Saturday, September 22, 2012

Bangladesh police, prophet film protesters clash

Bangladesh police, prophet film protesters clash

Bangladesh police, prophet film protesters clash

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 08:26 AM PDT

Children wear headbands reading 'I love Prophet' as they ride on a motorbike during a demonstration that is part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012 in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)Scores of people were injured Saturday in clashes in Bangladesh's capital between police and hundreds of demonstrators, as protests continued in the Muslim world against a film produced in the United States that denigrates Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

Drones capture mountain scenery in Pakistan

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 07:47 AM PDT

In this July 2012 photo taken from a camera mounted to a remote-controlled helicopter and provided by Remo Masina, Peter Ortner, Corey Rich and David Lama stand atop the Trango Summit in northern Pakistan's Karakoram mountain range. Drones have long been the domain of the U.S. military, which uses them extensively in Pakistan's tribal areas near the Afghanistan border to spy on and target threats to the United States. Recently, however, civilians have increasingly turned to drones to shoot ground-breaking footage or angles of adventure sports. (AP Photo/Remo Masina for Mammut)The use of drones in Pakistan normally brings to mind images of U.S. spy planes attacking tribal areas. But drones now are being used to capture a different kind of picture in the country — showing some of the world's highest mountains being scaled by world-class climbers through some of Earth's thinnest air.

NATO service member killed in eastern Afghanistan

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:34 AM PDT

NATO says a service member with the international military force in Afghanistan has been killed in an insurgent attack in the eastern part of the country.

Returned Vietnam diary gives son glimpse of father

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:47 PM PDT

In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 photo, Vu Dinh Son, left, cries as he is given a diary and other mementos of his father by army officer Nguyen Xuan Nang in northern province of Hai Duong, Vietnam. Son was just two-year-old when his father was killed in fighting the American army in its doomed campaign in Vietnam. On Friday, Son was handed the wartime diary written by his father that had been returned by the United States, giving him a fresh glimpses of a man he never knew. The pocket-sized book was originally brought to Vietnam in June by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who was handed a bundle of letters written by an American soldier that had been kept in Vietnam in an exchange that symbolized closer ties between the two nations. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)Vu Dinh Son was 18 months old when his father left home to fight American forces in Vietnam, and just 2 when the man was killed in a foxhole encounter with U.S. Marines. But the son now has fresh glimpses into the life of the father he never knew thanks to a wartime diary, returned to him courtesy of the United States.

US missile strike kills 4 militants in NW Pakistan

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:32 PM PDT

Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone has fired two missiles at a vehicle in northwest Pakistan, killing four suspected militants.

South Korea suspends bidding for US rice imports

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Sept. 22, 2011, rice grows in a field near Alicia, Ark. Consumer groups are pressuring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to set federal guidance on allowable levels of arsenic in rice, prompting the agency to consider possible new standards. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)South Korea has suspended bidding for U.S. rice imports after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Consumer Reports magazine found elevated levels of arsenic in rice.

Pakistan hit by deadly riots over anti-Muslim film

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:45 PM PDT

A Pakistani protester tosses a tear gas canister back at police behind containers blocking the road to the diplomatic enclave in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Pakistani police opened fire on rioters who were torching a cinema during a protest against an anti-Islam film Friday, and security forces clashed with demonstrators in several other cities in Pakistan on a holiday declared by the government so people could rally against the video. Thousands of people protested in several other countries, some of them burning American flags and effigies of President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)Pakistan's "Day of Love for the Prophet" turned into a deadly day of gunfire, tear gas and arson.

Anti-Islam film causes deadly riots in Pakistan

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:11 PM PDT

A Pakistani protester tosses a tear gas canister back at police behind containers blocking the road to the diplomatic enclave in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Pakistani police opened fire on rioters who were torching a cinema during a protest against an anti-Islam film Friday, and security forces clashed with demonstrators in several other cities in Pakistan on a holiday declared by the government so people could rally against the video. Thousands of people protested in several other countries, some of them burning American flags and effigies of President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)Pakistan's "Day of Love for the Prophet" turned into a deadly day of gunfire, tear gas and arson.
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