| Blast in Pakistan's Peshawar kills 3 (Reuters) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:56 AM PST  Reuters - An accidental blast destroyed a shop in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least three people, officials said, unnerving a city frequently bombed by militants.
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| Martial law imposed on Phillipines massacre region (AFP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:32 AM PST  AFP - The Philippines on Saturday said it had imposed martial law in a southern province to quell a rebellion by a clan accused of being behind the massacre of 57 people.
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| Protests in Kashmir over separatist shooting (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:10 AM PST  AP - Government forces fired tear gas in Indian Kashmir's main city Saturday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators protesting a near-fatal attack on a separatist leader by unidentified gunmen.
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| Lawmakers get little reaction to Obama's war plan (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:06 AM PST  AP - The switchboards and e-mail inboxes of members of Congress are not seeing much of a surge from President Barack Obama's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan.
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| Maldives gets 92.5 million dollar bailout from IMF (AFP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:04 AM PST  AFP - The IMF has approved a 92.5-million-dollar bailout package to help the Maldives weather the global financial crisis, the international lender announced Saturday.
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| Little resistance in new US-Afghan offensive (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:53 AM PST  AP - U.S. Marines and Afghan troops, conducting the first offensive since the new American war plan was announced, met little resistance from insurgents Saturday as they worked to disrupt Taliban supply and communications lines in a key valley in southern Afghanistan.
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| US voices 'deep concern' over Nepal peace process (AFP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:51 AM PST  AFP - The United States is deeply concerned about the stalled peace process in Nepal, three years after the end of a decade-long civil war, a US embassy statement said Saturday.
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| U.S. Marines advance in southern Afghanistan (Reuters) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:46 AM PST  Reuters - U.S. Marines pressed into a remote Taliban stronghold on Saturday with their first major assault in Afghanistan since President Barack Obama earmarked 30,000 more troops to try to turn the tide on the Taliban insurgency.
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| India push for victory in final Test (AFP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:21 AM PST  AFP - India dented Sri Lanka's second innings to take a step closer towards winning the third and final Test at the Brabourne stadium here on Saturday.
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| Indonesian police arrest alleged kangaroo smuggler (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:02 AM PST AP - Indonesian police arrested a man accused of smuggling 10 rare kangaroos by boat from New Guinea island, an official said Saturday. |
| Police quiz suspects in fatal Indonesian bar fire (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:57 AM PST AP - Police on Saturday questioned three workers suspected of accidentally starting a fire that killed 20 people in a third-floor karaoke bar in one of Indonesia's largest cities, an official said. |
| Accidental blast kills 3 in NW Pakistan (AP) Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:41 AM PST  AP - An accidental explosion ripped through a store in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least three people and trapping others in a separate building that caught fire, police said — rattling nerves in a city repeatedly pounded with militant attacks.
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| Ailing Thai king calls for unity on 82nd birthday (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2009 11:58 PM PST  AP - Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, making his first public comments since being hospitalized, marked his 82nd birthday Saturday with a call for peace and stability in a country that has been rocked by anti-government protests.
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| Work gives Afghan women hope amid security worries (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2009 10:21 PM PST  AP - Nazia is an 8-year-old in tattered secondhand clothes whose name means "hope."
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| 4 US teens arrested at military base in Japan (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2009 09:58 PM PST AP - Japanese police have arrested four teenagers living on a U.S. military base for allegedly putting a rope across a road that caused a woman to crash her motorbike and suffer a head injury, officials and news reports said Saturday. |
| 1 killed in bombing near Philippine police station (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2009 09:41 PM PST AP - Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants set off a powerful homemade bomb outside a police station and an adjoining building used for a U.S.-funded peace-building project in the southern Philippines, killing a janitor and wounding eight other people, police said. |
| Japan FM tours Okinawa for US base talks (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2009 07:56 PM PST AP - Japan's foreign minister toured the southern island of Okinawa to meet with local officials Saturday to seek a compromise over the relocation of a U.S. military base at the center of a dispute with Washington. |
| Philippines arrests clan leader in massacre probe (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2009 07:10 PM PST  AP - Philippine troops took the patriarch of a powerful clan — a former governor — and three other members of his family into custody Saturday after the president put his southern province under martial law to hunt down suspects in the country's worst political violence.
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| (AP) Posted: 04 Dec 2009 03:39 PM PST AP - Philippine official: patriarch of powerful clan arrested in massacre probe. |
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