| Obama, Karzai hold videoconference (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 03:06 AM PST  AP - Afghan President Hamid Kara and President Barack Obama discussed the new U.S. policy for Afghanistan during an hourlong videoconference call Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the presidential palace said.
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| Suspect in Philippine massacre charged with murder (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:55 AM PST  AP - Eight days after the Philippines' worst political massacre, prosecutors on Tuesday charged the heir of a powerful clan who they say directed the slaughter of 57 people, more than half of them journalists.
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| China: More talk, not sanctions, needed on Iran (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:47 AM PST AP - China said Tuesday that more dialogue, not sanctions, is needed to resolve the issue of Iran's nuclear program. |
| Obama orders Afghan strategy into force (AFP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:25 AM PST  AFP - President Barack Obama has given fateful orders likely to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan in a political gamble meant to forge an eventual US exit from a costly and gruelling war.
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| Suicide bomber kills Pakistan parliamentarian (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:21 AM PST  Reuters - A suicide bomber killed a provincial parliamentarian in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday after walking into the official's house along with guests and blowing himself up.
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| BOJ offers more liquidity; government backs off (Reuters) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:06 AM PST Reuters - The Bank of Japan offered banks more short-term funds after an emergency meeting on Tuesday, winning an immediate reprieve from government pressure to help avert recession before upper house polls next year. |
| No pressure to be Test no. 1, says India's Dhoni (AFP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:00 AM PST  AFP - India will not be under any pressure to become cricket's top-ranked Test side when the third and final match against Sri Lanka starts here on Wednesday, captain Mahendra Dhoni said.
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| Suicide bomber kills Pakistan provincial lawmaker (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 01:54 AM PST  AP - A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban provincial lawmaker as he was receiving guests at his house in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Tuesday, officials said, in a brazen attack months after a military push into the territory was declared a success.
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| Bhopal water still toxic, 25 years on: study (AFP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 01:40 AM PST  AFP - Groundwater at the site of the world's worst industrial accident in India's Bhopal city is still toxic and making residents sick 25 years after a gas leak there killed thousands, studies said Tuesday.
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| Bank of Japan's $114 billion liquidity plan (AFP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 01:37 AM PST  AFP - Japan's central bank said Tuesday it had decided to inject 10 trillion yen (114 billion dollars) into financial markets by buying up bonds and other financial assets.
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| China says wants US talks with NKorea to succeed (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 01:21 AM PST AP - China voiced hope Tuesday that a rare direct meeting between North Korean and American officials next week would result in Pyongyang returning to talks on dismantling its nuclear program. |
| Suspected US troop remains sent home from Vietnam (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 12:36 AM PST AP - Remains believed to be those of four American servicemen killed during the Vietnam War were loaded on a plane Tuesday and flown back to the United States for identification. |
| Gunman attacks house of Pakistani columnist (AP) Posted: 01 Dec 2009 12:22 AM PST AP - A gunman opened fire on the house of a newspaper columnist critical of Pakistan's army and spy agencies in an attack the writer alleged on Tuesday was carried out by elements linked to the country's powerful security establishment. |
| Malaysia court declines to halt Anwar sodomy trial (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2009 10:29 PM PST AP - A Malaysian court Tuesday ordered Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy trial to start next month, rejecting the opposition leader's bid to scrap a case that he claims is meant to halt his political resurgence. |
| EU leaders want details on China emissions plan (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2009 10:07 PM PST AP - China should provide details on how it will implement its greenhouse gas limits and offer further proposals commensurate with its status as the world's largest emitter, European leaders said Tuesday. |
| Winds drive icebergs away from New Zealand (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2009 07:04 PM PST  AP - Strong westerly winds in the southern Pacific Ocean have driven scores of icebergs originally headed toward New Zealand to the east, away from the country, an oceanographer said Tuesday.
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| Afghan officials fear talk of exit strategy (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2009 01:30 PM PST  AP - Afghan officials hope President Barack Obama's address on Afghanistan won't be weighted too heavily on an exit strategy — even though that's the message many Americans and Democrats in Congress want to hear.
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| Indian officials dismiss Danish climate proposal (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2009 08:54 AM PST  AP - Top Indian officials dismissed a draft climate change proposal by Denmark that expects developing economies to peak their greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, news reports said Monday.
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| Uzbek power grid withdrawal set to cause shortages (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2009 07:32 AM PST AP - Uzbekistan is about to pull the plug on its neighbors. |
| US envoy urges Okinawa base issue resolved soon (AP) Posted: 30 Nov 2009 06:11 AM PST  AP - U.S. Ambassador John Roos, making his first trip to the southern island of Okinawa, urged Japan on Monday to honor an agreement to relocate a major U.S. Marine base.
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