Politics key to southern Afghan operations: NATO (AFP)

Politics key to southern Afghan operations: NATO (AFP)
US could be in Iran missile range by 2015: US official
Gambino clan suspects nabbed in New York
Could Obama pick a politician for Supreme Court?
Poland's Komorowski should win presidency: polls
Chaos persists as flights resume
Chaos persists as flights resume
Grenade causes fire at terminal of Thai PTT affiliate
Seoul rejects redeployment of US nuclear weapons (AFP)
Should Christians be allowed to say 'Allah' in Malaysia? (The Christian Science Monitor)
China pays tribute to quake victims
Youths in terror trial allege mistreatment in Pakistan
Group flags nations where journalists' killings are unsolved
Mining giant BHP faces graft probe
Asian Airlines Resume Europe Flights
Colin Powell and Bill Gates join malaria campaign
Sri Lanka ruling party wins huge majority (AFP)
Grounded Ships: Just One Threat to the Great Barrier Reef (Time.com)
China could lift HIV visitor ban: state media (AFP)
Volcano Fallout: Where's the Tuna and Pineapples? (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 10:38 PM PDT

AFP - A senior NATO official said Tuesday a massive military operation against the Taliban in one of their major strongholds in coming months would involve less military action and more politics.

US could be in Iran missile range by 2015: US official

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 07:17 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -Iran could develop a ballistic missile capable of striking the United States by 2015, a senior US official told lawmakers.

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 10:50 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has a chance to break with recent tradition if he heeds the advice of some fellow Democrats urging him to look beyond judges in his pick of a candidate for the Supreme Court.

Poland's Komorowski should win presidency: polls

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 10:32 PM PDT

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's acting president, Bronislaw Komorowski, would easily win impending presidential elections, two opinion polls published in tabloid newspapers showed on Wednesday. A TNS OBOP poll, conducted on April 19 with a sample of 1,000 people, gave Komorowski, who is the candidate of the ruling Civic Platform party, 55 percent of support compared to 32 percent for Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the main opposition party, PiS.

Chaos persists as flights resume

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:54 PM PDT

Travel chaos continues to grip Europe, despite the easing of its aerial lockdown as the volcanic eruption appears to wane.

Chaos persists as flights resume

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:54 PM PDT

Travel chaos continues to grip Europe, despite the easing of its aerial lockdown as the volcanic eruption appears to wane.

Grenade causes fire at terminal of Thai PTT affiliate

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 10:20 PM PDT

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A grenade caused a fire at an oil distribution terminal operated by Thai Petroleum Pipeline Co., an affiliate of PTT, on Tuesday night but it was brought under control, Thai Energy Minister Wannarat Chanukul said.

Seoul rejects redeployment of US nuclear weapons (AFP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:50 PM PDT

AFP - South Korea on Wednesday ruled out redeploying US atomic weapons on its territory in response to North Korea's nuclear arsenal.

Should Christians be allowed to say 'Allah' in Malaysia? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 02:41 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Father Andrew Lawrence pulls a fat red binder from a shelf inside his cramped office, where he edits a weekly Roman Catholic newspaper. Inside the binder are reams of documents from its decade-long dispute with Malaysia's government over the right to refer to God as "Allah," as Muslims do.

China pays tribute to quake victims

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:23 PM PDT

China lowers flags to half staff and pulls all entertainment programming from the airwaves to mourn more than 2,000 people killed during last week's earthquake in the country's northwest.

Youths in terror trial allege mistreatment in Pakistan

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 07:00 PM PDT

Pakistani authorities are denying a renewed claim that five Americans being held on terrorism charges were tortured into confessing.

Group flags nations where journalists' killings are unsolved

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 05:39 PM PDT

The Committee to Protect Journalists has placed 12 countries on its Impunity Index, a list of countries where journalists have been killed and their killers have not been found.

Mining giant BHP faces graft probe

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:57 PM PDT

World's biggest miner says it is cooperating with US corruption investigation.

Asian Airlines Resume Europe Flights

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:11 PM PDT

Asian airlines began to resume service to Europe Wednesday as flight-safety officials there began to open skies closed for days due to ash from an Icelandic volcano.

Colin Powell and Bill Gates join malaria campaign

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:46 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, billionaire Bill Gates and Queen Rania of Jordan will put their fame to work this week as they join a Twitter campaign to end malaria deaths.

Sri Lanka ruling party wins huge majority (AFP)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:32 PM PDT

AFP - Sri Lanka's ruling party fell just short of a two-thirds majority in the island's first parliamentary poll since the end of the long war against Tamil rebels, final results showed Wednesday.

Grounded Ships: Just One Threat to the Great Barrier Reef (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Environmentalists and politicians alike went wild this month when a Chinese shipping vessel plowed at full speed into the delicate corals of Australia's protected Great Barrier Reef Marine Park