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World News >> Asia-Pacific

Taliban deny their leader sent letter to Obama (AP)

Former Taliban militants with gowns hold copies of Islam's holy book 'Quran' which were given by Afghan officials during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday Jan. 30, 2012. Mullah Abdullah, not picturreed, a Taliban militant commander from Herat province joined with Afghan government along with his 30 militants under his command and handed over their weapons as part of a peace-reconciliation program . (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)AP - The Afghan Taliban on Saturday denied that their leader Mullah Omar had written to President Barack Obama last July.



02/04/2012 - 04:28 AM

 

Afghan officials try to open Kabul airport (AP)

An Afghan vendor waits for customers during a snowstorm, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)AP - Afghan officials say they are hopeful that the country's largest airport will reopen after being closed due to heavy snowfall.



02/04/2012 - 04:27 AM

 

UN: Civilian deaths in Afghan war hit record high (AP)

An Afghan woman wearing a burqa waits for alms with her child during a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012.  (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)AP - Last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians with 3,021 killed, a rise of 8 percent from the year before as insurgents ratcheted up violence with roadside bombs and suicide attacks, the United Nations said Saturday.



02/04/2012 - 04:18 AM

 

State election has big implications for all India (AP)
AP - One of India's most powerful and controversial politicians rises from a throne-like armchair, a clutch of candidates standing deferentially behind her and two large portraits flanking the stage. A gated semicircle keeps tens of thousands of supporters 20 yards (meters) away.
02/04/2012 - 04:06 AM

 

Civilian deaths in Afghan war up for fifth straight year: U.N. (Reuters)
Reuters - More than 3,000 civilians were killed in the war in Afghanistan in 2011, the fifth year in a row the number has risen, the United Nations said on Saturday in a report likely to revive tension between the Afghan government and its Western backers.
02/04/2012 - 03:13 AM

 

Pakistan PM to discuss Afghanistan reconciliation in Qatar (Reuters)
Reuters - Pakistan's prime minister will travel to Qatar next week to talk with officials from the Gulf Arab state on the Afghan reconciliation process, a senior government official said on Saturday.
02/04/2012 - 02:20 AM

 

Pakistan PM to visit Qatar to talk Afghan peace (AP)

The Tolonews website runs a story on its front page reporting about the news of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in Kabulin this May 23, 2011, file photo. The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration's bid to broker peace in Afghanistan. The unusual message kicked off a debate within the administration about whether it was truly authored by the mysterious one-eyed preacher believed to be directing the Taliban from hiding in Pakistan -- and its meaning for U.S. efforts to forge a negotiated end to America's longest war.  
 
  REUTERS/Ahmad Masood/Files  (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: POLITICS MEDIA)AP - Pakistan's prime minister will explain his country's stance on the issue of peace talks with the Afghan Taliban when he travels next week to Qatar to meet the Gulf state's leaders, a government spokesman said Saturday.



02/04/2012 - 01:40 AM

 

Sudan rebels "seeking way" to hand over abducted Chinese (Reuters)
Reuters - Sudanese rebels said they are looking for ways to hand over 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, Chinese state media said, as Sudan's government confirmed the death of one worker in a firefight.
02/04/2012 - 12:09 AM

 

Most Japanese towns undecided on nuclear stress tests: survey (Reuters)
Reuters - Three Japanese towns would be willing to restart their nuclear reactors if they pass government stress tests, two were against the idea but most were undecided, a newspaper survey suggested Saturday.
02/03/2012 - 11:38 PM

 

Canadian PM to visit China next week (AP)
AP - Canada's prime minister heads to China next week where he'll discuss Canada's vast oil reserves in a visit that's being viewed as an "open warning" to the United States, which rejected a pipeline from Canada to Texas.
02/03/2012 - 07:16 PM

 

Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life in prison (AP)

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, former Khmer Rouge S-21 prison commander Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, greets judges on his arrival in the courtroom for a session of U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as the court gives verdict on appeal filed by Duch against his conviction Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. Duch was sentenced last July to 35 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 'killing fields' regime of the 1970s. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nhet Sok Heng) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - A U.N.-backed tribunal's Supreme Court lengthened the sentence for the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer to life imprisonment on Friday because of his "shocking and heinous" crimes against the Cambodian people.



