Pakistan's attorney general quits amid graft dispute

Pakistan's attorney general quits amid graft dispute

Pakistan's attorney general quits amid graft dispute

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:00 PM PDT

PAKISTAN Pakistan's attorney general resigned Friday, accusing the government of preventing him from carrying out Supreme Court orders to reopen old corruption investigations into President Asif Ali Zardari.



Thai 'Red Shirts' stage new mass anti-government rally

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 08:42 PM PDT

BANGKOK -Tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters loyal to ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra mounted another mass rally in Bangkok Saturday, refusing to back down in their bid to topple the government.

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Former Australian first lady Sonia McMahon dies

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 07:55 PM PDT

SYDNEY -Lady Sonia McMahon, the glamorous widow of former Australian prime minister Sir William McMahon and mother of Hollywood-based actor Julian, has died in Sydney, a hospital spokesman said Saturday.

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Russia and Venezuela boost ties

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 11:02 PM PDT

Putin pledges continued arms sale to Venezuela and announces oil development deal.


Thai protesters swarm Bangkok's main shopping district

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 10:42 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters converged on Bangkok's shopping district on Saturday, forcing major retailers to close while accusing authorities of neglecting the poor on the 21st day of a mass rally seeking snap elections.

Special N.Korean train arrives in China: report (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 10:29 PM PDT

Photo released last month by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. One of the special trains used to transport Kim crossed the border into China on Saturday, a report said, an indication that the reclusive leader's expected visit to his main ally may have begun.(AFP/KNS/KCNA/File)AFP - One of the special trains used to transport North Korea's Kim Jong-Il crossed the border into China on Saturday, a report said, an indication that the reclusive leader's expected visit to his main ally may have begun.

Rescuers to enter China coal mine

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 10:50 PM PDT

Divers ordered to enter Shanxi mine were 153 people have been trapped for six days.


Karzai calls Clinton amid US criticism (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 10:05 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai delivers a speech at the Election Commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 1, 2010. Karzai told election workers there had been 'vast fraud' in the Aug. 20 ballot but that it was not committed by Afghans. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai called Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday after the Obama administration expressed dismay at his assertion a day earlier that the international community was to blame for the controversy over last year's disputed Afghan election.

Australia appoints first population minister (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 10:05 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Saturday announced Australia's first population minister, citing concerns about sustainability as the number of people is tipped to balloon within decades(AFP/File/William West)AFP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Saturday announced Australia's first population minister, citing concerns about sustainability as the number of people is tipped to balloon within decades.

Protesters rally to oust Thailand's government (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:22 PM PDT

Demonstrators gather with a giant flag during a demonstration to counter the anti-government protesters outside a park in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April 2, 2010. About 3,000 demonstrators gathered to show their support for the government and urged Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resist the demand of the ongoing anti-government protesters or Red-Shirt movement, which calls for House dissolution within 15 days. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - Thousands of anti-government protesters launched their fourth weekend march in the streets of the Thai capital Saturday, groping for tactics that have yet to force the prime minister to dissolve Parliament and call new elections.

Family welcome plan to place Hillary ashes on Everest (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:33 PM PDT

Nepalese Hindu priests recite hymns at a memorial service for Sir Edmund Hillary in Kathmandu in 2008. Plans to place the ashes of Mt Everest conqueror Sir Edmund on the summit of the world's tallest mountain next week were welcomed Saturday by the New Zealander's family and friends.(AFP/File/Prakash Mathema)AFP - Plans to place the ashes of Mt Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary on the summit of the world's tallest mountain next week were welcomed Saturday by the New Zealander's family and friends.

Australia to appoint population minister; develop strategy

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:30 PM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia is to create a new government post of minister for population tasked of developing an official population strategy, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Saturday.


Five dead in Tesoro Anacortes refinery fire

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:30 PM PDT

SEATTLE/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Five Tesoro Corp employees were killed and two critically injured in a fire at the oil company's 120,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Anacortes, Washington on Friday, cutting production at the plant to about one-third of capacity.


Talat: Election loss would kill Cyprus peace talks (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:55 PM PDT

Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, second from left, exits his campaign bus during his a stop in Sirinevler village, in the Turkish occupied area of the divided island of Cyprus, Friday, April 2, 2010. The leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots says talks to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus would collapse if he loses to a hardliner in elections this month. Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of a union with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - The leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots has warned that talks to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus would collapse if he loses to a hardliner in elections this month.

Thai 'Red Shirts' stage new mass anti-government rally (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:04 PM PDT

AFP - Tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters loyal to ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra mounted another mass rally in Bangkok Saturday, refusing to back down in their bid to topple the government.

Former Australian first lady Sonia McMahon dies (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:07 PM PDT

Picture from 2005 shows Lady Sonia McMahon with Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark a Cancer Research Foundation Dinner in Sydney. McMahon, the glamorous widow of former Australian prime minister Sir William McMahon and mother of Hollywood-based actor Julian, has died in Sydney, a hospital spokesman said Saturday.(AFP/Pool/File/Patrick Riviere)AFP - Lady Sonia McMahon, the glamorous widow of former Australian prime minister Sir William McMahon and mother of Hollywood-based actor Julian, has died in Sydney, a hospital spokesman said Saturday.

Artillery fire in Somalia kills at least 11

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 03:56 PM PDT

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Artillery exchanges in the Somali capital Mogadishu during clashes between Islamist militants and government forces have killed at least 11 civilians, witnesses and medical sources said.

Both sides exchanged artillery fire during the fighting, which broke out Friday in the south

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Iraq's Sadrists go to the polls in PM 'referendum'

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 01:25 AM PDT

BAGHDAD – Polls opened in a ballot of Iraq's Sadrists on Friday over who should be the country's leader, while ex-premier Iyad Allawi received a boost after a key Shiite party backed his bloc for government.

A week after results from Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections were announced, Allawi's Iraqiya bloc

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Signs of life in China's flooded mine

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 12:38 AM PDT

BEIJING – Rescuers at a coal mine in north China have heard signs of life from a flooded shaft where 153 workers have been trapped for five days, state television reported Friday.

"(Rescuers) heard a continuous tapping sound coming up a dredge pipe," a

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Belgium Moves Closer to Europe's First Burqa Ban (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 09:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Belgium is about to become the first country in Europe to ban the burqa from public places -- a move that has the cautious approval of many Belgian Muslims


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