| Anti-Japan protests reignite across China on invasion anniversary Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:03 AM PDT  BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Anti-Japan protests reignited across China on Tuesday, forcing Japanese firms in the country to suspend operations, as a crisis over a territorial dispute escalated on the day Chinese commemorated Japan's 1931 occupation of its giant neighbor. Relations between Asia's two biggest economies have faltered badly, with emotions running high on the streets and also out at sea where two Japanese activists landed on an island at the centre of the dispute. ...
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| Afghan militants say deadly blast was revenge for film Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:34 AM PDT  KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan carrying foreign workers that killed 12 people saying it was retaliation for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad. A short film made with private funds in the United States and posted on the Internet has ignited days of demonstrations in the Arab world, Africa, Asia and in some Western countries. In a torrent of violence blamed on the film last week, the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in an attack in Benghazi and U.S. ...
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| China ex-police chief does not contest Bo scandal charges Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:06 AM PDT  CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - The former police chief at the heart of China's biggest political uproar in decades, Wang Lijun, did not contest charges against him at his court hearing on Tuesday, an official said. Wang fled to a U.S. consulate in Chengdu for more than 24 hours in February, days after his dismissal as police chief of Chongqing, the nearby municipality then run by ambitious politician Bo Xilai, who had raised Wang to prominence as a crime gang-buster. ...
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| Qaeda in North Africa urges killing of more U.S. envoys Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:13 AM PDT  DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's affiliate in North Africa urged Muslims to kill representatives of the U.S. government in the region in retaliation for a film that mocks the Prophet Mohammad, saying it welcomed last week's revenge killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya. "We congratulate our Muslim rebel brothers who defended our Prophet's honor... and we tell them: the killing of the U.S. ambassador is the best gift you give to his arrogant unjust government," al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said in a statement posted on Tuesday on a website used by militants. ...
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| NATO halts work with Afghan allies to stem insider attacks Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:19 AM PDT  KABUL (Reuters) - NATO ordered a cutback on Tuesday on operations alongside Afghan forces in response to a surge of "insider attacks" on foreign servicemen, a move that could complicate plans to hand security over to Afghan forces ahead of a 2014 drawdown. The order, issued by the second most senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Lieutenant-General James Terry, indefinitely suspends joint operations for units smaller than 800-strong battalions, where most training and mentoring takes place. ...
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| Panetta urges China to increase military contacts to avoid missteps Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:37 PM PDT  BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged China on Tuesday to allow closer military contacts to reduce the risk of confrontation, as the two powers grapple with a volatile territorial dispute between Beijing and Tokyo. Panetta's trip to Beijing for talks with senior Chinese military and government leaders has coincided with an eruption in tension over rival claims by Japan and China to a cluster of islands in the East China Sea. ...
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| Russia says wrote off 90 percent of North Korea's debt Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:45 AM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has signed a deal to write off 90 percent of North Korea's $11 billion debt to Moscow, Konstantin Vyshkovsky, head of the debt department at the Finance Ministry told Reuters on Tuesday. Vyshkovsky said the rest of the debt will be restructured and reinvested in Russian projects in North Korea. (Reporting by Maya Dyakina; Writing by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Steve Gutterman) |
| Striking South Africa miners cut wage demands Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:10 AM PDT  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Strikers at Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa have cut their basic wage demand to below 11,000 rand ($1,300) a month to try to end a six-week strike that halted platinum output at the world's third-largest producer, a negotiator said on Tuesday. The demand is still way above the offer on the table from Lonmin. The company, which is offering increases of between 9 and 21 percent, has said 12,500 rand would put thousands of jobs at risk and challenge the viability of the business. Basic pay for most underground workers is currently around 5,400 rand. ...
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| Pakistan Supreme Court gives PM breathing space in graft case Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:00 PM PDT  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's increasingly powerful Supreme Court has given Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf more time to re-open a corruption case against the country's president. Ashraf, who could be charged with contempt of court or face disqualification if he does not comply, has until September 25 to submit a draft of a letter to Swiss authorities asking them to reopen a corruption case against President Asif Ali Zardari. The case has fuelled tension in a long-running standoff between the government and the judiciary. ...
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| Myanmar frees prisoners in amnesty, dissidents included Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:53 AM PDT YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar pardoned more than 500 prisoners on Monday in an amnesty that included at least 80 political detainees, according to activists, a step that could strengthen the former military state's growing bonds with Washington. An announcement on state television did not make clear if any of the 514 were political prisoners, but two activist groups who monitor dissidents jailed in Myanmar said more than 80 were given presidential pardons. ... |
| Syrian jets hit Lebanese territory near border Posted: 17 Sep 2012 03:47 PM PDT  Missiles fired by Syrian warplanes hit Lebanese territory Monday in one of the most serious cross-border violations since Syria's crisis began 18 months ago, security officials in Beirut and Lebanese state media said.
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| Hezbollah leads massive anti-US protest in Lebanon Posted: 17 Sep 2012 01:13 PM PDT  In a rare public appearance, the leader of the militant Hezbollah group exhorted hundreds of thousands of supporters Monday to keep up the campaign against an anti-Islam video that has unleashed deadly violence and anger at the United States across the Muslim world.
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| Afghan insurgents: Attack revenge for prophet film Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:31 AM PDT  A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early Tuesday, killing at least nine people in an attack that a militant group said was revenge for an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad.
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| Troops pack up gear to ship out of Afghanistan Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:24 AM PDT  It was nearly 2 a.m. when U.S. Army Pfc. Zach Randle jumped out of his bulky armored vehicle in southern Afghanistan for what he hoped would be the last time.
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| French ruling expected on topless royal photo Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:08 AM PDT  A French court is deciding Tuesday whether to block further publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, whose lawyer say Prince William and Kate were sharing a private moment that was captured by an intrusive photographer.
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| Pakistani PM agrees to court demand in graft case Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:56 AM PDT  Pakistan's prime minister told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the government would comply with a longstanding demand to reopen an old corruption case against the president, defusing a conflict that has roiled the country's political system and led to the ouster of the last premier.
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| War anniversary feeds Chinese anti-Japan protests Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:39 AM PDT  The 81st anniversary of a Japanese invasion brought a fresh wave of anti-Japan demonstrations in China on Tuesday, with thousands of protesters venting anger over the colonial past and a current dispute involving contested islands in the East China Sea.
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| Trial ends for ex-police chief in China scandal Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:53 PM PDT  The trial of an ex-police chief at the center of a lurid, divisive political scandal ended Tuesday, bringing China's leadership closer to resolving a case that exposed seamy infighting and buffeted a delicate transfer of power to new leaders.
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| Video shows Libyans trying to rescue US ambassador Posted: 17 Sep 2012 03:50 PM PDT  Libyans tried to rescue Ambassador Chris Stevens, cheering "God is great" and rushing him to a hospital after they discovered him still clinging to life inside the U.S. Consulate, according to witnesses and a new video that emerged Monday from last week's attack in the city of Benghazi.
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| EU, Iranian nuclear negotiators to meet Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:50 AM PDT Top EU and Iranian representatives are holding talks on restarting stalled negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program. |
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