Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Myanmar: New clashes between Muslims, Buddhists

Myanmar: New clashes between Muslims, Buddhists

Myanmar: New clashes between Muslims, Buddhists

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 09:30 AM PDT

New clashes between Muslims and Buddhists have broken out in volatile western Myanmar, leaving at least two people dead and more than a thousand homes burned to the ground, authorities said Tuesday.

Chinese issue letter criticizing case against Bo

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 08:27 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, March 11, 2012 file photo, then Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai adjusts his glasses during a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. An array of activists, academics and dissidents are questioning the authorities' purge of Bo, demanding that China's legislature follow the rule of law and allow the disgraced leader to defend himself before lawmakers. The legislature's standing committee was expected to expel Bo during its four-day meeting starting Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, a move that would strip Bo of his legislative immunity and pave the way for his criminal prosecution, likely in a swift trial. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)An array of activists, academics and dissidents are questioning the authorities' purge of Bo Xilai, demanding that China's legislature follow the rule of law and allow the disgraced leader to defend himself before lawmakers.

China leader's persona forged by harsh early life

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 08:12 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, a peasant pauses from working near cave dwellings that characterize the region where Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping used to live during his youth when he was sent to learn peasant virtues at Liangjiahe village in northwestern China's Shaanxi province. Xi, 59 and the country's vice president is expected to take over as head of the ruling party in November, 2012, before becoming president in 2013 of an increasingly assertive China. The Liangjiahe years are among scant details known about Xi's life and personality partly because he himself chronicled them as a key formative experience. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)The next leader of China spent much of his youth living in a dug-out cave.

Taiwan cops: Nursing home resident set deadly fire

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 07:04 AM PDT

In this photo released by Tainan Fire Department, investigation teams search for possible causes of an early morning fire that swept through the Hsinying Hospital's nursing ward, early Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, in the southern city of Tainan, Taiwan. Officials say the fire has killed 12 patients and injured 70 others. (AP Photo/Tainan Fire Department) EDITORIAL USE ONLYPolice in Taiwan said a nursing home resident confessed to an early morning fire that ripped through the facility Tuesday, killing 12 people and injuring 60, many of them too weak to get out of their beds to escape.

Taliban ambush kills 10 Afghan troops

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 06:44 AM PDT

Afghan local policemen demonstrate their skills during a training exercise at the Laghman police academy in Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012. Over 150 Local police are being given training at the Laghman Academy. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)Taliban insurgents killed 10 Afghan troops in an ambush in western Herat province, police and government officials said Tuesday.

Ambush kills 10 Afghan troops

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 05:44 AM PDT

Taliban insurgents killed 10 members of the Afghan security forces in an ambush in western Herat province, police and government officials said Tuesday.

Myanmar: Fresh clashes between Muslims, Buddhists

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 01:42 AM PDT

Fresh clashes between Muslims and Buddhists have broken out in volatile western Myanmar, leaving at least three people dead and hundreds of homes burned to the ground, authorities said Tuesday.

Cambodian workers protest disrespect to late king

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 09:04 PM PDT

A Chinese factory supervisor who caused an uproar by tearing up a poster of Cambodia's late King Norodom Sihanouk was transferred Tuesday to a city court where she could face formal charges for insulting the monarchy and inciting public disorder.

South Korean activists float leaflets into NKorea

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 05:33 PM PDT

Police officers block an activist in a car carrying anti-North Korea leaflets in Paju near the demilitarized zone, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. South Korea banned the activists Monday from entering a border area where they planned to launch anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea, an unusual move that the activists likened to surrender. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)South Korean activists floated balloons carrying tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea, eluding police who had disrupted an earlier launch attempt due to threats from North Korea.
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