Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:22 AM PST
 AFP - The only suspect in the murder of a 22-year-old British woman in Japan worked on a building site for over a year to pay for plastic surgery, a news report citing investigation sources said Monday. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:19 AM PST
 AFP - Militant attacks killed six troops in Pakistan's tribal belt, where soldiers backed by warplanes and helicopter gunships are pressing a major anti-Taliban offensive, officials said Monday. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:07 AM PST
Reuters - China on Monday praised a U.S. trade panel's decision to reject an investigation into imports of Chinese steel fasteners, saying it was the "correct judgment."
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Posted: 09 Nov 2009 02:04 AM PST
 AP - A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of policemen in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:49 AM PST
AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il — known for shunning air travel — has six luxurious trains equipped with reception halls, conference rooms and high-tech communication facilities, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday.
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Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:39 AM PST
 AFP - A suicide bomber killed three people on Monday in the second attack in the Pakistani city of Peshawar in 24 hours as militants stepped up efforts to avenge a major offensive against the Taliban. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:35 AM PST
 AFP - The IMF on Monday warned Sri Lanka against issuing government bonds to build up foreign currency reserves after it released the second instalment of a 2.6-billion-dollar bailout. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:28 AM PST
 AP - Indian officials clamped down Monday on journalists covering the Dalai Lama's trip to a disputed border area in an apparent effort to minimize tensions with neighboring China. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:15 AM PST
 AFP - Indian refining giant Reliance Industries is in talks with stricken US petrochemicals group Lyondell-Basell to buy some of its US assets, a source told AFP Monday. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 01:15 AM PST
 AP - Asian stock markets rose Monday as investors took a surprisingly weak U.S. jobs report as a sign that interest rates in the world's largest economy will stay low longer than expected. European shares opened higher. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:36 AM PST
AP - Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday.
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Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:31 AM PST
AP - A day-by-day look at President Barack Obama's weeklong trip to Asia:
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Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:30 AM PST
 AP - Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China — one that would exclude the United States. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:18 AM PST
 AP - Oil prices climbed toward $79 a barrel Monday in Asia as Hurricane Ida threatened oil installations in the Gulf of Mexico. |
Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:17 AM PST
AP - About 350 Taliban prisoners are on a hunger strike at a prison in Kandahar and a delegation from the Ministry of Justice is going to the lockup in southern Afghanistan to investigate their complaints.
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Posted: 09 Nov 2009 12:01 AM PST
AP - A Communist Party official in China has died from excessive drinking, the third such alcohol poisoning case that highlights the problems of a drinking culture connected with government and business work, an official newspaper reported Monday.
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Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:32 PM PST
 AP - The Philippine government on Monday promised to hunt down al-Qaida-linked militants suspected of beheading a schoolteacher whose family failed to raise a ransom demanded by his kidnappers. |
Posted: 08 Nov 2009 07:55 PM PST
 AP - A strong undersea earthquake killed two people and damaged buildings on the remote island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia, officials said Monday. |
Posted: 08 Nov 2009 05:15 PM PST
 AP - The embattled Afghan president pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration — a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops to confront the Taliban and shore up his government. |
Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:14 AM PST
 AP - As Pakistan's army plows ahead with its offensive in South Waziristan, its success is at risk because the government has yet to come up with a plan to run and rebuild the lawless territory so that the Taliban and al-Qaida don't re-emerge. |
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