Thursday, January 10, 2013

Twin blasts at billiard hall in Pakistan kill 52

Twin blasts at billiard hall in Pakistan kill 52

Twin blasts at billiard hall in Pakistan kill 52

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 10:07 AM PST

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier and local residents gather at the site of bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed scores of people in southwest Pakistan, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say the death toll from a twin bombing at a billiard hall in southwest Pakistan has risen to 52.

Pakistan: 38 killed in billiard hall bombing

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 09:48 AM PST

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier and local residents gather at the site of bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed scores of people in southwest Pakistan, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say the death toll from a twin bombing at a billiard hall in southwest Pakistan has risen to 38.

Bombs kill 17 at billiards hall in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 09:10 AM PST

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier and local residents gather at the site of bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed scores of people in southwest Pakistan, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say two bombs exploded minutes apart at a billiards hall in southwest Pakistan, killing 17 people.

TEST:::China newspaper publishes after deal ends standoff

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 02:09 AM PST

A policeman points to a supporter of Southern Weekly newspaper in a wheelchair before taken him away during a protest near the headquarters of the newspaper in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. Police attempted Thursday to prevent more of protests outside the compound housing the Southern Weekly and its parent company, the Nanfang Media Group, in Guangzhou, a city long at the forefront of reforms. About 30 police officers guarded the area and ordered reporters and any loiterers to move away, saying there had been complaints about obstructing traffic. (AP Photo/ Vincent Yu)GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — An influential weekly newspaper whose staff rebelled to protest heavy-handed censorship by Chinese government officials published as normal Thursday after a compromise that called for relaxing some intrusive controls but left lingering ill-will among some reporters and editors.

Bomb, drone attack kill 17 people in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 07:01 AM PST

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier and local residents gather at the site of bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed scores of people in southwest Pakistan, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed 12 people in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, while five suspected militants died in a U.S. drone strike in the country's northwest, officials said.

Lawyer: Police beat New Delhi gang rape suspects

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 03:18 AM PST

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police badly beat the five suspects arrested in the brutal gang rape and killing of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, the lawyer for one of the men said Thursday, accusing authorities of tampering with evidence in the case that has transfixed India.

Pakistani soldier killed by Indian gunfire

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 06:42 AM PST

FILE - In this March 2, 2007 file photo, an Indian Border Security Force soldier patrols the India-Pakistan border area of Golpattan, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Jammu, India. Pakistan and India traded accusations Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, of violating the cease-fire in the disputed northern region of Kashmir, with Islamabad accusing Indian troops of a cross-border raid that killed one of its soldiers and India charging that Pakistani shelling destroyed a home on its side. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)ISLAMABAD (AP) — Indian troops fired across the disputed Kashmir border and killed a Pakistani soldier Thursday, Pakistan's military said, in the third deadly incident in the disputed Himalayan region in recent days.

Pakistan says soldier killed by Indian gunfire

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 05:30 AM PST

FILE - In this March 2, 2007 file photo, an Indian Border Security Force soldier patrols the India-Pakistan border area of Golpattan, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) west of Jammu, India. Pakistan and India traded accusations Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, of violating the cease-fire in the disputed northern region of Kashmir, with Islamabad accusing Indian troops of a cross-border raid that killed one of its soldiers and India charging that Pakistani shelling destroyed a home on its side. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani army accused Indian troops of firing across the disputed Kashmir border and killing a soldier Thursday, the third deadly incident in the disputed Himalayan region in recent days.

Bomb, drone attack kill 16 people in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 04:33 AM PST

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed 11 people in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, while five suspected militants died in a U.S. drone strike in the country's northwest, officials said.

Bomb in southwest Pakistan kills 11 people

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 03:39 AM PST

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a bomb that appeared to be targeting paramilitary soldiers has exploded in a commercial area in southwest Pakistan, killing 11 people.

Lawyer: Delhi rape suspects have been beaten

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 02:07 AM PST

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police badly beat the five suspects arrested in the brutal gang rape and killing of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, the lawyer for three of the men said Thursday, accusing authorities of tampering with evidence in the case that has transfixed India.

US missiles kill 5 suspected militants in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Jan 2013 01:14 AM PST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — U.S. drone-fired missiles hit a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region Thursday, killing five suspected militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. It was the seventh such attack in less than two weeks.

Indian park battles poachers targeting rhino horn

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 11:45 PM PST

In this Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 photo, a rhinoceros runs inside the Kaziranga National Park, a wildlife reserve that provides refuge to more than 2,200 endangered Indian one-horned rhinoceros, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Even in this well protected reserve, where rangers follow shoot-to-kill orders, poachers are laying siege to KAZIRANGA, India (AP) — Out of the early morning mists and tall grass of northeast India emerges a massive creature with a dinosaur-like face, having survived millions of years despite a curse — literally on its head. As elephant-borne riders approach, the formidable hulk sniffs the air for danger, then resumes its breakfast.

Lawyer: 3 Delhi rape suspects to plead not guilty

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 10:54 PM PST

NEW DELHI (AP) — Three of the suspects in the brutal rape and killing of a young woman on a New Delhi bus will plead not guilty, their lawyer said Thursday, hinting that police had tampered with evidence in the attack that has transfixed India.

Impeachment try fails against Hong Kong's leader

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 06:13 PM PST

Leung Kwok-hung, also known as Long Hair, a member of the Legislative Council displays a picture of Hong Kong's leader, Leung Chun-ying and a placard reading " Don't want a liar Leung Chun-ying," as he addresses the legislature to impeach the Beijing -backed leader, at the legislative chamber in Hong Kong Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Lawmakers were making a symbolic attempt Wednesday to impeach Leung Chun-ying, the latest sign of the widening gulf between the semiautonomous southern Chinese city and its political masters in Beijing. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)HONG KONG (AP) — Pro-democracy lawmakers made a symbolic attempt to impeach Hong Kong's Beijing-backed leader in the latest sign of the widening gulf between the semiautonomous southern Chinese city and its political masters on the mainland.

Myanmar Spitfire hunt leads to water-filled crate

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 05:32 PM PST

Soe Thein, retired professor of Yangon University, talks to journalists during a press conference at Park Royal hotel Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, in Yangon, Myanmar. A search team led by a British aviation enthusiast arrived in Myanmar on Sunday to begin a dig they hope will unearth dozens of rare British Spitfire fighter planes said to have been buried in the Southeast Asian country at the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — An excavation team searching for a stash of legendary World War II-era British fighter aircraft in northern Myanmar said a wooden crate believed to contain one of the planes has been found, full of muddy water.
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