemen, authorities said.

Wal-Mart takes controlling stake of Chinese site (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 10:16 AM PST

AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to buy a controlling interest in the fast-growing Chinese online retailer Yihaodian.

China to push fixing local government debt, housing loans (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 08:37 AM PST

Reuters - Defusing questionable local government debt and containing risky real estate loans are priorities at a time when the global financial crisis is deepening, China's banking regulator said on Monday.

Christchurch still 'safe haven' for quake survivor (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:47 AM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2011 file photo 15-year-old Kent Manning, left, and his sister Lizzie, 18, react with their father, who asked not to identified, after they were told by police that there was no hope of finding Kent and Lizzie's mother, Donna, alive in a collapsed building following a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. In many ways, the city remains a mess, a testament of the fury unleashed by the temblor. The business district is a giant construction site. Thousands of homeowners have been told to leave their land after the government deemed entire neighborhoods too unstable to repopulate. And significant aftershocks continue to jolt people's confidence. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)AP - Jane Taylor was managing a women's clothing store in downtown Christchurch a year ago when the earthquake struck. She was dug from the rubble within minutes with horrific injuries — her vertebrae were crushed, her skull was fractured and her pelvis smashed.

Azerbaijan arrests Iranian journalist (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:34 AM PST

AP - An Iranian journalist has been arrested and jailed in Azerbaijan as tensions rise between the two neighbors.

Turkey urged to allow greater religious freedom (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:30 AM PST

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I , the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, speaks to the members of a subcommittee of Turkey's parliament seeking all-party consensus for a new constitution that will replace the one ratified in 1982 while the country was under military rule. in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. Bartholomew I said Turkey's new constitution should grant greater religious freedoms for minority groups in the country.(AP Photo)AP - The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians said Monday that Turkey's new constitution should grant equal rights to minorities in the country and safeguard religious freedoms.

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

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 07:02 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!"

Myanmar lifts rally ban after Suu Kyi's party complains (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 05:58 AM PST

Reuters - Myanmar's election authorities Monday said a ministerial order restricting some campaign rallies had been lifted, just hours after Aung San Suu Kyi's party complained its campaigning for upcoming parliamentary by-elections was being stifled.

Seoul holds military drills despite NKorea threat (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 05:42 AM PST

South Korean navy sailors in a speed boat patrol around South Korea's western Yeonpyong Island after finishing their exercise, near the disputed sea border with North Korea, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. South Korea on Monday conducted live-fire military drills from five islands near its disputed sea boundary with North Korea, despite Pyongyang's threat to attack. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Bae Jung-hyun) KOREA OUTAP - South Korea conducted live-fire military drills near its disputed sea boundary with North Korea on Monday despite Pyongyang's threat to respond with a "merciless" attack.

Myanmar lifts campaign restrictions on complaints (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 03:51 AM PST

AP - Myanmar election authorities lifted restrictions on political campaigning Monday in an unusually swift response to complaints by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party.

Lawyers: Bali bombing charges should be dropped (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 02:38 AM PST

Indonesian militant Umar Patek , center, waves upon arrival to attend his trial at a district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)AP - Lawyers for an Indonesian militant who made bombs used in the 2002 Bali nightclub blasts said Monday the charges against him are obscure and should be dropped.

China's unofficial lending falters, savers protest (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 02:02 AM PST

Pedestrian pass a partially torn advertisement leaflet of a private money lender displayed at an underground walkway in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. As China's growth cools and Beijing cracks down on informal credit, thousands of small lenders who sidestepped banks to provide loans to private companies are unpaid and angry. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Ms. Zhang, a schoolteacher in the central city of Anyang, lent $43,000 last year to entrepreneurs who couldn't get loans from state banks. Now as growth cools and Beijing cracks down on informal credit, Zhang and thousands of other small lenders are unpaid and angry.

(AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 12:57 AM PST

AP - NATO says 3 service members have been killed in western Afghanistan.

Cold winter kills at least 40 in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 12:49 AM PST

An Afghan man, his head covered with his scarf, walks down the street during a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - More than 40 people, most of them children, have frozen to death in what has been Afghanistan's coldest winter in years, an Afghan health official said Monday.

Gunmen storm Philippine city jail; 3 killed (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 10:02 PM PST

AP - Dozens of black-clad gunmen armed with grenades and bombs stormed a southern Philippine jail trying to free a detained comrade, but they were repulsed by police in a chaotic night battle that killed three people, officials said Monday.

Report: Tibet monk self-immolates in China's west (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 07:34 PM PST

AP - A young Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire to protest Chinese rule, becoming at least the 21st to do so in the past year, and more than 1,000 people were trying to prevent police from taking his body, an overseas Tibet support group reported Monday.

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

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 05:46 PM PST

AP - A dissident monk who helped lead Myanmar's 2007 anti-government uprising is facing fresh 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.

NKorea to hold special party conference in April (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2012 02:03 PM PST

AP - North Korea's ruling Workers' Party has announced it will convene a special conference in mid-April.
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