Japan postpones U.S. base decision half year: report (Reuters)

Japan postpones U.S. base decision half year: report (Reuters)


Japan postpones U.S. base decision half year: report (Reuters)

Posted: 14 May 2010 10:14 PM PDT

Reuters - Japan will postpone a deadline for resolving a row over relocating a U.S. base by up to half a year to November, abandoning Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's original end-May target, the daily Sankei Shimbun said on Saturday.


US extends Myanmar sanctions

Posted: 14 May 2010 10:03 PM PDT

Obama says Myanmar remains "unusual and extraordinary threat" to US foreign policy.


Bangkok dangerous: 16 dead in unrest

Posted: 14 May 2010 10:28 AM PDT

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BANGKOK – Shots and an explosion were heard in Bangkok on Saturday as the death toll from the latest clashes between the Thai army and anti-government "Red Shirt" protesters hit 16.

Tyres, apparently set alight by demonstrators, were burning in an area

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Death toll rises in Bangkok clashes

Posted: 14 May 2010 10:45 PM PDT

Fresh street battles erupt as clashes in Thai capital leave 16 dead and dozens injured.


Kyrgyz clashes leaves one dead

Posted: 14 May 2010 09:05 PM PDT

At least one person has died and nearly 40 been injured in clashes between rival supporters of Kyrgyzstan's interim government and the ousted president.


Is Cambodia Dredging its Rivers to Death? (Time.com)

Posted: 14 May 2010 08:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Though Cambodia bans the export of river sand, whose extraction is harmful to the environment, a new report claims that dredging operations have actually expanded and that the dredging of river sand continues unabated


Complaint filed in 1975 killing of Salvadoran poet (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 09:03 PM PDT

AP - Relatives of poet and novelist Roque Dalton petitioned prosecutors Friday to file homicide charges against two ex-rebel commanders who they claim participated in the decision to kill the leftist writer in 1975.


S.Korea, Japan, China to hold N.Korea discussions

Posted: 14 May 2010 07:33 PM PDT

SEOUL -Foreign ministers from South Korea, China and Japan will hold talks Saturday, a Japanese diplomat said, reportedly to discuss North Korea's nuclear drive and the recent sinking of a South Korean warship.

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Kyrgyz clashes leaves one dead

Posted: 14 May 2010 09:05 PM PDT

At least one person has died and nearly 40 been injured in clashes between rival supporters of Kyrgyzstan's interim government and the ousted president.


Anti-Islamic sentiments surface in wake of restrictions on veils

Posted: 14 May 2010 09:00 PM PDT

BRUSSELS -- Since she started wearing a full Islamic veil six weeks ago, Selma said, she has been stared at, frowned at, muttered to, mocked as a "ghost" and forced by a policeman to lift her veil to show her face.


Islam - Religion and Spirituality - Education - Women - United States


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Posted: 14 May 2010 09:00 PM PDT


Manual recount of votes cast in Baghdad finds no evidence of fraud

Posted: 14 May 2010 09:00 PM PDT

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi electoral authorities announced Friday that they had completed a manual recount of more than 1 million votes cast in Baghdad during the March 7 parliamentary elections and had found no evidence of fraud.


Baghdad - Iraq - Prime minister - Nouri al-Maliki - Ayad Allawi


GM doing booming business in India

Posted: 14 May 2010 09:00 PM PDT

TALEGAON, INDIA -- Sparks fly and robotic machines buzz and hum. Assembly-line workers in coveralls, the sons of peanut and rice farmers, seal windshields and weld doors. They're making zippy little cars called Beat and Spark in the gleaming new General Motors plant here -- and they're making boa...


India - Asia - Government - Embassies and Consulates - Business and Economy


Rocks, bottles, rubber bullets lead to bloodshed in Bangkok

Posted: 14 May 2010 11:54 AM PDT

BANGKOK -- Behind a stage at their makeshift camp in downtown Bangkok, protest leaders held an impromptu meeting Friday night. Despite sweltering heat, all but one wore a bullet-proof vest.



Thailand - Recreation - Reloading - Guns - Abhisit Vejjajiva


10 people are killed in clashes as Thai troops try to contain demonstrators

Posted: 14 May 2010 09:00 PM PDT

BANGKOK -- Thai troops and anti-government protesters clashed in the streets of central Bangkok on Friday, leaving 10 people dead and 125 injured as security forces attempted to isolate a sprawling encampment of "red shirt" demonstrators.


Thailand - Asia - United States - Abhisit Vejjajiva - Thaksin Shinawatra


Confidence Wanes in Bailout, Austerity

Posted: 14 May 2010 06:08 PM PDT

The euro fell to an 18-month low as investors questioned Europe's prospects for a sustained economic recovery.


Nigeria, China Sign An Oil-Refinery Deal

Posted: 14 May 2010 06:27 PM PDT

Nigeria and China signed a tentative deal to build three oil refineries in the West African state at a cost of $23 billion, strengthening the countries' energy partnership.


Rising UK film star is no fan on the Internet (AFP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 07:48 PM PDT

British actor Aaron Johnson at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival on May 14. In the pyschological thriller 'Chatroom', five unhappy teenagers meet in virtual space but one dysfunctional member - Johnson's character - singles out the most vulnerable to manipulate.(AFP/Loic Venance)AFP - Aaron Johnson, the young upcoming British actor who stars in "Chatroom", a cyberspace thriller playing at Cannes, is no fan of the virtual world. His real world is enough of a challenge.



Dutch boy told family died in Libya plane crash (AP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 07:43 PM PDT

Children representing the Libyan Organization for Children wait at the hospital before being allowed to visit 9 year-old Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw to offer him their own toys in a show of support in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, May 14, 2010. Authorities said the Dutch boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya may be flown home to the Netherlands as early as Saturday, as investigators began the daunting task of identifying bodies and determining the crash's cause. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - Relatives broke the news to a Dutch boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya that his parents and brother died in the disaster, as authorities said the 9-year-old would return home on Saturday.



S.Korea, Japan, China to hold N.Korea discussions (AFP)

Posted: 14 May 2010 07:48 PM PDT

Foreign ministers from South Korea, China and Japan are to hold talks on Saturday, reportedly to discuss North Korea's nuclear drive and the recent sinking of a South Korean warship. S.Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan (pictured) will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Japanese counterpart Katsuya Okada late Saturday in the southern city of Gyeongju.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - Foreign ministers from South Korea, China and Japan will hold talks Saturday, a Japanese diplomat said, reportedly to discuss North Korea's nuclear drive and the recent sinking of a South Korean warship.