Deaths in Cambodia ferry disaster

Deaths in Cambodia ferry disaster

Deaths in Cambodia ferry disaster

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:33 PM PDT

Pilgrims on way to Buddhist festival drown when vessel capsizes in Mekong river.


Obama vows support to gays in army

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:48 PM PDT

US president says he will end discriminatory policy of "don't ask, don't tell".


Iran aims to sharply boost fuel output by 2012 - report

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:45 PM PDT

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran plans to increase gasoline production capacity by more than 50 percent by 2012, a senior official was quoted as saying, in comments coinciding with talk of possible Western sanctions targeting its fuel imports.


Iraq invasion decision was '51-49': Cherie Blair (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:06 PM PDT

The Blairs, pictured in 2007. Cherie Blair said the decision to invade Iraq was a close call however convincingly her husband might have presented it otherwise, The Independent on Sunday reported(AFP/Pool/File/Cathal Mcnaughton)AFP - Cherie Blair said the decision to invade Iraq was a close call however convincingly her husband might have presented it otherwise, The Independent on Sunday reported.

Philippines rescuers struggle to reach isolated areas (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:27 PM PDT

Residents wade through a flooded street in Dagupan City, in the northern Philippine province of Pangasinan on October 10. Search and rescue teams on Sunday struggled to reach areas of the northern Philippines cut off by storm-triggered landslides and flooding that have left more than 600 people dead, officials said.(AFP/Ted Aljibe)AFP - Search and rescue teams on Sunday struggled to reach areas of the northern Philippines cut off by storm-triggered landslides and flooding that have left more than 600 people dead, officials said.

Obama vow on gay military policy

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:00 PM PDT

President Barack Obama has vowed to end the "don't ask, don't tell' military policy for gay servicemen and women in a speech at a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington.


Obama vow on gay military policy

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:00 PM PDT

President Barack Obama has vowed to end the "don't ask, don't tell' military policy for gay servicemen and women in a speech at a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington.


Ethiopia suffers from Middle East animal smuggling

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:11 PM PDT

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia should take urgent steps to curb animal smuggling to the Middle East that is cutting into export earnings worth tens of millions of dollars to the poor country every year, a senior official said.


Afghan official: Foreigners bolstering Taliban (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:30 PM PDT

U.S. Marines walk past heavy machinery and containers where construction is taking place inside Camp Leatherneck, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Thousands of foreign fighters have poured into Afghanistan to bolster the Taliban insurgency, the country's defense minister said Saturday as he called for more international troops.

Opel rescue dogged by European divisions (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:34 PM PDT

Tempers are rising in Europe over Germany's promise of billions of euros (dollars) in state aid to support the sale of General Motors' loss-making European unit Opel/Vauxhall.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)AFP - Tempers are rising in Europe over Germany's promise of billions of euros (dollars) in state aid to support the sale of General Motors' loss-making European unit Opel/Vauxhall.

Pakistan Army Ends Hostage Siege

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Pakistani commandos raided their own army's headquarters to free 30 people held hostage by Islamist fighters who staged a brazen attack on the compound while wearing military uniforms.


Typhoon Death Toll Rises in Philippines

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 10:00 PM PDT

At least 193 people died and 46 others were missing in landslides and flash floods in the northern Philippines after days of torrential rain saturated hillside soil, sending it tumbling down onto villages and towns below.


Pakistan commandos rescue 25 hostages, three killed

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:54 PM PDT

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani commandos stormed a building near army headquarters on Sunday and freed 25 hostages being held there by suspected Taliban militants, ending violence that began a day earlier, a military spokesman said.


India warns of danger from Pakistan militants

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:54 PM PDT

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's top diplomat has warned of a clear and present danger to the international community from militants in Pakistan after a bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul that it has hinted may have come from across the border.


Pakistan frees hostages in raid

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:15 PM PDT

Pakistani security forces have freed most of the hostages who were being held by militants at an army base in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad.


Turkey and Armenia sign accord

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:08 PM PDT

Foreign ministers sign protocols to normalise ties after a century of hostility.


Afghan Taliban commander 'killed'

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:44 PM PDT

Ghulam Yahya Akbari was believed to be behind growing insecurity in western Herat province.


The Soldier And the State (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:10 PM PDT

Time.com - The Soldier And the State


2012 Olympic site workers face biometric scans (AFP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:12 PM PDT

A 'verification kiosk' featuring fingerprint and iris scans is seen displayed at an airport in Minneapolis, US. It has been reported that workers on London's Olympic Park will have to go through biometric scanning to access the 2012 Games site in a bid to protect it from terrorists.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Eric Miller)AFP - Workers on London's Olympic Park will have to go through biometric scanning to access the 2012 Games site in a bid to protect it from terrorists, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Captured insurgent in Iraq: `I will fight again' (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2009 09:01 PM PDT

This Oct. 7, 2009 photo shows Mohammed Abdullah al-Obeid, speaking during an interview with the Associated Press in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. The story told by Al-Obeid shows how insurgent networks manage to recruit unlikely fighters across the Islamic world for Iraq. He told his family he was going on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Instead, the second-year college student packed a vinyl travel bag and left home in Saudi Arabia for a trip that would take him on a smuggling route across the Syrian border and into the heart of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. (AP Photo)AP - He told his family he was going on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

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