02/03/2012 - 10:44 AM

 

More leaks found at crippled Japan nuclear plant (AP)
AP - Leaks of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was declared basically stable.
02/03/2012 - 10:20 AM

 

Filipino troops still searching for terrorist (AP)

Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Col. Marcelo Burgos shows a picture of Malaysian Zulkipli bin Hir, also known as Marwan, a top leader of the regional, al Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network, during a press conference Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. The military said it killed Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist and two other senior militants Thursday in a U.S.-backed airstrike that would mark one of the region's biggest anti-terror successes in recent years. The dead included Zulkipli bin Hir, leader of the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf militants, Umbra Jumdail, and a Singaporean leader in Jemaah Islamiyah, Abdullah Ali. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)AP - A day after proclaiming the death of a top regional terrorist suspect in a U.S.-backed airstrike, the Philippine military acknowledged Friday that his remains still have not been found.



02/03/2012 - 09:10 AM

 

Gas blast kills 11 coal miners in southwest China (AP)
AP - State media say an explosion at a coal mine in southwestern China has killed 11 miners and injured six.
02/03/2012 - 08:46 AM

 

Philippines: No ransom demand yet for 2 Europeans (AP)

In this Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012 photo released by the Tawi-Tawi Provincial Police Office, Dutch Ewold Horn, left, Swiss Lorenzo Vinciguerra, center, and Filipino wildlife photographer Ivan Sarenas, gather at an undisclosed place  in the southernmost island province of Tawi-Tawi in the Philippines before heading out to a mountain forest to take pictures of the rare Sulu hornbill. The three were heading back to the provincial capital of Bongao when abducted by five gunmen Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Sarenas escaped by jumping overboard. (AP Photo/Tawi-Tawi Police Provincial Office) NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Police said Friday that local thugs, not al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf militants, were likely to have abducted two European tourists this week in the southern Philippines.



02/03/2012 - 08:43 AM

 

Nepal's ex-rebel fighters begin leaving camps (AP)
AP - Nepal's former communist rebel fighters began leaving the camps they have called home for five years on Friday after receiving government checks as part of a plan to integrate them into society.
02/03/2012 - 07:59 AM

 

More than 110 missing from Papua New Guinea ferry (AP)

Three life rafts from the MV Rabaul Queen float above the sunken hull of the ferry in the open waters off Papua New Guinea Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Rescuers plucked more than 200 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after the ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said.   (AP Photo/Post Courier) PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUTAP - More than 110 people were missing Friday after a ferry sank off Papua New Guinea's east coast, and rescuers feared many had been trapped inside.



02/03/2012 - 07:34 AM

 

Old land mine kills 8 Cambodian farmers (AP)
AP - Eight farmers have died after their tractor ran over an anti-tank mine left over from Cambodia's 1980s civil war.
02/03/2012 - 07:24 AM

 

Chinese lawyer barred from meeting with Merkel (AP)
AP - A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer said Friday that Beijing police prevented him from meeting with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a sign of continuing heavy restrictions on the country's beleaguered rights advocates.
02/03/2012 - 05:23 AM

 

Japanese entrepreneurs aim for Silicon Valley (AP)

In this Dec. 1, 2011 photo, Noaoki Shibata, a co-founder of the AppGrooves, an iPhone application discovery tool, holds a smart phone in Tokyo. Small but growing numbers of Japanese entrepreneurs are jumping into the startup scene in northern California, particularly since the earthquake and tsunami last March. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - For an emerging generation of Japanese innovators, the dream isn't a job for life at a big company. They have new ambitions, and they're determined to go places. Especially Silicon Valley.



02/03/2012 - 04:31 AM

 

 

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