Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Taliban leader says insider attacks will increase

Taliban leader says insider attacks will increase

Taliban leader says insider attacks will increase

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 10:52 AM PDT

Taliban insurgents will increase the number of insider attacks against coalition and Afghan forces, which have resulted in the deaths of at least 52 foreign troops so far this year, the movement's reclusive leader said Wednesday.

Pakistan: US drone strike kills at least 1 person

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 09:12 AM PDT

A U.S. drone fired a pair of missiles at a mud brick compound near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person, intelligence officials said.

Pakistan: US drone strike kills woman

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:49 AM PDT

Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone has fired a pair of missiles at a mud brick compound near the Afghan border, killing one woman and wounding two men.

Another Tibetan in west China self-immolates, dies

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:43 AM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012 and released by London-based rights group Freetibet.org, Dorje Rinchen, a farmer in his late 50s, runs after setting himself on fire on the main street in Xiahe in northwestern China's Gansu province. This was the second self-immolation death in two days near the Labrang monastery in Xiahe. The monastery is one of the most important outside of Tibet and was the site of numerous protests by monks following deadly ethnic riots in Tibet in 2008 that were the most sustained Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in decades. (AP Photo/Freetibet.org) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESA Tibetan farmer has died after setting himself on fire in remote northwest China, in the second self-immolation death near the Labrang Monastery in two days and the latest of dozens of such anti-China protests by Tibetans.

China's leadership change: Why it matters

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:37 AM PDT

Next month Chinese President Hu Jintao and most of the Communist Party leadership will begin to hand over power to younger colleagues in a once-a-decade political transition. Over the coming months, scores of leaders across the party, the government and the military will be replaced in a painstakingly choreographed and at times divisive change-over at the top of the world's second-largest economy, which is growing in diplomatic and military strength.

APNewsBreak: US Navy reviews rules on Japan bases

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:43 AM PDT

In this Friday, Oct 19, 2012 photo, U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, right, reacts during his speech to the media on a rape of a Japanese woman by two U.S. sailors on Okinawa as Commander of U.S. Forces in Japan Lt. Gen. Salvatore Angelella listens at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. Weary of rules limiting the freedom of their Weary of rules limiting the freedom of their "overwhelmingly outstanding" sailors, the top commanders of the U.S. Navy in Japan eased after-hours restrictions this month. Just four days later, two sailors were accused of rape on Okinawa, a small island that has long had a tense relationship with the large American force stationed there.

Another Tibetan in western China self-immolates

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 11:19 PM PDT

Tibetan exiles participate in a candlelit vigil in Dharmsala, India, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 for a Tibetan man named Dhondup, who is believed to have died after self-immolating Monday at the remote Labrang Monastery in China's northwestern Gansu province. Dozens of Tibetans have set themselves on fire since March 2011 in ethnic Tibetan areas of China in protest over what activists say is Beijing's heavy-handed rule in the region. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)A Tibetan farmer set himself ablaze in front of a market in remote northwest China in the second self-immolation death near the Labrang Monastery in two days, a rights group said.

Reading 'Gone with the Wind' in Pyongyang

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 10:45 PM PDT

In this Aug. 8, 2012 photo, a library copy of the American classic novel "Gone With The Wind" sits on a table inside the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, North Korea. To come across Margaret Mitchell's 1936 Civil War epic in North Korea is to stumble over the unlikeliest of American cultural touchstones in the unlikeliest of places. In "Gone With the Wind," North Koreans found echoes of their own history and insights into the United States: bloody civil wars fought nearly a century apart; two cities - Atlanta and Pyongyang - reduced to rubble after attacks by U.S. forces; two cultures that still celebrate the way they stood up to the Yankees. If North Koreans have yet to find fortune, they haven't given up. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)The former black marketeer has read it. So has the beautiful young librarian, and the aging philosophy professor who has spent his life teaching the ruling doctrine of this isolated outpost of totalitarian socialism. At times it seems as if everyone in Pyongyang, a city full of monuments to its own mythology, has read the book.

Taiwan prosecutor: Cancer patient set deadly fire

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 06:49 PM 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 ONLYA nursing home resident upset about being ill with cancer confessed to setting a fire that killed 12 fellow patients, most of them bedridden and too frail to escape, authorities in Taiwan said.
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